Former Star Wars: The Acolyte producer Karyn McCarthy is suing Lucasfilm for breach of contract.
Having last year accepted their offer while also being actively courted by Apple for their series Sugar, she says she commenced work and was terminated two weeks later.
Having seen Sally Field (The Flying Nun) recently receive a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild it is perhaps timely for American streaming service Peacock to pit a nun against artificial intelligence in Mrs. Davis.
Not a conflict we would have dreamed up but it's attention grabbing and their teaser isn't terrible.
Four years after getting the green light, HBO's Dune: The Sisterhood series focusing on the mysterious Bene Gesserit has announced the exit of both its director Johan Renck and one of its leads, Shirley Henderson.
Creator, co-showrunner and writer of the pilot Diane Ademu-John is also departing. Alison Schapker is now showrunning solo.
Submitted by ionscifi on February 28, 2023 - 13:00
Reports earlier this month indicated that shot in Victoria sci-fi drama La Brea had been renewed for a third and likely final season. Shorter courtesy of an impending writer's strike.
Showrunner David Applebaum now contradicts those reports.
Submitted by ionscifi on February 27, 2023 - 09:08
Comedy couple Megan Mullally (Will and Grace, Parks and Recreation) and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) heve joined the cast for the fourth and final season of Netflix's Umbrella Academy.
As "a pair of mild-mannered Midwestern community college professors".
Submitted by ionscifi on February 24, 2023 - 14:07
Last month the Critics Choice Association showered indie sci-fi film Everything Everywhere All at Once with five wins out of fourteen nominations in their general awards.
In their Super Awards dedicated to fantasy, sci-fi, horror and action, Everything only received four nominations, tied with Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness in third place behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with five and The Batman with six.
Submitted by ionscifi on February 22, 2023 - 09:35
Thirteenth Doctor Who actor Jodie Whittaker has landed her first post Tardis role and it's in our backyard. Or on our beaches, rather.
She has temporarily relocated down under to film the six part series One Night (not sci-fi) set against the New South Wales coastline. Filming has already commenced in the Sydney and Illawarra region.
