Variety is reporting that Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have won a bidding war for The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam book trilogy – consisting of the novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam – and are working on a TV adaptation.The books explore a small group of survivors after […]
Lady Macbeth director set for Chimerica
Lady Macbeth helmer William Oldroyd has been tapped to adapt a four-hour TV series based upon Lucy Kirkwood’s acclaimed stage play Chimerica, which is being produced by Playground Entertainment for the UK’s Channel 4.According to Deadline, Chimerica “starts in China’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 as young American photojournalist captures a piece of history as tanks […]
Lucifer showrunner penning Skyward series for Image Comics
Image Comics has announced that Lucifer showrunner Joe Henderson is teaming up with artist Lee Garbett (Lucifer, Loki: Agent of Asgard) for an all-new gravity-defying series entitled Skyward, which is set to launch this April.“Skyward is my all of my favorite things mashed together,” said Henderson. “It’s a coming-of-age story filled with action and humor, devastation and […]
Sopranos stars reunite for Sarah Q
Deadline is reporting that Sopranos veterans Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts), Vincent Pastore (Big Pussy), Federico Castelluccio (Furio), William DeMeo (Jason Molinaro) and Artie Pasquale (Burt Gervasi) are reuniting for the John A. Gallagher-directed movie Sarah Q.According to the site, the film is “a serio-comic tale of a young girl’s struggle to succeed at a Manhattan […]
Preview of Star Trek: Boldly Go #16
Star Trek: Boldly Go #16 hits comic book stores on Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here courtesy of IDW Publishing; check it out…“I.D.I.C.” Part 4 of 6! The epic voyage through the Star Trek multiverse continues, as the villain behind it all is revealed… and their vendetta […]
Zombie drama The Cured gets a new poster
A couple of days ago we brought you a trailer for The Cured [check it out here], and now a new poster has arrived online for David Freyne’s upcoming zombie drama which stars Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, and Paula Malcomson; take a look below…SEE ALSO: Read our review of The Cured hereWhat happens when the […]
Poster and trailer for sci-fi thriller Diverge
Gravitas Ventures has released a poster and trailer for the new sci-fi thriller Diverge, which follows a solitary survivor of a deadly virus who is given the chance to reclaim his life by altering his past. Check them out here…In the aftermath of a mysterious pandemic that’s turned cities into wastelands, a man desperately searches […]
An Unsubstantiated Opinion: Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics
Anghus Houvouras on Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics…When forging our opinions, we spend a unnecessary amount of time worrying about being on the ‘right’ side of an argument. When it comes to cinema, there is no ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. There are only widely varying feelings of the entire human population […]
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 9 Review – ‘Best Laid Plans’
Danny Hale reviews the ninth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5…From the beginning of ‘Best Laid Plans’ it’s clear that Kasius is starting to lose his hold over his captives as Mack, Yo-Yo and Flint have rallied the humans on the Lighthouse into rebellion and while they’re mostly expendable characters that we know […]
In Praise of Sam Rockwell
Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of the vastly underrated Sam Rockwell…So after doing a piece on the fantastic Frances McDormand, sticking with the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri connection, it seemed apt to do a piece on an actor who has always slipped just below the radar. Sam Rockwell is always great and he’s […]
