Blog Archive: January 2023

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Glum Golden Globes

The evening started well for science fiction with Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) winning best supporting actor and actress in film.

Angela's win meant a loss for Jamie-Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once) but there can only be one winner in each category.

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WE 2 in US Cinemas

Chinese sci-fi epic The Wandering Earth 2 will release in US and Canadian cinemas, including Imax.

It's a prequel to The Wandering Earth by Chinese sci-fi author Liu Cixin who also wrote best-seller The Three Body Problem.

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Sydney Free WB Films

As part of their 100th anniversary celebrations, Warner Bros. is holding a free open air cinema in Sydney's Darling Quarter from January 12 to 29.

Superheroes dominate the second week with the first screening of Black Adam outside of cinemas, plus Wonder Woman, The Dark Knight and "more".

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Ant-Man Trailer

New year, new trailer for Marvel's upcoming Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.

Really, it looks great but that's only what you expect of a Marvel trailer.

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Borderlands Film Update

What happened to the Borderlands film whose trailer was so well received at last year's Cinemacon in April? Then nothing but silence.

Reshoots taking place this March with a different director Tim Miller (Deadpool) because Eli Roth is unavailable.

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Berlanti is Back

Greg Berlanti is one of the biggest names in genre television and he has just signed on for four more years with Warner Bros.

Potentially noteworthy is the nature of the deal.

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Pantheon Pulled

AMC have swung the axe for a third time in a month, cancelling animated series Pantheon, but with one interesting difference.

Pantheon's second season has not aired but has already been produced.

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Inside Out

In June last year during their Geeked Week event, Netflix dropped a surprise season 2 renewal for Inside Job during its mid-season break.

Which they've now reversed. Damn.

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Handsome But Not Huge

Our title refers to the budget for the next series of Doctor Who, which in November UK entertainment magazine Broadcast estimated could be in the region of 10 million pounds per episode, up from 1-3, but Russell T. Davies has now debunked:

If that was the budget, I’d be speaking to you from my base on the Moon.

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AMC Axe Another

Last month AMC cancelled Moonhaven, after it had originally been hailed a great success and renewed for a second season.

Now they've also axed first season still in production sci-fi comedy / drama Demascus, we which we recall sounding rather promising when it was announced.

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