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Jordan Vogt-Roberts to direct Gundam movie for Netflix and Legendary Pictures

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Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts is set to reunite with Legendary Pictures on its upcoming live-action feature film adaptation of the iconic anime franchise Gundam. The project, which has been picked up by Netflix, has been scripted by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Saga), although specific plot details are being kept under wraps. […]

Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern to star in The Father follow-up The Son

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THR is reporting that Florian Zeller is set to follow his Oscar-nominated feature directorial debut The Father with The Son, an adaptation of his own stage play which is part of a trilogy of family-based dramas alongside The Father and The Mother. Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern are set to star, while Zeller will script […]

Stand-up comedian Mo Amer joins Dwayne Johnson in DC’s Black Adam

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With Dwayne Johnson announcing this past week that filming is finally underway on Black Adam, Deadline brings word of a new addition to the cast of the New Line Cinema and DC Films blockbuster. As revealed by the trade, stand-up comedian and actor Mo Amer (Ramy) has signed on to appear in the film, although […]

DC announces Batman/Catwoman Special from Tom King and John Paul Leon

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DC Comics has announced that the Eisner-nominated Black Death in America creative team of Tom King and John Paul Leon are reuniting for a interlude issue in King’s Batman/Catwoman maxiseries with a one-shot Batman/Catwoman Special set for release this July. Batman/Catwoman Special will trace the life of Selina Kyle from her earliest days to her entry […]

Starz orders horror-comedy series Shining Vale starring Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino

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Starz has announced that it has granted an eight-episode series order to Shining Vale, a new horror-comedy series which will see Friends and Scream star Courteney Cox leading a cast that also includes Greg Kinnear, Mira Sorvino, Merrin Dungey, Gus Birney and Dylan Gage. As per THR, Shining Vale will see Cox playing Patricia “Pat” […]

Reina Hardesty joins Amazon’s The Boys spinoff in lead role

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Deadline is reporting that Reina Hardesty (Brockmire, The Flash) has been cast in one of the lead roles in Amazon’s as-yet-untitled college-set spinoff from the hit comic book adaptation The Boys. The spinoff, which has been written by The Boys executive producer Craig Rosenberg, the potential show takes place at a college for superheroes and […]

The Avengers brace themselves for World War She-Hulk this July

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Marvel has announced that Jennifer Walters’ current journey is set to reach its pulse-pounding conclusion this July as the new story arc World War She-Hulk gets underway in the pages of Avengers #46. Paying homage to the homage to the 2007 World War Hulk crossover event, World War-Hulk promises to stand on its own as […]

Tom Hiddleston talks Marvel’s Loki series, says it’s about “identity”

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Despite his demise in Avengers: Infinity War, it seems you can’t keep a good trickster down as Tom Hiddleston reprises his role as the God of Mischief for Marvel Studios’ Loki series, where we’ll pick up with the alternate – and still evil – Loki we saw escaping from the Battle of new York with […]

Extreme Cinema – Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

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Cannibal Holocaust, 1980. Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Starring Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile and Ricardo Fuentes. SYNOPSIS: An anthropologist ventures into the Amazon in search of a missing American documentary film crew and retrieves their footage, which documents the gruesome truth behind the ill-fated expedition. One of […]