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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies retains the UK box office crown

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UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 19th to Sunday 21st December 2014… Despite competition from comedy sequels Night at the Museum: The Secret of the Tomb and Dumber and Dumber To, it’s an unchanged top two at the UK box office heading into Christmas, with The Hobbit: The Battle […]

Story featurette for Hammer’s The Woman in Black: Angel of Death

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With Hammer’s The Woman in Black: Angel of Death set to open here in the UK on New Year’s Day, a new featurette has arrived online which focusses on the story of the horror sequel; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Check out a motion comic for The Woman in Black: Angel of Death As […]

Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2014

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Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2014… As 2014 draws to a close, we’re already salivating over what’s in store for us in 2015, but before we get to the New Year it’s time to revist our favourite films from the past twelve months. As usual, our writers here at Flickering […]

Kevin Feige comments on Ant-Man “disagreements” with Edgar Wright

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With the accompanying press release for the first Ant-Man trailer came the news that original director Edgar Wright and his writing partner Joe Cornish will not receive a screenwriting credit on the twelfth instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite spending the best part of a decade working on the script. Instead, the duo will […]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 hits $700 million worldwide

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 has become the ninth film of 2014 to cross $700 million at the global box office, with the Jennifer Lawrence-headlined sequel pushing its worldwide haul to $701.1 million this past weekend. The penultimate chapter of The Hunger Games franchise is now the second-highest grossing instalment, having overtaken the […]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 overtakes Guardians of the Galaxy to become biggest domestic release of 2014

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The third instalment in The Hunger Games franchise has just overtaken Marvel’s space opera Guardians of the Galaxy to become the highest-grossing domestic release of 2014, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 having now pulled in $333.2 million since its release in November. This marks the first time ever that two entries from […]

Details on the Spider-Man deal revealed, Sony still planning Sinister Six, Venom and female-led spin-off without Marvel’s involvement

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Yesterday brought us the huge news that Sony and Marvel have reached a deal regarding Spider-Man, which allows Marvel Studios to bring the character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, whilst launching a new series of movies at Sony, produced by Kevin Feige. Variety has been digging into the specifics of the deal, revealing that Disney […]

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson reportedly wants to pull out of Fifty Shades of Grey sequels

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Given the spectacular box office performance of Fifty Shades of Grey, Universal Pictures must surely be keen to get the second instalment going, but if The Sun is to be believed (and that’s generally a big “if”), the studio may have to do so without director Sam Taylor-Johnson. According to the paper, Taylor-Johnson is contracted […]