If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! While there’s another Star Trek movie warping in next year – probably later in 2012 rather than mid-year – rumours continue to persist regarding a new outing for the famous sci-fi franchise on the smaller screen (the last being [...]
Stephen King has of course written many, many horror books, and a large number of them have made it to the big screen since the very first adaptation of Carrie way back in 1976. Or indeed the small screen, and the latest King title to make the leap to the visual medium is his 1998 [...]
Bigpoint has opened the airlock on its massively multiplayer Battlestar Galactica Online. The browser-based MMOG is based on the TV series as screened by Syfy, and is free to play, so you won’t lose anything by giving it a whirl. Bigpoint boasts that the game is bedecked with high quality 3D graphics, and blends tactical [...]
Remember that classic movie from the eighties, Teen Wolf? No, neither do we. We do, however, recall a daft corny film where a ridiculous hairy Michael J. Fox (who looked more like Teen Ape) slam dunked a basketball a few times. And ordered a keg of beer by using the power of his red eyes. [...]
The prolific sci-fi and horror writer Steven King will see his masterpiece “Under the Dome” made into a TV miniseries by the master producer, Steven Spielberg. The book was originally 1,100 words, but as we have seen before with films, a lot tends to go missing, however when it comes to a miniseries these often [...]
The thing about 2012 is that it is generally believed to be the end of the world, as we know it. Therefore, the film of the same name by Roland Emmerich shows how everything that we understand and love about the planet is destroyed. So for the survivors and there are always going to be [...]
It has been a while since a good Stephen King adaption appeared on the TV or big screen, fans do not really mind, so imagine the interest when according to industry news source Variety, which E1 Entertainment is to produce a thirteen part series based on The Colorado Kid! The series will be known as [...]
It seems that what started off as novel by Audrey Niffenegger in 2003, could be finding its way to the small screen following the success of the film “The Time Travellers Wife” taking around $20 million in its first weekend. According to The Wrap, Friends creator Marts Kauffman and Warner Bros Television are having talks [...]
Yet another science fiction show from the archives of UK television is to get the big screen treatment, UFO was the first live action series to be shown on UK TV screens from the puppet master Gerry Anderson. With the success of Thunderbirds, UFO is clearly the next best story to make into a film. [...]
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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