Nikkie Finke broke the story this weekend that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke was not being invited back to make the sequel New Moon. Summit Entertainment quickly assured Deadline Hollywood that "Catherine and Summit have agreed to part ways on the sequel because our visions are different." In other words, Summit didn’t like Hardwicke. The news…
More than likely you or someone you know would love to make a film, but those first steps are the hardest. Meet Yasmine Zapp who got her horror film, Darksound, on the screen and she shares the secrets here, plus: New Harry Potter Trailer this weekend A Thor cartoon X-Men First Class the movie Press…
Tor Books has announced the release of Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card. After twenty-three years, this is the first true, direct sequel to the award-winning Ender’s Game. Published in 1985 with millions of copies sold worldwide, the New York Times bestselling Ender’s Game received acclaim and honors, appearing on Modern Library’s Best 100…
Emma Thompson has told MTV she’s ditching Hogwarts for her London job. When confronted with a scheduling conundrum, reprising Professor Sybil Trelawney in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or shooting the second of the Nanny McPhee films, she had to make a choice. “I’m making my own Nanny McPhee next year,” she declared. “They…
President-elect Barack Obama is apparently closer to our audience than any of his predecessors. According to “The 50 Facts You Might Not Know” in the London Telegraph, the following information has emerged: • He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics • He has read every Harry Potter book • His favorite films are Casablanca…
The international trailers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Twilight have hit the internet. First up is Potter, which can be found over at Trailer Addict or watched below. The new trailer offers some interesting glimpses into the film, including Dumbledore’s curse-ridden hand and Potter chasing after Snape while shouting, "Fight me, you…
Entertainment Weekly’s latest issue features an op/ed on the current affairs of NBC’s number two drama Heroes. The article, written by Lost aficionado Jeff "Doc" Jensen, points out that this season averages 9.4 million viewers per episode, down from last season’s average of 11.6 million. This season, the series reached its lowest number ever at…
Russell T. Davies, who is handing the Doctor Who series over to Stephen Moffat, has suggested that whenever David Tennant is done being the Doctor, the role should go to Russell Tovey. The 26-year-old Tovey was seen in the most recent Christmas special as the young crewman, Midshipman Frame, left to pilot the sinking starship…
Legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan announced his retirement earlier this week. According to a post at The Raider, Struzan made the announcement this way on September 3: "Having been working at not working has produced a guy who could never return to illustration again. It took a lot to attempt the idea of retiring…
ICv2 reports that Warner Bros. has pushed back the release of the sixth film in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, due to fallout from the recent Writers Guild strike. Instead of being released on November 21, 2008, the next Harry Potter film will appear in theaters on July 17, 2009….
The 2008 Hugo Awards were given out last night at Denvention, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, a.k.a. WorldCon. The Master of Ceremony was Wil McCarthy. The winners are (cue the drum roll) … Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins; Fourth Estate) Novella: "All Seated on the Ground" by Connie Willis (Asimov’s Dec. 2007; Subterranean…
On 44th Street in New York City today, right down the street from where Daniel Radcliffe is shedding Harry Potter’s robes (literally) in Equus, Stephenie Meyer is preparing to take over the mantle with her Twilight series, speaking and signing tonight at the Nokia Theater to a sold-out crowd of 2100 screaming fans that are…
