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Marvel unveils Artgerm variant cover for The Amazing Mary Jane #1

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Spidey’s favourite redhead is spinning out of The Amazing Spider-Man and into her all-new ongoing series this October as Mary Jane Watson takes on the Marvel Universe in The Amazing Mary Jane #1, and Marvel has now unveiled a special Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau variant cover for the first issue which features MJ as a femme […]

Red Sonja director Jill Soloway compares the reboot to The Dark Knight and Deadpool

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Having dispensed with the services of Bryan Singer following the latest wave of sexual misconduct allegations surrounding the filmmaker, Millennium Films tapped Jill Soloway to bring its long-gestating Red Sonja movie reboot to life. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the Transparent creator has discussed her hopes for the fantasy film, describing Red Sonja as “a very […]

Martin Scorsese’s mob epic The Irishman gets a first trailer

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Following on from this week’s first look images, Netflix has now unveiled the trailer for The Irishman, the new $200 million-budgeted mob epic from Martin Scorsese, which sees Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci leading an all star cast in a film that explores the notorious mob hitman Frank Sheeran (De Niro) and […]

First look at Nicolas Cage in action thriller Primal

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Thanks to Bloody Disgusting, we’ve got a first look at Nicolas Cage from director Nick Powell’s upcoming indepedent action thriller Primal; check it out here…Primal sees Cage starring as a big game hunter for zoos “who has booked passage on an Hispanic freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, […]

Disney’s The Lion King passes $1 billion at the global box office

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Director Jon Favreau’s The Lion King has become the fourth Disney-released movie to pass $1 billion at the global box office, reaching the milestone in less than three weeks.By today (Wednesday) The Lion King has grossed $361 million domestically, with a further $639 million from international markets. It joins Captain Marvel ($1.128 billion), Avengers: Endgame […]

Abigail Breslin to play Matt Damon’s daughter in Stillwater

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Following on from last week’s casting of Matt Damon (The Martian), it has now been announced that Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) has also signed on to appear in director Tom McCarthy’s (Spotlight) next film Stillwater.The project, which McCarthy has written with Thomas Bidegain and Noe Debre, sees Damon playing an oil rigger from Oklahoma […]

Paul Walter Hauser joins Disney’s Cruella

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I, Tonya and BlacKkKlansman star Paul Walter Hauser is in negotiations to join Disney’s live-action 101 Dalmatians prequel Cruella, with The Wrap reportedly that he is being eyed for the role of Roger Dearly.Emma Stone (La La Land) is attached to portray the young, pre-villain Cruella de Vil, while Emma Thompson (Howards End) has been […]

Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon join Black Bear

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Aubrey Plaza (Child’s Play), Christopher Abbott (Catch-22) and Sarah Gadon (True Detective) have been cast in Black Bear, a new thriller from director Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries, Always Shine).The film sees Abbott and Gadon as “an expecting couple who are confronted with an out-of-town guest Abigail (Plaza), a filmmaker suffering from writer’s block who […]

Michael K. Williams, Melissa Leo, Frank Grillo and more join thriller Body Brokers

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Michael K. Williams (When They See Us), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Frank Grillo (Avengers: Endgame), Alice Englert (Them That Follow) and Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys) have been cast in Body Brokers, a crime thriller from writer-director John Swab (Let Me Make You a Martyr, Run With the Hunted).Body Brokers tells the true and untold […]