Stories written by Laura Dobbins

With production on the third season getting underway on Wednesday, Homeland is adding a slew of guest stars to a cast that saw more than a few character casualties during its last few episodes The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that David Aaron Baker is set to play Dr. Harlan, an assessment shrink who’ll likely be [...]

When David and Deanna Gonzalez bought a fixer-upper in Elbow Lake, Minnesota, for $10,100, they never dreamed they’d find a treasure worth 10 times that amount hidden in an abandoned house. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that while demolishing a wall, David Gonzalez struck gold amid newspapers from the 1930s that had been used for [...]

If you’ve already plowed through the thousands of comics available in Marvel Unlimited, then fret not, Marvelites! They add new books into the collection every week to keep you up to your neck in digitized comics. Now, you can expect an array of new issues every Monday, along with a sneak peek of what’s to [...]

DC Comics has announced some of the toy exclusives that they will be bringing to Comic-Con in San Diego this summer. A Superman action figure, with spit curl, S-shield and a super-sized midriff in the witty style of British animation studio Aardman (Wallace and Gromit), will be one of four DC Collectibles products available exclusively [...]

The USS Enterprise picked up steam throughout the weekend, despite a somewhat unimpressive start. Early estimates show that J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness (CinemaScore: A) could bring in $70.6 million on the three-day weekend, and $84.1 million for the four and a half days that it has been open. Though nothing to scoff at, it’s still underperforming according [...]

EW has broken the story that Star Wars Rebels, a one-hour animated pilot already in production at Lucasfilm, is scheduled to premiere in Fall 2014 on the Disney Channel before the new brand leaps to Disney XD for the ongoing series, according to Lucasfilm sources. The series will mine material in the 19 years that [...]

The first teaser trailer has been released for Greg Mottola‘s HBO film, Clear History, which stars an unrecognizable Larry David as “Nathan, a hipster marketing exec who sells all his shares at a start-up over a fight with his boss (Jon Hamm), only to miss out on billions when the company’s new product—an electric car—becomes [...]

Syfy is giving another show “The Eureka Treatment”. The fifth season of Warehouse 13, which will return for only six episodes in 2014, will be its last. The show which has been popular for four seasons, and has been credited with bringing women to the channel, is getting the same shoddy send off that Eureka! [...]

The Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye reports that Christopher Nolan is in early talks with Bond bigwigs Barbara Broccoli and Michael G .Wilson, with a view to the director stepping into the position recently vacated by Sam Mendes. First reaction to this one would be that with Nolan embarking upon pre-production on his forthcoming sci-fi film Interstellar, the [...]

Colin Firth is adding another spy role to his to-do list, in addition to Matthew Vaughn’s “The Secret Service” (guess what it’s about), the actor has just been cast in another spy flick, “A Foreign Country”, based on Charles Cumming’s so-named novel and produced by Silver Reel and Raindog (who are also behind another of [...]