Back in October it was reported that Disney has decided to drop Johnny Depp from Pirates of the Caribbean, tapping Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to work on a script for a reboot of the blockbuster action-adventure franchise. The rumours were confirmed last month by Disney film production chief Sean Bailey, and now Forbes […]
Pre-production underway on Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, reveals Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith is gearing up for a return to the View Askeniverse this year with Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, and the filmmaker has announced via Twitter that pre-production is now officially underway on the follow-up to 2001’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Spent the first day of 2019 having a #JayAndSilentBobReboot pre-pre-production meeting […]
Black Mirror season 5 pushed back due to Bandersnatch
It looks like fans of Black Mirror will have a little longer to wait for the fifth season of the anthology show, as creator and writer Charlie Brooker has revealed to THR that the next batch of episodes have been pushed back due to the recently-released interactive movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. “We knew going into […]
Jessie Buckley, Cynthia Erivo, Barry Keoghan, Lakeith Stanfield and Letitia Wright nominated for BAFTA’s EE Rising Star Award
The British Academy of Film and Television Awards has announced that Jessie Buckley (Beast, Wild Rose), Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the El Royale, Widows), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk, American Animals), Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out, Sorry to Bother You) and Letitia Wright (Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War) have been nominated for this year’s EE Rising Star […]
Book Review – Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
Michelle Herbert reviews Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill… Sea of Rust is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It is unlike many post-apocalyptic settings that we have read before, as humanity has been decimated and all those surviving in the Sea of Rust are robots. Some, those known as freebots were created by humanity, […]
IDW’s Black Crown announces Eve Stranger, amnesiac-for-hire
IDW Publishing imprint Black Crown has announced the upcoming launch of the five-issue miniseries Eve Stranger from writer David Barnett and artist Philip Bond, which follows a formidable young woman with unnatural abilities and a repeatedly wiped memory, available to the highest bidder under the threat of exploding nanobombs in her bloodstream. “Imagine if you were […]
The Walking Dead leads the most pirated TV shows of 2018
Having topped the list of the most pirated TV shows for the past six years, HBO’s Game of Thrones took a year out in 2018, allowing perennial runner-up The Walking Dead to top the list of the most illegally-downloaded shows. Ratings may be dwindling on TV, but AMC’s zombie drama remains hugely popular when it […]
UPDATE: Aquaman hits $823 million at the worldwide box office, tops Wonder Woman
UPDATE: As of Wednesday, Aquaman has now pulled in $822.9 million to overtake Wonder Woman ($821.8 million) and sit in second place behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($873.6 million) in terms of the DC Extended Universe’s highest earners. Original story follows… Warner Bros.’ latest DC blockbuster Aquaman has made a huge splash at […]
Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd reportedly join Zombieland 2
If a report from Geeks Worldwide is to be believed, Bill Murray is set to return for the upcoming horror-comedy sequel Zombieland 2, and he’ll be joined by his Ghostbusters co-star Dan Aykroyd. According to the site, Murray and Aykroyd are currently in talks to play fictional versions of themselves – and given the events […]
Cassian Andor Star Wars series will reportedly begin production in October
Back in November it was announced that Diego Luna is set to reprise the role of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s rebel spy Cassian Andor for a new live-action Star Wars series on the Disney+ streaming service, and now comes word of a potential production start date. According to Production Weekly (via Discussing Film), […]
