Original Ghostbusters Pitch Was Set in Outer Space

[ad_1] With its inter-dimensional deities, spectral intimacy, and hot dog gobbling phantoms, Ghostbusters (now streaming on the SYFY app alongside its 1989 sequel) is a spectacularly weird movie. A classic, yes — but a strange classic at that. Things could have been even weirder for the squad of wisecracking paranormal exterminators, had screenwriter/actor Dan Aykroyd been allowed…

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Remembering SYFY’s Wild, Ambitious Oz Miniseries Tin Man

[ad_1] It’s crazy to think just how ambitious the vision was for 2007’s Tin Man (streaming here on Peacock), SYFY‘s (formerly the Sci-Fi Channel) genre-mixing event series that extensively reimagined Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. A modern-day fairy tale that updated the kid-centric story with a more mature PG-13 sort of…

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Where Is the Cast of SYFY’s The Magicians Now?

[ad_1] It’s been almost four years since SYFY aired The Magicians series finale (pick up all five seasons right here), but the magic continues to endure. Based on the trilogy of bestselling novels written by author Lev Grossman — The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land — the show centers around the students…

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Could We Create a Planet of the Apes on Purpose?

[ad_1] The Planet of the Apes series is, without question, the most well-known fictional example of animal uplift, the common name given to the practice of increasing non-human intelligence. In the 1968 original, a small crew of astronauts travel more than 2,000 years into the future and arrive on what they believe to be an…

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Josh Hutcherson Talks Five Nights at Freddys Sequel Hopes

[ad_1] Yes, Josh Hutcherson has seen the Josh Hutcherson whistle meme from TikTok. And no, he doesn’t really understand it, either.  “There’s like, this whistle thing,” Hutcherson told the audience during his January 9 visit to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon—and they cheered, because they’ve seen it, too.  In case you’re not familiar, the Josh Hutcherson…

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