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Halloween Ends to debut in cinemas and on streaming as new poster puts Laurie Strode and Michael Myers side-by-side one final time

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Laurie Strode and Michael Myers have been playing cat-and-mouse around Haddonfield for over 40 years, so the final poster for October’s Halloween Ends has decided to throw them together in a pose ordinarily reserved for a 90s Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson rom-com in order to let audiences know that this is it, this is […]

Olivia Colman stars in the teaser for Sam Mendes’ ode to cinema Empire of Light

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Searchlight Pictures have released the trailer for Sam Mendes’ love letter to cinema, Empire of Light, which reunites the Academy Award winning director with his 1917 cinematographer Roger Deakins, a collaborative duo who both know a fair bit about the power of the projected image. Set in an old cinema located in an English seaside […]

Aubrey Plaza joins Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

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Francis Ford Coppola’s independently financed $100M passion-project Megalopolis had already assembled quite the cast, and now he has assured it becomes a must-see by adding Aubrey Plaza to the ensemble.  Sources close to Deadline revealed that the Ingrid Goes West actor would be joining Adam Driver (Paterson), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Nathalie Emmanuel (Game […]

Batgirl directors on their unfinished film and losing access to the footage

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We’ve heard all of the official statements from studio heads and passionate posts from those involved with the production, but now Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have been speaking candidly about the state of the movie at the point when Warner Bros. Discovery decided to shelve their $90M blockbuster, and how they […]

One trailer to rule them all as Amazon drops epic new look at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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Accompanying Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel as the camera sweeps over the many realms we’ll get to journey during the course of its eight episode first season, Amazon has flexed a Smaug’s treasures worth of spectacle in the latest epic trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The age of talking about this […]

House of the Dragon draws HBO’s largest ever premiere audience

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They will be toasting with mead in the HBO boardrooms following the news that the network’s eagerly anticipated Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon has broken the record for the largest series debut in the channel’s history.  House of the Dragon drew 9.986 million viewers across linear and HBO Max platforms in North […]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power to get theatrical release before Prime Video debut

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If Amazon are going to spend over $1 billion on a television series, then it makes sense to see it in the best way possible, and so that’s what the studio are doing (in the U.S. at least) by releasing the first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on the […]

Gravity Rush video game adaptation in the works at PlayStation Productions

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Now that studios have established that there is plenty of “insert coin” potential to be had from videogame adaptations, PlayStation Productions and Scott Free Productions have pressed play on an big-screen adaptation of action-adventure game Gravity Rush. According to Deadline Anna Mastro (Netflix’s Echoes) has been hired to direct, and she will work from a script written […]

Trailer for Disney+ documentary Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s Return takes us behind the scenes of the Star Wars show

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The journey to get Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi to the screen was as arduous as a trek across the deserts of Tatooine, but it’s fair to say that the Deborah Chow directed limited-series, which brought back Ewan McGregor as Ben Kenobi and Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader, was among the streamers very best Star Wars […]

J.J. Abrams and Jennifer Garner’s My Glory Was I Had Such Friends is scrapped

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One minute you’re writing about how many small-screen projects J.J. Abrams has on the go, the next you’re ticking them off as they’re cancelled, such is the world of television at the moment. Following the news that HBO had dropped his long-in-the-offing sci-fi series Demimonde for budgetary reasons, comes the story that Jennifer Garner has […]