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The Full Monty to reunite for Disney+ limited series

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Here’s some news as surprising as the $250M worldwide gross that The Full Monty managed to dance its way towards in 1997; a Disney+ spin-off starring the original cast began filming in Sheffield today. The series will pick up 25 years after those hats were tossed in the air, with  Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting), Mark Addy […]

Spoiler free reactions to Sony’s Morbius begin to appear online

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While reviews are embargoed for Sony’s oft-delayed Spider-Man spinoff Morbius, reactions are beginning to emerge from a London Fan Screening which was held last night, and while praise is reserved for Matt Smith’s performance, it’s fair to say that overall the response was mixed. Some attendees called it “about as bad as you were expecting”, while […]

Seth Rogen joins Bill Murray in Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Being Mortal

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Seth Rogen has signed on to star in Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut Being Mortal, which will see the actor join Bill Murray in the Searchlight Pictures comedy-drama. Based on health expert Atul Gawande’s non-fiction book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, The Hollywood Reporter reveal that Rogen will star alongside writer-director […]

Oscar Isaac says the Metal Gear Solid movie is “searching like Solid Snake” for a story

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Remember when old videogames took an eternity to load? Well, the long-gestating Metal Gear Solid movie appears to be the pre-production equivalent of a Commodore 64 loading screen (one for the kids there), and despite the exciting news that the franchise had found its Solid Snake in Oscar Isaac, he has recently revealed the film […]

Netflix cancels Archive 81 after one season

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Anyone hoping to unravel the mysteries locked within the videotapes of Netflix’s Archive 81 should brace themselves for disappointment, because one of their top ranking shows of 2022 has gone the way of The Dark Crystal and I Am Not Okay With This by being cancelled by the streaming service after a single season. Deadline […]

Red Notice’s Rawson Marshall Thurber to direct Voltron movie

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Rumours of a Voltron movie have intermittently appeared on the entertainment pages since the early 2000s, but now it appears that a “bidding war has erupted” for the rights to adapt the cult Japanese sci-fi series, with Red Notice‘s Rawson Marshall Thurber attached to co-write and direct. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros., Universal […]

Keira Knightley’s animated World War II drama Charlotte gets a trailer

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Not to decry all of the CGI super furry animal animations we get on the release conveyer belt these days, but it’s always nice when something different comes along, and Charlotte appears to be just that. Tahir Rana and Éric Warin’s animated drama tells the story of a young German-Jewish woman –  voiced by Keira […]

Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train delayed to fill release date vacated by Black Adam

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Over the last couple of years the movie release calendar has been a little like looking up at the arrivals and departures board of a busy inner-city train station, so it perhaps fitting that David Leitch’s Bullet Train is going to have to wait just outside the platform for a couple of weeks in order […]

Korean body swap thriller Spiritwalker gets an action-packed trailer

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If you think you’ve seen every iteration of the body-swap formula, think again, because Yoon Jae-Keun’s Spiritwalker is here to take the Freaky from Friday in an action packed blend of fantasy and thriller which sees our memory-loss protagonist regaining consciousness every twelve hours, but each time waking up in a new body. Check out […]