CBS’s Star Trek TV franchise is humming right along at Warp Speed: its animated series Lower Decks premiered yesterday, and after that season wraps up, the third season of Discovery will take over on CBS All Access.
But while the TV franchise is bustling, the film franchise remains in limbo. According to Deadline, Paramount has put Noah Hawley’s Star Trek 4 on “pause” while it works to figure out what to do with the franchise next.
Diane Cook’s soon-to-be-released novel The New Wilderness is slated to hit stores next week, and it looks as though it might be head to television at some point in the near future. Warner Bros. and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho has optioned the book for a series.
Earlier this spring, Lionsgate bumped Janelle Monáe’s upcoming horror/suspense thriller Antebellum to August from its April release date, like many other films this spring. Now, the studio has pulled the film from its theatrical release entirely, opting instead to release the film directly to consumers on demand on September 18th.
Along with the announcement, we got a new trailer for the project, which shows off more of what to expect.
Sarcastic robots. A crew of desperate spacers aboard a spaceship. Pitched space battles. Some very nice scenery. All of those things are present in a new trailer (h/t Bleeding Cool) for a new Korean space opera film called Space Sweepers, which looks like it’ll be a whole lot of fun to watch.
Fresh off of its win for Best Semiprozine at this year’s Hugo Awards, Uncanny Magazine has officially launched a Kickstarter campaign for its seventh year.
It looks as though the sequel to Captain Marvel has a director: Nia DaCosta, who made her debut in 2018 with Little Woods and directed the forthcoming horror film Candyman.
Warner Bros. has debuted the first trailer for its upcoming Ridley Scott-produced series, Raised by Wolves, which shows off how some of the last remains of humanity are being raised by androids on a distant planet, set to premiere on HBO Max next month.
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is still scheduled to hit theaters later this year on December 18th—provided theaters are open at that point in time. The director recently appeared at 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival and in a series of videos (thanks to DuneInfo), he provided a wide range of updates about the film’s cast, shooting, and editing.
AMC is developing a newly-released novella Sorcerers, from authors Maurice Broaddus (Buffalo Soldier) and Otis Whitaker, and illustrater Jim Mahfood (Grrl Scouts and Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse). [Read more]
Subterranean Press has announced a new novella from science fiction Grandmaster Connie Willis: Take a Look at the Five and Ten.
The next season of Netflix’s superhero series Umbrella Academy is due out on Friday. To get fans amped up for the show’s return the streaming service has released the first three minutes of the season, where Five (played by Justin H. Min) finds himself in a Soviet invasion of Texas. in 1963.
The World Fantasy Convention has announced its finalists for this year’s World Fantasy Award. The awards are handed out annually to the best work of fantasy fiction published in the prior year.
This year’s awards will be handed out during a virtual ceremony as this year’s in-person WFC has been canceled due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
CBS has finally announced when the next season of Star Trek: Discovery will debut on its streaming platform, CBS All Access: October 15th, 2020.
Toss a coin to your…past? The streaming service announced today that it’s going to release The Witcher: Blood Origin, a 6-episode miniseries spinoff to its hit fantasy series The Witcher.
Ahead of its panel for the virtual San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, HBO released a new teaser for its upcoming series, Lovecraft Country, a Jim Crow-era story of otherworldly horror and racism that looks enormously timely. At the panel for the series, they discussed what the series means in the summer of 2020.
