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Gary Collinson

Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1 to get digital-first release this Star Wars Day

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It’s Star Wars Day tomorrow, and to celebrate May the Fourth, Marvel Comics has announced that the first issue of the new Star Wars: Doctor Aphra series will receive a digital release before arriving in print at the end of the month. SEE ALSO: Lucasfilm announces Star Wars: Doctor Aphra full cast audiobook Taking place […]

Central Intelligence director to helm Spy vs. Spy movie

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According to a report from Collider, Central Intelligence director Rawson Marshall Thurber has signed on to direct a live-action adaptation of the Mad Magazine comic strip Spy vs. Spy for Warner Bros. and Ron Howard and Brian Glazer’s Imagine Entertainment. Launching back in 1961 and created by Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias as a parody of […]

The Iron Giant – 20th Anniversary Edition concept achieves 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas

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Designer BrettCuv’s The Iron Giant – 20th Anniversary Edition concept has progressed onto the First 2020 Review Stage over at LEGO Ideas, having achieved the required 10,000 supporters on the official website to put it in with a chance of being produced as an official LEGO set. The set is of course based upon the […]

James Wan teams with John Wick writer for time-travel thriller Hunting Season

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The Conjuring and Aquaman director James Wan is teaming with John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad for the sci-fi feature Hunting Season, based upon a 1951 short story by writer Frank M. Robinson. The film is described as “in the vein of 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and The Running Man” and follows “a law officer from the […]

Gina Rodriguez to star in sci-fi stoner comedy The Aliens Are Stealing Our Weed

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Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez has signed on to produce and star in The Aliens Are Stealing Our Weed, a sci-fi stoner comedy which has been scripted by Ryan Firpo, co-writer on Marvel Studios’ upcoming superhero blockbuster Eternals. As revealed by Variety, the film will follow “Candice (Rodriguez) and Izzy, two hapless pot growers […]

90s-era Cyclops gets an X-Men collectible figure from Sideshow

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Sideshow has unveiled its Cyclops 1:6 scale figure which is inspired by his 90s era X-Men Blue Team appearance.  The Marvel collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $240; check out the promotional images here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Sideshow Collectibles Inspired by his 90s era X-Men Blue team uniform, the Cyclops Sixth Scale […]

NOS4A2 gets two new season 2 teaser trailers

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With just a month to go until NOS4A2 returns for its second season, AMC has released two new teaser trailers for the supernatural horror series which you can check out below… NOS4A2’s second season picks up eight years after the events of season one. Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings) remains more determined than ever to destroy […]

I Am Not Okay With This co-creator to adapt Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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Last year it was announced that Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment and Chris Romero’s (former wife of the late George A. Romero) Sanibel Films were in development on a feature film adaptation of the 1999 Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and now comes word that a screenwriter has boarded the project. As […]

Adam Driver teams with Jeff Nichols for Yankee Comandante

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After finishing up in the galaxy far, far away with December’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Adam Driver has now signed on to reunite with his Midnight Special director Jeff Nichols on Yankee Comandante. Variety reports that the project is based upon an article in The New Yorker from David Grann, which told the […]