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Gary Collinson

ThunderCats Roar to premiere on Cartoon Network this month

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Thunder… Thunder… Thunder… ThunderCats Roar!!! Cartoon Network has announced that its new iteration of the classic 80s animated series ThunderCats is set to arrive this month, with ThunderCats Roar premiering on the network on Saturday, February 22nd. The show will launch with the two-parter ‘Exodus’ (the same title as the first episode of the 80s […]

Kevin Feige says Scarlet Witch is the MCU’s most powerful hero

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After a couple of years of touting Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel as the most powerful hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seems that Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has had a change of heart after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Speaking at a Q&A at the New York Film Academy, Feige responded to a […]

Todd McFarlane hopes to have a big Spawn movie announcement “in the next month”

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Back in 2017, it finally seems as though Todd McFarlane was on track to realise his dream of relaunching the Spawn movie franchise, with Blumhouse Productions boarding the long-gestating reboot and Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner signing on for the roles of Al Simmons/Spawn and Detective Twitch Williams. Unfortunately, as has been the case for […]

Comic Book Preview – Star Trek: Year Five – Odyssey’s End

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IDW Publishing explores the final year of the original five year mission by collecting the first six issues of its Star Trek: Year Five series this week in the trade paperback Odyssey’s End; check out a preview here… The crew of the Enterprise left Earth four years ago. They’ve traveled to strange new worlds, defeated […]

Marvel showcases The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision and Loki in Super Bowl TV spot

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As the Marvel Cinematic Universe prepares to expand onto the small screen, Disney has offered fans a first look at this year’s three live-action Disney+ series from Marvel Studios with a Super Bowl spot for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, and Loki; check it out here… Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” Sam […]

Ron Howard sets action thriller The Fixer as next feature

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Having completed work on Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy, director Ron Howard looks to have locked down his next feature directorial project, with Variety reporting that the filmmaker is set to helm the action thriller The Fixer for Paramount. Scripted by Tyler Hisel, The Fixer “is based on the incredible true story of a disgraced FBI agent, […]

Jason Statham and Kevin Hart to team for action comedy The Man From Toronto

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After briefly sharing the screen in last year’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Jason Statham (The Meg) and Kevin Hart (Jumanji: The Next Level) are now set to team up for The Man From Toronto, an action comedy set up at Sony Pictures. Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3, The Hitman’s Bodyguard) is set […]

Seth Rogen producing movie adaptation of horror comic Memetic

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Seth Rogen and his producing partner Evan Goldberg have signed on to produce another comic book adaptation, the duo teaming with Lionsgate for a movie based upon the Boom! Studios horror-thriller series Memetic from writer James Tynion IV (Batman) and artist Eryk Donovan. Memetic is being written by Mattson Tomlin (The Batman) and revolves around […]

1917 leads the winners of BAFTA’s 2020 British Academy Film Awards

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Hollywood descended upon London this evening as BAFTA hosted the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards, with Sam Mendes’ World War I epic 1917 enjoying a fantastic night with seven awards in total including Best Film. Along with the top honour, 1917 was also awarded Outstanding British Film, Director (Mendes), Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Production Design, […]