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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 receive […]

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 are […]

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 Atreides, […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018.Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Alec Baldwin, and Sian Brooke.SYNOPSIS:Two years have passed since Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) prevented the Syndicate from destroying IMF, but as with all terrorist organisations, a new faction has emerged […]

Second Opinion – Skyscraper (2018)

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Skyscraper, 2018.Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber Starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber, Noah Taylor, Roland Møller, Hannah Quinlivan, McKenna Roberts, Kevin Rankin, Byron Mann, Matt O’Leary, and Chin Han.SYNOPSIS:When former FBI agent Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) takes a lucrative building safety job at the behest of his friend Ben (Pablo Schreiber), he travels with […]

Blumhouse brings the scares to Netflix with Ghoul

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Currently riding high with yet another low-budget/big box-office success on their hands in The First Purge (read our ★★ review here), Blumhouse are now insidiously creeping into the world of streaming television with Ghoul. The 3-part series is being dropped on Netflix, and the spooky new trailer can be watched here…SEE ALSO: Boogeymen, Box Office, and Best […]

The Predator reshoot details reveal less Predators and more links to previous films

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Shane Black’s The Predator has faced a more tumultuous journey to the big screen than Arnie’s path through the jungle in order to “get to de choppa“, and now details have emerged of the changes that were made following an early test screening. BEWARE SPOILERS!AvPGalaxy have revealed the reshoots, which shunted The Predator‘s release from […]

Movie Review – Racer and the Jailbird (2017)

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Racer and the Jailbird, 2017.Directed by Michaël R. Roskam. Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Eric De Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, and Nathalie Van Tongelen.SYNOPSIS:When career criminal Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts) meets a beautiful young race driver named Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos), the two of them begin a passionate affair that brings the worlds of high society and the gangster underworld together with potentially […]

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 Carrey’s […]