In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar hostess let slip that the character she’ll be playing in the final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s Caped Crusader trilogy will, indeed, be a kitten with a whip. Both Nolan and Warner Brothers have been curiously tight-lipped about whether Selina Kyle will actually
Regardless of what you thought about the winners, the losers or the relative quality of the show itself, the 2011 Oscars did, in fact, happen. While this year’s big sci-fi hope, Inception, didn’t do as well as we’d have liked, there were still things to please—or infuriate—sci-fi fans. See Blastr’s
FX has greenlit the pilot for Powers, an adaptation of the long-running comic series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The announcement was made tonight on Twitter by John Soldberg, the cable network’s senior vice president of public relations, who revealed the pilot will be directed by executive
According to Heat Vision, The Lord of the Rings alumnus Viggo Mortensen is said to be a “person of interest” for the role of General Zod. Sources say that Mortensen’s name tops the list, but there might be a problem: He’s been negotiating to star in another film, Snow White
Last season’s Doctor Who episode, “The Lodger,” was one funny piece of sci-fi television. It was helped along by the sweet and sympathetic character of Craig Owens, played by James Corden—and if you liked him, too, you’re gonna love the fact that the BBC has just confirmed that the character
John Scalzi’s epic science fiction novel Old Man’s War is coming to the big screen, and has a big name attached to direct it. Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to Old Man’s War, the first in a four-book series by Scalzi, and has attached Wolfgang Petersen
It’s been a long time coming, but the Wookiee co-pilot will make an appearance on the season finale of Cartoon Network’s Clone Wars series, and Peter Mayhew—the man behind the mask—was instrumental in bringing the walking carpet to life. The reason it took so long for Chewie to make it
In comic books, if you get zapped by a particle accelerator, you’re turned into a superhero. But if you get zapped by one in the real world, you die, right? That’s the way it’s supposed to work out, but a Russian researcher stuck his head into a running particle accelerator
Nicholas Courtney, known to and beloved by Doctor Who fans worldwide as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, one of the longest-serving co-stars of the series who appeared opposite five television Doctors, has died, aged 81. His first brush with Doctor Who was to be as Space Security Agent Bret Vyon in
Dwayne McDuffie, who wrote comic books for Marvel and DC and founded his own publishing company before crossing over to television and animation, has died. He was 49. The Detroit native died Monday, a day after his birthday, DC Comics said. His cause and place of death weren’t immediately known.
Will Ghostbuster 3 EVER get made? The script’s been done for awhile now, but Bill Murray just can’t seem to get around to reading it. And when Murray appeared on The Howard Stern Show this morning, he explained exactly why he’s in no rush. The main reason that skimming the
Aidan Turner has been playing the broody (and moody) vampire John Mitchell for three seasons of the BBC’s Being Human. But his being cast in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit—as well as dark events culminating in the third season of the show—may hint at a very sinister fate for the character.
