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Star Wars: The Force Awakens overtakes The Avengers to become fourth-biggest movie of all time

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With the film on the verge of overtaking James Cameron’s Avatar to become the highest-grossing domestic release in history, Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens has now overtaken fellow Disney blockbuster The Avengers to climb to fourth in the list of the biggest worldwide earners of all time. The Force Awakens has now amassed $750.2 million […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens overtakes Spectre to become UK’s biggest film of 2015, hits $1.5 billion worldwide

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It’s only a matter of time before it does this on a global scale, but Star Wars: The Force Awakens has overtaken Spectre to become the biggest movie of 2015 here in the UK. Having pulled in £94.06 million so far, The Force Awakens has also surpassed James Cameron’s Avatar to become the second-highest grossing release […]

Jon Hamm is Rob Liefeld’s dream pick for Cable

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Although it seemed for a while that Cable would make his big screen debut as part of 20th Century Fox’s planned X-Force movie, things have since fallen quiet on the potential X-Men spinoff. Nevertheless, creator Rob Liefeld has taken to Twitter to reveal his dream pick to play the character, sharing a mock-up of Mad Men […]

Simon Kinberg says X-Men: Apocalypse is “biggest X-Men film we’ve ever done”

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It’s a big year for 20th Century Fox and its superhero movies. First up out of the gate is the R-rated Deadpool, followed by Bryan Singer’s latest X-Men adventure X-Men: Apocalypse – the first instalment in the “rebooted” timeline following the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. During a fan Q&A, writer-producer Simon Kinberg […]

Wonder Woman logo for Batman v Superman and the DC Extended Universe revealed

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Yesterday we got the first official image from Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman movie, along with details of the supporting cast set to join Gal Gadot in the 2017 film, and now thanks to Graphitti Designs (via Comic Book) we have a look at the Amazon Princess’ logo for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and […]

Warner Bros. announces cast for Wonder Woman as filming gets underway

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This morning Gal Gadot took to Twitter to share a first look image of herself as the Amazon Princess in Warner Bros.’ DC Extended Universe movie Wonder Woman, and now the studio has issued a press release officially announcing start of the production, as well as the supporting cast for the film. Principal photography is […]

Rumour: Chris Pine playing dual roles in Wonder Woman?

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A few days ago we got our first look at Chris Pine as Steve Trevor in Warner’s upcoming Wonder Woman movie, which – judging by his clothing – appeared to confirm that the story between Steve and Diana would take place in the past. Well, not so according to rumour hounds Heroic Hollywood, who claim that […]

J.J. Abrams says Leia is no longer referred to as Princess in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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Entertainment Weekly has already unleashed four Star Wars: The Force Awakens covers, a huge batch of images, and comments from Harrison Ford about his return as Han Solo. Now the site has turned its attention to Leia Organa, with director J.J. Abrams revealing that the Rebel hero is no longer going by the title of Princess. “She’s referred […]

Marvel officially announces production is underway on Doctor Strange, synopsis released

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We’ve already seen a few set photos earlier this month [see here and here], but now Marvel has officially confirmed that production is underway on Doctor Strange and will shoot in several locations around the world, including London, New York, Hong Kong and Kathmandu. As part of the announcement, we also got the first brief […]