Back in November of last year it was reported that Netflix is teaming with Yellow Bird UK, the company behind the BBC’s Wallander, for a new original prequel series based upon Henning Mankell’s bestselling book series entitled Young Wallander. Well, we now have the first official casting news on the six-part series, with Swedish actor […]
Giveaway – Win We the Animals on Blu-ray
Eureka Entertainment to release WE THE ANIMALS, director Jeremiah Zagar’s mesmerising and dream-like first feature, as part of the MONTAGE PICTURES range in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition on 16 September 2019. Based on the celebrated Justin Torres novel, and winner of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Innovator Award, We the Animals is […]
First image from Alex Garland’s Devs featuring Sonoya Mizuno
FX has released the first image from Devs, the upcoming limited series from Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland, which features actress Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina) who stars as Lily Chan, a young computer engineer who investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she […]
Absolute Carnage and The Walking Dead lead bestselling comics and graphic novels of August 2019
Marvel enjoyed another big month in August, with the publisher topping the Diamonc Comic Distributors direct sales chart with Absolute Carnage #1, followed closely by its 80th anniversary celebration Marvel Comics #1000. Meanwnile, The Walking Dead Vol. 32 – the final collection in the long-running zombie series – proved unsurprisingly to be the bestselling graphic […]
Boom! announces Klaus and the Life & Times of Joe Christmas
Boom! Studios has announced the December release of the special oversized one-shot Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas, a new entry in the Eisner Award-nominated reimagining of the Santa Claus mythology from writer Grant Morrison and artist Dan Mora. Nothing’s calm but all is bright in this once-in-a-lifetime special KLAUS event—a completely silent issue! […]
Frank Darabont doesn’t believe he could get The Shawshank Redemption made today
Frank Darabont’s acclaimed Stephen King adaptation The Shawkshank Redemption celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and during an interview with Indiewire to mark the occasion, the filmmaker has suggested that the movie – widely considered as one of the greatest of all time – wouldn’t be able to get made in today’s Hollywood given that […]
Millie Bobby Brown reuniting with Netflix for A Time Lost
Netflix is set to reunite with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown on the feature film project A Time Lost, which is based on an original story idea by Brown and her sister Paige Brown. As per Deadline, the film will follow “a long-standing feud between two Long Island families that comes to a head […]
House Targaryen Game of Thrones prequel nearing green light at HBO
With its first pilot currently in post-production, Deadline is reporting that HBO is close to giving the green light to a second Game of Thrones spinoff – this one from A Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin and Colony co-creator Ryan Condal. The untitled project is said to take place some 300 […]
South Park renewed for three more seasons by Comedy Central
Comedy Central has announced that it has renewed South Park for three additional seasons of ten episodes apiece, which will extend the animated show’s record as the longest-running prime-time scripted cable series to at least 26 seasons. “Apparently, our efforts to get our own show canceled have fallen short,” said South Park creators Trey Parker […]
Marvel to team Conan with Moon Knight, Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes for Serpent War event
Hot on the heels of the news that Marvel will be introducing Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes into its comic book universe, the publisher has now announced that they will make their debut in Conan: Serpent War, a four issue event series which also features the character of Marc Spector, a.k.a. Moon […]