It’s no secret that sci-fi and pop culture memorabilia is a serious business. It’s an industry with many different niches and cliques, but there is no more valuable and competitive corner of the collectible market than that of Star Wars memorabilia. With billions of dollars spent on the franchise every year, there are some huge Star Wars merch collections out...
Universal is apparently so confident their Mummy reboot will be a hit that they’re already planning the next several years of their Dark Universe franchise. Not long after announcing The Bride of Frankenstein as the next release in the series, with Javier Bardem signing on to portray Frankenstein’s Monster, comes the news that the studio...
People complain a lot that Hollywood has run out of ideas, and well, they kinda have a point. There are currently dozens of remakes, reboots, and remakes/reboots masquerading as sequels of classic — and not so classic — sci-fi, fantasy, and horror movies in various stages of development all over Tinseltown, so take a look...
Neill Blomkamp might not be creating his Alien 5 movie anymore, but that doesn’t mean he’s ready to turn his back on the sci-fi genre completely. After Ridley Scott recently ruled out any chance of Blomkamp’s ‘spiritual sequel’ to Alien and Aliens becoming a reality, the District 9 director has found a way to get his sci-fi visions into production, bypassing the...
Universal recently announced the name of their new cinematic universe of old school monsters, which kicks off next month with The Mummy, will be called Dark Universe, and now we know which film the studio has planned next for the new franchise. Universal has announced that none other than The Bride of Frankenstein will...
The first full-length Game of Thrones season 7 trailer is here, and things don’t look very good for anybody currently residing in Westeros. The trailer begins with Cersei Lannister, now Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, describing her various enemies to her brother Jaime, and there sure is a lot of them: In the East, there...
We still haven’t seen a full-length trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but it feels like one may be arriving soon. Especially now that new photos, characters, and a behind-the-scenes video from the film have all been revealed. So let’s see what we can learn from the new photos below, courtesy of the latest...
Star Wars is back and bigger than ever, which could be good news for fans of sci-fi parodies. Since Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released back in 2015, box offices and toy stores have been ruled by the ‘galaxy far far away’, with Disney hauling in an eye-watering amount of cash from their new purchase. But, this...
These days, we take advantage of the fact that human beings are routinely blasted into outer space. I was born nearly two decades after the moon landing, so I grew up in a world where the miracle of people leaving Earth’s atmosphere was no longer celebrated as the monumental achievement that it is. But it wasn’t...
Ever since the days of Ray Harryhausen, I’ve been a big fan of stop-motion animation. And although the practice has long fallen out of favor in Hollywood, replaced with computer animation, once in a blue moon a new film shows up that looks to keep the tradition of stop-motion animation alive. Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires is...
