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Dadapass wrote:Bruno Dumont's next project will be L'Empire.

Judging by the description and the general reception of Hadewijch (speaking of which, when will we be seeing this in the US?), Bruno Dumont's back to his ol' wicked ways.

I was just complaining yesterday that this summer looked like the worst in 20 years, but then this:



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Naming your boat "Titanic II" is just asking for it, though

Can this be worse than Showgirls 2? Time will tell :-"

I think this one is unsinkable. What can go wrong?

Looking at the poster, I thought it was the Titanic itself coming back from the dead to randomly kill people or great-children of it's creator. Only a iceberg can kill it!

aox wrote:I think this one is unsinkable. What can go wrong?

Apparently it gets struck by lightning ... twice?

James wrote:Judging by the description and the general reception of Hadewijch (speaking of which, when will we be seeing this in the US?), Bruno Dumont's back to his ol' wicked ways.

When New Wave Films UK gets around to releasing their DVD, apparently ](*,)

The bizarre thing about "Titanic II" is why create some laughable sequel ship when Titanic's actual sister ship, the Britannic, also sank? At the moment only a John Rhys-Davies/Jacqueline Bisset TV movie seems to have been made about it.

Hell, the Violet Jessop story would be fascinating. On board both the Titanic & the Britanic when they sank & on their sister ship the Olympic when it had a collision...

Official site (and poster) for David Fincher's The Social Network

Finally, a franchise worth rebooting.

Am I the only one that is completely underwhelmed by this list of sci-fi/fantasy offerings in the coming year? Especially given the fact that there only appears to be 3 or 4 actual science fiction films on the list? (Twilight? Harry Potter?) SIX comic book flicks? Can we get a moratorium on those for a year please?

What ever happened to good smart science fiction? There's just so little of it anymore. Last year's Moon was excellent, but that's about it. I enjoyed Splice for all it's ickyness...the genre overall, however, has gotten depressing. Especially since a site devoted to it is so desperate to fill out a top 20 list that it includes Transformers 3.


Anything on that list to inspire hope? The Soderbergh maybe? The Thing prequel?

That list doesn't mention the upcoming sci-fi films von Trier's Melancholia, Henry Moore Selder's Stålsprånget, Ridley Scott's Forever War (and maybe someday Brave New World?), and a whole bunch of other tripe, of course (still sad that Lucrecia Martel quit/got booted from El Eternauta). I wouldn't let yourself get too worried. I consider it amazing luck if I get one or two good sci-fi films a year.

Who would have thought that the SciFi Wire would need a primer in the difference between sci-fi and fantasy? If you take all the vampire, superhero, peplum, and wizard movies off that list, you don't have much left.

Tempted to click on that link now just to discover what a "wizard movie" is

scifiwire commenter wrote:It kind of bothers me that they are all coming out around the same time, some on the same day. Good or not, they could chock each other's market.

I hate it when that happens.

Get a marketing wizard to cast a +4 product dispersion spell

Matt wrote:Who would have thought that the SciFi Wire would need a primer in the difference between sci-fi and fantasy? If you take all the vampire, superhero, peplum, and wizard movies off that list, you don't have much left.

that's what was so depressing about it all.

Sci-fi's popular in cycles. While I definitely wish it were more popular now, nothings really caught the world's imagination now that the Internet doesn't seem so villainous. Plus the genre has except for a short time in the '70s never really been front of the line material. When we actually colonize the moon or some such nonsense there may be a boom, but until then I'm content with my occasional Moons or Splices.

They released the first pictures of Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender in Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/05/fir ... us-method/

This film has been shooting outside of my office all day. Fairly certain I saw Christian Slater and Tony Cox (decked out in an all purple Sgt. Pepper's costume) earlier. Surprisingly, our receptionist, who is roughly of the age to have grown up with a Christian Slater poster on her wall, is only mildly impressed.

At first, I was skeptical that this guy could be Thor. A passable Donald Blake, sure, but Thor? And then I saw the first image from the film. Jayzus. I wonder if they shot all the Donald Blake scenes first and then let him take a couple months off to bulk up.

Ugh, he looks grotesque. Perhaps that's makeup.