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Disney’s Bob Iger on The Mandalorian’s ‘Baby Yoda’, says Jon Favreau isn’t a fan of the moniker

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While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has done little to repair the fractured Star Wars fanbase, it hasn’t all been bad news for the franchise lately as Disney and Lucasfilm’s live-action Disney+ series The Mandalorian has been earning rave reviews from both fans and critics alike.The show’s biggest success however seems to be the […]

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker closing in on $600 million heading into second weekend

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After a decent global opening of $373.5 million last weekend, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has enjoyed a healthy Christmas period, with the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga pushing its worldwide gross to $572 million heading into its second weekend.By close of play on Thursday, The Rise of Skywalker had earned $289.6 million […]

Zack Snyder shares new images from the Snyder Cut of Justice League

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Director Zack Snyder has marked the holiday season by sharing another selection of black and white images from his cut of the 2017 DC superhero ensemble Justice League, which feature new shots of Batman (Ben Affleck), Superman (Henry Cavill), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), The Flash (Ezra Miller) and Steppenwolf (Ciaran Hinds); check them out here, via […]

The Mandalorian actor absolutely trashes Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the Sequel Trilogy

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been splitting fans, but The Mandalorian actor Jake Cannavale – who recently played the bounty hunter Toro Calican in the Disney+ series – certainly isn’t holding anything back when it comes to his opinion on the movie, describing it on Instagram as “an absolute fucking failure” and “worse […]

J.J. Abrams on leaving questions unanswered in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Despite being billed as the final chapter of the 42-year-long Skywalker Saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker certainly left a number of questions unanswered – not least how Emperor Palpatine managed to survive (or return from) his ‘death’ in Return of the Jedi. While many of these will be answered in supplementary material such […]

Gal Gadot adapting controversial novel Borderlife for the big screen

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Deadline is reporting that Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot is set to produce a feature film adaptation of Israeli author Dorit Rabinian’s controversial novel Borderlife, a.k.a All the Rivers.The book tells the story of a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man who meet and fall in love in New York. The novel was banned from […]

Quentin Tarantino discusses his unmade Halloween 6 plans

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During an interview with Consequence of Sound, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has revealed that shortly completing his directorial debut Reservoir Dogs, Miramax offered him the opportunity to write the script for Halloween 6 and tossed around some ideas for the slasher sequel before ultimately turning it down.“I was like, ‘Leave that scene where [the Man in […]

Damon Lindelof explains why Nite Owl didn’t appear in Watchmen

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While Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen series made use of a number of characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons superhero epic (see Doctor Manhattan, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre of the Crimebusters along with the first costumed adventurer, Hooded Justice) one notable absence from the HBO show was Dan Dreiberg, a.k.a. the second Nite Owl.Speaking to Collider following […]

Action thriller Agent Jade Black gets a poster and trailer

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High Octane Pictures has unveiled a poster and trailer for the upcoming action thriller Agent Jade Black, which is described as “Atomic Blonde meets La Femme Nikita” and stars Katie Burgess (Gremlin, The Jurassic Games) as a lethal government assassin and super spy; check them out here, along with the official synopsis…Rescued from the international […]