Wreck-It Ralph, Disney’s movie mash-up of gaming characters and tropes, brought in a record-breaking $49.1 million in its opening weekend for the House of Mouse’s animation studios. Tangled held the previous record at $48.8 million, which doesn’t include Pixar Studios’ box-office bruisers. The story of the pixelated bad guy gone …

Leonardo DiCaprio has been trying to get a Twilight Zone movie up and running for years now, only for a succession of directors to drop out of the production. DiCaprio’s production company put the project into development back in 2007, with the script having been written and rewritten several times …

Fringe 5.04 “The Bullet That Saved The World” TV REVIEW IF YOU’RE YET TO SEE THE EPISODE, STOP READING NOW! BIG SPOILERS LIE AHEAD (opens in new tab) Episode 5.04 Writer: Alison Schapker Director: David Straiton THE ONE WHERE The Observers work out that the Fringe team are operating out …

Clan of Champions, the second NIS America title available for PC download, is a serious-minded effort from the developers at Aquire (most notable for their work on early Tenchu (opens in new tab) titles and the Way of the Samurai (opens in new tab) series). As such, it doesn’t play …

Another day, another Stephen King update, with new details emerging concerning the adaptation of the prolific author’s apocalyptic novel, Cell . John Cusack has signed on to star in the movie as comic-book writer Clayton Riddell, a man who finds himself at the heart of a disastrous event known as …

Anyone walking into Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest expecting a thinly veiled biopic of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as played by Philip Seymour Hoffman – a sweeping, savage character study in the vein of, say, Daniel Plainview – won’t take long to realise their error. A sliver of Joaquin Phoenix’s …

In The Flesh : A first look at the BBC’s new zombie series Way back in May we reported (opens in new tab) that the BBC had announced plans for a new zombie series (to air on BBC Three) from writer Dominic Mitchell, whose script was discovered through a writers’ …

Supernatural (opens in new tab) Season Eight Episode Four “Bitten” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 8.04 Writer: Robbie Thompson Director: Thomas J Wright THE ONE WHERE Three student film-makers find lycanthropy hairy going. VERDICT If there’s one thing you can say about Supernatural ; it’s never been afraid …

With Star Wars Episode VII on its way, we’re in a Force-fuelled mood of nostalgia here on the forest moon of SFX. Join us as we switch off our targeting computers and strike straight for the heart of the ’70s… A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, …

(opens in new tab) Guess whose favorite character is Wallace (and not as in …And Gromit. I mean Wallace Wells)? You guessed right! I have a deep, abiding love for both the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels and the criminally under-rated fight musical that Edgar Wright turned it into. They’re gloriously …