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Hello CAA folk. As some of you may know, I've recently been working with L.A pop culture gallery Hero Complex Gallery on a big set of landscape prints. And today, I can finally reveal them after being feature on Gizmodo's io9. Titled  Visions of a Past, Present and Future,  this set of giclee prints celebrates some of the best science fiction films in cinematic history. From Star Wars to La Jetee, each print is sized at 12" x 36" and limited to 75 per print. A big thank you to io9 , who featured and revealed the work on their site. If you'd like to buy one of these lovely, super wide landscape prints, then head over to HCG and BUY HERE! The full list of prints is as follows: 2001 : A Space Odyssey, Akira, Alien, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, La Jetee, Metropolis, Moon, Star Wars Ep IV, V and VI, The Fly. Here are just a selection of images. ** I know you are all horribly poor students, but if you'd like to purchase one o...

David Cronenberg has announced that he is developing a sequel to The Fly for Fox. Not a massively elaborate post, but it seemed like a good idea to let everyone know they're probably in for more vomit-saturated dining and less Eric Stoltz. The original io9 post is here   and the original Total Film article is here . Steven Payne

Summary: Not so much a remake of Kurt Neumann's 1958 film of the same name but rather a re-telling of George Langalaan’s original short story. Horror master David Cronenberg strips away the murder-mystery aspect of the original, instead choosing to create an intense character study of scientist Seth Brundle – who, after an experiment goes drastically wrong, is slowly and gruesomely transforming into a fly, both in mind and body. Though Cronenberg considers the film an analogy for disease in general, upon its release it was latched onto as a metaphor for the heightened paranoia and cultural acknowledgement of the AIDs epidemic. Analysis: “...the masochistic regression to nature, unconsciousness, and fusion with the maternal body – the image of the doctor-god with the spectre of the womb over which he will preside floating mid-belly neatly summarizes the common theme of Cronenberg’s last two films of the 1980s.” (Cohan, 2002:134) “The protagonists of Dead Ringers and...

Summary: Brilliant scientist Andre Delambre becomes unwittingly fused with a house fly while testing his Matter Teleportation device. Based on a short story written by George Langelaan and drawing comparisons with Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis. The Fly is one of the earliest examples of the Body Horror genre, where degeneration or transformation of the human body forms the basis of the film's shocks. The film has been parodied continuously and is widely considered a classic of the Science Fiction genre - spawning two sequels and an infamous retelling in 1986. Analysis: “... After Andre’s transformation into the monstrosity he types a message to Helene, in which these words appear. “There are things man should never experiment with.” The film explicitly links Andre’s assumption of the god/scientist role with atomic-age fears...” (Hendershot, 2001:31) “The Fly operates routinely within a sf/horror framework of condemning radical scientific experimentation as transgressive while s...