The X-Files (1998), Poster, Plot, Production, Soundtrack, Blu-ray Release and Trailer

This article is about the 1998 movie. For the 2008 movie, see The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

The X-Files is a 1998 science fiction film based on the television series of the same name.

Fight the Future, the film’s tagline, is sometimes used promotionally as an unofficial subtitle, but it does not appear as part of the film’s copyrighted on-screen title.

The stars of the TV series, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, reprise their respective roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. If viewed in the context of the X-Files chronology, the film takes place between seasons five and six of the TV series, and unlike the second film, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, is based upon the series’ extraterrestrial mythology. Read more …

The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Plot, History, Reception and Trailer

The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy as the owner of a lunar nightclub investigating who was behind the arson that destroyed his club. It was one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.

Plot

In the decade of 2080, on a lunar colony called Little America, a retired smuggler named Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) must save his nightclub from the mysterious underworld figure Rex Crater, who wants to turn it into a casino. Aided by his android friend Bruno (Randy Quaid), former club owner and talentless singing star Anthony “Tony Francis” Frankowski (Jay Mohr), retired cop Rowland (Peter Boyle), his own mother (Pam Grier), and waitress/would-be chanteuse Dina Lake (Rosario Dawson), he takes on an intergalactic mob, a mad geneticist, and his own clone to save his club from becoming just another gambling joint. Read more …

The Lost World or The Lost World: Jurassic Park II

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (commonly referred to as The Lost World or The Lost World: Jurassic Park II) is a 1997 American science fiction film and the second Jurassic Park film as part of the Jurassic Park franchise. The film succeeds the film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, of Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park. This film is loosely based on the novel that was also written by Crichton.

The film centers on the island of Isla Sorna, an auxiliary site for the main Jurassic Park island, where dinosaurs have taken over and live in the wild. Ian Malcolm leads a team to document the dinosaurs in their native habitat, while an InGen team attempts to capture them for a second Jurassic Park in San Diego. Read more …

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History

The channel was launched on September 24, 1992 as a joint venture between Paramount Pictures, USA Networks, and Universal Pictures. In that time, network programming included the 1960s television series Dark Shadows, the film serial Flash Gordon, and other science fiction movies and series.

The channel was seen as a natural fit with classic film and television series that both studios had in their vaults, including Rod Serling’s Night Gallery (from Universal TV) and Paramount’s Star Trek and classic Universal horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and author Isaac Asimov were among those on the advisory board.

In 1997, Seagram, which bought MCA in 1995, purchased Viacom’s interest in USA and Sci Fi, and sold the networks to Barry Diller in 1998 to form USA Networks, Inc. Diller later sold USA’s non-shopping (film and TV) assets, including Sci-Fi, to Universal’s then-parent Vivendi Universal in 2002. Read more …

Scan - News Sci-fi (08 HQs Pics)

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and capitalization) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology.

Science fiction is found in books, magazines, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media. In organizational or marketing contexts, science fiction can be synonymous with the broader definition of speculative fiction, encompassing creative works incorporating imaginative elements not found in contemporary reality; this includes fantasy, horror, and related genres.

Science fiction differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation). Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a “literature of ideas”. Read more …

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Sci-fi Fantasy Picture 科幻奇幻系列美图 (24 HQs Pics)

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Top 25 Babes of Sci-Fi TV: Day 1

June 23, 2008 - There are a few essential elements of any good science-fiction tale: high-tech gizmos, like rayguns and spaceships; a sympathetic hero and a dastardly villain; exotic locales either in space or time (or both); and, last but not least, hot mommas, and lots, lots, lots of them…

That’s why a movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey winds up being more of an art film than a true sci-fi picture - because of the lack of babes. Where’s the Anne Francis type in that film, dutifully getting lusty for the captain of the ship, while showing as much teenage leg as possible?

From Roswell to Firefly, IGN travels the galaxy for some eye candy of the third kind. Read more …