The season opener for Doctor Who‘s seventh year will receive its premiere at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, being held in the Scottish capital between August 23rd and 25th. Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat will be present during the Festival, and is running a masterclass on Sherlock alongside its co-creator Mark Gatiss and producer Sue Vertue. The as yet unnamed […]
Dubbed the “Author of Splendid Nightmares” by the New York Times, American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak has died, aged 83. Best known for the book Where The Wild Things Are […]
Marvel’s movie strategy has paid off, with the film of The Avengers raking in huge box office receipts around the world. According to official estimates, The Avengers will smash the previous single weekend box office take of $169m held by the Harry Potter finale, on course for over $200m. International gross is over $450m – before the film has even […]
Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica FX maestro Doug Drexler has teamed up with award-winning writer Marc Scott Zicree and director Neil Johnson to work on Space Command, a new series […]
The CW has given an early pick-up to two of its success stories: Supernatural, which will go into an eighth season of monster-hunting adventures for the Winchester brothers, and The Vampire Diaries, entering its fourth year. The official press release simply calls Supernatural a “fan favourite,” and hails The Vampire Diaries as “bloody good drama” which is the network’s top-rated […]
In a conference call following the show’s renewal for a fifth and final season, Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman dropped various hints about the show’s direction for its concluding year. Asked whether Leonard Nimoy would return to play William Bell, Pinkner said, “We basically erected a sign outside of Leonard’s house that says, ‘Please come back to […]
Remakes of The Mummy and Van Helsing are top of the agenda for Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman as part of their new deal at Universal Studios. The writer/producers have […]
With just under three months to go before Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman trilogy arrives in cinemas, the final trailer for The Dark Knight Rises has been released, giving […]
TV and movie composer Joel Goldsmith has died, aged 54. Goldsmith followed in his father Jerry’s footsteps into the music business, composing music for various television series, including Stargate SG-1 […]
The long wait between James Bond movies seems to be a thing of the past once more, with Sony confirming that the 24th film in the series based on the […]
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have been brought on board the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man. The Star Trek writers will rework a draft by James Vanderbilt for the new movie, starring Andrew Garfield as the superhero, which already has a set opening date of May 2, 2014. “Alex and Bob have a unique ability to write great character and […]
After many attempts over the years to bring it to the screen, Stephen King’s novel The Eyes of the Dragon is finally getting a live-action adaptation, courtesy of Syfy. Michael […]
In their presentation at the American History Museum on April 24, Syfy revealed major new drama plans – including a new series based on True Blood author Charlaine Harris “Grave” […]
NB THIS EXHIBITION HAS NOW CLOSED Celebrating both Star Wars day (May the Fourth) and the birthday of George Lucas on May 14, Generation Gallery in Manchester city centre, will be […]
As well as co-creating Alphas and writing the story for the upcoming Avengers movie, superhero film screenwriter Zak Penn has decided to branch out in comic book writing. His series Hero […]
Speaking at the Los Angeles Festival of Books over the weekend of 21/22 April, DC’s Dan DiDio and Jim Lee presented a panel entitled “DC Entertainment Presents: Watchmen – It’s Not the End, It’s the Beginning,” at which various details of the new series were revealed. Spoilers follow: “Since we’re doing a prequel we have the challenge of featuring characters […]
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