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Netflix renews American Vandal for second season

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Netflix has announced today it has renewed its new series American Vandal for a second season, with the true crime mockumentary series set to return in 2018 for an eight episode season. The streaming service also released an announcement video on the show’s renewal, teasing what we might expect from the second season. Watch it here… American […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s The Kingkiller Chronicle is heading to Showtime

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Its been almost a year since we last heard about the adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle from Lin-Manuel Miranda with John Rogers (The Librarians) acting as showrunner, and now it finally has a home. The series is set to air on Showtime from Lionsgate with series author Patrick Rothfuss as an executive producer, and is an adaptation of […]

Netflix announces Stranger Things aftershow Beyond Stranger Things

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Following in the footsteps of AMC’s aftershows for The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad, Netflix will have its own aftershow for the second season of Stranger Things. Hosted by writer and actor Jim Rash (Community), Beyond Stranger Things will premiere October 27, the same day season two begins. Beyond Stranger Things will feature a rotating cast of guests to talk about inspiration […]

Karen Page featured on new poster for The Punisher

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We’re less than a month out from the premiere of Marvel’s The Punisher on Netflix and now we have a new poster for the upcoming series. Rather than showing more of Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle, the poster instead features Deborah Ann Woll’s Karen Page. Woll plays Karen in Daredevil, where she and Castle formed an unlikely friendship/alliance in […]

Listen to Danny Elfman’s Justice League ‘Hero’s Theme’

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Ever since Danny Elfman replaced Junkie XL as the composer for Justice League, many have wondered exactly what his score would sound like. Elfman has created some of the most memorable themes for superheroes on film, like the theme for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy or, most importantly, the iconic Batman theme from Tim Burton’s Batman. Entertainment Weekly has now […]

Olivia Munn to replace Zoe Saldana in Hummingbird

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A few months ago Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 star Zoe Saldana was cast in the action thriller Hummingbird, but now it has been announced that she will now longer be starring in the film. Instead, she will be replaced by X-Men: Apocalypse’s Olivia Munn in the lead the role, Deadline has revealed. The reason for the change […]

Vincent D’Onofrio returning as Kingpin in Daredevil Season 3, new showrunner announced

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When Daredevil returns for its third season, it will see the return of the show’s first villain as Vincent D’Onofrio will be returning for a regular role as Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. The Kingpin. “Vincent is an exceptional actor who returns with the incredible gravitas he brings to Fisk,” Daredevil‘s executive producer and head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb […]

Deathstroke film in the works from The Raid’s Gareth Evans

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Last year it was revealed that True Blood star Joe Manganiello had been cast as the DC assassin and supervillian Slade Wilson, better known as Deathstroke, for Ben Affleck’s The Batman. His role came into question however when Affleck stepped down as director earlier this year and Matt Reeves was hired, with Reeves starting from scratch on the script […]

Countdown to Justice League – Justice League: Origin

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Ricky Church counts down to Justice League by looking at some of the team’s greatest adventures. First up is Justice League Origin… It’s just a few short weeks until the release of Justice League and tickets are rumoured to be going on sale later this week, giving fans and newcomers alike time to brush up on some […]