By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com It’s been 34 years since Stephen King published The Shining, the haunted hotel story that remains among his most iconic novels. It took three and a half decades, but King has officially announced a sequel to the book that will pit a grown-up version of
by Patrick Foster, Source: The Guardian The BBC is to axe Doctor Who Confidential, the BBC3 spin-off from its sci-fi drama, as part of the corporation’s ongoing cuts programme. Doctor Who Confidential, which features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Doctor Who as well as interviews with the cast and
By Dan Roth, Source Blastr.com While DC’s relaunch has suffered from week after week of controversy, there’s no arguing with the numbers. With several of the new 52 breaking 200,000 copies sold, it seemed like Marvel would inevitably follow suit with a relaunch of its own. Today, it looks like
by Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool.com There’s a new Doctor Who miniseries coming our way in November. And by mini, I mean mini. Written by Steven Moffat especially for the full-series DVD and Blu-ray box sets of this year’s episodes, the five epsisodes of Night and the Doctor aren’t likely
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Since instantly becoming the most famous space traveler ever to ride a rocket in 1969, Neil Armstrong has largely avoided the public eye. When he does have something to say, he makes it count, as he did Thursday when he told a congressional committee that
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com It’s been a while since Will Smith took down an android conspiracy in I, Robot—or, in Mexico, Yo, Robot—so Fox is going back to the Isaac Asimov well for another metallic go-round. The book of choice is Asimov’s 1954 novel The Caves of Steel, and
By Nix, Source: Sci-fi Cool.com Hey, if you can’t get Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell back on the tube together, you mind as well get a decent facsimile in a TV show based on the movie “Source Code”. It’s essentially the same premise, right? Guy jumps back in time into
by Brendon Connelly, Source: BleedingCool.com Looks like his buddy Richard Clark had been led up the garden path a little: Brian Kirk hasn’t locked down the directing gig on Thor 2. Instead, Marvel are looking at other candidates. Out in front, it would seem, is Patty Jenkins. Jenkins made a
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com The trouble with Time Lords is they’re always jumping around the calendar, but we probably can’t blame the Doctor for this. We’ve seen it coming for a while, and now it’s confirmed: Doctor Who season seven won’t premiere until autumn 2012.
by CBR News Team, Source: CBR.com This December, the pop culture phenomenon known as Voltron is returning to a comic book store near you! Under a series of amazing covers by master painter Alex Ross, and written by Dynamite’s own up and coming writer Brandon Thomas, the series is destined
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com When it comes to his upcoming reboot of RoboCop, Brazilian director Jose Padilha said he’s not interested in repeating what Paul Verhoeven did in the 1987 original. Instead, he wants to focus on other issues, like the deep meaning behind robot existence. In an interview
By Whitney Clavin & Trent J. Perrotto, Source: NASA.gov Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission indicate the family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit, keeping open the case on one of Earth’s greatest mysteries. While scientists
