As we come to an end of our “half-time” report on all things film in 2017, we take a look back at some of the sci-fi spectaculars we have seen so far, whether it’s in a galaxy far, far away, here on earth or in the distant future we have seen it all – and there’s still so much to see.
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Now reports are coming in that Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch will be working with Johansson on the score for the Blade Runner 2049, Villeneuve spoke to Entertainment.ie, explaining a score to rival Vangelis’ original requires more than one man.
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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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With the first teaser trailer and images released last month, anticipation has risen even higher for the upcoming (and long-gestating) sequel to Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi noir Blade Runner in the form of Blade Runner 2049. Now the director of the film, the acclaimed Denis Villeneuve, has been speaking about the film and the levels of expectation upon it.

Speaking to The Canadian Press, the director said: “The level of expectation behind this movie is huge and everybody is waiting…
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When the runtime for Blade Runner 2049 was released, audiences and critics gasped, at 2 hours and 44 minutes Blade Runner 2049 is 44 minutes longer than the Final Cut of the original movie. While 163 minutes is a long time to sit down and stare at a screen, there are definitely longer movies, for example, Transformers: Age of Extinction is 164 minutes. Editor Joe Walker (Sicario, Arrival) says the film was actually four hours at one point.
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Denis Villeneuve can take solace in the fact that he made a critically acclaimed modern classic with Blade Runner 2049. Unfortunately, he can’t call his film a financial success.
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Blade Runner 2049 received rave reviews from critics with Flickreel even awarding it a five star rating. Alas, this didn’t give the big budget sequel the boost it needed at the box office.
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The original Blade Runner wasn’t a financial hit when it came out in 1982, barley making over $25 million during its initial domestic run. Given the cult status the film has gained over the years, though, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Blade Runner 2049 is headed for a strong opening weekend.
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Just as Villeneuve turned in a modern science fiction masterpiece with last year’s Arrival, he’s done the same in Blade Runner 2049.
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Movie magic reaches its outermost limits when you’re sitting in on a new Sci-Fi film that carries an aura of mystery. Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival hits all the traditional notes, he keeps it gripping, emotional and acutely down to earth.

There’s no shaky cam, noisy explosions or monstrous aliens on the prowl in this story, instead, we have a modest, visually claustrophobic piece about an expert linguist named Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and her extraordinary efforts to…
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“Sicario is engrossing cinema that will have you on the edge of your seat throughout, with some unbearably, and exhilaratingly suspenseful sequences”…
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The new footage from Blade Runner 2049 is nothing short of lively.
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Now the key film festivals are behind us, we’re starting to get a sense for what films may be considered on awards terms, as we creep ever closer to the biggest ceremonies of the year. Which means one thing – movies are getting better again (yay!). Here’s our list of the five you simply won’t want to miss this October…

Blade Runner 2049

I mean, we all sort of expected this would be good, but I don’t think we could’ve anticipated it being this good. Critics are going crazy for…
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As we come to an end of our “half-time” report on all things film in 2017, we take a look back at some of the sci-fi spectaculars we have seen so far, whether it’s in a galaxy far, far away, here on earth or in the distant future we have seen it all – and there’s still so much to see.
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Warning: This article contains spoilers.

The land of wolves indeed, Dennis Villeneuve’s Sicario emerged last year as an understated, pitch black look at the state of America’s war on drugs. Bookmarked with beautiful aerial shots of barren landscapes accompanied by the continuous grueling boom of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score (comparable to the nauseating musical number that introduces Gasper Noe’s Irreversible), Sicario is the most effective thriller in recent memory. It’s a new type of…
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A young blade runner’s discovery of a long buried secret leads him on a quest to track down former blade runner, Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for thirty years.
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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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Warner Bros. has released a teaser ahead of the new full Blade Runner 2049 trailer on Monday.
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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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