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The Rebellion Begins in trailer for Star Wars: Andor

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Of all the post-Disney takeover Star Wars content we’ve had, Star Wars: Rogue One seems to be the one universally loved product to emerge from the reshaping of a galaxy far far away, and so this release of an epic new trailer, poster (see below) and announcement that Star Wars: Andor will premiere with three […]

DC League of Super-Pets lacks bite at the box office while Nope slips to second

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The box-office played out as predicted over the weekend, although DC League of Super-Pets wasn’t a pedigree performer, taking the #1 spot with a low-end of expectations $23M debut.  With the vocal talents of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Natasha Lyonne, DC League of Super-Pets (read our ★★★ review here) underwhelmed to the tune of […]

Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne will appear in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

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Ben Affleck’s DCEU farewell tour has added a further date with the news that he is set to appear as Bruce Wayne in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.  It would have been nice to experience the reveal of Batfleck’s return while actually watching the movie, but the God of the Sea himself, Jason Momoa, broke […]

Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago to get his own Rocky spin-off movie at MGM

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His long time nemesis Rocky Balboa may have decided to step away from the ring for the forthcoming Creed III, but Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago isn’t set to ring the bell on the franchise just yet, with the news that MGM are working on a spin-off project for the Soviet slugger.  According to The Wrap, […]

Sebastian Stan shares a first look at his prosthetic-covered face in A Different Man

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Sebastian Stan continues to forge a very interesting career away from the big-budget gloss of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that’s none more so evident than in the image he shared from his latest film A Different Man.  Posted to his Instagram account, the picture shows Stan covered in prosthetics for his role in A […]

Ryan Gosling returning for The Gray Man sequel, spinoff also in the works

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Enough people must have streamed at least five minutes of Netflix’s much-ballyhooed The Gray Man for the streaming service to fire off the news that we’re not only getting a sequel to the $200M budgeted action flick, but there’s also a spin-off in development.  Following its debut at #1 in 92 countries, Netflix announced their […]

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty will be directed by Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton

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Having triumphantly returned to the San Diego Comic-Con by announcing the line-up of movies that will complete the Multiverse Saga, Marvel are quickly setting about assigning directors with the responsibility of helming these MCU milestones, and they’ve remained in-house with their first choice by giving Avengers: The Kang Dynasty to Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton.  […]

Harrowing trailer for MGM’s Emmett Till biopic Till

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MGM has released the trailer for Till, Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu’s movie about the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. Chronicling the events leading up to the kidnapping, torture and murder of Till (Jalyn Hall) for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and the subsequent fight for justice by his mother Mamie Till Mobley (played […]

First look at Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in Noah Baumbach’s Netflix drama White Noise

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With the announcement that it’s set to open the Venice Film Festival, Netflix have given us a first look at Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise.  Baumbach’s first film since he teamed with Driver and Netflix on 2019’s superb Marriage Story, White Noise is based on the book by Don DeLillo […]