Science Fiction

Signature Entertainment has acquired U.K. rights to 'Slingshot,' the upcoming sci-fi thriller starring Laurence Fishburne and Casey Affleck.

Bong Joon-ho introduced the trailer for his zany sci-fi feature starring Robert Pattinson, titled Mickey 17, at this year's CinemaCon event.

Meanwhile, the adventures continue for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which has been renewed for season 4.

William Shatner has a forgotten sci-fi follow-up to Star Trek, but unfortunately, this one totally and completely flopped.

Warsaw’s largest church, the Temple of Divine Providence, has closed its doors this week after being rented out as a location for the filming of the latest series of Apple TV+’s science fiction show Foundation.

The management of the church, a concrete-and-copper construction that opened in 2016, say that they decided to cooperate with filmmakers for the first time to help fund the modernisation of the building’s energy system.

The world ends on Oct. 23, 2077, in a series of radioactive explosions—at least in the world of "Fallout," a post-apocalyptic video game series that has now been adapted into a blockbuster TV show on Amazon's Prime Video.

Science fiction has also experienced a resurgence in popularity thanks to the many screen adaptations that have emerged over the past decade. While many great sci-fi works have already been adapted to screen or stage, several are still waiting for their adaptation.

Netflix is now streaming a sci-fi tearjerker that fans of the dystopian movie Children of Men need to check out.

Francis Ford Coppola screened his latest film to major studio heads, hoping for mainstream distribution and a big marketing campaign. Reactions were not great.
The film is a complex love story with deep philosophical themes, but distributors are skeptical about its commercial potential and market positioning.
Coppola's recent films have been non-commercial and experimental, leaving distributors unsure about how to handle his latest project, Megalopolis .

Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan has vowed to "finish the story" they had planned before HBO abruptly cancelled the series.

You will, having seen Bertrand Bonello’s new film, The Beast, walk away feeling as though you certainly saw something, but what? Ambitious, maddeningly vague,

Barbara Rush, who has died aged 97, was a poised, versatile actress who enjoyed a long Hollywood career, winning a Golden Globe in 1953 for New Star of the Year before becoming soap royalty via ABC’s influential Peyton Place (1964-69).

After years of research, Professor Mallett claims to have finally developed the revolutionary equation for time travel.

It got lost in the shuffle of some big releases, but this movie stands as a success, even if it was ahead of its time.

They’re dune it. Variety reports that following the massive box office success of Dune: Part Two, Legendary has tapped Denis Villeneuve for a third installment that would presumably continue the story of how Paul Atreides goes on to conquer the galaxy. Earlier this year, Villeneuve told Empire that he had already “put words on paper” thinking about where he would like to take the Dune franchise going forward.

Drew Goddard (The Martian, The Cabin in the Woods) will write and direct the new movie, with series co-creator Lana Wachowski executive producing.

One of the strangest movies of the year is getting shocking first reactions.

It was just in the 2000s when this sci-fi dystopian thriller was released, but you may have to watch it soon before it disappears forever.

Happy Easter and/or International Trans Day of Visibility and/or Sunday, whichever of the three (or whatever combination thereof) you feel is applicable to you. It’s been a couple of days sin…

Come for the Toxic Avenger, stay for Condorman!

Who doesn’t love a well-written sci-fi series? Thanks to the curiosity about the unknown and unexplored technology, the genre is popular for keeping viewers glued to the screens. Hit franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien and The Matrix are some prime examples. However, sci-fi is no longer restricted to live-action productions and has taken over anime as a medium in the last few decades.

Now, sci-fi is regarded as one of the best genres for building intense stories in anime. It is safe to say that the success of these anime dramas is based on their futuristic and dystopian visuals and themes.

The anime universe boasts an abundance of extraordinary sci-fi titles, where anything can unfold, as long as the stories are engaging and the characters have a sense of belonging. At times, sci-fi anime series serve as ideal introductions for beginners. Serial Experiments Lain, Steins; Gate and Space Brothers make for an outstanding watch for those who are new to it.
So, it is time to explore the unknown world, where the ordinary turns into the extraordinary. From classics to award-winning hits, the best sci-fi anime series are definitely worth checking out.

"3 Body Problem" tragedy: Former exec Xu Yao was sentenced to death for murdering the Netflix show's producer Lin Qi.

The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars has stood atop the hills of Sherman Oaks for decades, with a façade lovingly fashioned like the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Carved into its faded orange exterior is an imagined history of flying ships and extraterrestrials, of tangled tendrils and tentacles, of creatures serpentlike and humanoid. This was the home of author Harlan Ellison, a sanctuary he also called Ellison Wonderland, where he wrote his popular scripts and short stories and kept its rooms filled with a museum-grade collection of science fiction and pop culture.

The house is largely as he left it in 2018, when he died there at age 84. For much of his life, Ellison was a leading writer of science fiction (he preferred the less restrictive label “speculative fiction”), a close friend to colleagues including Isaac Asimov and Neil Gaiman, but also notorious among his many enemies and comrades in Hollywood and the once-insular science fiction world.

Upstairs at the house, where Ellison’s manual typewriters, tobacco pipes and a row of rocket-shaped Hugo Awards remain, it is familiar and sacred ground to his old friend, the writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski.

“His personality’s in that house. You can feel him in every inch of the place,” says Straczynski, creator of the popular ’90s sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 and the author of multiple books and screenplays. He is the executor of Ellison’s estate, and he often spends time at the house alone, immersed in the dazzling milieu his late mentor created in life.

For Straczynski, 69, Ellison was not just a friend but a father figure of lasting impact. His real father, he says, “was complete shit.” Another executor would have simply liquidated Ellison’s assets, donated them to a favorite charity and moved on. But Straczynski has taken on a bigger mission — to return Ellison’s name to prominence.

Christopher Walken's portrayal of Emperor Shaddam in Dune: Part Two intentionally subverts expectations of a powerful villain.

The subdued performance of the Emperor highlights the themes of leadership and the corruptibility of power in the film.

Despite criticism, Walken's unspectacular portrayal is actually in line with Denis Villeneuve's vision for a more realistic sci-fi narrative.

He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans.