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Amazon to give Ben Affleck’s Nike movie Air a theatrical release

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Unless you’re wearing spandex or pocketing $2 billion from Pandora, the post-pandemic box-office landscape is still a pretty daunting one, especially if you’re a mid-range adult film, so the news that Amazon Studios are to grant Ben Affleck’s directorial return a wide theatrical release is welcome news indeed.  Air, which stars his fellow Good Will Hunting […]

Chris O’Dowd seeks answers from a mysterious machine in the teaser for The Big Door Prize

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This teaser isn’t giving away much, but mystery is at the heart of Apple TV+’s adaptation of M.O. Walsh’s novel The Big Door Prize, which tells the story of a strange machine that turns up in a small town store promising to tell users their life potential and their whole reason for existing on Earth.  […]

Apple TV+ releases trailer for emotional new drama series Dear Edward

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Apple TV+ has released the trailer for Dear Edward, the highly anticipated drama series adapted from the best-selling novel by Ann Napolitano, which stars Emmy nominee Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights) and SAG Award winner Taylor Schilling (Orange is the New Black). Written, created and executive produced by Emmy winning Friday Night Lights producer Jason […]

Emma Stone reportedly set to headline Edgar Wright’s The Chain

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Emma Stone has reportedly been cast in the lead role for Edgar Wright’s forthcoming adaptation of Adrian McKinty’s best-selling novel The Chain.  According to The Direct the Academy Award winning La La Land actor has been cast in the kidnap thriller, which is being directed by Last Night in Soho‘s Edgar Wright, and written by X-Men: […]

Anthony Hopkins to play Roman Emperor Vespasian in Roland Emmerich’s Those About to Die

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Having played a Greek general in Alexander and one of the OG Gods in Thor, Sir Anthony Hopkins is suiting up again in order to command armies as a Roman Emperor in Roland Emmerich’s Peacock series Those About to Die. According to Variety the two-time Academy Award winning actor will play Emperor Vespasian in the […]

Harrison Ford helps Jason Segel in trailer for Apple TV+ comedy Shrinking

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Harrison Ford follows up his first foray into small screen territory for thirty years in Yellowstone prequel 1923 by flexing his comedic chops for Apple TV+’s Shrinking, which stars the legendary actor alongside Jason Segel, Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie, and Lukita Maxwell in an existential crisis comedy.  The series focuses on […]

Creepy character posters for Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool released by Neon

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Ahead of the film’s world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Neon and and Topic Studios have unveiled a set of brand new posters for Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool, which only add to the unsettling nature of the marketing for the eagerly-anticipated horror film. Infinity Pool focuses on couple James and Em (Alexander Skarsgard […]

First look at Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, David Fincher’s The Killer and much, much more in Netflix’s 2023 preview trailer

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Netflix has dropped a ‘Save the Dates” trailer for their impressive slate of 2023 offerings, that includes first glimpses at David Fincher’s return to the world of serial-killers with The Killer, Zack Snyder’s sci-fi action film Rebel Moon, David Yates’ big-pharma drama The Pain Hustlers, which stars Chris Evans and Emily Blunt, and sequels to […]

Scott Lang is trapped in Kang’s cage in latest tease for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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With exactly a month to go until Marvel Studios launch Phase 5 of their all-conquering Marvel Cinematic Universe with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, they’re beginning to hype up the world-shaping showdown between Kang and Lang, and have dropped a new teaser in which Paul Rudd’s superhero begins to understand the Quantum Realm sized predicament […]