J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 is one of the few genre movies coming out this summer that isn’t a prequel or a sequel or an adaptation or a brand extension. And the more we see of this “something freaky descends on a small town and its kid filmmakers” thriller, the more
Does it even matter what they’re working on, given the trio’s Oscar-winning, dream-summoning, monster-mashing resume? Well, since you asked, it’s a $300 million adaptation of a 500-year-old Chinese folk legend. Yes, that feeling is your interest getting piqued. Gaiman has been hired by Chinese TV producer Zhang Jizhong to write
If you were hoping the fan-created Help Nathan Buy Firefly campaign would, well, help Nathan Fillion buy Firefly … looks it’s not going to happen. And what ended the attempt to resuscitate Joss Whedon’s show was a tweet from someone who should know. Blastr has the story here
According to a new rumour, the conclusion of episode 7 will see the Cybermen trapping the Doctor and then escaping with him. And how will they trap the Doctor? Apparently they will put the Time Lord on ice quite literally by freezing him in a block. Read the story here
Monday was a bad night for NBC and The Event, as the alien conspiracy series took a major ratings hit, losing nearly a third of its audience. The series returned from its three-month midseason hiatus with two back-to-back episodes that could only score a 1.4/4 rating, with 5.53 million total
The Tomb Raider franchise will be rebooted with a new movie due for release in 2013. GK Films, the company owned by Oscar-winning Departed producer Graham King, has snapped up the movie rights to the hit video game series from Square Enix. King and Tim Headington will produce the new
The fourth season of the hit HBO series True Blood is coming up soon, and actor Alexander Skarsgard has revealed a few things concerning his character—and everyone’s favorite blond bloodsucker—Eric. And for those of you who’ve read the books, you’ll definitely go: Yessss. During Saturday’s PaleyFest panel, executive producer and
If you liked Tron: Legacy, you’ll be happy with the trailer for Tron: Uprising, the Disney animated series that will be coming to your TV screen this summer. Even better, if you liked the original Tron, you’ll probably be happy, too: There’s always a chance the TV show might fix
It looks like The Cape is done. After struggling in the ratings since it premiered, and NBC cutting the show’s episode order from 13 to 10 episodes, the network has decided to run The Cape’s final original episode only online sometime later this month. NBC had planned to air the
The Indian Space Research Organization has discovered a massive underground chamber near the moon’s equator, one that would be perfect for housing a moon base. A moon base! Discovered by the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, this chamber is more than one mile long and 393 feet wide. There would be lots of
Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment (the financing and production company behind The Blind Side and The Book of Eli) are in final discussions to secure film, television and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to Ridley Scott‘s iconic 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner. Not many details are known about
It seems like everything’s coming up Robo: First, Detroit’s original cyborg policeman, Peter Weller, comes out in favor of a proposed statue in the Motor City, and now MGM has hired a director to take over their long-simmering remake, replacing the Black Swan Oscar nominee. Before MGM recovered from the
