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Bradley Cooper to play Frank Bullitt for Steven Spielberg

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Deadline is reporting that Steven Spielberg has tapped Bradley Cooper to play Frank Bullitt, the character made famous by Steve McQueen in 1968’s Bullitt, in an original story centred around the no-nonsense San Francisco cop.  The new film, as-yet-untitled, will mark the second collaboration between Cooper and Spielberg after the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, […]

Scream directors to tackle Escape from New York remake

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20th Century Studios looks to be taking another stab at the long-planned Escape from New York remake, with the studio tapping filmmaking team Radio Silence – Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella – to try and drag the project out of development hell after their success relaunching the Scream franchise with this year’s reboot. […]

Avatar: The Way of Water IMAX poster released as tickets go on sale

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With our return to Pandora drawing ever closer, a new poster for Avatar: The Way of Water has arrived online encouraging you to experience James Cameron’s long-awaited sci-fi sequel in glorious IMAX 3D, for which tickets are now on sale. Take a look at the poster below, along with a newly-released Dolby Cinema poster… SEE […]

Sony teams with Amazon and MGM+ for Marvel TV slate beginning with Silk: Spider Society

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The Walking Dead is over, and showrunner Angela Kang has set now set her next gig as she will team with Sony, MGM+ (formerly Epix) and Amazon Prime Video for Silk: Spider Society, a live-action Marvel series which will lead in to a full slate of Spider-Man spinoff series. Based on the character created by […]

War of the Worlds: The Attack sets 2023 theatrical release

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In news coming out of the American Film Market, Vertical Entertainment has secured the global distribution rights to the sci-fi action adventure film War of the Worlds: The Attack with plans for a theatrical release in 2023. Directed by Junaid Syed, who co-writes with FM’s own Tom Jolliffe, the film “follows three young astronomers tracking […]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever closes in on $550 million at the worldwide box office

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After two weekends in cinemas, Marvel Studios’ final feature film offering of 2022 has passed the half billion dollar mark at the worldwide box office, with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever retaining top spot both domestically and internationally as it pushes its global cume towards $550 million. In North America, Wakanda Forever dropped 62% from its […]

Dark Horse previews Star Wars: Tales from the Rancor Pit original graphic novel

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Get ready for a trio of spooky stories from the galaxy far, far away this week as Dark Horse Comics releases the original graphic novel Star Wars: Tales From the Rancor Pit; check out the official preview below… It’s a dark and stormy night on Tatooine as Jabba the Hutts victim hangs perilously above the […]

Frank Castle’s Cosmic Ghost Rider reawakens for new series

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Marvel’s future version of The Punisher reawakens this coming March as writer Stephanie Phillips teams with artist Juann Cabal for a brand new Cosmic Ghost Rider series which promises a sprawling space adventure with even more shocking twists and turns. “I love the humor and absurdity of Cosmic Ghost Rider, and because he’s a newer […]

Emma Roberts is a Space Cadet in first look at Prime Video comedy

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Amazon has released a first-look image of Emma Roberts from Space Cadet, a romcom from writer-director Liz W. Garcia (The Lifeguard) coming to Prime Video in 2023. The film will see American Horror Story and Scream Queens star Roberts playing Red, “a Florida party girl who turns out to be the only hope for the […]