Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Fringe’s finale for it’s second season will pit Walter Bishop (John Noble) against William Bell (Leonard Nimoy). Consulting producer of the show Akiva Goldsman has confirmed this to Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly. “William and Walter will finally face off in the finale. These [characters] have so that they’re bringing …
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 »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 »Bryan Cranston Sets Off For ‘Mars’
Bryan Cranston, Emmy Award winner for his role in Breaking Bad and the dad from Malcom in the Middle, will be heading off to Mars for his latest project. The Disney/Pixar film John Carter of Mars (based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel series) is set to begin filming next …
Read More »Downey Jr Out, Craig (possibly) In for Cowboys & Aliens
Just one day after Robert Downey Jr had to opt out of the film Cowboys & Aliens due to conflicts with Sherlock Holmes 2, it looks as though director Jon Favreau has found a replacement in Daniel Craig. Variety has confirmed that a deal is in the works to get …
Read More »Star Trek Sequel Gets Release Date
Star date, June 29, 2012. To the joy of Star Trek fans everywhere, Paramount announced that as the date for the theatrical release of the next film the Star Trek franchise. Other than that Trek news though, nothing else is set. Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto (along with Zoe Saldana …
Read More »Robert Downey Jr. Out of Cowboys & Aliens Film
Robert Downey, Jr. will not be reunited with his Iron Man director, John Favreau for the Dreamworks/Universal sci-fi flick Cowboys & Aliens. Sources involved with the film say that Downey Jr. had to drop out due to a possible scheduling conflict with the sequel to Sherlock Holmes. The sequel to …
Read More »‘Battlestar Galactica’ Earns Top TV DVD Honor
The complete-series boxed set of the sci-fi series “Battlestar Galactica” has been named TV DVD of the year as part of the sixth annual TV DVD Awards. A panel of judges, comprised of DVD critics and journalists, selected five finalists in each of 11 categories from a field of studio …
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