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Elle Fanning to face off against the Predator in Dan Trachtenberg’s Badlands

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Elle Fanning has faced off against extra-terrestrials in Super 8, murderous models in The Neon Demon, and Disney’s most evil villain in Maleficent, but now she’s set to take on one of cinema’s greatest monsters in the shape of the Predator. According to Deadline Fanning is set to star in 20th Century and Dan Trachtenberg’s […]

The final voyage begins in Snowpiercer season 4 trailer

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Having inherited the shelved series from TNT, AMC has dropped the teaser trailer for the fourth and final season of post-apocalyptic drama Snowpiercer.  Based on Bong Joon Ho’s 2013 film adaptation of French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, Snowpiercer takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth where the remnants of humanity survive the frozen wastleland on board a perpetually […]

Bill Skarsgård to play Pennywise again in IT prequel Welcome To Derry

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Bill Skarsgård is crawling back down the standpipe once more to play Pennywise the Clown in Max’s It prequel Welcome to Derry.  Per Deadline’s report the Boy Kills World star will reprise the title role of It/Pennywise from the $1.7 billion grossing New Line movie It and its sequel, It Chapter Two. Skarsgård won’t be the […]

Mike Flanagan to direct a “radical new take” on The Exorcist

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Blumhouse and Universal Pictures have confirmed that Mike Flanagan has been ordained as the writer and director of a “radical new take” on The Exorcist.  It had been previously reported that the Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor director was in talks to resurrect the fortunes of the flailing franchise following David […]

A Quiet Place: Day One featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of the day the world went quiet

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Before Paramount Pictures take us back to the day the world went quiet, they are inviting us behind-the-scenes of their blockbuster prequel A Quiet Place: Day One with a brand new featurette. Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski (Pig), and based on a story by John Krasinski, A Quiet Place: Day One stars Lupita Nyong’o (Us), Joseph Quinn (Stranger […]

Mahershala Ali in talks to star in Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World movie

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Ordinarily it’s the dinosaurs we get excited about when it comes to travelling to Jurassic World, but Gareth Edwards is rounding up quite the human herd for his forthcoming reboot, with news emerging that Mahershala Ali in talks to star in the summer 2025 blockbuster.  According to The Hollywood Reporter the two-time Academy Award winner […]

Blue Beetle’s Ángel Manuel Soto to direct Just Cause movie

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Popular video game franchise Just Cause is once again booting up for a big-screen adaptation from Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto Per The Hollywood Reporter, the popular video game from Square Enix and Avalanche Studios has been picked up by Universal Pictures with Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto set to direct, and The […]

Jeremy Renner keen on Mission: Impossible return

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Having survived his own real-life Mission: Impossible following his near-fatal snow-plough accident, Jeremy Renner has hinted that he’d like to take another assignment with the IMF in a future installment of the blockbuster espionage franchise.  Renner, who played William Brandt in 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and 2015’s Mission: Impossible -Rogue Nation, was speaking with […]

Sandra Hüller to star alongside Ryan Gosling in Lord & Miller’s Project Hail Mary

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Academy Award nominee Sandra Hüller is set to star alongside Ryan Gosling in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s long-gestating adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.  According to Deadline the Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest star will capitalise on her stellar 2023 by going into outer space for the Amazon MGM Studios […]

Journey back to the ocean in Disney’s Moana 2 trailer

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Disney has released the first trailer for Moana 2, the eagerly anticipated sequel to their $600 million grossing 56th animated feature film. Directed by David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller, and featuring music by Grammy winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, Grammy nominee Opetaia Foaʻi, and three-time Grammy winner Mark Mancina. Moana […]