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Watch an exclusive clip from indie sci-fi comedy 7 Hours on Earth

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Ahead of its release next month, we’ve got an exclusive clip from 7 Hours on Earth, an independent sci-fi comedy created by the students and teachers of Graveney School in south London, and featuring many of the school’s students in its cast including Ramona Marquez (Outnumbered) who acts alongside her real-life Dad Martin Marquez (Hotel […]

John Boyega teams with Gavin Hood for The Test

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Deadline is reporting that John Boyega has signed on to star in The Test, the next feature from Eye in the Sky and Official Secrets director Gavin Hood.Described as a contained thriller, The Test will follow “a soft-spoken immigrant (Payman Maadi) taking a citizen evaluation test and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist (Boyega) supervising ‘the […]

Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Masquerade announced by Boom! Studios

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Boom! Studios has announced that it is set to take fans back to the strange and wondrous world of Jim Henson’s beloved fantasy Labyrinth This December with the new one-shot comic Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Masquerade from award-winning author Lara Elena Donnelly (Amberlough) and artists French Carlomagno (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), Samantha Dodge (Catwoman: […]

Hulu’s Stephen King adaptation The Eyes of the Dragon has been scrapped

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Back in May of last year it was announced that Hulu had secured the rights to Stephen King’s fantasy novel The Eyes of the Dragon and tapped Seth Graheme-Smith (Dark Shadows) to develop a TV adaptation which was being viewed as a potential “YA answer to Game of Thrones“.Well, we have some bad news for […]

Check out a preview of 2000 AD’s new jumping on issue Prog 2200

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If you’ve been waiting on the perfect jumping on point for 2000 AD, you’ll want to get yourself to your local newsagent on Wednesday with this week’s Prog 2200 offering up a selection of all-new stories (aside from the continuation of Dan Abnett’s Sinister Dexter). Check out a preview here…Judge Dredd: Carry the NineMega-City One, […]

Netflix to embark on The Hunt for Atlantis

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Deadline is reporting that Netflix has snapped up the rights to The Hunt for Atlantis with a view to turning the bestselling novel from Andy McDermott into a franchise.The Hunt for Atlantis is the first in McDermott’s fifteen book Wilde/Chase series, and follows brilliant NYU grad student Nina Wilde and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase as […]

Watchmen, Schitt’s Creek and Succession win big at 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards

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Throughout the past week, the winners of the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards have been rolling out, culminating in last night’s virtual event where Watchmen, Schitt’s Creek, and Succession were among the big winners.Damon Lindelof’s DC adaptation Watchmen took home the most awards with eleven, including Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Outstanding […]

Mads Mikkelsen hits the bottle in UK trailer for Another Round

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StudioCanal has released a UK poster and trailer for director Thomas Vinterberg’s new drama Another Round which stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as four friends who test a theory that their lives will improve by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood; watch it here…“The film centers […]

Joel Kinnaman says The Suicide Squad is “insane” and “heavily R-rated”

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Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) may not have enjoyed anywhere near Joker-levels of box office success upon its release earlier this year, but it seems that hasn’t dissuaded Warner Bros. and DC Films from going down the R-rated route for the next chapter of the DC Extended Universe.Speaking to […]