In Gamer Gerard Butler plays Kable, a death row inmate who has become the champion of an online game called ‘Slayers’. The story takes place in a future where mind-control technology has become the norm and the game ‘Slayers’ provides humans the ability to control other humans on a mass scale. To those that run the game Kable is nothing more than a human bot – a simulation. But to those who resist oppression, he is the key to overthrowing a high-tech system of slavery.
Gamer also stars Milo Ventimiglia, best known for his role as Peter Petrelli in NBC’s Heroes, as well as Michael C. Hall of the popular serial killer series, Dexter.
The first short TV spot has now been released. Watch it below:
After being nominated for a whopping seven awards at the Action on Film International Film Festival, including a nomination for Best Picture, Deadland has pulled in two award wins.
The post-apocalyptic action/drama, in which a lone man searches for his missing wife after a nuclear war, won the awards for Best Editing and director Damon O’Steen (29 Reasons To Run / The Drone Virus / Waiting) took home the award for Best Director.
Read more about the film and watch the trailer here.
Kim Coates (winner of the AOF Half-Life Award 2009), Ron Perlamn and Burden director Michael David Lynch
It’s been a great few weeks for Michael David Lynch and his short independent sci-fi film Burden.
First, Burden received four nominations from the Action on Film (AOF) International Film Festival including Best Sci Fi Film, Best Sound Design, Best VFX and Best Special Effects - Short.
The film then premiered July 25 to a sell out crowd, prompting the Laemmle Theater to quickly schedule a second unplanned screening which again sold out.
Now Burden has won the ‘Best VFX’ award at the AOF International Film Festival.
“The VFX took 3 years to finish using an FTP server to work with people all over the USA, ” Lynch said.
Star Trek Magazine #20 includes an interview with J.J. Abrams, an interview with the Borg Queen Alice Krige, and a rundown on the history of the Borg. Here are extracts from each of those features:
Excerpt from the interview with J.J. Abrams
Q. Every director approaches a script differently initially; when you read a script for the first time, do you visualize it, hear it, and see it edited?
J.J. Abrams: When I’m writing something, I tend to see it specifically, at least in ways that are usually more clear than I even realize – meaning, I’ll see things in a certain direction. I’ll see the composition of a shot or a sequence. But because it’s such a collaboration, part of the fun is discovery. The actors that you get, the director of photography you work with, the production designers: they all have ideas. While you may have a certain vision, there’s an immense amount of flexibility and fluidity that you have to approach any project with that accounts for the unexpected, which is usually the thing that makes it good.
In April 20th Century Fox Chairman Tom Rothman confirmed an Alien prequel film was under discussion and, at that time, hoped it would be helmed by Ridley Scott, the director of the original Alien that started the whole franchise.
In May Ridley Scott’s brother Tony stated a director has been attached to the project but it wasn’t Ridley Scott – it was Carl Rinsch.
Finally, three months later, it seems the saga has come to an end with 20th Century Fox prevailing. According to Variety, Ridley Scott has now been officially attached as the director.
Variety also report that Jon Spaihts has been tapped to write the screenplay. Spaihts apparently scored the job after pitching to 20th Century Fox and the Scott’s production company, Scott Free. Spaihts is currently working on the script to a Keanu Reeves space epic titled Passengers, Children of Mars for Disney, and The Darkest Hour which Wanted’s Timur Bekmambetov will produce.
The Alien prequel will see the first time Ridley Scott has returned to the franchise since he directed the original 1979 Alien.
Marvel have announced the release of a new viral website for Iron Man 2 by issuing a press release statement that “Stark Industries is actively recruiting.”
There’s not a lot on the new site (yet) apart from the above image and a form to complete as part of your application to join Stark Industries.
Want to know what came out of the San Diego Comic-Con related to True Blood?
Attendees included nearly the entire cast as well as series writer/creator Alan Ball and author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels Charleane Harris.
The panel opened with Alan Ball announcing that the mythical drink ‘Tru Blood’ is now a real drink that will become available from September 10 (the bottles won’t contain real blood though, it will be a mixture of blood orange and soda).
A preview of the last half of season 2 was then played. It has since been released online, watch it now:
In the fifth episode of Warehouse 13 Pete and Myka are sent to investigate the theft of a sculpture in New York city by a person that can seemingly walk through walls.
Joe Flanigan (John Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis) will guest star as a charming, wealthy potential suspect.
There is a trailer temporarily available on Syfy’s video site. I won’t embed it here as they’ll remove it once the episode has aired and, for some reason, they haven’t been releasing their trailers elsewhere.
In any case, here’s a gallery of images from the episode courtesy of Spoiler TV:
