The Force Awakens key character posters released
With six weeks or so until The Force Awakens in cinemas worldwide, Disney and Lucasfilm have released a set of character posters mixing old and new Star Wars characters. Harrison […]
RIP E.T. and BFG screewriter Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison, who penned the script for Spielberg’s 1982 success E.T. and his upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, has died aged 65. Mathison had already written the screenplay for The Black Stallion when she wrote E.T., a script Spielberg claimed he would have been “willing to shoot the next day” when he read it. In a statement following […]
Eoin Colfer penning Iron Man novel
Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer is stepping into the Marvel universe. The Irish writer will be penning a young adult novel featuring Iron Man, to be published in autumn 2016, which Marvel describes as “an electrifying new take on the Marvel universe’s most famous billionaire super hero”. It’s not Colfer’s first foray into other people’s universes: he penned the sixth […]
Dreamworks bringing Connolly’s Gates trilogy to the screen?
According to a report at Deadline, John Connolly’s trilogy of middle-school novels has been acquired by Dreamworks. The three books – The Gates, Hell’s Bells (aka The Infernals) and The […]
Van Helsing slaying on Syfy in 2016
Syfy has picked up a new version of the Dracula story for airing in 2016. Van Helsing focuses on Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula’s nemesis Abraham Van Helsing. Resurrected five years in the future, she discovers that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to […]
His Dark Materials comes to the BBC
Following in the footsteps of the BBC Radio dramatisation and the 2006 movie, New Line and Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter’s new company Bad Wolf are producing a TV adaptation […]
Star Trek back on TV in January 2017
Twelve years after the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, CBS is going back to the final frontier. The new Star Trek “will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds […]
AMC unveil Preacher trailer (video)
AMC put their new series Preacher out in front of its core genre audience on November 1st, showing the first trailer for the show during The Walking Dead. “A supernatural Preacher, a gun-toting ex, and an Irish vampire are coming to AMC mid-2016”, the channel explained. Based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s comic book, the series was developed by […]
Sky Arts adapting Neil Gaiman short stories
Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories are coming to Sky Arts. A four-part adaptation of Gaiman’s short stories begins filming in November by Sid Gentle Films, who have yet to reveal which tales will feature but promise “an ensemble cast across all four of these tales”. The series will be directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard who promise their films will be […]
Charlaine Harris’ Midnight, Texas books coming to NBC
Sookie Stackhouse creator Charlaine Harris’ new book series Midnight, Texas is heading to NBC, according to a new report at Entertainment Weekly. The series, which began with Midnight Crossroad last […]
Tennant and Tate join Big Finish
Big Finish are adding a second Doctor from the new series to their roster. As well as the series of War Doctor stories featuring John Hurt, Big Finish today announced […]
British Fantasy Awards 2015 winners announced
The winners of the British Fantasy Awards were announced at the end of the British Fantasy Convention held in Nottingham over the weekend of 23-25 October. (Underlined items are reviewed […]
K9 vs Omega in Time Quake
The Doctor’s metal mutt is heading for the big screen – where he will encounter a key figure from Time Lord history – according to a report at Doctor Who […]
Watch the full Jessica Jones trailer (video)
“God didn’t do this – the devil did.” The full length trailer for Netflix’s version of Marvel’s Jessica Jones doesn’t pull its punches. Featuring all the key characters – Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and David Tennant’s Kilgrave – it shows some of Jessica’s powers, her burgeoning relationship with Cage… and just a little taste of Kilgrave’s persuasive nature at work… […]
ABC cancel The Whispers
ABC has formally decided not to go forward with a second season of The Whispers, the SF drama based on the short story by Ray Bradbury. The series aired across the summer, after the cast’s options had expired, and some had expressed their unwillingness to shoot further episodes in Vancouver. The show got strong initial ratings, but they petered out […]
Laverne Cox is Dr Frank-n-Furter in Rocky Horror reimagining
Orange is The New Black star Laverne Cox has been cast as the sweet transsexual from Translyvania, Dr Frank-n-Furter in Fox’s reimagining of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Cox is […]
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