Chernobyl

TOKYO (Reuters) - For one minute this week, workers at the Fukushima nuclear station fell silent to mark the 10-year anniversary of a natural disaster that triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Then they went back to work tearing down the reactors melted down in the days after a…

Commentary Decades ago, a single energy disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable to humans and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. A casual student of history might assume these shocking statistics refer to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but that would be incorrect. No, this catastrophic specter was the fault of…

Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone’s Sister production label (“Chernobyl,” “Gangs of London”) has scored the film and television rights to James Tynion IV’s Image Comics title “The Department of Truth”. Tynion, who recently took over the “Batman” comics at DC and wrote the acclaimed “The Woods” and “Something…

Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov will reportedly be directing the HBO series.  Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov will reportedly be directing the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us. Although it was initially speculated that the production would reunite Chernobyl's Craig Mazin with director Johan Renck, Hollywood Reporter states Renck had to…

Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov, who helmed the celebrated Cannes premiering feature “Beanpole,” has been tapped to direct the pilot for the HBO series adaptation of celebrated video game “The Last of Us”. Craig Mazin, the creator of HBO’s acclaimed limited series “Chernobyl,” is writing and executive producing alongside the game’s…

Home News (Image credit: HBO/Sony Pictures) The Last of Us TV show just got a new director for its pilot episode, THR reports. Director of HBO's acclaimed Chernobyl series Johan Renck was originally set to direct the pilot, but has had to step away due to a scheduling conflict. In…

2020-12-31 10:00:00by Chris Moyse Bring a scarf, looks chilly out Ukrainian developer GSC Game World has released the first in-engine video for its grim-looking adventure sequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, which is currently in development for Xbox Series X and PC. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is the official sequel to the '00s story arc,…

Experts are horrified at the Ukrainian government for allowing a company to dredge near the disaster site A sign warning of radiation, taken in Pripyat, Ukraine, April 2017. OVER 30 years after the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, the city of Pripyat is exactly as it was the day it was…

Naughty Dog’s zombie-killing adventure video game “The Last of Us Part II” swept the Game Awards this year, winning Game of the Year and six other prizes. But fans of the other titles nominated for Game of the Year — including Sucker Punch’s Samurai epic “Ghost of Tsushima,” Square Enix’s…

Indian media mogul Ronnie Screwvala has optioned the audio-visual rights to eminent authors Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro’s terrifically researched and written book, “Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster.”Set in 1984, in the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas…