Coinciding with his big screen return in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marvel and Disney have announced that the wall-crawler will be taking over the Sky and Virgin Disney XD +1 channels this July for an entire month beginning July 3rd. The content will include the premiere of six Spider-Man Origin shorts leading into the new animated series […]
Christopher McQuarrie teases major Mission: Impossible 6 stunt sequence
The Mission: Impossible series has become well known for its jaw-dropping stunt set pieces, and with the currently-in-production sixth instalment, director Christopher McQuarrie has promised something that will top the insanity of the Burj Khalifa and plane sequences in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. What this sequence we don’t […]
Evan Peters’ Quicksilver returning for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Lamar Johnson joins cast
It looks like we can add another returning cast member to the roster of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, with THR reporting that Evan Peters is now confirmed as reprising the role of Quicksilver from X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse.Peters will also be joined by new addition Lamar Johnson (The Next Step), although details […]
William Gibson’s sci-fi Hinterlands heading to the screen
Hand drawn animation company Last Studio Standing has announced that it has picked up the rights to William Gibson’s sci-fi masterpiece Hinterlands and is developing a theatrical film and subsequent 100 episode TV series based upon the property. In Hinterlands, a Russian space mission vanishes in mid-flight to Mars and reappears two years later. When a rescue […]
Universal options Holly Black’s fantasy novel The Cruel Prince
Deadline is reporting that Universal Pictures has snapped up the rights to The Cruel Prince, the upcoming fantasy novel from Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles. The book, which will be published in January, will mark the first instalment of a new series called Folk of the Air, and follows the journey of a human […]
Netflix revives Sense8 for two-hour series finale
Well, here’s some rather great news for fans of the cancelled drama Sense8. Just a couple of weeks after ruling out a potential return, Netflix has had a change of heart, and has given the go ahead to a two-hour series finale special which will arrive in 2018.The news was announced by co-creator Lana Wachowski […]
Fox sets writers for The X-Files season 11
Last month it was announced that creator Chris Carter and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are reuniting for an eleventh season of The X-Files, and now we have confirmation on the writing team.TV Line is reporting that season ten writers Darin Morgan (Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster), Glen Morgan (Home Again), James Wong […]
There are no X-Men in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite as fans “maybe don’t even remember” them
If you were wondering why there are no X-Men characters in the upcoming fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, the game’s producer Michael Evans has the answer for you, revealing to Gamespot that they didn’t want to include characters who may not be familiar to the modern Marvel fan. “We talked with Marvel very closely about […]
Aidan Turner joins The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Deadline is reporting that Poldark star Aidan Turner has signed on to the cast of The Man Who Killer Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, which is being directed by Robert D. Krzykowski and also stars Sam Elliott. The film will follow the story of an American soldier called Calvin Barr (Turner), who leaves his true love […]
Sony’s Spider-Man spinoffs take place “in the same reality” as Spider-Man: Homecoming
From the very first moment it was announced that Sony is moving forward with its Spider-Man spinoffs Venom and Silver & Black, there’s been an immense amount of confusion as to their status alongside Spider-Man: Homecoming and the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.A lot of this confusion has been self-inflicted, with producer Amy Pascal suggesting they’ll […]
