If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Warner Bros are still pushing to release the Watchmen film on March 6th – despite the fact that Fox has just won a court ruling that they own rights to the project. Fox filed in court in February, claiming that [...]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Frank Miller is eyeing up the rights to Buck Rogers for movie production. Anyone who enjoyed the original TV series or comics is probably sighing with dread at the thought of Miller reframing the character in a dark and violent world over-run by dramatic camera lighting but poor on story. [...]
The trailer for Terminator Salvation has now been released and can be found on the Apple Website here. The big problem, of course, is that with lots of productions that invoke time travel, inevitably they end up re-writing time and history repeatedly, in order to milk more from the franchise. While Terminators 1 & 2 [...]
The BBC website reports that Majel Barratt Roddenberry has died, at the age of 76. Majel Barratt appeared in the original Star Trek pilot as a brunette number 2 to the Enterprise’s Captain Pike. When the series was commissioned she become the blonde-haired Nurse Chappell, working beside Doctor McCoy. She also appeared in later series, [...]
There’s a new Watchmen trailer now available for viewing – the second teaser for the film. This movie increasingly looks both excellently filmed yet still true to the story fundamentals – even to the point of reproducing a number of Dave Gibbons’ illustrations in the graphic novel. You can see it here at Apple, or [...]
chronicles: Hi Kim, and thank you for agreeing to an interview with the chronicles network. There seems to be some confusion about the most appropriate name for the genre that you’re writing for. It seems to be trailblazing beyond what we’d normally consider to be horror, and crossing boundaries of fantasy, romance, and action/adventure. The [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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