Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have acquired U.S. rights to the sci-fi animated movie Terra. The movie, which seems to be retitled Battle for Terra, will be released on May 1.

Despite many awards the film took time to get a theatrical release: it’s probably because most distribution companies were too lazy to try to find an original way to market Battle for Terra. It’s an animated movie, but real issues are raised, and in Battle for Terra the world isn’t black or white: it’s a mix of both like in real life.

Battle for Terra Trailer

Plot – Synopsis:
“Mala (Evan Rachel Wood) is a precocious girl living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place where peace and tolerance are celebrated. However, the last inhabitants of Earth have exhausted the resources of their planet and are now searching for a new home. This Earthforce has discovered that the use of a Terraformer will make Terra habitable for humans but poisonous for Terrians. When the Earthlings embark on a hostile invasion of Terra, Mala’s father, Roven (Dennis Quaid), is kidnapped. Hoping to save her father, Mala captures and hides a crashed human pilot named Jim (Luke Wilson). While Mala nurses Jim back to health, the two forge a friendship and a plan that could save both the human race and the planet of Terra.”

I hope that the movie Battle for Terra will get a wide release!
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Inglourious Basterds is the correctly misspelled title of Quentin Tarantino‘s latest movie. The film is inspired by the 1978 movie Inglorious Bastards. Brad Pitt and Melanie Laurent have the lead roles in a very large cast. Quentin Tarantino is working hard in order to premiere the film at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009, but the official U.S. release is on August 21, 2009.

Inglourious Basterds Movie by Quentin Tarantino

Take a look to this picture of Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine in the Inglourious Basterds:

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Plot:
“Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.
Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own…”

A group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution? Hey that’s the stance of Liev Schreiber in Defiance!

The movie Inglourious Basterds will probably be as strange and awesome as Kill Bill!
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A GI Joe character poster featuring Lee Byung-Hun as Storm Shadow has been unveiled:

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I spotted on Google Image (here) two pictures with a better look at Storm Shadow:

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This Storm Shadow just looks like John Preston (played by Christian Bale) in the sci-fi movie Equilibrium: his outfit is all white! It would have been better if they had kept the red cobra on the outfit:

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The movie New in Town, directed by Jonas Elmer, is set in New Ulm, Minnesota. Renée Zellweger, who just moved in the country town, is going to overcome her prejudices of city dweller, and will learn to appreciate the small city besides falling in love with and Harry Connick Jr., a local chap.

Here below the latest TV spot of New in Town:

The movie New in Town will hit our theaters on January 30, 2009.
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Gollum is proudly standing (well kind of standing… ) on the cover of the March issue of Empire magazine:

The Hobbit Movie

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Empire Magazine is promising details about the movie adaptation of J.R. Tolkien’s book that Director Guillermo del toro is tackling.

As an incentive to buy the latest issue, Empire is sharing a quote from an interview with del Toro:

“Whatever The Hobbit ends up being, it has to ultimately blend seamlessly into the first movie of the trilogy. We have to respect the cosmology and the canon established by the trilogy and follow it.”

Guillermo del Toro

So let’s go pick up the March issue of Empire, on sale starting Friday!
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Three Coraline preview clips have shown up online:

Coraline Preview Clips

Coraline (Dakota Fanning) has her first meeting with her Other Mother (Teri Hatcher).

I think I heard someone calling you!

Coraline wants to go back to her world, she misses her real mother.

Coraline is an amazing movie directed by Henry Selick with the help of his team of stop-motion experts.
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Summit Entertainment’s sci-fi thriller movie Push is hitting theaters on February 6, 2009. Here below two international posters of Push:

Push Trailer

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The movie Push was directed by Paul McGuigan.
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Five new posters of GI Joe Rise of Cobra have been unveiled:

GI Joe Movie Trailer

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Those GI Joe posters aren’t boring, but well maybe it’s time to show Destro and Cobra Commander! Hope to see those two in the upcoming Superbowl GI Joe trailer!
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IGN is sharing an interview of Scriptwriter Justin Marks who penned the screenplay of Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li, the upcoming movie based on the famous Capcom franchise and starring Kristin Kreuk in the lead role:

Street Fighter Interview of Justin Marks

If you were wondering why this new Street Fighter movie isn’t about Ryu or Ken well Justin Marks explains that it’s to bring something new, something different from what may have been done in the past. “Chun-Li is a fresh bottle of water” in the Street Fighter universe!
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Rambo 5
(Rambo V)
Action/Adventure/Drama
Directed by Sylvester Stallone (?)
Starring Sylvester Stallone
Release Date: TBA 2011

More information at: Rambo 5

https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/rambo-5/

Stargate Universe is the new Stargate tv series that should start to air on the sci-fi channel in Summer 2009. We may hope three seasons of SGU, and more if the ratings are good enough. The first season will count 20 episodes.

Check this episode guide of Stargate Universe:

Stargate Universe Episode List

Stargate Universe Season 1

SGU S1xE01 Air (Part 1)

SGU S1xE02 Air (Part 2)

SGU S1xE03 Air (Part 3)

SGU S1xE04 Fire

SGU S1xE05 Water

SGU S1xE06 Earth

This episode list of Stargate Universe will be completed when more episode titles are available and when we get our hands on summaries of SGU episodes.

In Stargate Universe we will follow a team of soldiers and scientist aboard the Ancient ship Destiny trhough uncharted space!
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The Book of Eli
Action/Drama/Adventure/Western/Sci-Fi
Directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes (The Hughes Brothers)
Starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals
Release Date: January 15, 2010

More Information at: Book of Eli Trailer

http://book-of-eli-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/

Warner Bros and Fox have settled an agreement over the Watchmen movie. So we will be able to enjoy the film in due time in March 2009.

Watchmen Movie

Here below, thanks to Badtaste, an international Watchmen poster:

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WATCHMEN

This city is afraid of me.
I’ve seen its true face.

The movie Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder, is based on a comic book by writer Alan Moore (a grumpy old man who’s just disdainfully spitting on this marvelous movie adaptation) and illustrator Dave Gibbons (a good chap who did help Director Snyder). The story is set in an alternate 1985 where superheroes exist, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union are at an all time high.
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Carriers is an upcoming thriller horror movie written and directed the Pastor brothers (Alex Pastor and David Pastor). The movie follows four friends who try to get away from a worldwide flu pandemic that almost wiped out mankind in a very short time span. It is starring Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp.

Watch below the movie trailer of Carriers:

CARRIERS
Plot:
“Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.

A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back roads of the American West to the pounding beat of a vacation soundtrack. Their aim is to retreat to secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico, where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic and survive the apocalyptic disease. CARRIERS follow their getaway through a surreal and dangerous world where laws and rules no longer apply. Their plans take a grim turn when their car breaks down on an isolated road starting a chain of events that will seal the fate of each of them in an inexorable and horrifying voyage of hell through a western landscape populated by only the hideous dead or the twisted living. Their desperate retreat south turns into a deadly battle against infected children, homicidal doctors, crazed survivalists, rabid dogs, and, finally each other. The virus is the least of their problems as horrible choices must be made in the face of lost humanity.”

I’m both thrilled and horrified by this Carriers movie!

The premise of this post-apocalyptic thriller isn’t so farfetched: a deadly mutation of a bird flu in the near future is not so unlikely… And the new virus resulting from such a mutation could infect millions of people around the world, causing a flu pandemic worse than ever! Would be a bleak future…

I doubt that the carriers would have murderous thoughts like in the film though. But still, this is a hell of a movie! Can’t understand why the movie doesn’t have an official release date yet. Carriers deserves a theater release! Hope that Paramount vantage will really support the movie.

In the new world order there will be no saviors or survivors: there will be only carriers!
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An official Obsessed movie poster has been unveiled:

Obsessed Poster

Here below the official poster of Obsessed,an upcoming thriller drama movie directed by Steve Shill:
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OBSESSED

All’s fair when love is war.

In the movie Obsessed Idris Elba is married to Beyonce Knowles. But his one-time mistress Ali Larter loves him madly, so madly that it transforms into an obsession! Too bad for Ali that Beyonce is no woman to let her husband go easily!
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