Haven’t got enough of Pandora yet? It looks like you’ll be able to get a little more this summer – in the form of 10-12 extra minutes that might be added for a summer re-release of Avatar. James Cameron and Fox are reportedly discussing the possibility. This could be a big boost to Avatar as well, which has been evicted from most IMAX theaters to make room for Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland.

See below for the new Tron Legacy trailer, which gives some idea to the actual plot of the movie. Visually, it looks like the characters will be clearer instead of the black-and-white faces that looked like they were being projected, and of course the CGI has progressed from the wireframes and polygons to full shading and texture, but there is still a Recognizer…
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I was going to post something early this morning on the Oscars, but had to give up when there were too may fires to fight…anyways, although the SF&F genres had a good chance to take some top prizes last night, The Hurt Locker ended up the big winner. Avatar did take prizes in Cinematography, Art Direction, and Visual Effects, while Star Trek did get Best Makeup. Avatar and James Cameron did get a lot of attention, however, including Ben Stiller as a snazzy dressed Na’vi.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR. TO APPEAR ON “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE: AFTER THE ACADEMY AWARDS®,” ALONG WITH A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE FROM GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER KEITH URBAN

Host Jimmy Kimmel welcomes two-time Academy Award®-nominated Robert Downey Jr. and a musical performance by Grammy Award® winner Keith Urban to the fifth consecutive “Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards”, SUNDAY, MARCH 7, immediately following the late local news (12:05-1:05 a.m., ET, approx). Downey will introduce the world premiere of the new “Iron Man 2” trailer only moments before Urban performs his new hit single, “‘Til Summer Comes Around,” from his 2009 album, “Defying Gravity.”
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Asteroids is already on its way. Missile Command is also an apparently possible Fox franchise. So what’s next? The venerable Space Invaders, leader of the modern video game movement, looks to get set up at Warner Bros.. So, what could be next? Monster movie Centipede? Dig Dug saved the world from an underground mega-quake?

The Thunder Child sf & fantasy webzine is not a fan of horror per se, but we’ve some interviews with various horror movie folks, and writers of Call of Cthulhu role playing games, etc. We’ll also be adding a regular horror review column thanks to Matt Sanford. To that end, we’ve just released two comics (out of a four comic set) from the movie The Crazies which is to debut Feb 26. Matt will be reviewing the comics shortly, but if you want to take a look at the covers, and head off to your local comic store to reserve your copies on the strenth of ‘em:
http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/crazies-comic-books.html

This post was submitted by TheThunderChild.

Apparently I missed this last month, but Peter Berg is out as the director of the Kevin Mishner-produced remake of Dune, and Pierre Morel (Taken) is in the chair. Berg apparently left to do Battleship and Lone Survivor for Universal. And with the change in director, it isn’t a surprise to see a change in the writer, with Chase Palmer (Number 13) taking the pen to add Morel’s vision to Josh Zetumer’s screenplay.

The documentary film “THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS” will premiere at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival as part of the Spotlight Premiere section. SXSW takes place in Austin, Texas from March 12th-21st, 2010. See the full press release below, and check out the official web site as well as “PvG” on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

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As expected, Warner Brothers has confirmed that there will be 3D releases of a number of its upcoming titles, including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Clash Of The Titans.

Zachary Quinto apparently set about a Trekkie-wide panic when a Wired Magazine interview came out when he said he’d be “stepping away from Star Trek for at least two years—no movies, no conventions, no anything for awhile.” Which concerned everyone because the next Star Trek movie is due out in a little more than two years – June 29th, 2012. So what did he mean? Apparently he didn’t mean not doing the actual movie. He clarified his statements on Twitter to say that he is indeed doing the next movie, but no Trek-related side projects while he works on other things.