HBO is so confident that Game of Thrones is going to be successful it’s already discussing a second season before the first episode has even aired. Now the network is eyeing a new book to develop into a series: the fabulous American Gods, written by Neil Gaiman. And the series
If adventure has a name, it is Indiana Jones. The archaeologist hero of movies, television and video games has been protecting the artifacts of ancient civilizations from criminals and the forces of evil for over thirty years. Now fact and fiction collide in Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology,
We’re all desperately waiting to see the Marvel Universe come together on screen in The Avengers on May 4, 2012 (assuming the date doesn’t shift, that is). But it turns out the creation of that supergroup was an accident, brought about by an impending deadline and an artist with a
The Dragonriders of Pern series of books has been stuck in Development Hell for years. You know what Development Hell is, right? It’s more like limbo: a place where some great ideas are stuck and unable to actually get turned into movies. Now the series has FINALLY been freed from
ESO WILL NOT SPOIL ANYTHING FROM THE FIRST EPISODE OF DOCTOR WHO UNTIL WE HAVE SEEN IT OURSELVES AND DO OUR REVIEW OF THE EPISODE ON ESO#57 But until then… 🙂 Among all of the spoiler-free reviews available right now, io9’s was particularly embracing and fresh, having just been written
Steven Spielberg tried—and failed—to get a movie made out of Ray Bradbury’s short story collection The Martian Chronicles back in the ’90s. So it looks like it’s up to John Davis, a producer responsible for bringing Predator, I, Robot and Waterworld (uh-oh) to the screen, to finally make it happen.
20th Century Fox and Academy Award winning visual effects team WETA Digital have released five seconds of the CGI apes for their new movie Rise of the Planet of Apes. The movie, starring James Franco and Freida Pinto, is set to be released on August 5. The Rise of the
The director of Cloverfield has just signed on to make his next movie, and it’s based on the same material that inspired John Carpenter’s cult classic They Live. Deadline reports that Matt Reeves will write and direct a movie based on the 1963 science fiction short story “Eight O’Clock in
After a decent amount of speculation, the Sucker Punch director has settled on the villain for Warner Brothers’ Superman reboot: that great Kryptonian refugee, General Zod. As for the actor who’ll play him … well, that’s something of a surprise. Snyder has chosen Michael Shannon, the Oscar-nominated character actor who’s
We haven’t seen Star Trek on TV since Enterprise ended in 2005, and we had to wait four years until Trek came back into our lives in the form of J.J. Abrams’ successful movie reboot of the venerable sci-fi franchise. But did you know there were a few attempts to
If Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown ever get the urge for another round of time traveling, we know one direction they’d better not aim that DeLorean of theirs—China! Because the country’s General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television has decided all that wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff “should by no means
In 2009, J.J. Abrams’ thrilling Star Trek reboot drew positive reactions from critics and fans alike, but the film wasn’t perfect and there were some issues that bugged fans down the line. But writer Roberto Orci promises that he’s listening to them and that they will be addressed in the
