RoboCop News

The Brazilian government has spent 4.2 million on robots to prepare the country ahead of the Pope's visit next year and the Rio Olympics in 2016.

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As many readers now know, that effort is, in fact, happening . The part-cyborg part-human police officer from the 1987 action film starring Peter Weller has been constructed of foam components in Canada and is now on its way to Detroit for a bronze pouring.

John Ary here with some footage from one the best Saturday's in the history of the world.

What's 10 feet tall, could easily power bump with the Joe Louis fist and is on his way to Detroit? RoboCop or at least the parts needed for a statue of the futuristic crime fighter.

Peter Weller is pictured here in the 1987 movie, RoboCop. The film is being remade, out in 2014, starring Joel Kinnaman as RoboCop, as well as Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton.

In the years since RoboCop first burst on to the scene in 1987, there have been just two screenings at which stars Peter Weller and Nancy Allen were reunited with director Paul Verhoeven .

Source: www.suntimes.com --- Tuesday, May 07, 2013LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles television news anchor in the 1960s and 1970s who also appeared in movies such as "Rocky III" has died.

The China-born actor, who was Los Angeles' first Asian-American Tv news anchor in the 1960s, died on Saturday from complications of pneumonia.

The Found Footage Festival, featuring hilarious videos found in garage sales, warehouses and thrift stores and edited together for your amusement, returns Tuesday night to Circle Cinema.

With his latest film project "Tricked," Paul Verhoeven worked with a list of screenwriters that rivaled the length of the script itself.

On Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 at 7pm - At the Highland Galaxy in Austin, Texas - 299 of you will get to be amongst the earliest denizens of Earth to see STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS and not only that.