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Judd Apatow and Steven Spielberg team up for Cola Wars

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Judd Apatow and Steven Spielberg are set to join forces for Cola Wars, the true story of Pepsi and Cola-Cola’s high-profile rivalry that began in the 1980s. According to Deadline, Sony Pictures will back up the reported $1 million that they paid for the pitch by getting Apatow (Knocked Up) to direct, with Spielberg (Schindler’s […]

Michael B. Jordan to direct and star in a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair

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Michael B. Jordan has reportedly inked a deal to direct and star in a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair for Amazon MGM Studios. First reported way back in 2016 as a vehicle for the Fruitvale Station star, it now looks at though Jordan will make the film his sophomore directorial outing following the $276 […]

Sebastian Stan is Donald Trump in trailer for The Apprentice

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Studiocanal has unveiled the first trailer for director Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. Written by Gabriel Sherman, the film follows Sebastian Stan’s Donald Trump and his rise to fame as he learns from influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, played by Succession‘s Jeremy Strong. The Apprentice also stars Maria Bakalova as […]

Sony and Marvel tap Destin Daniel Cretton to direct Spider-Man 4

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Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios are reportedly in talks with Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton to helm the next installment in the Spider-Man franchise.  Having exited Avengers: The Kang Dynasty when that timeline collapsed, Marvel has been keen to keep Cretton in the MCU family, tasking him […]

Sam Mendes and Armando Iannuccci’s Cinematic Universe satire The Franchise gets first trailer

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HBO has released the trailer for The Franchise, their forthcoming comedy series that follows the crew of an unpopular superhero movie franchise as it struggles to save its cinematic universe.  Created by Sam Mendes (American Beauty), Armando Iannucci (Veep), and Jon Brown (Succession), the impressive ensemble of The Franchise features Himesh Patel as Daniel, Aya […]

Will Ferrell takes a journey of discovery in Netflix documentary Will & Harper

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Netflix has released the trailer for their critically-acclaimed documentary Will & Harper.  The film charts the cross-country journey of discovery taken by comedian Will Ferrell (Anchorman) and his SNL collaborator and long-time friend Harper Steele, after the latter comes out as a trans woman.  Directed by Josh Greenbaum (Strays), Will & Harper chronicles how the […]

There’s a storm coming in the latest trailer for The Penguin

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Warner Bros. and DC Studios are letting us peer into the darker recesses of Gotham City once again with another look at their eagerly-anticipated Oswald Cobblepot spin-off series The Penguin, which finds Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell reprising his critically acclaimed role from Matt Reeves’ $770 million grossing The Batman. The eight-episode limited series picks […]

Kaitlin Olson is a crime-solving single mom in the High Potential trailer

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ABC have released the trailer for their forthcoming crime-comedy High Potential, which stars It’s Always Sunny‘s Kaitlin Olson as a single mother with an unconventional knack for solving crime.  High Potential also stars Daniel Sunjata (Graceland), Javicia Leslie (The Family Business), Deniz Akdeniz (Tomorrow When the War Began), Amirah J (Shameless: Hall of Shame), Matthew […]

First trailer for Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch starring Amy Adams

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Searchlight Pictures has released the first trailer for Can You Ever Forgive Me? director Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch, which stars Amy Adams as a stay-at-home mum who starts going through a quite a hair-raising change. An an adaptation of of Rachel Yoder’s debut novel, Nightbitch also stars Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, Emmett James Snowden, Zoë Chao, Mary […]

There’s not a lot to laugh about in the terrifying trailer for Smile 2

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Paramount has dropped the official trailer for Smile 2, the sequel to their $2220 million grossing 2020 horror-hit in which a curse follows its victims with a terrifying perma-grin.  This time around we are in the company pop sensation Skye Riley (played by Aladdin’s Naomi Scott), who is facing the pressures of fame at exactly […]