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Lupita Nyong’o to play Trevor Noah’s mother in Born a Crime

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Deadline is reporting that Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o has signed on to star in Born a Crime, the upcoming film adaptation of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s autobiography Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. Oscar-winner Nyong’o will play Noah’s mother Patricia, who served as an important figure to her son […]

Netflix orders Tuca & Bertie animated series from BoJack Horseman producer

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Netflix has added a new animated series to its original content slate, with Deadline reporting that the streaming service has picked up Tuca & Bertie, which has been created by BoJack Horseman supervising producer Lisa Hanawalt and has Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) attached to voice the lead character. The series is described as “a comedy […]

Supernatural horror Dark Beacon set for UK release in March, watch the trailer here

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The Film Label is set to bring the award-winning supernatural horror Dark Beacon to UK cinemas and Digital Download in March, and you can take a look at the poster, images, synopsis and trailer here… In new supernatural horror Dark Beacon, Amy (April Pearson, TV’s Skins) loves her former colleague Beth with a passion, a […]

Go Behind the Magic of Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s bombing run

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Lucasfilm has released a new ‘Behind the Magic’ featurette for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which showcases Industrial Light & Magic’s Oscar-nominated work on the movie, and in particular the Resistance bombing run on the First Order dreadnought during the evacuation of D’Qar. Check it out here… SEE ALSO: Star Wars: The Last Jedi home-entertainment release […]

Stephen King’s The Bone Church heading to the small screen

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Deadline is reporting that David Ayer and Chris Long’s Cedar Park Entertainment have picked up the TV rights to The Bone Church, a narrative poem penned by Stephen King in the 1960s, which he subsequently revised and published in his 2015 short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. The story follows “an adventurer who […]

First-look image from The Death of Superman animated movie

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During the San Diego Comic-Con last year, it was announced that Warner Animation will be taking a second crack at adapting the classic ‘The Death of Superman’ comic book arc with a two-part animated feature, Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen, and thanks to The World’s Finest, we’ve now got out first glimpse at the opening […]

Mission: Impossible – Fallout wraps production

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Having kicked off production back in April of last year, director Christopher McQuarrie has now taken to Instagram to announce that principal photography has wrapped on Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth instalment of the blockbuster spy franchise. https://instagram.com/p/BfevE-UHGLQ/?utm_source=ig_embed   As you’ll note from McQuarrie’s comment, Fallout’s production has been quite eventful. Filming was put […]

Gemma Arterton to play Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot comedy

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British actress Gemma Arterton is set to take on the role of the iconic Marilyn Monroe for Sky Arts’ Urban Myths comedy Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder. Formerly titled It’s Me, Sugar and directed by Sean Foley (Mindhorn, Brass Eye), the half-hour comedy will see James Purefoy as Wilder, who directed the blonde bombshell in 1959’s Some […]

Danger Girl movie finds a screenwriter

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Back in November of last year it was announced that Constantin Film had picked up the rights to J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell’s comic book series Danger Girl, and now comes word from THR that the project has secured a writer. According to the site, Danger Girl will be penned by up and coming […]