Pirates of the Caribbean producing team board DevaShard comic adaptation

Eric McLeod and David Venghaus, who worked together on Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, have joined the ranks of DevaShard, the fantasy adaptation recently picked up by Vanquish Motion Pictures, that’s based on eastern mythology. Vanquish’s Jay Douglas and Nav Gupta are writing the script and will produce the film with McLeod. Heather Kenealy is ….

New cast members for John Carter of Mars film adaptation

According to Sci-Fi Wire, the cast continues to grow for John Carter of Mars, Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ fantasy adventure books, with Thomas Haden Church, James Purefoy and Mark Strong joining already cast Taylor Kitsch, Samantha Morton, Dominic West, Polly Walker, Willem Dafoe and Lynn Collins. According to the report, the ….

New image released from Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane as it preps for World Premiere at Toronto Festival

The World Premiere of producer Samuel Hadida’s Solomon Kane, based on Conan the Barbarian-creator Robert E. Howard’s original epic tales, and written & directed by Michael J. Bassett, will be screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness line-up tomorrow night, September 16th, at the Ryerson Theatre. ‘Kane’ stars James Purefoy (from ….

Could Pixar do a Marvel superhero animated feature film now that Disney’s buying them?

Most of you probably know by now that Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment outright. The deal puts Marvel’s list of comic characters into the stable of Disney’s history, expertise and multimedia infrastructure. Some additional details have been released at ComingSoon, regarding the specifics of the deal, including a meeting with Pixar’s John Lasseter with Marvel, ….

Preview the Avatar Sideshow Collectibles licensed figures right here

Sideshow Collectibles has posted images from their upcoming line of Avatar collectibles. Launching the Sideshow Collectibles line from James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar is the AMP Suit Maquette featuring actor Stephen Lang’s baddie Col. Quaritch, created in conjunction with the film’s special effects studio Legacy Effects. The piece was created directly from 3D scans of ….

New images from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

AICN posted some shots of The Dawn Dreader from the upcoming third Chronicles of Narnia film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Michael Apted (Up series of 7 year update documentaries, Blink, Extreme Measures, The World Is Not Enough) is directing the new film, which is due in theaters on December ….

Female Terminator Summer Glau coming to Whedon’s Dollhouse and season two secrets revealed

Female Terminator Summer Glau will reteam with her Firefly/Serenity mentor Joss Whedon as a recurring cast member on the sci-fi fantasy series Dollhouse, playing a new character named Bennett. Fox also released details of other guest stars on the show’s second season, which kicks off at the end of September: Summer Glau (Firefly, Terminator: The ….

New images from James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar

Empire has released two new images from Avatar, including the shot above, of the film’s villain, Stephen Lang as battle-scarred Col. Miles Quaritch, piloting a human battleship known as the Dragon, as well as a second image of Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine, a scientist who works with Sam Worthington’s character Jake Sully on ….

Superman Returns director Bryan Singer eyeing new version of Excalibur

Bryan Singer is eyeing a remake John Boorman’s 1981 Excalibur, the classic tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new project is in early development, with Warners Brothers recently nabbing the remake rights, which it shares with Boorman. Singer is negotiating his role in the potential ….