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Screeners of three Oscar contenders have leaked to piracy networks

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Piracy collective Hive-CM8 has leaked copies of three of this year’s Oscar contenders to file-sharing networks, reportedly ripping the movies from awards screener DVDs. Torrent Freak is reporting that Grega Gerwig’s Lady Bird, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya all appeared on online pirate sites, ready to be viewed illegally. The group […]

Kenneth Branagh wants an Agatha Christie shared cinematic universe

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After bringing Hercule Poirot to the big screen with this year’s Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh looks set to bring Agatha Christie’s master detective back to the big screen with an adaptation of Death on the Nile, and speaking to the Associated Press , the actor and filmmaker has now revealed that he’d like to […]

Alfie Curtis, best known as Dr. Evazan in Star Wars, has passed away

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One year on since the death of the beloved Princess, Carrie Fisher, Star Wars has lost another cast member. At the age of 87, Alfie Curtis, best known as A New Hope’s Dr Cornelius Evazan, has passed away. Curtis’ character appeared in the Mos Eisley cantina sequence, where he picked a fight with Luke Skywalker, only for his friend […]

Hugh Jackman was given the terrible advice to leave X-Men franchise as he was told it would bomb

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It’s hard to imagine anyone else but Hugh Jackman bringing out the claws and leaping across our screens as the X-Men’s resident savage, Logan. However, it turns out that the Wolverine actor was warned, before the first X-Men was released, to quickly call time on the role in order to move past what was expected to be a box […]

Rumoured description of the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer

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Rumours about the galaxy far, far away have been running rampant over the last few weeks, with Star Wars mania on a high after the arrival of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the upcoming release of Solo: A Star Wars Story. With news continuing to swell that a trailer is imminent, one Reddit user has supposedly seen […]

Rumour: Disney braced for “car crash” with Solo: A Star Wars Story

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As we continue to race forward to the release date of Solo: A Star Wars Story, those close to the set apparently claim that Disney is fully expecting the nightmare production on the latest Star Wars spinoff to result in a disappointing run in theatres. After firing Lord and Miller and replacing them with director […]

Why do fans want perfect characters in Star Wars: The Last Jedi?

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George Chrysostomou on Star Wars: The Last Jedi and its character decisions (major spoilers follow)… The divisiveness surrounding Star Wars: The Last Jedi has caught many by surprise. What was thought by critics to be one of the best Star Wars films ever made, has instead been proclaimed by some fans to be one of […]

Movie Review – Bright (2017)

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Bright, 2017. Directed by David Ayer. Starring Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Lucy Fry, Noomi Rapace, Jay Hernandez, Veronica Ngo, Edgar Ramirez, Happy Anderson, and Ike Barinholtz. SYNOPSIS: In a world where mystical creatures live side by side with humans, a human cop is forced to work with an Orc to find a weapon everyone is […]

Everything Rides On That Trailer!

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George Chrysostomou on movie trailers… Long gone are the days when our first glimpse at the latest offerings from movie studios came in the cinema. The preview trailers used to be the best part of heading to your local big screen, because you’d never seen them before; they were a teasing snapshot of what could […]

5 Characters Who Could Feature in Disney’s Streaming Marvel Series

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George Chrysostomou with five possible characters for Disney’s new Marvel streaming show… In addition to a live-action Star Wars TV show, Disney’s new streaming service is set to launch a brand new Marvel series. As yet, there’s no details as to what the show might entail, but there are of course a wealth of Marvel properties […]