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Gary Collinson

Netflix casts its Matilda and Miss Trunchbull

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Having cast Captain Marvel and No Time To Die’s Lashana Lynch as Miss Honey earlier this month, Netflix has now found its Matilda and Miss Trunchbull for the upcoming feature adaptation of the musical stage version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Newcomer Alisha Weir is set to take on the title role as Matilda, a young […]

Frank Grillo confirms Crossbones return in Marvel’s What If…?

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Despite stating last summer that he feels he’s “outgrowing that whole kind-of Marvel and superhero thing”, Captain America: The Winter Soldier star Frank Grillo has confirmed to Collider that he’ll be reprising his MCU role as Brock Rumlow / Crossbones in the upcoming Disney+ animated series What If…?. Based on the comic book of the […]

New Batwoman star Javicia Leslie on differentiating her character from Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane

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This Sunday sees the premiere of Batwoman season two on The CW, and with it comes a new character under the cape and cowl as Javicia Leslie makes her debut as Ryan Wilder, replacing Ruby Rose who exited her role as Kate Kane after a single season. Speaking to Variety about her new crime-fighting role, […]

Batman is heading to the UK for Batman: The Dark Knight miniseries

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DC Comics has announced that the Caped Crusader is heading to the United Kingdom this April with Batman: The Dark Knight, a new six-issue miniseries from creators Tom Taylor (DCeased) and Andy Kubert (Batman: The Dark Knight – The Master Race). “I will leap at any chance to tell a Batman story at any time, but teaming up […]

Jeremy Davies to star in Scott Derrickson’s Joe Hill adaptation The Black Phone

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Back in October of last year it was announced that Sinister and Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson is set to make his return to the horror genre with an adaptation of Joe Hill’s The Black Phone, and now comes word that Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan, Lost) has signed on to star. The Black Phone […]

British military action thriller 400 Bullets gets a trailer and poster

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Shout! Studios has released a trailer and poster for 400 Bullets, the new British military action thriller starring Jean-Paul Ly (I Am Vengeance), Andrew Lee Potts (The Crown), James Warren (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), Adele Oni (The Witcher), Steve Blades (All the Devil’s Men), and Wayne Gordon (Into the Badlands). One cold winter […]

Director Jon M. Chu exits Disney’s Willow TV series

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Disney+ may have finally given the green light for Lucasfilm to push on with its plans for a Willow TV series, but they will have to do so without filmmaker Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Crazy Rich Asians), who has dropped out of directing and executive producing the pilot due to scheduling issues arising […]

LEGO Ideas The X-Files: I Want To Believe set progresses to Review Stage

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FBI Special Agents Mulder and Scully may soon be getting a LEGO makeover, as designer BrentWaller’s The X-Files: I Want To Believe project has achieved the required 10,000 supporters on the LEGO Ideas website to progress to the official Review Stage. The set, which features around 650 pieces, includes Mulder’s office, along with Fox Mulder, […]