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Alita: Battle Angel gets a stunning new trailer

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20th Century Fox has released a brand new trailer for the Robert Rodriguez-directed, James Cameron-produced manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel, and you can check it out here…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCup41IzMJIVisionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set several centuries […]

Stephen King’s From A Buick 8 finds its director

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Hyde Park Entertainment have named their director for the next instalment of the Stephen King adaptation renaissance, From A Buick 8. According to Deadline, William Brent Bell, whose credits include The Boy, The Devil Inside, and Wer, will take control of the wheel on the evil car horror. From A Buick 8 was originally published […]

It: Chapter Two Comic-Con footage description floats online

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It isn’t just Jason Momoa’s Aquaman emerging from the water at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, because one of the first big panels of 2018’s event was to herald the return of Pennywise the Clown from the murky sewers below Derry, as IT: Chapter 2 showcased some footage from the blockbuster sequel.SEE ALSO: Jessica […]

Jessica Chastain shares It: Chapter Two ‘passing of the red balloon’ picture

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With filming well underway on Andy Muscheitti’s It: Chapter Two, we’re starting to see more and more pictures emerge from the Derry stand pipe, and Jessica Chastain has just shared a rather  nice one via her Twitter account.The snap (created by @shaunwatson87) shows the cross generational iterations of Beverly Marsh – Chastain and Sophia Lillis – […]

Hulu picks up The Vampire Chronicles TV series

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The further adventures of Anne Rice’s vampiric creations have been stuck in production purgatory since the 2002 stinker, Queen of the Damned, and only this past May Bryan Fuller added the proposed small screen adaptation to his ever-growing list of departed TV projects.Well now there’s some better news for Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, who are […]

Timothée Chalamet in talks for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

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One of the undoubted supernova’s of 2017 (Lady Bird, Hostiles, Call Me By Your Name), Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet has just made the prospect of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune that much more tantalising by entering negotiations to join the ambitious adaptation of Frank Herbert’s opus.Deadline are reporting that Chalamet will take the lead role of Paul Atreides, […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018.Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Alec Baldwin, and Sian Brooke.SYNOPSIS:Two years have passed since Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) prevented the Syndicate from destroying IMF, but as with all terrorist organisations, a new faction has emerged […]

Second Opinion – Skyscraper (2018)

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Skyscraper, 2018.Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber Starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber, Noah Taylor, Roland Møller, Hannah Quinlivan, McKenna Roberts, Kevin Rankin, Byron Mann, Matt O’Leary, and Chin Han.SYNOPSIS:When former FBI agent Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) takes a lucrative building safety job at the behest of his friend Ben (Pablo Schreiber), he travels with […]

Blumhouse brings the scares to Netflix with Ghoul

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Currently riding high with yet another low-budget/big box-office success on their hands in The First Purge (read our ★★ review here), Blumhouse are now insidiously creeping into the world of streaming television with Ghoul. The 3-part series is being dropped on Netflix, and the spooky new trailer can be watched here…SEE ALSO: Boogeymen, Box Office, and Best […]