David Arnold | CASINO ROYALE IN CONCERT

On Saturday, September 30th, the Royal Albert Hall will reverberate to the sound of Bond, for on that day David Arnold will host Casino Royale Live. Backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Arnold’s powerful score will be performed in sync with a screening of Daniel Craig’s debut appearance in the role, and the 21st film in the Bond canon.

In a break from last-minute preparations, the Grammy and Emmy award-winning composer took some time to discuss the event, what it’s like to play that iconic theme and collaborating with the late, great Chris Cornell.

STARBURST: So, why Casino Royale?

David Arnold: There’s never been a Bond film performed with a live orchestra before, which makes the occasion very exciting. After Independence Day, just talking with the Albert Hall about doing another one, and knowing how popular these films are still, and how much reach they have,

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THE SHOWDOWN VOL. 2: THE RACE FROM HELL

Like your comics bonkers and full of carnage? If so, The Showdown: Vol. 2: The Race from Hell could be just the read for you.

From Russ Lippitt and Ezequiel Pineda, what we have here is the second part of an all-out race through hell as orchestrated by none other than Satan himself. Dubbed “The Showdown”, this extreme and brutal battle of the twisted race tracks of the underworld sees a whole host of ghoulish and garish gangs striving to topple the rest in this death match for the ages. There’s vampires, werewolves, skinheads, glamour girls and all kinds of inventive, demented sorts included here; all eager to get one-up on the competition no matter what the cost.

For those looking for something a little different to the usual comic book fodder

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DOCTOR WHO Movie Star Daphne Ashbrook’s Autobiography Out Now on Audiobook

Daphne Ashbrook's autobiography has been released by Fantom as an audiobook on CD, read by the author herself.

From the press release:

Witty, self-effacing and painfully honest; the themes of life, death and laughter come together as Daphne Ashbrook recounts her many on-and off-screen scrapes with mortality. Packed with rich anecdotes from her career in TV, stage and film, this refreshingly candid and conversational memoir spans a childhood in a theatrical family to pulling back the curtain of Hollywood, revealing the glamour and ridiculousness of a business mired in a struggle between art and profit.

Known for both her comic timing and deep emotional portrayals, Daphne has appeared in many TV and film roles including the 1996 Read more...

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SCANNERS TV Series in Development

In a landscape where so many genre favourite movies are being adapted as small screen series, you can now add David Cronenberg’s Scanners to the list.

As per Deadline, Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res and Bron Studios have picked up the rights to Cronenberg’s iconic 1981 movie, with the plan being to “develop and package the TV series adaptation with a high-end filmmaker and showrunner before shopping it to premium services”.

If you remember back, there were actually plans to adapt Scanners as a TV show back in 2011. At that time, Switchblade Romance’s Alexandre Aja was on board to direct the series. After all went eerily quiet on that

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from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/tv-news/19298-scanners-tv-series-in-development

Line-up for Horror Channel FrightFest Halloween All-dayer Announced

The line-up has been announced for the seventh annual Horror Channel FrightFest Halloween spectacular, and as expected, it contains a whole host of eagerly-awaited premieres.

The day kicks off at 10am with the European Premiere of Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare, which takes viewers behind the scenes of the making of FrightFest favourite Red Christmas. At 12.05, there’s the UK Premiere of Hostile, produced by Xavier Gens, the director of The Divide and Frontier[s].

14.10 sees the World Premiere of STARBURST favourite Lawrie Brewster’s new movie The Black Gloves, in which the nightmarish Owlman returns. It

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2019 Release Date Set for New TERMINATOR

With James Cameron currently making plans to bring the gang back together for a sixth Terminator movie, the next entry in the series has been given an official release date.

As per Paramount Pictures, the currently-untitled Terminator effort has been booked in for a July 26th, 2019 release.

What we know about the film so far is that Cameron will oversee things while Deadpool’s Tim Miller directs. Confirmed to return to the franchise are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. Now while Das Arnold has been seen as recently as 2015’s Terminator Genisys, fan favourite Hamilton hasn’t been seen in the series since 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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CULT OF CHUCKY

Following 2013’s Curse of Chucky, everyone’s favourite Good Guy is back to cause chaos once more. The question is, is this seventh installment in the famed Child’s Play franchise a worthy entry or merely an attempt to cash-in on an established property in a genre often bereft of new ideas?

Picking up directly after the aforementioned Curse – itself a clever reboot for the series – Cult of Chucky sees Nica (Fiona Dourif) locked up in an asylum for the criminally insane after the

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