After sometime without a complete title for the upcoming reboot, Columbia Pictures announced today that the title will be The Amazing Spider-Man. Simultaneously the studio has also released a photo of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, though we’ve seen the stunt double doing the rounds, this is the first shot of Garfield wearing the newly designed […]
The part of Abe Lincoln’s mentor Henry Sturges, has gone to British rising star Dominic Cooper. Last week, Joaquin Phoenix was reported to be the front-runner for the role but it seems that he passed, or that director Timur Bekmambetov wanted a lesser-known star. While it would’ve been cool to see Joaquin return with a […]
It might just be the decade of the Vampire with another origin story The Last Voyage of the Demeter, set to embark on a journey that will capture fans of the genre. David Slade who directed ’30 Days of Night’ and ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’, is now attached to the project. Slade has become the go-to […]
The popular FX drama Justified starring Timothy Olyphant saw it’s second season premiere draw 3.5 million viewers, 1.7 million of them in the 18-49 demographic. The new episode picked up from the events of season 1, tying up some loose threads before beginning a new chapter. The story moseyed along at it’s usual pace and […]
Fans of Smallville can rejoice in knowing that when the 2 hour finale arrives on May 13, it will have a fitting conclusion with the return of one the show’s favorite characters. A deal has recently been made that will see Michael Rosenbaum return to the CW series, reprising his role as Lex Luthor. While […]
In early January word spread that the script to the untitled Alien Prequel was being revised to expand the role of ‘Vickers’ in order to entice Charlize Theron. Now it seems that she liked what she read and has officially inked a deal to star in ‘Prometheus’ for Twentieth Century Fox. She joins previously announced […]
The first trailer has been released for the prequel story X-Men: First Class that’s quite cool and gives a nod to Bryan Singer‘s initial film, with the original actors Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart featured briefly via clips. The younger counterparts look comfortable playing these classic characters with the villainous beginnings of Magneto portrayed by […]
The 1966 film Fantastic Voyage was a memorable sci-fi special effects extravaganza that was directed by Richard Fleischer and starred screen siren Raquel Welch. The story followed a team of scientists that along with a specially designed nuclear submarine, were shrunk using advanced miniaturization technology to journey inside the body of a fallen diplomat and […]
Warner Bros is revamping the mythology of Bram Stoker’s original ‘Dracula’ that will be a departure from Francis Ford Coppola‘s overblown interpretation. The new story will be set in the present day and the ‘Van Helsing’ of the story will be the character Harker, a Scotland yard detective who hunts the elusive Dracula. Seems Vampires […]
Super 8 is the new J.J. Abrams flick that’s shaping up to be an exciting throwback to the classic sci-fi genre, overrun by a deluge of today’s hi-tech alien invasion stories. In the tradition of ‘Close Encounters’ and maybe even ‘E.T’, ‘Super 8’ is set in the time when those films changed sci-fi adventure stories […]
Here’s the first TV promo for the upcoming show Terra Nova that airs in May on Fox and other networks soon after. It’s a mega-bucks production that’s rumored to cost around $4 million an episode so it’s going to have to generate big numbers and a loyal following to keep it on the air. It’s […]
After considerable development time and months of waiting, the first teaser of Marvel’s Captain America is finally here. Starring Chris Evans, the promo starts off with his character looking puny until he volunteers for a secret military experiment that transforms him into the bulked up physique Chris is famous for. If only those machines were […]
Thanks to NBC and the gang at Saturday Night Live, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey have brought their famous characters out of retirement for a reunion on the comedy showcase that continues to be a launching pad for veritable talent. The segment begins with a reference to Phil Hartman‘s ‘Cable 10 Public Access’, with the […]
With MGM’s financial woes resolved and Spyglass Entertainment taking over, the brakes are finally off the production for the next James Bond movie with casting and location scouting underway. With news that Judi Dench was returning – which was something of a no-brainer, word spread last week that Javier Bardem had been offered a lead […]