In a pre-Oscar event this past week, J.J. Abrams spoke to The Daily Beast who asked him several questions about the upcoming Star Wars installments. Even though the directing reigns for Episode VIII will be taken over by Rian Johnson and Episode IX by Colin Trevorrow, Abrams is going to stay on as an executive producer, and has a heavy hand in...
Archive - February 2016
This week brought us an extra bonus on The Originals. It was a two-hour crossover event with The Vampire Diaries. Stefan had to make his way to New Orleans in order to find refuge from Rayna Cruz, the huntress. Honestly, I had wondered when they were going to cross the two shows again. You’d think that with everything that has happened on both...
IT’S CROSSOVER TIME! …and about time we had another lovely romp with the Original down in the old Bayou. Since much of the crossover is set in both of TVD‘s current timelines, what does this mean for the future of The Originals ? Sadly we won’t find out everything, but what happens with Klaus down the line may mean a few...
Whaaaat. Something dark and scary is happening in this trailer for Season Three of Penny Dreadful, but that’s to be expected–it is a horror TV show exploring some of literature’s most terrifying creatures and characters through the lens of Victorian London. The show stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green. Season...
I continue to be amazed at how Hollywood will reach for just about anything to make another movie, theme park attractions being one of them. It’s a Small World joins a legacy of theme park rides turned into feature films, following The Haunted Mansion, The Tower of Terror, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Tomorrowland. And now the upcoming...
Hi all, Legion of Leia contributor Shaun Rosado here! As you may have heard, Marvel recently announced Finn Jones as their choice for Danny Rand in their upcoming Netflix series, Iron Fist. While there’s been a wide range of reactions to Jones’ casting as the titular character, the prevailing sentiment is that this casting is a...
This past weekend at Long Beach Comic Expo in Long Beach, California., Marvel Comics’ Ms. Marvel was presented the second annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics. Writer G. Willow Wilson gave an impassioned acceptance speech, thanking everyone who has made the book such a success. “This award is very special to me,”...
Friend of the Legion, voice of Ashoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, Ashley Eckstein is voicing the character Yaeko in the English-language version of Studio Ghibli‘s 1991 film Only Yesterday. To celebrate, her company Her Universe, which supplies geek clothing for women and girls is once again teaming up...
Today we have the full cast announcement for the upcoming play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 & 2. Though we don’t know who’s playing whom yet, we do have a picture of all of cast members. The play takes place 19 years after the end of the final book in the series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry’s...
In honor of this weekend’s Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel Live! has brought us another installment of Mean Tweets read by celebrities who’ve been up for them. It’s hysterical. It always is. Apparently Jessica Chasten is the ghost of Julia Roberts. Just saying. Here’s the official into for the clip: “The Oscar ceremony is a...