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Meet Robert Downey Jr.’s father in trailer for Netflix documentary Sr.

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We’re all aware of his Infinity Gauntlet sporting son Robert Downey Jr., for both his off and on-screen antics, but now Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond and American Movie documentarian Chris Smith has created an intimate portrait of the man responsible for that famous suffix, his father Robert Downey Sr.  Shot over the course […]

Margot Robbie’s Pirates of the Caribbean film is dead in the water

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With Babylon and Barbie wrapped, Margot Robbie is busy lining up more projects to produce and star in, and while she’s still actively developing her Ocean’s Eleven prequel, another of her proposed franchise rejuvenations in the form of a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot is dead in the water at Disney.  Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer […]

Taylor Russell gets peckish in not-for-the-squeamish Bones and All clip

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If you want to get a taste of what to expect from Luca Guadagnino’s dreamy cannibal love-story, Bones And All, then you can read our ★★★ review, or you can check out this gruesome three-minute apéritif that MGM have dropped for your viewing displeasure.  The clip features Taylor Russell’s Maren sneaking out to a sleepover, […]

Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren star in trailer for Yellowstone prequel 1923

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There’s something about Harrison Ford wearing a hat while on horseback that unavoidably bumps your geese, and if you can’t wait to see if saddles up for Indiana Jones 5 then he’s heading back to the small-screen for the first time since March 1993 in Yellowstone prequel 1923, and to make it even better he […]

Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek Pinault to team for Netflix’s Seesaw Monster

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Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek Pinault will produce and star in an adaptation of Seesaw Monster, the latest book from Japanese crime thriller writer Kōtarō Isaka, whose Maria Beetle was turned into Sony Pictures $239 million grossing Bullet Train.  According to The Hollywood Reporter Netflix have landed the rights to Seesaw Monster, which is being […]

Martin Lawrence is on the hunt for a copycat serial killer in Mindcage trailer

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Lionsgate has released a trailer for the serial killer crime thriller Mindcage, which features Martin Lawrence and John Malkovich doing what they do best as cop and serial killer respectively. The erstwhile Bad Boy is playing a detective trying to catch a copycat killer with the help of Malkovich’s incarcerated bad guy, known simply as […]

Wind River sequel in development from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Kari Skogland

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All roads, or rivers lead back to the MCU following the news that The Falcon and The Winter Soldier director Kari Skoland is set to helm a sequel to Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen thriller Wind River. Deadline reports that Castle Rock Entertainment will produce a sequel to the critically acclaimed (88% on Rotten Tomatoes) […]

Keanu Reeves set to appear in Ana de Armas John Wick spin-off Ballerina

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Earlier this week it was revealed that Ian McShane was set to reprise his role as Winston, the manager of The Continental Hotel, in Ana de Armas’ John Wick spin-off Ballerina, and now comes the news that Keanu Reeves, aka John Wick himself will show up in the film.  Ballerina is currently filming in Prague […]

Stranger Things’ Shawn Levy in talks to direct a Star Wars movie

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Following the recent small-screen success of Obi-Wan and Andor it appears Lucasfilm are expanding the four corners of their Star Wars galaxy back onto the big-screen once again with the news that Stranger Things and Deadpool 3 director Shawn Levy is in talks to direct his own Star Wars movie.  Deadline reports that Levy is in […]