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I think it's safe to say that everyone here at the MTV Movies Blog is pretty darn excited about Disney's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars." The book is a sci-fi classic and the adaptation has Pixar's Andrew Stanton at the helm. It's an epic romance, and it's starring up-and-comers Taylor ...

In sitting down with Rose Byrne recently, the Australian star of Damages and Fox Searchlight’s Adam, we couldn’t resist asking about her involvement in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, in which she played Dormé — the only of Princess Amidala’s handmaidens who survives past the first scene.

The twins, who burst on the scene with 'Menace II Society,' direct Denzel Washington in a post-apocalyptic epic. Their last big feature was "From Hell," a gory and gothic period piece that starred a pre-"Pirates" Johnny Depp as an eccentric and slightly unbalanced investigator chasing Jack the Ripper through the rain-slick cobblestone streets of 19th century London.

The franchise is about a group of nine earthbound alien teens who escaped their planet just before it was destroyed by a hostile species. While the high school-aged kids assimilate, the title character discovers that he is being hunted by the enemy that blew up his planet.

James Cameron unveiled the first publicly shown clips from his $300 million 3-D sci-fi actioner "Avatar" on Tuesday at Cinema Expo.

I thought Christopher Nolan's followup to The Dark Knight was going to be some little indie space movie, but according to The Calgary Sun, it's going to cost $200 million dollars.Described as a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind from "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan. Nolan wrote the original screenplay and hopes to shoot the sci-fi action film in the summer for a release during summer 2010.The Calgary Sun has more: Leonardo DiCaprio is Alberta bound.

To the best of my knowledge, Nancy Kress does not enter a sterile clean room when she gets down to work. But she is responsible for some of our most creative experiments in genetic engineering.

Based on a post on Twitter by actress Lynn Collins, ComingSoon.net wonders whether she may have been cast as Martian princess Dejah Thoris in Andrew Stanton's live action movie based on Edgar Burroughs' John Carter of Mars .

According to Bloody Disgusting, you'll never guess who's in talks to direct the new "Predator" movie...unless you guess Neil Marshall ("The Descent").

The "Total Recall" remake being produced by Neal H. Moritz has got itself a writer: "Law Abiding Citizen" scribe Kurt Wimmer.