Here’s What’s Going On 07/02/2013: Universal to Offer Real CABIN IN THE WOODS

Writer/Director Drew Godard to adapt horror satire for Halloween Horror Nights… JACOB’S LADDER being climbed once more… A bonding experience doesn’t go quite as planned in BEST FRIENDS FOREVER…
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Here’s What’s Going On 06/27/2013: Who Will Star in INDEPENDENCE DAY 2?

Don’t wait for Will Smith?… STAR TREK ship gets a new lease on life… JUG FACE finds a pit of horror… From the luxurious Cinefantastique Online studios in NYC, Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of fantastic media. FULL-SIZE VIDEO IS BELOW

Here’s What’s Going On 06/26/2013: Pics from PACIFIC RIM

Guillermo del Toro loves robots vs. monsters… Ronald D. Moore gets fantastically historical… WOULD YOU RATHER attend a deadly dinner party?… From the luxurious Cinefantastique Online studios in NYC, Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of fantastic media. FULL-SIZE VIDEO BELOW PACIFIC RIM

Here's What's Going On 06/25/2013: Tribute to Richard Matheson

A science fiction legend has passed… RealD has plans to go big… Stephen Moyer starts looking for EVIDENCE… From the luxurious Cinefantastique Online studios in New York, Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of fantastic media. FULL-SIZE VIDEO BELOW

Richard Matheson: He Was Legend

Influential author and screenwriter passes away. Works included I AM LEGEND and WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. Multiple sources (including io9 and the Guardian Express) are reporting that author Richard Matheson – the man Stephen King cited as the greatest influence on his work – has passed away at the age of 87. The news originated …

World War Z sequel hopes boosted by box office

Hollywood Reporter tells us that Paramount Pictures is reactivating their plan to turn WORLD WAR Z into a franchise, thanks to the strong box office opening: $66-million domestically and over $111-million worldwide. WORLD WAR Z had been conceived as the first entry in a trilogy, but after post-production trouble, the studio and the filmmakers had …

Here’s What’s Going On 06/21/2013: POLTERGEIST Remake in the Works

Helena Bonham-Carter giving CINDERELLA a hand… A new family gets spooked by the POLTERGEIST… Brad Pitt has family issues in WORLD WAR Z…
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Here’s What’s Going On 06/20/2013: Steve Carell Talks DESPICABLE ME 2

It’s the minions’ world, we just live in it… Gru’s rocky road to niceness… Never date the daughter of a supervillain…
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Here’s What’s Going On 06/18/2013: Jonathan Demme to Direct Mind-Bending Pilot

Demme returns to the paranoid thriller with LINE OF SIGHT… John Lasseter digs into his studies for MONSTERS UNIVERSITY… Don’t go in that ABANDONED MINE…
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Here’s What’s Going On 06/18/2013: Joss Whedon Talks AVENGERS 2

Loki will not be the Big Bad… John Hurt will probably not be the Doctor for long… KUNG FU PANDA 3 seeks harmony with China… YouTube live video capture seeks no harmony with Google Chrome (you’ll see, sorry)…
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