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Masters of the Universe was one of three big-budget 1987 movies that sunk Cannon Pictures (the other two were Over the Top and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace). It was supposed to be their version of Star Wars, boasting a significant budget (for Cannon) and high production values. It was based on the toys and cartoon series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe by Mattel, but the film had a very rocky road to the big screen. While it’s now considered a camp classic, thanks mainly to the involvement of Dolph Lundgren, at the time, many thought that his performance helped tank the movie. He almost ended up being dubbed in the final cut.

Indeed, in the documentary Toy Masters (excerpted by THR), Mattel executives found Lundgren’s accent unintelligible, and director Gary Goddard wanted him dubbed. “We actually did bring in a few actors to loop test,...

In the age of Alexa and Siri, it’s not hard to imagine a world where machines rule. But what if they weren’t as friendly as our favorite virtual assistants? If you’re fascinated by the chilling prospect of tech taking over (or just love a good cinematic robo thrill!), then this list of killer robots and malicious machine movies is tailored just for you. Be warned, though; you might think twice before asking Siri to play your playlist after watching these!

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In this sci-fi classic, a buff cyborg is sent from the future with a singular mission: end Sarah Connor’s existence. It’s an action-packed roller coaster that introduced us to Arnie’s iconic phrase, “I’ll be back.” Oh, and spoiler alert: he wasn’t just talking about returning from a grocery run. The quintessential killer machine.

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Martin Amis, the British author of 15 novels including “Money: A Suicide Note” and “The Zone of Interest,” has died on May 19 of esophageal cancer at the age of 73, according to his publishing house Alfred A. Knopf.

His death comes just days after Jonathan Glazer’s film adaptation of his 2014 novel “The Zone of Interest” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Amis’ satirical novel follows a Nazi officer who falls in love with the wife of his camp commandant at Auschwitz, with the love triangle playing out as the trio reacts to the genocide happening around them with varying levels of apathy.

Amis is best known for his “London Trilogy,” three novels released between 1985 and 1995 that sharply satirized late-stage capitalism and its impact on London society.

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The first of those novels was “Money: A Suicide Note,...

An adaptation of the novel has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

UK writer Martin Amis, the author of novels including The Zone Of Interest and London Fields, has died aged 73.

His wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca, confirmed to the New York Times that he died on Friday (May 19) at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, with the cause given as oesophageal cancer.

It was the same day that also saw Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Nazi drama The Zone Of Interest premiere to “remarkable” reviews at the Cannes Film Festival, where it plays in Competition for the Palme d’Or.

Martin Amis, the British author known for novels including Money, London Fields and The Information, has died. He was 73.

His wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, told The New York Times that Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, following a battle with esophageal cancer.

The news comes as Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, which loosely adapts Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday to enthusiastic response.

Other film adaptations of his work include the 2018 feature London Fields that starred Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Jason Isaacs and Cara Delevingne. Amis co-wrote the film’s screenplay that was based on his 1989 mystery novel.

Born in Oxford, England, on August 25, 1949, Amis attended Exeter College at the University of Oxford. His first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973), won the Somerset Maugham Award.

His best known works are Money...

Some science fiction can embolden the human spirit, inviting us to step out into a wider universe to experience the vast and unimaginable wonders it has to offer. Some science fiction shows us how human ingenuity will solve even our greatest problems and improve our lives for the better.

Other science fiction points out that those vast and unimaginable wonders are terrifying and will probably try to eat you, while human ingenuity is better at nothing more than finding really imaginative ways to kill people.

This month, Horror Channel will be showing a week of films that fall into the latter category with its Sci-Fear Week from Saturday the 20th November through to Friday the 26th, at 9pm each night.

Expect a cold, unfeeling universe filled with terrors that will freeze your blood, and technological horrors that will leave you feeling like your dad when asked to send an email with an attachment,...

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Distribution outfit Abacus Media Rights has announced sales on several documentary features and non-fiction series at the ongoing Asian Television Forum, which is part of the Singapore Media Festival.

“Rhys Darby: Big in Japan,” “Griff’s Great Kiwi Road Trip,” “Griff’s Great Australian Rail Trip” and “The Helper” have been acquired by National Geographic, while “Outback Lockdown,” “Alone Across the Arctic” and “Surviving the Outback” have been sold to The Outdoor Channel (Asia). Wowow Japan will air music documentaries “Lennon’s Last Weekend” and “Whitney: Can I Be Me.” Rthk Hong Kong has secured “Toxic Beauty.”

iwonder has picked up a few documentary features for its Asia and Australia markets, including “Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards,” “Jihad Jane,” “People You May Know,” “Redeemed and the Dominant: Fittest on Earth,” “Sound City” and “In Search of the Last Action Heroes.”

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Singapore-based Darpan Global has acquired...

Forty years ago this week, the soundtrack to Neil Diamond’s The Jazz Singer arrived in record stores. The album was an enormous success due to hit singles “Love on the Rocks,” “Hello Again,” and “America,” even if the movie itself — which starred Diamond as a cantor who rebels against his strict, religious father by making pop music — was far less successful.

Diamond’s dreams of movie stardom go all the way back to the early Seventies when he unsuccessfully auditioned to play Lenny Bruce in Bob Fosse’s Lenny,...

HBO Max launched on May 27th and has been off to a pretty good start with well over 10,000 hours worth of content on the service from day one. If you’re a horror fan, you may be excited to hear that a fairly decent portion of those 10,000 hours include some of the biggest and most popular horror films of all time. So, if you haven’t subscribed yet, now might just be the time to do so.

Do you like Steven Spielberg and massive sharks eating people? If so, you’ll be delighted to hear that you can catch the entire Jaws franchise – which spans four films – on HBO Max right away. If you haven’t ever seen them, now’s a great opportunity to take a trip back in time to catch up on what was arguably the very first blockbuster movie series.

The majority of the Aliens films...

Martin Amis’ 1984 novel “Money,” inspired by his painful experiences as the screenwriter of the disastrous 1980 sci-fi movie “Saturn 3,” includes a character based on “Saturn 3” star Kirk Douglas: “Lorne Guyland,” an aging but still virile screen legend, “had, in his time, on stage or screen, interpreted the roles of Genghis Khan, Al Capone, Marco Polo, Huckleberry Finn, Charlemagne, Paul Revere, Erasmus, Wyatt Earp, Voltaire, Sky Masterson, Einstein, Jack Kennedy, Rembrandt, Babe Ruth, Oliver Cromwell, Amerigo Vespucci, Zorro, Darwin, Sitting Bull, Freud, Napoleon, Spider-Man, Macbeth, Melville, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Methuselah, Mozart, Merlin, Marx, Mars, Moses and Jesus Christ.”

And while “Money” is not, on the whole, particularly kind to Kirk Douglas, this list does reflect the breadth and scope of a screen career that started in 1946 and culminated in the early 21st century.

On screen, Douglas was the epitome of the square-jawed leading man, whether he was playing a Roman slave,...

Stanley Donen, the former Broadway chorus boy who made a name for himself in Hollywood directing classic musical films like “On the Town” and “Singin’ in the Rain,” has died at age 94.

One of Donen’s sons confirmed the news on Saturday to Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips. A rep for Donen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Donen helped reinvent the big-screen musical, with a series of hits that included 1954’s “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” 1957’s “The Pajama Game,” 1958’s “Damn Yankees!” and 1957’s “Funny Face,” with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.

Not only did he integrate song, dance and story in a way that enlivened MGM musicals of the era, but he was also a technical innovator in an era before CGI, as in the memorable scene in 1950’s “Royal Wedding” when Fred Astaire seemed to dance on the walls and ceiling while...

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The 1980s were a decade of many cultural phenomenon such as the teen angst film, the splatter horror film, the zombie films, and of course the teen sex comedy. Bob Clark’s Porky’s (1981) was a huge success both financially and artistically. To this day it’s still one of the funniest movies ever made. Many of today’s best-known actors cut their teeth in such fare: Tom Hanks attended an out-of-control Bachelor Party (1984) and even Johnny Depp and Rob Morrow checked into a Private Resort (1985). Stanley Donen, best known for directing Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Funny Face (1957), Charade (1963), and Arabesque (1966), followed up the boring and disastrous Saturn 3 (1980) with Blame It on Rio, a peculiar entry in his otherwise illustrious career. Jennifer (Michelle Johnson) is a pulchritudinous seventeen-year-old who lusts after her father Victor’s (Joseph Bologna) best friend...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What filmmaker would you most like to see try their hand at a horror movie?

Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko), Pajiba/Riot Material

I struggled with this question, because a lot of the directors I have adored have worked in horror, be it Tim Burton (“Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands”), Robert Zemeckis (“Death Becomes Her”), Edgar Wright (“Shawn of the Dead”), Frank Oz (“Little Shop of Horror”), Guillermo del Toro (“Crimson Peak”), Bong-Joon Ho (“The Host”), Jim Jarmusch (“Only Lovers Left Alive”), or Taika Waititi (“What We Do In the Shadows”). Part of what I love about the genre is the way is can be reshaped with vision, color,...

You can usually count on big-pedigree sci-fi films like Arrival to contain truly challenging ideas, but how, this late in the game, can we still get a movie like Passengers, one of the most misguided big-budget sci-flicks in recent memory?

Set in an unspecified future, Passengers stars Chris Pratt as Jim Preston, a mechanic onboard the spaceship Avalon. Like the other 5000 passengers, Jim is in suspended animation for the ship’s 120-year journey to the planet Homestead II, where earthlings are colonizing after overpopulation problems back home. Unfortunately, Jim has the misfortune of waking up 90 years too soon when his sleeping pod malfunctions. He sends an email back home to apprise someone of his predicament, but is informed it will take decades for that message to transmit, so like Chuck Heston in The Omega Man, he settles in to his role as the last man (not) on Earth. After a year of shooting hoops,...

1978 cast a long shadow in the world of horror. From Dawn of the Dead to Halloween, the landscape was abundant with everything from the socially relevant to the singularly terrifying, from superior remakes (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) to quirky haunted houses (The Evil). And then there’s the red headed stepchild that no one talks about: Brian DePalma’s The Fury. Frenetic, action packed, and gruesome, The Fury never gets the love from even most DePalma fanatics. What a shame – it’s never less than entertaining, and at its best showcases the director’s mesmerizing visual touch.

Released in March by Twentieth Century Fox, The Fury made $24 million against its $5.5 million budget. That’s good green, folks, and DePalma received favorable reviews, still basking in a critical glow left over from his previous effort, Carrie (’76). So why is it so easily dismissed, ranked along the lines of efforts like Wise Guys,...

Tony Dyson, a special effects supervisor and robotics expert who built the iconic R2-D2 droid for the Star Wars franchise, was found dead on the Maltese island of Gozo where he lived. He was 68. An autopsy is being carried out to determine exact cause of death, but investigators said foul play isn't suspected and Dyson likely died of natural causes, the BBC reports.

At the time of Star Wars, Dyson was the owner of the White Horse Toy Company, which was commissioned to create the eight R2-D2 models, including four with remote control capabilities.

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A killer robot powered by baby brains. Kirk Douglas wrestling in the nude. Ryan revisits the very weird 80s sci-fi movie, Saturn 3...

Some movies aspire to strangeness. Other movies have strangeness thrust upon them.

Saturn 3, released in 1980, was an intensely strange film. But unlike, say, Altered States (also released in 1980) it wasn’t made by a filmmaker with a taste for the oblique or the outre. Unlike Luigi Cozzi’s Contamination (1980 again), Saturn 3 wasn’t a low-budget shocker made in a hurry, but a relatively expensive exercise created by some of the most seasoned filmmakers in the business at that time. (For frame of reference, Saturn 3's budget was broadly the same as Alien’s, released less than one year earlier.)

On the surface, Saturn 3 sounds like a perfectly reasonable recipe for an intense sci-fi horror flick. It’s about a pair...

Never mind The Terminator and Ed-209, what about Eve, Hector or Warbeast? Here's a pick of 15 less famous killer robots from the movies...

"They say Zapp Brannigan single-handedly saved the Octillion system from a horde of rampaging killbots!" enthused Leela in classic the Futurama episode, Love's Labour's Lost In Space.

It was, reflected the alcoholic, cigar-smoking robot Bender, "A grim day for Robotkind", before adding as an afterthought, "Eh, but we can always build more killbots."

Killer robots are a longstanding staple of science fiction cinema, and if we were to compile the list of the best and most celebrated, it would probably read pretty much like everyone else's - The Terminator, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Sentinels from X-Men: Days Of Future Past would all get a mention.

But what about the less famous killer robots from film history - the ones that have been largely eclipsed by...

The big green guy with the bolts in his neck gets his day in St. Louis when we celebrate Hollywood’s most famous movie monster at The Way out Club. Super-8 Frankenstein Movie Madness will take place on Tuesday, September 2nd beginning at 8pm.

Condensed versions (average length: 15 minutes) of these Frankenstein films will be screened on a big screen on Super-8 sound film: Frankenstein (1931), Bride Of Frankenstein, Son Of Frankenstein, Shost Of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman, House Of Frankenstein, I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, and Frankenstein Conquers The World!

Frankenstein-free movies we’re showing on September 2nd are: Bugs Bunny in All This And Rabbit Stew, Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3, a Sean Connery double feature of The Anderson Tapes and Darby O’Gill And The Little People, the ‘Fistful of Yen’ sequence from Kentucky Fried Movie, and Charles Bronson in The White Buffalo.

We...

Scream Factory is churning out awesome Blu-ray releases pretty regularly these days, and today we have a double feature review for two of their recent sci-fi / horror titles, the 80’s cult classic Night of the Comet and Saturn 3.

As far as trippy 70’s sci-fi movies go, Saturn 3 didn’t disappoint even if the film never quite fully comes together and it’s likely due to the behind-the-scenes politics that left production troubled from the very beginning. The story of Saturn 3 at least has some ingenuity going for it, which really made the film all the more fascinating experience for me (more on that in a sec) and ultimately, rather entertaining.

The futuristic intergalactic tale of Saturn 3 is centered around Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett), caretakers for a hydroponic growing station on Saturn’s third moon who are working to find their ecologically-devastated home planet...

Criteria for a Worst Movies of the Year list must be stricter than for a Best. To earn one of these unhallowed spots, a film should not merely be poorly made (some of the worst movies of all time are quite well made), it should be obnoxious on all sorts of levels. It should be worse than the sum of its parts. Many philosophical issues are thereby raised. Should one show mercy to filmmakers who take huge artistic risks and fail proportionately? Consider Michael Cimino’s 1980 film Heaven’s Gate. I think it’s stupefyingly terrible — and its consequent box-office failure was so immense that it helped to bring down a great studio, United Artists. But given its level of ambition, should a critic working back then have deemed it the worst film of 1980 against, say, Saturn 3, Oh Heavenly Dog, Can’t Stop the Music, or The Gong Show Movie?...

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"The Wolverine"

What's It About? Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is more human than X-Man in this stand-alone film that takes place in Japan. Not only has he lost his powers, but his memories of Jean Grey are driving him cuckoo. Which is too bad, because he's still got to fight off loads of gangsters, ninjas, and other slick villains -- including one green-eyed baddie from the past.

Why We're In: Director James Mangold ("Walk the Line," "3:10 to Yuma") balances fantastic action with a more serious sensibility that recalls samurai films of yore. Plus, you don't need to be an X-pert X-Men fan to enjoy this movie.

Watch: Hugh Jackman takes you behind the scenes on "The Wolverine" (Video)

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"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" -- The Rich Mahogany Edition

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Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week

"The Wolverine"

What's It About? Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is more human than X-Man in this stand-alone film that takes place in Japan. Not only has he lost his powers, but his memories of Jean Grey are driving him cuckoo. Which is too bad, because he's still got to fight off loads of gangsters, ninjas, and other slick villains -- including one green-eyed baddie from the past.

Why We're In: Director James Mangold ("Walk the Line," "3:10 to Yuma") balances fantastic action with a more serious sensibility that recalls samurai films of yore. Plus, you don't need to be an X-pert X-Men fan to enjoy this movie.

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"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" -- The Rich Mahogany Edition

What's It About? If you haven't heard of San Diego's finest anchorman with the best mustache, coolest car, and most impressive...

December 3rd new Blu-ray releases include The Wolverine, The Smurfs 2, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. Several titles also receive the "Collector's Edition" treatment including X-Men: The Adamantium Collection (Limited Collector's Edition), Argo: The Declassified Extended Edition, Pain & Gain: Special Collector's Edition, Nashville (Criterion Collection), and Duck Dynasty: Seasons 1-3 Collectors Set with Limited Edition Duck-Camo Bandana. Catalog titles new to Blu-ray include Saturn 3 and Serpico. Hugh Jackman returns as The Wolverine and faces his ultimate nemesis in an action packed life-or-death battle that takes him to modern day Japan. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his limits, Logan confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also...

Saturn 3, starring Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett, will be released to Blu-ray/DVD next week and Scream Factory has released the original trailer and clips:

“Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett) are two scientists stationed deep beneath the barren surface of Saturn’s third moon, Titan. They live together in idyllic isolation in a space-age Eden, seeking new forms of food for an exhausted planet Earth. Their perfect world is interrupted when Benson (Harvey Keitel) arrives as Saturn goes into eclipse and cuts off communication with the rest of the solar system. Aided by his ‘helper robot’ Hector, James reduces life to one single purpose…survival. The robot becomes violently unmanageable. For Adam and Alex, their only hope is to flee, but the homicidal robot stands in their way. Produced and directed by legendary filmmaker Stanley Donen (Singin’ In The Rain, Charade and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers...

Saturn 3, starring Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett, will be released to Blu-ray/DVD later this year and Scream Factory had provided us with new release details:

“Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett) are two scientists stationed deep beneath the barren surface of Saturn’s third moon, Titan. They live together in idyllic isolation in a space-age Eden, seeking new forms of food for an exhausted planet Earth. Their perfect world is interrupted when Benson (Harvey Keitel) arrives as Saturn goes into eclipse and cuts off communication with the rest of the solar system. Aided by his ‘helper robot’ Hector, James reduces life to one single purpose…survival. The robot becomes violently unmanageable. For Adam and Alex, their only hope is to flee, but the homicidal robot stands in their way. Produced and directed by legendary filmmaker Stanley Donen (Singin’ In The Rain, Charade and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers...

How we love the Scream Factory. They've given us stellar home video packages of some of our favorite films throughout the year and are showing no signs of slowing down at all. Next up... the sci-fi classic Saturn 3.

From the Press Release

Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett) are two scientists stationed deep beneath the barren surface of Saturn's third moon, Titan. They live together in idyllic isolation in a space-age Eden, seeking new forms of food for an exhausted planet Earth. Their perfect world is interrupted when Benson (Harvey Keitel) arrives as Saturn goes into eclipse and cuts off communication with the rest of the solar system. Aided by his 'helper robot' Hector, James reduces life to one single purpose…survival. The robot becomes violently unmanageable. For Adam and Alex, their only hope is to flee, but the homicidal robot stands in their way. Produced and directed...

With all of the classic horror titles that Scream Factory will be bringing to Blu-ray over the next six months, it’s a good chance that you’ve missed an announcement or two. There have also been a couple of date changes and we have a list of more than thirty upcoming titles.

Many of the movies listed below will be released to Blu-ray and DVD, while a handful are DVD only or Blu-ray only. We’re covering every upcoming Scream Factory release, so make sure to check back regularly for trailers, clips, box art, and additional release details.

The Amityville Trilogy Box Set (10/1) All Night Horror Marathon (What’s the Matter with Helen, The Vagrant, The Godsend, The Outing) (10/8) The Vincent Price Collection (10/22) Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear (10/22) All Night Horror Marathon 2 (Cellar Dweller, The Dungeonmaster, Contamination 7, Catacombs) (10/29) Body Bags (11/12) Assault on Precinct 13 (11/19) Night of the Comet (11/19) Eve of Destruction...

Home entertainment agreement will see Shout! Factory distribute ITV Studios Global Entertainment films in North America.

North American distributor Shout! Factory and UK distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment (Itvs Ge) have secured a deal to partner on home entertainment and digital distribution.

The agreement will see an extensive library of acclaimed cinema classics back to the home entertainment marketplace in the Us and Canada.

Titles include Sophie’s Choice; On Golden Pond; The Eagle Has Landed; The Last Unicorn; The Tamarind Seed; Capricorn One; The Cassandra Crossing; Brief Encounter; Saturn 3; The Merchant of Venice; Voyage of the Damned and The Boys from Brazil.

Some of these titles have never been available on Blu-ray or DVD. In addition, bonus content is currently in development by Shout! Factory for special editions and double features.

In addition to the Scream Factory's Huge news that Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut is on its way to home video, they also announced several other titles that are coming at ya!

John Carpenter’S Assault On Precinct 13 (Collector’s Edition) – The original classic siege thriller is intensified further with all-new ‘Scream’-produced extras. (Nov 2013)

Eve Of Destruction – The 1991 Gregory Hines android-gone-amok sci-fi thriller hits Blu and anamorphic widescreen for the first time.

Saturn 3 – This post-Alien 1980 Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett vs. Evil Robot flick gets a considerable upgrade to Blu-ray for the first time. New extras planned. (Dec 2013)

Darkman (Collector’s Edition) – The 1990 Sam Raimi cult classic gets the full on ‘Scream’ treatment with all new extras. (Dec 2013)

Scream Factory “TV Terrors” –Two made-for-tv movies - 1978’s The Initiation Of Sarah and Are You In The House Alone? – will be packaged together on DVD for the first time at a good price.

A ton of new Scream Factory releases were announced at San Diego Comic-Con today including Clive Barker's Nightbreed The Cabal Cut, John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, Cat People and more.

From the Scream Factory Facebook page:

Here’s the list of upcoming films we literally just announced at Comic-Con tonight:

John Carpenter’S Assault On Precinct 13 (Collector’s Edition) – The original classic siege thriller is intensified further with all-new ‘Scream’-produced extras. (Nov 2012)

Eve Of Destruction – The 1991 Gregory Hines android-gone-amok sci-fi thriller hits Blu and anamorphic widescreen for the first time.

Saturn 3 – This post-Alien 1980 Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett vs. Evil Robot flick gets a considerable upgrade to Blu-ray for the first time. New extras planned. (Dec 2012)

Darkman (Collector’s Edition) – The 1990 Sam Raimi cult classic gets the full on ‘Scream’ treatment with all new extras. (Dec 2012)

Scream Factory “TV Terrors” –Two made-for-tv movies -...

The day has finally come. We’ve been asking for it, for what seems like a century. The long awaited, previously unseen by most, “Cabal Cut” of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, has finally found a home willing to distribute the title on home video. That home is none other than Scream Factory. Other titles were announced as well, such as Assault On Precinct 13(I think, my favorite Carpenter film), Cat People, Saturn 3, Eve Of Destruction and Darkman.

This is phenomenal news. Not only do we finally get one of the horror community’s most sought after titles, but it’s being distributed by, arguably. the current king of cult movie home video. So far, every single Scream Factory release(excluding Dead Souls) have been a cult movie fan’s wet dream. I have no doubt that this trend will continue in the new year. Aside from Nightbreed, which...

To have one giant money-losing tentpole is unfortunate. To have two starts to look careless, and that's what's happened to Taylor Kitsch. The actor, who broke out on TV's "Friday Night Lights," was seen as Hollywood's next great hope, picked out to star in two great big blockbusters with a combined cost of half-a-billion dollars. But when "John Carter" arrived in March, the film wildly underperformed, with Disney taking a hit of at least $100 million on the project. And after this weekend, it looks that his other film, "Battleship," is going to lose similar amounts.

The film, Universal & Hasbro's adaptation of the board game, directed by "Hancock" helmer Peter Berg, had taken the unusual step of opening everywhere else in the world six weeks ahead of the U.S, in the hope of bagging lucrative foreign coin and building buzz for the U.S. release. But while the film did ok abroad,...

After thirty years, three terrible prequels and acres of spin-off material, the "Star Wars" brand has been somewhat tarnished. The fans are still legion, but it's become harder and harder to get excited about the series, and the highlights drift further and further from memory. That being said, we'll always a place for the original trilogy in our hearts, and much of that comes down to the second (or fifth) installment, 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back" Despite the success of the original, creator George Lucas seemed to have taken some of the criticism to heart, a took a back seat for the follow-up, handing over the directorial reins to his old film school professor Irvin Kershner ("The Eyes of Laura Mars," "The Flim-Flam Man") and hiring veteran screenwriter Leigh Brackett and bright young thing Lawrence Kasdan, who'd come to fame thanks to his as-yet-unmade scripts for "The Bodyguard" and "Continental Divide.

We're in a little bit of a horror lull right now so this week Trembles looks back at a 1980 flick called Saturn 3 that's notable for starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, and Harvey Keitel. With a cast like that, what else do you need to know?

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Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream...

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Super-8 Movie Madness at the Way Out Club will be held on Tuesday March 6th from 8pm to Midnight. These are Super-8 Sound films condensed from features (they average 15 minutes in length) and will be projected on a large screen at the Way Out Club. Admission is only Three Bucks!!!!

The films on March 6th are: the politically incorrect Warner Bros cartoon Jungle Jitters, Dean Martin in Airport, the Hammer Horror The Mummy’S Shroud, Bela Lugosi in the original Dracula, Lon Chaney in Ghost Of Frankenstein, Yongary Monster From The Deep, The Exorcist, Woody Allen in Take The Money And Run, Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas in Saturn 3, James Coburn in Our Man Flint, Cry Uncle, Squirm, and Phantasm

There will be lots of posters and T-Shirts and stuff given away. The Way Out Club is located at 2525 Jefferson Avenue in South St. Louis (corner of Jefferson and...

London Fields, which centres on a woman who arranges her death, to be helmed by Indian director of Elizabeth

Despite his often-professed love for cinema, film versions of Martin Amis novels have had a difficult history. The movie of Money never materialised, ending up as a TV series instead; Dead Babies and The Rachel Papers were both derided on release, and the London Fields adaptation has been in limbo for more than a decade.

But, with a new director on board, it looks as though a cinematic version of London Fields could be on the cards. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter website at the Film Bazaar in Goa, a market backed by the Indian government, Shekhar Kapur, the director of Bandit Queen, said: "I'm looking forward to this project because I've never directed a murder mystery."

London Fields, published in 1989, centres on the ambiguous figure of Nicola Six, the "murderee...

Angry Boys ends, Torchwood continues, and Con Air is on! It's this week's TV round-up...

Well, you can hardly accuse schedulers of spoiling us. This time last year, Sherlock was helping us get through the summer lull, but with no new series kicking off of interest, we're left with continuing shows to talk to you about.

This week, then, sees the final episode of the divisive Angry Boys over on BBC Three. And, of course, Torchwood: Miracle Day is still going over on BBC One, reaching its halfway point on Thursday night.

It's still likely to be quiet for a week or two yet, at least until Doctor Who returns at the end of the month. But we'd suggest instead you seek solace in some of the films of the week. We're certainly not going to miss a chance to flag up Ang Lee's Hulk, for instance, and no week...

Sometimes great actors make strange or ill-advised decisions. Here’s a list of ten actors and their weirdest film choices

For any actor, choosing a film role must be a true leap of faith. And if you happen to be an Oscar-winning or particularly famous actor, the decision making process must be more difficult still. How do you know the director of your next picture won't make you look like a complete idiot?

This list, then, is devoted to ten actors and a few of their oddest career choices. Not all of them are necessarily bad films, but the appearance of such esteemed actors in them most definitely is...

Robert De Niro - Godsend

An actor once lauded as the finest of his generation, it's becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile Robert De Niro's remarkable early work (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Godather Part II and Raging Bull, to name...

Be Warned That There Is Both Male And Female Nudity Depicted In This List

Here we're neither talking about the extended nudity in Russ Meyer's 'nudie cuties', nor the disrobing we're so used to seeing in bedroom or bathroom scenes in movies. These guys and gals may dance, or they may not - but they are definitely naked; and in situations you wouldn't expect...

10: Women In Love (1969)

Ken Russell's autobiography 'A British Picture' tells at some length (if that's the appropriate word) of the difficulty the director had in setting up the nude fight scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in this acclaimed adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel. The most amusing anecdotes on the matter are Oliver Reed's unannounced visit to Russell's home to complain about the 'poofiness' of the unclad battle, and his further objection that the venue for said...

I hold Hammer Films' sole sci-fi outing Moon Zero Two (1969) in the same esteem... actually maybe 'bracket' is a better word; in the same 'bracket', then, as Stanley Donen's 1980 Sf flop Saturn 3. Both were attempting to ride the coat-tails of popular cinematic Sf outings (2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien, respectively) and both were full of interesting ideas and engaging production design under the top British talents of the day. And both are stinkers, really. In terms of 'guilty pleasure', each comes under the full penalty of the law, with Saturn 3 a hanging offence.

But in truth there's never been an Sf movie quite like Moon Zero Two, and perhaps it would take a company (such as Hammer then was) that knows absolutely nothing about sci-fi to even think of coming up with a 'space western' six years before the cameras rolled on Star Wars.

Moon Zero Two...

We're inclined to take this next story with a big grain of salt; still, it's just interesting enough to warrant some examination. The folks over at What's Playing ran a provocative story over the past 24 hours in which they describe some significant plot points from Ridley Scott's forthcoming Alien prequel. And some of those languorous details might not be a direction in which you'd expect Scott to go in a film that he contends will rival the original Alien for sophistication and terror.

Normally, we'd call bollocks on this, but we're inclined to agree with the folks over at JoBlo — who also speculated on this story — who pointed out that 20th Century Fox forced What's Playing to take the story down. The obvious point being: why ask a site to take something down unless it contains sensitive spoilers?

So what's it all about? Here are the highlights (possible *Spoilers...

We asked you to suggest the most mismatched lovers in cinema. Here are some of the best gruesome twosomes

@DukeLuke Steve Martin and the Brain in The Man With Two Brains. He falls in love with a brain in a jar. It doesn't get much odder than that.

@dukemedia Professional cockney urchin Danny Dyer and one-time X-Files star and FHM's sexiest woman Gillian Anderson in ill-fated British revenge thriller Straightheads.

@Hows, @filmcat, @Fantaxamus,

@ontheroad29, @catburgler,

@theythinkitsallover Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort in Harold and Maude.

@carrion4891 Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox in Transformers 1 and 2 – he'd never get her.

@Victoriatheoldgoth Most French films pair an extraordinarily beautiful woman with an absolute gargoyle.

@fishworld Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut. Has all the tension and compelling reality of a disposable in-flight magazine. Double points because they actually were a couple.

@breakingranks Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi in Ghost World.

Martin Amis has never admitted exactly where the inspiration came from for his classic 80s work Money. Could it be the scriptwriting stint he had on the much-derided sci-fi film Saturn 3?

Fans of Mad Men currently suffering from withdrawal after the end of the third season, and fans of Martin Amis's greatest novel, Money (1984) – I'm incidentally guessing there's a sizeable overlap between the two groups – have something exciting to look forward to. The BBC is soon to broadcast a two-part adaptation of the Amis novel as part of its 80s season, starring Vincent Kartheiser, who plays the creepy, tormented ad exec Pete Campbell in Mad Men.

Nick Frost is to play John Self, the alcoholic, junk food- and porn-addicted ad director who in the era of the Lady Di wedding gets a glimpse of serious riches when a smooth American producer, Fielding Goodney, claims to want to develop...

Certain directors have made themselves right at home in the genre of science fiction -- George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron are three directors who come to mind for whom their science fiction films are their cultural calling cards. But scifi flicks aren't only made by specialists -- some of the great films, in fact, are by directors who found their greatest fame outside the genre. Now, not every great director is a great fit for science fiction -- see Robert Altman's Quintet or Stanley Donen's Saturn 3 for evidence of that -- but for the curious, here's a sampling of the ones who were.Franklin J. Schaffner Schaffner won his directing Oscar for Patton and made his technical bones as an innovative television director who brought movie techniques to the small screen in shows like Studio 90. But science fiction fans know him as the director of Planet of the Apes,...

Certain directors have made themselves right at home in the genre of science fiction -- George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron are three directors who come to mind for whom their science fiction films are their cultural calling cards. But scifi flicks aren't only made by specialists -- some of the great films, in fact, are by directors who found their greatest fame outside the genre. Now, not every great director is a great fit for science fiction -- see Robert Altman's Quintet or Stanley Donen's Saturn 3 for evidence of that -- but for the curious, here's a sampling of the ones who were.Franklin J. Schaffner Schaffner won his directing Oscar for Patton and made his technical bones as an innovative television director who brought movie techniques to the small screen in shows like Studio 90. But science fiction fans know him as the director of Planet of the Apes,...

Farrah Fawcett did not make the cut for this year's In Memoriam tribute during last night's Academy Awards telecast ... leaving many scratching their heads.Despite appearing in such classics as "Sunburn," "Saturn 3," "The Cannonball Run" and "Dr. T and the Women," Fawcett was passed over for more household names ... like Michael Jackson. An Academy spokesperson told the AP, "Every year it's an unfortunate reality that we can't include everybody." ...

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The unconfirmed cast of director Zebediah De Soto's CGI "re-imagining" Night of the Living Dead: Origins is finally official. Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal were all previously announced, but were unconfirmed. Well, dust off that tie and drive to the church because this cast is confirmed! 

Moseley will return as Johnny, the part he played in Tom Savini's 1990 remake, and will likely play Johnny in every remake made from here on out. Harris will play Barbara, and Pilato (who appeared in Romero's Dawn of the Dead) and Tal will voice the Coopers.

The casting of Piluto and Moseley is obviously a calculated one, one De Soto explained is "a nod to Romero fans. Horror is a genre and zombie movies are a subgenre that people have been following for years and years." De Soto is one of those followers, and claims that Night of the Living Dead...

What was once old always becomes new again. Right now the upper management at ABC are close to ordering a pilot for a new casting of Charlie's Angels, the classic 1970s action-adventure hour-long series beloved by little girls and older boys for completely different reasons.

When it came out in 1976, Angels was an instant hit and cemented Farrah Fawcett (then called Fawcett-Majors due to her nupitals with Six Million Dollar Man star Lee Majors) as the last poster queen. While Ff only starred in the show for a season before trying to play her cards as a movie star (Saturn 3? Sunburn? Man, it's pretty bad when you're only decent big screen performance from the 1970s was in Logan's Run), the show proved to have legs enough for a six season run. Drew Barrymore dusted it off and McG reimagined the concept slightly more tongue-in-cheek for the Charlie's Angels movies...

You Can't Stop Progress. Hardware Directed by Richard Stanley In a post-apocalyptic future somewhere in a radioactive desert, terminally ill Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) has just returned from scavenging for whatever waste he may find that could be of use to him either back home or for sale. Along his journey he discovers some robotic parts from some unknown android which he brings to his dope-smoking sculptor girlfriend Julie (Stacey Travis) as a Christmas present. She incorporates it into her latest piece, but neither of them is aware that the hardware is actually a robot programmed to kill humans. After settling in and reconnecting following his long absence, their reunion is cut short when the robot awakens, reassembles itself and resumes its original purpose as a government-sponsored population control droid. Despite few similarities, Hardware was dismissed by most as a rip-off of The Terminator. In fact, the film was heavily...