Sweet public domain, nothing beats creating a film based on some property that you have to pay sweet F-all rights for. Dante’s Inferno is one such property, and it’s getting a feature film adaptation. Except this time, there will be some royalties due, as Fede “Evil Dead” Alavarez is going to be helming an adaptation of the 2010 EA video …
I love pulp stories (and no, those aren’t tales about buying the wrong orange juice), which is why I’m seriously looking forward to the feature film adaptation of pulp era hero Doc Savage. Well, that and the fact that the man behind said adaptation is Shane Black, writer of such action classics as Lethal Weapon, Long Kiss Goodnight and The Last Boy Scout (so you know …
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If you wait long enough, just about any property in Hollywood can get adapted for the big screen, Hell, that would explain Howard the Duck at least. One iconic fantasy series that is struggling though? Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. It’s gone back to the drawing board more often than my attempts at fine art, switching from massive trilogy blockbuster …
It’s no secret just how much we loved Dredd 3D last year. I’m still running around the offices with a bucket on my head dispensing justice to people who have no idea what is going on, while Kervyn is convinced that his 50cc scooter is Justice Department material. It’s a pity that the film never did that well at the …
When news broke that Roland Emmerich will be planning a new Independence Day film, it was met with mixed feelings by most of us sci-fi nerds. This would normally be joyous news, but since Emmerich has also announced his involvement in two other sci-fi projects along with a ‘reboot’ of the Stargate franchise (disregarding the much-loved Stargate SG1 series as …
At this point in time, we’ve heard from just about everybody who possesses an internet connection, at least two working fingers and often nowhere near as much brain cells on the surprise casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in Zack Snyder’s still untitled Man of Steel sequel. For a while there it looked like we may just have been on …
MORTAL KOMBAAAAAT!!!!! Right, now that I earwormed you into the right mood, bobbing your heads to that piece of 90’s techno music brilliance while trying to remember in which order they read out the names in the song, we can talk Kevin Tancharoen’s Mortal Kombat. Not Mortal Kombat: Legacy, the pretty cool web-series he’s doing though. No, I’m talking about the …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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