Snake Plissken, Neil Gaiman, Richard Donner, Leonard Nimoy and Scott Pilgrim coming to Cape Town Film Fest

Entertainment Weekly and the American Cinematheque are sponsoring the Cape Town Film Festival, which makes its debut with a 7-day event starting this Wednesday. Sci-fi, super-hero and fantasy fans will have the opportunity to see their cult favorite films return to the big screen along with rare live Q&A sessions with their filmmakers and stars ….

Twilight Zone event to include screenings and pop culture debate marking 50th Anniversary of cult series

October 2nd, 2009 marks the 50th Anniversary of Rod Serling’s sci-fi classic show The Twilight Zone, which almost single-handedly triggered the inclusion of the television sci-fi genre into the pop culture lexicon. On that night, illustrator, author and Twilight Zone scholar Arlen Schumer will be hosting a multimedia presentation called The Twilight Zone Forever at ….

Eight new screenshots from DC Universe Online

Sony has released eight new screenshots from the upcoming DC Universe Online massively multiplayer action game. The images include never-before-seen shots of Bizarro, Lex Luthor in his power suit and the Green Lantern. In addition, Sony announced that Geoff Johns, renowned writer behind popular DC Comics such as Green Lantern, Action Comics and Justice Society ….

Stoopid Monkey Gets a Deal With Weinstein’s Dimension Films

Dimension Films has signed a two picture deal with Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s Stoopid Monkey Productions. The deal includes a stop-motion animated holiday feature titled Naughty or Nice, and a live-action untitled comedy. The duo, who created and executive produce, write and direct Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim stop-motion animated show Robot Chicken, will produce both projects under their production company Stoopid Monkey ….