UPDATE (6:59 p.m. PT):  WBTV has released a statement on the circumstances surrounding K.J. Apa's car crash, as previously reported on below. Contrary to earlier reports, it notes that Apa worked 14.2 hours the day/night of the crash, that he had not been overly worked leading up to that day, and that he did not go to the hospital, but was treated by first responders and subsequently released. 

Here's the full statement:

With the hurricane of  Stephen King horror projects erupting on TV and the big screen, it's easy to be swept away in the sudden craze to adapt Maine's Master of the Macabre and become swiftly lost in the madness.

Hey you guys! It's Stranger Things Thursday, and in anticipation of Season 2, those clever marketeers at Netflix have released yet another poster channeling a favorite '80s flick — this one a loving homage to The Goonies.

The world has changed quite a lot in the decade since the last Star Trek series ended, and the new show Discovery is aiming to balance that hope and optimism with the “brutal time” we see every day in the real world.

September 2017 is SYFY's 25th anniversary, so we’re using it as an excuse to look back at  the last 25 years of ALL science fiction, fantasy, and horror, a time that has seen the genres we love conquer the world of pop culture. For us, that means lists! ALL THE LISTS! We’ll be doing two “25 greatest” lists per day all throughout September, looking back at the moments, people, and characters that shaped the last quarter century. So keep checking back. Please note: Our lists are not ranked; all items have equal standing in our brains.

If you’ll be attending New York Comic Con in a couple of weeks, then you should keep an eye out for the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

Capcom's insane new Monster Hunter: World is a ferocious stampede of chaotic creatures bent on making a tasty meal of your tender flesh.

A fresh trailer just debuted at a Sony press conference for the Tokyo Game Show 2017, filled with a monstrous menagerie of crested carnivorous dinosaurs and the legacy of skilled hunters aiming to bring them home as trophies.

It's a dog's world and we're just living in it.

The trailer for Wes Anderson's upcoming animated comedy, Isle of Dogs, has just hit the web, and by the looks of things, this canine adventure should be quite a treat for moviegoers and fans of the acclaimed director.

Set in Japan 20 years in the future, the film follows 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi, who sets out on an epic journey in search of his beloved pooch, who's been banished with other pups to a vast garbage dump called Trash Island after an outbreak of dog flu.

Batman is hitting that Asphalt Jungle. DC Comics and Turner Classic Movies have announced a special collaboration that will see the Dark Knight team up with Eddie Muller, the host of TCM's popular Noir Alley, for a free comic book entitled Batman in Noir Alley.

A few months ago, yours truly wrote up a piece for this very site making the case for why The CW needs to reboot Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a modern horror series akin to the murder mystery facelift given to Archie comics with Riverdale. As you may have heard by now, this exact project has now been officially announced as in development.

Happy birthday to Stephen King, who turns 70 today. The legendary horror author shows no signs of slowing down as he enters his eighth decade, with an epic new novel called Sleeping Beauties (co-written with son Owen King) coming out next week.

Marking the official end of summer, the premiere of Gotham Season 4 strikes Thursday, September 21, at 8 p.m. on Fox — and the Gotham City playing field is increasing in complexity as a veritable rogues' gallery of villains jostle for position and the impending emergence of the Dark Knight slowly builds from tragic beginnings.

Rip Hunter is back in the first images from the Season 3 premiere of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, released by The CW this week. The images show the Legends mostly, apparently, chilling on the beach -- but Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) doesn't seem to be back as a friend.

In the official synopsis for Season 3, The CW says Hunter is "calling their methods into question" as the new head of the Time Bureau ... probably because last season they kind of broke time itself. Oops.

Actor Sissy Spacek says that she loved working for director Brian De Palma on the set of their 1976 horror film Carrie. But it doesn’t mean the two had the same take on the iconic horror character.

Ma.K is getting an American-style makeover.

After scaring up boffo box office with Stephen King's creepy clown tale, IT producer Roy Lee is now setting his sights on giant robots and bipedal robo suits as he's landed a deal to turn the epic Japanese sci-fi series into a Hollywood blockbuster.

Fifty-one years ago this month, Star Trek: The Original Series beamed into American TV sets for the first time, igniting the imaginations of millions. Through warp drives and transporters, androids and alien negotiations, the epic sci-fi saga ended up inspiring an entire generation of young scientists and inventors to conceptualize its imagined future — and, in many cases, create and explore the technological possibilities its writers and science advisors suggested.

Stan Lee is a busy man. Among the slew of awesome Marvel projects the comic-book legend has on his plate is an original SYFY horror movie he executive-produced titled The Sandman. Ahead of the film’s debut next month, a spooky first teaser has been released.

Bernie Casey, professional football player-turned-actor, has died at the age of 78 after a brief illness, Variety reports.

It's been nearly a decade since James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar hit theaters, shooting to the top of the all-time box-office charts and wowing audiences worldwide with its game-changing visuals. Even back then, as his film was raking in the millions, Cameron was already talking about his vision for a sequel, and an eventual trilogy. Over time, two Avatar sequels became four Avatar sequels, and though Cameron always promised he was working on the films, they faded further and further away. At times it felt like we might never see this fabled franchise again.

At this point, it’s safe to say that Planet Hulk is something of a modern classic. In the time since it was first published in the pages of Incredible Hulk in 2006-2007, its popularity has only grown, spawning animated movies, “What if?”-style alternate takes, and inspiring the Jade Giant’s next cinematic appearance in Thor: Ragnarok.