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Gary Collinson

Liam Neeson to star in Speed-like thriller Retribution

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In news coming out of the American Film Market, Deadline is reporting that Nimrod Antal (Predators) is set to direct Liam Neeson in the thriller Retribution for Studiocanal and The Picture Company. The film is a remake of the 2015 Spanish thriller El Desconocido and sees Neeson playing a businessman who finds himself in a […]

Luca Guadagnino to write and direct Brideshead Revisited for the BBC

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Deadline is reporting that Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino is set to write and direct a new miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel Brideshead Revisited for the BBC. Exploring themes of aristocratic nostalgia, Catholicism, and homosexuality, Brideshead Revisited follows Captain Charles Ryder and his relationships with the Flytes, an aristocratic […]

Midway Games documentary Insert Coin gets a trailer and release date

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Cargo Film and Releasing has announced that the upcoming documentary Insert Coin is set for release this month, and promises to tell the true story of Midway Games, a ragtag team of game developers behind arcade classics such as Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, NARC, Rampage and more. Check out the poster, trailer and official synopsis […]

Emilia Clarke, Hugh Laurie, Gemma Arterton and more to voice Terry Pratchett adaptation The Amazing Maurice

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Variety has revealed that Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Hugh Laurie (House), Gemma Arterton (Vita & Virginia), David Thewlis (Wonder Woman), Himesh Patel (Yesterday) and Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) are set to lend their voices to the animated feature The Amazing Maurice. Based on the late Terry Pratchett’s 2011 Discworld novel The Amazing Maurice and […]

Ben Wheatley-directed horror In the Earth gets first image and plot details

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In the run up to the release of Rebecca on Netflix, filmmaker Ben Wheatley announced that he’d been working on a low budget pandemic horror throughout lockdown, and now we have the first image (above) and details on the film. Titled In the Earth, the film features a cast that includes Joel Fry (Yesterday), Ellora […]

Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega and Scott Mescudi to star in Ti West horror X

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Deadline is reporting that Mia Goth (Suspiria), Jenna Ortega (The Babysitter: Killer Queen) and Scott Mescudi (We Are Who We Are) in the cast of X, the latest horror film from writer-director Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers). Specific plot details are being kept under wraps, but West is set to write […]

The CW scraps its plans for a Dark Shadows sequel series

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Back in September of last year it was revealed that Warner Bros. Television and The CW were teaming up to relaunch the classic TV series Dark Shadows with a sequel that would serve as “a modern-day continuation of the strange, terrifying, and sexy saga of the Collins family of Collinsport, Maine.” However, if you were […]

Jeremy Irons and George MacKay to star in spy thriller Munich

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Netflix and Turbine Studios have set Jeremy Irons (Watchmen) and George MacKay (1917) to star in Munich, a feature adaptation of Robert Harris’ spy thriller novel which is being directed by German filmmaker Christian Schwochow (Bad Banks, The Crown). As reported by THR, Munich “is set in fall 1938 as Europe stands on the brink […]

Production gets underway on Star Trek: Discovery season 4

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Star Trek: Discovery’s third season may only have launched a few weeks back, but co-showrunner Michelle Paradise has taken to Twitter to announce that production on the fourth season is already at full impulse power, with cameras rolling on the continuing adventures of Sonequa Martin-Green’s Michael Burnham and company. Season 4, here we go! #StarTrekDiscovery […]