Science Fiction And Fantasy Movies

'2012' a home run with patriotic fans in China BEIJING - When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world.

LOS ANGELES - A larger-than-life snowglobe filled with murderous little girls, a "Battlestar Gallactica" spaceship and comic-book legend Stan Lee flying overhead on a bouquet of giant balloons - just a few signs that Spike TV's "Scream 2009" is different from other awards shows.

NEW YORK - "Surrogates" is itself a surrogate, a kind of stand-in for many of the sci-fi movies of the recent past: In it, you'll recognize the ideas of "Blade Runner," ''Minority Report" and even "WALL-E." The Bruce Willis action flick opens with two murders - the first in years in a quasi-present day Boston.

ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's information minister says one of the summer's biggest blockbusters is not welcome in Nigeria because it portrays Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals.