LOS ANGELES AFP — Futuristic policeman "Robocop" is set to patrol cinema screens once more in a reincarnation of the successful 1980s science fiction franchise, it was reported on Friday. Daily Variety reported that MGM studios was planning a new "Robocop" film to be released in 2010, with...
LOS ANGELES, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures MGM has signed Darren Aronofsky to direct and David Self to write a new installment for its ROBOCOP franchise. Aronofsky, the director of "The Fountain," and Self, the writer of "Road to Perdition," make a formidable creative team, fast tracking...
Question: "Cyborgs" like "RoboCop" (1987) that combine humans and machines might seem the most far-fetched of film creations. Could they ever make the long leap into reality? Answer: The seeds of these fictional hybrids already exist, says Sidney Perkowitz in "Hollywood Science." In 2000, a Northwestern University...
Some comedians play it straight during interviews. Jack Black imitates the French accent of director Michel Gondry, breaks into a goofy "Ghostbusters" song and generally faces another 10-minute phone call on the publicity treadmill with good humor. In "Be Kind Rewind," Black is a...
ALWAYS look on the bright side of life with writer-director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Science Of Sleep), whose new film pays homage to dearly departed VHS. Be Kind Rewind is a quirky comedy about two best friends who, through outrageous misfortune, have to...
DESPERATE Kate and Gerry McCann have hired a professional "bodyfinder" who says he has pin-pointed the exact spot where their daughter Madeleine is buried. Scientist and former South African police colonel Danie Krugel secretly flew out to Portugal to meet the couple before spending a week...
* As someone who used to get Robocop mixed up with Judge Dredd, the 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition DVD of this sci-fi satire is a revelation. The included extra-gory extended cut is far different from the sanitized version they still show on TBS, but it is director Paul Vehoeven's hilarious...
29 Titles To Debut Packed With Soon-to-Be-Announced BD Industry 'Firsts' - PLUS - Fox's First TV Title 'PRISON BREAK' FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER And LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD and Other Titles To Debut Day-and-Date on BD/DVD -- Blu-ray Out-Performing...
(Paul Verhoeven, 1987) In violent, gang-ridden future Detroit, what's left of a gunned-down policeman is rebuilt into an indestructible bionic man by the company that has won the contract to provide the city's law enforcement. A seminal, ultra-violent satire left that ranks among the best action blockbusters of the...
BOSTON -- RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for police and the Pentagon. By adding Tasers to robots it already makes for the military, iRobot Corp....
MOSCOW AFP — Unlike many Russian policemen, this one won't take bribes, and is always polite. Meet R. BOT 001, Russia's first robot cop now patrolling the streets of the Urals city of Perm. The prototype of a robot built at a Moscow institute is so far the...
I've been pleased, appalled and motivated by recent "Forum" letters regarding speeding on Utah's highways. I was pleased by David Timmins' cogent argument for the use of "robocops" in reducing speed and hence major accidents. (Readers' Forum, June 11.) I found Shane Stone's assertion...
Your editorial on how Google's "Street View" might have been useful in preventing the vandalism of ancient rock art near Eagle Mountain (June 7) missed the even more major point of how such robo- surveillance has been useful in both preventing and solving other forms of crime. Surveillance cameras of...
Talon For decades the staple of science-fiction films such as Robocop, gun-toting machines capable of firing at will are now terrifyingly close to science fact. Last year, South Korea revealed an autonomous robot guard equipped with a human tracking device and a machine gun, and the...
BLACK BOOK -- ** -- Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch; with English subtitles European dialects; rated R (violence, nudity, sex, profanity, vulgarity, gore, ethnic slurs, drugs, torture). It's been a long time since filmmaker Paul Verhoeven produced something of note -- arguably the 20 years since he...
Byline: Matt Arado Daily Herald Staff Writer The odds don't look good for Spider-Man. Not only does he have to face three super-powered villains in "Spider-Man 3," which opens next week, but he must also overcome one of Hollywood's most diabolical traps....
AMERICAN audiences may know director Paul Verhoeven best as a slave to excess -- a lot of it wretched -- from such spectacles of sex, violence and questionable taste as "Showgirls," "Starship Troopers" and "RoboCop." The Dutchman was also behind Sharon Stone's infamous leg-crossing scene in the deliriously overripe "Basic...
Black Book (***1/2 out of four) is a hard-core war film with raw violence, intense action, graphic sexuality and a twisting plot that offers a series of surprises. Set in the Netherlands during World War II, it is a return to director Paul Verhoeven's Dutch roots after a...
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