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Warcraft passes $250 million worldwide but fails to grab North American audiences

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Having finally been released in North America after a couple of weeks of international screenings, Warcraft didn’t find its feet domestically – but like X-Men: Apocalypse last week, it’s been saved by worldwide takings. The movie opened against The Conjouring 2 and Now You See Me 2, but failed to topple the former taking second […]

Jake Gyllenhaal to produce and star in video game adaptation of The Division

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Ubisoft Motion Pictures kicks off their film slate at the end of this year with Assassin’s Creed, but they’re not waiting to see if that’s a box office success before they plan future movies. Along with the announcement a couple of weeks ago that Tom Hardy was still attached to Splinter Cell, Variety announced that […]

Through Glasses Darkly: Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy

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Louis Fletcher revisits Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy… Now available on the horror streaming service Shudder, Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses is a welcome return from the man many thought to have retired. Marking the maestro’s return to the giallo, the genre he pioneered in the 1970s, such an effort inevitably invites comparison with his earlier works, […]

Movie Review – Spirited (2022)

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Spirited, 2022. Directed by Sean Anders. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, Octavia Spencer, Sunita Mani, Aimee Carrero, Joe Tippett, Marlow Barkley, Maximilian Lee Piazza, Tracy Morgan, Jen Tullock, Andrea Anders, Adam Grupper, Rose Byrne, Naheem Garcia, and Judi Dench. SYNOPSIS: A musical version of Charles Dickens’s story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on […]

Is Disney Losing Its Magic?

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Jed Wagman on whether Disney is losing its magic… If you took a survey asking people to name one word associated with Disney, the chances are that the word that crops up the most will be ‘magic’. Everything about The Walt Disney Company just feels magical. From the classic animated films all the way to […]

Unmade Bruce Almighty sequel would have granted Jim Carrey the power of Satan

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Here’s an interesting piece of news from the Hollywood vaults; a potential sequel to Bruce Almighty was pitched that would have given Jim Carrey’s reporter the powers of Satan.  During an interview with SYFY the films co-screenwriters Steve Koren and Mark O’Keefe revealed that Brucifer would have seen Carrey’s Bruce Nolan granted the powers of […]

First look at Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins starring Michael Fassbender

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Considering it was shot way back in 2019 (with subsequent reshoots to remove Armie Hammer post-controversy), you’d think that Searchlight Pictures would have taken the opportunity to coincide the release of Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins with the World Cup, but as it happens we’re going to have to wait another few more months for […]

Brandy reprising Cinderella role for Disney’s Descendants sequel The Pocketwatch

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Disney+ has announced that Brandy is set to return to the role of Cinderella some 25 years on from 1997’s Walt Disney Television movie as she and fellow pop superstar Rita Ora head to the fantastical kingdom of Auradon for The Pocketwatch, the next chapter of Disney’s Descendants franchise. The official synopsis for the Disney+ […]

Indiana Jones 5 images feature Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook and Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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After countless delays, screenwriters, and even a change in director with Logan’s James Mangold replacing franchise mainstay Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones is set to grace the big screen one final time in 2023 for the as-yet-untitled fifth instalment in the classic adventure series. As we await the first trailer, Empire Magazine has peeled […]