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Event Horizon TV series from Adam Wingard in development at Amazon

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According to Variety, Amazon Studios and Paramount Television are set to adapt the 1997 sci-fi/horror film Event Horizon into a television series. The original film followed a rescue crew out to salvage the Event Horizon, a spaceship that went missing several years prior after testing an experimental gravity drive and has suddenly reappeared. The drive was […]

The Purge season 2 adds Rochelle Aytes and Danika Yarosh

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USA Network’s The Purge is set to introduce two more cast members, with Rochelle Aytes (Mistresses) and Danika Yarosh (Greenhouse Academy) signing on for roles in its sophomore season. The pair join Derek Luke, Max Martini, Joel Allen and Paola Nunez in the cast of the show, which is based on the hit film franchise and comes […]

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for Amazon horror-comedy Truth Seekers

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Variety has revealed that Simon Pegg (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) and Nick Frost (Fighting with My Family) are set to reunite in Truth Seekers, a horror-comedy series they developed that has been picked up by Amazon Prime Video. The series is produced by Frost, Pegg and Miles Ketly’s production company Stolen Picture. The series […]

Netflix cancels The OA after two seasons

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Netflix has announced that the sci-fi drama The OA has been cancelled after two seasons. The series began in 2016 and premiered its second season earlier this year. The OA starred Brit Marling as a blind woman who returns to her hometown after having been missing for several years, but now she has somehow regained her sight and […]

Comic Book Review – Batman: Last Knight on Earth #2

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Ricky Church reviews Batman: Last Knight on Earth #2… Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman: Last Knight on Earth is back and just as crazy as the first issue. The pair continue their crazy tale of a world gone mad as Batman, along with Joker’s head in a jar, stay on their trek across the country trying […]

Chris Pine to play Walter Cronkite in JFK drama Newsflash

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Star Trek actor Chris Pine has been tapped to play legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite in Newsflash. Per Deadline, the film will follow Cronkite on November 22, 1963, the fateful day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and Cronkite’s reporting of the event, a moment in which he became a voice the American people trusted with the […]

Jared Leto in talks to play a serial killer in The Little Things

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Variety reports Jared Leto (Blade Runner 2049) has begun talks with Warner Bros. to join John Lee Hancock’s (The Highwaymen) upcoming crime thriller The Little Things. The Little Things follows “a burned-out Kern County, Calif. deputy sheriff named Deke (Washington) who teams with Baxter, a crack LASD detective (Malek), to reel in a wily serial killer. Deke’s […]

Supergirl adds Jennifer Cheon Garcia as the villain Midnight

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Supergirl‘s fifth season will see the Girl of Steel up against a new foe. Variety reports Jennifer Cheon Garcia (Van Helsing) will star as the villainous Midnight in the upcoming season. Midnight is the “physical manifestation of darkness” and “a murderous villain released from an otherwordly prison to enact revenge against the person who put […]

Star Trek: Picard prequel comic book series and novel announced

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With anticipation mounting for Patrick Stewart’s return as Jean-Luc Picard in CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Picard, there are a lot of questions as to what happened to Picard and his former Enterprise crew since the last time they were seen onscreen. Star Trek fans will get a chance to learn more about the intervening years between Star […]