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Free Guy shows strong staying power with summer’s best sophomore frame at the box office

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These pandemic-era box-office reports have become a depressing list of underperforming tentpoles and caveat related statistics, but Free Guy really is turning into the story of the little guy that could with the news that it only eased -34% from its already impressive opening weekend to post a summer’s best sophomore frame of $18.8M at […]

Boo! Krysten Ritter makes for a terrifying evil witch in trailer for Netflix’s Nightbooks

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Channelling Goosebumps and A Series of Unfortunate Events, Netflix have debuted the trailer for their latest Sam Raimi produced spookfest Nightbooks, which tells the story of a young boy who becomes trapped in the apartment of Krysten Ritter’s evil witch, with his only means of survival being his ability to tell a scary story every […]

Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza team up in trailer for Best Sellers

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Screen Media has released the first trailer for Best Sellers, which sees the dynamite pairing of Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West) and Michael Caine (Kingsman: The Secret Service) in Lina Roessler’s directorial debut. With a screenplay written by award-winning scribe Anthony Grieco, the film also stars Ellen Wong (GLOW), and Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride); check […]

Leslie Odom Jr. and Cynthia Erivo time travel drama Needle in a Timestack gets a poster, images and synopsis

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Academy Award winning 12 Years a Slave scribe John Ridley graduates to the director’s chair for his forthcoming adaptation of Robert Silverberg’s short story Needle in a Timestack, and Lionsgate have released a poster, images and synopsis ahead of its October release. Starring Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the El Royale) Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton), […]

Get front row seats to the end of the world in the epic final trailer for Marvel’s Eternals

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The Disney marketing machine is in overdrive at the moment, with What If?… hitting their streaming service, Anthony Mackie penning a deal for Captain America 4, and the imminent arrival of Shang-Chi. However, there is very little preamble needed when it comes to a trailer as epic as the one Marvel Studios has just unveiled […]

Halloween Kills debuts “Unkillable” track from John Carpenter’s score

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Michael Myers was locked up for 40 years between the events of John Carpenter’s seminal slasher film and David Gordon Green’s 2018 retcon sequel, so you can imagine how frustrated Halloween‘s boogeyman must have been to get caught up in the pandemic delay. Fear not however, because on October 15th his wait is over when […]

Shang-Chi’s Simu Liu hits back at Disney CEO’s “experiment” comments

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As first reactions for Marvel’s Shang-Chi begin to hit social media, calling it “awesome” and the “perfect balance of fun, heart and action”, the film’s star Simu Liu has hit out at recent comments made by Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek, who called the the superhero blockbuster “an interesting experiment” when referring to the company’s decision […]

Hotel Transylvania 4 skipping cinemas and heading to Amazon for $100 million

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Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania franchise has scared $1.3 billion from the pockets of families around the world since the first film launched in 2012, but appears that the next chunk of change might have to be wire-transferred from Amazon Studios, because it’s being reported that Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is skipping a theatrical release altogether […]