Clayface's review-embargo row, a Depression-era Pennywise, humanity as the galaxy's villains, Mouthwashing on consoles, Essen, a stolen lorry-load of graded cards and new Becky Chambers. Genre news, 12–21 October 2026.
GF Willmetts tracks down More Women of Wonder, Pamela Sargent's 1976 anthology of SF novelettes by women, where Joan Vinge's 'Tin Soldier' is…
Lionsgate's Origins featurette for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping shows how young Haymitch, Effie, Plutarch and Snow got that way. The…
A24's full Slayground trailer is here. Jeremy Saulnier's haunted-attraction slasher stars Cory Michael Smith as a scare actor accused of mass murder. Out…
Amazon MGM has dated Benny Safdie's Lizard Music, adapted from Daniel Pinkwater's novel, for Christmas Day 2027, with Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken…
Sony Pictures has bought the live-action film rights to D'Orc, Brett Bean's bestselling Image Comics fantasy, with Bean writing the script himself.
Godzilla Minus Zero held its Japan premiere on a red carpet above Ginza, with Takashi Yamazaki in King Ghidorah shoes and a cast…
The long-promised Yona of the Dawn anime sequel will be animated by Pierrot Films, announced as the manga's 48th and final volume hits…
‘No Laughing Matter’ is an anthology of nineteen tales that aim to ‘tread the thin line between horror and laughter’. First up is…
Peter Jackson says The Hunt for Gollum has two weeks of filming left, Shadow of the Past is being scripted, and Tintin 2…
Nicolas Cage, Justin Long and Shelley Hennig fight it out over one long night in a small-town diner in Ken Sanzel's action thriller,…
An unused Thunderbolts* storyboard shows Man-Thing with the team. Writer Eric Pearson explains why Marvel's swamp monster didn't make the cut.
Spoiler warning: this piece discusses the ending of Avengers: Armageddon #4. If that issue is still sitting unread in your pull box, look…
Kei Urana's Gachiakuta manga returns from its research hiatus on 11 November in Weekly Shonen Magazine, while anime season two waits in the…
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