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Gary Collinson

Hailee Steinfeld offered Kate Bishop role in Marvel’s Hawkeye

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Having secured a showrunner last week in Mad Men writer and story editor Jonathan Igla, it seems that Marvel Studios may now have identified its Kate Bishop for the Disney+ series Hawkeye. According to Variety, The Edge of Seventeen and Bumblebee star Hailee Steinfeld has been offered the role of Clint Barton’s (Jeremy Renner) protege, […]

Paramount Pictures rebooting Face/Off

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Paramount Pictures has tapped screenwriter Oren Uziel (The Cloverfield Paradox, Sonic the Hedgehog) to script a reboot of the 1997 John Woo action thriller Face/Off. The original film pitted John Travolta’s FBI agent Sean Archer and Nicolas Cage’s homicidal sociopath Castor Troy – with the actors switching up roles as their characters undergo surgery which […]

Sony has “five or six” Spider-Man TV shows in development

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Having successfully launched its ‘Universe of Marvel Characters’ franchise on the big screen last year with Venom, and reacquired full control of the Spider-Man rights after failing to reach a new deal with Disney, Sony’s Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra has been chatting to Variety about the studio’s future plans for the web-slinger. As well […]

Comic Book Preview – Chastity #1

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Chaos! Comics’ Chastity returns to comic books this Wednesday as Dynamite Entertainment launches a brand new series from writer Leah Williams (Gwenpool) and artist Daniel Maine (Robyn Hood), and you can check out a preview of the first issue here… Chastity Jack has been kidnapped, to the great misfortune of her kidnappers. She, along with […]

World War II thriller The Birdcatcher gets a UK trailer

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Signature Entertainment releases the tense World War II thriller The Birdcatcher in the UK next month, and you can take a look at the poster, trailer and synopsis here… “Norway, 1942. During her attempt to flee Nazi persecution, 14-year-old Jewish girl Esther finds herself alone and forced to conceal her identity on a Nazi sympathiser […]

HBO renews The Righteous Gemstones for second season

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Less than a month after its premiere, HBO has announced that it has renewed Danny McBride’s televangelist comedy series The Righteous Gemstones for a second season. “Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green are among our favorite collaborators and we’re thrilled that their take on a family comedy has been met with such enthusiasm,” […]

Mark Rylance, Matthias Schoenaerts and Géza Röhrig join Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet

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Having directed just three features in the first 25 years of his career, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick is certainly making up for lost time; his latest film A Hidden Life – his sixth this decade – is currently screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he’s already hard at work on his next project […]

Comic Book Preview – Star Wars Adventures #25

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IDW’s Star Wars Adventures #25 celebrates its quarter century with a brand new story about the young Princess Leia this Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… In this story set before A New Hope, Princess Leia Organa faces the most challenging task of her young life: teaching […]