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Gary Collinson

Wonder Woman passes $700 million at the global box office

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Having become the highest-grossing instalment of the DC Extended Universe domestically this past week, Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman has now reached another box office milestone, with the film passing $700 million worldwide this weekend. After a month on screens, the Gal Gadot-headlined solo movie has pulled in an impressive $708.4 million around the globe, leaving […]

Fantastic Beasts 2 starts filming, story details and new cast members revealed

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Warner Bros. has announced that filming has now commenced on the as-yet-untitled sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the latest instalment in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. Eddie Redmayne stars once more as wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, alongside Katherine Waterston as Auror Tina Goldstein, Alison Sudol as her sister Queenie Goldstein, and […]

Jerry O’Connell and Sydney Poitier to headline police procedural Carter

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Variety is reporting that Jerry O’Connell and Sydney Poitier have signed on to headline Carter, a new police procedural series from Sony Pictures Television Networks. The series will see O’Connell starring as “a detective on a hit American TV show who is forced to return to his hometown after an embarrassing public meltdown in Hollywood. […]

Naomi Watts to star in Penguin Bloom

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Deadline is reporting that Naomi Watts is set to star in Penguin Bloom, an adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive’s bestselling Australian book. Watts is also producing the film with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea, while Shaun Grant (Snowtown, Berlin Syndrome) will pen the screenplay. Penguin Bloom (published in the U.S.) tells the true story of […]

Tyler Perry to play filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in HBO biopic

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According to Variety, HBO has set Tyler Perry to portray pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in an upcoming biopic, which is based upon film historian Patrick McGilligan’s 2007 biography Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker. Novelist turned filmmaker Micheaux made his directorial debut in 1919 with an adaptation […]

Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Carice van Houten reunite for Brian De Palma’s Domino

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Deadline is reporting that Game of Thrones stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Carice van Houten have signed on to star in Brian De Palma’s upcoming suspense thriller Domino, which has been scripted by Petter Skavlan (Kon-Tiki). The film sees the duo as two police officers “who go rogue while tracking down the killer of their police […]

Herbie rides again as Disney XD reboots The Love Bug

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Herbie the Love Bug looks set for a return to the screen, with TV Line reporting that Disney XD is currently in development on a new series featuring the iconic anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle, which has Travis Braun (Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders) writing and executive producer alongside Tom Burkhard and Matt Dearborn (Even Stevens). The series […]

Adam Wingard on adapting Death Note for U.S. audiences

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Unlike this year’s Ghost in the Shell – which retained the Japanese setting of its source material, leading to whitewashing criticisms – director Adam Wingard’s has relocated the action of his upcoming manga adaptation Death Note to the United States, and speaking to IGN, the filmmaker has discussed how that forced him to make adjustments to the […]

Max Landis talks American Werewolf in London remake

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Back in November it was announced that Max Landis had signed on to write and direct a remake of his father John Landis’ 1981 cult classic An American Werewolf in London for Skybound Entertainment and Universal Pictures. We’ve heard very little about the project since the announcement, but now Max has been chatting about the […]