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Another live-action Hellboy film is in development

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You can’t keep a good demon down, because while 2019’s David Harbour-led Hellboy reboot was a critical and commercial disaster, there is enough good will in the tank and money in the bank from Guillermo Del Toro’s take on Mike Mignola’s character for Millennium Media to give it another shot.  Discussing Film reports that Millennium […]

Watch Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham in the trailer for Steven Knight’s Great Expectations

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Another decade, another adaptation of Great Expectations leaps from page-to-screen, this time brought to us by Peaky Blinders and Taboo writer Steven Knight.  What makes this must-watch television is surely the appearance of Olivia Colman (Empire of Light) in the plum-role of Miss Havisham. A character previously embodied by Gillian Anderson in the 2011 BBC […]

Step aside Dumbo as Netflix drops The Magician’s Elephant trailer

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When it comes to animation Netflix are coming off the back of a stellar year with the one-two of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and the most-viewed animated movie of all time on the streaming service, The Sea Beast. Now they’re hoping to pick up where they left off with The Magician’s Elephant, an adaptation of […]

Fresh details emerge on Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan’s I Am Legend sequel

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It perhaps wasn’t too surprising that Will Smith would be returning to the sun-kissed Miami skies of Bad Boys with the recently announced sequel, but a follow-up to I Am Legend starring Michael B. Jordan took everyone by surprise when it was announced last year. Now we have a few more details about the sequel […]

Banshees’ Barry Keoghan to play Billy The Kid

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Ever since he burst onto the scene with his captivating turn in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Barry Keoghan has marked himself out as a special talent. Having reinforced that with performances in Chernobyl, Eternals, Calm with Horses, and his heart-breaking Oscar-nominated role as Dominic in The Banshees of Inisherin, Keoghan is […]

Is Ben Affleck and Robert Rodriguez thriller Hypnotic finally getting a release?

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Like many productions, Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck’s $65 million budgeted thriller Hypnotic was halted by the global pandemic. However, since production eventually wrapped on the film in 2021 there has been numerous financial obstacles that has meant it has been sat on a shelf gathering dust, until now, with rumours emerging that it will […]

HBO Max’s Colin Farrell-led The Penguin series bolsters its cast

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With just under two weeks to go before The Batman spin-off series The Penguin begins shooting, the Colin Farrell led HBO Max show has added Michael Kelly (House of Cards), Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse), Deirdre O’Connell (Outer Range), and Rhenzy Feliz (Runaways) to its cast-list.  According to Variety details on the characters that they’ll be […]

The Flash character posters feature Barry Allen, Batman and Supergirl

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For a while it seemed as though Andy Muschietti’s The Flash wouldn’t be released in any timeline, what with the much-publicised controversy surrounding this iteration’s Barry Allen, and the upheaval caused by the Peter Safran and James Gunn DC restructure.  However, when the latter revealed that The Flash was set to reset the DC movie […]

John Wick: Chapter 4 drops Parisian poster ahead of Thursday’s trailer launch

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Lionsgate is currently celebrating Wick Week by unveiling John Wick related goodness ahead of the release of the trailer for John Wick: Chapter 4 this Thursday. Today’s treat is a Parisian poster featuring Keanu Reeves’ titular character towering alongside the city’s famous landmark, which is just one of the globe-trotting locales around which our dog-loving assassin […]