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Exclusive Interview – Upload VFX Supervisor Marshall Krasser

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Martin Carr chats with Upload VFX Supervisor Marshall Krasser… VFX veteran Marshall Krasser has helped propel Amazon’s Upload into the public eye, through a combination of understated cutting edge affects which enhance the story telling process. He has worked with Steven Spielberg and through his time at ILM been involved in projects which included Avatar, […]

Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor to helm Ringworld TV pilot

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According to Collider, Thor: The Dark World and Terminator: Genisys director Alan Taylor has signed on to direct the pilot episode for Amazon’s planned TV series adaptation of the classic 1970 sci-fi book from Larry Niven. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Gridley Wu, “a bored man celebrating his 200th birthday in a technologically advanced, […]

The CW delays decision on The Lost Boys TV pilot

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The long-running saga of The CW’s planned TV adaptation of The Lost Boys continues, with president Mark Pedowitz announcing that the network is delaying making a decision on the latest pilot under things settle down with regards to the public health crisis. The network first explored the possibility of adapting the Joel Schumacher-directed 1987 cult […]

Amazon adapting Ringworld, Lazarus and Snow Crash as drama series

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With Amazon in the midst of overhauling its programming strategy in order to seek out high concept projects with mass appeal, Deadline is reporting that the streaming service has snapped up the rights to three potential drama projects in Ringworld, Lazarus, and Snow Crash. Ringworld is based on Larry Niven’s sci-fi book series and “tells […]

Sorry Tarantino, Netflix’s Hollywood Is How You Do Revisionist History

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EJ Moreno on Netflix’s Hollywood and how to correctly rewrite cinematic history… BEWARE: Spoilers for Hollywood follow. For our spoiler free thoughts, watch the video review here… If you had the chance to go back in time and change the world to your vision, would you? That’s the question Ryan Murphy and company asked themselves […]

The CW picks up DC Universe’s Swamp Thing as 2020/21 TV schedule pushed back to January

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With the global health crisis wreaking havoc with television schedules for the upcoming season, The CW has acquired the rebroadcast rights to a number of series in order to fill out its slate until the launch of the delayed 2020 – 2021 season in January 2021. Along with CBS All Access’ anthology thriller Tell Me […]

The CW promises to bring the final episodes of Supernatural this fall

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The fifteenth and final season of Supernatural went on a forced hiatus in March, due to the public health crisis shutdowns preventing the last episodes from being finished. At the time of the closures, showrunner Andrew Dabb stated, “We have filmed through episode 18 (of 20); however, our visual effects and sound departments have closed […]

Paul Verhoeven returning to the small screen with Bel Ami TV series

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Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven looks set to take a break from the big screen as he makes his return to television with a French-language TV adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s Bel Ami. Deadline reports that Verhoeven will serve as showrunner and director on all eight episodes of the contemporary adaptation, which is being scripted by […]

Percy Jackson series being developed for Disney+

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Disney+ looks to tackle the iconic series of novels titled Percy Jackson & the Olympians. After seeing two live-action film adaptations, the series will come to the Disney streamer, says the franchise’s creator. Rick Riordan, the author of the Percy Jackson book series, announced in a video on Twitter alongside his wife, Becky. Check out […]