Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Sony announced that 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution will offer high definition (HD) movies for purchase and rental on the PlayStation®Network video delivery service in the United States. PlayStation Network is the first to offer high definition …
Read More »Battlestar Galactica Enters The Realm Of MMOG
Bigpoint will be demonstrating Battlestar Galactica Online, a tactical space combat and adventure MMOG based upon Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica series at the Game Developers Conference. The MMOG, inspired by one of the most popular science fiction series in television history, will launch worldwide exclusively this fall on Syfy.com for a …
Read More »Red Riding Hood, Werewolf Hunter
Felicia Day, star of web videos The Guild and Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, who also played “Vi” in the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will portray a werewolf-hunting descendant of Little Red Riding Hood in the new Syfy Saturday Original Movie, Red. Scheduled to premiere in …
Read More »A Very Smurfy Movie
Under the “…why?!” category of films being made now is the Smurf movie, based on the 1980’s cartoon, comes voice casting news, which makes this go from “ho-hum” to Smurf-tastic. Last week, is was said that Neil Patrick Harris (where isn’t he lately?) had signed on to the project. Now …
Read More »Hurt Locker Wins Big at the 82nd Oscars
Sunday night, the world watched as the 82nd annual Academy Awards were televised. Though most Oscar predictors were thinking it would be a close match between Avatar and the Hurt Locker (both with 9 nominations), it was a night that felt almost predictable, with The Hurt Locker snatching up 6 …
Read More »Box Office Goes Down The Rabbit Hole
Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” was the biggest ever for a winter release to top the domestic box office with an estimated $116.3 million, as the book-based fantasy popped through the 3D looking glasses and into the history books. The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data …
Read More »Aliens Invade Russia as Gorak Faces The Darkest Hour
Aliens are invading. But instead of coming to America, they’ll be taking over Russia in The Darkest Hour. According to Deadline Hollywood, New Regency and Summit Entertainment are partnering on this film, a 28 Days Later type thriller about a group of kids who struggle to survive an lien attack …
Read More »The Shadow to Lurk at Fox, Raimi to Produce
A few weeks back, we reported here that Sam Raimi was in the midst of getting 1930’s pulp fiction’s The Shadow to the big screen. There was speculation that he would direct the film, before properly getting started on Warcraft. Now, according to the Latin review, it looks as though …
Read More »De Niro Joins Cooper in The Dark Fields
Robert De Niro will be starring with Bradley Cooper in Relativity Media’s suspense thriller The Dark Fields, directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist). The film follows a writer (Cooper) who discovers a new designer drug that gives him new found intelligence and success. De Niro will play a financial mogul …
Read More »Wolverine 2 to Start Filming in January
Reports are coming in that Wolverine 2 will begin filming next January, according The Hollywood Reporter’s Showbiz 411 blog. Screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) has just handed in the new script, which is based on the Frank Miller/Chris Claremont 80’s mini-series, set in Japan. A source involved with the …
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