Seven years after the end of its fourth season, Futurama returns to Comedy Central for a brand-new sixth season (The four Direct-to-DVD movies counted as an unofficial fifth season, apparently) this Thursday. But if you’ve never seen an episode of the series, Comedy Central doesn’t want you to waste any time Netflixing those DVD boxsets …
Marvel Studios has given another glimpse into its post-Avengers plans with the news that writers have been hired to script a movie based on Doctor Strange, the company’s premier magic-based character. According to Deadline Hollywood, Marvel has signed Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, the writers behind the now-shooting Conan movie …
Summer’s here, which for some means sun, sea, sand and the opportunity to wear clothes that reveal far too much skin for anyone else in the room to be comfortable. It also used to mean a dearth of interesting new television, as the networks’ big shows took a vacation and assumed that everyone would want to go outside and, I don’t know, …
For the first time since the start of this season, I’m beginning to think that Doctor Who isn’t playing fair. Sure, “Cold Blood” may have been, on one hand, a fairly dull by-the-numbers conclusion of the Silurians two-parter (Humanity’s basest natures, driven by love, prevent a new golden age of man and lizard living in perfect harmony! …
With an estimated opening weekend of somewhere around $5 million, it’d be tough to deny that the Jonah Hex movie is a flop – but coming only a couple of months after the similarly soft The Losers, should Warner Bros. and DC Comics be worried about their cinematic future together?
Both The Losers and Jonah Hex were adapted from …
If you were someone who thought that Breaking Dawn, the final Twilight book, was somewhat conservative in its treatment of its female characters, then you might be interested in this interview with Melissa Rosenberg, the screeenwriter of the Twilight Saga movies, where she addresses how she plans to approach the (apparently, …
If you do one good deed for a 1980s popstar that there’s every possibility you had a crush on back in the day, then consider this one: Jane Wiedlin’s Lady Robotika, an upcoming comic that recasts the former Go-Go as a cyborg superheroine leading a slave rebellion in deep space, is in danger of being canceled before it even hits the …
Would LOST make any more sense if you knew exactly where everything was on the Island? Decide for yourself with this impressive map created by Jonah Adkins, now available as a high-res (ie, big enough to read all the details) image over at his Geography Of Lost site. Finally I know where the heart of the Island actually is!
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George Lucas may have already faced the tough, no-holds-barred questioning of Jon Stewart this year, but the Star Wars creator was apparently itching for a rematch… and this time, there won’t be an ad break to help him dodge the issues. According to Entertainment Weekly, Stewart will host an hour-long, live-on-stage interview with …
It’s the promotional partnership that you didn’t see coming: Oregon’s Dark Horse Comics has teamed with USA Today and Toshiba for a new program called Dark Horse: High-Def to promote Dark Horse comics across multiple media. Launching today with an 8-page preview of crime novelist Janet Evanovich’s comic debut, Troublemaker, at USA …
With the creation of iPhone/iPad apps for both Marvel Comics and indie publisher Boom! Studios so far this year, New York-based comiXology seems to be stepping into the position of the company most likely to help publishers transition into the world of digital comics. I spoke to the company’s CEO, David Steinberger, earlier this week …
Congratulations to Summit Entertainment for the most ridiculous lawsuit of the year, in which they’re suing the manufacturers of a jacket worn by one of the characters in Twilight for telling people that their jacket was worn by one of the characters in Twilight.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Summit Entertainment filed a …
