China is moving to take back one of its own — even if it is legend. Mulan is the Middle Kingdom’s gender-bending heroine, its Joan of Arc. The character from folktale is a daughter who disguises herself as a male soldier to take her father’s place in the conscription army. The problem for the...

Moviegoers around the globe stormed their way to the multiplex yesterday, shelling out close to $60 million for Roland Emmerich’s disaster pic “2012″and giving the helmer his highest opening day ever at the domestic box office with $23.7 million. Should that stateside estimate hold up,...

The Marvel universe is going to be a very busy place for the next few years. Columbia Pictures is the latest studio to rev up a Marvel project on the heels of Disney’s pact to acquire Marvel Entertainment in a $4 billion deal. Col is working on a second installment of “Ghost Rider,” with...

Johannesburg’s alien shipwreck should be seen as the forerunner of upheavals to come rather than as a mere reminder of apartheid Sci-fi films are often read as allegory. The provenance of District 9 has led some to see it as a reflection on apartheid. Perhaps, however, it has as much to tell us about...

With over a million downloads in less than 24 hours, Peter Jackson’s Sci-Fi thriller District 9 is well on its way to becoming the most pirated movie of 2009. The huge download spike is caused by a DVD quality version of the movie that leaked onto various BitTorrent sites yesterday. In the present day and...

John Rambo’s officially readying for a fifth mission. Nu Image/Millennium Films has greenlit the franchise’s fifth installment, with Sylvester Stallone starring and directing, repeating his duties from 2008’s “Rambo.” The upcoming project’s storyline revolves around Rambo...

Recently, Quentin Tarantino declared that the forgotten Jason Biggs comedy Anything Else was one of the twenty best films he’d seen since he first became a filmmaker. It was a bold statement, to be sure; still, we should have assumed that the perennially over-the-top filmmaker would be capable of going...

Gillian Anderson is giving hope to The X-Files fanatics everywhere that she and David Duchnovy may reunite for a third installment in the film series.  “There isn’t any reason not to do it,” the actress said during an appearance at the Sarajevo Film Festival. “I feel a certain...

While some of you are no doubt getting sick of all the talk about Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, I continue to be fascinated and inspired by it. It may not have demolished the box office in quite the same way that say, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen did, but I truly think it is an eye-opener for...

Over the past twenty years, Michael Moore dominated the world of documentary filmmaking like no one has before. In addition to directing the highest grossing doc of all time (Fahrenheit 9/11), three more of his films rank in the top 15 for non-fiction releases at the box office. This October, his sixth major...

Sopranos” producer David Chase remains coy about the possibility of a big-screen followup to the hit HBO show,but loose-lipped cast members are suggesting a script is already on the page. It’s been speculated that a major holdup to the big-screen version is a strong reluctance on the part of...