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Hawkeye to lead new team of Thunderbolts this May

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Super-powered crooks have taken hostages in Staten Island? A dimensional rift tears open in Chinatown? Monsters running amok at the Met? It’s time to call in the Thunderbolts, with Marvel announcing that Jim Zub and Sean Izaakse will introduce a new Hawkeye-led iteration of the superhero team consisting of Spectrum, America Chavez, Power Man and […]

Robert Pattinson has spoken to Matt Reeves about a Batman trilogy

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Although The Batman won’t be part of the DC Extended Universe, Warner Bros. and DC Films have made no secret of their plans to expand the world of Matt Reeves’ Dark Knight reboot beyond next month’s hotly-anticipated film. We already know that two spinoff series are in the works for HBO Max – one following […]

America Ferrera and Simu Liu join Margot Robbie in Barbie movie

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America Ferrera (Superstore) and Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) have become the latest additions to the cast of Warner Bros.’ Barbie movie. The live-action adaptation of the iconic toy line is being directed by Greta Gerwig from a script she’s written with Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) and will see Margot […]

Michael Mann enlists Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz and Shailene Woodley for Ferrari

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After two decades of development and a false start in 2017, it looks like Heat director Michael Mann’s Enzo Ferrari biopic is inching further towards the start line with the news that Adam Driver (House of Gucci), Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) and Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) have been cast in the long-gestating project. The […]

Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 to serve as a “send-off” for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt

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While there isn’t a movie or television show out there that hasn’t been impacted by the pandemic, one of the projects hit hardest is without a doubt the next chapter(s) in Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media’s Mission: Impossible franchise. Originally planned to shoot back-to-back with Mission: Impossible 8 for release in July 2021, Mission: Impossible […]

Tom Welling set for action-thriller Deep Six

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Former Smallville star Tom Welling is set to lead the cast of Deep Six, an action-thriller from writer-director Scott Windhauser (Death in Texas). The film will see Welling as Terry, a man who “is released early from prison only to be forced to go undercover to take down the Cosa Nostra in Italy. On his […]

Netflix anime Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy gets a trailer

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Last week Netflix announced a new anime adaptation of Kazushi Hagiwara’s classic manga Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, and now we’ve got a first teaser trailer for the upcoming series ahead of its premiere on the streamer later this year; check it out here, along with the official synopsis…  Four hundred years since the collapse […]

The Batman posters and TV spots keep on coming

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With tickets for The Batman now on sale, various exhibitors have been sharing their own exclusive posters for Warner Bros.’ DC reboot with Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight and Zoe Kravitz’s Selina Kyle spotlighted on new one sheets from Dolby Cinemas, IMAX, ScreenX and 4DX; check them out below, along with another international poster and a […]

A Dark Crisis will engulf the DC Universe this summer

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DC Comics has announced that the DCU will find itself engulfed in a Dark Crisis this summer with the launch of an all-encompassing epic event from writer Joshua Williamson and artist Daniel Sampere, which will kick off this Free Comic Book Day. “Dark Crisis is an epic DCU event about legacy,” said writer Joshua Williamson. “It […]

Star Wars: Ahsoka adds Thor actor Ray Stevenson

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Thor star Ray Stevenson looks set to reunite with Disney, with THR reporting that the Volstagg actor is swapping the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the galaxy far, far away with a role in Lucasfilm’s upcoming Disney+ series Star Wars: Ahsoka. Details on Stevenson’s role are being kept under wraps, but he joins a cast that […]