The Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction has unveiled this year’s winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award: Rebecca Campbell, for her novella “An Important Failure,” which came out in Clarkesworld Magazine in August 2020.
Jodie Whittaker’s tenure as The Doctor is coming to a close in 2022, with this coming season being her last full run on Doctor Who. The 13th season is a notable departure in a number of aspects, having been fully produced during the pandemic and being an entirely serialized story.
A teaser earlier this month promised that a threat known only as “the flux” was on its way. Now we have a better idea of just what that is.
This past weekend, Warner Bros. presented DC FanDome, its now-annual giant announcement event revealing its massive slate of upcoming DC universe projects, showcasing a whole bunch of new trailers and first-look clips of the films and TV shows that will be debuting in the next year or so, as well as news and updates about other projects.
Those projects include new TV shows like Peacemaker and Naomi, upcoming movies like The Batman, Shazam 2, Black Adam, and The Flash, and quite a bit more.
Warner Bros. held its big DC fan event DC Fandome over the weekend, dropping a ton of news and first looks at a whole bunch of its upcoming projects. Amongst those? A new trailer for Matt Reeves’ upcoming The Batman, which shows off the film’s numerous villains.
Horror television network Shudder has a new anthology film coming out later this month: Horror Noire, which features six stories of Black horror from a powerhouse stable of writers: Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, Victor LaValle, Shernold Edwards, Al Letson and Ezra C. Daniels.
The film is set to debut on October 28th, and just got its first trailer.
If you’re an HBO Max subscriber, it looks like you’ll get to see Dune a bit earlier than expected. According to Decider, the streaming service has sent out a push notification to subscribers saying that the film will debut on the platform on October 21st at 6PM ET, a day before it’s scheduled to officially release in the United States.
A new film based on a story by Joe Hill is on its way to theaters: The Black Phone, directed by Doctor Strange‘s Scott Derrickson, which follows the plight of a kidnapped boy who’s helped by a serial killer’s prior victims.
The film is set to get a wide release on February 4th, 2022 (it premiered at Austin Texas’s Fantastic Fest in September), and Universal has released its first, extremely creepy trailer for the project today.
AMC’s The Walking Dead will continue to shamble on: the network announced that it’s greenlit a new series in the zombie franchise, Tales from the Walking Dead, an anthology series that will tell a bunch of standalone stories set within the world.
During New York City Comic Con, the cast Star Trek: Discovery of the series assembled to talk about the upcoming fourth season, and while doing so, released an action-packed trailer that shows off the hunt for a new threat to the galaxy, along with some snazzy new uniforms.
This past weekend’s New York City Comic Con held a panel featuring Brian K. Vaughn, “In Conversation with Brian K. Vaughan,” in which he dropped some welcome news: Saga, the comic series that he co-created with Fiona Staples, will return after a years-long break in January 2022.
Shortly after launching the first season of its adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel Foundation, Apple announced that it’s renewed the series for a second season.
Lucasfilm and Del Rey have announced a handful of new Star Wars novels that will arrive in 2022: two adult books from Adam Christopher and Mike Chen, a middle grade anthology edited by Jennifer Heddle, and a young adult novel by Kiersten White, featuring adventures stretching from before The Phantom Menace all the way into the post-Return of the Jedi era of the franchise.
Netflix adapted Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s excellent horror comic Locke & Key last year, and quickly renewed the series for a second season. The streaming service just debuted a full trailer for that new season, which is due to drop on October 22nd.
Mike Flanagan has found another house to haunt for Netflix. After adapting Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor (based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw), he’s turning his sights to Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story, “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has found a new comic to adapt for Disney—but it’s not a Marvel property. The studio announced that it’s given a direct to series order for an adaptation of American Born Chinese, a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, with Cretton serving as director and producer.
