Last month a report emerged suggesting that Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series looks set to overtake The Crown as the most expensive TV show ever made, with a budget of around $500 million for two seasons. Well, according to The Hollywood Reporter, those numbers aren’t quite accurate, as Amazon has in fact been […]
FX finally grants pilot order to Y: The Last Man adaptation
Having been in development at the network for several years now, FX has announced that it has finally granted a pilot order to Y, an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s acclaimed comic book series Y: The Last Man. The pilot has been written by Michael Green (American Gods, Blade Runner 2049), who will serve as […]
Titan and BBC announce Doctor Who event The Road To The Thirteenth Doctor
Titan Comics and BBC Studios are proud to announce the upcoming Doctor Who event The Road To The Thirteenth Doctor – a three-part comic event beginning this July and leading into Titan’s all-new Thirteenth Doctor ongoing comic series launching in the Fall. The Road To The Thirteenth Doctor features new adventures of the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth […]
Titan and Hard Case Crime announce Breakneck
Titan Comics has announced the next title in the Hard Case Crime impront, Breakneck, an all-new suspense thriller from celebrated crime and comics author Duane Swierczynski (Cable, Deadpool, The Punisher; Severance Package; The Wheelman) and artists Simone Guglielmini (Near Death), Raffaele Semeraro, and Lovern Kindzierski. In this gritty countdown crime thriller set in modern-day Philadelphia, […]
Zachary Levi hits out at critics of his Shazam costume
Although we still haven’t seen an official image from Warner Bros. and DC Films, a number of high quality spy photos from the set of the DCEU blockbuster Shazam have arrived online over the past few weeks, giving us a clear look at Zachary Levi in costume as the titular superhero. While very comic accurate, […]
Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War tracking $200 million plus domestic opening weekend
Three weeks out from its release, Deadline is reporting that official tracking on Marvel’s superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War is pointing to a domestic opening weekend in excess of $200 million. This figure would comfortably surpass the previous April record holder Furious 7 ($147 million), and put it in line with the three-day weekend of […]
Marvel’s Head of Visual Development shares artwork celebrating the Road to Infinity War
Concept artist and Marvel Studios Head of Visual Development Ryan Meinerding has shared a new piece of artwork celebrating the first ten years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Road to Avengers: Infinity War; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War gets 22 character posters An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in […]
Tye Sheridan on how X-Men: Dark Phoenix will “shake up” the superhero genre
Following his lead role in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Tye Sheridan will next be seen reprising the role of Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops, in 20th Century Fox’s superhero sequel X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The film, which has recently been pushed back from its original November date to February next year, marks the directorial debut of […]
Hugh Laurie joins George Clooney’s Catch-22
Deadline is reporting that Hugh Laurie (House, The Night Manager) has signed on to star alongside George Clooney and Christopher Abbott in Clooney’s upcoming TV adaptation of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 for streaming service Hulu. Catch-22 stars Abbott as U.S. Air Force bombadier Yossarian, “who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are […]
R.I.P. Isao Takahata (1935 – 2018)
Some sad news this evening, as it has been revealed that Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata has passed away aged 82. Beginning his career in the 1960s at Toei Animation, Takahata made his directorial debut with the 1968 anime feature The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun, which also marked the first major […]
