Now that director Marc Webb has officially signed on to helm a sequel to this year’s web-spinning reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, it seems that Sony are pressing full-steam ahead with casting on the follow-up. According to Variety, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) will be getting some competition for Peter Parker’s (Andrew Garfield) affections in the form […]

Chris Carter (The X-Files, Millennium) and Georgeville Television are set to collaborate on a new television series called The After. According to Deadline, The After is a thriller that revolves around a mysterious unexplained event and incorporates elements of science fiction, suspense and real-world fear and paranoia, so fans of the original X-Files series should […]

Following the departure of Matt Reeves, Luke Owen ponders the future of The Twilight Zone movie… Yesterday’s news about Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) leaving The Twilight Zone movie project after more than a year’s worth of work now raises just one question for Warner Bros. –  what’s next for the 5th dimension? Is […]

Doing the promotional rounds for the home-entertainment release of Joss Whedon’s blockbuster superhero ensemble The Avengers (which hit UK shelves today), Marvel Studios co-president Louis D’Esposito has taken a few moments to discuss several forthcoming projects in an interview with the German website FilmJunkies (via ComicBookMovie), including Edgar Wright’s long-in-development Ant-Man, the Shane Black-directed sequel […]

Anghus Houvouras comes to the defense of the new look RoboCop… The Internet is a funny place. Because people claim it’s a place where people can go online and talk about things they like. In reality, it’s a place where people converge to scream bloody murder like neglected children over the most useless of topics. […]

With its latest comic book-inspired adaptation Arrow building a positive buzz ahead of its premiere next month, The CW has now turned its attention to another DC Comics character, with Vulture reporting that the network has started development on a small screen adaptation of Wonder Woman alongside DC and Warner Bros. Television. Entitled Amazon, the […]

Liam Trim reviews the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who… Warning: Spoilers! The build up to the new series of Doctor Who has been dominated by talk of bigger budgets, cinematic vision and blockbuster scale. Head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat loves a grand, complex narrative, and here he is laying […]

Piers McCarthy talks guilty pleasures… Recently I found myself watching the Ryan Reynolds/Amy Smart/Anna Faris rom-com, Just Friends. From the opening credits I realised there are better films I could give my time to; I could delve into the Kurosawa box-set I just bought, watch a classic Bogart movie, or even a different Ryan Reynolds […]

Our weekly round up of all the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes… Despite early reports indicating that The Dark Knight Rises was starting to fall off the pace box office-wise last weekend, Christopher Nolan’s Batman swansong responded with a strong second-weekend haul of $62 million in North America and looks set […]