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Peter Harness - of Doctor Who and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – is working on a new War Of The Worlds TV adaptation…

A new televised take on War Of The Worlds is in development. Production company Mammoth Screen (the owned-by-itv producers of Poldark) is leading the charge for a new adaptation of H.G. Wells’ iconic science-fiction novel.

They’ve enlisted the help of Peter Harness, who will write a miniseries that sticks closely to the original text. He’s said to be interested in keeping the action in its original time period (the book was released in serial format in 1897) and location (suburban Surrey, in the south of England).

That last bit is a tantalising prospect for anyone who’s ever been to Woking and wondered why there’s a massive alien statue in the town centre (pictured) and a conference centre dedicated to Wells. It’s this writer’s home town,...

By rights I should hate the English. Seriously, my background is almost entirely Scots and Irish. I grew up hearing about the troubles the English gave to the Scots and Irish, both in school and from my parents.

Yet I do not, I love the English. How can I hate a country that gave us not only Monty Python but also Benny Hill and the Carry On Films? How can I bear any ill will to a country that gave us writers of the caliber of Ramsey Campbell, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock and J. G Ballard? How can anyone hate a country that not only prizes eccentric behavior but encourages it? Take Mr. Kim Newman for instance, a brilliant writer whose work appears regularly in Video WatchDog and Videoscope Mr. Newman dresses himself, has his hair and mustache styled and speaks in the manner of someone from the 19th Century!

Tonight's the night, kids! Tune in to Syfy this evening and bear witness to what could end up being the most schlocky fun we'll have all year with Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan making its premiere. To celebrate, we have clips! Dig 'em!

From the Press Release

Axe Giant: The Wrath Of Paul Bunyan, the new horror/creature feature from producer/director Gary Jones (Boogeyman 3) and executive producer Jeff Miller, will get a Syfy premiere on Thursday, June 13th, at 9 p.m. (Et/Pt). The movie will be retitled simply Axe Giant for Syfy.

“It’s great to be in business with Syfy again,” says Jones. “I have had a good run with almost all my movies airing on the network, starting with my first film, Mosquito, and am very happy to add Axe Giant to the lineup.”

Axe Giant won the Audience Award at the Shockfest...

Ready to witness the reimaging of the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan as a monstrous, axe-wielding movie maniac? You only have to tune in to Syfy tomorrow night. Yep, tomorrow night. Because Thursday nights are now the new night for Syfy Original movies.

The premiere of Axe Giant (formerly the Wrath of Paul Bunyan) starts things off in a big way.

The filmmakers sent out a press release letting us all know everything we need to in order to prepare for a giant mongoloid Paul Bunyan hacking and slashing his way to Syfy tomorrow night.

From the Press Release

Axe Giant: The Wrath Of Paul Bunyan, the new horror/creature feature from producer/director Gary Jones (Boogeyman 3) and executive producer Jeff Miller, will get a Syfy premiere on Thursday, June 13th, at 9 p.m. (Et/Pt). The movie will be retitled simply Axe Giant for Syfy.

“It’s great to...

About nine years ago, the Will Smith and Alex Proyas version of Isaac Asimov’s infamous Sci-Fi masterpiece I, Robot was brought to the big screen, at the time I was extremely furious, thinking to myself that there was absolutely no way in hell that Will Smith could ever do justice any Asimov piece. Regardless I still found myself reluctantly making my way to see the film, and to my surprise, I really really liked it.

Perhaps it was the fact that I walked in with such abysmal expectations, but I was so stricken by the idea that a movie which I could presuppose as terrible, could actually be good, that I began to use the tactic of underwhelming myself before a film more and more often. Sometimes, this worked to my advantage, and thus another I, Robot would be discovered, but no amount of low expectations could ever prepare...

After what must seem like an eternity in teenager-years, Jenna finally made a decision on the season finale of "Awkward." between Matty and Jake. In fact, when the action picked up, the decision had been made, and she'd gone with her summer love, Matty. Jake seemed cool with it throughout the episode, as he'd now become the "Matty" of the school. In other words, all the ladies were interested in him.

Now that she'd made her decision, it seemed like everything was falling into place for Jenna. But she couldn't stop waiting for the other shoe to drop. She just knew something was going to come along to screw it all up. So maybe she created a self-fulfilling prophecy.

After a heart-to-heart with her mother, Jenna started to doubt her decision. The thrust of the episode was about a trip to Europe. Tamara was going to go, and Jenna's parents...

By MoreHorror.com

Starting next week, on May 4th through May, 20th, Porto Alegre will be the Latin American Capital of Genre Cinema as Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 unleashes.

Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, the biggest genre film festival of Latin America will be back for its 8th edition, with 17 days of pure cinephilia, exhibiting 150 films – including 87 features from 32 countries: 5 having their world première, 12 in national première and 43 in their Latin America première. The festival will also bring more than 35 guests, including the duo that will be getting a Career Achievement Award: David Schmoeller and Stuart Gordon. Schmoeller, in the occasion, will also have the première of his first feature in 14 years: “Little Monsters”.

The festival will open and close with two world premières: “Nervo Craniano Zero”, directed by Paulo Biscaia Filho will open the festival and “Cell Count”, directed by Todd E. Freeman will close it.

Have you ever heard any of the outlandish tales of Nazis hiding out in hollow earth following WW2? You will following next year’s release of The Asylum’s Nazis at the Center of the Earth. Can a former Lolita and a Starship Trooper save us from the Fourth Reich’s underground movement?

Researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a team of masked stormtroopers. They are dragged deep underground to a hidden continent in the center of the earth. Here Nazi survivors, their bodies a horrifying patchwork of decaying and regenerated flesh, are planning for the revival of the Third Reich.

So they’re not just Nazis – They’Re Frankenazis!

Dominique Swain (Face Off, Alpha Dog), seen in the accompanying picture possibly on her way to a Halloween party costumed as Nikki Finke, has signed on to star in this Asylum epic from Megafault screenwriter Paul Bales and director Joseph Lawson.

With Battle La unleashed on Blu-Ray this week, Falling Skies debuting on UK TV last week and Super 8 due out in three weeks … I decided to gather together my Brains Trust and have a conversation about Alien Invasion Movies. It very quickly became obvious that there are more of them, and a wider variety of them, than you might at first think.

Firstly we found ourselves breaking them down into five sub-genres:

The Small Town Invaders: These invasions begin small in some hick town in the armpit of nowhere and begin to build a bridgehead that way.

The Worldwide Invaders: Often arrive more publicly and aren’t shy about landing on the White House lawn.

The Solo Invader: Arrives by itself, often by accident, but promises to take over the world eventually anyway.

The Friendly Invaders: Means us no harm and generally finds that the sentiment is not reciprocated and,...

Cinematic aliens, for the most part, like to sow terror once they arrive in our midst -- think of the acid-blooded "Aliens," the people-mulching tripods of "War of the Worlds," the uber-hunter in "Predator," and "Gerard Depardieu."

Aliens that do come in peace are usually too otherworldly to be compatible for romance -- no one wants to date "Et." But every now and then, a humanoid alien lands, looking hotter than the two suns over Tatooine, and we can't blame anyone for wanting to visit the dark side of the moon with them.

Starting with Alex Pettyfer's gorgeous extra-terrestrial in "I Am Number Four" (now on DVD and Blu-ray), here are nine movie aliens we'd definitely hook up with -- as long as we could stay alive afterwards.

John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), 'I Am Number Four' (2011)

He's blond, broody, and has super-sexy scars. If that's not enough...

After weeks of guesswork and number-crunching for the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man villain, actor C. Thomas Howell (War of the Worlds) spontaneously let it slip on who the villain may be. And the villain’s going to be the Lizard.

In a radio interview with The Retroradio, he confirmed his role as a childlike witness as Spider-Man and Lizard battling on the Manhattan bridge.

MovieWeb wrote down on what he said on the radio:

There is not a whole lot to talk about. Sony wants us to be hush-hush right now. I play a relatively small role. I play a construction worker who’s son is caught in the middle of a battle between the Lizard and Spider-Man on the Manhattan bridge. Spider-Man helps me get my son back from this perilous situation. There is some payback there at the end of the movie. Spider-Man is kind of hurting. I...

Apocalypse Now

When a worried Francis Ford Coppola walked out of a rapturous reception of Apocalypse Now at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, his fears turned to confidence, and the press conference he gave summarized both the film’s troubled production and the hallucinatory, exhilarating and terrifying effect of the final product with a single sentence that no critic has ever topped.

“My film isn’t about Vietnam, it is Vietnam.”

Thirty years on, Apocalypse Now continues to stand as the ultimate cinematic statement on the Vietnam War, a position largely unchallenged even in the face of such classics as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket.

Coppola’s line is true, but not in a literal means. Of the various Vietnam films, Apocalypse Now possibly has the least ties to the reality of the war. Christ, it has the least ties to reality, period. But it is Vietnam, capturing the madness, pointlessness,...

War Of The Worlds (Blu-ray)Paramount Home Entertainment2005/Rated PG-13/117 minsList Price $39.99 – Available June 1, 2010 Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise seem to enjoy collaborating in the genre of science fiction – their previous effort "Minority Report" may not have fully captured the essence of the short story it was based on, but the film was a well constructed thriller. Soon after, the pair journeyed from Phillip K. Dick to H.G. Wells to adapt one of his most popular and famous novels for the silver screen. This wouldn't be the first time that "War of the Worlds" has been adapted into another medium – the pandemonium caused by Orson Welles and Howard Koch's radio broadcast is legendary, while Byron Haskin's big screen production has become a staple in cheesy 50's sci-fi, even though it won an Oscar for visual effects. Although Wells’ material has become somewhat dated, and Hollywood alien invasion movies have become rather abundant,...

True Blood and Outnumbered come to the end of their current runs in the UK, Ashes To Ashes begins its final two-parter, and there's a whole lot of movies to pick from too...

If there's any shrubbery in the vicinity, it won't be us who's beating about it. Telly this week is not the exciting landscape it's been in weeks past, with a typical lull between bookended bank holidays.

Sure there are plenty of good shows to watch, but as far as new shows taking off this week, the launch pad is barren.

Two shows finish their runs over the next seven days with the season finale of the always exciting True Blood tonight at 10:00pm on FX. The episode is Beyond Here Lies Nothin' and closes the second season of the vampire and mind-reading waitress chronicles at a major town gathering orchestrated by Maryann, where a special and powerful guest is expected.

I firmly believe that one cannot judge a movie on first viewing. I like to review a movie after watching it a second time, after a week of my first viewing, preferably a month later. So may be I should not write this review an hour after seeing Avatar. A second viewing shows me things that I might have missed the first time. I like to form my opinion after several days, but but But... the initial opinion never changes.

I can watch a movie any number of times, but the first impression is, my dear movie aficionados, Always the best impression. So here it is, the first impression. You know the feeling when watching a really great movie, that awesome realisation that you are watching a masterpiece, the fuzzy feeling in your heart that you will be waching this movie again and again with your kids and grandkids?

Well,...