Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

King Kong scored a disappointing opening day at the box office grabbing only $9.8 million which while impressive by most standards was well below the record breaking opening that many were hoping for. The $207 million remake by Peter Jackson only managed to rank as the 21st biggest Wednesday opening on record.

King Kong also opened in some 36 other territories around the world which contributed to a world wide opening…

Aint It Cool News have posted some mixed reviews from an early screening of the movie A Scanner Darkly. The movie is based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. Philip K. Dick was a unique presence in the science fiction field and extremely influential.

However, while his work has inspired several movies, they have rarely treated the source material with much respect. A Scanner Darkly uses a…

Well given the current success of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if Disney was to greenlight production of the second Chronicles of Narnia movie, Prince Caspian. But at least one source is claiming that it has already happened.

An anonymous source at Disney has said that Disney was looking for a $60 million opening weekend for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The…

Warner Brothers have finally released some new information about the M. Night Shyamalan movie Lady in the Water. As previously reported Lady in the Water will star Paul Giamatti as Cleveland Heep who meets a mysterious young woman named Story (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) who has been living in the passageways beneath the building’s swimming pool.

Heep discovers that Story is a nymph-like character from a bedtime story who is…

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe got off to an impressive start capturing the number one spot at the box office and raking in something like $67 million in the first three days of release according to Variety.

Narnia pretty firmly trounced the cometition with Aeon Flux slumping to 6th place and even Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire dropped to third place (though this…