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Showrunner confirms Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot will focus on a new Slayer

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One of the biggest pieces of news to emerge from the Hellmouth of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con was the fact that Warner Bros. confirmed that they were to reboot Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This brought with it an understandable level of consternation from a fanbase who cherished the adventures of Buffy Summers […]

Justin Theroux and Ashley Jensen join Disney’s Lady and the Tramp live-action remake

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As Disney continue to mine their back-catalogue for live-action adaptations, Collider are reporting that Justin Theroux (The Spy Who Dumped Me) is joining the remake of 1955’s Lady and the Tramp. Theroux, familiar to most as Kevin Garvey in HBO’s stunning The Leftovers, will voice the character of Tramp, the confident stray mongrel who strikes up […]

Alita: Battle Angel gets a stunning new trailer

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20th Century Fox has released a brand new trailer for the Robert Rodriguez-directed, James Cameron-produced manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel, and you can check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCup41IzMJI Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set […]

Stephen King’s From A Buick 8 finds its director

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Hyde Park Entertainment have named their director for the next instalment of the Stephen King adaptation renaissance, From A Buick 8. According to Deadline, William Brent Bell, whose credits include The Boy, The Devil Inside, and Wer, will take control of the wheel on the evil car horror. From A Buick 8 was originally published […]

It: Chapter Two Comic-Con footage description floats online

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It isn’t just Jason Momoa’s Aquaman emerging from the water at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, because one of the first big panels of 2018’s event was to herald the return of Pennywise the Clown from the murky sewers below Derry, as IT: Chapter 2 showcased some footage from the blockbuster sequel. SEE ALSO: […]

Jessica Chastain shares It: Chapter Two ‘passing of the red balloon’ picture

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With filming well underway on Andy Muscheitti’s It: Chapter Two, we’re starting to see more and more pictures emerge from the Derry stand pipe, and Jessica Chastain has just shared a rather  nice one via her Twitter account. The snap (created by @shaunwatson87) shows the cross generational iterations of Beverly Marsh – Chastain and Sophia Lillis […]

Damien Chazelle’s First Man to open Venice Film Festival

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Hoping to emulate the success he had the last time he was given this prestige slot, Damien Chazelle’s First Man has been announced as the opening night film at this years Venice Film Festival. In the past, Chazelle’s own La La Land has joined the likes of Birdman and Gravity, by opening the festival, before going on to […]

Hulu picks up The Vampire Chronicles TV series

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The further adventures of Anne Rice’s vampiric creations have been stuck in production purgatory since the 2002 stinker, Queen of the Damned, and only this past May Bryan Fuller added the proposed small screen adaptation to his ever-growing list of departed TV projects. Well now there’s some better news for Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, who […]

Timothée Chalamet in talks for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

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One of the undoubted supernova’s of 2017 (Lady Bird, Hostiles, Call Me By Your Name), Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet has just made the prospect of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune that much more tantalising by entering negotiations to join the ambitious adaptation of Frank Herbert’s opus. Deadline are reporting that Chalamet will take the lead role of Paul […]