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Gary Collinson

Namco Museum Mini Player packs 20 classic games into a mini arcade cabinet

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My Arcade has announced the release of the Namco Museum Mini Player, a 10-inch retro arcade cabinet packed with 20 classic Bandai Namco titles including Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaga, Galaxian, Rolling Thunder and Splatterhouse. The Namco Museum Mini Player features the following classic games: Battle City Dig Dug Dig Dug II Dragon Spirit Galaga Galaxian […]

Channing Tatum’s Zombie Brother finds a director

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If you cast your mind back to 2017, you may recall that Channing Tatum’s Free Association production company announced it was teaming with STXfilms China’s Tencent Pictures for an adaptation of the Chinese digital comics and anime shorts Zombie Brother. Well, it seems the project may finally be readying itself to move forward, as The […]

Jack O’Connell to play Shaun Ryder in Twisting My Melon

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Variety is reporting that Jack O’Connell (’71, Unbroken) is set to take on the role of Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder in the feature film Twisting My Melon, which is being produced and directed by Matt Greenhalgh, whose screenwriting credits include the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy and Ian Curtis film Control. “Shaun Ryder is […]

UPDATE: Margot Robbie developing Tank Girl movie

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Alan Martin, co-creator of Tank Girl, has taken to Twitter to reveal that Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment has optioned the big screen rights to the classic British comic book character, and that while development on a movie adaptation is now well underway, it seems that neither he nor Jamie Hewlett are involved with the project […]

How to be a Playwright 101 with Rob Ackerman (Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson) | The Writer Experience Podcast #66

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Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience Podcast…  Court and Harry are joined by Rob Ackerman, a playwright whose plays include Tabletop, which won the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble Performance, Volleygirls which won the New York Musical Theatre Festival’s Best in Fest, Call Me Waldo, Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson […]

Get a first look preview of Titan’s Robotech Remix

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Titan Comics is set to launch a radical re-imaging of the sci-fi mecha classic Robotech this October with the launch of the new series Robotech Remix, and we’ve got an unlettered first look preview for you here; check it out… Robotech is reborn from the ashes of Event Horizon! New writer Brenden Fletcher (Motorcrush, Isola) […]

Comic Book Preview – Starcadia Quest #1

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The worldwide best-selling tabletop game Starcadia Quest comes to comic books this Wednesday as IDW Publishing launches its new YA series, and you can take a look at a preview of the first issue here… Out in the Frontier, the toughest jobs in the galaxy are handled by Freelance Adventuring Crews, and on his sixteenth […]

Rumour: Mahershala Ali in contention for Commissioner Gordon role in The Batman

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With filming on The Batman expected to get underway before the end of the year, it’s only a matter of time before we start to get official news on the cast who’s sent to join our new Dark Knight Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves’ version of Gotham City. So far, there hasn’t been any word […]

Cancelled Star Wars convention panel prompts speculation about Hayden Christensen appearance in The Rise of Skywalker

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A report is circulating online which claims that Disney was responsible for the last minute cancellation of a panel featuring Star Wars’ Ian McDiarmid and Hayden Christensen at the FanX convention in Salt Lake City this past weekend. The Mouse House is alleged to have threatened the organisers with legal action should the panel take […]