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Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua to team up for slavery drama Emancipation

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Deadline is reporting that Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith are set to work together on Emancipation, a slavery drama based on one of history’s most powerful images, a photograph titled ‘the scourged back’. The scar tissue smothering the back of a runaway plantation slave named Gordon, administered to him on a property owned by John […]

Jake Gyllenhaal graphic novel adaptation Snow Blind gathers pace

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Originally touted as a potential TV series as far back as 2017, Ollie Masters and Tyler Jenkins’ graphic novel Snow Blind is now at the centre of a lockdown bidding war with Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star. Deadline is reporting that multiple bids have been submitted for the for the property, and that Gustav Möller, […]

Paul Dano says The Batman script is “potentially really powerful”

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With the recent news that The Batman can resume filming in the UK once the pandemic safety measures are adhered to, we’re starting to get more stories from the cast and crew about how their schedule has been affected by the halt in production. Zoë Kravitz has spoken about her back-to-work process as Catwoman, and […]

X-Men: Dark Phoenix director dismisses the idea of a ‘Kinberg Cut’

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While news was breaking that Zack Snyder was finally getting to release his version of Justice League on HBO Max, and David Ayer began to set the wheels in motion for his own much-maligned DC property rejig of The Suicide Squad, few people appeared to be clamouring for a take-two attempt of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, […]

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon heads to Apple TV+

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Having rescued Tom Hanks WWII drama The Greyhound from the choppy waters of release date purgatory, Apple have now performed their biggest streaming service flex yet by acquiring Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon for  a potential Apple TV+ release. Deadline reports that Apple won a bidding war to become the studio in charge […]

Producer Jon Landau spills some Avatar 2 plot details

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James Cameron’s Avatar sequels will be among the first films to resume production following the pandemic, so it’s no surprise that we’re getting plenty of news out of the New Zealand based shoot. The latest titbit comes from producer and regular Cameron collaborator Jon Landau, the man behind Titanic and Alita: Battle Angel, who revealed […]

HBO Max unveils new Looney Tunes cartoon with release of full first episode

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Last week HBO Max broke the internet when they announced that they’d be the home for Zack Snyder’s Justice League cut, and now they’ve backed that up with their reveal of an equally impressive line-up of iconic characters: The Looney Tunes. Featuring three brand new cartoons made in the tradition of the original Looney Tunes […]

Zoë Kravitz talks Catwoman concerns when filming resumes on The Batman

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“You have people just touching your face, touching your body all day long. I need help getting into the catsuit. I can’t do it on my own”. It seems being Catwoman in the time of Covid could be a particularly difficult obstacle to navigate according to the current incumbent, Zoë Kravitz, who was speaking to […]