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9 October 2008 1:26 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Rag on Sci-Fi Channel original movies all you want - I know I often do; but somebody (besides me) must be tuning in given how much they keep on cranking them out. As a matter of fact, the ratings for these films are steadily increasing. Sci-Fi plans for 36 news films in 2009, and today we're getting a taste of things to come.

The Hollywood Reporter put out a story about the ongoing working arrangement among the Sci-Fi Channel, distribution company Rhi Entertainment, and production company Muse Entertainment. The three newest monster fruits of their creative loins are:

Sand Serpents: Jason "Iron Eagle" Gedrick stars in this monster movie about American combat soldiers in the Afghan desert who battle the Taliban and a horde of giant carnivorous serpents.

Alien Western: An Old West town in the 1890s is the battleground where monstrous buglike machines from another world stage their invasion.

Carney: Based on the Jersey Devil legend,

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15 August 2008 1:27 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced plans to release Guinness World Records: The Videogame on Wii and DS this winter. Developed by Tt Games, which created Lego: Star Wars and its sequel, the title will feature challenges for both solo players and teams as gamers bid to become a world record breaker. Among the mini-games on offer will be a tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon, a quest to eat a jumbo jet (more)

By David Gibbon

28 July 2008 7:59 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Stephen Saito

Usually when an actor or filmmaker reveals who inspired them in their creation of a character, it's the type of politically correct answer sure to offend no one. Johnny Depp had no problem explaining how he channeled Keith Richards for his role as Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean"; Dustin Hoffman sent up his pal, producer Robert Evans, in "Wag the Dog." But in a business where backbiting is common and screenwriters are urged to "write what you know," it's been a longstanding tradition to say the cruelest things about others under the guise of art. In a summer that will have Tom Cruise applying his considerable cackle to a Sumner Redstone surrogate in "Tropic Thunder" and a manscaping-derelict Bruce Willis doing his meanest Alec Baldwin impression in the adaptation of producer Art Linson's Hollywood tell-all, "What Just Happened?", we thought it was high time

Stephen Saito

3 articles from 2008