Doctor Who Movie Confirmed!
Harry Potter movie director David Yates is set to direct a big screen Doctor Who movie for the BBC. Yates told Daily Variety he was preparing to start work on […]
Potter’s Yates explains why he didn’t take The Stand (Updated!)
A few weeks ago, fantasy fans were surprised by the news that the Harry Potter team of director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves were going to tackle Stephen King’s The Stand as their next project. They were more surprised a little later when it was announced that Ben Affleck was taking both roles on the Warner Bros. film. Promoting […]
AMC Thunderstruck by new David Eick series
After achieving an international hit with The Walking Dead, AMC are looking for a new genre series, and have purchased Thunderstruck, a new hour-long UFO drama from The Exorcism of […]
Russell Tovey leaves Being Human
Although it has been rumoured for some time that he would not be continuing on the hit BBC Three show, Russell Tovey has finally officially announced that he will be leaving Being Human. “I’ve actually left Being Human but no one [outside the production] knows yet,” he told The Guardian, explaining that Aidan Turner’s exit at the end of the third series […]
X-Files’ Nic Lea is Untouchable on Supernatural
The X-Files’ erstwhile agent Krycek, Nicholas Lea, is caught up in more time travel antics in his latest role, as Untouchables leader Elliot Ness on Supernatural, according to TV Line. […]
My Name is Earl’s Dale Dickey howls for True Blood
As preparations for the fifth season of HBO’s vampire hit series continue, TV Line has revealed that My Name is Earl star Dale Dickey has been signed up for a recurring role as Annie, the werewolf mother of Marcus, the former werewolf packmaster. “Powerful and respected within the pack due to her late son’s position, Annie is determined to perform […]
Syfy Seeing Things and developing Ghost Projekt
Syfy has announced that they are developing three new scripted dramas with Star Trek‘s Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Supernatural‘s Brett Matthews and Person of Interest‘s David Slack as their executive producers. […]
Bonneville, Atwell and Morrissey hail Return of Captain Nemo
Captain America‘s Hayley Atwell has joined David Morrissey and Hugh Bonneville in the cast of The Return of Captain Nemo, the 3D steampunk sequel that starts shooting in January. Atwell […]
Lost writer for King’s Under the Dome
The Showtime adaptation of Stephen King’s mammoth novel Under the Dome has finally got a writer, with comicbook scribe and Lost alumnus Brian K. Vaughan set to turn the thousand page novel into a workable miniseries screenplay. According to Deadline’s report, the Dreamworks series will be Showtime’s first foray into the genre field since the end of the supernatural series […]
Ellison Claims Victory ‘In Time’!
Andrew Niccol’s sci-fi movie In Time will carry a credit acknowledging its debt to Harlan Ellison’s short story ‘Repent, Harlequin! Said The Tick-Tock Man’, first published in 1965. The move […]
Aardman to up sticks?
According to an interview on BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, Aardman Animation, the makers of Wallace & Grommit and Shaun the Sheep, is contemplating transferring production of its TV […]
Universal president slams The Wolfman and Cowboys & Aliens
Warning: This news story contains adult language. Universal President Ron Meyer has slammed some of his own studio’s recent movies, explaining that while “we set out to make good [movies]”, it doesn’t always work out that way, with both The Wolfman and Cowboys & Aliens coming under direct fire. Speaking at the Savannah Film Festival, as reported by Movieline, Meyer […]
Bad Robot’s Boilerplate fires up
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have been hired by Bad Robot to script their adaptation of the graphic novel Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel for Paramount Pictures. According to the report […]
Once Upon A Time gets speedy full season order
ABC has granted its fairytale series Once Upon A Time a quick happy ending, with a full season order after only two episodes have been aired. On the show’s Facebook page, the producers posted that “We asked the magic mirror if we would get picked up for a full season, and he said yes. Thank you all for making his […]
Abrams’ Alcatraz pauses for reshoots
Production plans on Alcatraz, J.J. Abrams’ second new series for this season, have been altered, after it was decided to reshoot various scenes for the seven episodes already filmed. According […]
Maid Marian to play Eric’s “sister” on True Blood
Lucy Griffiths, best known in the UK for her role as Maid Marian in the BBC’s recent version of Robin Hood, has signed up for a regular role in the fifth series of True Blood. She will play Nora, a centuries-old vampire “sister” of Alexander Skarsgard’s character Eric – both were turned by Godric. According to TV Line, the character […]
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