News Cinnamon Neil Gaiman’s Short Story “Cinnamon” to Get Animated Adaptation The author is working with Graphic India on the project. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 26, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Neil Gaiman is teaming up with Sharad Devarajan, Sarena Khan, and Sujatha SV to pen an animated feature adaptation of Gaiman’s short story, “Cinnamon.” Here’s the official synopsis for the project, which is also titled Cinnamon: Born with pearl eyes that render her blind to the physical world, Cinnamon’s destiny is shaped forever when a mysterious talking tiger appears ..read more

News Evil Dead An Evil Dead Movie With an “Original Story” Is in Development The film’s writer-director brought the project directly to Sam Raimi. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 26, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Another film set in the Evil Dead universe is in the works. Sam Raimi has given the greenlight to writer-director Francis Galluppi, whose feature debut was this year’s The Last Stop In Yuma County, to develop an original story he brought to the franchise.   “Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and whe ..read more

News Apartment 7A Even the Apartment in Rosemary’s Baby Is Getting an Origin Story Now Julia Garner’s dance card is getting quite full By Molly Templeton | Published on April 26, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Did you ever wonder what happened in Rosemary’s apartment before she moved in? I’m guessing you didn’t. I’m guessing it was just a perfectly normal New York City apartment until some really weird shit went down. But that’s not good enough for our origin-story-and-prequel obsessed era! There must be mysteries and dark forces! And also, somehow, Julia Garner (Ozark, picture ..read more

Rereads and Rewatches Terry Pratchett Book Club Terry Pratchett Book Club: Unseen Academicals, Part IV What do you think: Do we have worth? By Emmet Asher-Perrin | Published on April 26, 2024 Comment 1 Share New Share It occurs to me that the cover of this book shows Vetinari as the referee and now I’m trying to remember if I was disappointed that he didn’t actually get to do it. Summary At the inn, Glenda runs into Lady Margolotta, but only thinks it’s a woman with her entourage. She scolds her ladyship for being cruel to Nutt and making him feel worthless, only realizing afte ..read more

News Aurora Awards Here’s the 2024 Aurora Awards Ballot! Congratulations to all the authors! By Molly Templeton | Published on April 26, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association has announced the ballot for the 2024 Aurora Awards, which recognize work done by Canadians in 2023. Each category includes the top five nominated works, unless there was a tie for fifth place, in which case additional works are included. This year’s award ceremony, hosted by Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson, will take place at 5 pm EDT on Sunday, August 1 ..read more

News I’m the Grim Reaper Sam Raimi and 10 Cloverfield Lane Writers to Adapt I’m the Grim Reaper Webtoon By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 25, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share The webtoon I’m the Grim Reaper by Graveweaver is set to get an adaptation. According to Deadline, Sam Raimi (pictured above) has signed on to executive produce the adaptation along with Zainab Azizi and Graveweaver, the latter of whom will also be part of the development process. Here’s the premise of I’m the Grim Reaper, as described in the first episode of the Webtoon: On earth there are bad peop ..read more

Excerpts The Soulbound Saga Read an Excerpt From Taran Matharu’s Dragon Rider Can an orphan captive learn the secrets of the Dragon Riders to stand up and avenge his people? By Taran Matharu | Published on April 25, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Dragon Rider, Taran Matharu’s debut adult fantasy novel, out now from Harper Voyager. Jai lives as a royal hostage in the Sabine Court—ever since his father Rohan, leader of the Steppefolk, led a failed rebellion and was executed by the very emperor Jai now serves. When the emperor’s son and he ..read more

News Kinds of Kindness Emma Stone Dances to the Weird in Teaser for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness Kinds of Kindness will soon be seen at Cannes of Cannesness By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 25, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Fresh off of 2023’s Poor Things, actor Emma Stone and writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos have teamed up once again in Kinds of Kindness, a very Yorgos Lanthimos-looking film that is set to premiere at and compete in the Cannes Film Festival this year. Searchlight Pictures put out a thirty-second teaser to commemorate the Cannes opening, which ..read more

News The Exorcism The Devil Gets Meta in The Exorcism Trailer By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 25, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Russell Crowe is entering his exorcism era! You might remember his turn as a priest in the 2023 film The Pope’s Exorcist. This year, Crowe is donning the clerical collar once again in The Exorcism, a film from writer-director Joshua John Miller, whose father was in The Exorcist in a memorable role. “The origins of the film stem from my childhood spent watching my father, Jason Miller, playing the doomed Father Karras flinging himself out a w ..read more

Movies & TV Star Trek: Discovery It’s Not Easy Being Breen — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Mirrors” Burnham and Book partner with Moll and L’ak to find the next puzzle piece… By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on April 25, 2024 Credit: CBS / Paramount+ Comment 1 Share New Share Credit: CBS / Paramount+ One of the longstanding questions in the Star Trek franchise that has been unanswered since it was first asked in 1995 when we saw our first Breen in DS9’s “Indiscretion.” That question, which remained unanswered despite the Breen becoming major players in the Dominion War ar ..read more