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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 […]

David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream gets an illuminating teaser trailer

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It only takes a little over 90 seconds for the allure of David Bowie to work its unique brand of magic in the teaser trailer for Brett Morgen’s estate-sanctioned documentary Moonage Daydream, which is set to debut at this years Cannes Film Festival, before opening in cinemas around the world this September. Featuring many of […]

Forced integration drama The Walk gets powerful trailer

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Set during the forced integration of the Boston school system during the 1970s, a period in which public schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of cross-district bussing for poor Black and white neighbourhoods, Daniel Adams The Walk charts the escalating interracial tension in the region at the time. Starring Justin Chatwin […]

Jason Momoa to headline action-comedy Shots! Shots! Shots! for Universal

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Now that he has finished splashing about in the surf with James Wan for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Jason Momoa is wasting no time in lining up projects to keep him busy, the latest being Universal Pictures action-comedy Shots! Shots! Shots! Momoa has recently signed on for (deep breath) Warner Bros. murder-mystery The Executioner, the […]

Watch Jessie Buckley’s first encounter with Men in a clip from Alex Garland’s horror

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Writer-director Alex Garland is hoping to continue his impressive hot-streak following the one-two of Ex Machina and Annihilation with A24’s horror Men, which stars Oscar-nominee Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose) as Harper, a recently widowed woman who finds her peaceful getaway to the English countryside disrupted by something stalking her in the surrounding woods. You can read what […]