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Should you choose to accept them, here are the best Mission: Impossible moments

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Matt Rodgers on the best Mission: Impossible moments… The ability for the Mission: Impossible franchise to subvert the law of diminishing returns, in terms of both box-office and quality, as well as keeping the fuse lit under Tom Cruise’s dimming star power, is surely down to the stylistically diverse way in which the films are […]

Second Opinion – Deadpool 2 (2018)

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Deadpool 2, 2018 Directed by David Leitch. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, T.J. Miller, Karan Soni, Leslie Uggams, Eddie Marsan, Stefan Kapicic, Bill Skarsgård, Terry Crews, Shioli Kutsuna, Lewis Tan, Jack Kesy, Hayley Sales, and Rob Delaney. SYNOPSIS: With $783 million at the global box-office, more than […]

Simon Pegg talks Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek: “It won’t be ordinary”

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As Simon Pegg gears up for press duties on both Margot Robbie thriller Terminal [read our review here] and blockbuster sequel Mission: Impossible: Fallout, he’s been speaking to ComingSoon.net about another of his film franchises; Star Trek. Specifically his involvement as a writer/producer, the news that S.J. Clarkson will direct the next film, and Quentin Tarantino’s […]

Hereditary’s Ari Aster lines up new horror film

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Aside from your usual blockbutser hyperbole, there’s one film this summer that’s generating terrific word-of-mouth, and that’s A24’s terrifying new horror Hereditary. It screens at Sundance London this May, and then hits cinemas in mid-June, but before Ari Aster can scare the bejesus out of you with the Toni Collette chiller, he’s lined up his […]

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 […]