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Jamie Lee Curtis explains why the Thrombey family won’t be in Netflix’s Knives Out sequels

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Like Benoit Blanc cracking a huge case, the news broke last week that Netflix had teamed with Rian Johnson and a Thrombey Estate’s worth of cash to develop two sequels to 2019’s box-office smash Knives Out. Now the matriarch of that duplicitous family, Lynda Drysdale, aka Jamie Lee Curtis, has posted an entertaining statement on […]

John Woo to produce Stan Lee-created Monkey King Chinese superhero movie

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Legendary action director John Woo is set to produce a Chinese superhero movie based on an unpublished story created by the late Stan Lee. According to THR, the film will be an adaptation of Monkey Master, an unreleased comic book series which Lee created alongside his longtime collaborator Sharad Devarajan in 2016, and which tells […]

Godzilla vs. Kong roars its way to the biggest pandemic-era opening day at the U.S. box office

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Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong opened on Wednesday in the U.S. and set about conquering cities across North America with a pandemic-era single-day record of $9.6 million. The numbers reflect the fact that the Adam Wingard directed monster-mash is opening in more theatres than any other movie during the pandemic, and it’s about […]

Oscar-winning animation studio LAIKA moving into live-action movies with Seventeen

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The Academy Award-winning animation studio LAIKA, the stop-motion geniuses behind Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, Missing Link, and animated all-timer Kubo and the Two Strings, have announced their intention to move into live-action filmmaking with an adaptation of upcoming novel Seventeen. The novel, the first from screenwriter John Brownlow (Sylvia, Fleming), will be published sometime in […]

Ahmed Best says Jar Jar Binks will not be making an appearance in Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi

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There was much excitement when Disney announced the cast for the upcoming Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi series last week, adding new faces and confirming the prequel reunion of Ewan McGregor’s Jedi Knight and his former Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker, aka Hayden Christensen. However, there is one member of the old Phantom Menace crew who definitely […]

Joe Manganiello supports #RestoreTheSnyderVerse campaign with new Deathstroke photo

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If you thought the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League might be the punctuation to the long drawn out saga of getting his vision to the masses, then think again. Deathstroke actor Joe Manganiello has thrown his weight behind the “#RestoreTheSnyderVerse” campaign by tweeting the hashtag along with a never-before-seen look at his character. #RestoreTheSnyderVerse […]

Bong Joon Ho has finished his first post-Parasite script and revealed some details

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The success of Parasite not only highlighted the strength of Korean cinema as whole, it also meant that many people had their eyes opened to an entire Bong Joon Ho back-catalogue which they could plough through during lockdown. Well, now that everyone has hopefully been educated on the brilliance of Memories of Murder and Mother, […]

Amanda Seyfried takes the lead in Hulu’s The Dropout

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Fresh from receiving an Oscar nomination for her terrific performance in David Fincher’s Mank, Amanda Seyfried has signed on to portray a figure from more recent history, replacing Kate McKinnon in Hulu’s Elizabeth Holmes biopic The Dropout. If you’re unfamiliar with Holmes, she became the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire when she dropped out of […]

Spiral: From the Book of Saw cast announce that a new trailer is coming on Tuesday

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Now that Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have solved the puzzle of when to release Spiral: From the Book of Saw by announcing a May 14th release date, it appears that the timer on the marketing has begun counting down to zero with the cast posting teaser images ahead of a trailer for the Saw spinoff […]