Author: Martin

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16805″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Ever since the announcement of the new Picard series by CBS All Access and Patrick Stewart, progress has steadily been moving forward on the series. Friday, it was announced that Hanelle Culpepper will direct the first two episodes of the new series and Star Trek veteran Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker from TNG) will also direct an episode. Now it has been revealed that casting has begun for the series which is described as a 10 hour movie, with a continuous story as opposed to an episodic format. The beginning of casting is revealed in a tweet by…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16823″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]I remember it well. 1974 on Saturday Mornings, I would sit down and watch the beginning of 30 minutes of superhero action with this intro: “Chosen from among all others by the immortal elders: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury. Billy Batson and his mentor travel the highways and byways of the land on a never ending mission: To right wrongs, to develop understanding, and to seek justice for all. In time of dire need, young Billy has been granted the power by the immortals, to summon awesome forces with the utterance of a single word: SHAZAM!…

When Scooby Doo first aired way back in 1969, the voice actor for Shaggy was radio and TV personality Casey Kasem. He filled that role up until 2009 when he retired. His replacement, Matthew Lillard, was the man who had played the character in two live action Scooby films, 2002’s Scooby Doo and 2004’s Scooby Doo: Monsters Unleashed. Because of his involvement with the character, he might be forgiven if he would assume that he would at least get a call when Warner Bros. cast the voice talent for their upcoming Scooby Doo animated film. Apparently this wasn’t the case and…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16790″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Way back in 1965, Gene Roddenberry has an idea for show that was different than most space shows. He described his show as a “Wagon Train to the Stars.” When NBC agreed to a pilot, they produced The Cage, which starred Jeffery Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, Majel Barrett as No.1, and Leonard Nimoy as Spock, his half-Human, half Vulcan science officer. The first pilot dealt with their encounter with a race called the Talosians, who had great telepathic abilities. After screening it, NBC was not happy with the pilot as they considered it too cerebral for…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16780″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]I admit it. I am completely guilty. I was a huge fan of the original Scooby Doo Where Are you? I was hooked. Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Velma, Daphne…they were like Gods to me. Of course, it was 1969 and I was 6 years old. I even liked the theme song. It rocked. Although the original series only went for three years, it has been around in one form or another ever since. Fast forward to now and Warner Bros. and it’s animation group has hired its voice cast for the next animated film about Scooby and the gang.…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”14935″ img_size=”765×510″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]When the fifth season of Marvel’s Agents of Shield was coming to a close, it was very much up in the air whether that season would be its last. In preparation of that, the show writers made the season finale fit in that in-between realm where it could be a series finale or leave some wiggle room for another season. It was finally revealed that Agents of Shield would indeed be returning for a Sixth Season. In a surprise move, it was put out by ABC that Marvel’s longest running television show was also renewed for a…

So what’s an actor to do with his time when he has a weekend free and a known love of Star Wars? Why make the ultimate Star Wars trailer of course. Topher Grace, who played Sony’s more antiseptic version of Venom in Spider-Man 3 and was recently seen in the Oscar nominated BlacKKKlansman, made a tribute to all the Star Wars films including Solo: A Star Wars Story along with friend and editor Jeff Yorkes. As shown below, the Super trailer encompasses all 10 feature films and according to Topher on Twitter, it was a simply a matter of :…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16443″ img_size=”800×450″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] When you are going to make a film based on a comic book, you can seldom go wrong using the great Jack “King” Kirby as a blueprint to work from. Along with Stan “The Man” Lee, he has been a major architect of many of the cinema extravaganza’s that the MCU has thrived on. Now with Phase 3 of their cinematic master plan coming to a close with Avengers: End Game, they are opening up a new chapter including Kirby’s The Eternals. In a recent interview with Collider, Marvel’s Kevin Feige explained the width and breadth…

When you’ve been a hero for the last 10+ years (and even more if you add in his Fantastic Four, Human Torch days), it’s apparently difficult to stop being ready to jump in to save the day. That revealed itself last night at the Academy Awards when Regina King won for best supporting actress for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk. When Miss King appeared to have some difficulty moving with her flowing dress getting caught on her shoes, in came Chris Evans in true Captain America fashion to help steady her and escort her to the stairs. A heroes…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16400″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]It is a pretty good rule of thumb that when a Knighted individual asks you to do something, you probably should consider listening to him. Especially when that man is Ser Patrick Stewart, from Star Trek and X-Man fame. As pretty much everyone knows by now, Stewart is in the process of returning to his Star Trek roots and is once again playing the role of Jean-Luc Picard. The main reason he decided to take on the role was he was promised that the direction they would be going with the character was completely unlike what he…