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The Da Vinci Code prequel series finds its Langdon

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Succession actor Ashley Zukerman is set to follow in the footsteps of Tom Hanks by portraying Dan Brown’s Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon in the upcoming NBC pilot Langdon. Produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine, the company behind the feature films The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and Inferno, the series is based […]

Drew Goddard to write and direct X-Force movie, Deadpool and Cable confirmed

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Having flirted with the superhero genre on Sony’s abandoned Spider-Man spinoff The Sinister Six and Netflix’s Marvel series Daredevil, Drew Goddard has now signed on to write and direct the X-Men spinoff X-Force for 20th Century Fox. Deadline reports that regular X-Men producers Simon Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner will produce along with Deadpool star […]

Black Widow promo art offers new look at Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff

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With less than two months to go until Marvel launches Phase Four of its Cinematic Universe, we’ve got a look at a new piece of promotional artwork for the Black Widow movie courtesy of a new Topps trading card featuring Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Marvel’s Black Widow promo image offers […]

Marvel’s first open world RPG Marvel Future Revolution announced

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Marvel Entertainment and Netmarble, the company behind the long-running hit mobile game Marvel Future Fight, have announced that they are teaming up for Marvel Future Revolution, the House of Ideas’ first open world RPG mobile game. Written by Marvel Comics writer Marc Sumerak, Marvel Future Revolution starts with numerous Earths converging across all dimensions to […]

Simon Pegg explains why the Star Trek movie franchise has stalled

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It’s closing in on four years since we last saw the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the big screen in Star Trek Beyond, and while there’s been plenty of talk of instalment (see projects from S.J. Clarkson, Quentin Tarantino, and most recently Noah Hawley), so far there’s been no official word from Paramount Pictures regarding […]

Lucifer showrunners sign on for season 6, but Tom Ellis yet to close his deal

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Last month it was revealed that talks were underway at Netflix about a possible sixth season of the DC/Vertigo comic book adaptation Lucifer, and now comes word from TV Line that showrunners Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson have closed their deals to return for another season. It had previously been announced that the upcoming fifth […]

Nicole Kidman producing serial killer film My Lovely Wife for Amazon

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Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films production company is teaming with Amazon Studios for a feature film adaptation of My Lovely Wife, the international bestselling novel from Samantha Downing. Described as “a darkly comedic psychological thriller”, My Lovely Wife follows “Tobias and his lovely wife, Millicent, who seem to be leading the perfect life with home and […]

BBC announces Doctor Who festive special Revolution of the Daleks

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At the conclusion of last night’s series 12 finale of Doctor Who, the BBC announced that Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor will be back at the end of this year for the festive special ‘Revolution of the Daleks’, which will see the return of one of the Doctor’s most iconic – and most feared – enemies. […]