Having been cancelled after just two seasons last year, it looks like Starz drama Magic City is getting a big screen adaptation, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that show creator Mitch Glazer is set to write and direct a feature film version. The Magic City movie will see original cast members Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga […]

Following on from the arrival of the trailer for his directorial debut Ex Machina [watch it here], it has now been revealed that Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Dredd) is set to write and direct an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s sci-fi novel Annihilation.The first book of The Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation is set in the […]

Having finally secured funding, Kevin Smith has been talking about Clerks III during his latest Smodcast (via Slash Film), during which he confirmed the expected return of Jeff Anderson as Randall and Jason Mewes as Jay, stating that Jay and Silent Bob are “in the movie as much as they were in Clerks and Clerks […]

Ricky Gervais (The Office) is set to team with Eric Bana (Deliver Us from Evil) for a remake of the 2009 French comedy Special Correspondents, which will also see Gervais directing (he’s previously co-directed The Invention of Lying and Cemetery Junction).According to THR, “the story tells of a once-hot radio journalist (Bana), and his technician […]

European Smash Bros fans, rejoice! Nintendo have brought forward the release date of Super Smash Bros for Wii U by a whole week! The game will now release on November 28th, rather than December 5th as was originally intended.The new release date brings the European release of the game closer to that of the American […]

Zeb Larson reviews Men of Wrath #1…Ever since Great Grandfather Isom killed a man over some sheep, a black cloud has hung over the Rath family. Now, over a century later, Ira Rath, the coldest hitman ever to walk on Alabama soil, has taken a job that will decide the fate of his cursed family […]

Yesterday two casting breakdowns for the upcoming Supergirl TV adaptation arrived online, giving us some details on Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers and her adopted sister Alex [see here], and now TV Line has got the scoop on the supporting players for the pilot, which includes Cat Grant, Jimmy Olsen and Toyman…CAT GRANT | The […]

Director Christopher Nolan is currently out promoting his latest movie, the science fiction epic Interstellar. As Nolan enjoyed huge success with The Dark Knight Trilogy it is not surprising that he would still be asked about the superhero genre, with Time Out enquiring if he would be open to a return.“I had a great experience […]

In the latest edition of Comics to Read Before You Die, Jessie Robertson looks at Batman: The Long Halloween…Happy Halloween, trick or treaters! Tonight, while the kiddies are out grabbing handfuls of candy, dressed in the dark robes of a ninja, or the tubular shell of a Ninja Turtle, or the cool garments of Queen […]

Back in August it was announced that Sony has set a “female-led” spin-off from The Amazing Spider-Man series for release in 2017; however, since then the studio’s plans for Marvel’s wall-crawler seems to have imploded, with a shadow hanging over another spin-off in Venom Carnage and rumours suggesting that Andrew Garfield could be out as […]