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Solo: A Star Wars Story to premiere at Cannes

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You can forget your Palme D’Or winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, because they’ll only be one film on everyone’s sunburnt lips with the surprise announcement that Solo: A Star Wars Story will receive its world premiere at the festival. Deadline report that the Ron Howard Star Wars standalone will screen on May 15th, […]

Second Opinion – A Quiet Place (2018)

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A Quiet Place, 2018. Directed by John Krasinski. Starring John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, and Leon Russom. SYNOPSIS: In a near future, a family have adapted to living a life of silence in order to avoid detection from a breed of unrelenting creatures who hunt using sound alone. Annnnnnnnnd relax. You can […]

Adam Sandler confirmed for Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems

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Earlier in the week it was reported that Adam Sandler could be set to replace Jonah Hill in Uncut Gems, the new film from Good Time directors, the Safdie Brothers. Now Deadline are confirming that the funnyman has indeed signed on to headline the heist thriller. The plot for Uncut Gems is being kept firmly […]

Universal to adapt Ernest Cline’s Armada for the big screen

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With Ready Player One hitting high score levels of box-office receipts, it’s no surprise to learn that rival studios wish to hit ‘continue’ on Ernest Cline adaptations, with Universal keen to move ahead with a movie based on his 2015 novel Armada. Variety report that the studio have hired Dan Mazeua (Wrath of the Titans, Van […]

Joaquin Phoenix responds to The Joker casting rumours

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While Joaquin Phoenix has been on the promotional trail for You Were Never Really Here (read our ★★★★★ here) he has been speaking about the rumours linking him with the Todd Phillips directed and Martin Scorsese produced Joker origin film. In discussion with Fandango, he was asked whether he’d be playing The Joker, to which the […]

John Krasinski expresses desire to play a superhero

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John Krasinski is about to be seen playing a superhero of a different kind, as a father struggling to keep his small family alive in the deservedly buzzed about horror A Quiet Place. However, the former Dunder Mifflin employee has been speaking to ScreenRant about his desire to get involved in “the whole superhero thing”. […]

Ready Player One opens with $3.8 million in Wednesday previews

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Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One got off to a solid start at the North American box-office, with its Wednesday night previews collecting $3.8 million worth of coins for the Warner Bros. blockbuster. Box-office analysts have the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s book reaching between $38 to $42 million over this four-day weekend. Ready Player One will […]

Solo: A Star Wars Story gets earlier UK release

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When you read that there’s been a release date change on Solo: A Star Wars Story, knowing the asteroid field style bumpy ride to the big-screen that Ron Howard’s movie has taken, your mind can’t help but immediately flip to the dark side. However, on this occasion there’s some good news for certain territories, which […]

Paramount explains decision to sell The Cloverfield Paradox to Netflix

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At a recent Q&A, Paramount Pictures COO Andrew Gumpert has been shedding some light on the first of the studios two high-profile Netflix deals for films originally intended for a theatrical release, the J.J. Abrams produced space station monster mash, The Cloverfield Paradox. Stunt released amidst the fanfare of the Superbowl, The Cloverfield Paradox debuted […]