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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 […]

Uncharted’s Ruben Fleischer working on a Jak and Daxter movie

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We all know Tom Holland has a penchant for letting things slip, and so when he was talking about how he’d like to be involved in an adaptation of popular videogame Jak and Daxter, only one produced by A24, we just took it for filler as he promoted the imminent release of Uncharted. However, that […]

Jordan Peele’s Nope gets a first look teaser ahead of Super Bowl Sunday trailer

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Jordan Peele is two-for-two, and one of the most enjoyable elements of Get Out and Us was the way in which you knew very little about either of those five-star films until the horror unfurled in front of you. Hoping to emulate that unique feeling is Peele’s next film Nope, which has unveiled this first-look […]