RoboCop News

"'Turkish Delight' JOOST LAGENDIJK Starting this weekend, the Istanbul Modern museum will show the early films made by the most famous Dutch director, Paul Verhoeven.

What a shame: Robocop isn't like Blade Runner . It's not even like Blade Runner crossed with Brazil , or, hell, Brazil crossed with Aliens .

From the 6000 SUX to the slaps at very privatized health care to the Nuke 'Em family home game, the satire was rich and sardonic.

We live in an era of cut-and-paste, mix-and-match, sample-and-recontextualize pop culture.

When your brother makes you watch it as a kid, Buckaroo Banzai will seem bizarre yet enthralling; watch it again when you're nearing 30 and you've got to ask, "What in the world were they smoking when they made this and why haven't the hippie kids at the University of Oregon tried to legalize it yet?" Neurosurgeon/inventor/martial artist/comic book ...

To serve humans - and aliens: 'District 9' It's tough to resist the best of this new breed of sci-fi cinema: bred on the paranoia-sparking immediacy of 24/7 surveillance culture, cheap and easy Webcams, and omnipresent cameraphones and fed by the sudden impact of cinema verite and drama-injected reality TV, Cops and Cloverfield .

Actor Ronnie Cox as "Dick Jones" displays the fearsome ED-209 enforcement droid in the 1987 Paul Verhoeven film "RoboCop." When the late science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote about robots, he required they all adhere to three basic and immutable laws: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to ...

A producer of comic and futuristic theatrical fare who came out of Roger Corman's New World low-budget factory, Jon Davison made a name for himself apart from Corman as producer of the comedy hit "Airplane!" and.... A producer of comic and futuristic theatrical fare who came out of Roger Corman's New World low-budget factory, Jon Davison made a ...

Well into his forties before moving to America to work, Dutch-born director Paul Verhoeven has thrived in the world of big budgets, exercising his lurid imagination and tremendous appetite for sex and violence to become.... Well into his forties before moving to America to work, Dutch-born director Paul Verhoeven has thrived in the world of big ...

Darren Aronofsky likely will dance with swans - but what will it mean for his grappling with cyborgs? The director is on the verge of a deal that would have him helming passion project "Black Swan" later this year, likely with Fox Searchlight.

Free Movies) This light work from Steven Spielberg is based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, who in the 1960s fooled people into thinking he was a pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer, all before he was out of his teens.

A character player of stage, TV and film, best known as the sadistic killer Clarence Botticker in "Robocop" and the domineering, inflexible father in "Dead Poets Society" , Kurtwood Smith is also an.... A character player of stage, TV and film, best known as the sadistic killer Clarence Botticker in "Robocop" and the domineering, inflexible father ...

A contemplative, blue-eyed lead with classically sculpted features, Peter Weller gained stage experience with notable performances in David Rabe's "Streamers" and David Mamet's "The Woods". He entered film in 1979 and,.... A contemplative, blue-eyed lead with classically sculpted features, Peter Weller gained stage experience with notable ...

Duncan Jones begins his first feature with an infomercial for "Lunar Industries, Ltd" that celebrates Lunar's solution to global warming: strip-mining the surface of the moon for "Helium 3," an isotope that can provide a limitless source of non-polluting fuel.

Spencer Prokop was a writer and voice actor for FUNimation Entertainment. As a writer, he wrote the scripts for the English adaptations of BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad , Kodocha , Mushi-Shi , One Piece , School Rumble , Solty Rei , Trinity Blood , Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle , and XXXHolic .

Darren Aronofsky's upcoming Robocop film has been delayed until 2011 , according to MGM, the parent company of the Robocop franchise.

Ed Neumeier, screenwriter and co-producer of the original RoboCop has spoken about the remake, or whatever it is, and it's an interesting and very guarded set of comments.

Dynamite Entertainment confirmed a new agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures to develop a new original comic book series based on the ROBOCOP franchise.

Though I am pretty much one silvery-blue beehive away from becoming EW's resident Krazy Kat Lady -- I was recently spotted in the office cooing idiotically with a colleague over a coffee table book about the world's most adorable cats -- I had never seen Animal Planet's Housecat Housecall until its second season premiere yesterday morning.

The TOTAL RECALL remake is moving forward. The Hollywood Reporter states that Kurt Wimmer has joined the production to pen the new screenplay Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films banner producing "a contemporary version of the film" for Columbia Pictures.