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Pandorum Review

Kofi Outlaw — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:45:35 +0000

Short Version: Pandorum is a mess of a movie that squanders a lot of potential.

Screen Rant Reviews Pandorum

Movies often fail for varying reasons; sometimes the fatal flaw is in the script, sometimes the performances of the actors and sometimes because of the filmmaker’s total ineptness. Pandorum suffers from the latter case: director Christian Alvart has stitched together a patchwork of scenes that never really cohere into an actual movie. It’s a real tragedy, considering the potential this film had.

Pandorum opens as Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) wakes from cryogenic sleep aboard the starship Elysium (clever pun), whose mission is to ferry the last remnants of humanity to a new home planet. Bower wakes with all of his technical memory intact – how to operate the ship’s equipment, his military protocol – ...

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Poster Friday: Moon, Tooth Fairy, Parnassus & More!

Rob Keyes — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:42:29 +0000

Happy Friday everyone! Today we’ve again gathered the latest posters to come out for this week’s poster round-up.

Screen Rant’s wall this week now includes one-sheets for The Princess and the Frog, Planet 51, Taking Woodstock, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Blood Creek, Moon, Tooth Fairy, Yes Men Fix The World, Pandorum, Dread, Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant.

Let’s get to it.

To start, here’s the new poster for The Princess and the Frog thanks to our friends at Latino Review – Note the classic and beautifully hand-drawn art for Disney’s next addition to its 2D library:

The Princess and the Frog opens December 11, 2009.

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‘Pandorum’ German Trailer Released

Scott Miller — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:31:23 +0000

Clips for the new science fiction-horror film Pandorum have been floating around in cyberspace, but the cowboys over at Shock Till You Drop have wrangled in the full German trailer for Pandorum. Behold!

The film finds two astronauts waking up aboard an empty spaceship that ought to have tens of thousands of people on it. To make matters worse, our two astronauts can’t remember who they are. In their explorations, they come across a small band of human survivors and terrifying monsters! Only those with the dough for admission or the patience for the wait until a TV broadcast will know what became of all those other passengers!

Check out the German Trailer for Pandorum – Hope you speak German!

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New Posters: Where The Wild Things Are, Michael Jackson & More!

Rob Keyes — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:26:24 +0000

Happy Friday everyone! Today we have gathered the latest posters to come out for this week’s poster round-up.

Screen Rant’s wall this week now includes one-sheets for The Box, Pandorum, Growl, Takers, Red Cliff, The Shrine, District 9 and Michael Jackson’s This is It.

In addition to those, we also have four great character banners for Where the Wild Things Are and and as a bonus, a photo for The Twilight Saga’s New Moon.

Let’s get to it…

To start this week’s set, here’s the brand new French poster for the Cameron Diaz-starrer, The Box. The film is a horror-thriller which also stars the strong talents of James Marsden (X-Men trilogy) and Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon).

Here’s the official synopsis:

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, ...

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New Clips & TV Spots: Pandorum, Zombieland, Ninja Assassin & More!

Ross Miller — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:03:28 +0000

A bunch of new clips and TV spots have appeared online recently for five highly-anticipated movies: the sci-fi/horror flick, Pandorum, the zombie action-comedy, Zombieland, the martial arts action flick, Ninja Assassin, the teen horror/comedy, Jennifer’s Body, and the all-star comedy, The Men Who Stare at Goats.

And we have all of them here for your viewing pleasure!

PANDORUM

First up is a new clip for the upcoming sci-fi/horror, Pandorum, starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Set upon a deep space vessel 500 million miles away from earth, the film follows two crewman who wake from their cryogenic sleep to find the vessel’s population missing and mysterious creatures terrorizing it. The Event Horizon meets Alien meets Sunshine film has looked great so far – check out the latest creepy-as-hell clip from it:

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Screen Rant’s 2009 Fall Movie Preview

Mike Wilkerson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:01:23 +0000

As the days become shorter, and the nights become cooler, there is one thing on the horizon that all of us are quickly becoming aware of – the arrival of a slew of exciting 2009 Fall Movies. What’s always been great about this time of year is that it’s not just about “horror films” or movies that are made to touch the holiday hearts that burgeon each year as turkey, Santa and New Year’s Eve stretch into the new year and beyond.

The menu is varied, wide open and we hope – satisfying. While we couldn’t list them all, please join us as we quickly chronicle what lies ahead in Screen Rant’s 2009 Fall Movie Preview!

SEPTEMBER – 2009

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September 11th, 2009

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Pandorum: TV Spots & “Creature Feature” Clip

Kofi Outlaw — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:33:51 +0000

For you sci-fi/horror fans out there, there’s a new film up your alley coming out later this month called Pandorum, starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster as two crewmen on a deep space vessel who awaken from cryogenic sleep to find the crew missing and savage beasts terrorizing the ship.

The trailers and posters for Pandorum gave us a good tingly feeling that this film would be Event Horizon meets 28 Days Later and the Pandorum panel at Comic-Con this year only reinforced our anticipation for the flick.

Today we have two TV spots for Pandorum and a clip from the film that features a semi-first look at the deadly creatures roaming the shadows of the ship. If you still need incentive to see this movie, check them out.

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This Week’s Collection of Movie Posters

Rob Keyes — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:32:26 +0000

As per usual, this week we have a brand new set of one-sheets for your viewing pleasure. This latest batch includes posters for Pandorum, Agora, Whip It, Astroy Boy, The House of the Devil, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant and 2012.

All of these movies open in the next three months so stay tuned for more news! Check out all of the new posters after the jump.

First up: from the IMPA gallery, a new poster for Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, starring John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia and Ray Stevenson. It also famously features Salma Heyek as “The Bearded Lady.” Hot, right? I’ll pass.

This adventure fantasy film, directed by Paul Weitz, is about a young boy who meets a vampire who heads up a freak show. Of ...

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: August 23, 2009

Niall Browne — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:08:47 +0000

This Week:

The Basterds have landed at the top of the box office; Karl Urban takes a bite out of Priest; Summit attempts to grab Jodie Foster’s Beaver; Rosario Dawson boards Unstoppable; The Twilight Saga: Eclipse begins; Pandorum is pushed back and is it a trick or a treat for Trick r’ Treat?

Box Office

Quentin Tarantino scored the biggest opening of his career with Inglourious Basterds. The Brad Pitt film shot up an impressive $37 million over the weekend giving The Weinstein Company a much needed financial boost. The R-rated Nazi killing epic will have a chance of cracking $100 million if word of mouth is good.

District 9 dropped less than 50% this weekend after banking an estimated $18.9 million. With $73 million already in the bag it looks like this $30 million film will be very profitable.

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New Posters: Surrogates, Pandorum, The Informant!

Ross Miller — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:37:33 +0000

Today we have a batch of new posters from three movies that are set to hit theaters before the end of the year. These include the new Bruce Willis action-sci-fi/thriller film Surrogates, the Dennis Quaid/Ben Foster sci-fi/horror-thriller, Pandorum, and the Matt Damon political comedy, The Informant!.

I’m looking forward to all three of these movies: Surrogates looks like a lot of fun, Pandorum looks creepy and atmospheric as hell and The Informant! looks hilarious. Check out the new posters for the three movies below:

For Surrogates, we have a bunch of new posters, all employing the same style of having the human bodies revealed as machines. They’re cool and all but don’t they remind you of something? They’re shockingly similar to the ones for The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Take a look and see for yourself:

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Freaktastic New Poster for Pandorum

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:52:29 +0000

The more we here at Screen Rant cover Pandorum – the upcoming sci-fi/horror/thriller starring Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma) and Dennis Quaid as two crew members who awaken from hyper-sleep aboard a nightmarish spacecraft – the more I get excited for the film to drop this fall.

Up until now promo materials for the film have included some truly creepy posters and a goosebump-inducing final trailer. Today, we have a new Pandorum poster that tops all the rest in terms of creepiness, and may just offer us yet another clue as to what the mysterious force terrorizing the spacecraft is. Take a look: Talk about hearing voices in your head:

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Ben Foster Talks Pandorum

Ross Miller — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:52:14 +0000

Earlier this year, a sci-fi horror-thriller by the name of Pandorum popped firmly onto our radar when the insanely creepy poster and thrilling trailer were released for it. Another Pandorum poster soon followed that was equally as creepy as the first, and last month a full trailer for the film was released, which put it firmly on the list of anticipated films for 2009.

To promote Pandorum, actor Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, X-Men: The Last Stand) and few of the film’s other stars made an appearance at the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, where an interview with Foster revealed more about the film. Courtesy of io9, here is some of what Ben Foster had to say:

io9 – “Ben, what was it about this character that appealed to you?”

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Exclusive: Final Pandorum Trailer

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:41:37 +0000

[UPDATE: The contest is now closed but you can still check out the creepy trailer below.]

We have the final trailer for the Sci-Fi horror flick Pandorum for you right here. In addition to that we have info for you on a smokin’ contest the studio is running for the film – How would you like to win a trip to the San Diego Comic-Con coming up in July?

Yeah, I thought you might.

Here’s the official description of the film:

In Pandorum, actors, Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point, The Express) and Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, Alpha Dog), join Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down, Twilight), Cung Le (Tekken, Fighting), newcomer Antje Traue and director Christian Alvart (Antibodies) to tell the terrifying story of two crew members stranded on a spacecraft who ...

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New Posters: Inglourious Basterds, Public Enemies, Transformers 2 & More!

Rob Keyes — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:04:41 +0000

We’ve been slacking off here a little bit recently when it comes to presenting and talking about newest posters that have been revealed online so it’s time to play catch-up.

Today we have a batch of posters that cover Public Enemies, Transformers 2, A Christmas Carol, Inglourious Basterds and Pandorum.

The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen poster continues the Egyptian theme we saw with the previous three posters – this is the final poster for the movie. The new Inglourious Basterds poster continues the trend of profiling the main characters in the Quentin Tarantino WWII epic, this time with focus on Til Schweiger.

The final TF2 poster!

Til Schweiger is such a Basterd

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Creepy ‘Pandorum’ & Mysterious ‘Order of Chaos’ Posters

Ross Miller — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:33:55 +0000

For your viewing pleasure we have a couple of new posters: One extremely creepy, the other evoking bewilderment.

The first is for the creepy sci-fi flick Pandorum, which stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster (Angel from X-Men 3: United). The plot synopsis is as follows:

Two crewmen awaken from hyper-sleep aboard a spacecraft. None of their equipment is working, and their memories are incomplete. What was their mission? How much time has passed? Where are they? Who are they? As they try to piece things together, they discover they are not alone, and the ship’s new inhabitants are moving among them, intent on killing all aboard. As the space travelers unravel the frightening and deadly secrets the ship harbors, they realize the survival of mankind hinges on their actions. They must regain control of the ship before Pandorum takes over.

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