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Top Gun: Maverick hits Mach 10 at the box office with $248 million worldwide

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Top Gun: Maverick became not only one of the biggest pandemic-era box office successes, but it also gave Tom Cruise the largest opening of his illustrious career, as the 36-year in the making sequel soared to $248M worldwide over the weekend. Paramount have estimated that the critically revered sequel will end the Memorial Day weekend […]

Nicolas Cage and Jerry Bruckheimer are working on National Treasure 3

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Any hope that we’d ever get to see a third installment of the National Treasure franchise appeared as lost as one of relics sought out by Nicolas Cage’s wonderfully named intrepid explorer Benjamin Franklin Gates. However, in news akin to finding a map to the mythical treasure, super producer Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed that the […]

Women Inherit the Earth in Jurassic World Dominion featurette

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The ripples are beginning to appear in the cup of water. Jurassic Park Dominion is two weeks away from rampaging through cinemas screens across the world, and now Universal Pictures has released a featurette to celebrate the women of the franchise. Titled after Ellie Sattler’s iconic line from Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original –  “Woman inherits […]

Sony working on Gran Turismo movie with Neill Blomkamp tapped to direct

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Sony Pictures are still counting the doubloons from their $400M grossing adaptation of best-selling videogame Uncharted, and have wasted little time in firing up the PlayStation in order to find their next potential blockbuster in racing simulator Gran Turismo, with reports linking District 9’s Neill Blomkamp as director. According to Deadline Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions will […]

Live-action Speed Racer series in development from J.J. Abrams and Apple TV+

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Prepare to polish the Mach 5 and take your place on the starting grid, because J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot pit-crew are looking to develop a live-action Speed Racer series for Apple TV+. According to Variety Apple have given the green light to a series order for Speed Racer, which will be written by […]

Parasite’s Song Kang-ho stars in the trailer for Brokers, the new film from Shoplifters director Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Ahead of its debut at the Cannes Film Festival , CJ ENM has released the trailer for Broker, the forthcoming South Korean drama from the critically acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won the Palme d’Or with 2018’s Shoplifters. Broker is the story of two baby thieves who steal a child from a ‘baby box’, […]

Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas trade blows and one-liners in the explosive trailer for The Gray Man

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The first trailer for the Russo Brothers’ eagerly anticipated Netflix action flick The Gray Man has just dropped online, featuring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, his scene-stealing trash ‘stache, and Ana de Armas; you can check it out in the player below… The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked […]

George Miller says don’t expect to see Mad Max: The Wasteland any time soon

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While George Miller is in Cannes with his fantasy-romance Three Thousand Years of Longing, it has afforded journalists the opportunity to ask him about the sequels and prequels to his 2015 modern classic Mad Max: Fury Road, one of which is currently in production, and another that he says reveals is “further down the chain”. […]

Watch Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher and Boyd Holbrook in the trailer for B.J. Novak’s dark comedy Vengeance

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Focus Features has just released the official trailer for The Office alum B.J. Novak’s directorial debut Vengeance. Tapping into the cultural touchpoints of true-crime podcasting and conspiracy theories, Novak stars as a podcaster investigating the mystery surrounding the death of a girl he previously hooked up with, which Boyd Holbrook’s local seems to think was […]