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Black Adam character poster features Pierce Brosnan’s Doctor Fate

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Having been unveiled during the San-Diego Comic-Con trailer, Dwayne Johnson has taken to Twitter to give us a better look at Pierce Brosnan’s Doctor Fate from the forthcoming DC blockbuster Black Adam. Check out the brand new character poster here… Bond actor Brosnan will portray both Doctor Fate and Kent Nelson, the archaeologist who unearths […]

Christian Bale steps through the mist in first image from Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye

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Netflix have dropped their first look at Christian Bale in Scott Cooper’s gothic murder-mystery The Pale Blue Eye, which hits select theatres on December 23rd, before streaming from January 6th.  According to Netflix, The Pale Blue Eye is a project that Antlers director Cooper has wanted to helm for more than a decade, and tells the […]

Jennifer Connelly joins Joel Edgerton in Apple sci-fi series Dark Matter

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Jennifer Connelly is to follow-up her role in the all-conquering Top Gun: Maverick by teaming up with Joel Edgerton in Apple’s science-fiction series Dark Matter.  Connelly’s current small-screen venture will be coming to an end when TNT’s Snowpiercer pulls into its final stop at the end of season 4, and Deadline has revealed that she will […]

Scott Derrickson to direct Miles Teller in action-romance The Gorge

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Two of 2022’s kings of summer, Miles Top Gun Teller and Scott The Black Phone Derrickson, are joining forces for Skydance’s upcoming genre-bending love story The Gorge.  According to Deadline Whiplash star Teller is in final negotiations to headline The Gorge, having taken his time selecting his first project following Top Gun: Maverick‘s $1.4 billion […]

The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence to tackle Netflix’s Bioshock movie

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Netflix have turned to The Hunger Games and Slumberland director Francis Lawrence to take the controller for their adaptation of critically acclaimed video game series BioShock. Back in February it was reported that Netflix were partnering with video game company Take-Two Interactive, and its game publisher subsidiary, 2K, in order to finally bring the world […]

Jamie Clayton’s Pinhead makes her debut in Hulu’s Hellraiser teaser trailer

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Coming off the back of their most successful streaming debut of all time with Predator prequel Prey, Hulu will be hoping that their next revival of an 80s IP is just as well received, and so 20th Century Studios have summoned the first teaser for their reimagining of Clive Barker’s 1987 horror classic, Hellraiser.  It’s […]

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and Shazam! Fury of the Gods move release dates… again

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Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom and Shazam! Fury of the Gods are once again doing the release date shuffle, with Warner Bros. bumping their superhero tentpoles to 2023.  Both blockbusters have already been shunted around the calendar, most recently Shazam! Fury of the Gods was moved a few days in order to avoid clashing with […]

Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan to direct live-action Paprika series for Amazon

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Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan is set direct the live-action series Paprika, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel of the same name, which itself was turned into 2006’s seminal anime masterpiece.  According to Deadline Yan will executive produce and direct the series for Amazon Studios and Hivemind. Her producing partner Ash Sarohia will also ep under their […]

Disney developing live-action King Kong origin series

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While Apple are busy developing their own Titans TV show linked to the cinematic Monsterverse, Disney have decided to that they’d also like to cash in on Kong by announcing a live-action series based on the lovelorn ape’s origin on Skull Island.  According to Variety the series would be a serialised drama that would explore […]