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HBO unveils first look at Rose Leslie and Theo James in The Time Traveler’s Wife teaser

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Following 2009’s rather flat big-screen attempt at adapting Audrey Niffenegger’s book The Time Traveler’s Wife, HBO has unveiled the first teaser for their six-part take on the best-selling time-travel weepie. Adapted by Sherlock scribe Steven Moffat, with all six episodes directed by Game of Thrones and The Pacific helmer David Nutter, the show stars Rose Leslie (Game […]

Liam Neeson stars as a hitman with Alzheimer’s in trailer for Memory

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Academy Award winner Liam Neeson has continued to churn out hitman related action films with diminishing returns, even firing off a trio of pandemic era releases – The Marksman, The Ice Road, and Blacklight – to keep fans of his very particular set of skills happy, and now he’s at it again in Martin GoldenEye […]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 gets the speediest trailer of all time

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We’re always bemoaning the fact that these days trailers show way too much of the movie, well Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has found a unique loop-de-loop hole around that by releasing the fastest trailer of all time for the blockbuster videogame sequel. Condensing the entire trailer into three seconds, you can check out the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it […]

The Batman box office soars as the Dark Knight rises to $463 million worldwide

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In this pandemic-era box office landscape the sophomore frame is almost as important as the opening, so The Batman‘s second weekend domestic haul of $66M is a promising sign for the Matt Reeves-directed blockbuster. Admittedly there were no new wide-releases to bother the bat, but a -50.7% drop and a $14,942 per-screen average is better […]

It’s a romantic mission to mars in trailer for Warner Bros.’ Moonshot

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Good rom-coms come around about as often as a total eclipse of the sun, and Warner Bros. are hoping they have one with Moonshot, which tells the story of Sophie (Lana Condor – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) and her tick box relationship with Calvin (Mason Gooding – Scream). The only problem with […]

Elvis star Austin Butler in talks for Dune 2’s villainous Feyd-Rautha

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Dune: Part II is wasting no time in mining talent to add to its already impressive ensemble, because following the story that Florence Pugh is in talks for the sci-fi sequel, news arrives that Elvis star Austin Butler is being tapped to play the villainous Feyd-Rautha, nephew to Stellan Skarsgard’s Baron. According to THR, Austin […]

DC’s Blue Beetle taps What We Do In The Shadows’ Harvey Guillén and more

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With The Batman currently filling the DC coffers at the worldwide box-office, the comic book giants are hard at work with Warner Bros. trying to find their next successful page-to-screen adaptation, and it appears that they’re going to enlist What We Do In The Shadows star Harvey Guillén for a key role in Blue Beetle. […]

Zac Efron looks like he’s having a rough time in new image from The Greatest Beer Run Ever

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It seems as though Zac Efron is intent on putting himself through the wringer these days, because off the back of his dirt-under-the-nails drama Gold (read our review here), a first look image from Peter Farrelly’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever appears to show the one-time song-and-dance man looking equally dishevelled. The image shows Efron […]

New Morbius teaser poses questions for Jared Leto’s Living Vampire

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After what seems like the same painful eternity suffered by some of cinemas most iconic vampires, Sony’s long-delayed Morbius movie is finally about to see light at the end of a very long, bat-filled tunnel, which means that we’ll start to get even more glimpses at Jared Leto’s antihero and the moral dilemmas he’ll face on […]