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The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence to tackle Netflix’s Bioshock movie

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Netflix have turned to The Hunger Games and Slumberland director Francis Lawrence to take the controller for their adaptation of critically acclaimed video game series BioShock.Back in February it was reported that Netflix were partnering with video game company Take-Two Interactive, and its game publisher subsidiary, 2K, in order to finally bring the world of […]

Jamie Clayton’s Pinhead makes her debut in Hulu’s Hellraiser teaser trailer

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Coming off the back of their most successful streaming debut of all time with Predator prequel Prey, Hulu will be hoping that their next revival of an 80s IP is just as well received, and so 20th Century Studios have summoned the first teaser for their reimagining of Clive Barker’s 1987 horror classic, Hellraiser. It’s a […]

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and Shazam! Fury of the Gods move release dates… again

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Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom and Shazam! Fury of the Gods are once again doing the release date shuffle, with Warner Bros. bumping their superhero tentpoles to 2023. Both blockbusters have already been shunted around the calendar, most recently Shazam! Fury of the Gods was moved a few days in order to avoid clashing with James […]

Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan to direct live-action Paprika series for Amazon

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Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan is set direct the live-action series Paprika, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel of the same name, which itself was turned into 2006’s seminal anime masterpiece. According to Deadline Yan will executive produce and direct the series for Amazon Studios and Hivemind. Her producing partner Ash Sarohia will also ep under their Rewild […]

Disney developing live-action King Kong origin series

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While Apple are busy developing their own Titans TV show linked to the cinematic Monsterverse, Disney have decided to that they’d also like to cash in on Kong by announcing a live-action series based on the lovelorn ape’s origin on Skull Island. According to Variety the series would be a serialised drama that would explore King […]

Halloween Ends to debut in cinemas and on streaming as new poster puts Laurie Strode and Michael Myers side-by-side one final time

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Laurie Strode and Michael Myers have been playing cat-and-mouse around Haddonfield for over 40 years, so the final poster for October’s Halloween Ends has decided to throw them together in a pose ordinarily reserved for a 90s Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson rom-com in order to let audiences know that this is it, this is […]

Olivia Colman stars in the teaser for Sam Mendes’ ode to cinema Empire of Light

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Searchlight Pictures have released the trailer for Sam Mendes’ love letter to cinema, Empire of Light, which reunites the Academy Award winning director with his 1917 cinematographer Roger Deakins, a collaborative duo who both know a fair bit about the power of the projected image.Set in an old cinema located in an English seaside town […]

Aubrey Plaza joins Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

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Francis Ford Coppola’s independently financed $100M passion-project Megalopolis had already assembled quite the cast, and now he has assured it becomes a must-see by adding Aubrey Plaza to the ensemble. Sources close to Deadline revealed that the Ingrid Goes West actor would be joining Adam Driver (Paterson), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of […]

Batgirl directors on their unfinished film and losing access to the footage

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We’ve heard all of the official statements from studio heads and passionate posts from those involved with the production, but now Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have been speaking candidly about the state of the movie at the point when Warner Bros. Discovery decided to shelve their $90M blockbuster, and how they […]