Nintendo has announced that it has partnered up with Oscar-winning studio Aardman to welcome Shaun the Sheep into its award-winning game, Super Mario Maker for Wii U. Responsible for creating some of the world’s best-loved and most recognisable characters, Aardman worked closely with Nintendo to carefully bring Shaun’s Mossy Bottom Farm into the Mushroom Kingdom, […]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo coming to comics courtesy of Titan and Hard Case Crime
Titan Comics has announced that Steig Larsson’s Millennium novels are coming to comic books, with a serialized adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo joining the publisher’s Hard Case Crime line. Facing prison time for slander, discredited journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist to investigate a decades-old family disappearance. Aided by […]
Lucasfilm announces Star Wars: Inferno Squad, will pick up after Rogue One
Lucasfilm has announced the upcoming release of Star Wars: Inferno Squad, a new book from Christie Golden (Star Wars: Dark Disciple), which is set to pick up after the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and will follow an elite team of Imperials tasked with tracking down and eliminating the remaining members of […]
R.I.P. George ‘The Animal’ Steele (1937 – 2017)
Pro wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer George ‘The Animal’ Steele has passed away aged 79, having reportedly suffered kidney failure. Born William James Myers in Detroit, he became a teaching and wrestling coach after a promising football career was cut short following knee issues, and entered the wrestling business in the 1960s, initially […]
UPDATE: IDW launching shared Hasbro universe with Revolution event
It’s not just on the big screen where the various Hasbro properties will be coming together in a shared universe, as IDW has announced that its upcoming Revolution event series will bring together the publisher’s G.I. Joe, Transformers, Micronauts, ROM, Action Man and M.A.S.K. series with new number ones and a new, shared status quo. “We didn’t […]
Bryan Singer to take a break from the X-Men franchise
With the release of X-Men: Apocalypse, director Bryan Singer has taken his tally of X-Men movies up to four (or five, if you include his producing duties on X-Men: First Class), and it seems he’s now ready for a break from the mutant superhero franchise. “I recently met Danny Boyle — he and I have […]
Star Wars: Princess Leia leads bestselling comics and graphic novels of March 2015
Diamond Comic Distributors has released details of the bestselling titles of March 2015, with Marvel’s Star Wars: Princess Leia #1 leading the top ten comic books and IDW Publishing’s Nemo: River of Ghosts from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill the biggest seller on the graphic novel front. Here’s the top ten comic books, which is […]
Freddie Highmore “would love to be considered” for new Spider-Man
Since the huge news that Sony and Marvel will be rebooting the Spider-Man series once more to allow for the character’s introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we’ve heard a whole host of names linked to the role of the new wall-crawler. We recently heard from rumoured front-runner Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), who denied […]
Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Jena Malone and Bella Heathcote join Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Nicolas Winding Refn is set to reunite with Drive star Christina Hendricks in the cast of his upcoming female-led horror The Neon Demon, while Keanu Reeves (John Wick) has also signed on for a role along with Jena Malone (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1) and Bella Heathcote (Dark Shadows). The four new names […]
Ben Affleck discusses Batman’s opinion of Superman and Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
We’re just a fortnight away from the hotly-anticipated arrival of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ben Affleck has been discussing The Dark Knight’s views on his fellow Trinity members Superman and Wonder Woman. “We often fall back on our haunches and want to arm ourselves or we […]