American screenwriter and sometime director Dan O’Bannon has passed away in Los Angeles. He was 63. O’Bannon’s contribution to cinema is mainly within the science fiction genre and his screenplay ‘Star Beast’ provided the basis for the landmark classic Alien (1979). He also provided screenplays for Total Recall and Screamers; based on original works by […]

I can’t tell you how excited I am about this wonderful little piece of casting news. Simon Pegg, everyone’s favorite geek and all round genius for creating Spaced has supposedly been cast to star in Burke and Hare directed by none other than John Landis! OH MY GOD! John Landis who has been away from […]

News, like nature, abhors a vacuum and as the wire goes quiet on Roman Polankski’s incarceration at the hands of the Swiss Authorities, the director’s industry peers have jumped in to offer their own views on his probable extradition to the US in connection to his 1977 conviction for raping Samantha Geimer, then 13. Whoopi […]