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Exclusive: IDW’s John Barber responds to the fan criticism of Revolution and how it affects The Transformers

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Earlier this month, IDW announced a Hasbro shared universe comic titled Revolution (not tying into the Paramount movie one) which would bring The Transformers, G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., Micronauts, Action Man and more. The announcement led to several IDW readers – particularly Transformers fans – to take editor Chris Ryall to task by asking questions about […]

Exclusive – The Transformers: The Movie director talks killing Optimus Prime

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On the movie’s 30th anniversary, we got in touch with The Transformers: The Movie director Nelson Shin to talk about one of the more iconic moments of the franchise: the death of Optimus Prime.As revealed by the writers of the movie in other interviews, the decision to kill of the Autobot leader was made by […]

Ghostbusters sequel very unlikely as studio puts focus on animated movie instead

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Following a series of mixed reviews and a very poor showing at the box office, it looks like Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot will be one and done – despite what the post-credits may have told you and what Sony had initially said.The Hollywood Reporter posted today that Sony stand to lose $70 million on the movie, […]

The Men in Black / 23 Jump Street crossover might not happen after all

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It was revealed from the Sony email hacks that the studio planned to use 23 Jump Street as a backdoor reboot to their comic book adaptation of Men in Black, which was then revealed to be titled MIB23 with James Bobin (Alice Through The Looking Glass) as director.Well, Jonah Hill has put some water on […]

James Wan says the Mortal Kombat reboot is still “cooking away”

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We’ve not heard much from Aquaman and The Conjuring 2 director James Wan since he was announced as the new producer of the Mortal Kombat reboot, but he has finally broken his silence.“It’s still cooking away,” Wan told IGN. “With that particular project, that’s a really cool property that I loved growing up as a kid. […]

Young Lando Calrissian will feature in Han Solo movie – and Donald Glover is the rumoured front runner

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Following on from the new trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, it was reported that Disney are currently on the look out to cast a young Lando Calrissian to feature in their second spin-off movie Han Solo: A Star Wars Story.The usually-reliable (but often not) Births.Movies.Death are now reporting that Spider-Man: Homecoming and […]

Rumour: Spider-Man: Homecoming’s The Tinkerer has connections to an Avenger and another classic Spidey villain

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It was announced just a few days ago that Orange is the New Black‘s Michael Chernus had been added to the rather large cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming as Phineas Mason aka The Tinkerer. Well Heroic Hollywood claim to have the scoop on the character, and his role in the movie.Warning – potential spoilers below.According to the […]

Looks like Tony Gilroy had a big hand in those Rogue One reshoots according to the film’s credits

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Back in July it was reported that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was having major reshoots done and that Tony Gilroy would be assisting Edwards on set, just as he had done with Godzilla. And then earlier this month, we caught wind that Gilroy was also supervising the edit of the movie, further hinting […]

Bad Boys 3 pushed back to 2018 and now titled Bad Boys For Life

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It’s offical – Will Smith and Martin Lawrence will be returning to the screen as Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett in the newly titled Bad Boys For Life.The title was confirmed by Exhibitor Relations, who also say the movie has been pushed back from the summer of 2017 to January 12th 2018. Sony’s BAD BOYS 3 is now […]