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Rick and Morty’s Dan Harmon producing Strange Planet animated series for Apple TV+

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Apple TV+ is looking to expand is original animated output with a new comedy series based upon Nathan Pyle’s Strange Planet webcomics and graphic novels. As per Deadline, Strange Planet follows “big eyed, bright blue beings from a planet that shares a lot in common with Earth. The aliens sunbathe and sneeze but describe these […]

Jonny Lee Miller to play John Major in The Crown season 5

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Jonny Lee Miller is set to follow Gillian Anderson’s Golden Globe-winning turn as Margaret Thatcher by taking up residence in 10 Downing Street as British Prime Minister John Major in the upcoming fifth season of The Crown. Major succeeded Thatcher as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister in 1990, a position he held […]

Marvel celebrates 10 years of Miles Morales with anniversary variant covers

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Marvel Comics is celebrating ten years of Miles Morales with a series of variant covers across a number of its biggest monthly titles this September, and you can check out eleven of them here… This year, Marvel Comics will commemorate the 10th anniversary of one of its brightest stars—Miles Morales! The young Brooklyn-based Spider-Man took […]

Dolph Lundgren and Frank Grillo enlist for WWII action thriller Operation Seawolf

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As revealed by THR, actors Dolph Lundgren and Frank Grillo are set to appear in the World War II action film Operation Seawolf, which has already wrapped production under director Steven Luke (The Great War). Operation Seawolf takes place during “the last days of WWII when Germany, desperate for any remaining opportunity to defeat the […]

Nicolas Cage set for frontier epic Butcher’s Crossing

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THR is reporting that Nicolas Cage is set to star in Butcher’s Crossing, “an epic frontier adventure” which will mark the narrative feature debut of documentary filmmaker Gabe Polsky (Red Army, Red Penguins). According to the trade, Butcher’s Crossing follows a young Harvard dropout seeks his destiny out West by tying his fate to a […]

Patty Jenkins’ Star Wars: Rogue Squadron screenwriter revealed

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During last year’s Disney Investor Day, Lucasfilm announced Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, a brand new Star Wars anthology movie from Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins. At the time, Jenkins revealed that a screenwriter was already on board and working on the script, and now it has been revealed by THR that the writer in question […]

Scarlett Johansson to star in Disney’s Tower of Terror movie

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Collider is reporting that Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson is set to star in Tower of Terror, a new Disney movie based upon its classic theme park ride, as well as producing the film through her These Pictures production banner. Plot details for Tower of Terror are being kept tightly under wraps, but the script […]

Stranger Things: Tomb of Ybwen miniseries announced by Dark Horse

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Dark Horse Comics is set to ease the wait for the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things with the upcoming release of Stranger Things: Tomb of Ybwen, a new four-issue miniseries from writer Greg Park, artist Diego Galindo, colorist Francesco Segala, and letterer Nate Piekos. It’s January 1985. The Hawkins crew survived their battle with […]

Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader’s Castle to serve up more Star Wars scares

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IDW Publishing has announced that it is set to follow Tales from Vader’s Castle, Return to Vader’s Castle and Shadow of Vader’s Castle with another spooky set of tales from the darkest corners of the galaxy far, far away with the five-issue miniseries Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader’s Castle from writer Cavan Scott (Star […]