In an exclusive by The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed that Nashville’s Keean Johnson has been cast in an important role in Fox’s Alita: Battle Angel. Keean Johnson will be playing the love interest opposite Scorch Trials actress Rosa Salazar. Salazar is playing the lead character Alita, a female cyborg who wakes up in a scrap...
Archive - September 2016
Today Showtime released a brief teaser on their Twin Peaks Youtube channel, featuring composer Angelo Badalamenti on the piano playing the infamous “Laura Palmer” theme. Badalamenti will be composing the score for the entire revival series. He’s well known for his scores for “Mulholland Drive” and for other scores...
Today creators everywhere and Maker Studios Network are coming together to celebrate the launch of a global fan content contest as a way to promote the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie coming out in December and the Rogue One product line being launched today. Starting today, all creators from different genres can post #GoRogue videos...
TNT made their first casting announcement for their upcoming Let The Right One In TV Pilot. As first reported by Deadline, model and actress Kristine Froseth has been cast as the female lead in the upcoming vampire pilot. The pilot is based off of the best-selling novel of the same name written by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. You can...
Star Wars: The Clone Wars actress and Her Universe founder Ashley Eckstein and author E.K. Johnston are going on a book tour to celebrate the release of Star Wars: Ahsoka from Disney-Lucasfilm Press. The book tour and fan meet ups will be held at select Barnes & Noble stores and at the Disney Booth #2820 at New York Comic Con. The book tour...
Earlier today, life long Indiana Jones fan Patrick Schoenmaker released his passion project. Five years in the making, the animated short is a homage to 80’s cartoon versions of movies, and it is perfection. As a child of the 80’s myself, I loved watching cartoons such as The Real Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice when I was younger...
Did you know the Blade Runner sequel is filming right now in Budapest? Did you know there are a lot of talented people (and Jared Leto) working on it? Do you want to visit the set of Blade Runner 2? Do you want to help a good cause at the same time? Ryan Gosling sure wants you to. Gosling has teamed with Omaze to raise money in support of The...
On this week’s Legion of Leia Podcast episode 51, my co-hosts Anastasia Washington, Sabina Ibarra and I welcome Michelle Jensen, founder of the Nerd Out App! Want to find out about geeky happenings in your city? This is the app for you! Michelle tells us all about it, and the writing work she’s been doing for some super geeky shows...
The film industry is a tough one, and as with most industries it’s even tougher for women. Though women comprise of 52% of the population barely 10% of films are directed by female directors. If you think that’s a little off, that maybe that’s not true, I’d like you to name (off the top of your head) 3 female film directors...
Another big change has happened to another well known comic book character and this time it’s not a Marvel character. In an exclusive interview by Comicosity, it was made official by Greg Rucka, one of the authors of the current Wonder Woman series, that Wonder Woman is queer. Queer has many definitions depending on who talk to so...