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Jim Carrey set to play Dr Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog movie

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Here’s some news that will either make you start doing 360° loop-the-loops, or feel like you’ve landed on a frustratingly positioned cluster of spikes. Deadline are reporting that Jim Carrey is in talks to play Sonic the Hedgehog‘s chuckling nemesis, Dr. Robotnik in Paramount’s big screen adaptation of SEGA’s iconic video game. It would herald […]

Cowabunga? New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie reboot in the works

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Having rebooted the live-action adventures of the Heroes in a Half Shell as recently as 2014’s $493m grossing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Paramount is apparently already looking to perform a radical reset on the franchise. According to THR, the studio have hired Andrew Dodge, who was responsible for Jason Bateman spelling bee comedy Bad Words, […]

James McAvoy announces that production is underway on It: Chapter Two

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James McAvoy, who will be playing the grown up version of Bill Denbrough in It: Chapter Two, has announced the first day of shooting via his Instagram account. Unless you have an aversion to dairy products, there’s nothing to frighten you about the behind-the-scenes snap, but it should herald the start of more insights as […]

Sicario 2 director discusses his Call of Duty movie plans

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Fresh from overwhelmingly positive early reactions to Sicario 2: Soldado (or Sicario: Day of the Soldado, depending on where you are in the world), director Stefano Sollima has been speaking to SlashFilm about his plans for the Call of Duty movie adaptation that he’s currently attached to. Specifically, Sollima spoke of how he aimed to make […]

Spotlight director Tom McCarthy to adapt S-Town podcast

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Crime anthology podcasts have been all the rage over the last few years, with This American Life‘s Serial download becoming something of an audio blockbuster. So it comes as little surprise that Hollywood is sourcing the medium for movie content with the announcement that Spotlight director Tom McCarthy is to adapt another This American Life […]

Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile set to premiere on Sky

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Hardly an indication of quality thus far, the cinema/Sky Premiere same day release format has resulted in fare such as Monster Family, The Hurricane Heist, and Anon. Hoping to buck that trend will be Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy biopic, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which will now debut on satellite television on the same day […]

Trailer lands for Damien Chazelle’s First Man starring Ryan Gosling

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With the poster for First Man entering Earth’s atmosphere yesterday, it was only a matter of time before the trailer for Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling’s La La Land reteam would dock in media players around the world, and now you can watch it in all its glory below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzE3cYg-5YE On the heels of their […]

Watch the first four minutes of American Animals

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Having screened at this year’s London Sundance Film Festival, Bart Layton’s American Animals is currently on limited release in the US, and now The Orchard Movies, who purchased the film along with US ticket subscription service MoviePass, have released the opening scene for you to watch online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g708b8aZTA A bleeding of fact and fiction docudrama, […]

How has Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom fared at the international box office?

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opened in 30 international territories this week, and with love-it or hate-it reviews streaming in like out-of-control CGI volcanic lava – read both our ★★ review and our ★★★★ review – it’s going to be interesting to see how that translates to box-office. Variety is reporting that the J.A. Bayona directed sequel to the […]