The official Star Wars site has revealed that Marvel’s ongoing comic book series is set to give us a peek into one of the unexplored aspects of the galaxy far, far away as it delves into a pre-Phantom Menace adventure for Jedi Master Yoda. The new arc will get underway in Star Wars #26 from writer Jason Aaron […]
Game of Thrones showrunners rule out involvement with potential spinoff: “For us, this is it”
Game of Thrones scooped the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for the second consecutive year last night (and in the process, set a new record as the most decorated TV show in Emmy history). The epic fantasy series has just two seasons remaining, but given its incredible success, there’s been a lot of speculation […]
John Hurt joins Lenny McLean biopic My Name Is Lenny
Salon Pictures has announced that Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor John Hurt has joined the cast of My Name Is Lenny, the upcoming biopic of bare-knuckle fighter Lenny McLean. X-Men: Apocalypse star Josh Helman leads the cast as The Guv’nor, with Chanel Cresswell (This Is England ’90) playing his wife Val and UFC Middleweight Champion […]
Todd McFarlane on his Spawn reboot plans
Todd McFarlane has spent the best part of the last decade trying to get his Spawn reboot off the ground, popping up every year or so to remind us about the potential project and to give us an update on his progress with the script. Back in March of this year, McFarlane announced that he’d almost […]
Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi on whether we’ll see more of Darryl Jacobson
A few weeks ago we were introduced to Darryl Jacobson, roommate to Thor Odinson, when Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok Comic-Con mockumentary made its way online [watch it here]. Since then, there’s been a lot of demand for more Darryl, and IGN caught up with the director to ask whether we’ll be seeing him again. “Thor briefly […]
Full list of winners from the Emmy Awards 2016, Game of Thrones sets record for most Emmy wins in history
It was another great night for HBO at the 2016 Emmy Awards, with Game of Thrones and Veep winning Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series for the second consecutive year. Game of Thrones won a further two awards (Directing and Writing), pushing the show’s total Emmy haul to 38 and topping the previous record […]
Fox developing The Littlest Bigfoot animated movie
20th Century Fox Animation is bringing Jennifer Weiner’s recently-published children’s book The Littlest Bigfoot to the screen, with Variety revealing that an animated feature is in the works under producers Chris Bender and Jake Weiner. The Littlest Bigfoot follows “a pair of 12-year-old girls — one human, one Bigfoot — both desperately out of place […]
Syfy orders TV pilot for Grant Morrison’s Happy!, along with Haunted and The Machine
Syfy is looking to bring Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s Image Comics series Happy! to the small screen, with the network ordering a pilot from Universal Cable Productions. Crank helmer Brian Taylor is set to direct the pilot, and will also write the script and executive produce alongside Morrison. Happy! follows “Nick Sax – an […]
Blair Witch disappoints and earns just $9 million at the box office
Despite heavy marketing and a lot of buzz coming from its surprise announcement at San Diego Comic Con, Adam Wingard’s sequel Blair Witch has fallen below expectations. Showing on over 3,100 screens, Blair Witch managed just $9 million domestically coming second to Sully in its second week of release. It did fend off Bridget Jones’s […]
Suicide Squad passes Captain America: The Winter Solider and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 at the box office
Though it received some rather dreadful reviews and some pretty bad publicity following its release, Suicide Squad has earned another notch on its box office belt this weekend. Gorssing another $4 million from this weekend, Suicide Squad has now passed both Captain America: The Winter Solider ($714 million) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($708 million) at […]