Last year we took a crack at the 25 best sci-fi films of the century so far. The list was populated by a handful of obvious — though necessary — choices, like “Looper,” “Interstellar,” and “Inception.” But the bulk of the picks came from the relatively new tradition of low budget sci-fi. Certainly sci-fi flicks of all shapes and sizes have been around since the dawn of cinema, but advances in digital cameras and post-production effects have made it a far more accessible genre for filmmakers, both budding and established, to tackle with a minimal budget (see the watermark: Shane Carruth‘s “Primer,” which he made for just $7,000).

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As kids, we looked ahead to the imminent 21st century and thought of a big bold, sci-fi future. The robot butler and trips to the drug store in hovercars version hasn’t yet arrived, but the first 15 years of this century have been extremely fruitful for big-screen science fiction.

Sci-fi is almost as old as cinema itself —1902’s Georges Méliès’ “A Trip To The Moon” is generally seen as the first example— but it became hugely popular in late 20th century filmmaking in the aftermath of “Star Wars,” if also somewhat watered down.

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The film will star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis in a story that Johnson has previously described as “set in a near future where time travel doesn’t exist but will be invented in a few decades.

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And fine, we’ll take that leap of faith… for now.

Willis is set to play an older version of Gordon-Levitt in Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi pic “Looper.” As we reported recently, the film’s premise is based around time travel, with crime syndicate hitmen and their victims going back in time, thus leaving no body or evidence of the killer’s victim.

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“It’s not like a ‘I, Robot’–type thing. It’s a very character-based film, and it’s very violent and very dark,” Johnson revealed. “It’s set in the near future, and things are very bad in an industrial town in Kansas.

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Tom Hanks has revealed that work is well under way for the third installment of the “Toy Story” franchise: “I have been in and done three big complete recording sessions and will probably have at least one more to do, possibly in about eight months.

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