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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 […]

Movie Review – Pelé (2021)

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Pelé, 2021 Directed by David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas. SYNOPSIS: Pelé chronicles the life of the Brazilian football player, Edson Arantes do Nascimento – better known as Pelé. The documentary looks back at the extraordinary period that Pelé, the only player to win three World Cup titles, went from a young superstar in 1958 to […]

Neil Patrick Harris speaks about shooting The Matrix 4

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One of the many films which has had to negotiate the global pandemic is the fourth eagerly awaited installment of The Matrix franchise, which has been globe-trotting in order to wrap and meet its December 2021 release date, and one of the new additions to the cast, Neil Patrick Harris, has been speaking about what […]

Jennifer Garner to body swap again for Netflix comedy Family Leave

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Jennifer Garner is already part of the best body-swap comedy conversation, having headlined 2004’s 13 Going on 30, and now according to Deadline she’s set to produce and star in Family Leave, Netflix’s adaptation of Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s best-selling book Bedtime For Mommy, which will see her doing the switch all-over-again. The film centers on […]