by Rich Johnston, Source: BleedingCool.com Amanda Hocking is one of the true success stories of e-books, selling over a million of them, without having previous publishing experience or media exposure. So much so that she now has a two million dollar deal for her first physical books. First physical prose
By Krystal Clark, Source: Blastr.com The zombie-filled set of World War Z is suddenly defenseless—because a Hungarian SWAT team recently shut down the production after learning that illegal weapons were being used on set. World War Z is currently shooting in Budapest, where authorities were notified that a massive amount
WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD By DAREH GREGORIAN, Source: NY Post.com By Zeus! Wonder Woman is a daddy’s girl. The iconic character is getting something she’s never had in her almost 70-year-old history — a father. “She’s going to learn she’s not who she was told she was,” “Wonder Woman” writer Brian
By Carol Pinchefsky, Source: Blastr.com John Carter—formerly John Carter of Mars—is the upcoming movie based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ epic tale of an Earthman who was suddenly transported to Mars, aka Barsoom. We’ve been looking forward to this movie for quite some time, and we’ve especially hoped that it would
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com It sounded like a geek dream come true: Erase the memory of the shoddy Sylvester Stallone flick by hiring a hot actor with major genre cred, the guy who wrote 28 Days Later, and a promising young director. Then why, after the film has wrapped,
By Dan Roth, Source: Blastr.com Uh-oh. There’s trouble brewin’ in comics and, as has become all too familiar lately, DC is at the heart of it. Seems like their recent deal with Amazon has ruffled the feathers of book behemoth, Barnes and Noble. Let’s back up the truck a second
By Raymond Wong, Source: Dvice.com Halo fans can rejoice again, because the on and off live-action movie has been resurrected from the grave. Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks is said to be backing it. The news is based off a single press release nugget scanned by French site Halo.fr and translated by
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com We’ve been waiting for a while now for Marvel to announce that a Doctor Strange movie will really happen, but it remains one of those films planted firmly in the “developing” category. Though the film’s future is still uncertain, Marvel owner Disney may have just
By Brandon Griggs, Source: CNN Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. The hard-driving executive
This week we wrap series 6 of Doctor Who and review “The Wedding of River Song”, and then we will be doing a round table chat about series 6 of Doctor Who, were we happy with it, or kind of let down. Join us for yet another episode of The
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com The director of Iron Man and Cowboys & Aliens, the co-creator of Fringe and the co-creator of Robot Chicken assembled together for one project. It sounds like an unlikely superhero team-up, but news broke today that the trio is working on a new sci-fi pilot
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com Fox’s animated series, the longest running scripted program in the history of television, is in danger of disappearing from the airwaves if Fox can’t convince the voice cast to voluntarily reduce their salaries. A statement released by Fox claims that: “23 seasons in, The Simpsons
