The Jimmy Olsen show spinning off from Superman will have Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda as the executive producers and show runners. The pair are best know for creating Netflix's mockumentary series American Vandal. The show will see Superman scene stealer Skyler Gisondo return as Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen, following his adventures investigating the criminals of the DC Universe.

Paramount have released a new trailer for The Running Man. How far would you go for a billion dollars? Watch the final trailer for THE RUNNING MAN and go see it only in theatres this FRIDAY! See it large and loud! In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward.

When it came to glossy, enjoyable and utterly ludicrous nonsense that still, inexplicably made you want to punch the air with glee, the 2013 heist thriller Now You See Me was a surprisingly engrossing slice of bunkum that fetishised illusionists to a near embarrassing degree. Essentially a riff on Stephen Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven franchise that had the cast pulling doves from pockets while it yanked plot twists out of its ass, it nevertheless proved to be fluffy escapism that remained immune to only the most grumpy of viewers.

As we all well know, even taken beyond the realms of It, Stephen King's fictional town of Derry has had something of an extraordinarily complex past - Hell, it even pops up in in Edgar Wright's recent The Running Man remake. However, sometimes it feels that you need to be something of a historian to be able to string all those freakish occurrences together, especially when they're delivered as footnotes in the midst of a larger story.

One of the main problems when it comes to remaking huge, unsubtle sci-fi action movies from the 80s and 90s is that they tend to loose the bolshy personality and razor wit that made them so distinctive in the first place. Take both Robocop and Total Recall for example: two undisputed bangers from Paul Verhoven that saw both their respective edges blunted by their plastic, safe, do-overs that lacked that vital spark and charisma.

The Predator franchise has captured the imagination of audiences since the release of the original film in 1987, directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. This action-packed sci-fi thriller introduced viewers to the formidable extra-terrestrial hunter, known as the Predator, who stalks a group of elite soldiers in the jungles of Central America. The film's success spawned several sequels and spin-offs, expanding the lore and mythology of the Predator universe, which includes films like…

Last episode I commented on how the folks behind The Punisher are wisely shooting for a more 70s inspired feel to the show that's really come to the fore since the second season began, however, imagine my delight when the show takes yet another step in the right direction when the entire episode riffs super hard on John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13.

Look; we all love Spaced, right? You know, the Channel 4, pop culture savvy sitcom that that made Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright virtual household names to a certain generation. Additionally, we also adored their leap into movies with the pitch perfect comedies Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz that took that post modern approach and used it to make Wright one of the most endearing directors operating today.

A good hunter always knows when to evolve and adapt to changing terrain, but even so, you have to be impressed about how many new tricks the Predator franchise has managed to aquire in just a few years under the scope-like eye of Dan Trachtenberg. Starting with the stripped-back Prey in 2022 that took the series to it's roots and had a member of the Yautja square off with a determined Comanche girl in 1719, the director expanded the Predator universe exponentially with the animated anthology film, Predator: Killer Of Killers.

As we forge into the second episode of the second season, there truly is a sence that the showrunners and writers behind The Punisher are really trying to lean into the more unglamorous world the character operates in. While the first season had him tangling with rogue elements within the CIA to weirdly un-Punisher like effect, and fellow superhero series such as Daredevil and Jessica Jones had them squaring off against ninjas and failed superhero experiments, this season has Frank stumble into the decidedly unglamorous world of a criminal conspiracy.

Warner Bros have made Gremlins 3 official by giving it a 19th November, 2027, release date. Steven Spielberg is back as executive producer and Christopher Columbus, the original films writer, is onboard to write and direct. Joining Columbus on writing duties will be Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the duo wrote and directed this year's breakout horror Final Destination: Bloodlines…

Yup, it sure takes a helluva lot to keep Frank Castle down; in fact, not even the languid pace of the majority of his first season was enough to stop the Punisher scoring another season over at Netflix. However, while season one managed to pull it back with style thanks to some stunningly ferocious setpieces and a fittingly brutal mindset, there's a sense that season 2 is a major opportunity to rectify some of those more annoying issues.

Doesn't it feel sometimes that concocting a screenplay feels like someone frantically trying to invent a brand new cocktail from scratch? The act of throwing numerous ingredients into a shaker and then mixing the shit out of them in the hope that they compliment each other feels less like an artist plying their trade and more like someone desperately trying to make something stick that'll hopefully sell.

Lionsgate has released the trailer for Turbulence. Zach and Emmy’s romantic retreat aboard a hot air balloon takes a terrifying turn when they are hijacked by a sinister third passenger with a link to Zach’s past. As the mystery of their secret relationship is revealed, their spectacular ride becomes a brutal mental chess match and a lethal battle high in the sky.

Existing somewhere in the cracks between Steven Spielberg's Duel and Wes Craven's Scream lies Joy Ride (or Road Kill, if you lived in a country where joy riding meant something else), a teeth gritting thriller that explores the dual dangers of both the sparse, desert highways of America and the risk on playing a stupid practical joke on someone who definitely shouldn't be fucked with.

A new trailer has been released for Five Nights At Freddy's 2. A new set of rules. A new level of fear. In 2023, Blumhouse’s box-office horror phenomenon Five Nights at Freddy’s, based on the blockbuster game series by Scott Cawthon, became the highest-grossing horror film of the year. Now, a shocking new chapter of animatronic terror begins.

Universal's Mummy franchise has risen from the dead with the stars of 1999's The Mummy returning to star. Brendan Fraser will be back for his fourth showdown with the wrapped villain and Rachel Weisz her third, in a film to be directed by Radio Silence duo of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The directing pair are no strangers to legacy sequels, having laid out the rules in…

And so, after a noticably uneven season that's fast becoming typical for the Netfix arm of Marvel, we finally come to the final episode of the Punisher's solo series. To say that the Daredevil spin-off has been uneven would be like describing Frank Castle's demeanor as "a bit crabby", but after over half a season wasted on a meandering plot that moved like it had been kneecapped, the show ultimately pulled it back in the final third by providing some truly phenomenal installments.

Zombies just don't give a toss. Throw the shambling undead any genre you like and chances are the infected sons of bitches will run with it no matter how odd it may seem. So malleable are horrordom's most enduring creatures, they be managed to pull off everything from social satire, to love story with varying levels of success, but with Netflix's Ziam, the gut crunching living dead are trying on something more energetic on for size as the sub-genre closes its rotten choppers over the jugular of the action movie.

As we head into occupied territory on the way to face the final days of the German army, we unsurprisingly find ourselves once again in the territory of Don Michael Paul, a man who has never met a film he couldn't sequelize for around half the price. However, in a filmography that contains a truly alarming amount of sequels (Tremors, Death Race, Scorpion King, Jarhead, Sniper and *checks notes* Kindergarten Cop), there stands a noticable one off that isn't noticably carrying a number dangling off the back of the title - and I'm not talking about Steven Seagal vehicle, Half Past Dead.

During this year's Godzilla Fest in Japan, Toho announced the title for the sequel to the Oscar winning Godzilla Minus One. Godzilla Minus Zero will be a direct sequel and see Takashi Yamazaki, the original film's writer, director, special effects lead return for the same roles. No release date has been announced but the film is expected to debut at towards the end of next year with with production taking place in New Zealand and Norway later this year. Godzilla Minus Zero will be Toho's 31st Japanese instalment in the kaiju franchise. RETURN TO SCIENCE FICTION NEWS

There are some comic characters who always operate at their best when you're beating them down. While the likes of Superman or the Fantastic Four are shining examples of hope and humanity that double down on being nice and heroic, there are others who do their best work while in a state of near-constant torment as they crawl through the carnage of their own lives.

Yorgos Lathimos has always dedicated himself to bringing the unnervingly absurd to the masses which has thus far encompassed passive agressive historical farces, infantile dating rituals, fantastical feminist Frankensteins and everything in-between. In fact, there's few around at this point who can fuse ridiculous laughs with a genuine sense of swelling dread as confidently as the Greek filmmaker and with his newest movie, he's gone and done it again.

Magic is a tenuous thing. See it from the right angle and for a miraculous moment you'd believe that the impossible is possible as you're dumbfounded by the wonders laid out before you. However, come at it from the wrong approach and you'll see how the trick was done as misdirection, mirrors and trick panels all seem embarrassingly obvious and your childlike joy diminishes as fast as a fart in a hurricane.

OK... so let's try that again.Now that director Andy Muschietti used the incredibly violent pilot of It: Welcome To Derry to successfully get our attention (and boy, did he), it's time for the show to start properly after the spectacular fake out that closed that first episode. What with the majority of the proto-Losers Club getting ruthlessly pulped by a screaming, winged baby, there's a sense that the show now has to play catch up when delivering the actual plot to us rather than getting us to emotionally invest in a cluster of wide-eyed red flags.