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Tim Burton casts Game of Thrones’ DeObia Oparei in Dumbo

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Tim Burton has made a new addition to the cast of his live action adaptation of Disney’s Dumbo with Deadline reporting that Game of Thrones actor DeObia Oparei, who portrayed the Dornish bodyguard Areo Hotah, has signed on to portray ringmaster Rongo in the film. Oparei joins Colin Farrell (The Lobster), Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice), Danny DeVito (Batman Returns), Eva […]

Mark Wahlberg and Charlie Hunnam in talks to star in Triple Frontier

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After Ben Affleck dropped out of Netflix’s Triple Frontier earlier this month, Deadline is reporting that the film is regaining its footing with a new cast. Transformers: The Last Knight’s Mark Wahlberg has begun talks to replace Affleck in the film along with Son of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam, Tron: Legacy’s Garrett Hedlund and Narcos’ Pedro Pascal. Pacific Rim: Uprising’s Adria Arjona […]

Book Review – Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad by Christie Golden

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad… With Star Wars Battlefront II hitting consoles this fall, Christie Golden introduces fans to Inferno Squad, a highly trained special ops group sent on difficult assignments to thwart rebels and protect the Empire’s secrets. Golden writes a compelling story with interesting characters and doesn’t deliver the […]

Sylvester Stallone completes Creed 2 script, confirms Drago’s return

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Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone has revealed through an Instagram post that he has completed a draft of his script for Creed 2, the sequel to 2015’s Rocky spin-off Creed, which followed Michael B. Jordan as Apollo Creed’s son Adonis. He also revealed, through the handwritten notes he showed off, that we’ll be seeing the return of Rocky IV’s Ivan Drago, the […]

Doom Patrol/Justice League crossover coming in 2018

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DC’s Young Animal imprint has gained a lot of traction since it began last year as an outlet for mature readers than the stories usually told in the regular DC Comics titles. The books – Doom Patrol, Mother Panic, Shade The Changing Girl and Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye – take place within the DCU, but are still relatively […]

Archer season 9 revealed to be Danger Island

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Over the last few years FXX’s animated spy comedy Archer has taken on specific themes with its seasons, beginning with Archer Vice and the most recent season as Archer Dreamland, inspired by the film noir genre. At the Archer panel at the San Diego Comic Con, executive producer Matt Thompson and co-executive producer Casey Willis, along with the cast of H. […]

Movie Review – Dunkirk (2017)

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Dunkirk, 2017. Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, and Tom Glynn-Carney. SYNOPSIS: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War […]

SDCC: Wonder Woman’s Saïd Taghmaoui joins FX’s Legion as Shadow King, Dan Stevens on Patrick Stewart potentially appearing as Professor X

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Yesterday at the Hall-H panel for FX’s X-Men themed series Legion, it was announced that Saïd Taghmaoui, who recently starred in this summer’s blockbuster Wonder Woman, has been cast as the villainous Shadow King for the second season. Shadow King was hinted at in the first season through various characters. FX describes him as a “villain with a […]