Legends of Tomorrow might not be entirely done with Hawkgirl and Hawkman, according to Phil Klemmer, the show’s co-creator, writer and EP. The first season of the time travelling lunacy partially revolved around the wingèd pair, who had continually reincarnated for thousands of years, only each time to be killed by megalomaniacal warlord Vandal Savage to fuel his immortality.
A remake of 1998 slasher flick Urban Legend is going ahead, to be directed by Grave Encounters’ Colin Minihan. The story follows the members of a university folklore class who become targeted by a killer recreating tales from contemporary mythology.
The ratings for season 12 of Doctor Who have continued to steadily decline, with the latest episode seeing the lowest viewership so far of Jodie Whittaker’s run playing the Time Lord.
For the second time in as many months, Brie Larson has the internet awash with reverence and lust over her choice of a dress. This time it surrounds her attire for the Academy Awards, a backless, cape-accessorized and figure-hugging garment that, while not displaying quite as much eye-pooping cleavage as her attire when she guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live in December, nevertheless left a memorable impression.
The In Memoriam section of the Academy Awards is an annual acknowledgement of industry figures who died in the previous year. This year’s rundown, however, has people talking for its high number of glaring omissions. Audiences picked up on several prominent names left off the reel, such as Luke Perry, Cameron Boyce and Jan-Michael Vincent, and one oversight that has genre fans particularly incensed was that of Sid Haig.
Despite Joker being the most heavily Oscar-nominated comic book movie in history, in the end it only took home two awards at this year’s ceremony: Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Original Score for composer Hildur Guðnadóttir. However, its wins continue a trend of live action movies featuring the Clown Prince of Crime to have picked up at least one of the film industry’s most coveted honors.
Justice For Han has finally arrived in Fast & Furious 9 when it was revealed the character somehow survived his death in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. However, returning director Justin Lin has stated his confusion over why his apparent murderer Deckard Shaw was welcomed as part of the “family” by Dom at the end of The Fate of the Furious.
It’s been known for a while now that Chris Rock was developing his own take on the Saw franchise, but few details have come to light about what we can expect, or even whether it’s a reboot or a continuation. The dearth of information has now been partially dealt with though by the release of an official synopsis for the film.
The internet is still cleaning up after the multiple nerdgasms induced by the announcement that Sam Raimi is in talks to take over directorial duties on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but some who recovered quickly enough are now suggesting that his involvement was predicted as far back as Raimi’s own Spider-Man 2.
Elijah Wood wants Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare On Elm Street reboot, in acknowledgment of the series' past before it moves forwards.
