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Spanish scares aplenty in terrifying new Bird Box Barcelona trailer

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Netflix has dropped a tense new trailer for the Spanish-language Bird Box spin-off Bird Box Barcelona, which jumps between pre-and-post breakout timelines and features deserted street stand-offs and station platform horror, which suggests it could be a worthy follow-up to the streaming smash-hit original.  Directed by The Last Days and Carriers filmmakers Alex and David Pastor, Bird […]

Evan Peters lining up on the grid with Jared Leto for Tron: Ares

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Golden Globe-wining Dahmer star Evan Peters has inked a deal with Disney to enter the world of Tron. According to The Hollywood Reporter Peters will saddle up on the grid alongside Jared Leto, who has taken the lead role in Joachim Rønning’s (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) decade-in-the-making sequel.  Titled Tron: Ares, the third installment in […]

“Disgusting” James Bond backlash turned Idris Elba away from 007 role

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While out promoting his latest action-hero role in Apple TV+’s Hijack, Idris Elba has been speaking about being perennially linked with playing 007, revealing that he was put off by the racist backlash he faced at the suggestion he could be the next James Bond.  Elba was appearing on the latest edition of the SmartLess […]

Seth Rogen introduces Mutant Mayhem cast in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles featurette

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Having unveiled a brand new batch of character posters, Paramount has invited you to meet the cast who will be bringing their forthcoming CG-animated action adventure Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem to life in a brand new behind-the-scenes featurette. Introduced by Seth Rogen, producer and voice of mutated warthog Bebop, among other star-studded names the […]

Among Us animated series in development at CBS

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CBS are working on an animated-series based on multiplayer phenomenon Among Us.  Variety have hit the report button to reveal that CBS, via their CBS Eye Animation Productions, has teamed up with Innersloth, the game’s developers, to create an animated series based on Among Us.  Owen Dennis, who’s best known for the Cartoon Network series […]

Josh Gad shares disappointing update on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids sequel

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Putting aside any disdain for Disney repackaging and rebooting their entire back-catalogue, there was something exciting about the prospect of seeing Rick Moranis return to the big screen for a sequel to 1989 classic Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Unfortunately the chances of it happening appear to have shrunk, with star Josh Gad revealing that […]

Julia Garner-headlined horror Apartment 7A is a covert Rosemary’s Baby prequel

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It turns out that Paramount Pictures has made a covert prequel to 1968 horror-classic Rosemary’s Baby. According to World of Reel, a recent test screening of Apartment 7A turned out to be a prequel to the critically-acclaimed Roman Polanski film, focusing on the woman who died outside the apartment when Mia Farrow’s titular mother-to-be moved […]

Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander to headline dystopian sci-fi The Assessment

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Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander have signed up to star in dystopian sci-fi The Assessment. According to Screen Daily the two will play a couple living in a future destroyed by climate change, where part of society has created a parallel world for itself. Life is controlled and optimised, and the desire to have children […]

Box Office: Spider-Verse pips Elemental to swing back to the top, while The Flash crashes hard

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There was plenty of narrative atop the U.S. box office this weekend, with experts eager to see how relative flops The Flash and Elemental would hold up in the face of an R-rated Jennifer Lawrence and the all conquering Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.  Let’s start with the big news, which would ordinarily be the film […]

James Mangold reacts to negative Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reviews

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When Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny made its eagerly awaited debut at the Cannes Film Festival the response was decidedly mixed, and now that even more reviews are swinging online in anticipation of its June 28th release, director James Mangold has been addressing the negative responses.  Mangold, who inherited the megaphone from Steven […]