If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! What did you make of Tron: Legacy? The three-decade-on sequel to the classic eighties sci-fi film was very visually compelling, certainly, but the plot most definitely didn’t hook us. True, it was watchable enough despite the rather corny characters, [...]
Damon Lindelof, the Co-Creator of Lost, has been signed up by Disney to pen his own film. And that film is simply entitled 1952, with very little known about it at the moment. Apparently it’s a sci-fi adventure which will be family-oriented (obviously), but beyond that, most of what’s floating around the Internet is pure [...]
Here’s an interesting one – the buzz on the Internet (and specifically at the Deadline website) has it that Sam Raimi will direct Disney’s pre-runner to the Wizard of Oz. The prequel is called Oz: The Great and Powerful, and it will be in 3D (of course… Oz: The Great and Powerful and Commercial, maybe?). [...]
The new Disney epic flick, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, will hold its world premiere in London, this Sunday May 9th. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, of Donnie Darko and Brokeback Mountain fame, an actor who is moving on from such darker roles to take up the mantle of action hero. He’ll be buckling [...]
The highly anticipated release of Tron Legacy is not due until later on in the year, in fact in the UK the film is launched on the 26th December, this film will no doubt be boosted by the Christmas holidays and get a great boost into 2011. But before the film is released, work is [...]
There is something about Johnny Depp and Disney that just oozes success; it cannot be a mere coincidence as the content in The Pirates of The Caribbean and Alice in Wonderland are completely different to each other. Yet these two films are the studios biggest box office draws with Alice in Wonderland that also stars [...]
It is surprising to think that it was in 1979 when Disney released The Black Hole, so therefore it seems that a remake is in order as film technology and science especially in the field of astrophysics have advanced to a level where some interesting changes could be made to the film. The Black Hole [...]
An original but as of yet unseen science fiction web series called Trenches, has been acquired by Sony Pictures and will be shown for the first time on the company’s video site crackle.com The series was originally produced by Stage 9, the Disney owned digital production company that was dissolved into abc.com never to be [...]
The entertainment giant Disney not content with acquiring the Marvel Entertainment business it has taken a ten per cent stake in Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment company too, paying around $2.5 million for the privilege. This deal will give Disney more rights to influence the sort of material coming out of the studio and enable Disney [...]
Disney have been through a fairly difficult year so far but the release of a new trailer for the studios latest work Tron, shows that the Disney still has what it takes to create magic for the big screen. Tron will be opening in the US on the 17th December 2010, so there is still [...]
One day filmmakers will find that there are no films left to remake or rework, so could that the day when sci-fi as genre dies, we shall have to wait and see. In the mean time the remaking continues, this time the film is The Black Hole, this was made by Disney back in 1979 [...]
The D23 Expo is the Disney way of bringing everything that the company have done in the past and plans to do in the future together all under one roof, where fans and industry experts can check out watch has been going on in the wonderful world of Disney. The main event was when the [...]
We may have more than sixteen months to wait for the release of the long awaited update or sequel of the 1980’s ground breaking film Tron, but it seems that there could be more twists and turns in this story than we would first think. Disney have given the 17th Dec 2010 as the release [...]
In a deal worth an estimated $4 billion Disney has acquired Marvel, this means that from now on superheroes like Iron Man and Spider-Man will be under the same roof as Mickey Mouse and Buzz Lightyear. In total there are around five thousand different Marvel characters, most of which have never been seen on the [...]
There have been a couple occasions this year when the rumour mill was churning out the idea that Fox were considering rebooting the Fantastic Four. Well now, it would seem that the rumours were right and indeed Fox are definitely planning on rebooting the film instead of producing a sequel like some of the other [...]
John Carter of Mars sounds as if it might be some futuristic story of living on the red planet. After all this is a film by Disney but these days that does not necessarily mean that this is going to be a kid’s film. So far Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe are reported [...]
The writer who penned Braveheart has been given the job of rewriting the Disney favourite, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo. This is another project being developed by McG. However, there have already been a couple writers on the project who clearly failed to live up the expectations of the producer. Bill Marsilli (Deja [...]
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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