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Joss who? Meet the writer of the new ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ film
Whit Anderson, with a chuckle, said she is fighting through the script right now, but her concept has already engerized some key supporters.

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Pattinson cosies up to Stewart on film set
Robert Pattinson has fuelled long-running reports he’s dating his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart after paying a visit to the actress on the set of her new movie On The Road.

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Disney’s ‘Alice’ Is No. 1 Film Again, Has $62 Million in Sales
March 15 (Bloomberg) — “Alice in Wonderland,” the Lewis Carroll tale re-imagined in 3-D by director Tim Burton , was the top film in the U.S. and Canada for a second straight weekend, bringing in $62 million in ticket sales for Walt Disney Co.

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Mario Bava’s PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES is an altogether different type of vampire film especially when it was first released in 1965 when most filmgoers were only used to the Dracula personae of the vampire. Pre-dating the more well known Tobe Hooper classic LIFEFORCE, this film is the first in the sub-genre of sci-fi horror that depicts vampires as a spirit like force that can take over both living and dead bodies in order to live.

The story concerns Captain Markary (Barry Sullivan) who along with another ship and crew are stranded on a desolate planet, which they soon discover, is inhabited by a species of aliens that take over the bodies of the living or the dead and who until now where they stranded on the dead planet. Markary is in a race against time to repair his ship and save his crew from imminent death or possession.

The film has many elements of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and ALIEN while also being seeded in the many different traditions of vampirism. Bava’s greatest asset in this film is always keeping things moving especially in a film with very few sets and the few that they do have are sparse at best.

This is an interesting departure for Bava who is best known for his horror and giallo films. This remains one of the few sci-fi films he ever directed much less also wrote (with Alberto Bevilacqua).