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Mike Flanagan has made a career of turning unadaptable books into compelling, beloved movies. Not only did he make this clear when he turned Stephen King‘s Gerald’s Game, a book almost exclusively about a woman handcuffed to a bed, into a full movie, but he did it again when he turned The Life of Chuck…

Nearly four decades after bringing one of Singapore’s most iconic comic characters to life, Mr Kiasu’s creator Johnny Lau is embarking on a new chapter in his life.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) — At Cape Con this weekend, fans could hear from the actors behind “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” get an autograph from a former St. Louis Cardinal and sit in on a panel with local podcasters.

Harry Potter is coming to HBO, the bespectacled British wizard being introduced to a whole new generation fans. Harry Potter-mania swept the world through the late ’90s with the books to the release of the final movie in the series in 2011. Potter fandom is quite controversial nowadays, with many fans of the property swearing…

Back in the summer of 1993, you couldn’t look anywhere without being reminded of Jurassic Park. We’re not complaining, as the Steven Spielberg adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel is a verified masterpiece, as the filmmaker managed to take what could have been B-movie schlock and turned it into a gripping and ahead-of-its-time spectacle.

It has been seven years since an HBO series helped fix the biggest problem with a Zack Snyder blockbuster comic book adaptation. In 2009, Snyder directed the DC big-screen adaptation of the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic book Watchmen. The movie only had Gibbons’ name listed as the creator, and that is because Moore…

Comic books, at the end of the day, are a product trying to get sold. There wouldn’t be a comic book industry if fans didn’t purchase them, after all, but while these stories tell of upstanding heroes and unshakable souls, the companies that fund them are out to promote, promote, promote. Ads are what keep…

More than a decade after it first premiered, The Red Road is finding a new audience on Netflix. The crime thriller, which stars Jason Momoa and Martin Henderson, originally ran for two seasons between 2014 and 2015. It returned to the streaming service on November 1, bringing all 12 episodes back to the platform.

The comic book and superhero movie arms race has been fueling Hollywood for almost three decades at this point. Not only did the runaway success of Blade and then X-Men in 1999 and 2000 trigger a massive response in getting superheroes on the big screen in a push that hadn’t been seen since the aftermath…

On Tuesday, Ken Paxton became the first Texas Republican candidate to lose a bid for the U.S. Senate in nearly 40 years.