Red Faction Origins on SyFy
This Saturday, June 4th, on SyFy Channel we get the premier of the video game movie Red Faction Origins, based on the first person shooter games that feature players fighting for freedom on Mars against the evil Ultor Corporation. Some games in the series take place on Earth, and by 2009′s Red Faction: Guerrilla the game was a third person open world environment (again on Mars). The film Red Faction Origins takes place 25 years after Red Faction: Guerilla and before the upcoming Red Faction: Armageddon. Red Faction Origins stars Brian J. Smith, Robert Patrick, Danielle Nicolet, Tamzin Merchant, Devon Graye, Gareth David-Lloyd, and Kate Vernon. There is a rumor this is a pilot movie and it the ratings are high, we’ll have a Red Faction Origins tv series.
SciFi Channel March Monster Madness
SciFi Channel (still refuse to use the term SyFy) is finally doing something interesting on their website. Their having their own March Madness with monsters from their Creature Feature films! 32 of the baddest monsters of them all are battling it out for the championship, and YOU can vote for the winners of each round! The best part is they went and made up stats cards for each of the monsters, and the cards are awesome. It is a shame they aren’t real cards. But enough of the dreaming. Did your favorite monster make the list? Despite appearing in three separate movies, no komodos made the list, nor did any raptors, robots, cobras, zombies, or werewolves. Just good old fashioned giant monsters, the type mom used to make! The cards are all archived here for those of you who don’t want to fiddle through the awkward flash user interface, and because I’m sure they will all disappear once the contest is over and these are too cool to have disappear into the internet ether. So, enjoy!
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Sharktopus
Roger Corman presents Sharktopus! We’ve mentioned it before but here is the new extended trailer since it airs this Saturday!And some more clips from SyFy.com:
Categories: Kaiju News, Movie News Tags: Roger Corman, SciFi Channel, Sharktopus
Dinoshark airs Saturday
Those of you with cable will get to see Dinoshark on Saturday on the channel that should still be named SciFi Channel. Those of you without are doomed to wait until someone gives you a copy. So watch these preview clips or something. You could be doing worse things with your time. And hopefully Foywonder will give us a cool review quickly.Thanks to Avery
Categories: Kaiju News, Movie News Tags: Dinoshark, SciFi Channel
Sharktopus
Sharktopus is an actual upcoming film on SciFi Channel (SyFy….sigh…) that Roger Corman is producing. Sharktopus is rumored to have multiple mouths, but whatever it is, it better be damn awesome because that is a cool name that you have to live up to.
For more Sharktopus fun, here is a cool sculpture from McDevitt Studio
In Japan this would be raping schoolgirls...
Categories: Kaiju News, Movie News Tags: Roger Corman, SciFi Channel, Sharktopus
Movie News Droppings…
Thanks to the commute time of work eating up two hours a day (that’s ten hours a week!) for at least the next few months, movie news is going to suffer. Thus, out from that comes larger news bites posts instead of individual posts for every bit of news that comes along. We shall still be selecting news via the patented TarsTarkas.NET selection method: whatever the heck we want to until we get bored or distracted.
So let’s bring on the movie news!
Hot Tub Time Machine looks like it will be awesome. The trailer embedded below is the safe for work trailer, but you should probably also check out the NSFW trailer somewhere.
Big Money Rustlas is not just a juggalo movie, it’s a prequel to a juggalo movie! It will be absolutely awful. Kill your children if you like this film.
What fighting video game franchises are left that don’t have terrible movies made of them yet? Tekken gets scratched off the list, making me hope the Primal Rage movie will be out by the end of the decade. Isn’t there supposed to be a giant bear in Tekken?
Speaking of crappy fighting video game movies, Mortal Kombat will get another film. This is where I would make a joke about someone needing to put a fatality on this film franchise if that joke wasn’t way too obvious.
Hong Kong is coming out with four (!) competing films about Guan Yu. We have the Benny Chan directed Louis Koo vehicle Legend of Military God, Yang Zi’s Military Saint Yun Chang, Liu Heng’s Guan Gong, and Guan Yun Chang, which may star Donnie Yen if he accepts. Wait until 2011 when Hong Kong will produce 12 biopics of Yan Wang just because they can.
Finally, for all you monster fans, SyFy (sigh…) is having a contest to Name That SyFy Movie! Obviously this movie about Demons in the Holy Land needs to be named Sasquatch vs. Crocodile.
Categories: Movie News Tags: Big Money Ruslas, Hot Tub Time Machine, Mortal Kombat, SciFi Channel, Tekken, YouTube
New Review – Star Runners
The New Review is SciFi Channel’s (SyFy’s) Star Runners, aka Termination Shock, aka Ando and Trip go Starship Troopers. Complete with lots of pictures, two videos, bad CGI, characters named after characters in Aliens, and ships that look amazingly like Battlestar Galatica. Read it today!
Categories: Site News Tags: Connor Trinneer, James Kyson Lee, SciFi Channel, Star Runners, Termination Shock
