We may remember Independence Day, The Matrix, The Phantom Menace. But what about these forgotten 90s sci-fi films? And are any worth seeing?
Think back to the science fiction cinema of the 1990s, and some of the decade's biggest box-office hits will immediately spring to mind: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men In Black, Armageddon and Terminator 2 were all in the top 20 most lucrative films of the era.
But what about the sci-fi films of the 1990s that failed to make even close to the same cultural and financial impact of those big hitters? These are the films this list is devoted to - the flops, the straight-to-video releases, the low-budget and critically-derided. We've picked 50 live-action films that fit these criteria, and dug them up to see whether they're still worth watching in the 21st century.
So here's a mix of everything from hidden classics to forgettable dreck,...
Think back to the science fiction cinema of the 1990s, and some of the decade's biggest box-office hits will immediately spring to mind: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men In Black, Armageddon and Terminator 2 were all in the top 20 most lucrative films of the era.
But what about the sci-fi films of the 1990s that failed to make even close to the same cultural and financial impact of those big hitters? These are the films this list is devoted to - the flops, the straight-to-video releases, the low-budget and critically-derided. We've picked 50 live-action films that fit these criteria, and dug them up to see whether they're still worth watching in the 21st century.
So here's a mix of everything from hidden classics to forgettable dreck,...
- 7/16/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Stockton Briggle, who directed such performers as Rock Hudson, Dick Van Dyke, Ann Miller and Joe Namath on stage, died March 22 in Beverly Hills after a long battle with cancer. He was 79. For television, Briggle produced the miniseries The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) starring Alec Baldwin and Raul Julia; Bridge to Silence (1989), with Marlee Matlin and Lee Remick; and Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992), starring Lesley Ann Warren and Tess Harper. He and late partner Steven Willig founded Briggle/Willig Productions in the 1970s, and they worked with such actors as Fannie
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- 4/4/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
2012 Oscar Necessities: Predictions | Nominees | Presenters | Printable Ballot Telecast Schedule 5:30 Pm: Show starts, Billy Crystal's opening number 5:40 Pm: 1st award - Cinematography 5:43 Pm: Art Direction 5:52 Pm: Costume Design 5:54 Pm: Makeup 6:03 Pm: Foreign Language Film 6:07 Pm: Supporting Actress 6:20 Pm: Editing 6:23 Pm: Sound Editing 6:26 Pm: Sound Mixing 6:33 Pm: Cirque du Soleil performance 6:37 Pm: Documentary Feature 6:41 Pm: Animated Feature 6:49 Pm: Visual Effects 6:53 Pm: Supporting Actor 7:04 Pm: Score 7:08 Pm: Song (expect a possible Muppet surprise here) 7:17 Pm: Adapted Screenplay 7:20 Pm: Original Screenplay 7:31 Pm: Live Action Short 7:34 Pm: Documentary Short 7:37 Pm: Animated Short 7:44 Pm: Direction 7:58 Pm: In Memoriam 8:07 Pm: Best Actor 8:15 Pm: Best Actress 8:27 Pm: Best Picture Welcome to the 2012 Oscars Live Diary. As you can see from the menu above we have everything you need to prepare...
- 2/26/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Hardly a surprise to anyone, The Artist dominated the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards, winning for Best Feature, Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Actor (Jean Dujardin) and Cinematography (Guillaume Schiffman). There were some complaints in the Twitter-verse as Penelope Anne Miller accepted the awards for The Artist up until Hazanavicius and the rest of The Artist team arrived five minutes before Hazanavicious was named Best Director. The reason? They'd just landed at Lax after flying in from France where The Artist won six awards at the Cesar Awards, France's equivalent of the Oscars, last night. A police escort managed to get them to the Spirits just in time for their third win of the night... also in time to take the stage to accept Best Feature Film. The Artist went into the Spirits with Take Shelter as the leading nominees with both receiving five nominations each. Take Shelter, however, only ended up going home...
- 2/25/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Whether he gets that that Oscar nomination or not, it looks like Uggie the dog won't be going home empty pawed this award season.
Dog News Daily, the news service that covers Hollywood canines, has announced that they will be jumping into the busy trophy-giving fray by presenting the first ever Golden Collar Awards. The awards will honor the past year's Best Dog performances in five different show business categories, three in film and two in television. The big screen prizes will go to Best Dog in a Theatrical Film, Foreign Film, and Direct-to-dvd Film; the small screen awards will fete Best Dog in both a Reality Television Series and a scripted Television Series.
Uggie, the canine star of "The Artist," whose playing dead, face-pawing, brave galloping and muted barking helped bring a sense of old Hollywood sparkle to the black and white silent film, has received remarkable support from...
Dog News Daily, the news service that covers Hollywood canines, has announced that they will be jumping into the busy trophy-giving fray by presenting the first ever Golden Collar Awards. The awards will honor the past year's Best Dog performances in five different show business categories, three in film and two in television. The big screen prizes will go to Best Dog in a Theatrical Film, Foreign Film, and Direct-to-dvd Film; the small screen awards will fete Best Dog in both a Reality Television Series and a scripted Television Series.
Uggie, the canine star of "The Artist," whose playing dead, face-pawing, brave galloping and muted barking helped bring a sense of old Hollywood sparkle to the black and white silent film, has received remarkable support from...
- 1/14/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Whether he gets that that Oscar nomination or not, it looks like Uggie the dog won't be going home empty pawed this award season.
Dog News Daily, the news service that covers Hollywood canines, has announced that they will be jumping into the busy trophy-giving fray by presenting the first ever Golden Collar Awards. The awards will honor the past year's Best Dog performances in five different show business categories, three in film and two in television. The big screen prizes will go to Best Dog in a Theatrical Film, Foreign Film, and Direct-to-dvd Film; the small screen awards will fete Best Dog in both a Reality Television Series and a scripted Television Series.
Uggie, the canine star of "The Artist," whose playing dead, face-pawing, brave galloping and muted barking helped bring a sense of old Hollywood sparkle to the black and white silent film, has received remarkable support from...
Dog News Daily, the news service that covers Hollywood canines, has announced that they will be jumping into the busy trophy-giving fray by presenting the first ever Golden Collar Awards. The awards will honor the past year's Best Dog performances in five different show business categories, three in film and two in television. The big screen prizes will go to Best Dog in a Theatrical Film, Foreign Film, and Direct-to-dvd Film; the small screen awards will fete Best Dog in both a Reality Television Series and a scripted Television Series.
Uggie, the canine star of "The Artist," whose playing dead, face-pawing, brave galloping and muted barking helped bring a sense of old Hollywood sparkle to the black and white silent film, has received remarkable support from...
- 1/14/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Moviefone
Whether he gets that that Oscar nomination or not, it looks like Uggie the dog won't be going home empty pawed this award season.
Dog News Daily, the news service that covers Hollywood canines, has announced that they will be jumping into the busy trophy-giving fray by presenting the first ever Golden Collar Awards. The awards will honor the past year's Best Dog performances in five different show business categories, three in film and two in television. The big screen prizes will go to Best Dog in a Theatrical Film, Foreign Film, and Direct-to-dvd Film; the small screen awards will fete Best Dog in both a Reality Television Series and a scripted Television Series.
Uggie, the canine star of "The Artist," whose playing dead, face-pawing, brave galloping and muted barking helped bring a sense of old Hollywood sparkle to the black and white silent film, has received remarkable support from...
Dog News Daily, the news service that covers Hollywood canines, has announced that they will be jumping into the busy trophy-giving fray by presenting the first ever Golden Collar Awards. The awards will honor the past year's Best Dog performances in five different show business categories, three in film and two in television. The big screen prizes will go to Best Dog in a Theatrical Film, Foreign Film, and Direct-to-dvd Film; the small screen awards will fete Best Dog in both a Reality Television Series and a scripted Television Series.
Uggie, the canine star of "The Artist," whose playing dead, face-pawing, brave galloping and muted barking helped bring a sense of old Hollywood sparkle to the black and white silent film, has received remarkable support from...
- 1/14/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Aol TV.
Brit Marling, watch out! Women are front and center at the Sundance Film festival this year, including the Premieres section, which features more well-known players than the other sections---and many actors behind the camera. Julie Delpy directs herself in "2 Days in New York"; Leslye Headland adapted her own ribald play, "Bachelorette," starring Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher; "Traffic"'s Laura Bickford produced Nicholas Jarecki's "Arbitrage," starring Richard Gere; actress Rashida Jones co-wrote with Will McCormack a role for herself in "Celeste and Jesse Forever"; and Lauren Anne Miller co-wrote with Katie Anne Naylon a...
- 12/5/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
By Carlos de Abreu
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Hollywoodnews.com: Happy Thanksgiving from Hollywood Film Awards, Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywoodnews.com. We want to thank all of our friends, associates, filmmakers and supporters for their continuous support and hard work. Without you we could not pursue our quest of discovering emerging filmmakers, honoring excellence in the art of filmmaking, and helping others through our “Hollywood Gives Back(r)” initiative.
Special thanks to our sponsors: Starz Entertainment, American Cinema Editors, American Society of Cinematographers, ArcLight Cinemas, Art Director’s Guild, The Casting Society of America, Celebrity Services, Columbia Pictures, Creative Artists Agency, DreamWorks Skg, Entertainment Tonight, Focus Features, Fox Searchlight, Gerry Turnbull, The Hollywood Network, HollywoodNews.com, ICM, Ilm, Johnny Crawford Orchestra, Los Angeles Times, Motion Picture Editors Guild, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures, Summit Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Variety, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., The Weinstein Company and Yahoo! Movies, Inc., among others.
- 11/24/2011
- by Carlos de Abreu
- Hollywoodnews.com
By Carlos de Abreu
Hollywoodnews.com: Happy Thanksgiving. We want to thank all of our friends and supporters for their continuous support. Without you we could not pursue our quest of discovering emerging filmmakers, honoring excellence in the art of filmmaking, and helping others through our “Hollywood Gives Back(r)” initiative.
“We greatly appreciate all you have done for us through the Hollywood Awards and our “Everybody Can Save a Life!” video contest. Your efforts have saved many lives.” – Paul Dooley, CEO- MatchingDonors.com
“Because of the generosity of The Hollywood Awards, we have just opened our new building at the Academy for Peace and Justice, the first free secondary school serving the very poor in Port-au-Prince… It is because of You that we are able to help change the lives of the poorest children of Haiti — children whose names I would love you to get to know, and...
Hollywoodnews.com: Happy Thanksgiving. We want to thank all of our friends and supporters for their continuous support. Without you we could not pursue our quest of discovering emerging filmmakers, honoring excellence in the art of filmmaking, and helping others through our “Hollywood Gives Back(r)” initiative.
“We greatly appreciate all you have done for us through the Hollywood Awards and our “Everybody Can Save a Life!” video contest. Your efforts have saved many lives.” – Paul Dooley, CEO- MatchingDonors.com
“Because of the generosity of The Hollywood Awards, we have just opened our new building at the Academy for Peace and Justice, the first free secondary school serving the very poor in Port-au-Prince… It is because of You that we are able to help change the lives of the poorest children of Haiti — children whose names I would love you to get to know, and...
- 11/24/2011
- by Carlos de Abreu
- Hollywoodnews.com
HollywoodNews.com:The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s “Hollywood Awards” ceremony was held last night before a standing-room-only audience of over 1,100 Hollywood Film Festival® attendees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
The festival and awards, presented by Starz, announced this year’s winner of the “Hollywood Movie Awards” – David Yates’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ – which was chosen by the public voting online at the Yahoo! Movies website. The nominees for the “Hollywood Movie Awards” were: “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Cowboys & Aliens,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” “The Help,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “Rango,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “Super 8,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” and “X-Men: First Class.”
The winners of the festival’s film competition were announced Sunday night at the “Hollywood Discovery Awards®” Presentation Ceremony at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. This year’s winners...
The festival and awards, presented by Starz, announced this year’s winner of the “Hollywood Movie Awards” – David Yates’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ – which was chosen by the public voting online at the Yahoo! Movies website. The nominees for the “Hollywood Movie Awards” were: “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Cowboys & Aliens,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” “The Help,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “Rango,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “Super 8,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” and “X-Men: First Class.”
The winners of the festival’s film competition were announced Sunday night at the “Hollywood Discovery Awards®” Presentation Ceremony at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. This year’s winners...
- 10/25/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Everyone knows it’s next to impossible to gamble in Las Vegas and come home a winner, and that rule most definitely applied to Wednesday night’s installment of So You Think You Can Dance. The episode kicked off with 160 contestants making their way to Sin City to fight for a spot in the Season 8 Top 20; two hours later, we’d seen the field whittled down to 31 — with torn tonenails, bruised tailbones, shattered egos, and even a diagnosis of diabetes along the way.
Things started jauntily enough with 30-year-old Vegas-round vet Iveta Lukosiute delivering a police lady strip-o-gram to Nigel Lythgoe — complete with phallic nightstick,...
Things started jauntily enough with 30-year-old Vegas-round vet Iveta Lukosiute delivering a police lady strip-o-gram to Nigel Lythgoe — complete with phallic nightstick,...
- 6/9/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Thursday night’s So You Think You Can Dance Los Angeles auditions couldn’t have been more enjoyable if Mary Murphy had come to my apartment bearing expensive champagne and a crisp wad of hundred-dollar bills. Okay, okay…free money and hooch makes everything better. Nevertheless, mad props to Sytycd for making me tear up (on at least three occasions), gasp (behold: The Ring: The Musical!), wince (at irritating Tyce Diorio yapping with abandon during the night’s opening audition), and even laugh at one of Nigel Lythgoe’s jokes (Contestant: “No ballroom, I’m afraid.” Nigel: “Like Tyce’s trousers!
- 6/3/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Apparently the secret word for "So You Think You Can Dance" season eight is "fierce." At least five contestants described their style as "fierce" over the course of this seasons auditions, which wrapped up Thursday (June 2) in Los Angeles.
Add 18-year-old Jordan Casanova (we'll have to find out about that name) to the "fierce" list. She not only talked the talk, but walked the walk -- her routine was so provocative you could practically see a stripper pole on the stage. Her booty-shaking super-suggestive routine had all three judges drooling.
"I'm going to have to be careful what I say so I don't sound like a dirty old man here," said Nigel Lythgoe. "I always ask dancers to grab the audience. You just controlled me from the moment you started dancing until I stopped you. I had to stop you -- I was going to have another heart attack."
And...
Add 18-year-old Jordan Casanova (we'll have to find out about that name) to the "fierce" list. She not only talked the talk, but walked the walk -- her routine was so provocative you could practically see a stripper pole on the stage. Her booty-shaking super-suggestive routine had all three judges drooling.
"I'm going to have to be careful what I say so I don't sound like a dirty old man here," said Nigel Lythgoe. "I always ask dancers to grab the audience. You just controlled me from the moment you started dancing until I stopped you. I had to stop you -- I was going to have another heart attack."
And...
- 6/3/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Patrick Ecclesine/Fox Cat Deeley, right, hosts with resident judges Nigel Lythgoe (center) and Mary Murphy on Season Eight of “So You Think You Can Dance.”
The Los Angeles auditions—a city that “never fails to deliver,” Cat Deeley says.
They take place at the Orpheum, and the judges are show creator Nigel Lythgoe, ballroom exper Mary Murphy, and Tyce Diorio, Broadway choreographer.
The rules are that dancers can be sent home, get a ticket for the next round in Vegas,...
The Los Angeles auditions—a city that “never fails to deliver,” Cat Deeley says.
They take place at the Orpheum, and the judges are show creator Nigel Lythgoe, ballroom exper Mary Murphy, and Tyce Diorio, Broadway choreographer.
The rules are that dancers can be sent home, get a ticket for the next round in Vegas,...
- 6/3/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo in The Artist
Photo: The Weinstein Co. Filmmakers often attempt to pay homage to filmmaking techniques of a bygone era. Frequent and recent attempts include stabs at grind house and blaxploitation cinema, but those films come with a built-in genre audience which makes them seem like less riskier efforts than what writer/director Michel Hazanavicius (Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) has attempted to pull off.
Just the mention of silent films can and will turn off movie-going audiences instantly no matter how great you say the film may be. Fritz Lang's Metropolis is considered one of the best sci-fi films ever, but how many Star Wars fanatics have sat down to watch it? Buster Keaton's The General is comedy gold, but I have a hard time believing fans of today's raunchy comedies would give it a try. Then there's Charlie Chaplin, F.W. Murnau,...
Photo: The Weinstein Co. Filmmakers often attempt to pay homage to filmmaking techniques of a bygone era. Frequent and recent attempts include stabs at grind house and blaxploitation cinema, but those films come with a built-in genre audience which makes them seem like less riskier efforts than what writer/director Michel Hazanavicius (Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) has attempted to pull off.
Just the mention of silent films can and will turn off movie-going audiences instantly no matter how great you say the film may be. Fritz Lang's Metropolis is considered one of the best sci-fi films ever, but how many Star Wars fanatics have sat down to watch it? Buster Keaton's The General is comedy gold, but I have a hard time believing fans of today's raunchy comedies would give it a try. Then there's Charlie Chaplin, F.W. Murnau,...
- 5/15/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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