Posts by: John Abbitt

by John Abbitt | Jan 02, 2024 | Feature, News

The 4K remasters of James Cameron's The Abyss, True Lies and Aliens are coming in for criticism - and AI is getting some of the blame....

by John Abbitt | Jun 05, 2023 | Feature

Ahead of the release of Roland Emmerich's Independence Day, an audio film was commissioned, made and broadcast in the UK......

by John Abbitt | May 25, 2023 | Feature

The first Justice League movie was meant to be directed by George Miller, but was cancelled during production - here's the story......

by John Abbitt | Mar 31, 2023 | Feature

From The Abyss to Men In Black, there are many films that replaced practical effects with CGI during production - we take a look at some notable ex...

by John Abbitt | Mar 13, 2023 | Feature

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by John Abbitt | Mar 02, 2023 | Feature

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by John Abbitt | Mar 01, 2023 | Feature

Before Ang Lee was attached to direct Hulk in the early 2000s, the project began life as an attempt to make the Hulk with animatronics......

by John Abbitt | Jan 25, 2023 | Feature

The tale of how Karyn Kusama’s directorial career was almost bought to halt when she tried to adapt the cult cartoon Æon Flux for the big sc...

by John Abbitt | Jan 23, 2023 | Feature

The short opening of 1995's Waterworld turns the Universal logo into a flooded futuristic Earth - and it was rather difficult to pull off....

by John Abbitt | Jan 17, 2023 | Feature

If you remember the phrase 'pan and scan', you might just remember what a seismic shift the launch of widescreen VHS proved to be....

by John Abbitt | Nov 21, 2022 | Feature

Indiana Jones 5 has been kept largely under wraps so far - but it's not stopped clickbait rumours from gaining prominence, as we discover....

by John Abbitt | Nov 16, 2022 | Feature

Under the eye initially of David Fincher, the story of BMW's James Bond-inspired advertising campaign, The Driver....

by John Abbitt | Oct 18, 2022 | Feature

It turns out there was a very different cut of Jim Carrey's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - one that was meant to be much darker. A...

by John Abbitt | Oct 13, 2022 | Feature

The story of BOO, an otherworldly animated film that DreamWorks cancelled at great expense when it was nearly complete....

by John Abbitt | Oct 10, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

In 2007, a company called Zootfly attempted to make a Ghostbusters video game - but when it released demos, things went wrong quickly....

by John Abbitt | Oct 04, 2022 | Feature, News

We take a look into two cancelled Indiana Jones projects - a video game and novel titled Indiana Jones And The Staff Of Kings. In...

by John Abbitt | Sep 26, 2022 | Feature, News

We look into two memorable instances of studios deleting deleted scenes before a film's physical release - yet they didn't stay deleted for long....

by John Abbitt | Sep 13, 2022 | Feature, News

Hollywood has always struggled to draw the line between piracy protection and inconveniencing end users - and nowhere is that more evident than home...

by John Abbitt | Aug 23, 2022 | Feature, News

We take a look at the troubled history of the still unmade The Crow reboot - which has been in development hell for 14 years. A...

by John Abbitt | Aug 09, 2022 | Feature, News

Are 'extended' and 'unrated' cuts of films worth investing in? Or are they just a marketing tactic to shift more discs? We take a look....

by John Abbitt | Jul 27, 2022 | Feature, News

In the digital age, we remain fully supportive of owning physical copies of films - but do studios take advantage of fans and collectors?...

by John Abbitt | Sep 21, 2020 | Feature, News

For a brief period, it look as if 'making of' CD-ROMs were going to be the next big thing - and Stargate was chosen to get them off the ground....

by John Abbitt | Aug 25, 2020 | Feature

How a feature length documentary on The Crow was completed and ready for its special edition DVD, and then had the plug pulled on it....

by John Abbitt | Jul 20, 2020 | Feature

How a fan re-edit became the closest cut of The Crow: City Of Angels to how director Tim Pope envisaged the film - and that's according to Pope...

by John Abbitt | Jun 29, 2020 | Feature

When computers finally had the power to run games with video footage included, developers headed to films and TV shows for inspiration - with mixed...