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Why 1980s Science Fiction Is Huge Right Now

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Neil Calloway looks at why dystopias from thirty years ago are the biggest influence on Hollywood… With a new Blade Runner movie opening to rave reviews, a new (and hopefully decent) Terminator film on the way, it looks like 80s science fiction is the way to go if you want to get a movie made […]

The Week in Star Wars – The Last Jedi runtime and trailer description, Snoke’s force powers, Episode IX details, Star Wars Rebels season 4 trailer and more

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The Week in Star Wars returns (sorry) with details on The Last Jedi including rumoured runtimes and trailer descriptions, Episode IX comments, Star Wars Rebels’ return and more… Let’s kick things off with Star Wars: The Last Jedi and we’ve got a couple of rumours to run through. First up is a rumoured description for […]

When Will DC Learn How to End Their Movies?

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Samuel Brace on DC’s movie endings… Fistfight! Explosions! Chaos! This has been the climactic scene of every DCEU (are we still calling it that?) film so far, this is how the powers that be have decided to end the movies that populate their connected universe up until this point. Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: […]

NYCC: Exclusive Interview with SuperMansion creators Zeb Wells and Matthew Senreich and writer Tom Root

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Justin Cook chats with SuperMansion’s Zeb Wells, Matthew Senreich and Tom Root at New York Comic Con about SuperMansion: Drag Me to Halloween, horror inspirations and potential guest stars on SuperMansion… On October 5th, Crackle debuted SuperMansion: Drag Me to Halloween, a SuperMansion holiday special that follows the League of Freedom and their spooky misadventures on […]

Huge Last Jedi character news, big Avengers: Infinity War character confirmed, Blade Runner 2049 box office and more – Daily News Roundup

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SNOKE SECRETS There has been a big question mark over the head of Supreme Leader Snoke since his debut in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the latest edition of Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need To Know has given us brief insights. Turns out the character is a master of telekinesis and telepathy, as well as force […]

Sonic the Hedgehog movie moving forward, Bob’s Burgers movie announced, Heroes For Hire heading to Netflix and more – Daily News Roundup

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HE’S THE FASTEST THING ALIVE The live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been in development over at Sony for a few years now, but it was announced recently that the project has now moved to Paramount, with Deadpool‘s Tim Miller in the producer’s seat. It isn’t the first attempt to bring the fastest thing alive […]

The Essential Jared Leto Films

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the essential Jared Leto films… Concluding our build up to Blade Runner 2049 with a series of essentials on the principal cast, we finish with Jared Leto. A musician/actor who seems to have been around for a while now, ageless and when perusing his CV you will find that he’s not […]

Jared Leto is Hugh Hefner, Optimus Prime in Bumblebee, Halloween casting and more – Daily News Roundup

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IN LIKE HEFF Less than a week since his passing and Brett Ratner’s Hugh Hefner biopic is picking up steam, announcing yesterday the casting of Jared Leto as the Playboy creator. “Jared is an old friend,” Ratner told The Hollywood Reporter. “When he heard I got the rights to Hef’s story, he told me, ‘I want […]

DC Extended Universe is connected after all, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass gets underway and more – Daily News Roundup

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100% CONNECTED There’s quite a lot of confusion around Warner Bros.’ DC Extended Universe, with reports a few days ago that films would no longer be connected the same was as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Well, conversely, Geoff Johns has now said on Twitter that the DC Universe is “100%” connected. Try and work this […]