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Knock at the Cabin ends Avatar: The Way of Water’s seven-week run at the top of the box office

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M. Night Shyamalan’s apocalyptic-horror was doing more than just knocking on cabin doors at the weekend, it was knocking billion-dollar box-office behemoth Avatar: The Way of Water from the top spot after seven weeks.  Knock at the Cabin, Shyamalan’s fifteenth feature-film, won the weekend with $14.2 million, which comes in slightly below estimations, as-well-as the […]

First trailer for White Men Can’t Jump reboot starring Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow

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Hoping to emulate the bottled-lighting charisma shared between Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in Ron Shelton’s 1992 sports-classic, Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow step onto the court in the first look at Hulu and 20th Century Studios White Men Can’t Jump reboot. Charles Kidd II, aka Calmatic, directs this modern update from a script written […]

Movie Review – Bones and All (2022)

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Bones and All, 2022.  Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Taylor Russell, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon Green, Chloë Sevigny, André Holland, Anna Cobb, and Jake Horowitz. SYNOPSIS:  Love blossoms between a young woman on the margins of society and a disenfranchised drifter as they embark on a 3,000-mile odyssey through the backroads […]

Zazie Beetz to interrogate Tom Hardy’s serial killer in Apple TV+ series Lazarus

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In what is being described as a Hannibal Lecter-Clarice Starling style relationship, Tom Hardy and Zazie Beetz are set to star as serial killer and investigator in Apple TV+ drama series Lazarus.  According to Deadline the two are nearing deals to headline the series, which will be an adaptation of the Joona Linna book series […]

Jake Gyllenhaal embarks on a rescue mission in trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant

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Their CVs are as eclectic as each other, and now Guy Ritchie and Jake Gyllenhaal are teaming up for Afghanistan action-thriller The Covenant. Gyllenhaal returns to the war genre following roles in Brothers and Jarhead, to play John Kinley, a soldier on his last tour in Afghanistan, who gets a blow to the head that […]

Chris Pratt’s Amazon Prime action series The Terminal List gets second season and prequel series

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It’s good news for fans of Amazon Prime Video’s The Terminal List, because not only has the streamer announced a second season of the Chris Pratt led action-thriller, but they’re also developing a prequel series that will focus on Taylor Kitsch’s character.  Based on the Jack Carr novel of the same name, The Terminal List […]

Showtime kills off Dexter: New Blood as Young Dexter spin-off considered

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Despite ranking as Showtime’s most-watched series in the channel’s history, with weekly average viewing figures of 8 million, the network has decided to kill off Dexter: New Blood.  According to TVLine Showtime will not be moving forward with a second season of the revival show, however sources do reveal that they are planning to continue […]

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence announce Bad Boys 4

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They ride together. They Die Together. And now Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have announced Bad Boys 4 together.  Taking to Instagram, Will Smith, aka Detective Mike Lowery, drove over to visit his co-star Martin Lawrence, aka Detective Marcus Burnett, to announce that Bad Boys 4 was officially in development at Sony Pictures. Check out […]

Dave Bautista says he has let go of his long-held desire to play Bane in the DC universe

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While doing the rounds for his terrific turn in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin, Dave Bautista has once again spoken about his long-held ambition to play Bane in the DC universe, but this time he has accepted that he’ll probably never get to play the iconic Batman villain.  During an interview with The […]

Jason Bateman to direct supernatural-western The Pinkerton

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Having directed the two best episodes of underrated Stephen King adaptation The Outsider, as well as winning an Emmy Award in 2019 for his behind-the-camera work on Netflix’s Ozark, Jason Bateman is set to helm his first film since 2015 with supernatural revenge-western The Pinkerton.  According to Deadline Warner Bros. have tapped the Arrested Development […]