We’re huge fans of indie film figurehead and horror movie stamp-of-quality Larry Fessenden, so it’s very exciting to hear that the director of Wendigo, Habit and The Last Winter is stepping behind the camera again. Indiewire reports that Fessenden is set to write and direct Depraved, which is described as “a contemporary reimagining of Mary
Month: January 2018
Just when things are moving slowly and we start to worry that HBO and Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen series is never going to happen, some new news materialises out of nowhere. Today’s Watchmen development is that Nicole Kassell has officially been hired to direct and executive produce the pilot. It’s all happening now, folks. It’s finally
Click here to see full size. Originally titled Purge: The Island, The First Purge is set to take the horror franchise back to the start on the US’s Independence Day this year, and show us how the whole Purge thing started. Here’s the synopsis for the prequel, courtesy of the good folks at Bloody Disgusting:
We’ve been waiting for this one. The trailer for Duncan Jones’ long, long-awaited sci-fi Mute is finally here! It’s so good to finally see some footage from Mute, we’ve been waiting for this one since Moon…With a strong cast, seedy neon lighting and plenty of untrustworthy characters, this looks like it should be worth
The first trailer has arrived for Unsane, the upcoming horror movie from Steven Soderbergh starring the excellent Claire Foy and Juno Temple. Give it a look… The film was reportedly shot on an iPhone, much like Sean Baker’s Tangerine, and features an impressive cast including Jay Pharaoh, Joshua Leonard, Aimee Mullins and Amy Irving.
For lovers of both Star Wars and film scores, the latest concert announcement from the Royal Albert Hall is basically heaven: Star Wars: A New Hope will be the next instalment in the Films in Concert event. The film is set to play at the RAH in November this year with the London Symphony Orchestra
Speculative Fiction: 3 Ways to Write the Future Near-future science fiction, or speculative fiction, is hotter than ever. Why? I think it’s because at heart, it has so much to tell us about our everyday lives. These kinds of stories reach out to grasp at the possibilities of tomorrow, yet their characters and their truths
Like many a slasher, Psychotic! opens with an extended POV shot, as the killer first ogles Shannon (Rachel Laforest) through her window, and then enters the apartment with knife raised. Yet the would-be assailant is interrupted by the arrival of party guests, and reduced to hiding (like a final girl) under the bed and sharing
Click here to see full size. You can read the synopsis for The Cured here: What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into
Maze Runner: The Death Cure stars Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Walton Goggins, Ki Hong Lee, Jacob Lofland, Barry Pepper, Will Poulter, Rosa Salazar and Patricia Clarkson. The film is directed by Wes Ball with a screenplay by TS Nowlin. It is based on the novel
The cast trains for some hardcore fight sequences in this Altered Carbon featurette
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You can read the synopsis for Netflix’s Altered Carbon here: Based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon is an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal,
The first trailer for Anders Walter’s I Kill Giants, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Joe Kelly, is finally here and we have to admit we’re quite pumped. You can read the synopsis for I Kill Giants here: I Kill Giants tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbic fifth-grader
Maze Runner: The Death Cure stars Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Walton Goggins, Ki Hong Lee, Jacob Lofland, Barry Pepper, Will Poulter, Rosa Salazar and Patricia Clarkson. The film is directed by Wes Ball with a screenplay by TS Nowlin. It is based on the
Pacific Rim Uprising stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Tian Jing, Adria Arjona, Cailee Spaeny, Levi Meaden, Jin Zhang and Lily Ji. You can read the full synopsis for the film here: The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the
You can read the synopsis for the film here: From visionary director Ava DuVernay comes Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, an epic adventure based on Madeleine L’Engle’s timeless classic which takes audiences across dimensions of time and space, examining the nature of darkness versus light and, ultimately, the triumph of love. Through one girl’s
Click here to see full size. And to top it off, there’s a new Pacific Rim Uprising trailer on the way soon. Pacific Rim Uprising stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Tian Jing, Adria Arjona, Cailee Spaeny, Levi Meaden, Jin Zhang and Lily Ji. You can read the full synopsis for the film here: The globe-spanning
On publication of Before I Let Go (Sourcebooks), bestseller Marieke Nijkamp talks exclusively to SciFiNow about a central character often sidelined: winter. Lost Creek, the setting in my new novel, is an eerie, strange community, that’s cut off from the rest of the world. A place where truth matters little and secrets are the preferred
You can read the official synopsis for the film here: Black Panther follows T’Challa who, after the events of Captain America: Civil War, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to take his place as King. However, when an old enemy reappears on the radar, T’Challa’s mettle as King and
It sounds as though FX liked What We Do In The Shadows as much as the rest of us: the US network has gone ahead and decided to move forward with a pilot production commitment for a TV project based on the film. What We Do In The Shadows actors, writers and directors Taika Waititi
Long-time pals and co-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are collaborating on a new TV series. According to Variety, the writers/actors are currently developing a half-hour comedy horror show called Truth Seekers, which will see a pair of paranormal investigators look into a new spooky incident each episode in a case-of-the-week fashion. Of the project,
When Logan Wallace’s father passes away in a tragic accident, his mother drags him to her sister’s isolated mountain home in the hopes that it will help them grieve. There’s just one catch, the lavish accommodation is on the market and the pair would have to vacate the premises every so often while strangers have
With the final film of the Maze Runner series, The Death Cure, on the horizon (in cinemas 26 January) we have an exclusive clip from the film. Check it out: Maze Runner: The Death Cure stars Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Walton Goggins, Ki Hong Lee,
Ash meets his long lost daughter in this bloody new trailer for Ash Vs Evil Dead Season 3
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Get your Ash Vs Evil Dead fix with this brand new trailer for Season 3, which hits Starz on 25 February: There’s also a new poster if you
Though the Men In Black spin-off film in the works at Sony was recently fast-tracked, the release date has also been pushed back slightly, moving it from 17 May 2019 to 14 June 2019. The move means the spin-off will no longer be going up against John Wick: Chapter Three at the box office. However,
The Suicide Squad is back and ready for a new mission in this trailer for upcoming animated adventure Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay. You can read the synopsis here: Prepare to root for the bad guys when Amanda Waller sends her band of misfit DC Super-Villains on an all-new, action-packed secret mission in Suicide
Almost every Harry Potter fan would be lying if they said they weren’t at least a tiny bit bitter that they didn’t get their Hogwarts letter. But with the upcoming Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery app from Jam City, fans will finally be able to experience life as a student at the wizarding school. Kind of.
If you were a bit disappointed by the lack of Walton Goggins in the first Tomb Raider trailer (he was in there if you really concentrated), you’ll be pleased to learns that there’s loads of him in the second and final trailer: Also, how haunting is that Destiny’s Child cover? The film is written
Though Amazon Video may have recently binned three of its original comedy series (including One Mississippi, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson), the streaming service still has faith in The Tick. The show, which stars Peter Serafinowicz as the titular blue superhero, has officially been renewed for Season 2. “Ben has created a resounding
You can read the synopsis for the film here: From visionary director Ava DuVernay comes Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, an epic adventure based on Madeleine L’Engle’s timeless classic which takes audiences across dimensions of time and space, examining the nature of darkness versus light and, ultimately, the triumph of love. Through one girl’s transformative
The Death Cure, the final adaptation of James Dashner’s dystopian Maze Runner novels, starts with a combination train robbery/prison break sequence that recalls not one, but two set-pieces from the first act of Fast & Furious 5 – or Fast Five as it’s known outside the UK. The success of that formula-shifting entry in the