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WWE Raw ratings hit a record-breaking 18-year low

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Despite the good run of shows over the last couple of weeks, a lack of real star power or nostalgic acts has really hurt WWE’s flagship show Raw recently. With the ratings hitting rock bottom, last Monday’s episode hit a new 18-year low. They had previously hit a new low with the 27/10 show with […]

Possible new synopsis for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice reveals Lex Luthor’s plan

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As we near towards the end of 2015 (only a few weeks left before Christmas folks), we look towards 2016 and one of its biggest releases: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. We’ve had a synopsis for the movie already, but German cinema chain Odeon have posted a possible new synopsis for the movie on their […]

Sony’s biggest movies of 2015 are all Adam Sandler projects

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While he was mocked in the press earlier this year for the poor box office opening of Pixels, Adam Sandler is still a bankable star over at Sony. It’s not been a great year for the studio, but their three biggest domestic releases of 2015 so far have all been Sandler projects.The current top three films are Hotel […]

Mark Ruffalo says a solo Hulk movie “feels even further away”

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Mark Ruffalo is set to reprise his role as the hulking green goliath, The Hulk, in Thor: Ragnarok before teaming up with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes again for Avengers: Infinity War Pars 1 & 2. Rumours have been around for many years that he’d be getting his own solo outing just like his pals Iron Man, […]

Terminal cancer patient asks J.J. Abrams to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens early as his dying wish

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Cancer sucks, we just wanted to put that out there. Remember a couple of years ago when a terminal cancer patient asked J.J. Abrams to see an early cut of Star Trek Into Darkness as his dying wish? Well this chap is trying the same tactic, only this time with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. […]

The Week in Star Wars – No more trailers for The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams on Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford, Gwendoline Christie and Kevin Smith discuss the movie, classic character rumoured to return

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Following last week’s bumper edition of The Week in Star Wars, it’s a slightly shorter version this time round. But we do have J.J. Abrams talking about the lack of Luke Skywalker and trailers while Kevin Smith talks about seeing “a chunk” of the movie and how it made him feel…After all the theories coming out […]

Deadpool will get an IMAX release

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20th Century Fox have landed a multi-picture deal with IMAX to show several of their future tentpole movies on the cinema format, including Independence Day: Resurgence, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the untitled Wolverine movie and Deadpool.“We are very happy to announce this new global affiliation with IMAX and look forward to offering our audiences another choice […]

Rumour: Daredevil will appear in Jessica Jones

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With Daredevil set to join Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and either Iron Fist or The Punisher (depending on whether the rumours are true), it was likely that The Man Without Fear would cross paths with his Defenders co-horts before their mini-series at some point. But if The Death of Superman Lives director John Schnepp is to […]

Paradise Lost: The Already Troubled Production History of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5

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With Alien 5 being put “on hold”, Luke Owen looks back at the movie’s brief troubled production…“The way Fox dealt with me was not cool,” Neill Blomkamp recalls of his time on the unproduced Halo movie. “Right from the beginning, when Mary [Parent] hired me up until the end when it collapsed, they treated me like […]