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Avatar wins more awards
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James Cameron’s Avatar has been collecting awards by the bucketful, and the film landed yet another six trophies over the weekend when it dominated the Visual Effects Society’s eighth annual VES Awards.
The Oscar-nominated film scored nominations in 11 categories and won six of them, including the prize for Best Single Visual Effect of [...]
24 The Movie gets a writer
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24: The Movie has moved a step closer to reality after 20th Century Fox drafted in Billy Ray (Flightplan, State of Play) to write the script.
With the latest day in Jack Bauer’s life currently being played out on TV screens around the world it isn’t yet known whether Day 8 will mark the [...]
Drew Barrymore engaged?
According to Mashable (and Facebook), the actress Drew Barrymore is engaged.
A recent Mashable post by columnist Stan Schroeder showed a Facebook status update in which the actress showed her relationship status as ‘engaged’. However, other sources online claim the actress is not ready to tie the knot, so who is right?
As Stan points out [...]
The Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies of All-time?
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SciFiNow has been running a poll in recent months to discover the greatest sci-fi film of all time. With industry writers having whittled the list down to a top 10, the magazine has opened the final stages to the public to choose the best.
The nominations, in no particular order, are:
Alien (1979 – [...]
Momoa takes Conan role
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The ‘Conan The Barbarian’ remake will feature Jason Momoa – Ronon Dex in Stargate: Atlantis – in the lead role.
An article in Digital Spy claims the Hawaiian-born actor will step into the leather-skin boots which made a global star of Arnold Schwarzenegger after shooting test scenes with the film’s director, Marcus [...]
Lucas Wants Star Wars 3D
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George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ trilogy – the original one, not the prequel trilogy – has been remastered and re-released almost as often as Slade’s ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ and now Lucas wants to release it again – this time in 3D.
Totalfilm.com report that Lucas has apparently spent several years looking for the best 3D [...]
Dennis Hopper to divorce wife… from his deathbed
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Hollywood veteran Dennis Hopper’s dying wish is to be divorced from his wife of 14 years.
Hopper, who has starred in more films that you could shake a stick at, has reportedly less than a month to live after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Court reports in America show that 73-year old Hopper has filed [...]
Tobey Maguire quits Spiderman role
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Tobey Maguire has announced he is quitting as Spiderman and the actor will not be reprising the role of Peter Parker/Spiderman. He follows director Sam Raimi in quitting the Spiderman franchise after clashing with the film’s producers over the script for the fourth film.
Sony Pictures, who are making the movie insist that [...]
1984 Video Recordings Act ‘unenforcable’
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A series of administrative blunders by the UK government has resulted in the revelation that the 1984 Video Recordings Act was never officially sanctioned by the EU.
Although the law, which prevented the sale or rental of age-sensitive materials such as video games, films and DVDs to minors, was passed by the British parliament [...]
District 9 opens in the States
The rather good looking Peter Jackson sci-fi flick District 9 opens in the States today.
As the squeaky presenter explains at the start of the clip the movie is based around events that happen after mankind forces some insectoid aliens to stay on Earth. A government agent is exposed to their bio-technology and then more aliens [...]
