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Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher to headline sci-fi thriller Companion

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Currently riding high off the sophomore season of small-screen smash Yellowjackets and box-office success of The Boogeyman, Sophie Thatcher is in talks to join sci-fi thriller Companion.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, Thatcher, arguably the MVP of Showtime’s hit-series, will headline Companion, which comes from the team behind 2022’s standout horror Barbarian.  Also in talks […]

Spider-Man holds strong, but Transformers Rises to the top of the box office

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts won a hard fought battle with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse over the weekend, outperforming expectations with a $60.5 million opening.  Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s relaunch of the robots in disguise landed with $170.5 million worldwide, with an impressive $40 million of that coming from China. While it was a positional victory for Rise of […]

Richard Ayoade introduces us to beasts and vegetables in the Fable trailer

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Xbox has used their Games Showcase to release the teaser for the first installment of their choose-your-own way RPG series Fable for 13 years.  Introduced by Richard Ayoade’s Dave, a vegetable enthusiast who believes that the age of the hero is over, the teaser takes us back to the world of Albion, where players can […]

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny tracking $60M-$70M of “fortune and glory” on opening weekend

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Indiana Jones is looking to dig up between $60M-$70M at the domestic box-office when Harrison Ford’s fifth and final outing as the iconic adventurer opens at the end of the month.  According to The Hollywood Reporter Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is tracking to open with $60 million to $70 million when it […]

Sisqó’s “Thong Song” breaks up a fight between John Doe and Sweet Tooth in first clip from Twisted Metal

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Peacock has released an exclusive clip from Twisted Metal, their live-action action-comedy based on the classic PlayStation video game franchise. The clip features John Doe (Anthony Mackie) and Sweet Tooth (Will Arnett/Samoa Joe) in a casino brawl, until Sisqó’s “Thong Song” unexpectedly brings them together.  Also starring Stephanie Beatriz, Thomas Haden Church, and Joe Seanoa, […]

Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, and Morgan Freeman star in the trailer for Taylor Sheridan’s Special Ops: Lioness

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Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan continues his small-screen dominance with his latest star-studded vehicle for Paramount+, Special Ops: Lioness, which features Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, and Nicole Kidman. The series focuses on Zoe Saldaña’s conflicted operative and the role she plays in the CIA’s Lioness Program, an organisation headed up by […]

Trailer for Michel Hazanavicius’ One Cut of the Dead remake Final Cut

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If you’ve been lucky enough to watch Shin’ichirô Ueda’s cult hit One Cut of the Dead, then the idea of remaking something so unique might seem like a fool’s errand, but Oscar-winning director of The Artist Michel Hazanavicius appears to have pulled it off with Final Cut.  The opening night selection for the 2022 Cannes […]

David Harbour warns that “this is not a game” in latest Gran Turismo teaser

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Sony Pictures have rolled another Gran Turismo teaser from the pit lane, one that once again underlines the astonishing true-story behind their unique take on a videogame adaptation.  Directed by District 9’s Neil Blomkamp, Gran Turismo has a grid roster that includes David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Darren Barnet, Geri Halliwell Horner, and Djimon Hounsou; check out […]

Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Tiffany Haddish, John Cho, Paul Walter Hauser, Ken Jeong and Jack Whitehall star in The Afterparty Season 2 trailer

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Apple TV+ has dropped the trailer for the second season of their critically-acclaimed murder-mystery comedy series The Afterparty.  From Academy Award winning duo Chris Miller and Phil Lord, season two sees Detective Danner (Tiffany Haddish) return to help Aniq (Sam Richardson) and Zoë (Zoë Chao) solve a wedding-set whodunnit by questioning family members, star-crossed lovers […]