This year’s San Diego Comic-Con was a landmark one for the famous convention. Besides for all the big announcements and reveals that happened there, by far the biggest story that came out of that weekend in July was studios’ insistence on Comic-Con exclusive trailers. With getting into the vaunted Hall H becoming more impossible with each passing year, this practice …

One of the things that I dug about the new Godzilla movie wasn’t that magnificent third act, impressive visual effects or a roar that could make your goosebumps emit atomic flames. It’s that as far as the narrative structure goes, this was a done in one movie. No lingering plot threads, no sly teasers hinting that Godzilla would return, just …

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It’s amazing these days how many sequels characters like Spider-man, the X-men and Batman have gotten in recent years. But a character like Hellboy, the wise-cracking, kitten-loving demon with a heart as big as his Samaritan gun? Just one. While the first film did well enough to warrant a superb sequel, that second movie just never pulled in enough cash …

Take a look at Pacific Rim. On the surface, it’s got some great actors, expert guidance from director Guillermo Del Toro and a decent popcorn film premise. But more importantly, it has giant robots fighting the bastard offspring of all those monsters from the Godzilla films that were left alone on Monster Island. That spells success to me, and with …

Either Guillermo Del Toro has Rick James levels of cocaine in his blood stream, or he has successfully managed to clone himself with several doppelgangers running around movie sets, because that guy just keeps on truckin’. With his fingers in several projects right now, Del Toro has added another bit of development to his slate, as he’s looking to film a spooky story by …

One of the surprises coming out of Comic-Con was the footage shown by director Gareth Edwards (Monsters) of his proposed Godzilla reboot. More surprising than the fact that people still really get excited for Godzilla, was the fact that Edwards claimed to want to have this film grounded in reality somehow. (Yeah, because I see lizards the size of skyscrapers in …

Yes, the Mass Effect movie has become a reality. We have news from heatvisionblog.com that the Mass Effect movie rights were officially picked up by Legendary Pictures. The movie is still in early development, but you will be glad to know that they are currently in talks with script writer Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Thor, The Cell, Poseidon) to …