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Stephen King adaptation Firestarter finds a new director

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Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions’ long-planned adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter has found a new director, with Variety reporting that Keith Thomas (The Vigil) has signed on to helm the reboot. Based on the 1980 sci-fi-horror novel, Firestarter follows a father and daughter who are on the run from a secret government agency looking to […]

Doctor Sleep receiving a three-hour Director’s Cut

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Filmmaker Mike Flanagan has announced that the home entertainment release of this year’s Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep is set to include an extended Director’s Cut of The Shining follow-up, which runs for 180 minutes – 28 minutes longer than the theatrical release. Check out Flanagan’s tweet here: SEE ALSO: Exclusive Interview – Doctor Sleep composers […]

Taika Waititi says Thor: Love and Thunder will be “bigger, bolder and brighter” than Thor: Ragnarok

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Although he’s currently busy with his latest film, the Michael Fassbender-headlined Next Goal Wins, Taika Waititi is set for a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year as he reunites with Thor: Ragnarok stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson and returning MCU alum Natalie Portman to shoot 2021’s Thor: Love and Thunder. Speaking to […]

Warner Bros. releases teaser for Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans

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It looks like the Teen Titans from Cartoon Network’s original animated series are set for a return, with the upcoming Blu-ray release of Teen Titans Go! to the Movies featuring a teaser trailer for a previously-unannounced project entitled Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans. Take a look at the teaser here… SEE ALSO: Teen Titans […]

Taron Egerton talks Kingsman return and criticism of The Golden Circle

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Having portrayed Eggsy in Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle, actor Taron Egerton will be sitting out the next instalment in the spy series as director Matthew Vaughn takes us back in time to the First World War for the prequel Kingsman: The Great Game. Vaughn does however plan to follow-up the […]

Bohemian Rhapsody home entertainment release to feature full Live Aid recreation

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After a stellar box office run which has seen the film gross $715 million worldwide, 20th Century Fox has announced the home-entertainment release of the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which is set to include a full recreation of Queen’s iconic Live Aid performance as part of the special features. The extended Live Aid Movie […]

Valiant Entertainment and Blowfish Studios join forces for Valiant video game slate

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Valiant Entertainment and Blowfish Studios have announced a partnership to develop a slate of all-new action-packed video games featuring characters from Valiant’s comic book universe, which includes the likes of including X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Ninjak, Harbinger, Shadowman, Archer & Armstrong, and many more. “We’re thrilled to bring Valiant’s characters back into the video game industry […]

Yorgos Lanthimos to adapt Gothic Western novel The Hawkline Monster

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos may have found his next project, with THR reporting that the filmmaker is in talks to helm an adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s 1974 Gothic Western novel The Hawkline Monster. The book “tells of two unlikely hero gunslingers hired by a 15-year-old girl named […]

Dynamite announces new series Killing Red Sonja

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Dynamite Entertainment has announced that writers Mark Russell (The Flintstones, Year of the Villain) and Bryce Ingman (Edgar Allen Poe’s Snifter Of Terror) and artist Craig Rousseau (Impulse, Batman Beyond) are teaming for Killing Red Sonja, a new companion limited series to the main Red Sonja title which follows the young boy Cyril, son of […]