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A biopic of the late rapper and sometime actor Tupac Shakur has been in the Hollywood pipeline for some time now, with Antoine Fuqua first attached to the project way back in 2010. Fuqua eventually dropped out of the running in 2012, with John Singleton touted as the director most …

J.K. Rowling has softened her stance on the relationship between Ron and Hermione in the Harry Potter series, conceding that the pairing “could work”. Rowling had previously made waves by describing the relationship as “wish fulfilment” , arguing that Hermione and Harry would have been the more plausible pairing. However, …

Transcendence has released a new teaser poster online, featuring the back of Johnny Depp’s bonce connected to some technical-looking wires… This is of course meant to represent the way in which Depp’s consciousness is transferred into a computer in the film, after his physical body is attacked by militant anti-technology …

Chris Pratt has been discussing his role in Colin Trevorrow’s dino-tastic Jurassic World , and says that the film does a good job of manufacturing a new situation in which humans and dinosaurs are back on the same island… “What I liked about it was it answers the question of, …

He’s done The Dark Knight , cast his spell over Harry Potter and we’re about to see him go nose to nose with some grumpy simians in Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes , but now it looks possible Brit movie royalty Gary Oldman could be joining the firmament …

After the leaking of the script for The Hateful Eight last month, it had seemed as though Quentin Tarantino was ready to walk away from the Western in favour of a new project entirely. However, according to The Wrap ’s Jeff Sneider, the director has had time to cool off, …

Marty McFly has been to the past and to the future, and now he’s headed to um… the West End. To celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary, Back To The Future – The Musical will premiere in London’s West End in 2015. If it’s successful, it will then have a run …

The full submission list is revealed for the prestigious science fiction prize The organisers of the Arthur C Clarke Award have revealed the line-up of books submitted for consideration to win the 2014 award. A total of 121 eligible books were put forward by 42 separate publishing imprints, the most …

Movies • 7 February – RoboCop Not technically a created as a comic book character, RoboCop nevertheless feels like one of our own, partly because of the debt he owes to Judge Dredd, partly because of the Frank Miller association (he penned scripts for the second and third movie) and …

The first official trailer for Terry Gilliam’s latest mind-melting offering The Zero Theorem has landed on the internet and it already looks enticingly bizarre. The Zero Theorem spent a lot of last year doing the rounds at various festivals, and some footage was released from the film for a short …