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Benedict Cumberbatch to play Alexander Litvinenko in Londongrad

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Variety is reporting that Benedict Cumberbatch will take on the role of murdered former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in Londongrad, a limited series from HBO which is based upon Alan Cowell’s book The Terminal Spy. The series, which Cumberbatch will also executive produce, will tell the true story of Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who […]

Tom Holland “honestly doesn’t know” if he’ll return as Spider-Man after No Way Home

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Having recently spoken out to describe Spider-Man: No Way Home as feeling like “the end of a franchise”, Tom Holland has now revealed to Empire that his contract with Marvel and Sony expires with this December’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, leaving his future as the web-slinger up in the air. “I honestly don’t know if […]

Liam Neeson reunites with The Marksman director for In the Land of Saints and Sinners

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Liam Neeson is heading home, with Deadline reporting that the actor is set to reunite with Robert Lorenz, his director on this year’s U.S. box office hit The Marksman, for the Ireland-set action thriller In the Land of Saints and Sinners. According to the trade, the film will take place in a remote Irish village […]

Michelle Williams and Jude Law set for Henry VIII horror-thriller Firebrand

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As revealed by Deadline, Michelle Williams and Jude Law have signed on to star in Firebrand, a period psychological horror-thriller film from Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz and screenwriters Jessica Ashworth and Henrietta Ashworth (Killing Eve). The film will see Williams playing Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of England’s notorious King Henry VIII (Law), […]

Pierce Brosnan teams with Phillip Noyce for hitman thriller Fast Charlie

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Deadline is reporting that Pierce Brosnan has been cast in Fast Charlie, an adaptation of Victor Gischler’s Edgar Award-nominated novel Gun Monkeys which is being directed by Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Salt) from a script by Richard Wenk (The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer). The film will see Brosnan playing Charlie Swift, “who has worked for his […]

Marvel planned to introduce the Guardians of the Galaxy through One-Shot short films

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Marvel fans have been given a peek behind the curtain of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the recently released book The Story of Marvel Studios, which has offered up a wealth of info on Marvel’s rise from movie studio start-up to global box office behemoth. Discussing the development of 2013’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which […]

Zack Snyder reveals Army of the Dead 2 title, teases next project Rebel Moon

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Zack Snyder made a successful return to the zombie genre earlier this year with the Netflix hit Army of the Dead, and the streamer has wasted little time in spinning it out into an entire franchise with the spinoff prequel movie Army of Thieves landing today [read our review here], an anime series in the […]

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to undergo reshoots in November and December

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Once upon a time, news that a movie such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness undergoing weeks of reshoots would typically have sent alarm bells ringing, more often than not signalling that a studio was desperately looking to pull off a last minute salvage job. However, additional photography has become commonplace in the […]

Marvel’s Eternals is the lowest-rated MCU movie on Rotten Tomatoes

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While our very own Robert Kojder and EJ Moreno both found much to like in Eternals, Marvel Studios has found itself in an unfamiliar position following the lifting of the review embargo for the cosmic superhero adventure with critics decidedly mixed on the Chloe Zhao-directed movie – so much so that it’s currently sitting on […]

Doc Ock attacks in new Spider-Man: No Way Home images

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We got a glimpse of the returning Alfred Molina as Dr. Otto Octavius in the first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, and now some new images for the Sony and Marvel sequel have landed online which offer a detailed look at the returning Spider-Man 2 villain complete with updated (Iron Man-influenced?) tentacles which – […]