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Syfy Turning Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End Into A Miniseries

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Syfy Turning Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End Into A Miniseries

After weeks of speculating, it’s official: Syfy will turn Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End into a six-hour miniseries. And it’s going to premiere next year. But don’t fret, the folks attached to it give us a lot of hope for this project.

Syfy has officially announced via press release that Akiva Goldsman (Lone Survivor, A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend) and Mike De Luca (Captain Philips, Moneyball, The Social Network) are on as executive producers. The book itself will be adapted by Matthew Graham (creator of BBC’s Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes). And the pilot already has a director, Nick Hurran from Sherlock: His Last Vow and Doctor Who. And to that we say, “Hell yes.” We like all those people involved in the positions they have been assigned to.

OH YEAH. If you haven’t read the novel, you should. It’s a scifi gamechanger and just the absolute best. The story is about benevolent aliens who try to help the human race. It’s basically a peaceful alien invasion of Earth by those we dub “Overlords.” Their arrival marks the beginning of peace for humanity… but at what cost? Can’t wait!

List of Every Superhero and STAR WARS Movie Being Released Through 2020

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This is a full list of every superhero and Star Wars movie that is set to be released all the way through 2020, and it looks insane! The world is going to be over-saturated with superhero movies! Do you think this pattern will hold, or do you think audiences will get burnt out of watching these kinds of movies? I don’t think I will ever get burnt-out unless they start making one shitty film after another, but I don’t think that will happen though. I’d like to believe that the good movies will outweigh the bad.  I just enjoy these types of movies, and it seems like audiences do as well. It’s going to be really interesting to see how these movies evolve over the next few years.

‘Power Rangers’ movie to hit theaters July 2016

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'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'
Lionsgate has set a date for morphin’ time: “Power Rangers,” a big-screen reboot of the ’90s TV smash, will hit theaters July 22, 2016.
Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz (“X-Men: First Class”) wrote the script for the movie, which will reinvent the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” mythos about a colorful group of ordinary high-school kids who are given extraterrestrial superpowers and interconnecting giant robots to save the world.

Haim Saban, Brian Casentini, Allison Shearmur and Roberto Orci are producing. Cast members and a director have yet to be named.
Like fellow ’90s franchise “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which returned to the big screen with a $65-million opening last weekend, “Power Rangers” represents a globally recognized brand that has spawned countless spinoffs and merchandising opportunities over the years.

Look for Lionsgate to try to parlay the property into another blockbuster series a la “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games.”
On its current date, “Power Rangers” is slated to open against Guy Ritchie’s take on “King Arthur” for Warner Bros.

GALAXY QUEST Sequel Wanted by Everyone Involved

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Director Dean Parisot‘s 1999 sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest was a hell of a film. I love that movie, and over the years we’ve heard some talk of a sequel but nothing has ever materialized from that talk. The talking continues, but it’s from all of the main players involved, and they all want to see a sequel happen.

MTV recently did an oral history of the film, and several members of the cast and crew came in to talk about the film. Those people included Tim Allen, Sigourney Allen, Sam Rockwell, Justin Long, director Dean Parisot, producer Mark Johnson, and writer Robert Gordon.

You’ve got to remember that this movie was ahead of its time, and it was made in an era where geek culture wasn’t as popular as it is now. At that time San Diego Comic-Con wasn’t the huge popular convention that it is now. I think a sequel would do extremely now, and I would love it if it happened. Here’s what everyone had to say about it:

Tim Allen: There’s a sequel somewhere. It’s written, but I haven’t really gotten a straight answer about it, but Hollywood is a very peculiar place. It is none of my business.

Writer Robert Gordon: On the record, I definitely have ideas for a sequel. Off the record, OK, turn your recorder off.

Justin Long: So many people ask me about a sequel.

Producer Mark Johnson: If we announced a sequel or a TV show, there’d be genuine excitement, not “It’s too late.” We’ve tried. I’d do it, Dean would do it. But we need Bob. It’s a Bob Gordon joint, but Bob is a very specific guy.

Sam Rockwell: F–k yeah, a sequel would be amazing. If it was a respectful script to “Galaxy Quest.”

Sigourney Weaver: Tell Bob, tell Dean, we are all ready for a sequel. I still have my costume!

Allen: How’s this for a sequel: it’s 15 years later. The Thermians come back, but they haven’t aged. Maybe they don’t have warp anymore so it took 15 years. They have to search for a new homeland. Sarris [the main villain] is gone but his family never forgets and you take it from there. . .

this was a great movie!  I would  look to see another one?  are  you ready for  another galaxy quest?

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Sequel Going Into Development

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It’s no surprise to hear that Paramount Pictures is moving forward with a sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Like I’ve been saying, it doesn’t matter how bad the movie was, it still made a shit-ton of money, so of course the studio is going to cash in. The studio announced that Michael Bay will be back to produce the movie, and they set a release date for June 3rd, 2016.

Screenwriters Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec (Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol) will return to write the sequel. I liked their script for Mission: Impossible IV, but unfortunately, their script for Ninja Turtles was terrible. There’s no word on whether Jonathan Liebsman will come back to direct the sequel or not, but it doesn’t matter who directs it, I’m sure it will be just as bad as the first one.

 Adam Goodman, President of Paramount’s Film Group, said in a statement,

“Launching a new take on the Turtles into the feature film world was a daunting task because as fans of them ourselves, we felt a great responsibility to ensure audiences were going to experience everything they loved about the Turtles, while also getting to see them brought to life in a way they had never been seen before. The result exceeded our high expectations and the response to the film is beyond great, making it all the more fun to get started on the continuation of their story.”

whats your thoughts of a  sequel?

Terminator title changed again, Arnold Reveals New Title

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The star took to Instagram today for a shadowy shot of himself sitting in a set chair – the name of the film shown on the back.

TERMINATOR: GENISYS

Yes, Skynet is not only ready to roll over humanity and crush us into extinction, it’s out to change our basic syntax. Genesis is now spelled Genisys. “Terminator” is still spelled the same though. No “Tyrmen8r” or anything like that.

Arnold’s message also debuted the film’s own Instagram account over at @TerminatorGenisys.

Terminator: Genisys, directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World, Game of Thrones), stars Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard), Byung-hun Lee (G.I. Joe: Retaliation), J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man), Sandrine Holt (House of Cards) and Dayao Okeniyi (The Hunger Games).

New Info on PACIFIC RIM Animated Series

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Guillermo del Toro not only announced a sequel to Pacific Rim, but an animated series as well. In a recent interview with Collider, the filmmaker talks about the series and what it will entail. The series is still very early in development, but he offered up some details on the premise and the timeline saying:

“It’s a great set-up and a link between the first movie and the second movie.  It really enhances the mythology of the characters; we have cameos of characters from the first movie, but mostly it’s a new set of characters.  New jaegers, except for one or two, [and] new kaijus.  It’s really fun.”

He goes on to reveal that the show will be one long story, and not just a series of self contained episodes, which I love! I wish more American animated series would be like that. That’s why I watch anime.

“We’re going for a long arc, so the idea is to show a group of characters—we have pilots, functional jaegers, but we have all these younger characters.  I really want to explore things that are complimentary to the things that I want to explore in the second movie: drift, what drifting does to you, what is needed to drift, a lot of stuff that I think is important, but also the jaeger technology, the kaijus being evolved, ideas about the precursors—the guys that control the kaijus.  We have a lot of leeway in 13 episodes and I wanna make it sort of in the same spirit of Pacific Rim, which is the ideal audience for Pacific Rim was young—very young, 11-year-olds and so forth—but with really beautiful design and stories that make these characters interesting in a way that I found them interesting in, for example, Year Zero, the graphic novel that we did.  And I think that’s the basic thrust of the thing.”

As for where we might see the show air he says:

“Legendary is talking to a few outlets so I’d rather not disclose myself.  The way we set up The Strain was to talk to everyone, literally, on the map, and then find who’s response we sort of jibe with the most.  I think in this series, it would be great to find a place that can give it a proper presentation and can advertise the creation of the series.  So we’re open to being pleasantly surprised everywhere.”

I know  for one i would love to see an animated show!  what are your thoughts on this project?

Chris Columbus To Produce THE GOONIES and GREMLINS Sequels?

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There’s another rumor from The Tracking Board that has hit the web that says Harry Potter director Chris Columbus is set to produce the sequels to The Goonies and Gremlins. It was originally reported that Gremlins would be a remake, but according to /Film the film will actually be a sequel that takes place 30 years after the original film.

There has been no official confirmation of Columbus’ involvement at the moment, so we’ll treat this as a rumor for now.

Warner Bros. has been looking to get another Gremlins made for several years. The film project is currently on the fast track to production with Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg set to produce.

The Goonies sequel has also been a topic of discussion for years, but until recently it didn’t seem like it would ever happen. The original movie’s director Richard Donner is on board the project, and he is the one who basically announced the sequel was actually happening. He also said that Steven Spielberg came up with the idea for the story, and they are looking to get the original cast together to star in it.

Spielberg is, of course, expected to be involved with both of these projects as an executive producer. I personally think it will be fun to revisit these classic movies and characters in these sequels. I’m really glad that these are going to be sequels and not remakes. I don’t ever want to see these movies remade.

He worked on the original scripts for both The Goonies and Gremlins. So it makes sense that he would come on board to help in the process of bringing these sequels to life.

I know  i would like to see sequels for both films  what do you think?

Fox Cancels Ancient Egyptian Fantasy Show Hieroglyph Before It Airs

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In a rare, but not-unprecedented move, Fox has pulled the plug on Hieroglyph, a show that it had ordered 13 episodes of rather than just a pilot. Only the first episode has actually been filmed, but scripts for other episodes had been written and were presumably in the process of being filmed.

In addition to the unusual move of canceling a show it had ordered straight to series and had been actively marketing, there’s also the fact that a fantasy show set in Ancient Egypt had to be an expensive production. So how bad did the show have to be for Fox to eat the already spent costs? Or, alternatively, how much do they think they’re saving stopping production now rather than gamble on it?

All we know is that the show “wasn’t creatively coming together the way executives had hoped.” The show was created by Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans) and starred Max Brown, Reece Ritchie, Condola Rashad and John Rhys-Davies. The official description of it was that it followed a “notorious thief who is plucked from prison to serve the Pharoah, forcing him to navigate palace intrigue, seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and divine sorcerers, as he races to stop the downfall of one of history’s greatest civilizations.”

What do u think about all this? crazy right?

TERMINATOR: GENESIS Retitled Just TERMINATOR

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According to Bleeding Cool a couple of different sources have confirmed that director Alan Taylor‘s new Terminator movie will not be called Terminator: Genesis as previously announced.

According to the report, “various bits of licensing, merchandise and toys that will tie into the next Terminator film are being branded as just Terminator tie-ins. No The, No Genesis.”

So it looks like the film’s final title is going to simply be Terminator. I was never a big fan of the whole “Genesis” subtitle in the first place, so I’m ok with this. It makes a lot more sense to me to keep it simple and clean.

The film is shooting right now, and it’s set to be released in theaters on July 1st, 2015. Hopefully Paramount Pictures brings some footage to San Diego Comic-Con for fans to enjoy!