Awards season continues with the Arthur C. Clarke Award, created in 1987 to promote science fiction. The shortlist for the 38th Arthur C. Clarke Award Science Fiction Book of the Year has been announced. This year’s winner will be announced on Wednesday, 24th July 2024. The list of nominees is as follows: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Harvill Secker) The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Solaris) In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (Atlantic Books) The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Orbit) Corey Fah ..read more

Good news, Tolkien fans: Prime Video has just granted us our first look at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 with a teaser trailer, as well as a confirmed release date. The second season will premiere on the streaming platform on August 29th. The teaser opens on Sauron’s (Charlie Vickers) face as we hear the voice of Durin IV (Owain Arthur) warning, “an evil, ancient and powerful, has returned.” Per Prime Video’s newly-released synopsis, “In Season Two of The Rings of Power, Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on ..read more

Ever wanted to be an Elizabethan superstar fighting cosmic horrors? Jonathan Green’s latest project, Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come allows you to experience just that, but you’ll have to rush if you want to back it on Kickstarter.  Fans of Fighting Fantasy and similar game books may well know the line ‘You Are The Hero’ but in Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come, you are William Shakespeare himself. Alas, rather than writing a detailed treatise on why you aren’t secretly Sir Henry Neville or transcribing Love’s Labours ..read more

HBO has released the official trailer for House of the Dragon season 2, the prequel series to the incredibly popular and acclaimed Game of Thrones. This second season is due to premiere June 16th, and will consist of eight episodes. In those episodes, the story will continue to chronicle the House Targaryen civil war – though after the death of *redacted* in season one’s breathless finale, things are sure to escalate drastically in this coming season, working up to the bloody ‘Dance of the Dragons’ – and is based on George R. R. Martin’s Fire & Blood. The new season features returning cast ..read more

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings screenwriter Dave Callaham has lined up his next project, and is due to pen the next instalment of Legendary’s Godzilla v Kong franchise! The announcement comes soon after the release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Adam Wingard directed the feature and created the story with regular collaborator Simon Barrett, and Terry Rossio. Legendary has signalled a desire to have Wingard return for another round in the director’s chair, but there’s no deal in play at the moment. The director has already lined up his next project, an origin ..read more

She’s escaped face-sucking aliens and run amongst some tall blue folks on a foreign planet, but Sigourney Weaver is now taking her skills to a galaxy far, far away. The sci-fi legend is in talks to join the cast of The Mandalorian & Grogu, which is the first Star Wars film to go into production since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Jon Favreau, who created the series starring Pedro Pascal, is directing the feature. Favreau, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave Filoni are producing the feature, which is expected to begin filming later this year ..read more

The Barbarella feature, which Sydney Sweeney is expected to star in, may well have found its pilot: Edgar Wright is in talks to direct the film for Sony Pictures, with Jane Goldman and Honey Ross also in talks to pen the script. The project is still in the early development stages, and is planned as a new take on the character that originated in a French comic series from Jean-Claude Forest, but who achieved global recognition as portrayed by Jane Fonda in the 1968 cult movie. In said film, Barbarella, an astronaut from the future, is sent on a mission to find and stop an evil scientist whose ..read more

Andrew Garfield is set to star opposite Julia Roberts in the upcoming thriller from Luca Guadagnino, an Amazon MGM Studios feature titled After the Hunt. Guadagnino will direct After the Hunt from a script by first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett, which centres on a college professor who faces a crossroads in confronting her own dark past when a standout student makes an accusation against one of her colleagues. Additional cast members will be announced at a later date. Garrett will executive produce with Karen Lunder for Imagine Entertainment, with the company’s executives Brian Glaz ..read more

Sebastian Stan (Fresh, Falcon & The Winter Soldier, A24’s A Different Man) and Lily James (Rebecca, Baby Driver, The Iron Claw) are reuniting for the first time since Pam & Tommy to star in psychological horror thriller Let the Evil Go West, Deadline reports. The film hails from Speak No Evil director Christian Tafdrup, based on a script by Xc Vs. Tafdrup also executive produces the English-language remake of his film, coming from Blumhouse and Universal on August 9th. Let the Evil Go West “follows a railroad worker who stumbles upon a fortune under deeply disturbing circumstances. As ..read more

The Fantastic Four scores two more prestigious, sought-after actors: British actor Ralph Ineson has landed a lead role as big bad villain Galactus, and John Malkovich joins the project in an unconfirmed role. Fantastic Four stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. Julia Garner is, as previously announced, playing the Silver Surfer, while Paul Walter Hauser was recently revealed to star in an undisclosed role. The MCU film is ..read more