2029 – A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together, with her fellow agents from Section 9, they embark on a high-tech race against …
Read More »‘Constantine’ Resurrected as Animated Series by CW Seed
Constantine is coming back. The DC Comics drama, which was most recently adapted for TV by NBC, will return as an animated series on CW Seed, it was announced Sunday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The animated series will consist of five or six 10-minute episodes that will …
Read More »‘Rogue One’ Squeaks Out Another Box Office Win
Rogue One, the stand-alone Star Wars movie starring Felicity Jones, squeaked out another box office win, narrowly beating out Hidden Figures. The film has now earned a massive $477.3 million domestically and is virtually guaranteed of crossing the $500 million mark. The pic easily won the foreign weekend race with $56.6 million, …
Read More »Scholastic To Publish Updated Edition of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
Scholastic will publish an updated edition of the bestselling and collectible companion book to the Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, with a new foreword by J.K. Rowling, writing as Newt Scamander, and a new cover by Headcase Design on March 14, 2017. The book will be published simultaneously with …
Read More »Inside, Overwatch, Firewatch And Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Lead 2017 Game Developers Choice Award Nominations
Organizers have revealed the nominees for the 17th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, the premier accolades for peer recognition celebrating the industry’s top games, studios and developers. Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine Productions, will return as host of the awards show for his sixth time, having previously hosted the Choice Awards …
Read More »Cult of Chucky Start of Production Announced
Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions — an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll with an innocently …
Read More »Geof Darrow’s ‘Shaolin Cowboy’ Returns in 2017
Get a kung-fu grip on yourself as Geof Darrow’s blood-spattered killing machine the Shaolin Cowboy returns this April in a new four-issue mini-series to be published by Dark Horse Comics. The Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop the Reign? will be written and illustrated by Darrow, who has won the Inkpot Award and won …
Read More »Image Comics Kicks Off 25th Anniversary With Nod To CyberForce
Image Comics announced monthly theme variants in celebration of the company’s 25th anniversary this year. The series of variants will launch with Rick Remender and Wes Craig’s DEADLY CLASS #26 and a cover that commemorates Marc Silvestri’s CYBERFORCE #1. Each month of the anniversary year will boast a special theme …
Read More »Eclipse To Make Trade Paperback Debut
Fan-favorite creative team Zack Kaplan and Giovanni Timpano will release the first trade paperback collection of their ongoing gritty sci-fi/horror series ECLIPSE this February from Image Comics and Top Cow Productions. In the near future, a mysterious solar event has transformed the sun’s light into deadly immolating rays. The world’s …
Read More »Dark Horse Adapts Melville’s Whale Of A Tale Into A Graphic Novel
Dark Horse Books announced the Vents d’Ouest graphic novel adaptation of Herman Melville’s timeless classic Moby Dick, available in English for the first time on February 8, 2017. A masterpiece of French literary comics, this hardcover edition collects both Vents d’Ouest volumes and features illustrations by the award-winning French author and …
Read More »