Greetings, Fellow Nerds! As you’ve probably noticed already, things have been fairly quiet here at Nerd Nation for the past few months. 2020 has undoubtedly been one of the most challenging and difficult years any of us can remember, and this has been especially true in the realm of entertainment and fandom culture. Between the…
Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman has died. A new report from the AP says the actor, best known for his leading role as T’Challa in the Marvel Studios MCU franchise, has died after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43. The news was confirmed by Boseman’s team in a statement posted to the…
With almost all conventions cancelled this year, DC Comics/Warner Bros. instead hosted their own virtual event: DC FanDome, a massive 24-hour online virtual event covering the entire DC multi-verse, debuting many trailers for movies such as Wonder Woman 1984, The Batman and the Zack Snyder Cut of Justice League to TV shows, animated series, video…
On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 Netflix announced that The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will be ending on Netflix after two seasons (which have been split into four “parts”). The final eight episodes of the series are expected to debut on the streaming service later this year, with what Netflix dubs “a spooky, sexy, and supernatural…
The Foothills Film Festival has announced its 2021 dates, per official press release. The 3-day film festival will take place March 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2021 at the LeGrand Center in Shelby, North Carolina, about 45 miles from nearby Charlotte. The event will feature three nights of live film screenings, and will feature guest speakers,…
DragonCon, one of the world’s largest the sci-fi, fantasy, and pop-culture conventions, will not be held in person for the first time in 34 years. The convention was (as always) scheduled for Labor Day weekend (as well as the surrounding week of) and was projected to bring around 90,000 people to downtown Atlanta, GA. Organizers…
The Micropolitan Film Festival has officially announced that it will indeed continue amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic, but as an online-only event. The announcement was made in late June via the McDowell Arts Council Association official website, the organizers of this event. One of Western North Carolina’s largest film festivals, the Micropolitan Film Festival is…
Universal Pictures’ PVOD experiment in TROLLS: WORLD TOUR turned out to be so lucrative, that the studio announced Tuesday it would begin releasing first-run movies on demand as well as in theaters. AMC Theatres took that as the first shot in a war: The country’s largest movie theater chain will no longer play any Universal…
Global content leader Lionsgate announced today that the studio will honor the communal experience of watching movies in movie theaters and support the people who make those places great with a special program that reminds everyone how much we love going to the cinema. The studio is presenting Lionsgate Live! A Night at the Movies,…
Three Quarters, the latest short film from A Stranger Concept Films in association with JK::Films and us here at Nerd Nation Entertainment recently launched its official Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign – WHICH CAN BE SEEN HERE! Three Quarters is a dramatic suspense short film with sci-fi/supernatural elements in the vein of classic psychological horror and suspense such as ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘The Outer…
