By Megan Prelinger for Device.com At the end of this week on July 8, the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The program’s thirty year history is familiar to space-watchers, but less is known of the program’s pre-history. Before there was a
By THE DEADLINE TEAM, Deadline.com Russell T Davies, who created the Showtime series Queer As Folk, is back at the premium cable network with a new drama series in development there titled Cucumber. Details about the plot have been hard to come by, but it does revolve around gay men,
By: The Beat, beat.com This October Steve Niles and Sam Kieth will be teaming on an ongoing 30 DAYS OF NIGHT comic. The story adds new characters to the vampire saga that spawned the popular film. Now you may be asking yourself, wasn’t there already an ongoing? No — there
by Brendon Connelly, BleedingCool.com Summer 2013 will be the season of The Avengers aftermath with a third Iron Man and now second Thor picture on the calendar. Marvel Studios and Disney have tonight announced that Thor will return for a other solo adventure on July 26th, 2013. At the same
By: Kevin Wicks, via BBC America The Doctor and Amy Pond are heading back West, this time for San Diego Comic-Con. Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan will make their first-ever appearance at the mega-popular annual event, BBC America has revealed today. On Sunday, July 24, the TARDIS
by: Ben Silverman for Yahoo.com Global thermonuclear war is coming back to a theater near you. And, fittingly, a gamer is helping make it happen. Deadline reports that the 1983 film ‘WarGames’ is getting rebooted by MGM, who have tapped Seth Gordon — the man behind the acclaimed video game
by: Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let California regulate the sale or rental of violent video games to children, saying governments do not have the power to “restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed” despite complaints about graphic violence. On a
by Pamela McClintock, for the Hollywood Reporter Warner Bros. is already planning a sequel to Ryan Reynolds’ superhero pic Green Lantern, despite the film’s soft performance at the box office. Sources say Warners still believes in the franchise, even if the studio is “somewhat disappointed” with Green Lantern’s result. Over
By Albert Ching, Newsarama Legendary comic book artist Gene Colan has passed away at age 84, as first reported on the personal blog of writer Clifford Meth. Colan had nearly 70 years of experience in the comic book industry, including work in the 1940s for Marvel’s precursor Timely Comics. Colan
By Evan Hoovler, Blastr.com It’s okay for a film to modify a book a little for the sake of the medium. Heck, if they made A Tale of Two Cities into a movie today we’d expect at least 10 explosions and a hostage standoff. But in the case of some
By Dan Roth Blastr.com A week ago, a new site simply titled Pottermore was launched, and Harry Potter fans by the millions came to scratch their heads at it. What could it possibly be? Today, J.K. Rowling herself announced what Pottermore is and what it will mean for all the
by Kiel Phegley, CBR.com Last night, DC Comics sent out one of their regular “Direct Channel” e-mail newsletters to retailers, and in between announcements of ordering deadlines, issue sellouts and trade paperback reprints came much more unexpected news: that June 22’s “Superman” #712 would ship with entirely new contents than
