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Universal Pictures and The LEGO Group team up for new movie franchise

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The colorful world of LEGO is at a new home with Universal Pictures, reports Deadline. The deal comes as a combined effort from Donna Langley, Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, and Jill Wilfert, Head of Entertainment of the LEGO Group. This deal means that Warner Bros will no longer create LEGO movies, a franchise that […]

Star Wars: The Mandalorian season 3 already in the works

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Before the second season of the massively successful Disney+ show debuts, it seems like fans will already see more of The Mandalorian. Sources close to Variety say that the streaming show is moving ahead with plans for a third season. Variety is reporting that sources close to the production have confirmed that creator Jon Favreau […]

The Hunger Games prequel moving forward at Lionsgate

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The Hunger Games is making its return to the cinema, just five years since the last film entry, this time with a prequel set 64 years before the first film and focusing on Coriolanus Snow, originally played by Donald Sutherland. Series filmmaker Francis Lawrence is returning to helm the Lionsgate project, which is based on […]

WarnerMedia’s streaming service HBO Max sets launch date

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WarnerMedia has finally announced its highly anticipated streaming platform HBO Max will officially launch on May 27th, 2020. On top of that, the streamer dropped its slate of premium Max Originals that will be available to viewers on day one. The subscription-based streaming service, with nearly 10,000 hours of content at launch, is priced at […]

Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae’s The Lovebirds gets new trailer and release date from Netflix

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A long delay won’t keep The Lovebirds from seeing the light of day. Netflix recently acquired the film starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae from Paramount Pictures and plans to release director Michael Showalter film next month. The romantic comedy initially set to hit theaters on April 3rd, is now coming to the streamer on […]

Warner Bros. shifts release dates for The Batman, The Flash and Shazam! 2

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Following the path of many film studios, Warner Bros. and DC Films are shifting some of their release dates around due to the ongoing global health crisis. The Batman starring Robert Pattinson and directed by Matt Reeves was originally slated for release on June 25th 2021, but will now launch on October 1st 2021. The […]

Netflix releases first trailer for new Ryan Murphy series Hollywood

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“What if you could rewrite the story?” That’s the central theme of Netflix’s Hollywood, and with the trailer just releasing, we have finally got our first look at Ryan Murphy and company’s rewritten Hollywood history. Hollywood, which co-creator Ryan Murphy has described as a “love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown,” will see its […]

The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers says the scale of his Viking epic The Northman is “massive”

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Just a week away from starting principal photography, Robert Eggers’ new Viking epic The Northman halted most of its production, with The Witch and The Lighthouse director explaining to Film Independent Coffee Talk that his cast and crew were assembling in Belfast and just about ready to go when the shutdown began. “There’s a very […]