When book and movie worlds collide! The steampunk author discusses the route from page to screen This is a guest blog by author Stephen Hunt… I came fairly close to achieving this goal in the great apple-bobbing sideshow fair that is the publishing/movie-TV world conjunction. My first novel, The Court …

The first logo and plot synopsis of Marvel’s next spin-off TV show was unveiled this weekend With the announcement on Friday that Agents Of SHIELD has been renewed and Agent Carter has been picked up for an ABC series, we’re now shown the first logo and the series’ pitch : …

Godzilla has unveiled a bumper batch of new footage online, with the release of no fewer than five clips from Gareth Edwards’ forthcoming reboot. The new clips show off plenty of human action from the likes of Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche et al, while there is also some monster-based chaos …

In a battered, isolated farmhouse somewhere in a war zone, a grieving may lays out the corpse of his wife. His two children over nervously. Then trucks approach. The father grabs his shotgun – but it’s not troops, but a small travelling circus. They pitch camp; their aged ringmaster is …

“This is war, man, not fucking hopscotch!” barks P.K. Sullivan (Gage Munroe) – a pint-sized General Patton – to his troops, a group of all-American 12-year-olds playing soldiers in the woods. Truth is, it’s a bit of both. Although their ‘guns’ can’t actually hurt, their emergent killer instincts can, and …

Star Wars Rebels has released a full trailer, rather fittingly on May the 4th – the unofficial Star Wars day (‘May the 4th be with you!’, geddit?) Set between the events of movies Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope , the animated series has …

Wallsauce.com has recently introduced a range of wall mural products for fans of Batman, Superman, The Justice League Of America and The Hobbit . The wall murals are all made to measure and can be printed to order, to suit different wall sizes. Not only can you choose from DC …

Sam Mendes has been talking to US chat show host Charlie Rose about what attracted him back to the director’s chair for Bond 24 , with the primary motivation seeming to be a sense of unfinished business. “I started a number of stories that were incomplete,” explains Mendes. “I cast …

A little reminder: the World Science Fiction Convention returns to London after 49 years. Sign up now… As you may know, the World Science Fiction Convention (this year dubbed Loncon ) is going to be held in London this August – for the first time since 1965. The guests of …

Kirsten Dunst’s 2012 mirror-world movie Upside Down was slammed in the US, but Yasuhiro Yoshiura’s anime fable makes nifty work of a similar world-inverted motif. At heart it’s a coming-of-ager about two teens and their oppressive elders, with the clever spin that youngsters Age and Patema occupy alternaworlds with opposing …