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Director Vincenzo Natali spent years working on a movie adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, but it never came to fruition. Now he’s sharing art from the project, giving us a hint at what his Neuromancer movies might have looked like. In 2010, Natali came on board the Neuromancer adaptation, and we even saw…
PRE-GAME SHOW: Welcome, readers, welcome. In just a few short minutes, I, Your Fearless News Editor, will be tuning into Fox News’ “The Kelly File” for the first time in my life. Once there, I will bear witness to the first big stop on the Duggar family’s Please Don’t Stop Loving Us and Cancel Our…
Megyn Kelly breaks the news Jim Bob: “After that third time he came to us is where we really felt like, we have done everything we can as parents…We need to get help.” — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 4, 2015 “Michelle and I both were keeping an eye on Josh all the time and watching…
Katherine Chappell, a visual effects editor who worked on Game Of Thrones and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, among other projects, has died. She was 29. What makes the story so unusual is that Chappell was killed by a lion while vacationing in South Africa. According to Variety, she was visiting Johannesburg’s Lion Park earlier…
by Jessica Goldstein Posted on June 3, 2015 at 10:03 am “Cameron Crowe Responds To Accusations Of Whitewashing In ‘Aloha’” CREDIT: Columbia Pictures/Allstar Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, has not been received well by the filmgoing public. Is this because Crowe made a really lousy movie? Well, he did, but the real outcry here is about a…
Oh my god. Today’s issue of Star Wars #6, written by Jason Aaron, contains a surprise that changes one of the series’ main characters completely — a change that, thanks to the new Disney mandate that everything is 100% official, is now Star Wars canon. Get ready to have your mind blown. **** **** Ready?…
In April, Arrested Development’s co-executive producer Brian Grazer offered fans a cryptic yet oddly specific update about the show’s future. Now comes news that the Netflix series is returning in 2016. Grazer dropped the news on Adam Corolla’s show this time, towards the end of their interview. The conversation starts around the one-hour mark, and…
Last night’s Game of Thrones was a welcome return to form. It was also a weirdly structured episode: Half a series of vignettes about faith and learning to read people, and half a rip-roaring apocalyptic action movie. But it was all tied together by the contrast between single-minded zombies and undependable humans. Spoilers ahead… In…
The Agents of SHIELD take on a new mission—shilling Coca-Cola—in these delightfully surreal Chinese commercials. I have absolutely zero idea what’s going on in them. All I know is that if Agent Ward doesn’t take orders from a polar bear in season 3 I’m gonna be seriously disappointed. Here’s a slightly less wacky but still…
Wonder Woman is getting her own movie but for the last few days the press has been breathless over her MAN. Rumors are swirling that Chris Pine will be joining the cast as Steve Trevor. On one hand that makes sense – Steve Trevor is part of her mythos and was, for almost 30 plus…