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Michael Giacchino to make feature debut with reboot of 50s monster movie Them!

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Academy-Award winning composer Michael Giacchino is set to continue his creative evolution from the orchestral pit to the director’s chair by helming a reboot of 1954 monster-movie Them! for Warner Bros.  As per Deadline’s report, Giacchino will follow-up his impressive small-screen debut on Marvel’s Werewolf by Night with a take on the classic creature-feature Them! […]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is coming to Disney+ in February

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever may have taken it’s global box-office tally to $820 million over the weekend, but Disney have announced when you’ll be able to visit Wakanda on the small-screen by clarifying exactly when Ryan Coogler’s superhero-sequel will be available to stream on Disney+.  There had been a few rumoured release dates doing the […]

James Marsden speaks about Westworld cancellation: “We had plans to finish it the way we wanted to”

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At the end of last year HBO announced that they would be closing the gates to Westworld forever and removing the show from their streaming services, leaving viewers who were hoping for a fifth and final season that would answer the multitude of questions posed by showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, extremely disappointed.  Well, […]

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman are searching for Hitler in trailer for final season of Prime Video’s Hunters

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Positing the question – what if Adolf Hitler had survived World War II? – Amazon Prime have dropped the teaser for the final season of Hunters, in which Al Pacino, Logan Lerman and the Nazi-hunting team are banding together and heading to South America to track down the most infamous Nazi of all. Executive Produced […]

Netflix cancels 1899 after just one season

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1899 generated around 79.27 million hours of viewership within its first four days, and landed at number two in Netflix’s Top 10 during its debut week, but that wasn’t enough to prevent the streaming-service from cancelling the series after just one season.  Co-creator Baran bo Odar took to Instagram to share his disappointment at the […]

Brandon Cronenberg puts Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth through the wringer in Infinity Pool teaser

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Put the festive season firmly in the rear view mirror with this brand new look at writer-director Brandon Cronenberg’s (Possessor) latest, the NC-17 rated Infinity Pool. The sci-fi horror focuses on couple James and Em (Alexander Skarsgard and Cleopatra Coleman) as they enjoy their perfect vacation on an isolated island, that is until the mysterious Gabi […]

Ron Howard: “Never say never” but there are no plans for a Solo sequel

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Solo: A Star Wars Story really is something of an outlier in the galaxy. Caught in the aftermath of Rian Johnson’s divisive The Last Jedi, all following a tumultuous production, the Alden Ehrenreich starring origin story stalled at the box-office, which caused the cancellation of future A Star Wars Story spin-offs (Obi-Wan, Boba Fett) by […]

As Avatar 2 dominates the box office, James Cameron laments the stories he didn’t get to make

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With Avatar: The Way of Water cruising past the $1.1 billion dollar mark like a giant Tulkun, director James Cameron has spoken about the flipside to the success of his decades in the making franchise, and what the all-consuming trips to Pandora have meant for other stories he would have liked to tell.  Speaking with […]

James Wan and Jason Blum hope to work together on an Invisible Man sequel

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At the time of release, Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss said that any potential for a sequel to Leigh Whannell’s Universal Monsters reboot depended on demand from the audience. Well it’s safe to say that following stellar reviews, and $144 million at the worldwide box-office, a gross which was severely affected by the onset of […]