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Why there's still hope for a sequel to The Goonies, and what it might be
Every few years, someone gets our hopes up for a sequel to the beloved 1985 fantasy adventure film The Goonies. The movie became a cult hit, continuing to play in revival houses to this day, but a sequel always seemed like its own kind of fantasy, even when the cast reunited for the DVD release and …
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Why there's still hope for a sequel to The Goonies and what it might be
Every few years, someone gets our hopes up for a sequel to the beloved 1985 fantasy adventure film The Goonies. The movie became a cult hit, continuing to play in revival houses to this day, but a sequel always seemed like its own kind of fantasy, even when the cast reunited for the DVD release and …
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Got questions for SCI FI? You can ask an executive via Twitter starting today
Got a question about SCI FI's impending change to Syfy or anything else? You can ask Craig Engler, senior vice president and general manager of SCI FI Digital, directly via Twitter. Engler will answer viewer questions on everything from the upcoming Syfy changeover to current series production and …
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Why filmmakers don't care if it's wrong
It doesn't take a paleontologist to know that there were no dinosaurs in the Ice Age. Yet Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs introduces said reptiles into the timeline in the third film. But director Carlos Saldanha was ready to defend the historical accuracy of his family fantasy film. "Bring it on, b …
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Review: 28 Days Later meets Grand Theft Auto in the Prototype video game
Prototype (Radical Entertainment, $60, Xbox 360/PS3) is 28 Days Later meets Grand Theft Auto, offering players a front row seat as New York City succumbs to a monster-spawning plague. Though predominantly a hack'n'slash superhero game mashed together with sandbox-style game play, Prototype makes su …
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Still care about ABC's Lost? Here's 'Ben' on what's coming in the final season
As usual, all things about ABC's Lost are hush hush, lest any posters on the Fuselage message boards get wind of spoilers, but rumors persist that long-departed cast members such as Maggie Grace may return for at least one appearance in the show's sixth and final season. First things first though: …
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What's a serious actor like Joseph Gordon-Levitt doing in a film like G.I. Joe?
Most of the actors from the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra have described the film as pure unreality, even admitting to overacting just to keep up with the crazy world of the action figures. Cobra Commander himself, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, fesses up that he just couldn't take seriously his chara …
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Who might be the new nemesis for Heroes' cheerleader: A college roommate?
When NBC's Heroes returns for its fourth season this September, it will be back-to-school time for Hayden Panettiere's indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennet: After three years (in TV time), the blond superhero will finally graduate high school and head to college, the actress told reporters. "Sh …
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DreamWorks chief on why Shrek 4 will work; plus, 3-D!
DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg has been pushing 3-Dthis year's hit Monsters vs. Aliens was the company's first such moviebut he says the upcoming fourth Shrek movie, Forever After, would work even without it: The movie's characters provide the extra dimension. "For him, it's really …
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Percy Jackson faces a Clash of Greek myth movies: Who will prevail?
Chris Columbus is directing a film adaptation of Rick Riordan's first Percy Jackson and the Olympians novel, The Lightning Thief, a 21st-century take on Greek mythology. But Columbus said that he isn't worried that Warner Brothers is making its own Greek-inspired movie, a remake of Clash of the Tita …
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Producer Frank Darabont: How Illustrated Man will be 'retro sci-fi'
Frank Darabont is busy trying to mount his own Ray Bradbury adaptation, Fahrenheit 451, but he's also a producer on director Zack Snyder's proposed adaptation of The Illustrated Man and offered us an exclusive glimpse at what he calls Snyder's "retro" approach to the book. The Bradbury novel compri …
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News briefs: Sorority moves up; Pandorum moves back
Dark Horizons reported that Sorority Row has been moved up to Sept. 11 from its original Oct. 2 release date, and that Pandorum has been bumped back two weeks to Sept. 18 from Sept. 4. ... Columbia is developing a movie based on Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the action-adventure video game, setting K …
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Warner TV brings a full slate of TV series to Comic-Con
Warner Brothers Television Group unveiled a packed slate of sci-fi and fantasy TV shows destined for this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego next month, featuring 11 series that will be showcased in panel sessions, screenings, media appearances and autograph signings. Attendees can monito …
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Why Zombies of Mass Destruction wowed the L.A. Film Festival
How do you make a better zombie movie? Keep it in the family, make it funny, and follow Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero's rules. That was the lesson learned by Kevin Hamedani, director of one of the Los Angeles Film Festival's audience favorites this year, causing a midnight mad …
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Anathem tops Locus awards
Locus magazine on Saturday announced the winners of its 2009 Locus Awards at a ceremony in Seattle. Following is a list of winners.
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Transformers 2 kills in its opening five days with $200M
There's apparently no stopping those giant freaking robots: Michael Bay's much-hyped sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen raked in an estimated $200 million in ticket sales domestically in just five days, the Associated Press reported.
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How weird is True Blood going to get this season? A preview
Think True Blood is getting weird with that teenage vampire "intern" or the underground cells? It's only going to get weirder, according to Carrie Preston, who plays Arlene Fowler on the show. Explicit violence and nudity is nothing compared to what's in store for season two. "It gets more bizarre, …
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Trailer for tonight's Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
BBC America has posted a trailer for tonight's U.S. premiere of Doctor Who: The Next Doctor, which you can view after the jump. It airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Meteor's Marla Sokoloff knows why we love watching the world end
It's up to Marla Sokoloff (The Practice) to save the world in the upcoming NBC miniseries Meteor. That's because a giant meteor named Kassandra has been struck by a comet and knocked out of its orbit. This thing is three times the size of Mount Everest and it's hurtling towards Earth. Showers of m …
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What to expect in Toy Story 3 (hints: new characters, adult themes!)
You know animator Angus MacLane's work even though he's not one the Pixar marquee stars like John Lasseter or Brad Bird: MacLane lent his talents to WALL-E, for which he accepted the film's Saturn Award on Wednesday. He also directed the short BURN-E, which appears on the DVD. He got his start at Pi …
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