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Hamilton Spectator
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
N.B. ‘felt like home' for co-star of horror series
One of the stars of a TV thriller filmed in southwest New Brunswick said she's happy she can share the show with her family. She's also happy she can share pictures from set. 'My camera roll is stacked with photos,' she told Brunswick News on July 8. Romy Weltman plays Martha 'Em' Cypress on Revival, a horror TV series airing now on the CTV Sci-Fi Channel in Canada and SyFy in the United States. Filming on the show took place in southwest New Brunswick from September to December last year, according to executive producer Greg Hemmings. 'I loved New Brunswick, I want to go back,' she said. 'It felt like home, it was so beautiful and nice, and the people were so kind. I know everyone says that about Canadians, but I have to say, the East Coast is something special.' The Ontario-New Brunswick co-production, set in 2008 Wausau, Wisconsin, is based on an Image Comics series by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton and is about the emergence of a small group of humans known as Revivers who died and came back to life. The showrunners are Aaron B. Koontz and Luke Boyce, with Hemmings and Stephen Foster of Saint John-based Hemmings Films among the show's executive producers. Hemmings told Brunswick News on July 11 work on the show has been ongoing for a year and a half, with post production still underway at that the time of the show. Foster said filming included 45 locations from Sussex to Fundy Cove to Welsford. The show has 'something for everyone,' Weltman said, adding when she watches with her family who aren't usually drawn to horror but enjoys the comedy, action, and 'bigger conversations' in the show. 'It makes you think and have real conversations about ... treating people the way you want to be treated, and acknowledging that othering people is never helpful,' she said. Weltman, 25, from Toronto, began acting at the age of 12 when her parents enrolled her in community theatre to encourage her to get outside of her comfort zone. Her most prominent role before Revival would have been Family Channel teen drama Backstage from 2016 to 2017, but she said some of her earliest work included supernatural and horror elements. 'It kind of feels like for whatever reason, my life just brought me back to horror,' Weltman said. 'I kind of got to go from a full glam and wearing crop-tops and colours to going dark in Revival, but I always find that fun.' Weltman's character is a part of what the producers described as 'a murder mystery where the victim gets to help to discover,' Weltman said. 'I think that's so unique as well, and a very cool concept.' She said the shoot gave her experience with doing more stunt work, and that she also did research on her character's backstory, including Osteogenesis imperfecta, known as brittle bone disease, as well as substance abuse issues. '(I) made sure I had good knowledge of what I was portraying and presenting on screen,' Weltman said. Weltman said her friends and family who have seen the show pick up on 'Romy facial expressions' Em makes, saying she puts herself into her performances but also enjoys when she can disappear into a role. 'My big sister told me that she doesn't see her little sister on screen, just a really cool girl that she wants to be friends with,' Weltman said. 'I was like, this is the most heartwarming compliment you could ever give me.' She said coming to the province was an opportunity to 'experience something new,' she she said was 'something I really really value about our job.' While in New Brunswick, Weltman said she tried to shop local, saying it's 'special to buy something unique.' She gave a list of her favourite haunts, including Catapult coffee roasters, Pomodori Pizza, Royal King Indian restaurant and Cask and Kettle, as well shopping at Exit 98 and In Pursuit. She said she also got to visit Saint Andrews to go whale watching, which she called 'the cutest town I've ever been in.' The show had 'the most amazing' cast, Weltman said, including Melanie Scrofano, who plays Em's sister on the show and 'is just like another big sister in real life to me now.' She said Andy McQueen became her first friend on the set. 'I really made family members through this, not just friends,' she said. Since the episodes have started coming out, she said she's 'been feeling really good about it, I think people are reacting very well.' 'I think that we're just getting started, and I think that the more the story goes, the more people will be able to fall in love with (the) characters,' she said. Episodes of Revival air on Thursdays at 11 AT on the CTV Sci-Fi Channel and are available on Crave. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Gizmodo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Amazon Renews ‘Invincible' for Season 5 While You're Still Waiting for Season 4
Today, Prime Video announced that Invincible has been renewed for a fifth season, giving fans even more reason to stay alive long enough to not only witness its already confirmed fourth season, with the promise that more of co-creator Robert Kirkman's cult-classic Image Comics series is in the chamber, ready to be unloaded onto the streamer. The news that Invincible has been renewed for a fifth season shouldn't come as a surprise to fans. During the Season 3 press tour, Robert Kirkman boldly declared that he and Skybound Entertainment plan to release new seasons of Invincible every year until the series fully adapts his 2000s superhero comic book. At San Diego Comic-Con (thanks, GamesRadar+), while discussing the renewal for season four, Kirkman estimated that the show could ideally have around eight seasons or more if Prime Video is willing to indulge them. 'I mean, that sounds ridiculous. A lot of shows don't last that long. The Walking Dead got to go 11 seasons, which is kind of crazy,' Kirkman said. 'So I don't know. I mean, I'm really just focusing on adapting the comic in the most faithful, interesting, enhancing way possible. And so we'll see what it ends up being.' While the declaration came with some tepid worry online over whether the show's animators would be able to match the output of the show and maintain (or exceed) its level of animation quality, today's news will likely comfort fans who felt pointedly afflicted by the gap between its first and second seasons as well as season 2's infamous break between its final stretch of episodes. Tough feelings aside, Prime Video chose not to dwell on those bad vibes. Instead, it celebrated the merriment of its season 5 reveal by sharing a video of its voice cast reacting to the news of its renewal, accompanied by a series of guffaws at how its renewal is a sign of the show's rip-roaring success. Season 5, Mark… this is GOOD NEWS — INVINCIBLE (@InvincibleHQ) July 17, 2025In a press release announcing that Invincible's fifth season is still a long way off, Prime Video praised the show's third season. They highlighted that it was the biggest returning season in Prime Video's original adult animated series catalog. The streamer also celebrated the numerous award nominations the series has received, including Best Animated Series nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards and Emmy nominations. Additionally, Invincible has earned a Certified Fresh ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, making it instantly appealing to those who value reviews at a glance from the site. In io9's review for Invincible Season 3, we walked away liking more than we disliked about the show, celebrating its discernment for leaving parts of the comic book on the cutting room floor, and being completely enamored with Jeffrey Dean Morgan's arrival as Conquest while being a tad less enamored with its violence losing its oomph and Atom Eve becoming the series' Green Lantern in the worst way possible (save for its season finale). Regardless, everything is coming up Viltrumite for Invincible. In addition to future seasons being locked in, fans can also look forward to Invincible VS—a tag fighting game from Skybound Games and Quarter Up, the former developers behind Killer Instinct. With all these future Invincible projects waiting in the wings, here's hoping its comic adaptation soars to even greater animated heights than its past seasons. Invincible is streaming on Prime Video. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Gizmodo
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Comics Legend Charlie Adlard Returns to the World of Zombies in This ‘Everything Dead & Dying' Cover
Charlie Adlard is one of the most recognized comics artists around, thanks to his landmark work on The Walking Dead, defining generations of comic storytelling. Now, the artist is heading back into the apocalypse with a twist—thanks to a new series from Image Comics. io9 can exclusively reveal your first look at Adlard's stealth variant cover for the debut issue of Everything Dead & Dying, set to hit shelves this September. Written by Tate Brombal and with art from Jacob Phillips, the five-issue miniseries follows a man named Jack Chandler, the sole survivor of his rural farming community in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. But rather than clear his world of the undead—which tragically includes his husband and their adopted daughter—Chandler has decided to keep living with and among the unliving. Instead of fighting off zombie hordes, Jack will find himself up against his fellow survivors when a group of outsiders discovers his home, willing to do anything to protect the last connections to his pre-apocalypse life from being put down for good. So open wide to look at Jack doing just that in Adlard's cover for Everything Dead & Dying #1 below! 'This is a zombie story that I had never seen done before, so I set out to write it myself. What if a lone man continued to live alongside his undead, tended to them, kept them fed, and loved them like they were still alive… only for the cast of The Walking Dead to stroll into town and put that man's entire world at risk,' Brombal teased to io9. 'It's about grief. It's about morality and mortality in a fallen world. It's about everything we owe to everything dead and dying.' 'I remember getting Charlie to do a sketch of me as a zombie, just like everybody else, around 20 years ago at a convention,' Phillips added. 'So it felt only right we got Charlie 'King of the Undead' Adlard to do a cover for this book. And I think we can agree, he KILLED it.' 'The Walking Dead reshaped zombie fiction for the modern era and its influence is felt all over Everything Dead & Dying, so to get this blessing and passing of the torch from Charlie Adlard himself is nothing short of incredible,' Brombal concluded. 'This is a definite career highlight for me, as someone who read and loved those comics so much growing up.' Everything Dead & Dying #1 is set to hit shelves September 3. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Geek Tyrant
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
G.I. JOE Resurrects COLD SLITHER in a Wild New Comic One-Shot — GeekTyrant
For fans who grew up on the gloriously awesome G.I. Joe animated series of the '80s, this is the kind of comeback we didn't know we needed… until now. Cold Slither, the fictional hard rock band fronted by Cobra's biker goons, the Dreadnoks, is getting its own comic. G.I. Joe: Cold Slither #1 drops October 1st from Skybound and Image Comics as part of the expanding Energon Universe, the ambitious crossover playground uniting G.I. Joe and Transformers under one chaotic roof. Written by Tim Seeley ( Rogue, Local Man ) and drawn by Juann Cabal ( Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ), the one-shot dives headfirst into the rise, and inevitable implosion, of the most dangerous rock band to ever shred for Cobra. 'The catchiest song ever to grace a military-themed toy line has lived in my head rent-free for forty years,' Seeley said. 'So I'm happy to drag it out, and write the true story of the scrappy band of miscreants who recorded it.' The band was originally introduced in the episode 'Cold Slither', where Cobra cooked up a plan to brainwash the youth using subliminal messages embedded in a rock anthem. Naturally, the Dreadnoks were the perfect fit to front the band. Artist Juann Cabal is just as fired up to bring this chaotic ensemble to the page: 'My parents met at a Cold Slither gig back in the '80s, so getting to draw this one-shot has been really special for me.' Ben Abernathy, Executive Editor at Skybound, added: 'To say this face-melting issue was a labor of love is an understatement. Getting this motley crew of creators together for this incisive and heartfelt look at the rise and fall of the legendary Cold Slither was a heavy metal dream come true!' This is the kind of fun and unexpected deep cut that makes the current G.I. Joe comics so much fun. They're not just rebooting the familiar stuff, they're digging into the stranger corners of the franchise and treating them with reverence and ridiculous flair. G.I. Joe: Cold Slither #1 hits comic shops on Wednesday, October 1st. Get ready to throw the horns and surrender your free will to Cobra's favorite rock band.
Time Magazine
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
Breaking Down the Cliffhanger Ending of The Old Guard 2
Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Old Guard and The Old Guard 2 The final scene of The Old Guard 2 teases a larger, exciting adventure, but after fans have waited five years for a follow-up to 2020's Netflix action film about a loyal and devoted band of immortal mercenaries, the sequel also feels like it stops mid-sentence. An adaptation of the comic books written by Greg Rucka, with art by Leandro Fernández, and published by Image Comics, both The Old Guard and its sequel tell the story of Andy (Charlize Theron), aka Andromache of Scythia, looking good for 6,000 years old, and her band of merry and melancholy soldiers who cannot die. The Old Guard 2, which saw some delays, finally released on July 2, picks up with newbie immortal Nile (KiKi Layne) fully accepted by the group on a high-octane mission in Split, Croatia, aided by the helpful CIA turncoat Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor). We learned in the first film that immortality can run out at any time, and mortality has caught up to Andy by the end of The Old Guard after she stops immediately healing from battle wounds. But it hasn't diminished her capacity for intense combat and badassery. The Old Guard 2 picks up about right where the first film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, left off. The Old Guard's final cliffhanger scene revealed that two characters we thought were old news would be back for any future sequel: the remorseful traitor Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts) is surprised by Quynh (Van Veronica Ngo), an immortal, who Andy had lost hundreds of years ago. Quynh was persecuted for being a witch and submerged underwater for 500 years in an iron maiden – in the first scene of The Old Guard 2, Quynh's metal coffin is dragged back up to the surface by Discord (Uma Thurman), an older, crueller immortal who shares none of the compassion and loyalty of Andy's crew. When the Old Guard first sees a security image of Discord, Nile recognizes her from her dreams. Andy goes to see Tuah (Henry Golding), who is basically an immortal archivist, collecting any written or reported evidence of their kind from across human history in a sprawling library of speculation and superstition. This is where Nile saw Discord in her dream, and what she saw was Discord stealing all of Tuah's books about the Old Guard. According to Tuah, Discord is the oldest immortal (older than Andy, even) and witnessing the persecution of her kind did not make her believe in immortal solidarity, but that she would only be protected by amassing wealth and power—and hoarding it for herself. She thinks their persecution is exacerbated by immortals like Andy interfering with humans. What's Discord's plan with our heroes? Discord knows reintroducing Quynh to the land of the living spells chaos for the tight-knit Old Guard—even though Andy et al. have been searching for her all these years, it didn't feel like that thorough from her perspective. Booker tells the team where to find Quynh, and as Andy and her vengeful ex have a painful reunion, Discord has an ominous conversation with Nile in a church where she drops a big lore bombshell: the birthmarks on Discord and Nile's arms shows that they're the first and the last immortals, and Nile has an unconfirmed power that Discord is hungry for. The film builds to a massive showdown at an industrial facility where in an act of redemption, Booker gives his immortality to Andy. How come? Earlier in the film, Tuah shared a theory that if the last immortal wounds another immortal, then they would lose their immortality, and Discord likely wants Nile to make all the Old Guard mortal and then kill them. Legend says that a wounded immortal can also gift their deathlessness to someone who is mortal, which is how Andy is back to her magic-healing self by the time she faces down Discord in a battle of blades. What questions does The Old Guard 2 leave us with? At the end of The Old Guard 2, Discord has incapacitated Andy's team, including Nile, bagging them and carting them away on choppers. In a moment of tense intimacy, Quynh chooses to not lash out by detonating a bomb set up by Discord, a small step towards making peace with her feelings of betrayal at the world she came back to. Discord and Andy fight, with Discord eventually getting away with all of Andy's friends. It's worth pointing out that Discord is not in Rucka and Fernández's second volume Force Multiplied—their story focuses on the venomous return and revenge of Nokiro (a Japanese character rewritten for the films as Quynh, to suit Vietnamese actress Veronica Ngo). Force Multiplied is a far more confronting and personal story than what we get in The Old Guard 2, where a 'big bad' reveals in her final moments that she is mortal and wants Nile to gift her the immortality of all the Old Guard. Recuperating at Tuah's library (it seems Nile accidentally robbed Quynh of her immortality in their skirmish; it's hard to track which of these people is really immortal in any given moment), the pair decide to wage war on their mutual enemy, reuniting for the first time in centuries. This is where The Old Guard 2 ends: a rallying cry for a mission we never get to see, with a quick quip to show a rift has healed. 'Are you going to do what you do best and fight by my side?' asks Andy. 'No, you will fight by my side,' replies Quynh. Our leads run towards a door—and the credits hit before they even step outside. The Old Guard ended on a cliffhanger, yes, but it was more of a neat coda on a satisfyingly concluded journey than the sequel, which ends midway through the story. Compare another bonkers sequel-tease ending from a recent genre film: 28 Years Later ends with a cliffhanger that introduces a psychotic and violent cult modeled in the image of one of Britain's most notorious children's entertainers. But 'the Jimmies' only appeared after our protagonist had completed his emotional arc, plus the sequel that will explain this cliffhanger has already been shot and dated for release. As of writing, there is no confirmation that The Old Guard 3 will be made. For an action series about the perils of time stretching on and on, it's a little ironic for The Old Guard 2 to cut itself so punishingly short.
