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Stranger Things finale grosses over $25 million at the box office

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The years-in-the-making Stranger Things finale might have proven divisive with audiences, but that didn’t stop them flocking to movie theaters to experience one last trip to the Upside Down.  According to Deadline’s report the Duffer Brothers-directed send-off outstripped predictions by taking in over $25 million at the box-office since it released on New Year’s Day, […]

Sabrina Carpenter headlines The Muppet Show in teaser trailer for Disney+ special

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Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo and the entire menagerie of Muppets are set to return in a variety show extravaganza headlined by Espresso superstar Sabrina Carpenter, with Disney+ and ABC dropping a brand new teaser for the comeback of The Muppet Show. Produced by the pop superstar alongside Seth Rogen and Evan […]

Primate featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of the terrifying monkey madness

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Paramount Pictures has uncaged a behind-the-scenes featurette for their forthcoming dose of monkey madness Primate, which tells the story of a family’s pet chimp who contracts rabies and embarks on a murderous rampage.  Directed by genre specialist Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), Primate stars Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, […]

Tom Cruise is a shovel wielding saviour in the teaser for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Digger

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Tom Cruise has put down the gun and picked up a shovel as his weapon of choice for saving the world in the first look teaser for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s latest film Digger.  Warner Bros. has dropped the title announcement teaser trailer, which features a largely silhouetted Cruise dancing with his shovel, seemingly channelling Tropic […]

Steven Spielberg returns to close encounters with Disclosure Day trailer

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The return of Steven Spielberg is an event almost as seismic as the world announcing the existence of extra-terrestrials, and that’s the subject of the legendary director’s return to science-fiction filmmaking with Disclosure Day. Based on a story by Spielberg, who directs from a screenplay by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds), Disclosure […]

Disney developing a live-action Gaston movie

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You can’t keep a good villain down. Having been rebuffed by Belle in two iterations of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and seen a long-gestating small screen spin-off fail to get off the ground, news reaches us from The Magic Kingdom (via Deadline) that Gaston is set to get the live-action treatment with a big-screen […]

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 trailer warns us everything we have ever assumed about the Upside Down has been dead wrong

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Following the jaw-dropping conclusion to Volume 1 of the final season of Stranger Things, Netflix has released the trailer for the penultimate run of episodes before the eagerly anticipated New Year’s Day finale.  Stranger Things Season Five’s cast includes Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), […]

Movie Review – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, 2025.  Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS:  Detective Benoit Blanc sifts through a series of suspects when a monsignor turns up dead. At […]

Street Fighter movie trailer and posters introduce us to iconic videogame characters

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Paramount Pictures and Legendary Entertainment have pushed start on the latest attempt to bring iconic videogame Street Fighter to the big-screen by dropping a sneak peek first look teaser trailer and character posters.  Directed by Kitao Sakurai (Bad Trip), your recognisable pixelated punchbags are brought to life by Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Andrew Koji […]