Readers of our blog would know that we have a fuzzy relationship with vampires who straddle the fence between sci-fi and fantasy. Rather than trying to disentangle that we tend to take all comers.
Which brings us to a new comedy film starring Nicholas Hoult (multiple X-Men films), Awkwafina (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and Nicholas Cage (Ghost Rider) in which lackey abuse inspires stake rather than strike action. See trailer.
Victoria Alonso, president of Marvel physical production, post-production, visual effects and animation has been fired amidst allegations of toxic workplace behaviour and a flagging film flagship.
Marvel became an entertainment giant by thumbing their nose at the industry norm of spitting out garbage sequels to great films, and endless reboots. Beginning with Iron Man in 2008 they made a series of marvellous movies.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Netflix is breaking the bank on upcoming sci-fi movie Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
Directed by the Russo brothers and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely who have all worked extensively with Marvel, the film is estimated to have a budget in the high 200 million (US) range.
Last year Korean developer and publisher NCSoft unveiled an Unreal Engine 5 sci-fi interactive movie with superb visuals which caught our eye but didn't offer many details.
After just recently teasing some kind of continuation of his DC Justice League stories which most were not expecting, film director Zack Snyder has teased a "ridiculous scale" roleplaying game related to his Netflix Rebel Moon films.
According to Variety, inside sources tell them that both the Patty Jenkins Rogue Squadron and the untitled Kevin Feige Star Wars films have been scrapped.
Taika Waititi's film has survived the culling but it won't be known whether his or some other project is now head of the movie line until this year's Star Wars celebration in April when plans will be officially unveiled.
At this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once was nominated for seven (out of twelve total for film) categories and won them all, setting a record for the awards.
Only Jamie-Lee Curtis lost out to co-star Ke Huy Quan because this year the awards went gender neutral - everyone up against each other all together.
In an interview with Esquire for his latest film Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Chris Pine (Captain Kirk) was predictably questioned about the trapped in a temporal vortex Star Trek 4.
In part his reply was the usual "I know nothing and still haven't seen a script" but he went an extra parsec and suggested both that it may never be made and that the franchise is cursed.
