The UK trailer for the Sci-Fi horror, The Last Days On Mars

There are clear and obvious trailers between this low-budget sci-fi horror and Ridley Scott's Prometheus, including the pacing of the trailer and the numerous suggestions of body horror. But considering has a much smaller budget than Scott's offering, The Last Days On Mars looks extremely slick, with some decent sets and solid special effects.

Movies set on Mars often have mixed fortunes - back in 2000, Red Planet duelled with Brian De Palma's Mission To Mars, and neither did particularly well at the box office - but the cast is great, and we're excited to see what sort of otherworldly horrors it has in store. We see glimpses of something gooey; is it a body-melting space virus, or something sentient, like the beast in The Thing or Leviathan? Whatever it is, it's sure to ruin Liev Schreiber's day.

We're still awaiting a UK release date, but when we get one, we'll pass it along.

(Via Den of Geek)

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Meet the new competitors in massive Hunger Games: Catching Fire banner

While you wait desperately for November, the returning tributes assemble. It's sort of the Avengers, but with more death.

Hunger Game: Catching Fire probably feels like there's a long time away, but that doesn't mean we're have to wait for some content. Lionsgate has released this tiny morsel for us to gobble up — a large banner revealing all the former winners of the past Hunger Games.

So, here's a look:

You can grab a closer look at the official site. But they're all here, most of them looking like they aren't afraid to kill if they have to. Again.

The adaptation of the first Hunger Games novel spared us a lot of the violence and gore that occurred in the book. But, seeing all these more defined characters in one place, we're hoping things are a lot more gruesome (and true to the text) for the movie sequel.

(via Collider)

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CBS Gives Series Order to ‘Extant,’ A Sci-Fi Show from Steven Spielberg

Right now CBS and Steven Spielberg are enjoying the success of their series adaptation of “Under the Dome.” While the venture was originally supposed to be a limited series, a second season has already been ordered to keep the story based on Stephen King’s book alive. Now the network and Spielberg are re teaming for another sci-fi series.

THR reports CBS has already given a series order to “Extant,” a dramatic sci-fi thriller series from Amblin Entertainment that follows a female astronaut trying to reconnect with her family when she returns after a year in outer space. Her experiences lead to events that ultimately change the course of human history.

Much like “Under the Dome,” this new series is made for the summer, something that Spielberg has become accustomed to since his series “Falling Skies” also airs in the same season on TNT. CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler says:

“Extant is a very original concept with layers of humanity, mystery and surprise that reveal itself throughout the script. Our partnership with Amblin for Under the Dome showed that viewers respond to high-quality event programming in the summer. We look forward to building on that with Extant and offering CBS audiences another high-concept, unique event for summer television.”

“Under the Dome” was also picked up straight to series, which doesn’t seem like that much of a feat with someone like Steven Spielberg attached, but with another summer program booked, CBS is really making waves towards having big original series airing all year long as opposed to the standard schedule from fall to spring with a break over winter. Plus, it’s important to note that this is another limited series, which has become all the rage at all networks, and makes it easier for fans to stick around and not get bored with longer seasons.

In 2014, Spielberg will have four series on the air with the second and fourth seasons of “Under the Dome” and “Falling Skies” respectively, and also another new drama series called “Lucky 7,” an adaptation of British drama “The Syndicate,” which follows seven employees of a service station in Queens whose lives are changed in unexpected ways when they win a lottery jackpot. Sounds like it could have flares of ABC’s “Six Degrees” but with less melodrama.

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