Earlier this month it was announced that Fox has given the green light to a pilot for a new TV adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Gone Baby Gone, and now we have our first piece of casting news. Variety is reporting that Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals) has signed on to play Patrick […]
Chrono Trigger hits PC, mobile versions receive major update
Square Enix has announced that the classic video game Chrono Trigger is now available for the very first time on Steam, with the publisher promising the definitive edition, including: Two Extra Dungeons – Includes the mysterious ‘Dimensional Vortex’ dungeon and the forgotten ‘Lost Sanctum’ dungeon that first appeared in the DS and mobile releases Updated Graphics […]
The Purge TV series finds its leads
Casting is underway on Blumhouse’s small screen spinoff of the hit movie franchise The Purge, with Deadline reporting that Gabriel Chavarria (East Los High) and Jessica Garza (Six) have been cast as the male and female leads in the USA Network and Syfy series. Chavarria will play Miguel, “a US Marine with a hard edge […]
Amazon renews Lore for a second season
Amazon has announced that it has renewed its supernatural anthology series Lore for a second season, which will see Sean Crouch (The Exorcist, Numb3rs) coming in to serve as showrunner. Based on the award-winning podcast by Aaron Mahnke, Lore features narration, archive footage, cinematic footage and animation in order to explore disturbing real life tales […]
R.I.P. Benjamin Melniker (1913 – 2018)
If you’ve seen a Batman movie – live-action or animated – over the past thirty years, you’ll have seen the name Benjamin Melniker listed as an executive producer alongside Michael E. Uslan. And sadly, Uslan has taken to Facebook today to announce that Melniker has passed away at the age of 104. https://www.facebook.com/TheMichaelUslan/photos/a.654623804600744.1073741825.385460978183696/1751485604914553/?type=3&theater Inspired by […]
X-Men: The New Mutants to undergo significant reshoots, will add an extra character
Last month 20th Century Fox announced that it has decided to push back the release of its X-Men spinoff The New Mutants almost a year, with the Josh Boone-directed film now set to open in February 2019 rather than April of this year. Officially, the reason given was to “avoid an overlap with X-Men movies in certain overseas […]
Black Panther fans launch petition for Wakanda TV series
As Black Panther continues to tear up the box office following another record-breaking weekend, it seems that fans are clamouring for more of Marvel’s latest superhero franchise – so much so that one fan, Eric Hamilton, has launched a petition lobbying Marvel for a TV spinoff. Posted on Change.org, the petition calls for a TV […]
Fox developing a Silver Surfer movie from Brian K. Vaughan
Despite the impending takeover from Disney, it seems that its business as usual at 20th Century Fox for the time being, which also means the studio is pushing full steam ahead with its Marvel movie plans. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Deadpool director Tim Miller and comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis […]
Captain Marvel casts Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva
With filming on Captain Marvel now underway, Marvel Studios has added another villain to the cast of its first female-fronted superhero blockbuster. Deadline is reporting that Gemma Chan (Humans, Transformers: The Last Knight) has been cast as Minn-Erva, the Kree scientist and spy. Chan joins a cast that includes Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, Samuel L. […]
Marvel’s The Punisher gets three new cast members for season 2
Casting is underway for the second season of Netflix’s Marvel series The Punisher, with Deadline reporting that Josh Stewart (Shooter), Floriana Lima (Supergirl) and Giorgia Whigham (Scream) have all joined the show as series regulars. Stewart is set to play John Pilgrim, “a man whose calm exterior belies a ruthless interior. Despite having left behind […]
