Here’s the thing: I am completely caught up in all of the hype surrounding The Walking Dead TV show. I have read the interviews, watched the trailers, been slightly skeeved out by the people dressing up as zombies and walking around the place to promote the show. I am entirely waiting for this show to knock my ever-lovin’ socks off. And that terrifies me.
One of the more infamous twists in the Man of Steel’s cinematic history is Superman Lives, a tangled 1990s mess that ensnared Tim Burton, Nicolas Cage, Kevin Smith and a string of screenwriters. Warner Bros. pulled the plug more than a decade ago, but now visual effects artist Steve Johnson has released test photos of the movie’s Superman costume. See them for yourself …
Apparently, I have more power than I suspected. Last week, I wished that Syfy would stop with the Battlestar Galactica spin-offs, and then this week they pull Caprica off the air mid-season. But doing so raised some questions, and concerns, as well as gloating…
Hasbro Studios has debuted footage from Transformers: Prime, the new CGI-animated series premiering Nov. 26 on The Hub, the Discovery/Hasbro kids’ channel. The first season will contain 26 episodes.
AMC’s president says the network expects to make a decision within the next few weeks about the future of Rubicon, the conspiracy thriller that debuted in August to record ratings but had difficulty maintaining an audience.
Striking while the iron is hot, 20th Century Fox has set June 22, 2012, for the opening of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Timur Bekmambetov’s 3-D adaptation of the bestselling novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. Tim Burton is producing.
Disney has released a poster and official synopsis for Mars Needs Moms!, the 3-D animated adaptation of the 2007 children’s book by Bloom County creator Berkeley Breathed. The performance-capture movie stars Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Mindy Sterling, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois and Kevin Cahoon.
Tom Hardy? Charlize Theron? With those two heading up the cast, suddenly, Rupert Sanders’ new Snow White And The Huntsman movie seems a lot more interesting.
Think that Paris is a city of love, surreally beautiful and stylish people and heartbreak? Well, it is, but it’s so much more… Something that Joe Dante and the other directors behind Paris, I’ll Kill You want to share.
FX is continuing to come up with surprising (and surprisingly watchable) TV ideas. Its latest? Getting A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olsen to adapt Korean revenge movie Soo into a tense crime series for the cable network.
Noomi Rapace is considered Ridley Scott’s favorite contender for the lead role in his Alien prequels, but could Olivia Wilde or Abbie Cornish take her place?
HBO has announced that the upcoming fifth season of the polygamist family drama will be its last.
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