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Alice Eve to lead CBS’ Early Edition reboot

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CBS is looking to revive the 90s fantasy comedy-drama series Early Edition, with Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness, Belgravia) set to take the lead in a gender-swapped pilot from Melissa Glenn (Hawaii Five-O, Zoo). The original series followed Gary Hobson, played by Kyle Chandler, a stockbroker who begins receiving the Chicago Sun-Times a day in […]

Hasbro sets Play-Doh movie from Emily V. Gordon and Jon M. Chu

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Since acquiring entertainment studio eOne, Hasbro has wasted little time in taking its various film and TV adaptations of its iconic toy properties in-house, and now it seems that another long-gestating project is set to ramp up. According to Deadline, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) is set to shape the script for […]

Captain America #0 first look teases a new era for Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson

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A new age of Captain America is set to get underway this year as Marvel launches two new ongoing titles, with writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and artist Carmen Carnero telling the adventures of Steve Rogers in Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty and writer Tochi Onyebuchi and artist R.B. Silva taking the reins on […]

DC’s Blue Beetle movie casts the Reyes family

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DC Films and director Angel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings) continue to fill out the cast of their Blue Beetle movie, having cast the family of Xolo Maridueña’s (Cobra Kai) title character, the Mexican-American teenager Jamie Reyes. Joining the previously announced Harvey Guillen (What We Do In the Shadows), Bruna Marquezine (Breaking Through) and Bellisa […]

Ivan Reitman’s original Ghostbusters 3 title and casting choices revealed

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Yesterday we heard some plot details for Paul Feig’s upcoming all-female Ghostbusters remake, and now the latest round of Sony leaks has given us some insight into Ivan Reitman’s original plans for Ghostbusters III, which stem from an email last year from the director, which was sent to Sony co-chariman Amy Pascal and concerned the […]

Christopher Lloyd set for guest appearance in The Mandalorian season 3

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As production continues on the hotly-anticipated third season of The Mandalorian, THR is reporting that Christopher Lloyd has joined the cast of the live-action Star Wars series in an as-yet-unrevealed role. Lloyd, who is best known for his role as Doc Brown in Back to the Future and was most recently seen in George Clooney’s […]

Steve Oedekerk is working on a Kung Pow: Enter the Fist sequel

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It looks like Kung Pow 2: Tongue of Fury could become a reality, with comedian Steve Oedekerk revealing that he’s starting developing a sequel to 2002’s cult martial arts spoof Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Oedekerk announced the news last week at the Dragonfest Convention in Burbank, California, although he also stressed that as yet […]

June’s Star Wars comic book line-up unveiled by Marvel

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June is going to be a busy month for Star Wars comic book fans with no less than eight titles arriving in comic book shops from Marvel across the month, including the launch of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and a special Star Wars #25 celebrating every era of the galaxy far, far away with stories […]

The Batman’s Paul Dano writing Riddler: Year One comic for DC Black Label

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Having reinvented the character with a chilling, Zodiac Killer-inspired take on the iconic villain in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, it looks like Paul Dano is set to explore the origins of his twisted incarnation of The Riddler – albeit not on screen, but as writer of a new DC Comics miniseries. As announced by the […]