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The AFI-award winning film focus evenings held at Popcorn Taxi in Sydney and Melbourne can now be seen online at www.popcorntaxi.tv.
With its ongoing formula of 'see the films, meet their makers', Popcorn Taxi has introduced the very best of international filmmakers in person and over the phone to audiences in Sydney and Melbourne for the past decade. Which is pretty cool, since it all started with just two guys, Matt Wheeldon and Gary Doust, who had a big idea. Since then that idea has grown into an army of volunteers and core workers who put together some really cool events, with a focus on bringing local Australian talent to the fore.
Huge news for fans of the animated kingdom. Not only is David X Cohen super keen on getting the next Futurama film onto the big screen (and in 3D!) but the next Futurama direct to DVD film, Into the Wild Green Yonder, will feature none other than Seth McFarlane, the 'billion dollar kid' who voices much of The Family Guy, (most notably Peter, Stewie and Brian).
In a phone hook-up earlier today, Cohen revealed that McFarlane will be singing, and was said that McFarlane had a 'beautiful singing voice'.
Yesterday Watchmen director Zack Snyder revealed around 25 minutes of Watchmen footage to a select group of industry types in Sydney.
To say that the crowd went away happy would be an understatement. The real shock is the reception of those who have no prior knowledge of Watchmen - overwhelmingly positive. It seems that the 'unfilmable' novel has broad appeal.
The opening sequence and credits were shown, the prison break out sequence and the full 'birth' of Doctor Manhattan, as well as a montage of previously unreleased footage.
Whilst we're all justifiably excited by some of the big movies coming up in 2009 - like Star Trek - there's actually a reason to get even MORE excited about the future of big screen Sci Fi and Fantasy.
The big screen is getting even bigger, with major movies making the shift from normal two dimensional films to three dimensional. And we're not just talking cheap horror movies and 'stunt' flicks - we're talking films from the biggest directors in the business, including Steven Speilberg, Peter Jackson and James Cameron.
Shooting on Stargate Universe will begin at Vancouver's Bridge Studios in February of 2009.
The third Stargate show will air on The US SCI FI Channel in the upcoming Northern Hemisphere summer.
Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, who collaborated on Stargate SG-1 and co-created Atlantis in 2004 will be writing the pilot.
Several episode ideas have also been pitched, casting is well underway. The lead character will be named Colonel Everett Young.
Principal photography on one of 2009's most anticipated films, Terminator Salvation, has officially wrapped, with work know beginning on the mammoth task of post-production and special effects.
Luckily they've got till May of next year!
Director McG managed to take time out of his exhaustive schedule to blog his thoughts on what they've come up with - although as expected, not too many details have been revealed.
Although, in general terms, some clues point to a 'thumbs up' for the fourth movie in the Terminator franchise, with an emphasis on realism in the Terminator robots (having been built again by the original makers, Stan Winston) and of story and character.
Leading the 'can you believe it? No I cannot, but it is great news anyway', category for the week, Darren Aronofsky has confirmed that he will be directing the remake of quintessential 80's classic, Robocop.
And this is hot on the heels of his lates film, The Wrestler, that is already stirring up Oscar buzz for its leading man, Mickey Rourke.
Empire UK spoke to the director of The Fountain and Pi (woohoo!) when he visited London to preview The Wrestler.
“It's a real reinvention,” he told Empire, responding to those rumours that the movie would somehow follow on or be a direct sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1987 original.
THE BBC HAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT DAVID TENNANT WILL STEP DOWN AS DR WHO IN 2010
Here's the latest from the BBC:
David Tennant is to stand down as Doctor Who, after becoming one of the most popular Time Lords in the history of the BBC science fiction show.
Tennant stepped into the Tardis in 2005, and will leave the role after four special episodes are broadcast next year.
He made the announcement after winning the outstanding drama performance prize at the National Television Awards.
If you live in Victoria, or even in Melbourne, you may be impressed and pleased to learn that a gigantic Sci Fi Convention is happening in your home town, this weekend.
Held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, the Armageddon Multimedia Expo runs all weekend, November 1-2
Stars appearing are the irrepressible David Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis' Rodney McKay) William Katt, Ernie Hudson from the Ghostbusters movies, Doug Jones, the world's greatest living monster actor (from Hellboy II, Buffy and the upcoming Underworld: Rise of the Lycans), the loveable Stargate star, Gary Jones and Kavan Smith from Stargate Atlantis and The 4400.
In a strange and wonderful 'life mimics art' moment, the University of Queensland is planning on building a Eureka style town on the fringe of western Brisbane. The Courier Mail reports that the University is seeking approval from Brisbane City Council and the Queensland State Government to build a township for around 10,000 people - where up to 4500 elite scientists from around the globe can gather and invent things that probably and hopefully won't blow us all up, like that dastardly Large Hadron Collider and its plans for world domination via black hole replication.
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