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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio reunite with Apple for The Wager

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Filmmaker Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio are set to follow their upcoming collaboration on Killers of the Flower Moon by reuniting with Apple TV+ for The Wager. As with Killers of the Flower Moon, The Wager is based a non-fiction book by David Grann, the upcoming The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and […]

Krysten Ritter to lead Orphan Black spinoff Echoes

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Amid growing rumour and speculation about a potential Jessica Jones return for Marvel Studios, AMC has announced that Krysten Ritter is set to lead the cast of Orphan Black: Echoes. A spinoff from the hit sci-fi thriller series starring upcoming She-Hulk: Attorney at Law star Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black: Echoes will take place in the […]

Taron Egerton set for Netflix and Amblin action thriller Carry On

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Fresh off his acclaimed role in Apple TV+’s Black Bird [read our review here], Taron Egerton has signed on to lead the cast of the action thriller Carry On from Netflix and Amblin Partners. As reported by Deadline, Carry On will see Egerton playing Ethan Kopek, “a young TSA agent who gets blackmailed by a […]

Shudder presses play on V/H/S/99

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Following the success of last year’s V/H/S/94, horror streamer Shudder has announced that it has pressed play on an all-new instalment in the found footage anthology franchise with V/H/S/99. The latest chapter in the horror series will feature instalments from renowned genre filmmakers Maggie Levin (Into The Dark: My Valentine), Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, […]

Marvel releases trailer for All-Out Avengers

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Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are set to reassemble this September as award winning writer Derek Landy and artist Greg Land throw readers into the middle of some of the Avengers’ most pulse-pounding adventures to date with the new series All-Out Avengers. Check out the trailer from Marvel Comics below… INTRODUCING: THE ALL-NEW AVENGERS SERIES THAT STARTS […]

Dynamite’s fully painted comic series Sirens Gate gets a trailer

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Dynamite Entertainment has announced the upcoming launch of Sirens Gate, a new fully-painted creator-0wned series from acclaimed artist Shannon Maer. Described as an urban fantasy, Sirens Gate follows “Tara, an aspiring writer. She’s never thought of herself as anyone special, but all that is about to change. When a mysterious young man extends an unexpected […]

Sarah Paulson set for Searchlight Pictures horror Dust

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American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson is set to lead the cast of Dust, a new horror-thriller in the works at Searchlight Pictures for Disney’s direct-to-consumer platforms. “Sarah is an extraordinary artist and we are thrilled to be working with her again,” said Searchlight Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield, who previously worked with Paulson on […]

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gets a first teaser trailer

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Universal Pictures has released a first teaser trailer for Oppenheimer, the hotly-anticipated new film from director Christopher Nolan and starring his frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy in the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist credited as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ for his work on the Manhattan Project, the Allied development of nuclear weapons […]

First look at Scarlett Johansson, Emily Beecham and Sienna Miller in Kristin Scott Thomas’ My Mother’s Wedding

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With principal photography having wrapped, we now have a first-look image from My Mother’s Wedding, the directorial debut of Kristin Scott Thomas, who also stars as the mother of Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham’s three romantically dysfunctional sisters as they try to navigate her third wedding. The official synopsis for My Mother’s Wedding […]