A classic Doctor Who serial from 1967, The Underwater Menace, is set to be restored with colour animation and original audio recordings, courtesy of a story from The Radio Times. Into the 1970s, the BBC had no official policy for archiving programme content, and as such, many stories within Doctor Who’s classic era (including two of the four episodes … Read more
Scream 2 is perhaps the best film in the series, while the Nancy Loomis reveal is still one of the best plot twists in movie history. Timothy Olyphant, who played an instrumental role in the film’s climactic ending as Mickey Altieri, reflected on the “overwhelming” experience of working on the sequel. With a career spanning … Read more
Louis Leterrier, the director behind Fast X, has clarified comments made by Vin Diesel concerning a potential “trilogy” to close out the racing franchise. Fast X Part 1 premiered in May, and while it was conceived as the first of two films to finalise the franchise, Diesel suggested at the film’s premiere in Rome that we could expect … Read more
It’s sometimes hard to imagine the film landscape for superheroes before the rampant saturation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008. Sometimes, it’s good to go back to the days before the MCU and remind ourselves of what made the superhero genre so good, particularly during the turn of the millennium. There are, of course, … Read more
A new superhero comedy satire is in the works at HBO, and Aya Cash, known for her role in The Boys, will be joining the series. Titled The Franchise, the series homes in on the “secret chaos” during the production of a superhero movie. The logline for the series captures it best, teasing, “every fuck-up has an … Read more
Disney has outlined a ‘quality over quantity’ method for the future – following a recent string of box office disappointments. Disney are looking to reduce the number of releases and budgets where they can following the recent Q3 Earnings Call. In a statement from Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, the company were … Read more
A significant fact of Doctor Who history could actually be, after almost sixty years, a myth. Paul Hayes, author and broadcaster, who’d previously penned The Long Game in 2021, a book that chronicled Doctor Who’s absence and eventual revival between 1996 and 2003, has written another, Pull To Open, a story that documents the show’s development between 1962 to … Read more
The potential for a sequel to the Uncharted adaptation seems increasingly likely after Charles Roven, a Sony Pictures producer, suggested the studio had plans for more films. In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter (per a report from GamesRadar), Roven confirmed interest in making Uncharted 2 and was optimistic about expanding the adaptation into a franchise. “Oh yeah!” said Roven. “We had … Read more
David Tennant has shared his first ever television memory, and it happens to be a Doctor Who serial dating back to 1974. The story in question was the sixth and concluding chapter of Planet of the Spiders, Jon Pertwee’s last episode as the Third Doctor. He’d served as the Time Lord since the turn of the … Read more
Visual effects (VFX) crews employed by Marvel Studios have voted to unionize, as announced by IATSE on Monday. “A supermajority of Marvel’s more than 50-worker crew had signed authorization cards indicating they wished to be represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE),” a press release reads, courtesy of a story from Variety. The … Read more