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First details on this year’s Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths

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This past December, The CW’s annual Arrowverse crossover ‘Elseworlds’ concluded by revealing that 2019’s big event will be titled ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths‘, suggesting an adaptation of the seminal DC Comics limited series from Marv Wolfman and George Perez. Well, after being set up in the season finales to both The Flash and Arrow, The […]

Westworld season 3 gets a first teaser trailer

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HBO has revealed the first teaser trailer for the third season of the critically acclaimed sci-fi drama series Westworld featuring Evan Rachel Wood, Aaron Paul, Lena Waithe, Scott Mescudi, and Marshawn Lynch; watch it here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deSUQ7mZfWk&feature=youtu.be WESTWORLD is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the birth of a new form of […]

Elizabeth Olsen on her “terrible” audition to play Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones

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While Game of Thrones has propelled Emilia Clarke into the A-list with her role as Daenerys Targaryen, it’s widely known that she wasn’t the first choice to play the Mad Queen, with Tamzin Merchant (Pride and Prejudice, The Tudors) actually portraying the character in the 2009 pilot. Merchant was ultimately dropped from the show once […]

Supergirl Season 4 Finale Review – ‘The Quest For Peace’

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Martin Carr reviews the season 4 finale of Supergirl… This closer is one hefty double edged finale sword which is savagely effective at name checking the ill-fated Christopher Reeve outing, whilst embracing irony on a global annihilation level. In a seven minute window there is Kaznian decimation, back handed betrayal and an Iron Man homage […]

Sony launches PlayStation Productions to adapt Sony games for film and TV

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Sony Interactive Entertainment has launched PlayStation Productions, a production studio that will begin adapting PlayStation exclusives into films and TV shows. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the new production company will be headed by Asad Qizilbash and overseen by chairman of Worldwide Studios at SIE, Shawn Layden. Production has already started on its first […]

Simply Marvelous: A Sampling of Marvel: Universe of Superheroes – Part One

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Alec Frazier reports from the Marvel: Universe of Superheroes exhibit… Approximately a month ago, we were given press access and premiere access to Marvel: Universe of Superheroes, the official Marvel exhibit. Although it first premiered at the Museum of Pop-Culture in Seattle approximately a year and a half ago, it has been heavily upgraded and […]

Stanley Kubrick’s God Fearing Man unused script in development as TV miniseries

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Newly established European production company Media Musketeers has announced that it is teaming with UK producer ForLanFilms to produce a TV miniseries based upon the unused screenplay God Fearing Man from legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Variety reports that the project is based upon Herbert Emerson Wilson’s book and tells “the true story of a Canadian […]

James Wan and Lindsey Beer to adapt Mark Millar’s The Magic Order for Netflix

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Aquaman director James Wan and screenwriter Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) are teaming for an adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book series The Magic Order. The comic, which Millar’s first publication following Netflix’s acquisition of his Millarworld company, is described as a “multigenerational story follows five families of magicians who are sworn […]

Sharon Stone and Marilyn Manson join Jude Law and John Malkovich in The New Pope

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HBO has announced that Sharon Stone and Marilyn Manson have joined fellow new addition John Malkovich and returning star Jude Law in The New Pope, director Paolo Sorrentino’s upcoming follow-up to his acclaimed miniseries The Young Pope. Here’s the official first-look images courtesy of the cable network… As with the plot of The New Pope, […]