Back in October, it was announced that Doctor Who would be getting a spinoff entitled Class, and now the BBC has revealed that Katherine Kelly will lead the cast as a Coal Hill School teacher in charge of a group of students played by Greg Austin, Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins, and Vivian Oparah. “We searched far […]
DC announces YA novels featuring Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman and Catwoman
DC Entertainment and Random House are teaming up for a series of Young Adult novels featuring Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman and Catwoman, Entertainment Weekly has revealed. Wonder Woman will be written by Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows), and is set for release in August 2017, followed by Batman by Marie Lu (Young Elites), Superman by […]
Echo Kellum promoted to series regular for Arrow season 5
TV Line is reporting that Echo Kellum has been promoted to series regular for the fifth season of the DC superhero show Arrow, which will get underway in the fall. Kellum portrays genius tech developer Curtis Holt, who is based upon the DC character Mister Terrific. In the most recent episode of the series, ‘Beacon […]
The Walking Dead showrunner defends cliffhanger ending
Warning: Spoilers for the season six finale of The Walking Dead follow. You have been warned… It’s not very often that The Walking Dead misfires, but for many fans it did so in a big way last night with its season six finale, as Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s villain Negan made his hotly-anticipated debut. Bringing one […]
Rumour: Justice League to feature war with Atlantis rather than Darkseid
With production on Justice League Part One set to get underway next week, El Mayimbe of Heroic Hollywood is back with some alleged details on Zack Snyder’s next DC offering. Rather than having the League battling Darkseid – as set up by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Mayimbe claims that the film will see a war erupting […]
Rumour: Spider-Man reboot titled Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man is set to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in a few short weeks as Tom Holland takes on the role in Captain America: Civil War, before taking centre stage in his own reboot next year… and it seems that the solo movie may be using a title that may be familiar to long time […]
The Amazing Spider-Man’s loved ones are Dead No More
Having released a selection of teaser images last week [see here], Marvel has now announced the upcoming release of the Amazing Spider-Man event Dead No More from Dan Slott and Jim Cheung. The story will get underway in Amazing Spider-Man #19, and sees Peter Parker running a gauntlet of his greatest foes, the introduction of a […]
Rumour: Bottom star Ade Edmondson cast in Star Wars: Episode VIII
Now, this one comes from The Sun, so it could very well be as fictional as it is surprising, but according to the UK tabloid The Young Ones and Bottom star Ade Edmondson has bagged himself a role in Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode VIII. According to the report, Edmondson impressed director Rian Johnson […]
Alex Gibney to make narrative feature film debut with The Action
Alex Gibney, the director behind such documentaries as Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, The Armstrong Lie and the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, is set to make his narrative feature film debut with The Action, a 1970s-set political thriller which is being produced by […]
Disney snaps up the big screen rights to The Paper Magician trilogy
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Disney has snapped up the movie rights to Charlie N. Holmberg’s YA fantasy trilogy The Paper Magician, and has tapped Allison Shearmur (The Hunger Games, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) to produce the big screen adaptation. The story “centers on Ceony Twill, a young girl who is a […]
