Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Yet more rumors are surfacing about the plot for Batman Begins 2 or Batman Continues or whatever they end up calling the next Batman movie. The latests rumors suggest that the Joke in this film will be darker and less clownish. There’s also an interesting rumor about a second villain for the film.

As far as the Joker goes, at least according to this rumor, the suggestion is that in keeping…

Ethan Dettenmaier was kind enough to give me an update on the production of his horror movie Sin-Jin Smyth. For those of you who didn’t see my original post about this film, the story follows two rogue marshals (Roddy Piper, Richard Tyson) who have a midnight prisoner transfer over a Halloween weekend. And the prisoner just may be the Devil!

Principal photography is currently underway for the movie and filming is…

In news that must be making some people very very happy (and rich), it seems that the world wide take for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is now being estimated at some $408 million. These figures put Goblet of Fire on course to be the most successful Harry Potter film so far.

Here in the US Goblet of Fire raked in an impressive $81 million over the Thanksgiving weekend…

A pirated copy of the first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is doing the rounds. I’ve added a link below, but who knows how long it will continue to work. This copy of the trailer is quite clearly pirated and is in a pretty rough state. But it’s good enough quality to get a feel for what is coming.

Basically it looks like Pirates of the Caribbean…

While Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has only just been released on movie theaters in the US but already there are rumors circulating about the DVD release date. VideoETA.com is listing April 4th 2006 as the Goblet of Fire DVD release date.

While that timeframe seems reasonable (DVDs are being released sooner and sooner lately and 5 months after the movies release is not uncommon, WB has not officially…