Category: News

News about current and upcoming genre media projects that include people of color. Info about historical projects, as well.

Mark Hamill and John Boyega Join Campaign to Let Terminally Ill Fan See Force Awakens Early

Read at Vulture.com.

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Photo by Gage Skidmore

Holy Crap, They Are Officially Making a New Star Trek TV Series!!

Click here to read at io9.com.

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“Dope” Filmmaker Rick Famuyiwa is Writing “Greatest American Hero” TV Remake

Click here to read at Comicbookresources.com.

Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, and William Katt (the “Hero”) starred in the original TV show, which debuted in 1981.

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Photo by Bago Games on Flickr

‘Our Life is Not a Game,’ Say World Indigenous Games Protesters

Click here to read at the Christian Science Monitor.

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#POCtober: Get To Know TANANARIVE DUE

Our lovely friend Tananarive Due is noted for her work in many fields, genres and media but for Dark Matters’ POCtober, we want to draw your attention to her work in horror- on the page and on the screen.

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Here’s a profile of Tananarive in The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror

Check out her films, videos & more at Tananarive Due’s YouTube Channel
And have a look at Tananarive Due’s official blog: Reading Circle
And her website TananariveDue.com

Watch and read about the horror short she made with Steven Barnes: Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes’ Horror Short ‘Danger Word’, an adaptation of their novel “Devil’s Wake”.

And finally take a listen to this in-depth interview Tananarive had with Farai Chideya for National Public Radio in 2006:

A Conversation with Tananarive Due PART ONE
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A Conversation with Tananarive DuePART TWO

According to Guillermo del Toro ‘Pacific Rim 2’ Budget & Script are In

LINK: Pacific Rim 2″ Will Storm Into Theaters On April 7, 2017

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Pom Klementieff’s Mystery Role In Guardians of the Galaxy II

LINK: Many of you guessed that Pom Klementieff had been cast as Mantis

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Japan Now Has Anime Contact Lenses

Read about the crazy at Kotaku.com.

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Photo by Valerie Bassi

#POCtober: Hauntings, Horror & History of Latin America

Here are some site recs to celebrate horror and history through out Latin America!

Latin Horror
The first English-language website dedicated to the genre of Latin horror. Features the leading Latin/Spanish/International “dark creative expressionists” working in film, theater, music, photography, illustration, graphic novels, “dark art” novelas, comic books, literature, and games—from the seasoned masters—to the up-and-coming Latin horrorphile whose work is grounded in horror, the macabre, and gothic arts.

100 Must See Brazilian Horror Films / 100 Filmes Brasileiros de Horror
A REC LIST CREATED BY Created by C Primati for IMDb
100 recs from site member C Primati.

Latina.com: 7 Terrifying Latin American Legends

Mexico Less Travelled: Haunted Mexico

BikeHike: The Spookiest Ghost Stories of Central and South America

Peru This Week: Five Famous Peruvian Ghost Stories

Beyond Samba: Brazilian Folklore: Magical Creatures that Inhabit the Forests

Remezcla: The Top 5 Latino Horror Legends & Monsters

Wander Argentina: Haunted Buenos Aires: Ghost Stories of the City

YouTube: Las Leyendas de Guatemala (The Legends of Guatemala)

Latin Times: Top 5 Scariest Latin American Ghost Stories

Travel Basecamp: Exploring Roatán’s Haunted Caverns In Honduras

Japanese Mafia Cancels Halloween

Click to read at The Daily Beast.

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