Silver Screen Saucers: UFO movies galore: 2013 & 2014 preview. 2012 saw only a handful of UFO/alien-visitation-themed movies grace the big screen – though perhaps ‘grace’ is the wrong word to use in the same sentence as Peter Berg’s lunkheaded Battleship. Men in Black 3 was inoffensive but forgettable, The Watch was offensive and forgettable, while the UFOlogically flavored space operas John Carter and Prometheus – both deeply flawed but with much about them to admire – divided critics as well as audiences. But the next two years are set to be bumper ones for UFOs at the box-office, with at least 26 headed our way in 2013 and 2014. Some sound good and some sound REALLY STINKY: The surviving members of the Monty Python team will reunite for the first time in 15 years to bring us a sci-fi comedy combining CG and live action. The film – titled Absolutely Anything – will also feature dogs, aliens and Robin Williams. Atari’s classic video game, Asteroids, is to be adapted for Hollywood, possibly with master of disaster Roland Emmerich at the helm. The script comes from Matt Lopez, best known for co-writing Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain (2009). An early [...]
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