Legendary Pictures looks to team with AfterShock Media to craft a new LGBTQ horror film based on a cult classic graphic novel. Deadline reports Patrick Brice (Creep) will direct Party & Prey from a script by iZombie’s Rob Forman. The graphic novel Party & Prey comes from creators Steve Orlando & Steve Foxe. Orlando and […]
Full list of all 44 Free Comic Book Day 2023 titles revealed
Free Comic Book Day is back for 2023 this coming May, and today has brought a full reveal of all 44 titles that will be available from local comic book shops worldwide as part of the FCBD 2023 festivities! First up are the thirteen Gold Sponsor, which feature everything from superheroes to movies, video games […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – Aftershock
Aftershock, 2022. Directed by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee. SYNOPSIS: Follows two bereaved fathers who galvanise activists, birth-workers, and physicians to reckon with the U.S. maternal health crisis after losing their partners due to preventable childbirth complications. Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s shattering documentary Aftershock features a quote that’ll likely stick with you for […]
Peacock gives straight-to-series order to supernatural comic book adaptation Dead Day
Streaming service Peacock has announced that it has granted a straight-to-series order for Dead Day, a TV adaptation of the bestselling AfterShock comic book series from creator Ryan Parrott, which is being developed by Scream creator Kevin Williamson and his The Vampire Diaries co-showrunner Julie Plec. Dead Day follows an ensemble of characters as they […]
Exclusive Interview – Sarah Wayne Callies on her new podcast Aftershock
Tai Freligh chats with Sarah Wayne Callies about her new scripted podcast Aftershock… From iHeartMedia, Aftershock is a co-production with Nomadic Engine and Salmira Productions. Starring Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break, The Walking Dead, Colony), David Harbour (Black Widow, No Sudden Move, Stranger Things) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead, Watchmen, Supernatural), Aftershock takes […]
Thomas Jane returning to the world of comic books with Lycan
Thomas Jane is swapping the skull embossed shirt of The Punisher for some more hirsute attire with the news that he is to team up with Logan screenwriter David James Kelly and Lucifer writer Mike Carey for a comic book series called Lycan. The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive story reveals that Jane is joining forces with AfterShock Comics […]
2021 Free Comic Book Day Gold Sponsor titles include Star Wars, Blade Runner, Assassin’s Creed and more
We’re going to have to wait a little longer for Free Comic Book Day this year, with the traditional May event not taking place until August due to the ongoing global health crisis, but the Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) Committee has today announced the twelve Gold Sponsor comics for the 2021 event, made up […]
Comic Book Preview – The Kaiju Score #1
Having been optioned for a feature film adaptation this past August, AfterShock Comics is set to launch its new series The Kaiju Score this November, and we’ve got a preview of the first issue for you here; check it out… It’s the most dangerous heist ever attempted. Four desperate criminals are going all in on […]
Norman Reedus producing TV adaptation of AfterShock Comics’ Undone by Blood
Norman Reedus’ bigbadbald productions is teaming with AfterShock Comics for a TV adaptation of Lonnie Nadler and Zac Thompson’s neo-western comic book series Undone by Blood or the Shadow of a Wanted Man, with Reedus executive producing and potentially starring. “Undone by Blood was born from a place of pure passion, out of a love […]
Sony developing movie adaptation of upcoming comic The Kaiju Score
Sony Pictures has snapped up the rights to The Kaiju Score, an upcoming comic book series from AfterShock Comics which follows a group of criminals attempting to pull off the perfect heist during a giant monster attack. The Kaiju Score – from writer James Patrick (Grimm Fairy Tales, Death Comes to Dillinger, The Monsters of […]
