Twentieth Century Fox is clinging to their rights over Marvel’s mutant characters for dear life. Another new mutant related project has just been announced. Josh Boone, new Hollywood golden boy behind The Fault in Our Stars, is on board to ...
Read More »Tales of Mulder and Scully: The X-Files returns
It’s official! The X-Files is returning to FOX for a six part mini series (or ‘TV event’ as the ridiculous executives are calling it). Rumours have been flying since the new year when it came out that FOX exec Gary Newman ...
Read More »Yet another Let the Right One In adaptation
If a remake of a film that was an adaptation of a book (yeah, try saying that one fast, 10 times) wasn’t enough already, US channel A&E is now working on developing Let the Right One In as a TV ...
Read More »Sherlock Christmas special set in Victorian England
It looks like Steven Moffat is bringing the Doctor Who craziness over to Sherlock. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Moffat announced that the Christmas special is going to be set in Victorian England. Say what?! While the SF geek in ...
Read More »Sony plans full cinematic universe for Ghostbusters franchise
What’s that you say? More Ghostbusters? The question ‘Who you gonna call?’ gets increasingly complicated when multiple reboots of the classic Ghostbusters films are in the works. Is this a launch of a full on Ghostbusters universe in the vein ...
Read More »Spider-Man joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe
The future of the Spider-Man franchise has been up in the air since the dismal Amazing Spider-Man 2. Would Marvel buy back the rights? Would Sony finally kill Spider-Man? Or will they just re-boot it yet again? News is in ...
Read More »New Harry Potter story by Rowling
The World Cup in Brazil has spread sport fever all over the world… and in other worlds. JK Rowling has been writing about the Quidditch World Cup to coincide with the Muggle football (or soccer, depending where you’re from) World ...
Read More »Stargate reboot announced
Roland Emmerich is having a bit of a nostalgia trip at the moment. Work on Independence Day 2 is well underway and now he has announced that he will be rebooting Stargate. The original 1994 film was envisaged by Emmerich ...
Read More »New standalone Star Wars film announced
It has long been in the rumour-mill – ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm – that there would be several spin-off, standalone feature films based in the Star Wars universe. It is presumed that these will focus on fringe characters, such ...
Read More »Everyone needs a good laugh: Comedy and satire
I don’t know about everyone else, but these days I prefer a good comedy to endless hours of depressing drama. And yet, most of the widely praised TV and film are hopelessly depressing. Even some of my favourite shows get ...
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