Tag: Robocop

She impressed audiences with heartfelt performances in “W.E,” “Sucker Punch” and “A Good Year.” Now, Australian actress Abbie Cornish steps out of the shadows in Columbia Pictures’ new action thriller “RoboCop” as she plays the strong-willed Clara Murphy, the wife of police officer Alex Murphy who becomes the film’s titular character. In “RoboCop,” the year […]

Even if Columbia Pictures’ new action-thriller “RoboCop” has an existential element, there’s still plenty of cool factor. For the filmmakers, dabbling in robot technology was like an open playground. “One of the most exciting things to us – as filmmakers but also fans – was to create all the robots,” says producer Eric Newman.

Man and machine unite in Columbia Pictures’ “RoboCop,” a reimagining of the 1980s cult classic, starring actor-on-the-rise Joel Kinnaman (TV’s “The Killing,” “The Darkest Hour”).

It is the year 2028, when the city of Detroit is being patrolled by the most unique and relentless crime fighter in the world: the half man/half robot Alex Murphy, also known as RoboCop. Condemned to a certain death after being the victim of a terrible explosion, our hero was given a second chance by the powerful corporation OmniCorp, specialized in designing and constructing robots, that offers him the possibility to inhabit a new and powerful mechanical body that enables him, not only to continue living, but to be stronger and faster than he ever could have imagined.

Columbia Pictures’ new, futuristic thriller “RoboCop” boasts of a powerhouse cast led by Joel Kinnaman (“The Darkest Hour”), Gary Oldman (“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”), Michael Keaton (“Batman”), and Samuel L. Jackson (“Marvel’s The Avengers”), as well as Abbie Cornish (“Sucker Punch”), Jackie Earle Haley (“Watchmen”) and Jay Baruchel (“Tropic Thunder”). In “RoboCop,” […]

IMAX Corporation along with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. and Sony Pictures Entertainment, recently announced that the upcoming film “RoboCop” will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX® format and released into IMAX® theatres worldwide, incuding the Philippines where it will open Feb. 5.

In 1987, director Paul Verhoeven thrilled the world with “RoboCop,”the tale of a cyborg cop that patrols the streets of a futuristic Detroit in the name of justice. Now, filmmaker José Padilha (“Elite Squad”) reintroduces “RoboCop” when the science fiction that the original movie depicted in the 80’s is actually now closer to science than to fiction.