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Godzilla vs Kong sequel reportedly set to shoot later this year

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Godzilla vs. Kong was one of the first blockbusters to wade into the ruin of the pandemic-era cinemagoing landscape, so its global haul of $468M, despite being available day-and-date as part of Warner Media’s 2021 release strategy, was a resounding success. So it comes as no surprise that a sequel will reportedly go before the […]

UPDATE: Darth Maul was cut from early Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi scripts

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You might be aware that some people found things to criticise about 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, but that doesn’t apply to two characters who faced off as John Williams’ Duel of the Fates scorched itself into Star Wars lore; Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ray Park’s Darth Maul, and now news has emerged […]

Chloé Zhao opens up about Eternals’ divisiveness

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Now that the water around the fallen Celestial statues is a lot calmer, Eternals director Chloé Zhao has been speaking exclusively to Empire Magazine about the divided critical reception to her unique entry into the IP heavy world of the MCU.Eternals was always going to be a challenging film to gauge; featuring no recognisable superheroes, […]

Mike Myers is back playing multiple characters in teaser for Netflix comedy series The Pentaverate

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The last time we saw Mike Myers he was unrecognisable under prosthetics in Bohemian Rhapsody, and now he’s the master-of-disguise once again in the first teaser for his star-studded Netflix comedy series The Pentaverate.Not only will Myers mark his return to a starring role for the first time since 2008’s The Love Guru by playing the […]

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 of […]

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 than […]

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 this […]