Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More For more than five decades, Barbie has inspired girls to dream, discover and explore a world without limits. Celebrating her 125th career this year, Barbie kicks-off a global campaign to further inspire girls by partnering with The White House Project and Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation, as …
Read More »Sony Acquires the Electric Church
Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights to the sci-fi novel series by Jeff Somers, with Trevor Sands to adapt the first book in the series titled ‘The Electric Church’. Jimmy Miller is producing, under the name ‘the Avery Cates Project’ after the book’s main character. Set in the not …
Read More »Jason Momoa is Conan the Barbarian
After weeks of speculation on who would play the warrior, it is now confirmed that Jason Momoa will be Conan the Barbarian. Casting had been a struggle for Lionsgate with three actors in the running for the part. Kellan Lutz (Twilight) and Jared Padelecki (Supernatural) were the other names mentioned …
Read More »Scorsese Directs Hugo Cabret
It’s been a good week for Martin Scorsese. After winning the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes this past Sunday, it’s now confirmed that Scorsese is back in the director’s chair for the film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Scorsese and producer Graham King …
Read More »Marvel Dreams Of Electric Ants
Marvel and Electric Shepherd Productions are proud to announce that the graphic fiction adaptation of Electric Ant, Philip K Dick’s seminal science fiction short story, arrives in comic shops this April with Philip K Dick’s Electric Ant #1! Acclaimed creators David Mack (Daredevil, Kabuki) and Pascal Alixe (Ultimate X-Men), along with cover artist Paul Pope …
Read More »Imagine Entertainment Produces Gene Roddenberry’s ‘The Questor Tapes’
Roddenberry Productions has entered into a deal with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Television to develop the Gene Roddenberry pilot “The Questor Tapes.” The announcement was made at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame induction ceremony where Rod Roddenberry accepted the posthumous honor, presented by …
Read More »TNT Explodes With New Series
As part of a continuing strategy to expand its slate of original programming, TNT has given the greenlight to three new original series: a bold alien-invasion series from DreamWorks Television and Steven Spielberg that stars Noah Wyle (ER, TNT’s The Librarian movies); DELTA BLUES (working title), an offbeat series starring …
Read More »Dr Horrible Takes On Penguins of Madagascar (sort of)
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private face off against the malevolent dolphin, Dr. Blowhole, in The Penguins of Madagascar’s first Nickelodeon special, “Dr. Blowhole’s Revenge.” Neil Patrick Harris (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, How I Met Your Mother) guest stars in the half-hour special as the penguins’ long-time nemesis out for revenge …
Read More »The Goon Returns
Fans and critics alike rejoiced in 2008, when creator Eric Powell took his redneck zombie noir, The Goon, monthly for an entire calendar year. Following the release of the landmark graphic novel Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker, Powell laid out his most complex story line to date, spanning …
Read More »Pirates 4 to Shoot in Hawaii This Summer
Hawaii governor, Linda Lingle, has issued a press release confirming that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the Pirates franchise will be shooting on the islands of Kaua’i and O’ahu. The production is expected to generate an estimated $85 million dollars for the state’s economy …
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