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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 details […]

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 into […]

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” Phelps, […]

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 will […]

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 a […]

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 the most notorious […]

R.I.P. Helen McCrory (1968 – 2021)

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Some rather sad news this evening as it has been announced that Harry Potter and Peaky Blinders actress Helen McCrory has passed away aged just 52 after losing a battle with cancer. The announcement was made by her husband Damian Lewis, who posted the following to Twitter: pic.twitter.com/gSx8ib9PY9 — Damian Lewis (@lewis_damian) April 16, 2021London-born […]

Drug-fuelled alien abduction horror Fried Barry gets a trailer ahead of Shudder premiere

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Shudder has released a trailer for the sci-fi horror Fried Barry ahead of its premiere on the streaming service this May.Based on writer-director Ryan Kruger’s acclaimed 2017 short of the same name, the film stars Gary Green as Barry, a drug-addled deadbeat who is abducted by aliens that assume control of his body, taking it […]