Hey bozos: “Short Circuit” is turning 40 this year, and Astoria is celebrating with a weekend of celebrity guests and movie events. Actor Steve Guttenberg, who played robotics engineer Newton Crosby ...

The '80s sci-fi movie Short Circuit is being rebooted as a Latinx family film, and Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman will write the screenplay. Deadline says that Cisneros was a writer on Instructions ...

Dimension Films has tapped Dan Milano to script “Short Circuit,” the remake of the 1986 pic. The original was about an armed robot that acquired a personality after a lightning strike, and sought the ...

Visitors to Astoria can now stay overnight in the house that was the prime filming location for a beloved 1980s children’s action film. We’re talking, of course, about the “Short Circuit” house.