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A long time ago, a grade-schooler got his hands on a spaceship. He followed the assembly instructions as best he could, snapping on the cannons, the landing gear, the tiny interstellar-chess table. Soon enough, Rian Johnson was holding his very own Millennium Falcon. "The first thing I did," he recalls, "was throw it across the room, to see how it would look flying." He grins. "And it broke."

Johnson grew up, went to film school, made some good stuff, including the entertainingly twisted 2012 sci-fi drama Looper. He's nearly 44 now, though...

"It's morphin' time!" Funko has released a new line of Pop! vinyl figures and Pocket Pop! Keychains based on the upcoming Power Rangers movie! Also in today's Highlights: second season details for the On Story radio program, Drifter acquisition details, and Comet TV's January programming.

Funko's Power Rangers Collectibles Release Details / Images: From Funko: "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

To celebrate the upcoming release of their all-new major motion picture, in theaters March 24th, 2017, the Power Rangers are getting fired up with Funko-fied fury!

Zack, Kimberly, Billy, Trini, and Jason are coming soon to Pop! Vinyl and Pocket Pop! Keychains!

You can also collect the villainous Rita Repulsa, available exclusively at Hot Topic!

This winter, it's morphin' time!

Available now!

Pop! Keychains: Power Rangers

Available now!"

Images via Funko:

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On Story Radio Show Second Season Details: Press Release: "Austin, Texas - January 4, 2017 - Austin Film Festival (Aff), also known as "The Writers Festival,...

We can’t blame you for thinking you know all there is to know about your favorite beloved holiday flicks. After all, annual 24-hour marathons and Netflix access make it almost too easy to unintentionally learn every heartwarming and hilarious line.

But even the most diehard Christmas movie fanatics still have secrets to discover, from just how much actors went it took to bring storybook characters to life, to the cameos you might have missed even on your 10th viewing.

1. Now a beloved classic, It’s a Wonderful Life was a total box office flop when it was released in...

Depraved convicts ! Crazy Manhattan gin parties! Society dames poaching other women's husbands! A flimflam artist scamming the uptown sophisticates! All these forbidden attractions are here and more -- including Bette Davis's epochal seduction line about impulsive kissing versus good hair care. It's a 9th collection of racy pre-Code wonders. Forbidden Hollywood Volume 9 Big City Blues, Hell's Highway, The Cabin in the Cotton, When Ladies Meet, I Sell Anything DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1932-1934 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 63, 62, 78, 85, 70 min. / Street Date October 27, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 40.99 Starring Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Humphrey Bogart; Richard Dix, Tom Brown; Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan, Berton Churchill; Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady, Frank Morgan; Pat O' Brien, Ann Dvorak, Claire Dodd, Roscoe Karns. Cinematography James Van Trees; Edward Cronjager; Barney McGill; Ray June Written by Lillie Hayward, Ward Morehouse, from his play; Samuel Ornitz, Robert Tasker, Rowland Brown...

Editor's Note: RogerEbert.com is proud to reprint Roger Ebert's 1978 entry from the Encyclopedia Britannica publication "The Great Ideas Today," part of "The Great Books of the Western World." Reprinted with permission from The Great Ideas Today ©1978 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

It's a measure of how completely the Internet has transformed communication that I need to explain, for the benefit of some younger readers, what encyclopedias were: bound editions summing up all available knowledge, delivered to one's home in handsome bound editions. The "Great Books" series zeroed in on books about history, poetry, natural science, math and other fields of study; the "Great Ideas" series was meant to tie all the ideas together, and that was the mission given to Roger when he undertook this piece about film.

Given the venue he was writing for, it's probably wisest to look at Roger's long, wide-ranging piece as a snapshot of the...

The Corner Show #1 discovered and curated by Drew McWeeny The following is the first installment in a new regular feature here at HitFix. People are fascinated by stories of films that were almost made, and we've certainly dug into that subject in the past. This is a new way of doing that in an ongoing format, and we hope you enjoy what is meant to be a game, a fun way of looking at an alternate movie history. It is safe to say that I had a very challenging 2014. So maybe what happened was a complete break with reality. Who could blame me? There's only so much anyone can take, and I've certainly had my own limits tested recently. So trust me.. at first, I considered forgetting all about what happened this past weekend and never writing a word about it. But it was so strange and so special that...

2014 was an incredibly rewarding year to be a comics reader. Veteran creators, like Grant Morrison, Kurt Busiek, and Matt Wagner continued to churn out some of the best work of their career while new creators, like Noelle Stevenson, Babs Tarr, and Tula Lotay had very strong starts. Marvel and DC published their fair share of events, including Original Sin, Multiversity, Spider-Verse, and seemingly a half-dozen Green Lantern crossovers, but they also took risks with new characters like Ms. Marvel, a mysterious female Thor, and the cast of Gotham Academy. Marvel and DC artists went far away from any semblance of a house style from the tapestry-like spreads of Elektra‘s Michael del Mundo, the Silver Age revivals of Silver Surfer‘s Mike Allred and She-Hulk‘s Javier Pulido, and the stylish character designs and Instagram-style layouts of Babs Tarr’s Batgirl among many others.

But Image Comics was the real...

2014 has been a landmark year for comic book movies. Not only did we get two of Marvel's best-ever films (Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America: The Winter Soldier), but the major studios announced enough future superhero adaptations to take us all the way up to 2019.

It's been a pretty landmark year for comic books too. It feels as though more genuinely exciting new titles launched in 2014 than in the past ten years combined, with DC, Marvel and especially Image taking big risks and creating some seriously compelling comics in the process.

We've picked out our 14 favourite comics from this year in terms of big-screen potential:

14. Spread

The Comic: On paper, Spread doesn't sound like the most original book on the market. Like The Walking Dead, it's set in a post-apocalyptic world where survivors fight off gruesome monsters and each other. As with The Thing, those monsters are giant shape-shifting...

Some will say they knew all along, and some are still scraping their jaws off the floor A big surprise, a Big surprise.

Dark Water

By Steven Moffat

Directed by Rachel Talalay

Deciding to come clean with her boyfriend Danny, Clara begins to bear all to him over the phone, only to have the call, and his life, cut short as Danny is struck fatally by a passing car. Clara passes through the five stages of grief off camera, and advances to step six – Plan To Get Him Back. She attempts to threaten The Doctor into saving him, but learns quickly that it’s not necessary. As they arrive in a bizarre mausoleum, Danny awakens on the other side of the equation, in the same office where we’ve seen several people arrive, having it explained to him that he’s dead. The Doctor and Clara are told a wild...

Director Rachel Talalay on the Doctor Who series finale stories, and the tactics they used to keep the big spoilers in tact...

Rachel Talalay's directorial career has taken her in lots of different directions. She's helmed features such as Tank Girl, Ghost In The Machine and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. She's directed TV shows as varied as Ally McBeal, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Supernatural and Flash Gordon.

And this weekend? The long-time Doctor Who fan has the small job of rounding off Peter Capaldi's maiden series as the Time Lord. Talalay has directed both Dark Water and Death In Heaven and - without spoilers- she spared us some time to talk about the challenge...

Please note: this article does not contains spoilers, and we've used the most spoiler-free promo pics we can find to illustrate it.

I wrote a spoiler-free review of your episode this morning, and I've got to say,...

A former Alpha is poised to uncover Haven‘s many troubling secrets.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Laura Mennell, who played the “suggestive” Nina on Syfy’s Alphas, has joined Haven Season 5 in the recurring role of a brilliant (and, well, beautiful) epidemiologist from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who fears the titular town is on the verge of a deadly viral outbreak.

Mennell’s character is described as “a force to be reckoned with,” as Audrey (played by Emily Rose), Nathan (Lucas Bryant) and Duke (Eric Balfour) quickly will discover.

Longtime TV writer David Tynan passed away November 11 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008. He was 62. A series writer on Highlander, Poltergeist: The Legacy, and First Wave on which he also served as supervising producer, Tynan was a member of the Writers Guild of Canada and the Writers Guild Of America, West. His credits also include Flash Gordon and Scene of the Crime, and in 1996 received the Wgc’s Leo Award for Best Screenwriter – Dramatic Television Series.

Welcome to Issue 12 of ‘The Marvelous Da7e!’

Real quick mission statement: this column is for discussion of superhero movie news and superhero movies. Titular allegiance aside, this sphere includes non-Marvel properties.

This week: What we can learn by defining Howard The Duck.

Pardon me, but I’ve been re-watching Howard The Duck. The 1986 live-action creature-feature “sci-fi/comedy,” PG-rated zoophilia and notorious flop.

It’s not a good movie. It’s an enjoyable movie, but not because of what is on screen…okay, scratch-that. It has the most physically attractive appearence of Lea Thompson on film and this time, she’s not the mother of our main character, so you can totally lust after her up until the end where it seems like she’s actually going to have sex with this duck.

Ducks, who – by the way – are basically rapists across the board. But that’s neither here nor there.

One of the cops of "Rookie Blue" is taking up medicine. On the home screen, at least.

Eric Johnson, currently seen on the Canadian-made ABC police drama on a recurring basis as Detective Luke Callaghan -- ex-fiance of Officer Andy McNally (Missy Peregrym) -- has been cast in "The Knick," an upcoming Cinemax medical series with an impressive pedigree.

Also an executive producer of the show, "Traffic" Oscar winner and current "Behind the Candelabra" Emmy nominee Steven Soderbergh will direct the entire first season of the drama about a New York hospital at the start of the 20th century, when treatment methods were relatively primitive and regularly tested doctors' skills.

Johnson will play one such medic who works under Knickerbocker Hospital's chief surgeon (Clive Owen, in his first TV acting since his Emmy nomination last year for HBO's "Hemingway & Gellhorn").

Slated for a 2014 debut, "The Knick" marks a broadening of Cinemax's original programming,...

The pact means indie studio Entertainment One will exclusively produce and handle distribution on all TV projects from The Cartel including scripted and unscripted series and movies of the week. The companies already have a development slate in the works including Company Men, created by Alphas co-creator Michael Karnow; Becoming Sherlock by Cassandra Clare, author of Sony pic The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, due out August 21; and Facing Demons by Flash Gordon executive producer/showrunner Peter Hume. “The Cartel brings a network of outstanding creative talent to eOne and opens the door to multi-platform partnerships and co-production opportunities for both U.S. and international audiences”, said Michael Rosenberg, eOne Evp U.S. Scripted Television, in announcing the deal today. The Cartel reps writers, directors, producers, and production companies, and on the production side the company and its subsidiaries (Cartel Pictures, Remember Dreaming Productions, and Pulser Productions) have helped produce...

Eric Johnson may not be a "Rookie Blue" regular anymore, but he still feels at home any time he returns as Detective Luke Callaghan.

He does so again in "Skeletons," Thursday's (July 25) episode as Season 4 of the Canadian-made ABC police drama continues. Luke is back at 15 Division to work with the cops -- including his ex-fiancee, Officer Andy McNally (Missy Peregrym) -- to find a missing girl who may have been taken by a kidnapper copying the felon who abducted Officer Gail Peck (Charlotte Sullivan) last season.

"There were times in the second season where they really didn't know what to do with Luke," the friendly Johnson allows to Zap2it. "Once the relationship with Andy broke down, what was he gonna do? You don't want the mopey ex-boyfriend wandering the halls for 20 episodes, because it's just not interesting.

"What I love about coming back now," adds Johnson, "is that whenever Luke is back,...

You can put dinosaurs in just about anything and we'll watch it, which is one reason why we're sharing this first look promo for Syfy's newest Original Series, "Primeval: New World," premiering June 8th. The remaining reasons? All the other creatures that come through the anomalies with them of course! Check it out.

Synopsis:

The 13-episode "Primeval: New World" stars Niall Matter ("Eureka"), Sara Canning ("The Vampire Diaries"), and Danny Rahim ("Eastenders") as a team of animal experts and scientists investigating paranormal events while battling both prehistoric and futuristic creatures. Amanda Tapping, who starred in the Syfy series "Sanctuary" and is currently recurring on "Supernatural," directed several episodes.

Based on the original "Primeval" series from Impossible Pictures, the "Primeval: New World" creative team is led by executive producers Martin Wood ("Sanctuary," "Stargate: Atlantis") and Gillian Horvath ("Sanctuary," Highlander"). The spinoff was created by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens ("Star Trek: Enterprise...

Summer used to be the time that we’d see Warehouse 13, Haven, and – sigh – Eureka return with new seasons, but that’s all changed. Warehouse 13 returns for the second half of its giant 20-episode season on Monday, Haven is now a fall series, and Eureka… well, you know.

But chin up! We have Season 2 of Continuum and standalone seasons of Sinbad and Primeval: New World coming our way, along with the return of Face Off, Ghost Hunters, and many other competition and nonscripted series, not to mention a Twilight Zone marathon, a Roger Corman marathon, and more Original Movies with excellent titles. Check em all out below; series broadcast info will be updated on the SciFiMafia.com Spring and Summer Primetime TV Schedule.

Syfy Launches A Summer Of Imagination And Adventure Premieres Of Reality Series Joe Rogan Questions Everything, Cosworld, Notorious Hauntings And Exit All-new Episodes Of Face Off,...

If you watched the British series "Primeval" (which we absolutely loved), then this news should be of interest: Building on its success with acquired series such as "Lost Girl" and "Continuum," Syfy will air the "Primeval" spinoff "Primeval: New World" beginning Saturday, June 8th.

From the Press Release:

The 13-episode "Primeval: New World" stars Niall Matter ("Eureka"), Sara Canning ("The Vampire Diaries"), and Danny Rahim ("Eastenders") as a team of animal experts and scientists investigating paranormal events while battling both prehistoric and futuristic creatures. Amanda Tapping, who starred in the Syfy series "Sanctuary" and is currently recurring on "Supernatural," directed several episodes.

Based on the original "Primeval" series from Impossible Pictures, the "Primeval: New World" creative team is led by executive producers Martin Wood ("Sanctuary," "Stargate: Atlantis") and Gillian Horvath ("Sanctuary," Highlander"). The spinoff was created by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens ("Star Trek: Enterprise", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World...

It looks like our summer is shaping up very nicely, thanks to some excellent scheduling by The Powers That Be. At least our weekends will be taken care of. True Blood will almost certainly return in its usual Sunday at 9/8c slot, so there’s Sunday sorted. We told you earlier today that Zero Hour will be airing Saturdays at 8/7c, which fits in perfectly with this latest scheduling announcement: Primeval: New World will be airing Saturdays at 9/8c, followed by Sinbad at 10/9c on Syfy.

You may recall that we told you about the Syfy pickup of Primeval: New World back in October. You’ll recognize it as a spinoff from the original Primeval which aired here originally on BBC America. You’ll also recognize the star, Niall Matter, as Zane from the late great Eureka. Primeval: New World is another series acquired by Syfy from our pals up in Canada,...

We have been reading, longingly, about the upcoming Canadian spinoff of the UK dinosaurs-in-the-modern-world series Primeval entitled Primeval: New World. We thought it would be fun. Then when we heard Niall Matter (Zane on Eureka) had been cast, we got even more jealous of our northern neighbors. Then when we heard it would be promoted as “darker and scarier” than the original series from whence it sprung, it sounded right up our alley. But since it wasn’t literally up Our alley, we sat and stewed.

But that is all behind us now as we rejoice over today’s announcement that Syfy has picked up the series for the U.S. market. First we have a trailer for you to check out, so that you can be as excited as we are, before getting to the details of the press release:

Trailer: Primeval: New World

Click here to view the embedded video.

Sanctuary starred Amanada Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus, protector of abnormals.

A former writer and producer on Sanctuary is offering some of the last remaining props from the sci-fi series in an attempt to raise funds for the charitable foundation that grew out of it.

Gillian Horvath, who was a writer and supervising producer on the Vancouver-shot show, is selling mementos from Sanctuary in support of Sanctuary For Kids. Sanctuary was cancelled earlier this year by Syfy after four seasons. It was originally created as a web series in 2007.

Sanctuary For Kids was formed by the show’s creator Damian Kindler, the star and executive producer of Sanctuary, Amanda Tapping, and Jill Bodie. It has funded services supporting children in various parts of the world, including Vancouver, Haiti, Pakistan and Nepal.

Items on offer in Horvath’s Sanctuary Keepsake Campaign (#SanctuaryKeepsakeCampaign on Twitter) include pens and pencils, wine corks, wine...

Cult character actor Michael Ironside has a long list of worthy accomplishments. He played the brain-bursting telepath in Scanners, the jingoistic one-armed military commander in Starship Troopers, and the victim of the immortal line “See you at the party, Richter!” in Total Recall. (And, no big deal, he was Jester in Top Gun.) And for the last decade, Ironside has also been voicing stealth superagent Sam Fisher in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell series. That’s all about to change. In the just-announced sequel Splinter Cell Blacklist, Sam Fisher will be played — that is, voice-acted and performance-captured — by Eric Johnson,...

Andrew-Lee Potts will reprise his role as Connor Temple from the original series of Primeval but only as a guest.

Canada’s stellar channel for science fiction, fantasy and horror, Space, has announced the start of production on Primeval: New World, the spin-off from the popular British sci-fi series Primeval. Thirteen episodes of the one-hour drama will be filmed in Vancouver.

“Space is delighted to begin production on an exceptional homegrown series that is a counterpart to one of our channel’s most successful shows,” said Corrie Coe, Senior Vice-President, Independent Production at Space’s parent company, Bell Media. “We are thrilled to work with Omni Film and, with the support of Impossible Pictures, we know it will both capture the essence of the original U.K. series and bring a unique sensibility to the screen. Both existing fans of the Primeval brand and the Space audience alike are sure...

Sarah Jones in Alcatraz -”Cal Sweeney” Teaser Images

Alcatraz is back tonight after last week’s the first taste of the latest from J.J. Abrams, but that’s old news, having already having brought you looks from tonight’s episode (“Kit Nelson”, a kidnapper focused former Alcatraz inmate return) last week. Now, Via our sister-site Criminal Complex we have for your pleasure a look at next week’s episode, titled Alcatraz “Cal Sweeney” which will feature as its villain of the week Eric Johnson, someone Smallville fans may recall, or cultists of the the defunct Flash Gordon show on the then Scifi channel.

I offered my own thought on the premiere of Alcatraz earlier this week and will be tuning in tonight to see if it’s a keeper. next week, Johnson will be playing a returned bank robber for the cast of Sarah Jones, Sam Neill, Jorge Garcia...

Former Smallville star Eric Johnson has won a guest role on Fox's Alcatraz. The Rookie Blue actor will appear in the upcoming sci-fi drama's fourth episode, according to TV Guide. He will play Cal Sweeney, a suave bank robber and Alcatraz prisoner with a deep interest in safety deposit boxes and the secrets they contain. Johnson currently plays Detective Luke Callaghan on ABC's Rookie Blue and appeared as Whitney Fordman on Smallville between 2001 and 2004. He also played the title role in the Sci Fi Channel's short-lived Flash Gordon reboot in 2007. Michael Eklund has also signed up to play an escaped (more)...

Here’s what hits stores this week.

Boom! Studios

28 Days Later Volume 6 Homecoming Tp, $12.99

7 Warriors #2 (Of 3), $3.99

Farscape Volume 6 Compulsions Tp, $12.99

Insurrection V3.6 Tp, $14.99

Irredeemable #1 (John Cassaday Artist Edition Cover), $3.99

Operation Broken Wings 1936 #2 (Of 3), $3.99

Reading Comics Postcard Book Tp, $11.95

Roger Langridge’s Snarked #3, $3.99

Dark Horse Comics

Baltimore The Curse Bells #5 (Of 5), $3.50

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 #4 (Georges Jeanty Variant Cover), $2.99

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 #4 (Steve Morris Regular Cover), $2.99

Flash Gordon Comic Book Archives Volume 5 Hc, $49.99

Kull The Cat And the Skull #3 (Of 4), $3.50

Occultist #2 (Of 3), $3.50

Orchid #3, $3.50

PC Cast’s House Of Night #2 (Of 5), $2.99

Star Wars Agent Of The Empire Iron Eclipse #1 (Of 5)(Stephane Roux Regular Cover), $3.50

Star Wars Agent Of The Empire Iron Eclipse #1 (Of 5)(Dave Wilkins Variant Cover), $3.50

Star Wars Episode I Adventures Tp, $7.99

Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace Tp, $7.99

Strain #1 (Of 11)(Mike Huddleston Regular Cover), $1.00

Strain #1 (Of 11)(Steve Morris Variant Cover), $3.50

Turok Son Of Stone Aztlan Volume 1 Tp,...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

Andrews McMeel

Dilbert How’s That Underling Thing Working Tp, $12.99

Antarctic Press

Gearhearts Steampunk Glamor Revue #1, $3.99

Gold Digger Christmas Special #5, $3.50

Very Zombie Christmas #3, $3.50

Arcana Studio

Scrooge And Santa Gn (resolicited)(not verified by Diamond), $14.95

Archaia Entertainment

Cyclops #7, $3.95

Everlast Hc, $19.95

Jim Henson’s The Storyteller Hc, $19.95

Killing Pickman Hc (resolicited), $24.95

Secret History #17, $5.95

Sigh Hc, $10.95

Tale Of Sand Hc, $29.95

Archie Comics

Archie Cyber Adventures Tp (not verified by Diamond), $9.95

Archie Double Digest #224, $3.99

Mega Man #8, $2.99

Sonic The Hedgehog Select Volume 4 Zone Wars Tp, $11.95

Avatar Press

Stitched #2 (Mike Wolfer Regular Cover), $3.99

Stitched #2 (Mike Wolfer Gore Cover), $3.99

Stitched #2 (Mike Wolfer Wraparound Cover), $3.99

Stitched #2 (Movie Photo Variant Cover), Ar

Black Library

Faith And Fire Mmpb (Warhammer 40K)(New Edition), $8.99

Hammer And Anvil Mmpb (Warhammer...

The cast of "Glee" is paying tribute to one of the biggest cult films of all time -- "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

On Tuesday's Halloween themed episode, Rachel, Finn, and all the gleeks are doing "The Time Warp."

Check out photos from the anticipated episode, dammit, Janet!

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" lives! Check out "Extra's" 10 reasons why you should see it again!

10 Reasons to See 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' AgainEveryone's...

We recently reported that Miles Fisher (Superhero Movie) had been the first cast member to join Final Destination 5. Today Bloody Disgusting have confirmed that he is to be joined by television alumni Nicholas D’Agosto (Supernatural), Ellen Wroe (Huge) and Meghan Ory (Flash Gordon).

With further reports that an offer has also been made to David Koechner (Snakes on a Plane), it does appear that director Steven Quale is going for an older group of survivors last night, hopefully in keeping with franchise-highpoint Final Destination 2.

The Eric Heisserer (The Thing) scripted fifth installment opens with a bridge disaster and will stalk a third dimension near you in August of next year.

ABC recently premiered a new police series for the summer months called Rookie Blue. Many have compared it in concept to Southland on NBC (and now TNT). Will this one stick around long enough to see season two?

Rookie Blue revolves around five rookie cops who are plunged into world of big city policing. The ensemble cast of the drama includes Missy Peregrym (Reaper), Gregory Smith (Everwood), Eric Johnson (Flash Gordon), Ben Bass, Enuka Okuma, Travis Milne, Charlotte Sullivan, Matt Gordon, Noam Jenkins, and Melanie Nicholls-King.

The TV show debuted on June 24th to a 1.9 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic and 7.24 million viewers. In the regular season, those numbers wouldn't be cause for celebration but, in the summer months, they're quite respectable. For the timeslot, the premiere ranked second in the demo and first in total viewers.

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Before you get all up in our grill about covering this awesome looking coming of age flick you should know that first time director Derick Martini has written episodes of Flash Gordon. So there, he's got his genre cred locked down. Not that he needs it with a film that looks this good of course.

Based on the true childhood experiences of director Derick Martini, Lymelife is set in the 70’s, and is seen through the innocent eyes of 15-year old Scott Bartlett. A unique coming of age story, Lymelife explores first love, last love and the dangers of the American Dream. This hilarious, violent and sometimes tragic look at family dynamics weaves an intricate tapestry of American life during a time of drastic economic and emotional change. Award Winning and Critically acclaimed, Lymelife features a magnificent ensemble cast who make you laugh and cry along with them.

Lymelife has...

Welcome to another fun filled installment of Screen Rant’s Weekend Movie News Wrap Up.

This week:

We see who is penning Flash Gordon, we learn some details about Alex Proyas’ Dracula Year Zero, discover what David Goyer is working on, Channing Tatum lines up something for after GI Joe and The Conversation goes to television.

1. The Flash Gordon Remake/ adaptation has now grabbed Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to pen the script. The Neil Moritiz produced, Breck Eisner (Sahara) directed film is in production at Columbia.

I just hope the film is more like the 1980’s movie and less like the Si-Fi channel show.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

2. Speaking of Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, their script for Dracula Year Zero is to be directed by Robot and Dark City director Alex Proyas. Proyas recently gave some details about the Dracula prequel/origin story:

“You could see it as a...

LONDON -- NBC Universal has extended its Polish footprint with the launch of fully localized versions of the Sci Fi and Universal channels to 200,000 digital homes on the year-old digital DTH platform n, part of the ITI group, it was announced Monday.

The channels will air sci-fi, drama, entertainment and blockbuster movies to one of the most crowded television markets in Eastern Europe, debuting such shows as Dexter, Flash Gordon, Brotherhood and Cane as well as movies including Bean, Apollo 13 and Waterworld.

"We're thrilled to be establishing Sci Fi and Universal Channel in a market as significant as Poland," said Roma Khanna, president of NBC Universal global networks and digital initiatives. "These strategic launches underscore our expansion plans and the global popularity of our brands."...

SAN DIEGO -- Thanks to NBC's Heroes presentation, the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con International, which took place this weekend, will be remembered as the Con at which TV shows eclipsed feature films.

The Heroes panel, which started at 12:45 p.m. Saturday and was held in the Convention Center's second-biggest room, holding about 4,000 people, hit maximum capacity almost as soon as the doors opened at 10 a.m. Fans arrived early and sat through two other presentations -- for NBC's Bionic Woman and a TV Guide panel on TV heroes -- just to hear the Heroes creators and to offer their love to the cast. Even Danny Bonaduce stood in line to ask a question. Thousands more waited in line for hours in case, by chance, some room opened up.

When it was announced that Kevin Smith would direct the first episode of spinoff show Heroes: Origins, an already electric room amped off the charts.

Television's presence was the strongest it's ever been at the Con, where the small screen's influence has been slowly growing since ABC launched Lost in 2004, previewing the pilot in a large hall that was only half full at the time. But it was those early fans that helped the show become a buzz-worthy hit, and when an unknown show called Heroes previewed in 2006 and went on to become one of the biggest new dramas of the season, the Con's launching pad status was solidified.

Shows that lined up in hopes of blasting off this year included ABC's Pushing Daisies, CBS' Moonlight, NBC's Chuck and CW's Reaper. Underscoring the importance of the Con, even Fox's 24, heading into its seventh season, made its first trip to San Diego, perhaps to shore up geek support after a less-than-stellar year.

Also whipping geeks into a frenzy was word of Lucy Lawless returning to Sci Fi's Battlestar Galactica, and Sam Jones, who played Flash Gordon in the 1980 movie, set to appear as a guest star on the channel's upcoming Flash Gordon series. The channel also announced that Farscape creator Rockne S. O'Bannon has signed on to executive produce and develop stories for a new 10-episode webisode series based on the beloved show that will run on SciFi.com.

This year, the film contingents at the Con didn't offer many standouts. The exceptions were Warner Bros. Pictures' Get Smart, with its cast in tow; Paramount Pictures' orchestration of the dual Spock casting of Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto in its next Star Trek movie; and Marvel Studios' Iron Man.

Marvel's efforts were almost a textbook example of how to make an impression at the Con. The company stoked the flames with a large mysterious crate with the words "Stark Industries" sitting on the convention floor.

Smallville alum Eric Johnson has landed the title role in Sci Fi Channel's upcoming series Flash Gordon.

The 22-hour series, a contemporary take on the popular comic strip franchise, is slated for an August premiere. It will feature Johnson as space traveler Flash Gordon embarking on all-new adventures.

Peter Hume penned the first two episodes, which will be directed by Rick Rosenthal (Smallville). Production is to begin May 1 in Vancouver.

Flash is being produced by Reunion Pictures under an agreement with property owner King Features Syndicate. RHI Entertainment is distributing the series internationally. RHI's Robert Halmi Sr. and Robert Halmi Jr., who recently worked with Sci Fi on the miniseries Legend of Earthsea, are executive producing, with Hume also expected to exec produce. Matthew O'Connor and Tom Rowe will serve as producers.

Casting is under way for the other roles, including Flash Gordon's fellow space travelers Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov.

The Flash Gordon comic strip was created in 1934 by Alex Raymond and is being distributed internationally by King Features.