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The Week in Star Wars – The Force Awakens premiere date, John Boyega on rasicm in Star Wars, Episode VIII casting, Boba Fett solo movie rumours and more

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It’s a rather short edition of The Week in Star Wars, but there’s still some news about The Force Awakens, casting for Episode VIII and some toy bits from New York Comic Con… Kicking things off with the much anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it was announced this week that the movie will have […]

The Week in Star Wars – The Force Awakens is a “generational story” of Skywalkers, Admiral Ackbar returning, Star Wars Battlefront playthrough and more

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In this week’s edition of The Week in Star Wars, we’ve got thematic details of The Force Awakens, a shocking poll number, a returning character, playthrough of Star Wars: Battlefront and more… Kicking things off with Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Kathleen Kennedy has been talking about the movie’s themes and how the Skywalker family play […]

Michael Shannon admits that he just “makes stuff up” about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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About a month ago, Michael Shannon said in an interview about returning to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice that his character of Zod would have “flipper hands”. While it seemed like a bizarre story, he later admitted that it wasn’t true. Now it would seem we can’t believe anything he has said. “Flippers? I […]

Kate Mara pokes fun at Fantastic Four’s poor box office

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Having already admitted that she hasn’t seen Josh Trank’s maligned adaptation of Fantastic Four, Kate Mara has now started to poke fun at the comic book movie. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight to promote her latest film The Martian, Mara joked about the poor box office takings of Fantastic Four by sarcastically saying the movie, “was […]

Rumour: Wonder Woman fights Doomsday in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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Warning: possible spoilers below… Another rumour has come from the world of Heroic Hollywood this evening as the former El Mayimbe is reporting that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will feature a one-on-one showdown between Wonder Woman and Doomsday. “During the fight with Doomsday, Wonder Woman draws that awesome sword of hers, swings it […]

Rumour: Jiang Wen joins the cast of Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One

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Following the news that Donnie Yen has been cast in Star Wars: Episode VIII, we’ve got a new rumour for the Gareth Edwards directed spin-off Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One. According to Yahoo! Singapore, Chinese actor and director Jiang Wen has joined the cast. Wen is perhaps best known for his Let the Bullets Fly, […]

The Week in Star Wars – Sherlock star joins Rogue One, Netflix rumours and a first look at Ken Leung in The Force Awakens

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This edition of The Week of Star Wars sees a Sherlock star joining the cast of Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, some rumours surrounding a Netflix spin-off series and a first look at Ken Leung in Star Wars: The Force Awakens… Kicking things off this week, we got the news that Sherlock star Jonathan Aris […]

Paul Rudd says being in Captain America: Civil War was “surreal”

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Ant-Man is set to hit cinema screens very soon (check out some new posters here, here and some parody posters here), but this not the only adventure for Scott Lang –  as he’s also set to feature in Captain America: Civil War. According to the actor, he’s already filmed his parts for the Phase Three […]

Superman takes on Wonder Woman in storyboard art from George Miller’s Justice League Mortal

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Since the announcement of a documentary following the development of the failed Justice League Mortal, we’ve started to see a lot more of what could have been. We’ve seen some concept art for Aquaman and Wonder Woman as well as a sculpture of Martian Manhunter and now we have a new set of storyboard art […]