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Mike Flanagan to direct a “radical new take” on The Exorcist

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Blumhouse and Universal Pictures have confirmed that Mike Flanagan has been ordained as the writer and director of a “radical new take” on The Exorcist. It had been previously reported that the Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor director was in talks to resurrect the fortunes of the flailing franchise following David Gordon […]

Blue Beetle’s Ángel Manuel Soto to direct Just Cause movie

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Popular video game franchise Just Cause is once again booting up for a big-screen adaptation from Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel SotoPer The Hollywood Reporter, the popular video game from Square Enix and Avalanche Studios has been picked up by Universal Pictures with Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto set to direct, and The Fall […]

Jeremy Renner keen on Mission: Impossible return

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Having survived his own real-life Mission: Impossible following his near-fatal snow-plough accident, Jeremy Renner has hinted that he’d like to take another assignment with the IMF in a future installment of the blockbuster espionage franchise. Renner, who played William Brandt in 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and 2015’s Mission: Impossible -Rogue Nation, was speaking with Collider […]

Sandra Hüller to star alongside Ryan Gosling in Lord & Miller’s Project Hail Mary

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Academy Award nominee Sandra Hüller is set to star alongside Ryan Gosling in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s long-gestating adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. According to Deadline the Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest star will capitalise on her stellar 2023 by going into outer space for the Amazon MGM Studios adaptation. Based […]

Movie Review – Robot Dreams (2023)

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Robot Dreams, 2023.Directed by Pablo Berger. Featuring the voice talents of Ivan Labanda, Graciela Molina, José Mediavilla, José García Tos, Esther Solans, Tito Trifol, and Rafa Calvo.SYNOPSIS:Adapted from Sara Varon’s graphic novel, Robot Dreams tells the story of Dog, a lonely soul who decides to buy himself a new companion in the shape of Robot, […]

The drama is at boiling point in The Bear season 3 trailer

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Anticipation for the third season of the Emmy award-winning drama series The Bear is at boiling point, and FX has served up an appetiser in the form of a brand new trailer for the critically acclaimed show. The Bear season 3 stars Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Matty […]

Prepare for your latest dose of Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone with the Kinds of Kindness trailer

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Fresh from making its debut at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month, Searchlight Pictures has released the final trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest creation Kinds of Kindness.  Reuniting the Poor Things director with his Oscar-winning leading lady Emma Stone, as well as Willem Dafoe, Kinds of Kindness anthology format allows for an impressive cast […]

Journey back to the ocean in Disney’s Moana 2 trailer

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Disney has released the first trailer for Moana 2, the eagerly anticipated sequel to their $600 million grossing 56th animated feature film.Directed by David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller, and featuring music by Grammy winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, Grammy nominee Opetaia Foaʻi, and three-time Grammy winner Mark Mancina.Moana 2 finds […]

Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson to star in bomb-disposal thriller Fuze

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Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are set to star in Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie’s bomb disposal thriller Fuze. According to Variety, James (Divergent) and Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass) will headline Fuze, which will focus on the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb in a London construction site, sparking a mass evacuation that turns […]

Brad Pitt and George Clooney reunite in trailer tease for Wolfs

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Ahead of the official trailer release, Sony Pictures and Apple TV+ has dropped the first look at Jon Watts’ Wolfs, which reunites the Ocean’s Eleven and Burn After Reading duo of Brad Pitt and George Clooney. The Spider-Man: No Way Home filmmaker directs the Academy Award winning stars in a tale of two professional fixers […]