Reviews like this always make me smile:

"If SCREAM 4 is Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's statement on the whole remake/reboot craze, I find it admirable that that statement is that remakes and reboots suck."

I won't say I was actually going to see this in the theaters. I'm still kind of curious about it, because Scream was the first horror movie I ( Read more... )

It's the annual Strange Horizons fund drive. Strange Horizons being maybe the most influential online market for SF/F stories. They pay their authors well and they run solely on a donation basis and TODAY ONLY the one and only John Scalzi is matching any donations made up to $500. So if you have some extra money, give it to them today. Scalzi will ( Read more... )

Brett Ratner will be directing a feature film version of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood. This is bad bad bad, folks. Generally, I don't think we've hit the saturation point in this genre, but news like this makes me reconsider.

Still, credit where credit is due: great choices all around. When you have one of the most limp, forgettable, story-parched ( Read more... )

Remember that Star Wars: Clone Wars embargo I mentioned last week over at AICN?  Well, Moriarty, the only major AICN reviewer "who kinda liked" the  Clone Wars movie has thrown in his Star Wars towel and given his reasons for doing so, instead of actually reviewing the movie.  The short version, in his words: "George Lucas didn't rape anything.  ( Read more... )

AICN reports that ABC will finally be airing the Lost minisodes online Monday.  They're not deleted scenes or anything -- they were shot expressly for these mini/mobisodes (geez, haven't they been talking about these things since the end of season 2?).  They also report that the producers are trying to convince the network to hold off on airing the ( Read more... )

This sucks -- an AICN reviewer panned FF2 after seeing it at a trade screening.  When 20th Century Fox figured out the reviewer was also the projectionist at the trade-screening, they talked to his boss and his company and got him fired.

The weird thing to me about this is that 20th Century Fox is currently running a promotion on AICN for the Die ( Read more... )