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Finn Wolfhard and Jason Reitman to remake 90s horror-comedy Idle Hands

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Having worked together on two horror-comedy makeovers with the recent Ghostbusters legacy sequels, Finn Wolfhard and Jason Reitman are set to reteam for a remake of 1999’s Idle Hands.  According to Variety Wolfhard will collaborate with Billy Bryk to write the script, the two having just co-wrote, co-directed, co-starred in and produced festival favourite Hell […]

Renée Zellweger returns in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy trailer

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Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established her as romantic-comedy heroine for the ages in the first trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The fourth film adapted from Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which has grossed a combined $760 million at the box-office, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is […]

Multiverses collide in the trailer for the final season of Marvel’s What If…?

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Marvel Studios has released the official trailer for the third and final season of their multiverse anthology series Marvel’s What If…?. This final run of eight episodes features fan-favorite characters like Captain America/Sam Wilson, The Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes, Hulk/Bruce Banner, The Red Guardian, Captain Peggy Carter, Agatha Harkness, Shang-Chi, and Storm the Goddess of Thunder, with an impressive voice cast […]

2073 trailer presents a warning to the world

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Neon has dropped the trailer for 2073, their hybrid-documentary from Amy and Senna director Asif Kapadia. Inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 featurette La Jetée, which was also the source for Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, 2073 features Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) and Naomie Ackie (Mickey 17) in a blend of science fiction and speculative nonfiction that predicts […]

Moana 2 sailing towards whopping $135 million opening weekend

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Disney appear to be riding the crest of a wave when it comes to their box-office receipts, because following Inside Out 2‘s record breaking performance earlier this year, Moana 2 is set to follow suit when it sails into cinemas later this month. According to The Hollywood Reporter Walt Disney Animation’s sequel to 2016’s $687 […]

David Dastmalchian and Kate Siegel set for zombie apocalypse drama Epilogue

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Here is a horror pairing to get you shuffling along to the cinema. Late Night with the Devil star David Dastmalchian is teaming up with The Haunting of Hill House‘s Kate Siegel for Epilogue, a family drama set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse.  According to Deadline the film is set one year after […]

Milla Jovovich to fight zombies again in George A. Romero’s Twilight of the Dead

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Here’s some news regarding a collaboration between two people who know a heck of a lot about zombies. Milla Jovovich is set to lead the late George A. Romero’s undead swansong Twilight of the Dead. Per Deadline’s report The Resident Evil alumni has been cast alongside Get Out‘s Betty Gabriel in the seventh film in […]

Tom Cruise revving up for Days of Thunder sequel

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Tom Cruise is looking to step back into a high-speed vehicle for another legacy sequel, but this time it’s not the cockpit of a MiG jet, but the chassis of a NASCAR for a follow-up to his mundane motorsport movie Days of Thunder.  Released in 1990, Days of Thunder’s reception was somewhat middle-of-the-road. The $60 […]

Paul W.S. Anderson to write and direct The House of the Dead videogame adaptation

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Paul W.S. Anderson loves a videogame adaptation, because following six Resident Evil films, a Mortal Kombat, and one Monster Hunter movie, he is set to write and direct a big-screen version of Sega’s classic shoot-em-up The House of the Dead.  Per Deadline’s report Anderson will work alongside his producing partner Jeremy Bolt, with whom he […]

Lily James and Pierce Brosnan replace Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger reboot

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It appears that Sylvester Stallone has lost his grip on the Cliffhanger reboot, with the news that the action-icon has been replaced in the Jaume Collet-Serra directed film by Lily James and Pierce Brosnan. Variety report that the reworking of the 1993 action-blockbuster will now be very different to what was announced back in early […]