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News came this week that NBC‘s summertime drama, Reverie had gone to that great Matrix in the sky, cancelled without a second season. Reverie‘s main problem was that after it’s one-line pitch of ‘Ex-cop helps people stuck in virtual reality simulations‘, the potential was there to take it in...
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If there’s one ‘superhero’ decidedly NOT built for a younger audience it’s the profane Marvel Comics character Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds championed an ‘adults-only’ big-screen adaptation for nearly a decade and finally got it made. Fox was rewarded with excellent box-office for both the Deadpool films to date, despite usually...
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Rumours, ill-founded or not, are usually to be found circling all things Doctor Who with speculation rapidly becoming debated then accepted as fact until its formally denied – and often not helped by the tabloids reporting what is said on internet forums as fact and then said forums taking...
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Derek Kolstad, who penned the John Wick 3: Parabellum film now due out on 17th May, will next be turning his attention to a remake of Korean thriller The Man From Nowhere. The original film, released in 2010 and quickly becoming one of the year’s biggest hits – holding the top...
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Adapted from Deborah Harkness’s bestselling All Souls trilogy of books, the Sky original production, A Discovery of Witches – which launched in September and was produced by Bad Wolf – proved to be one of the biggest successes for Sky One this year. The announcement came today that two...
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While production on the final six episodes of Game of Thrones is still underway for broadcast sometime in the first half of 2019, there are already plans for a prequel series which would likely debut around a year later. It was announced as far back as May 2017 that...
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While some have fared better than others, there’s certainly a long tradition of sporting stars making the transition from the arena to the big-screen and a career in action cinema. The latest in that line appears to be the Dutch kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven, who though still in his...
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While it was previously thought that Matthew Vaughn (of X-Men: First Class and Kingsman fame) was in line to direct a revamping of the classic Flash Gordon concept, it now looks as if Fox have asked Julius Avery to helm the project with Vaughn settling in to the role...
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It was announced a few weeks ago that Disney was actively working on two superhero spin-offs for the subscription-platform part of its empire, due to launch towards the end of 2019. Impressively, both Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen were being penciled in to reprise their respective cinematic roles as...
News came this week that NBC‘s summertime drama, Reverie had gone to that great Matrix in the sky, cancelled without a second season. Reverie‘s main problem was that after it’s one-line pitch of ‘Ex-cop helps people stuck in virtual reality simulations‘, the potential was there to take it in...
If there’s one ‘superhero’ decidedly NOT built for a younger audience it’s the profane Marvel Comics character Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds championed an ‘adults-only’ big-screen adaptation for nearly a decade and finally got it made. Fox was rewarded with excellent box-office for both the Deadpool films to date, despite usually...
Rumours, ill-founded or not, are usually to be found circling all things Doctor Who with speculation rapidly becoming debated then accepted as fact until its formally denied – and often not helped by the tabloids reporting what is said on internet forums as fact and then said forums taking...
Derek Kolstad, who penned the John Wick 3: Parabellum film now due out on 17th May, will next be turning his attention to a remake of Korean thriller The Man From Nowhere. The original film, released in 2010 and quickly becoming one of the year’s biggest hits – holding the top...
Adapted from Deborah Harkness’s bestselling All Souls trilogy of books, the Sky original production, A Discovery of Witches – which launched in September and was produced by Bad Wolf – proved to be one of the biggest successes for Sky One this year. The announcement came today that two...
While production on the final six episodes of Game of Thrones is still underway for broadcast sometime in the first half of 2019, there are already plans for a prequel series which would likely debut around a year later. It was announced as far back as May 2017 that...
While some have fared better than others, there’s certainly a long tradition of sporting stars making the transition from the arena to the big-screen and a career in action cinema. The latest in that line appears to be the Dutch kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven, who though still in his...
While it was previously thought that Matthew Vaughn (of X-Men: First Class and Kingsman fame) was in line to direct a revamping of the classic Flash Gordon concept, it now looks as if Fox have asked Julius Avery to helm the project with Vaughn settling in to the role...
It was announced a few weeks ago that Disney was actively working on two superhero spin-offs for the subscription-platform part of its empire, due to launch towards the end of 2019. Impressively, both Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen were being penciled in to reprise their respective cinematic roles as...
In the aftermath of Godzilla’s 2014 arrival in San Francisco, Cate (Anna Sawai) journeys to Tokyo to find information on her missing father and is surprised to find that...
With the strikes now over, it looks as if it’s full-steam ahead for production on the second season of HBO‘s adaptation of The Last of Us. While little is...
In the run-up to the 25th November and the first of the Doctor Who anniversary specials, the BBC‘s annual telethon Children in Need showed an exclusive scene featuring the...
It’s 1955 and Ben leaps into the body of academic Henry McCoy, just in time to find a mortally-wounded fellow professor who manages to grasp about a ‘formula’ and...