Flickering Myth

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Gary Collinson

The Call of the Wild to lose around $50 million

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Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox may have given the House of Mouse control of a host of prestigious and potentially lucrative IPs (see Avatar, X-Men, The Simpsons et al), but it’s also brought with it some costly bombs. Last year, X-Men: Dark Phoenix tanked at the box office, finishing its run as the lowest […]

Disney-Pixar’s Onward tracking $100 million global opening despite coronavirus fears

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Disney-Pixar’s Onward is set to make its global bow this week, and despite growing concern about the coronavirus (which has just led to the delay of the new James Bond film No Time To Die), it looks as though the animated adventure is on course for a solid opening. As reported by Deadline, the film […]

Brett Gelman upped to series regular for Stranger Things season 4

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Last month it was announced that Priah Ferguson (Erica Sinclair) has been upped to a series regular for the fourth season of Stranger Things, and now Deadline has revealed that she’ll be joined by Fleabag star Brett Gelman. Gelman plays Murray Bauman, a journalist-turned-conspiracy theorist who was introduced into Stranger Things in season two and […]

No Time To Die delayed until November over coronavirus fears

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With fears over coronavirus growing around the world, MGM and Universal have announced that the upcoming release of No Time To Die has been postponed, with Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as 007 now set to arrive in November. “MGM, Universal and Bond producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, announced today that after […]

See the new Captain America in action in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier set video

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A new Captain America is set to make their debut in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but rather than Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson, the honour is set to fall to Wyatt Russell’s John Walker (a.k.a. U.S. Agent/Super-Patriot). In the comic books, Walker is chosen by the U.S. government to replace Steve […]

The Da Vinci Code prequel series finds its Langdon

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Succession actor Ashley Zukerman is set to follow in the footsteps of Tom Hanks by portraying Dan Brown’s Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon in the upcoming NBC pilot Langdon. Produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine, the company behind the feature films The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and Inferno, the series is based […]

Sam Worthington to star in Shark vs Killer Whale thriller Alphas

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Avatar star Sam Worthington is set to lead the cast of Voltage Pictures’ Alphas, a thriller from director Steven Quale (Into the Storm) and screenwriter Frank Hannah (The Cooler) which pits a fearsome Great White Shark against a deadly Killer Whale in a battle of the aquatic apex predators. Check out the teaser poster here […]

Absurd comedy thriller Butt Boy gets a trailer and poster

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Epic Pictures is set to release the absurd festival favourite Butt Boy this April, and we’ve got a poster and trailer for the hard-boiled comedic  detective thriller, which revolves around a newly-sober cop who comes to suspect that his AA sponsor is a serial killer with a rather unusual M.O.; check them out here… Chip […]

Control and Death Stranding lead nominations for BAFTA’s British Academy Games Awards 2020

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BAFTA has announced the nominees for the 2020 British Academy Games Awards, with Remedy Entertainment’s Control and Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding leading the field with 11 nominations apiece – the most nominations for any game in the history of the BAFTA Games Awards. Other titles with multiple nominations include seven for Disco Elysium, five for […]