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Freeman, Pacino, Mirren and DeVito check into Taylor Hackford’s retirement home noir Sniff

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The first of many Toronto International Film Festival marketplace announcements is the news that Academy-Award winning director Taylor Hackford will attempt to pull off ‘a stylish reinvention of the film noir genre’ with his retirement home murder-mystery noir Sniff. More intriguing than that though is the fact that he’ll have Morgan Freeman, Al Pacino, Helen […]

Colin Firth, Olivia Colman and Odessa Young celebrate Mothering Sunday in first trailer for Lionsgate drama

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There’s no shortage of talent on display in the first trailer for Lionsgate’s tale of forbidden love, Mothering Sunday. Starring Odessa Young (Shirley, The Stand), Olivia Colman (The Father, The Favourite), Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country, The Crown), Sope Dirisu (His House, Gangs of London), and Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Supernova), Mothering Sunday was adapted […]

Spencer, King Richard, Benedetta, Last Night in Soho and The French Dispatch among the big hitters as London Film Festival announces full line-up

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As the flashbulbs begin to dim from the Venice Film Festival, the The 65th BFI London Film Festival has taken the baton and unveiled its full programme for October’s celebration of cinema, featuring some well-received carry-overs such as Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, as […]

Live-action Rick and Morty clips feature Christopher Lloyd and Jaeden Martell, teases more…

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As a wrap-around to the season five finale of Rick and Morty, Adult Swim have been sending the internet into a state of Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub! with a series of live-action clips featuring Back to the Future’s Christopher Lloyd as Rick Sanchez and Midnight Special’s Jaeden Martell as Morty Smith. The trio of teasers have […]

Donald Glover is looking for a new wife as Phoebe Waller-Bridge exits Mr. & Mrs. Smith series

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is currently filming her role alongside Harrison Ford’s Dr. Jones, but it appears that she will no longer be working with Donald Glover’s Mr. Smith, with the news that the Fleabag actor has departed Amazon Studios Mr. & Mrs. Smith series. Announced earlier in the year in suitably hilarious fashion via their Instagram Stories, Mr. […]

Paul Schrader lines up Joel Edgerton & Sigourney Weaver for crime thriller Master Gardener

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Ahead of the world premiere of his latest film The Card Counter at this week’s Venice Film Festival, Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader is already lining up his next crime-thriller, tapping up Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver to star in Master Gardener. Deadline reports that Schrader will direct from his own original screenplay, which tells […]

Kasi Lemmons to direct Naomi Ackie in Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody

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Eve’s Bayou and Harriet director Kasi Lemmons has stepped into the chair vacated by Stella Meghie to direct Naomi Ackie in the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody. Deadline cite good old ‘creative differences’ when it comes to the departure of The Photograph’s Stella Meghie, but she will remain on in an […]

High drama with Jason Issacs and Ann Dowd in the the trailer for Mass

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Bleecker Street have just debuted the trailer for what appears to be an acting masterclass between Jason Issacs (The OA), Ann Dowd (The Leftovers), Martha Plimpton (The Mosquito Coast) and Reed Birney (House of Cards), as two couples who agree to a conversation in order to process the fallout from a tragic incident involving their […]

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot casts newcomer Jabari Banks in Will Smith’s iconic role

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Finding out that you’ve just landed a life-changing gig must be pretty extraordinary as it is, but for newcomer Jabari Banks it was made all that more special by the fact he was told by the man whose shoes he will have to fill in NBC Peacock’s reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will […]