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Rawson Marshall Thurber to direct Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain in The Division

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We already knew that Jake Gyllenhaal was set to replace his Prince of Persia avatar with that of a character from 2016’s Ubisoft game The Division, and that he was to star alongside Jessica Chastain in the Netflix adaptation. Well, now we know who’s in charge of the main controller as Deadline has announced that […]

Liev Schreiber set to return as Ray Donovan in feature-length send-off

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Few things are as painful for a fan of a long-running television show than cancellation before closure, but that was the fate which befell Ray Donovan when Showtime put a gun to the head of its eighth and final season. However, it appears that Liev Schreiber really is the best fixer in the business, so […]

David Fincher reuniting with Se7en scribe for The Killer, Michael Fassbender tapped to star

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It’s the stuff of many a Twitter timeline, but ask what people’s favourite David Fincher movie is and Zodiac will be hovering somewhere near the summit, closely followed by Se7en. So the news that the Mank director is reuniting with his screenwriter on the latter, Andrew Kevin Walker, for a Netflix thriller called The Killer, […]

Spider-Man 3 puts out casting call for a courtroom scene and sends the web into a spin

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You might be wondering why news of a mundane location based casting call would warrant a story for a film that has been the subject of some of the most exciting Multiverse rumours of the last few months. Well, it’s the connotations that come with the news that Spider-Man 3, under one of its working […]

Zack Snyder is “not getting paid” for The Snyder Cut of Justice League on HBO Max

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Were they to release a documentary charting the journey from internet hashtag to one of 2021’s most eagerly anticipated films, it would probably need to be longer than the four-hour final cut of Zack Snyder’s Justice League that’s hitting HBO Max on March 18th, that’s how much has happened. As a result we’re getting even […]

Julia Roberts and Sean Penn join Watergate drama Gaslit

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Watergate drama Gaslit has seen its fair share of cast and crew departures since it was announced in 2020, but now the Starz series has landed two huge names, with Deadline reporting that Julia Roberts and Sean Penn have joined the cast. Based on Slate Magazine’s Slow Burn podcast, an eight-part mini-series which depicts what […]

Guy Ritchie is going to war with the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

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Guy Ritchie has tackled the London turf wars of Lock, Stock, the medieval battle-grounds of Arthurian legend, the Cold War of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and now it looks as though he’s heading to World War II with Jerry Bruckheimer in tow for action spy-thriller Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. According to THR the Aladdin director […]

Charlie Day and Jenny Slate to headline Amazon’s ensemble rom-com I Want You Back

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It’s been a while since we had an ensemble comedy in a similar vein to Love, Actually, He’s Just Not That Into You, or Valentines Day, but it appears that Amazon are attempting to do just that with I Want You Back, and have tapped It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s Charlie Day and Venom’s Jenny […]

Netflix releases trailer for Sherlock Holmes shared universe show The Irregulars

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“A darkness has come to London. Something moves through the streets like the shadow of a nightmare…” That’s the ominous warning at the start of this first look trailer for Netflix’s world of Sherlock Holmes series The Irregulars. Starring Thaddea Graham, Darci Shaw, Jojo Macari, McKell David, Harrison Osterfield, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Royce Pierreson, and Clarke […]