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Spider-Man: No Way Home swings above Avatar to become third highest-grossing domestic film of all time

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By now you’re probably sick of hearing about the tangled web of box-office records that Spider-Man: No Way Home has obliterated since it swung into cinemas in December. Well, this next one’s a biggie, because the trilogy-capping superhero blockbuster has just surpassed Avatar to become the third highest-grossing domestic film of all time, with $760.9M. […]

The Batman secures China release

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Matt Reeves eagerly anticipated The Batman has managed to do something that most of his superhero rivals have been unable to in the last 12 months, and that’s secure a cinematic release in the lucrative Chinese market. Deadline reports that The Batman joins Death on the Nile (out this Saturday) as the only Hollywood release […]

Jean-Claude Van Damme to end his action career with What’s My Name?

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Jean-Claude Van Damme is to sound the bell on his illustrious action career with one final round of bouts in martial arts throwback What’s My Name? According to Deadline, the ‘muscles from Brussels’ will star in a film that will reunite the fighting icon in matches against some of his past screen rivals, and that […]

Kingsley Ben-Adir to play Bob Marley for Reinaldo Marcus Green

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Having already portrayed one iconic figure in the shape of Malcolm X in Regina King’s One Night in Miami, Kingsley Ben-Adir is on the verge of stepping into the shoes of Bob Marley for a Paramount biopic of the reggae legend. According to THR, the star of The OA and Marvel’s forthcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion […]

Dane DeHaan and Sophie Turner teaming up for high-tech heist thriller Wardriver

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Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner and recent addition to Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Oppenheimer Dane DeHaan, are set to join forces for Wardriver, a high-tech thriller from the writer of Fast 9. According to THR’s exclusive report, Wardriver focuses on DeHaan’s tech-savvy thief Cole, who is forced to hack into the bank account of a wealthy young […]

Death on the Nile rides choppy waters to top the box office, while Uncharted mines $21.5 million overseas

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Death on the Nile, Kenneth Branagh’s follow-up to 2017’s $353M grossing Murder on the Orient Express, sailed the choppy waters of a pandemic delay, lacklustre reviews, a problematic cast, and Super Bowl Sunday, to top the U.S. box-office with $12.6M. Hoping to fare better during a weekend dominated by the Super Bowl, Paramount decided to […]

Disney isn’t moving forward with Beauty and the Beast spinoff series… for now

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It was only last week that new cast members were being added to the line-up of Disney+’s Beauty and the Beast prequel series, but that’s a long time in the world of The Magic Kingdom because it has now been announced that the studio is no longer moving forward with the small-screen Gaston and LeFou spin-off. […]

George Clooney’s The Boys in the Boat brings Joel Edgerton aboard its cast

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George Clooney is finally going to take to the water on his long-gestating adaptation of New York Times bestseller The Boys in the Boat, and he has enlisted Joel Edgerton to pick up an oar and row alongside a stacked cast that includes Jack Mulhern (Mare of Eastown), Sam Strike (Sandman), Luke Slattery (The Post), […]

“Good news, everyone!” Futurama revival coming to Disney+ and Hulu

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Want some news worth going “woop woop woop” about? After a 10-year hiatus Hulu and Disney+ confirmed that they’re ordering a 20-episode revival of Matt Groening’s Futurama. Set to land sometime in 2023, both The Simpsons creator Groening and original Futurama co-creator David X. Cohen will be involved in the series. Most of the original […]