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Steven Spielberg returns to close encounters with Disclosure Day trailer

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The return of Steven Spielberg is an event almost as seismic as the world announcing the existence of extra-terrestrials, and that’s the subject of the legendary director’s return to science-fiction filmmaking with Disclosure Day. Based on a story by Spielberg, who directs from a screenplay by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds), Disclosure […]

Disney developing a live-action Gaston movie

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You can’t keep a good villain down. Having been rebuffed by Belle in two iterations of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and seen a long-gestating small screen spin-off fail to get off the ground, news reaches us from The Magic Kingdom (via Deadline) that Gaston is set to get the live-action treatment with a big-screen […]

Movie Review – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, 2025.  Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS:  Detective Benoit Blanc sifts through a series of suspects when a monsignor turns up dead. At […]

Street Fighter movie trailer and posters introduce us to iconic videogame characters

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Paramount Pictures and Legendary Entertainment have pushed start on the latest attempt to bring iconic videogame Street Fighter to the big-screen by dropping a sneak peek first look teaser trailer and character posters.  Directed by Kitao Sakurai (Bad Trip), your recognisable pixelated punchbags are brought to life by Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Andrew Koji […]

Mario and Luigi take on the galaxy’s newest threat in latest The Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer

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Universal Pictures, Nintendo, and Illumination Studios have loaded up a new teaser trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the sequel to 2023’s $1.3 billion grossing Super Mario Bros. movie.  Once again directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, from a screenplay by returning screenwriter Matthew Fogel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie voice cast includes […]

Go behind-the-scenes of The Bone Temple in 28 Years Later featurette

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Now that the 28 Years Later trilogy has been officially confirmed it’s time to get excited about one the reasons why that decision was made. This week Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple screened to overwhelmingly positive reactions, and so Sony Pictures are giving fans a peek behind the scenes of the scares […]

Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal suspect each other in the trailer for Netflix whodunnit His & Hers

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Netflix has dropped the trailer for His & Hers, their gritty crime drama which focuses on reporter Anna Andrews (Tessa Thompson) and Detective Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal), who appear to be searching for the truth when a body is discovered in a sleepy north Georgia town, only to start suspecting each-other.  Directed by Lady Macbeth […]

Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson returning for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

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While you’d much rather it be a surprise whilst enjoying the movie for the first time, it has been confirmed that OG Hunger Games stars Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will return to the franchise for Lionsgate’s second prequel The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.  How is that possible when this is set 24 […]

Cillian Murphy-led 28 Years Later 3 given the green light at Sony

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Sony Pictures is officially moving forward with the third installment of their 28 Years Later trilogy, with Cillian Murphy set to return and Alex Garland currently writing the script.  The future of the untitled trilogy-capper was always dependant on how Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later and Nia DaCosta’s forthcoming sequel The Bone Temple performed at […]