In the sci-fi film Singularity, John Cusack stars as the CEO of a company that is about to release a "super computer designed to end all wars." But, as you would guess, the computer determines that humans are the real problem and must be eradicated. It unleashes an army of robots upon the world. Cusack is joined by a cast that includes Julian Schaffner, Jeannine Wacker, Eileen Grubba, and Carmen Argenziano. I will say this movie doesn't look very good at all. It's the kind of trailer that leaves you asking, why is Cusack making a movie this terrible? It doesn't even try to hide the fact that this is just a blending of The Terminator and The Matrix.
In 2020, Elias van Dorne (John Cusack), CEO of Va Industries, the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention--Kronos, a super computer designed to end all wars. When Kronos goes online,...
In 2020, Elias van Dorne (John Cusack), CEO of Va Industries, the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention--Kronos, a super computer designed to end all wars. When Kronos goes online,...
- 11/6/2017
- by Kristian Odland
- GeekTyrant
"I am a survivor. But I am not alone." Voltage Pictures has released an official trailer for a super weird, out-of-nowhere sci-fi film called Singularity, in reference to the theoretical "singularity" moment within computing / technology. John Cusack stars as the CEO of a company that is about to released a "super computer designed to end all wars." Surprise! The computer determines humans must be eradicated, and unleashes an army of robots upon the world. This is less like Transcendence, much more of a Terminator rip-off meets Transformers meets Divergent, or something like that. The cast includes Julian Schaffner, Jeannine Wacker, Eileen Grubba, and Carmen Argenziano. It can also be filed under why-is-John-Cusack-making-such-terrible-movies, since it looks as bad as they come. This is one trailer worth skipping. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Robert Kouba's Singularity, direct from Voltage's YouTube: In 2020, Elias van Dorne (John Cusack), CEO of Va Industries,...
- 11/3/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A trailer for the upcoming science fiction romance film Aurora has been unveiled.
Aurora envisions the near future of 2020 as a time when a powerful computer called Kronos chooses to eliminate humanity from earth.
Young Andrew resorts to going on the run to a mysterious haven called Aurora, and meets the enigmatic Calia along the way.
Newcomer Julian Schaffner has the lead role as Andrew in Aurora, while The Last Rezort's Jeannine Wacker plays his love interest Calia.
The sci-fi movie comes from writer-director Robert Kouba, who has made a series of popular short films in his native Switzerland.
Aurora opens on July 7 in the Us. A UK release is yet to be set.
Aurora envisions the near future of 2020 as a time when a powerful computer called Kronos chooses to eliminate humanity from earth.
Young Andrew resorts to going on the run to a mysterious haven called Aurora, and meets the enigmatic Calia along the way.
Newcomer Julian Schaffner has the lead role as Andrew in Aurora, while The Last Rezort's Jeannine Wacker plays his love interest Calia.
The sci-fi movie comes from writer-director Robert Kouba, who has made a series of popular short films in his native Switzerland.
Aurora opens on July 7 in the Us. A UK release is yet to be set.
- 4/7/2015
- Digital Spy
Aurora is the natural descendant of three trends in cinema. The first is the greater access to equipment and fans that technology provides. Robert Kouba, the film’s writer/director, has taken advantage of both by creating soft sci-fi short films and building a healthy social network of supporters. The project exists because of Kickstarter supporters who gave $56k to make it happen. The second is the enduring popularity of Ya fiction with a sci-fi bend. The third is the legacy of filmmakers like the Spierig Brothers and, to a more direct extent, movies like Skyline. If you don’t remember that one, it was the 2010 alien invasion flick from the Strause Brothers (apparently the fourth trend is sibling-based Diy CGI) that boasted a minuscule $10m budget. It got a big Comic-Con bounce thanks to Universal, but it always felt like it had one foot in the multiplex and one foot in the SyFy Channel. A...
- 4/7/2015
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Giant robots have taken over the earth in the sci-fi thriller, Aurora. Here's a trailer and poster...
In the near future, a super-intelligent computer has built a race of giant robots that promptly take over the entire planet. Sixty years later, a couple of young survivors, Andrew (Julian Schaffner) and Calia (Jeannine Wacker) try to find their way to a mysterious place called Aurora.
That's the basic plot behind this debut feature from director Robert Kouba, who's already made a name for himself thanks to a string of handsomely-produced short films - among them The Rift, The Slender Case and Starters, all released in 2012.
Aurora got its start over at Kickstarter, where it managed to garner its goal of $50,000 back in 2013, when the director billed it as "a twisted robot love story." There's more to Kouba's film that we won't spoil here, but it's probably enough to say that there's...
In the near future, a super-intelligent computer has built a race of giant robots that promptly take over the entire planet. Sixty years later, a couple of young survivors, Andrew (Julian Schaffner) and Calia (Jeannine Wacker) try to find their way to a mysterious place called Aurora.
That's the basic plot behind this debut feature from director Robert Kouba, who's already made a name for himself thanks to a string of handsomely-produced short films - among them The Rift, The Slender Case and Starters, all released in 2012.
Aurora got its start over at Kickstarter, where it managed to garner its goal of $50,000 back in 2013, when the director billed it as "a twisted robot love story." There's more to Kouba's film that we won't spoil here, but it's probably enough to say that there's...
- 4/7/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Feature Ryan Lambie 10 May 2013 - 06:03
Here's this week's batch of worthy, geek-friendly crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye this week...
The likes of Zach Braff and Peter Molyneux may grab headlines with their Kickstarter campaigns (not to mention no small amount of controversy), but they're just the tip of the crowdfunding iceberg. Which is why we're bringing you this weekly post, which aims to highlight some of the geek-friendly crowdfunding projects we've stumbled upon during our caffeine-fuelled daily trawls around the internet.
This week, we've found a low-budget science fiction project with some potentially fantastic visuals, a point-and-click adventure game inspired by such lyrical Japanese cultural touchstones as Ico and My Neighbour Totoro, and a quirky comic book about a group of simian outlaws...
The Good, The Bad And The Monkey <br /> If you're looking for a comic with an unusual theme, Andy Baker's The Good, The Bad...
Here's this week's batch of worthy, geek-friendly crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye this week...
The likes of Zach Braff and Peter Molyneux may grab headlines with their Kickstarter campaigns (not to mention no small amount of controversy), but they're just the tip of the crowdfunding iceberg. Which is why we're bringing you this weekly post, which aims to highlight some of the geek-friendly crowdfunding projects we've stumbled upon during our caffeine-fuelled daily trawls around the internet.
This week, we've found a low-budget science fiction project with some potentially fantastic visuals, a point-and-click adventure game inspired by such lyrical Japanese cultural touchstones as Ico and My Neighbour Totoro, and a quirky comic book about a group of simian outlaws...
The Good, The Bad And The Monkey <br /> If you're looking for a comic with an unusual theme, Andy Baker's The Good, The Bad...
- 5/9/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
New trailer for director Robert Kouba’s “The Rift”, which actually shows glimpses of those alien buggers. I’m assuming those are aliens. They look alien-y. After radar anomalies start appearing all over the world, strange rifts are starting to form in the sky. There is something hiding behind these rifts. It’s moving. I’m not sure if the whole movie takes place at a small diner in the middle of nowhere or not, but the trailer seems to strongly hint at that. Well, that’s one way to keep the budget down. The film stars Eileen Grubba, James Distefano and Ralph Guzzo. Your guess is as good as mine when you can see this thing.
- 10/30/2012
- by Nix
- SciFiCool.com
Some combinations in life are just meant to exist together. You got peanut butter and jelly, steak with potatoes, beer and pizza, and then ya got the genres of horror and science fiction. Which leads me to this next film The Rift. Judging from this little teaser below, I can say confidently that this movie sparks a glimmer of interest with me. Check out this sneak peak and see what you think. The Rift is directed by Robert Kouba, and written b…...
- 7/5/2011
- Horrorbid
Sci-fi news and review site Quiet Earth has shown the first trailer for Robert Kouba's ("Translucent Unicorn") The Rift, which has an interesting plotline. Anomalies in the galaxy open up a series of black rifts, which unleash sentient lifeforms, that are truly from one's nightmares. Can the rift be closed, to prevent further hellish sights? Horror and sci-fi fans will have to wait for that answer, as Vantis Pictures is still currently working on this film. Enjoy the trailer for the picture below, until an official release date is announced.
The synopsis for The Rift is here:
"For a few decades they were watching us and studying us. What are they? Nobody knows, except for Ivan Petrenko Karkarov.
This Russian physician started to study a phenomenon which was occurring over the course of several decades. In 1982 he found an answer to the strange phenomenon, but before he could tell anyone he mysteriously vanished.
The synopsis for The Rift is here:
"For a few decades they were watching us and studying us. What are they? Nobody knows, except for Ivan Petrenko Karkarov.
This Russian physician started to study a phenomenon which was occurring over the course of several decades. In 1982 he found an answer to the strange phenomenon, but before he could tell anyone he mysteriously vanished.
- 6/6/2011
- by Remove28DaysLaterAnalysisThis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
We just posted the first trailer for Robert Kouba's The Rift, but if you're curious to see some some of his handiwork, look no further than this stellar short he made for the Phillips Parallel Lines competition. If you recall, the competition asked that each entry used the same script. Other than that, they could do whatever they wanted. Kouba went all out and took his characters in to the far reaches of space.
Synopsis:
In a distant future after an inexplicable disaster has destroyed the world entirely, a man goes to search for a mysterious glass statue which is the home for a lonely unicorn.
So, if The Rift caught your eye, check out Translucent Unicorn after the break.
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Synopsis:
In a distant future after an inexplicable disaster has destroyed the world entirely, a man goes to search for a mysterious glass statue which is the home for a lonely unicorn.
So, if The Rift caught your eye, check out Translucent Unicorn after the break.
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- 6/6/2011
- QuietEarth.us
The Rift is an independent science fiction/horror flick directed by Robert Kouba and written by Jonathan Peace. The first trailer for the film dropped over the weekend and while it doesn't give us much by way of story details, the look and basic concept has got me intrigued.
Synopsis:
Since a few decades they were watching us. Studying us. What are they? Nobody knows. Nobody but Ivan Petrenko Karkarov.
The Russian physician started to study a phenomenon which was occurring since several decades. In 1982 he found an answer to the strange phenomenon but before he could tell anyone he mysteriously vanished.
Something is moving. It's watching us.
You can check out the first trailer after the break, or on iTunes where it premiered (via firstshowing).
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Synopsis:
Since a few decades they were watching us. Studying us. What are they? Nobody knows. Nobody but Ivan Petrenko Karkarov.
The Russian physician started to study a phenomenon which was occurring since several decades. In 1982 he found an answer to the strange phenomenon but before he could tell anyone he mysteriously vanished.
Something is moving. It's watching us.
You can check out the first trailer after the break, or on iTunes where it premiered (via firstshowing).
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- 6/6/2011
- QuietEarth.us
"They are here." Today's new trailer via Apple is a for a sci-fi horror called The Rift from Vantis Pictures. Directed by and starring Robert Kouba, the film is a thriller about a "normal guy" in Iowa named Dean Hollister who notices strange radar anomalies appearing until "something starts to happen at the sky, black rifts appear. Behind those rifts something is moving. It's watching us." This teaser is all just setup, though, as it tells a bit of the backstory with a crazy Russian scientist who found this "phenomenon" first but then disappeared. I thought this was an intriguing trailer to feature, and it's definitely an indie as far as I can tell. Watch the first teaser trailer for Robert Kouba's The Rift: You can also catch The Rift teaser in High Definition on Apple Since a few decades they were watching us. Studying us. What ...
- 6/5/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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