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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 […]

Godzilla vs Kong sequel reportedly set to shoot later this year

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Godzilla vs. Kong was one of the first blockbusters to wade into the ruin of the pandemic-era cinemagoing landscape, so its global haul of $468M, despite being available day-and-date as part of Warner Media’s 2021 release strategy, was a resounding success. So it comes as no surprise that a sequel will reportedly go before the […]

Chloé Zhao opens up about Eternals’ divisiveness

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Now that the water around the fallen Celestial statues is a lot calmer, Eternals director Chloé Zhao has been speaking exclusively to Empire Magazine about the divided critical reception to her unique entry into the IP heavy world of the MCU. Eternals was always going to be a challenging film to gauge; featuring no recognisable […]