Futurama voice actor Maurice LaMarche has confirmed that the animated comedy has been picked up for a seventh season. Comedy Central renewed the show for a sixth run in 2009, the second half of which is due to air from June. Speaking to Big Shiny Robot, LaMarche revealed: “13 new
Great news on the scheduling front today – Torchwood Series 4 (known now as Miracle Day) will air in the USA on the Starz network in July, kicking off on 07.08.11 (note to people in the UK: that’s July 8th, not August 7th). All you need to know that the
After four years of development, the plug has been pulled on the latest attempt to bring Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune to the screen. Deadline reports that with the rights to the material about to revert back to its owners after four years, Paramount Pictures has decided to cut its
For Doctor Who fans, the episode “Shada” piques geek curiosity like nothing else: it was meant to be an episode starring the much-loved fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, and written by the phenomenal Douglas Adams … but was never aired because a BBC strike killed the production. Now our curiosity will
The Americanized, Hollywoodized adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s groundbreaking manga series is finally taxiing for take off. Director Albert Hughes has a script—rewritten by Harry Potter’s Steve Kloves—-that the Powers That Be like and is ready to shoot this summer. But who’ll play the two starring roles? Read the story here
J.R.R. Tolkien fans, rejoice: Filming for The Hobbit begins today. To mark the occasion, New Line Cinema has released these two lovely set photos, proof that Peter Jackson has recovered from his perforated ulcer and is ready to take on the year of photography and post-production needed to make the
At the Walking Dead panel at this past weekend’s C2E2 comics-and-other-geekery convention in Chicago, one of the undead hit’s stars let slip that the horror luminary might be saddling up for a tour in zombieland. While fielding a question about whether executive producer Frank Darabont would be directing the second
The identity of the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man has been both the subject of rumors and a closely guarded secret for months. But now Spidey’s nemesis in the reboot has been accidentally revealed by an actor in the film. Speaking in an interview with the Retro Radio podcast, actor
A new British sci-fi film was one of the hottest must-see movies at last week’s South by Southwest film festival. But it might not get a U.S. release … because it’s in English. Despite rave reviews from a number of websites and strong audience reaction at the Austin festival, Heat
News popped up a few weeks ago that veteran actor Kevin Costner was in the running for an unnamed role in Zack Snyder’s upcoming DC Comics adaptation, “Superman.” The word at the time was that there was a “heightened interest” in having him step into “a key role” in the
Although Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 won’t be hitting screens until July 15, 2011, the promotion wheels are spinning. Now Warner Brothers has released a behind-the-scenes look of Deathly Hallows 2 to the Harry Potter Facebook page. It’s not the official trailer, but this featurette contains glimpses of
Fresh off playing the role of Mystique in the upcoming X-Men: First Class, Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence has landed the lead in another potentially huge sci-fi film. According to The Wrap, Lawrence has officially signed to play Katniss Everdeen, the teenage heroine of the phenomenonally successful Hunger Games trilogy of
