Battleship will have an Iowa class firing it's guns on a movie theater sound system. I'm going.

Latest update on the new "Riddick" film,

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=86597

Well, see it's not really a true "trailer", but rather a "teaser", meant to simply get people knowing that the project is going forward. There's no footage yet for a "trailer" because the principle photography is slated to start in April!

If nothing else, it shows how you can start a feature movie and put it in theatres in under a year.

With no need for FX, that's easily done. It's the extensive post production time needed that makes films take over a year to make. Without it, you can easily spend 3 months prepping, 3 months shooting, and 3 months in post and get a great film made.



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John Carter is the next one coming out.



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A couple of lower profile sci-fi films slated for release this year,


Lock-Out

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592525/


Looper

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/

Guy Pearce. I liked his work in Memento and bit role in The Road.

Wasn't particularly impressed with his role in Time Machine, but that might have just been the script.



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Iron Sky looks like huge fun. It is a crowd-funded Finnish production, so it will probably not receive widespread theatrical release. Look for it on Blu-Ray (or whatever). Another couple of interesting recent sci-fi films from overseas that are harder to find, but worth a look, are the Japanese Space Battleship Yamato and Tamil's Endhiran (Robot).



I own a Hindi copy of Endhiran on Blu-Ray, and it is one of the most entertaining movies I have seen in years. My kids went nuts for it. It will probably eventually see an English dub, but is currently tied up in litigation. (Is that getting to be a tired mantra or what?) IF you decide to chase it down, be prepared for a uniquely Bollywood take on sci-fi (Every Bollywood film is very long and very musical). The Hindi Blu-Ray is excellent, although you have to use the 5.1 audio track (The DTS track is missing a channel). I think the Tamil version is fine. From what I hear, the DVD's are only of fair quality, and annoyingly watermarked.