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Primate featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of the terrifying monkey madness

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Paramount Pictures has uncaged a behind-the-scenes featurette for their forthcoming dose of monkey madness Primate, which tells the story of a family’s pet chimp who contracts rabies and embarks on a murderous rampage.  Directed by genre specialist Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), Primate stars Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, […]

Tom Cruise is a shovel wielding saviour in the teaser for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Digger

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Tom Cruise has put down the gun and picked up a shovel as his weapon of choice for saving the world in the first look teaser for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s latest film Digger.  Warner Bros. has dropped the title announcement teaser trailer, which features a largely silhouetted Cruise dancing with his shovel, seemingly channelling Tropic […]

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 trailer warns us everything we have ever assumed about the Upside Down has been dead wrong

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Following the jaw-dropping conclusion to Volume 1 of the final season of Stranger Things, Netflix has released the trailer for the penultimate run of episodes before the eagerly anticipated New Year’s Day finale.  Stranger Things Season Five’s cast includes Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), […]

Steven Spielberg returns to close encounters with Disclosure Day trailer

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The return of Steven Spielberg is an event almost as seismic as the world announcing the existence of extra-terrestrials, and that’s the subject of the legendary director’s return to science-fiction filmmaking with Disclosure Day. Based on a story by Spielberg, who directs from a screenplay by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds), Disclosure […]

Disney developing a live-action Gaston movie

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You can’t keep a good villain down. Having been rebuffed by Belle in two iterations of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and seen a long-gestating small screen spin-off fail to get off the ground, news reaches us from The Magic Kingdom (via Deadline) that Gaston is set to get the live-action treatment with a big-screen […]

Movie Review – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, 2025.  Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS:  Detective Benoit Blanc sifts through a series of suspects when a monsignor turns up dead. At […]

Street Fighter movie trailer and posters introduce us to iconic videogame characters

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Paramount Pictures and Legendary Entertainment have pushed start on the latest attempt to bring iconic videogame Street Fighter to the big-screen by dropping a sneak peek first look teaser trailer and character posters.  Directed by Kitao Sakurai (Bad Trip), your recognisable pixelated punchbags are brought to life by Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Andrew Koji […]

Mario and Luigi take on the galaxy’s newest threat in latest The Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer

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Universal Pictures, Nintendo, and Illumination Studios have loaded up a new teaser trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the sequel to 2023’s $1.3 billion grossing Super Mario Bros. movie.  Once again directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, from a screenplay by returning screenwriter Matthew Fogel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie voice cast includes […]

Go behind-the-scenes of The Bone Temple in 28 Years Later featurette

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Now that the 28 Years Later trilogy has been officially confirmed it’s time to get excited about one the reasons why that decision was made. This week Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple screened to overwhelmingly positive reactions, and so Sony Pictures are giving fans a peek behind the scenes of the scares […]