NEWS ROUND-UP: 11-2-2020
Screen legend Sean Connery rests in peace, theater chain AMC reports massive loss in revenue due to COVID-19, and other fiction-related news.
Denis Villenueve’s Dune Trailer Drops, Features “Dark Side of the Moon” Cover
A new Dune trailer dropped on Wednesday for Denis Villeneuve’s epic reboot of the famous science fiction story by Frank Herbert.
2020 Quarantine Book Club Gives Debut Authors New Hope During Crisis
The 2020 Quarantine Book Club formed just two weeks ago, but it’s already marshaled 1,000 member to read the work of debut authors.
HBO & WB Form Warner Max Label to Make Original Streaming Content
HBO Max’s May 2020 premiere was already anticipated, but with Warner Max it’s clear WarnerMedia will enter the streaming wars guns blazing.
2020 Oscar Nominations: Joker Big Winner, Gerwig Snubbed
The 2020 Oscar Nominations were announced this morning for the 92nd Academy Awards, and Joker received the most nominations with 11 nods, including Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role, and Directing.
New Mutants movie not dead, trailer releases soon
The New Mutants movie, based on the X-Men horror spin-off, finished years ago but never released. Now, sources say it’s on its way in 2020 with a trailer in January.
As wealth inequality rises to an all time high, the 1987 science fiction-action film The Running Man is eerily prescient.
In Jumanji: The Next Level, an exciting adventure unfolds as the crew traverse a game filled with dangers in order to save their friend.
If you’ve ever been stuck indoors and driven stir crazy from lack of social interaction, these trapped movies help you feel not so alone.
The Shawshank Redemption is more relevant than ever, and you learn from its characters; how they survive, grow, and break free from captivity.
Philosophy shapes every action in our lives, whether we recognize and understand it or not.
At Fictionphile, we’re pretty big science fiction nerds, so it’s only natural that we keep a close eye on upcoming sci fi across all of fiction’s mediums.
Too Old to Die Young is one of those oddities that cause some of us to say to ourselves and viewing partners, “Just a… little more.”
If you ever loved a movie, play, TV show, or book–anything with dialogue–take a moment and thank Aeschylus. Not convinced? Let’s talk.
A Carrie limited series just got approved for FX based on the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King.
The trailer for Hulu’s TV series remake of High Fidelity dropped today. The series and the original movie, starring John Cusack, is based on the Nick Hornby novel.
When reading a scary story, such as Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, it’s our own perceptions of fear that visualize the words on the page.
Princess, priestess, and prophetess Cassandra of Troy lived under a curse; she could see the future, but no one would ever believe her.
Proceedings start slowly with Christine, as two high school friends, Arnie the geek and Dennis the jock, navigate life through high school.
In the Tall Grass is one of the more recent offerings to watch on Netflix. Has the streaming giant succeeded in transforming the Stephen King and Joe Hill novella from page to screen?
It’s a question we’ve all considered. In reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, one might ask themselves: what would you die for?
Lunar Lander started as a small project by a high school kid but has become a genre unto itself. This gaming story is 40 years in the making.
The battles of science fiction usually need heavy artillery. However, sci-fi movies do not all follow the rules of a single universe.
Even before SpaceWar!, the earliest known video game, games have always crossed paths with computers.
DM dives deep into the striking parallels between Jungian archetypes and D&D character classes before suggesting ways to break the mold.
Narrative games today act more like an interactive work of fiction than games of the past, and no recent narrative-driven game proves this more than Spider-Man.
