The Osiris Child is expected to be in theaters and On Demand in the fall of 2017.

The Osiris Child Synopsis:

The Osiris Child is set in a time of interplanetary colonization. Sy Lombrok (Kellan Lutz), a drifter with a haunted past, forms an unlikely alliance with Kane Sommerville (Daniel MacPherson), a lieutenant who works for off-world military contractor Exor. In a race against time, they set out to rescue Kane’s young daughter Indi (Teagan Croft) amid an impending global crisis created by Exor.

About the movie, Abbess said:

We wanted to bring back a type of movie that seemed all but extinct — the old school sci-fi action/adventure from the ‘80s with monsters, prison planets, sky battles, and a host of fun, colorful characters. It’s a big universe with a huge story arc and we’re ecstatic to introduce it to the world with this first installment.

The Osiris Child is produced by Matthew Graham, Brett Thornquest, Sidonie Abbene, and Abbess via their Storm Alley and Eclectik Vision banners, in association with Phonetic Images and executive produced by Steven Matusko. The producing team previously collaborated on Infini and Terminus, and, most recently, the upcoming thriller Better Watch Out.

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We have a fresh new clip featuring reigning champion Frankenstein (Manu Bennett) reminding you of the “Rules of the Death Race” before you shift into gear in the highly-anticipated reboot of the cult classic sci-fi, Death Race 2000.

It’s the year 2050 and America is controlled by an all-powerful corporate government ruled by The Chairman (Malcolm McDowell). The masses have been brainwashed with violent virtual-reality entertainment. The event of the year is the Death Race, in which a motley crew of violent drivers compete in a cross-country road race, scoring points for shamelessly running people over and driving each other off the road. The reigning champion and fan favorite, Frankenstein (Manu Bennett), who’s half-man half-machine, wants to take the crown, but his rebel spy co-pilot threatens his legacy.

Produced by Roger Corman, the king of cult classics, Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050 stars Manu Bennett (The Hobbit) as Frankenstein and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) as the Chairman.

The cast also features Burt Grinstead (NCIS), Marci Miller (Viper), Folake Olowofoyeku (The Beaver), Anessa Ramsey (Footloose), Yancy Butler (Hard Target) and Charlie Farrell (Cantar).

The Blu-ray combo pack comes with a few bonus features you don’t want to miss.

Check them out right below!

Bonus Features

– The Making of 2050 – This featurette goes behind the scenes of Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050 to explore why, over four decades later, the original Death Race 2000 has been remade, including what made this project appealing to cast and crew, what changes have been made, and what fans of the original will still love. Discover the movie magic behind the deaths, stunts and of course — the cars! Includes interviews with stars, director G.J. Echternkamp and Corman himself.

– Cars! Cars! Cars! – Go on the set with the drivers of Death Race 2050 as they introduce their one-of-a-kind killing machines: Frankenstein and his Monster, Perfectus and his Piece of Art, Tammy and the Tank, Minerva and her Sound Box and ABE.

– The Look of 2050 – An insider look at how the film’s visual style came together, including how shooting in Peru helped set the tone of the picture and how the costumes became stars in and of themselves.

Red Band Trailer

The first film in 1984 was based on the 1965 novel of the same name directed by David Lynch, but it was an incomprehensible mess from start to finish. Over three decades later, producers are eyeing a proper Dune reboot with production to potentially begin fairly soon.

According to Variety, there’s already “early talks” of having Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) direct Dune from a freshly written screenplay.

Set in the distant future, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides whose family accepts control of the desert planet Arrakis. As the only producer of a highly valuable resource, control of Arrakis is highly contested among the noble families. After Paul and his family are betrayed, the story explores themes of politics, religion, and man’s relationship to nature as Paul leads a rebellion to restore his family’s control of Arrakis.

Dune has long been considered the crown jewel of science fiction properties. Its legacy and influence is witnessed in everything from Star Wars to The Matrix and often referred to as the science fiction version of Lord of the Rings with its sprawling world and multi-dimensional politics.

The projects would be produced by Thomas Tull, Mary Parent and Cale Boyter, with Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert serving as executive producers.

For your reference, here’s the synopsis:

It is the last, great war. Out of the wreckage of a troop transport, five soldiers on the way to battle find themselves stranded on the dark side of the moon. Cut off and behind enemy lines, they start a dangerous journey through snipers and minefields back to their home territory. As their numbers dwindle and nerves fray, they make an amazing discovery about the moon that just might save their lives.

It’s a cool idea, having two factions, one being banished humans and the other possibly being alien, and having an outpost on the moon in search of frozen water, but there’s no real sense of urgency, much less a terrible war going. I guess that was just one of limitations the filmmakers encountered with this low-budget project.

Another, but not the last, budgetary problem was with the CG. It’s questionable whether or not things could have been worse. The spacecrafts and the explosions look like they belong in a video game prototype. They’re godawful, and based on those alone the filmmakers should have second guessed the decision to release the movie.

Related to the CG is the effect to show the audience the heads-up display that the characters see. When they showed it, it dominated the screen, making it difficult to see or focus on anything else. Honestly, we could have lived with seeing this treat once, but as it turns out the makers loved it and used the effect relentlessly, which was a horrible idea.

I’m not even going to get into the wardrobe. If you want to know, just watch the trailer:

Not for lack of effort on the actors’ part, but none of them made believable soldiers. I won’t go into it much more than that because I know that each one of them did their best. I will say, however, that despite the synopsis, there really isn’t much of a “as their numbers dwindle” going on here. At least it didn’t feel like it, and when someone does die there isn’t any real sense of loss that puts the party in peril.

Ben Wheatley’s new film High-Rise based on the dark and disturbing 1975 novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard was just acquired by Magnet Releasing for US distribution. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, and Luke Evans, the highly-anticipated film chronicles the savage breakdown of social order inside a giant residential apartment block.

Wheatley said,

I’m very excited about working with Magnet again. They have the brains and the balls to handle the crazy beast that is HIGH-RISE.

High-Rise received its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and its European premiere at the 63rd San Sebastián Film Festival in September 2015. It was very well received by IGN, The Telegraph, and Kate Wilson of Varsity gave the film a 5 star review calling it a “masterpiece”.

The film hits theaters in 2016.

The first clip features the giant robot laser fight scene between Achilles (Gary Graham) and his rival Alexander (Paul Koslo) in front of a cheering crowd. It’s entertaining as hell, especially if you appreciate good ol’ stop-motion animation, which will be heavily discussed in the bonus features of the Blu-ray. Below, we’ve included a portion of Koslo’s commentary on the visual effects for a sneak peek preview. As for the second clip, another fight breaks out during a training session with Achilles and his fellow partners.

If you enjoyed both clips today, then I’m sure you’ll love Robot Jox on Blu-ray, so make sure to get your hands on a copy next week.

Bonus Features

– Audio Commentary With Director Stuart Gordon
– Audio Commentary With Associate Effects Director Paul Gentry, Mechanical Effects Artist Mark Rappaport, And Stop-Motion Animator Paul Jessel
– Brand-New Interview With Actor Paul Koslo
– Archival Interviews With Director Stuart Gordon, Pyrotechnic Supervisor Joe Viskocil, Associate Effects Director Paul Gentry, Stop-Motion Animator Paul Jessel and Animation & Effects Artists Chris Endicott And Mark McGee
– Behind-The-Scenes Footage
– 2 Still Galleries
– Trailers”

Robot Jox Fight Breaks Out During Training (1989) HD

Robot Jox Actor Paul Koslo Discusses Visual Effects HD

Robot Jox Trailer

News broke out a few days ago that FOX has plans to bring back the Predator in a reboot and put Shane Black in the director’s chair to helm the project from a script by longtime friend Fred Dekker. Fortunately, the rumor still remains true, however, it has now been revealed that the new Predator movie is going to be more of a sequel than a reboot, according to Shane in a report by Collider.

That’s right! Not just another franchise reboot like all the others floating around that studio’s keep rebooting, but an “inventive sequel.” This means that Shane will continue to explore and expand the existing Predator mythology, which he believes is already rich.

Shane previously directed Iron Man 3 and Kiss Kiss Bang Ban, and was also responsible for co-writting the 1987 horror comedy Monster Squad, including Lethal Weapon and Night of the Creeps.

Shane also played the role of Rick Hawkins in the original Predator movie. Remember, the skinny dude with the glasses?

Edge of Tomorrow will be released by Warner Bros. on June 6, 2014.

About Edge of Tomorrow

The epic action of Edge of Tomorrow unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world.

But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.

Anyway, before Casper got pulled away for an industry dinner, we had the chance to interview him about his recently screened Starship Troopers: Invasion, for which he was the executive producer. If Casper talked up Director Shinji Aramaki any more than he did, you’d suspect him of fabricating a murder alibi. We also gave him the opportunity to plug his upcoming film, The Pact. He plays a cop and says we won’t dislike him; that’s all that he would tell us. Casper did pull the film’s producer, Ross M. Dinerstein, into the interview, and he was even less informative, basically telling us the film is a ghost story. The poster looks terrifying, nonetheless.

Enjoy the interview and…

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Well, it’s been 14 years since Men in Black hit made its way to theaters and wowed audiences with snappy writing, fantastic effects, and a buddy-cop pairing that was actually a pretty damn good idea. The experience left us with a vague feeling of whimsy, wonder, and the absurdity of an intergalactic peace-keeping group, that’s gotta deal with talking pugs and giant beetles in “Edgar Suits.”

Now, MIB III’s finally rolled around, and at best, highlights the fact that we’re all a decade and a half older. It feels dated, perfunctory, and is pretty much the definition of a movie that exists solely to be rented.

Or observed upon over Netflix. Whichever.

Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement) has finally been freed from space prison, and proceeds to kill as many extras and unnamed secondary characters as possible to prove just how eeevil he is. His next move? Travel backward through time and kill Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) for shooting off of his arm and incarcerating him on the moon. Once Agent J  (Will Smith) gets wind of this (after getting caught in a temporal rift or something like that) he decides that he doesn’t like that kind of thing, and sets off to the faraway land of 1969 to do battle once again, and save the universe – for rizzy.

As you can tell by the light and fluffy synopsis just delivered, MIB III grounds itself from the start as a flick that’s simply meant to be an exercise in distraction and explosion-induced entertainment. It boasts a fair amount of comedy, mostly stemming from a certain alternate universe-perceiving side character, as well as the very aspect of the convolution of time travel itself, but still, somehow, something about MIB III feels like it’s too little, too late.

What we’re working with here, is something of a recycled version of the last film – which itself was something of a recycled version of the film before it. Agent J moves from place to place on the trail of Evil Alien Number X, interrogates other aliens with hilariously dysfunctional physiologies (like that guy with balls on his chin) and then has a showdown wherein he faces off against said antagonist, who’ll probably transform into something bigger before exploding into a mass of translucent goo.

The exception here being that this freak doesn’t even get to transform. 

And by God, it worked very well, the first time around. The dialogue was sharp, witty, and laid emphasis on the obscure mundanity of the men in black themselves. Will Smith’s hip-hop flava (flav) was contrasted against the straight-edge, tie-sporting organization he fights for, and in the end, it was something new.

The third time around, most of the wit and charm is completely gone, and anything that fueled that feeling of novelty is missing entirely. MIB III feels routine. It feels forced. It feels like it was written by a 16 year-old who read a pamphlet on black-American culture.

That seems to be the main problem with trying to do in 2012 what worked very well in the ’90s. The main source of humor – 90% of the jokes – come from Will Smith doing (for lack of a better word) black guy stuff to inhabitants of the late ’60s. Thing is, American culture has kind of cross-pollinated with itself so much, that this kind of depiction of the  “Average Hip Black American Gentleman” doesn’t really fly anymore.

Find out what NoFaceNorm really thinks of MIB III after the jump…

Yell! Rating (x/5 Skulls):

[rating:2.5]

Year Released:

25 May 2012

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Cast/Crew

Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mike Colter, Nicole Scherzinger, and Josh Brolin

Genre

Sc-Fi, Action, Comedy

Official URL:

Men in Black 3