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Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers is now aged more than a decade, and while it’s common for fans to say that the film was ahead of its time, it’s better to say that it arrived outside the time-space continuum altogether. In a perfect world, all movies would be $100 million midnight events satirizing various establishments while offering generous dollops of startling sci-fi special effects, nudity, splattered guts and the Doog. In reality, the second Starship Troopers sequel, Starship Troopers: Marauder is headed to a shelf near you, as these new photos from the flick attest. No glimpses of the giant bugs, though.
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Sony Pictures have officially announced the launch of Stage 6 Films, a label that will acquire and produce lower budget films ($1 million-$10 million budget range) for theatrical and direct-to-DVD release.
Direct-to-DVD releases are all the rage now-a-days. Disney and Universal (the American Pie series) innovated a business of using and abusing proven franchises in lower budget home video prequels/sequels. So what does Sony have up their sleeves?

Starship Troopers: Marauder - The war against the Bugs continues! A Federation starship crash-lands on the distant alien planet OM-1, stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke (Stephen Hogan) and several others, including comely but tough pilot Lola Beck (Jolene Blalock). It’s up to Colonel [...]