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Emily Blunt is getting caught in a conspiracy for David Yates in Pain Hustlers

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Emily Blunt will take the lead in a criminal conspiracy thriller from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and The Legend of Tarzan director David Yates. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pain Hustlers will be written by Wells Tower (The True American) and tell the story of a high school dropout who lands a job […]

Danny Boyle says James Bond producers lost confidence in his Russia-based 007 movie

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No Time to Die’s journey to the big-screen was a long, arduous, pandemic delayed one, but it’s easy to forget that even before all that Daniel Craig’s swansong was already subject to upheaval  when Danny Boyle exited the project due to creative differences with producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. Now the Trainspotting director […]

20th Century Studios developing Omen prequel The First Omen

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The beast with seven heads and ten horns is set to rise again with the news that 20th Century Studios are developing a prequel to 1976 horror classic The Omen, titled The First Omen. Deadline reveals that 20th Century Studios will start work on The First Omen, a prequel to the 1976 Fox horror, and that Legion director Arkasha Stevenson […]

Sibling rivalry festers in dramatic trailer for Marion Cotillard’s Brother and Sister

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With the 2022 Cannes Film Festival fast approaching, there’s plenty of reasons to get excited, one of which is the latest drama from French director Arnaud Desplechin (Ismael’s Ghosts, Deception), which stars Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone) and Melvil Poupaud (Summer of 85) as the titular Brother and Sister, who haven’t spoken to one another […]

HBO Max’s Father of the Bride reboot gets a trailer

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Like that divorcee who just keeps on getting hitched, 1950’s Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor comedy Father of the Bride has been remade once again. Following Steve Martin’s 1990’s smash-hit and so-so sequel, walking down the aisle on this occasion are Adria Arjona (Morbius) and Diego Boneta (Scream Queens), along with their beleaguered parents, this […]

Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu and Djimon Hounsou to star in feature adaptation of deep sea diving doc Last Breath

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When it was released back in 2019 we said in our ★★★★ review of Alex Parkinson and Richard de Costa’s nerve shredding deep sea documentary Last Breath that it made “The Abyss look like a dip in the shallow end”, and it appears that Hollywood agree, because news has just emerged that Woody Harrelson, Simu […]

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opens to a magical $450 million worldwide

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You didn’t need to visit fourteen million six-hundred and five alternate futures to predict that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was going to top the box office this weekend, but it still managed to conjure up spectacular results in its debut frame, making $185 million domestically and $265 million overseas, for a whopping […]

Watch the birth of a legend as Austin Butler becomes Elvis in clip from Baz Luhrmann’s biopic

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Warner Bros. has unveiled a brand new clip from its musical drama Elvis, which stars newcomer Austin Butler as the titular rock and roll icon. Following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May, Elvis will begin his worldwide tour when the film opens in cinemas on June 24th. The new clip features […]

The Lost Girls trailer offers a new twist on Peter Pan

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J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan has been remade and reinterpreted so many times that you’d believe a boy could fly before you’d ever accept they could find a new way to tell the classic story. Well, think again, because director Livia De Paolis has adapted The Lost Girls, a novel by Laurie Fox, and it’s […]