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The Girl in the Spider’s Web director on recasting the role of Lisbeth Salander

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Sony Pictures revisits the Millennium franchise this November as Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez brings The Girl in the Spider’s Web – David Lagercrantz’s bestselling follow-up to Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – to the big screen. Just as Alvarez has replaced David Fincher, director of Sony’s Dragon Tattoo adaptation, The Girl […]

Kurt Sutter explains why Sons of Anarchy has been pulled from Netflix

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When you’ve been flicking through Netflix recently, you may have noticed that the streaming service has dropped FX’s acclaimed drama series Sons of Anarchy from its catalogue, and now creator Kurt Sutter has revealed the reasons for its removal. “The simple explanation why SOA is no longer on Netflix and neither will Mayans MC… The […]

Exclusive: Danny McBride on whether a real Dundee movie could happen

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Back in January, a surprise trailer arrived online for Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home, promising a sequel to the 80s classic with Danny McBride portraying Brian Dundee, the long-lost American son of Paul Hogan’s Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee. Over the next couple of weeks, we discovered that McBride would be joined by Chris […]

Full list of playable characters from LEGO DC Super Villains leaked

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During a livestream at EGX, the full roster for the upcoming LEGO DC Super Villains has leaked online, with the folks at The Brick Fan managed to compile a list of all the playable characters contained in the base version of the game. And, as you’d expect, there’s plenty of choice… Adam Strange Anti-Monitor Aqualad […]

Here’s how much screen time each character had in Avengers: Infinity War

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On several occasions in the build up to Avengers: Infinity War, we were told that Thanos would be the main character of the movie, and it turns out that was indeed the case with the Mad Titan officially enjoying more screen time than anyone else in the Marvel superhero epic. IMDb user ninewheels0 has calculated how […]

Elena Satine to play Beautiful Dreamer in X-Men series The Gifted

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After roles in Smallville and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., actress Elena Satine is set to add another superhero show to her resume, with The Gifted showrunner Matt Nix revealing that she is set to take on the role of Dreamer (a.k.a. the Morlock character Beautiful Dreamer) in the X-Men series The Gifted. Screen Rant reports that […]

William Friedkin developing Killer Joe TV series

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According to IndieWire, director William Friedkin is in development on a TV series based upon his 2011 black comedy crime film Killer Joe. The site reports that Friedkin revealed at the Lumiere Festival in France that he is teaming with producer Bobby Maresco (Million Dollar Baby) for a new take on the story, which will […]

Jennifer Lawrence explains why she decided to return as Mystique for X-Men: Dark Phoenix

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With her initial three-film contract with 20th Century Fox expiring with last year’s X-Men: Apocalypse – not to mention her dislike for the body paint and make-up necessary for her character’s mutant form – there had been question marks as to whether Jennifer Lawrence would be returning as Mystique for the next entry in the […]

Liongsate developing feature film adaptation of sci-fi epic Children of Time

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Lionsgate has tapped Colby Day to pen an adaptation of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s epic sci-fi novel Children of Time, Variety has revealed. Published in 2015, the story involves a planet inhabited by evolved spiders uplifted by human scientists, and their later discovery by the last humans alive in the universe, playing off the contrast between the […]