By Kathie Huddleston, Source: Blastr.com Sadly, Andy Whitfield, who starred as the lead character in Starz’ Spartacus: Blood and Sand, died yesterday in Sydney, Australia, only 18 months after he’d been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “On a beautiful sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of
By Nathalie Caron, Source: Blastr.com Torchwood’s John Barrowman has always been pretty vocal (hmmm, make that a LOT vocal) about wanting to return to Doctor Who. And he’s at it again … only this time, he’s asking you to write to the BBC to make it happen. Doctor Who will
By Nathalie Caron, Source: Blastr.com Fact: Ryan Reynolds was pretty damn cool as Deadpool in the first Wolverine movie. Other fact: Almost every one of us hated how the character eventually turned out toward the end of the film and how he … um … died. But fear not: The
By Jeff Spry, Source: Blastr.com Admit it, you’ve missed your favorite horny, Zagnut-luring con-man corpse from the 1988 Tim Burton horror-comedy Beetlejuice. Well, today Warner Bros. says the mourning period is over with its planned reboot of Michael Keaton’s finest work (take that, Mr. Mom). Deadline reports that David Katzenberg
By Jeff Spry, Source: Blastr.com The truth is out there – but does anyone truly care? Actress Gillian Anderson claims a new X-Files movie is on the horizon. Trouble is, are there any hardcore conspiracy fanatics from the spooky series left to justify a third outing? In a recent interview
By Adam Swiderski, Source: Blastr.com Everyone’s favorite animation studio may have a full slate ahead with the fantasy film Brave and Monsters University (sequel to Monsters, Inc.) on the way, but that doesn’t mean they’re resting on their laurels. Instead, they used the D23 Expo to reveal the existence of
By Kevin Coll, source: Blastr.com Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn has been pitching a dream adaptation of Wonder Woman over the past year, and he may get his chance—but only if his current production of Logan’s Run is successful. “I would love to make Wonder Woman,” he said. “And I
By Kevin Coll, Source: Blastr Marvel has set the bar high when it comes to superhero team-up films, what with The Avengers ready to make superhero movie history next year, which leaves DC to play catch-up with its own strategy of combining big-name characters into one film project. The latest
By Don Kaye, Source: Blastr.com It seems that not even the presence of Johnny Depp can guarantee that a big-budget movie will actually get made these days. According to Deadline, Disney has canceled The Lone Ranger, which would have starred Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer (The Social Network) as
By Krystal Clark, Source: Bastr.com PETA is at it again. The animal rights group, which recently gave a glowing endorsement to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is taking their fight from film to space. Pull up a chair and sit back—because PETA’s going to Mars. PETA wants to
By Carol Pinchefsky, Source: Blastr.com As we reported in April, the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute was experiencing budget cuts, so it was forced to shut down its spearhead to life in space, the Alien Telescope Array. Now fans of the institute, who obviously didn’t want a crimp
By Kathie Huddleston, Source: Blastr.com Late last week at the Fox TCA, Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly stated that Terra Nova’s first season was being planned for 13 episodes only, and not the 22 it might otherwise get if it got good ratings, due to the complex production. However, executive
