This Christmas… We hope you don’t see this. After Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, we thought that “franchise” had wrapped up, but they’re back, all of them: Robert De Niro to Ben Stiller to Owen Wilson to Dustin Hoffman to Barbra Streisand as well as newcomers like Jessica Alba and Laura Dern. Universal [...]

Continue reading " Ben Stiller is Back in the First Teaser Trailer for Little Fockers "

There’s that “magic word” again – Avatar. Hollywood, especially 20th Century Fox, is going crazy for sci-fi, which may be good thing for sci-fi fans (like myself). 24 Frames reports that Fox has optioned the rights to adapt Ray Bradbury’s classic sci-fi novel The Martian Chronicles, another Mars story where Earthlings mingle with Mars martians, [...]

Continue reading " Fox Options Ray Bradbury’s Sci-Fi Book ‘Martian Chronicles’ "

IFC Films has debuted the official trailer (via Apple) for Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn’s Viking film Valhalla Rising starring Mads Mikkelsen. I actually saw this last year at the Toronto Film Festival and I hated it. I mean really hated it, like worst film of the year. One problem is that there is no [...]

Continue reading " Watch: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Valhalla Rising’ Official Trailer "

You would think the promise of plenty steel smashing in Shawn Levy’s futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel would be enough, but apparently it’s only making way for more giant robot movies. Pajiba has heard from their insiders that Mattel and Mandeville Films are developing a feature film based around the classic toy Rock ‘Em [...]

Continue reading " Wolfgang Peterson Developing Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots Film "

If you are trying to get an epic science fiction spec script any attention in this industry, mentioning Avatar as a point of comparison will definitely turn some heads after James Cameron’s recycled story and dazzling special effects became the highest grossing movie of all-time. Ironically, it’s Fox (via their Fox 2000 label) that’s the [...]

Continue reading " Channing Tatum Attached to Scott Bros’ Sci-Fi Romance ‘Ion’ "

He’s back! Heat Vision reports that legendary actor John Lithgow, who won a Golden Globe last year for his role on “Dexter”, is returning to the big screen again in Fox’s Rise of the Apes, the Planet of the Apes prequel being directed by Rupert Wyatt. A few days ago it was rumored that Don [...]

Continue reading " John Lithgow & Freida Pinto Fully Join Fox’s Rise of the Apes "

A big follow up to Harry Potter or another indie? Variety reports that Daniel Radcliffe will play the lead in a remake of the 1930 Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front, originally based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel. The WWI drama tells the story of Paul Baumer (Radcliffe’s role), a young German [...]

Continue reading " Daniel Radcliffe Leads ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Remake "

Uh oh, what is Fox doing? We first heard that an adaptation of Mr. Popper’s Penguins was in the works at 20th Century Fox back in April with Ben Stiller and director Noah Baumbach attached, but they both fell out of the project a month later. Now LA Times’ 24 Frames reports that Fox is [...]

Continue reading " Mark Waters & Maybe Jim Carrey for Mr. Popper’s Penguins? "

Dimension Films / The Weinstein Company has unveiled the first official poster on Twitter (via STYD) for Piranha 3D, that wild and crazy 3D horror movie about killer piranhas that hits theaters in August. We’ve already seen a couple of trailers (watch the most recent here) for Piranha 3D, so we know what to expect. [...]

Continue reading " Check This Out: Official Poster for Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D "

DreamWorks Animation has a lot of upcoming projects in the works right now, a lot of interesting stuff, from The Croods to Tim Burton’s Monsterpocalypse. The animation house must be hurting after seeing Toy Story 3 break all the records this weekend (while kicking Shrek Forever After to the ground this summer) because they’ve just [...]

Continue reading " DreamWorks Developing an Animated Good Luck Trolls Movie "