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
With the SAG/AFTRA strikes in play, and as fans, we know we’ll be waiting some time for Season 5 of Stranger Things to air. The Duffer Brothers say the fifth season will place Will’s character (Noah Schnapp) “centre stage” in a final run that’ll “tie the entire series together.” In an interview with Variety, the Duffer Brothers explained … Read more
Despite a lukewarm reception from critics and a limited press release amid the SAG-AFTRA strike, The Meg 2: The Trench has performed surprisingly well at the box office (per GamesRadar), surpassing Christopher Nolan’s historical epic Oppenheimer to the number two spot during its opening weekend. Inspired by Steve Alten’s 1999 novel, the sequel took in a whopping … Read more
After three weeks in cinemas, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One has reached a new box office milestone. The first in a two-parter to complete the spy franchise surpassed the $493 million mark at the worldwide box office (as reported by Collider), bringing it painfully close to half a billion. The film is still behind … Read more
The CEO of AMC Networks, Kristin Dolan, has said the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes will not affect their programming until “well into 2024,” according to a report from Deadline. It’s good news for fans of The Walking Dead, as it means the upcoming Rick and Michonne spin-off, recently allocated the official title of The Walking Dead: The Ones … Read more
The CEO of the television archive group Kaleidoscope believes missing Doctor Who episodes still exist and can be recovered in the future. Into the 1970s, the BBC had no official policy for archiving programme content, and as such, many stories within Doctor Who’s classic era (the majority of William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton’s back catalog) remain incomplete or … Read more