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Universal secures rights to Jessica Chastain’s all-star female spy thriller 355

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Last week Jessica Chastain spoke passionately about taking her idea for spy-thriller 355 to sell at the Cannes Film Festival. Now Deadline is reporting that the film has been bought by Universal Pictures for a whopping $20 million. Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) is set to direct 355, “a large-scale espionage film” that will feature […]

David Gordon Green to bring Friday Night Lights back to the big screen

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HG Bissinger’s book Friday Night Lights has already spawned the brilliant 2004 Billy Bob Thornton movie of the same name, plus a superior television series that ran for five seasons, bringing Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Plemons, and Kyle Chandler as the inimitable Coach Eric Taylor, to the attention of the world. Now Variety are reporting that […]

James Marsden in talks for Stephen King’s In the Tall Grass

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Currently on our screens as the morally conflicted cowboy Teddy Flood in HBO’s all-conquering Westworld, James Marsden has been eyeing further small screen success in the form of Netflix’s adaptation of Stephen King’s In the Tall Grass. The third Stephen King story to be adapted by the streaming giants, following Gerald’s Game and 1922, In the […]

Warner Bros. sets Sherlock Holmes 3 for 2020

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It has been seven years since 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with rumours of a third instalment diminishing over the course of time, but now in a twist worthy of the deerstalker sporting detective, Warner Bros. have announced a further outing in 2020. According to Empire, only Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law […]

Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson to reteam for The Hitman’s Bodyguard’s Wife

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Having made $177 million worldwide, it comes as no surprise to hear that Millennium Films are working on a follow-up to 2017’s The Hitman’s Bodyguard. THR reports that although Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, R.I.P.D.) and Samuel L. Jackson (Snakes on a Plane) haven’t signed on yet, the working title of The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is being displayed […]

Nic Cage’s Cannes cult thriller Mandy secures distribution

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Playing in The Director’s Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Nicolas Cage’s revenge drama Mandy has now secured distribution in all international territories, according to XYZ Films. Directed by Panos Cosmatos, Mandy is set in the wilderness of 1983, where Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) must deal with the fallout of an unhinged religious cult that […]

Movie Review – Entebbe (2018)

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Entebbe, 2018. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Denis Ménochet, Nonso Anozie, and Lior Ashkenazi. SYNOPSIS: In July 1976, two terrorists (Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl) linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, hijacked an Air France passenger plane, forcing it to land at Entebbe airport in Uganda. Chronicling the […]