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Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 21:34:08 GMT by: Ben Austwick
Posted under: movie review scifi thriller drama

Year: 2009
Directors: Gareth Edwards
Writers: Gareth Edwards
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 8 out of 10

Perhaps disingenuously being promoted as the new District 9, Monsters is a surprisingly subtle film that rather quaintly takes its cue from old-fashioned science fiction travelogues. Anyone hoping for scary aliens and flash bang action - and there'll be quite a few - is going to be disappointed, but apply a little thought to what you see and you'll be in for a treat.

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Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 21:08:33 GMT by: Ben Austwick
Posted under: zombie movie review

Year: 2010
Directors: Howard J. Ford & Jonathan Ford
Writers: Howard J. Ford & Jonathan Ford
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 4.5 out of 10

Frightfest wouldn't be Frightfest without zombies, and this year the success of The Pack showed that the genre is still capable of showing us novel, interesting films. The Dead's unusual African setting opens all kinds of opportunities and could have been another innovator, but unfortunately all we get is zombies in Africa, and pretty boring ones at that.

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Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 19:00:03 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: movie news scifi dvd asian bluray

Thanks to cool a$$ distributors Well Go USA we all get to oggle the girls and giant worms of Mamoru Osshii's (Ghost in the Shell) Assualt Girls in 1080 HD! The film is seeing release on Western shores October 18.

Synopsis:
In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, three battle tested women: Gray (Meisa Kuroki), Lucifer (Rinko Kikuchi), and Colonel (Hinako Saeki), distinctly armed with Assault Rifles and electrifying magic, are transported to the virtual world of Avalon F. It's here these beautiful women known as Assault Girls must test their fighting skills in an epic virtual battle against sand-dwelling monsters known as Sand Whales. As the virtual game begins to unfold, the sparkle of "muzzle flash" begins to fade and assault ships gather overhead. The end is near when suddenly a gigantic super mutation called "Madara Sunakujira" attacks and the battle for survival begins.

There's even an all new website just for English speakers!

Thanks to 24fps for the heads up.

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Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 18:06:56 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: movie news scifi

Now, before you write this off as another great sounding scifi flick that will more than likely not see the light of day, know that Rise of Exile is quickly signing a pretty cool cast including LOST's Naveen Andrews and Lara Croft model Alison Carroll. Also, former CBS News producer Jennifer Niejadlik just signed on as an actress and co-producer for a planned trilogy. Now, onto what it's actually about - which sounds rad.

Synopsis:
In the 23rd Century AD, a brief war is waged between an excommunicated geneticist and a world-spanning, sentient computer system of his own design. He creates a genetically-engineered race of humans to fight in his failed attempt, and upon his defeat his creations are hunted down and virtually eliminated. This gives rise to their common name, "Exiles."

One unborn Exile, however, is saved by one of her own and raised in secret. The Exile, Jae Benedict, grows up hiding in a world that wants to destroy her. Never knowing the truth of her people's history, she lives in isolation until remnants of the original Exiles come to recruit her for an impending war. Though reluctant to fight against her own race or her adopted one, Jae soon finds her participation in the conflict is inevitable.

The first flick will be directed by Jayant R. Harnam (Life is Art) and stars Alison Carroll, Claudia Christian, James Holloway, Fann Wong, Naveen Andrews, Natasha Alam.

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Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 8:30:44 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: tv news horror fantasy

What the ...? Heat Vision is reporting that Warner Brothers TV is in the middle of acquiring rights from sister company DC entertainment to turn Sandman into a tv show. They're in talks with several writers and producers, one of which is Eric Kripke, the guy behind Supernatural. Word is also that there were previous talks with HBO, the only folks who might be able to do a boob tube version justice. Unfortunately, that fell through.

Gaiman is reportedly not involved with the project, and honestly, I can only see this turning sour. What a shame. Keep your dirty paws off!

Then again, there were a few people who liked Boondock Saints 2, so someone will watch it. Hah!

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 23:46:23 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news thriller drama

Even though Géla Babluani is remaking his own film, I have to say this looks like garbage compared to the quiescent B&W original. I don't know if they've modified the script but they've put a lot of big names in there like Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgård, and Mickey Rourke. If you haven't seen the original, it reolves around 13 people who play russian roulette while people watch and bet.

A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 23:28:56 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news drama foreign greece

Having just premiered at Venice, this Greek weirdness from Rachel Tsangari (first article here), with Giorgos Lanthimos of Dogtooth producing, is right up my alley. I can't wait to see a trailer, but in the meantime, ioncinema got their hands on the poster.

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance. Instead she stubbornly observes it through the songs of Suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sex-ed lessons she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father meanwhile ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated." Caught between the two men and her collaborator Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of the human fauna.

What is up with that chicken wing thing? Is she deformed?

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 21:26:02 GMT by: Ben Austwick
Posted under: movie review horror australia

Year: 2009
Directors: Sean Byrne
Writers: Sean Byrne
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7.5 out of 10

Australia was well represented at Frightfest this year, with Primal and Red Hill both popular films offering differing but nonetheless successful styles. The crowd's noisy appreciation was saved for a late night screening of The Loved Ones though, a gory horror rollercoaster that while maybe a little crude and predictable is perfect for the horror festival circuit.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 20:54:17 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie trailer news thriller drama crime

Producer Michael Morrissey is ready to make the jump from producing to directing and if the trailer for his first feature is any indication, he’s about to arrive with a bang.

Taglined “Beware the Hero,” Boy Wonder isn’t your caped crusader hero film. Heck, it doesn’t even truly follow the recent batch of awkward super hero’s we’ve been seeing of late (Kick-Ass (review) and Defendor (review) come to mind) as he has no bright costume but Sean Donovan is a hero none the less.

After witnessing the brutal killing of his mother, Sean grows up obsessed with finding her killer. A good student by day and vigilante hunter of bad guys by night, the boundaries of right and wrong begin to blur and his dual lives begin to collide.

The trailer is pretty amazing, cutting between Sean’s past and his present with great speed and short glimpses while never losing site of the mystery it's building or losing the audience. It’s a little jarring but extremely effective.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 20:46:42 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news thriller mystery experimental Canada

As I said in our last post, I've been following this sicne it was announced as a world premier at Locarno and have been eagerly awaiting a trailer since. It finally dropped today and it certainly does not disappoint. At times it feels like a documentary, and in others it feels enigmatic like Darren Aaronovsky's Pi. You can check out first post with stills here.

A meta-detective story about a reclusive woman who searches for meaning in the mysterious documents that keep appearing to her. Her investigation begins when she finds a tape recording of a man giving a bizarre lecture. Calming and sinister at the same time, he instructs how to ”get where you need to go”. Is this a random find, or a message to her? Another strange document presents itself, and another. Swiftly her home becomes an archive brimming with enigmatic texts, images and sounds. She forms deep connections with the people contained in the documents – the Lecturer, the Prisoner, the Inventor – each of them, like her, struggling with the unknowable laws of their own worlds. But the organizer becomes the organized when her meticulous system turns on her. The archive is a trickster which threatens to pull her mind apart. She must make a final choice: is she a free agent, or just a tool of the archive?

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 20:32:51 GMT by: Ben Austwick
Posted under: movie review horror foreign france

Year: 2010
Directors: Franck Richard
Writers: Franck Richard
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7 out of 10

If you're going to make a zombie film nowadays you'd better be original about it, and thankfully The Pack manages this and more in a grim, grimy and bleakly funny movie that keeps the tension running right to the end. That that end is muddy and confused is a bit of a let down, but it's a fun journey all the same.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 19:08:13 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: scifi horror cult western festival 'film Canadian

Canada is getting another awesome genre film festival in Saskatoon's first annual Dark Bridges Film Festival! From September 24 - 26, 2010 programmer (and Row Three film blogger extrodinaire) John Allison presents the best in new horror, action, western, sci-fi, comedy and cult features from around the world.

I was going to hit the fest this year and cover the action, but can't due to a super secret project I'm working on. So, if you're a Quiet Earth reader from Saskatoon who has experience and wants to contribute reviews and updates from the event, leave a comment and we'll hook you up with a press pass.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 16:37:59 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie trailer news drama festival

Writer/director Justin Lerner has made a couple of well received short films but Girlfriend, his first full length feature which is premiering at TIFF, suggests that we should have been paying attention a long before his feature film was due to premiere.

Also written by Lerner, it’s the story of Evan, a young man with Down Syndrome, who comes into some money and rather than doing something nice for himself and his mother (played by Amanda Plummer), he decides to pursue the girl of his dreams, the girl he’s loved since high school: Candy. She’s beautiful but troubled. A single parent with huge debts, Evan comes to the rescue with much needed money just as she’s being evicted from her home and the resulting relationship (one in which Candy feels she must repay Evan for his kindness), turns into a triangle when Candy’s ex-boyfriend enters the picture.

It all sounds like melodrama but that’s the beauty of this trailer. It manages to take what could be your average TV movie of the week and elevates it to something special. At least that’s the feeling I’m getting off of this trailer which is beautifully cut together to outline the basic plot without going into story details.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 7:20:21 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news scifi

Dash Shaw, the graphic novelist behind the Bottomless Belly Button and BodyWorld, is working on a feature length animated film that allows people to wear other peoples bodies and is set in a "trophy city in the future". Shaw apparently went to both the Sundance screenwriters and directors lab earlier this year for his film and is working Howard Gertler and John Cameron Mitchell. He promises the film will be "innovative". I just hope they up the weirdness.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 6:16:57 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: zombie movie news thriller

Barry Levinson, a big Hollywood name, was reportedly shooting an indie scifi flick called Isopod which nobody knew anything about, and now, some confusing news has come out. A tweet from Production Weekly states that that his "zombie eco-thriller has been retitled The Bay" then has a link back to their tweet on Isopod, so according to this info, we now have details courtesy of Screen Daily which mentions nothing about the renaming but does say that Oren Peli will be producing along with Jason Blum, Steven Schneider and Brian Kavanagh Jones.

The Bay centres on the aftermath of a viral outbreak on the Eastern Seaboard. The story is told via a series of recordings on camera phones, 911 calls and other scraps of video as the town of Claridge, Maryland, is engulfed by chaos.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 0:04:06 GMT by: Marina Antunes
Posted under: movie trailer news thriller Canada

I was pretty excited at news that Carl Bessai, one of my favourite directors, was working on a sci-fi film, something of a change of pace for Bessai who is best known for his intimate character studies. Earlier in the year we shared a synopsis and a gallery of images for the film which already looked promising. Making it’s world premiere at TIFF certainly helped raise the profile of the project (yes!) which is now one that folks are talking about going into the festival.

The first teaser for the film has just gone live and though it’s crummy quality, it suggests that Bessai, while venturing into a bit of genre faire, is still dedicated to the character study.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 22:01:49 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news scifi gallery

Being a huge Planet of the Apes fan (minus that horrendous Burton version), I'm happy to say this origin story, which we haven't covered yet, sounds pretty damn good. While we have a synopsis for Caesar which is currently shooting in San Francisco, our friends over at Impossible Funky got their hands on the script and did a review. Unfortunately they had to yank it, but we've still got some details and spoilers for you.

Question is, what will director and co-writer Rupert Wyatt do with this? I have not seen The Escapist and I know nothing about him. Anyone care to comment?

Here's the synopsis:
An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.

We have a couple of set shots courtesy of io9 along with the spoilers after the break. The film drops June 24th, 2011.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 21:57:33 GMT by: Ben Austwick
Posted under: movie review thriller crime australia

Year: 2010
Directors: Patrick Hughes
Writers: Patrick Hughes
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Australian cinema is usually associated with superficially entertaining genres like comedy and horror rather than anything that runs a bit deeper, and at first Red Hill, which presents itself as a Western of wisecracking rednecks and blistering shootouts, seems to be the usual breezy fare. But an about-turn that sucker punches you at around the half way mark adds layers of meaning, propelling the film to a conclusion as emotional as it is powerful.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 19:51:17 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: movie news scifi horror experimental gallery

[Editor's note: Director Aaron Schimberg just got back to us and said no worries, the film is being entirely shot on Super16mm B&W stock.]

No this isn't another adaptation of the green comic giant, but a very unique looking film by director Aaron Schimberg, a filmmaker from NY. It's about a town laid waste from an unseen force and I've so fallen in love with these grainy black and white production stills that I'm sure I'll be disappointed when the film ends up being in colour.

Synopsis:
A village is mostly destroyed by a mysterious foe. The village-dwellers’ attempts to stave off this nonspecific disaster are largely symbolic; a doctor practices a senseless kind of medicine, a priest delivers a hopeless sermon, soldiers camp in the forest, only to wait.

I expect we'll bring you more on this one soon as it is in post production, but take a gander at the stills. You won't be disappointed.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 19:20:34 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news thriller foreign finland

While I think it looks utterly fascinating, we clearly need a translation for this trailer. Anyone?

After a strange succession of deaths at Helsinki tube stations, the police are baffled: no one has seen anything and the tapes from the CCTV show nothing. Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpaa of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit has seen more than enough of the seamier side of human nature in his career, but the forces of evil have never before crossed his path in such an overwhelming fashion. It emerges that his adversary is a deluded but dangerous character living in an underground bunker in the middle of an uninhabited Helsinki hillside. Detective Sergeant Harjunpaa must now face his most terrifying case yet.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 18:16:37 GMT by: Ben Austwick
Posted under: movie review horror united kingdom

Year: 2010
Directors: Johannes Roberts
Writers: Johannes Roberts
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 6 out of 10

Described by director Johannes Roberts as “a remake of Assault on Precinct 13” set in the very real world of the comprehensive school system, F is a film that promised to marry horror and social realism in true British style. A shame then that it never lifts itself from mediocrity, victim of an over reliance on horror clichés and a failure to engage with its own themes.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 9:49:16 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news drama foreign belgium

Varietys review of this film said it "could orbit fests and ancillary circuits as a cult item", likely based on it's heavy parnoia as a man loses his sanity. But that wasn't what caught my eye. It was the teaser we have after the break which includes some excellent music(!?) from Guy Van Nueten who was the composer on Ex Drummer. The film premiered at Locarno, the hands down best fest for weird arthouse gems.

Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical delivery man. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to New York to intern at a prestigious architecture firm. Shortly after her departure, Sam's computer is hacked. A series of rather dodgy IT-guys fail to protect his wireless network. The mysterious hacker seems intent on screwing up Samuel's life and his relationship with Mireille. Paranoia kicks in. Sam starts to suspect his neighbors and gets obsessed with WiFi-rays... Love, paranoia and two lovers separated by an ocean of communication devices.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 8:21:35 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: trailer news scifi webseries

While I can't find any details on the story, it obviously has something to do with the tower we get a brief glimpse of. It will be premiering online, with English subs, in October.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 8:14:30 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie trailer news drama experimental united kingdom

We posted the first trailer for this film exactly a year ago, and while this new trailer is much the same, I want to reiterate that it's out there as I'm still dying to see it. You can read more on the experimental nature of the film in that first link.

A successful doctor, content with life, develops a strange illness – anaphylaxis, a severe allergy to human skin. He tries to defy his illness, but his life is tuned upside down by his inability to touch people. He can’t function professionally, socially or intimately with his fiancée, whom he eventually loses.

Then he discovers that dead bodies don’t trigger his illness. He withdraws from life around him to work as a pathologist, dealing only with dead bodies. Life is calm until he encounters a woman’s dead body covered from neck to toe with writing. Intrigued, he starts to read.

She was a poet. Imprisoned as a wife and mother, she suffered postnatal depression. Writing was her solace, but she sought escape so much it became a dangerous obsessive compulsive disorder. They locked her in a psychiatric hospital to recover. When released, she was told not to touch a pen again. But she did – to end it all by writing her story on her skin, dying as a result.

Reading her story, the doctor discovers a profound bond between his experiences of solitude and those recounted in her tattooed words. The dead poet becomes the doctor’s only chance for a human connection before the next touch kills him. He reaches to her across the boundaries of death with one last act – of love.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 6:42:25 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news

Since I've been sick, I've got a long list of items for this MPD, so I'm going to keep it brief.

#1: Human Centipede: Full Sequence is already filming in London and word is that it will attach 12 people. I loved the first sequence (trailer, review), but to be honest, a room full of friends didn't. F' em.

#2: Black Dynamite (review + trailer) was always a planned trilogy and director Michael Jai White recently told the Mirror that he's working on the sequel which is "gonna start where Black Dynamite left off - there's lots of things we didn't get a chance to do in the first one" and that it will be a fitting sequel. While the article doesn't specify, I'm guessing "starting work" means writing the script.

#3: JJ Abrams is developing a film with Lost director Jack Bender who called 7 Minutes in Heave which is based on the game where kids go into a closet and makeout. Except when they come out, all their friends are dead. Normally I wouldn't report on this, but hell, it's JJ Abrams and after watching Cloverfield, which I thought would be a huge disappointment, we'll keep following his career. [via Heat Vision]

#4: Hellraiser: Revelations will begin shooting next month in LA, and no, it's not a sequel or re-imagining. Instead, it will revolve around two friends who open the box and one backs out of the deal. I love Hellraiser, especially Bloodlines which showed the origin of the box, but this really sounds like crap.

#5: We've talked about Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, the second film from Dead Snow (which I absolutely hated) director Tommy Wirkola before, but word is that it's set to shoot later this year. If you missed it the film follows the kids, who are now bounty hunters, 15 years after the gingerbread house thing.

#6: The Consequence, "an intelligent, well-written and harrowing psychological thriller with an indie/art-house feel that will film in and around Cape Town, South Africa" which is apparently about another intelligence which has developed here on Earth which fights humanity in a small town, will hopefully be shooting later this year. The breakdown here sounds fascinating and I love the poster which I'm headlining this MPD with.

#7: We reporter earlier on fx powerhouse WETA being behind WWII supernatural horror Panzer 88, and apparently they're also behind Devil's Rock which will be Paul Campion's first feature length film. Story is "set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D-Day. Two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war and apparently it's all set in a bunker and will be very claustrophobic.

#8: Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) will executive produce a film based on an original script by Josh Zetumer. No director is reported attach to this project which is being kept under wraps, and while they say it isn't scifi, it's supposed to have a "genre component" and "can't be put in a box". You better show us something profound with that kind of intro. [via Heat Vision]

#9: Judge Dredd is getting a re-imagining courtesy of Pete Travis (Vantage Point). Someone put this thing to rest before it starts because this fan film will be better. [via Heat Vision]

#10: Darren Lynn Bousman, who made the torturous Repo Genetic Opera, is said to be working on a flick based on the "11 11 11" phenom which will open on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The film will "take on the idea of 11 gates of Heaven and how on 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th gate will open up and something from another world will enter the earthly realm for 49 minutes." [via Heat Vision]

#11: Looper, the scifi film from Rian Johnson, the genius behind Brick is set to shoot from January 24th to April 1st in New Orleans. [via Production Weekly]

#12: Guillermo del Toro is in active pre-production on a gothic, stop-motion version of Pinocchio. I hope he drops this and does Mountains of Madness. [via AITH]

#13: Warner Bros has acquired film rights to a scifi trilogy written by David Goyer and Michael Cassutt which is about "an object [is] discovered heading for earth. Initial panic gives way to a competition between governments to be first to intercept what they believe is a breakaway meteor. What the astronauts discover leads to an encounter with alien forces that are a threat to humanity." Goyer will adapt the first novel which is called Heaven's Shadow. [via Deadline NY]

#14: Doug Liman will be directing All You Need Is Kill which is based on the 2004 Japanese novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. "Story centers on a new recruit in a war against aliens who finds himself caught in a time loop in which he wakes up in the past after having been killed on the battlefield. As the soldier's death and resurrection repeat, his skills as a soldier grows as he attempts to change his fate." Liman did Jumper among others, so this isn't very promising, but we're going to support this huge boon of scifi. That is, until I see a trailer. [via Variety]

#15: More genre fare from Spain comes in Manuel Martin Cuenca's Canibal which "freely adapts a short story by Cuba's Humberto Arenal turning on a man who kills and eats men and women, until he discovers love. [via Variety]

#16: Children of Men producer Hilary Shor has optioned Psychopomp, a script by Blake Leibel. Story turns on "a foul-mouthed anti-hero who roams international hot spots with state-of-the art weapons and technology with the aim of destroying those who violate his code.. They're comparing it to Clockwork Orange and Dark Knight. [via Heat Vision]

#17: James Wan (Saw) will be directing an adaptation of the graphic novel (er, I mean comic) Nightfall which is about "a man sentenced to time in a prison run by vampires." [via Deadline NY]

#18: Endangered Species, the one film I want to see from Eli Roth, might be his next. Read more in out interview here. [via AICN]

#19: Danny Trejo's son, Gilbert, will likely co-direct his pops and Michelle Rodriguez in an upcoming indie called Skinny Dip which is a "revenge picture involving a young woman who kills a policeman." I haven't even seen Machete yet and I'm already looking forward to this. [via 24 Frames]

#20: Brit sci-fi flick Transmission will be shot in 3D and revolves "around an alien invasion during an solar eclipse." Described as "Pitch Black meets 28 Days Later", they're currently in talks with Willem Dafoe to star. [via moviehole]

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Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 8:14:07 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: post apocalyptic zombie trailer news animation

Welcome to the age of the zombie.

In my first post on this I said that this "wannabe" (read: an amateur made film designed to attract a budget to make a full feature) showed some promise. But with this new trailer, I'm convinced. Somebody fund this!

A loner finds himself trapped in his NYC apartment with two zombies after a parasite wreaks havoc on the five boroughs.

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Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 6:29:47 GMT by: io9
Posted under: trailer news short scifi animation

Atomic Robo, Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener's Eisner-nominated comic about Nikola Tesla's paranormal-battling automaton, is receiving the cartoon treatment. Animation studio The Fictory has unveiled a teaser for Atomic Robo: Last Stop, an animated film based on the bot's exploits.

Here's The Fictory's description of the film:
Atomic Robo: Last Stop will be a fully animated extension of the already vast Atomic Robo universe. This new short film will bring fan favorite characters to life in a traditionally produced, digital animation. "While Atomic Robo: Last Stop isn't a direct adaptation, we've paid very close attention to the Graphic Novels and are determined to stay as true to the subject material as humanly possible. People love Robo too much for me to try and mess with the formula," said director Joseph W. Krzemienski.

According to Fictory, the short is due sometime in 2010. Here's hoping that it includes a cameo from Atomic Robo's firearm-toting saurian foe Dr. Dinosaur (but I'm not banking on it)

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Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 4:51:52 GMT by: Ben Austwick
Posted under: movie review horror australia

Year: 2009
Directors: Josh Reed
Writers: Josh Reed & Nigel Christensen
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7.5 out of 10

One of the problems with contemporary horror is the seemingly endless parade of teenagers going camping in the woods, and the pedestrian horrors they face therein. There are of course some true greats in this genre but it produces diminishing returns as time goes on, with last year's Frightfest showcasing some particularly dismal examples. Expectations were low then for Primal, but a bit of imagination, a lot of wit and a cavalier attitude to genre conventions make it a surprisingly entertaining film.

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Posted on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 0:22:35 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news horror

I wish AO was available to write this piece as he's the resident Marshall fan but since he's not I'll give you the rundown via Deadline NY. Underground is a horror thriller "set in the world of underground supper clubs" and the screenplay is written by David Cohen. Further the producers stated that "the protagonist is an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine." What does "extreme cuisine" mean? Well there's been a lot of speculation that this means "cannibalism", and I surely hope it does because I couldn't care less about eating endangered species.

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Posted on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 0:15:57 GMT by: quietearth
Posted under: movie news festival

While I won't be attending Fantastic Fest this year, our Austin correspondent rochefort will be there to bring you reviews.. of what you ask? Well with this second waves comes announcements of the post apocalyptic vampire flick we're all dying to see Stake Land along with the Mexican cannibal flick We are what we are. You can check the full list here.

The first wave was announced here.