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Joker director debunks The Batman crossover speculation, Leonardo DiCaprio casting rumour

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Last week, Variety reported that incoming Dark Knight Robert Pattinson may have dropped a potential spoiler regarding The Batman, after the actor reportedly requested that some comments about Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker were redacted during an interview. Given that Joker exists separately from the established DC Extended Universe, and The Batman’s DCEU status remains unclear after […]

Hayley Atwell confirms status as female lead in Mission: Impossible 7 and 8

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Agent Carter herself will be tackling a very different type of mission as Hayley Atwell has confirmed her new role in the Mission: Impossible franchise, stating that she will portray the female lead in both Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8. Atwell took to Instagram to give fans this lovely message about her future […]

Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith star in new trailer for Queen & Slim

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Entertainment One has released a new trailer for the unflinching new drama Queen & Slim starring Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) and Jodie Turner-Smith (Nightflyers). Watch it here… While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith, in her first starring feature-film role), […]

Millie Bobby Brown reuniting with Netflix for A Time Lost

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Netflix is set to reunite with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown on the feature film project A Time Lost, which is based on an original story idea by Brown and her sister Paige Brown. As per Deadline, the film will follow “a long-standing feud between two Long Island families that comes to a head […]

House Targaryen Game of Thrones prequel nearing green light at HBO

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With its first pilot currently in post-production, Deadline is reporting that HBO is close to giving the green light to a second Game of Thrones spinoff – this one from A Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin and Colony co-creator Ryan Condal. The untitled project is said to take place some 300 […]

Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Review – Joker

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Joker, 2019. Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Robert De Niro, Marc Maron and Brett Cullen. SYNOPSIS: Joker centres around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is […]

Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Review – Lucy in the Sky

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Lucy in the Sky, 2019 Directed by Noah Hawley Starring Natalie Portman, Dan Stevens, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, Colman Domingo, Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Tig Notaro, Pearl Amanda Dickson and Jeffrey Donovan SYNOPSIS After returning to earth, an obsessive astronaut (Natalie Portman) begins to question her place in the universe — including her relationships with […]

First trailer and poster for Rise of the Footsoldier 4: Marbella

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Signature Entertainment has released the first poster and trailer for Rise of the Footsoldier 4: Marbella, the latest chapter in the British crime thriller series; check them out here, along with the official synopsis… ESSEX IS RUNNING LOW ON PILLS! Fresh out of prison, Pat Tate (Craig Fairbrass) steps right back into his Essex nightclub […]

Horror-comedy Harpoon gets a new trailer

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A new trailer has arrived online for director Rob Grant’s horror-comedy Harpoon ahead of its release next month, Narrated by Brett Gelman (Stranger Things), the film stars Munro Chambers (Turbo Kid), Emily Tyra (Code Black), and Christopher Gray (The Mist) as three best friends who find themselves fighting for survival while stranded on a yacht […]