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John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nicolas Winding Refn, Fred Dekker, Chuck Palahniuk and more to appear at genre festival Beyond Fest

Los Angeles’ premier genre film festival, Beyond Fest begins today, delivering cult favorite horror, sci-fi, fantasy and badass cinema at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California. The programming is composed of a diverse mix of premieres, rare repertory screenings, live performances, podcasts, Q&As and special events. Last year’s festival included screenings with guests such as ….

@NY_Comic_Con #StarTrek Captains Patrick Stewart and William Shatner to share stage at Star Trek: The Next Generation cast event during New York Super Week

New York area Star Trek fans have just been given a major gift by organizers of Reed Pop’s upcoming New York Super Week. The company just announced that the full Star Trek: The Next Generation cast – including Patrick Stewart – will be on hand for a one-night only event at the Hammerstein Ballroom that ….

#NYCC2014 @filmfetish Casts of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and the new Daredevil TV series headed to @NY_Comic_Con

Reed Pop continues making major announcements surrounding New York Comic-Con and their first-ever New York Super Week. This one involves Marvel Television and Marvel’s Daredevil, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel Animation, which will be officially taking flight at NYCC 2014. Fans at this year’s NYCC will get to experience the first cast appearance of ….

#filmfetish Troma heads to @DragonCon to celebrate 40 Years #dragoncon2014

After the Return to Nuke ‘Em High: Vol. 1 film premiere at the Twin Tiers Comic-Con and Monster Mania Weekend, Troma Entertainment President and Co-Founder Lloyd Kaufman has been invited to Atlanta as a Special Guest for Dragon-Con 2014 in celebration of Troma’s 40th Anniversary. On Friday August 29th, Dragon-Con presents the “Troma: 40th Toxic ….

Keanu Reeves to play assassin in upcoming television series Rain

Slingshot Global Media announced today that Keanu Reeves is attached to executive produce and star in the television series Rain, based on the New York Times best-selling book series written by Barry Eisler. Rain is being described as a globe-trotting action drama featuring lead character “John Rain,” a half-Japanese, half-American contract assassin who specializes in ….

Producer of cult classic films Enter the Ninja, Breakin’ and Bloodsport – Menachem Golan – dies at 85

Sadly, Variety and Haaretz have reported that producer and director Menachem Golan, whose Cannon Film Group crafted hundreds of popular low budget movie productions during the 1980s and 90s, featuring the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris, before going bust, died Friday in Israel. He was 85. Myself, along with millions of American teenagers ….

MyFantasyArt.com reports that legendary comics creator Neil Gaiman will top-line one of the major events of ReedPop’s first annual New York Super Week, taking place from October 3rd through the 12th, leading up to this year’s New York Comic-Con. Gaiman will appear as the special guest at an exclusive New York Super Week edition of NPR comedy show “Ask Me Another.” The event takes place on October 10th at the 92nd Street Y Kaufmann Concert Hall, where host Ophira Eisenberg will invite guests and contestants alike to stretch their noggins and tickle their funny bones alongside house musician Jonathan Coulton. The show will be taped for air on public radio stations and available as an NPR podcast.

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The Rock circling spy thriller based on novel by Jason Bourne creator Robert Ludlum

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is in early discussions to star in a film adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s book “The Janson Directive” for Universal, Variety reports. Johnson would also produce the film with Universal, which is currently seeking writers to develop the screenplay. “The Janson Directive” centers on a former consular ops agent named Janson who, ….