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Sci-Fi Lit Auction Gets Even Better

3 days ago | starburstmagazine.com | Ed Fortune

Following the success of the recent Genre Creators for Trans Rights In The UK & SA, top authors Lauren Beukes and Jeannette Ng have launched an immediate sequel. The previous auction raised £20000 for The Good Law Project and The Triangle Project. This new auction looks to top that, and has some amazing things up for auction. Items up for sale include a super-rare galley proof of Robert Jordan’s The Eye Of The World, the book that began The Wheel of Time series.
Clarke Award 2025 Shortlist Announced

4 days ago | starburstmagazine.com | Ed Fortune

Awards season continues with the Arthur C. Clarke Award, created in 1987 to promote science fiction. The shortlist for the 39th Arthur C. Clarke Award Science Fiction Book of the Year has been announced. This year’s winner will be announced on Wednesday 25th June 2025.
Uma Thurman Picks Up Her Katana In THE OLD GUARD 2 Trailer

6 days ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier

Uma Thurman picks up a katana once again, this time to defeat Charlize Theron and her team of immortal mercenaries in the trailer for the long-awaited Netflix sequel, The Old Guard 2. The Old Guard 2 centres on Theron as Andromache of Scythia, aka Andy, as she comes to terms with her newfound mortality while preparing to face a new threat (Thurman). “She is the first of the immortals,” Theron is warned in the trailer. “She knows your histories, your relationships.
First Look at Howard J. Ford’s BONE KEEPER

1 week ago | starburstmagazine.com | Martin Unsworth

Acclaimed Brit Indie director Howard J. Ford (The Dead 1 and 2, Never Let Go, Darkgame) has just wrapped on his latest film Bone Keeper, a monstrous tale of discovery and survival, which centres on six friends who enter a remote cave system to investigate the legend of the ‘Bone Keeper’, only to find themselves being hunted by a mysterious creature that may have inhabited the cave for thousands of years. Will they uncover the truth, escape the creature, or become the next missing souls?
Leslie Grace Gets Swallowed By Whale In PROPEL

1 week ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier

Leslie Grace (In the Heights, the tragically fated Batgirl) is going to be spending time inside a giant sperm whale in Propel, a survival thriller being billed as Gravity meets 127 Hours under water. The feature follows Kate Acosta, a commercial diver who is swallowed by a giant sperm whale during a routine commercial dive, Captain Ahab-style.
Meghann Fahy To Lead Supernatural Thriller BANQUET

1 week ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier

Drop star Meghann Fahy has been tapped to lead the supernatural thriller Banquet from The Platform director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. The upcoming film is based on an original screenplay from Fingernails writer Sam Steiner, according to Deadline. Fahy will play “Jenny Cochrane, a woman whose perfect life is shattered by the return of her estranged son, which reawakens a terrifying secret buried in her bloodline.” That’s all we know for now.
The Long Walk Trailer Teases Anticipated Stephen King Adaptation

1 week ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier

Mark Hamill oversees a very deadly journey in the trailer for The Long Walk, the film adaptation of Stephen King‘s novel. Director Francis Lawrence’s dystopian horror feature stars Cooper Hoffman as Raymond Garraty, David Jonsson as Peter McVries, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang as Hank Olson, Roman Griffin Davis, and Judy Greer.
The Ritual: Al Pacino, Dan Stevens Attempt An Exorcism

1 week ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier

Al Pacino and Dan Stevens play two priests attempting an exorcism in the trailer for The Ritual. Filmmaker David Midell directs the pair, as well as Ashley Greene, Patricia Heaton, Abigail Cowen and Ritchie Montgomery. The Ritual centres on Father Theophilus Riesinger (Pacino) and Father Joseph Steiger (Stevens, MonsterVerse franchise) as they aim to assist a young woman who appears to be possessed by demons. “We are the Lord’s army in this battle,” says Pacino’s character in the trailer.
Sandra Bullock And Keanu Reeves Reunite For Romantic Thriller

1 week ago | starburstmagazine.com | Laura Potier

It’s a full-on Speed reunionin the upcoming romantic thriller from Amazon MGM Studios, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. The project is still untitled. Noah Oppenheim, who wrote the 2016 Jackie Kennedy Onasis biopic for director Pablo Larraín, Jackie, is penning the script. Plot details on the upcoming thriller are being kept locked up tight, but it is being described as “propulsive”.
Dungeons and Dragons Core ‘SRD’ Rules Updated

2 weeks ago | starburstmagazine.com | Ed Fortune

The world’s most played fantasy TTRPG, Dungeons and Dragons, has had its core rules updated and made available to the public under Creative Commons. (A system that allows the ‘for free’ distributions of an otherwise copyrighted work. You can find the full System Reference Document v5.2.1 here. Since the year 2000, the core rules of Dungeons and Dragons have been available under some form of open agreement.