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Warner Bros. snaps up movie rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights

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Warner Bros. Pictures has come out successful in a hotly-contested bidding war for the big screen rights to Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, Variety has revealed. Set in Washington Heights in New York City, In the Heights focuses on a bodega owner who’s closing his store and retiring to the […]

Chris Pratt-headlined Cowboy Ninja Viking gets two new writers

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After finding a director back in February in Michelle MacLaren (Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones), Universal Pictures has now brought in two new writers to finalise the script for its long-gestating comic book adaptation Cowboy Ninja Viking. THR is reporting that Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans) and Ryan Engle (Rampage) have signed on to […]

Trailer and poster for James Franco’s post-apocalyptic thriller Future World

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Ahead of its release next month, Lionsgate has debuted a new poster and trailer for directors James Franco and Bruce Thierry Cheung’s post-apocalyptic thriller Future World. The film stars Franco alongside Suki Waterhouse, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Margarita Levieva, Snoop Dogg, George Lewis Jr., Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Lucy Liu, and Milla Jovovich. Take a look at the poster, […]

Poster and trailer for horror The Cleaning Lady

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A trailer and poster have been released for the upcoming horror The Cleaning Lady. Directed by Jon Knautz, the film is based on his 2016 short of the same name and features a cast that includes Alexis Kendra, Stelio Savante, Rachel Alig, Elizabeth Sandy, and Mykayla Sohn; check them out here… “As a means to […]

Saban Films picks up Nicolas Cage supernatural thriller Between Worlds

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Saban Films has snapped up the U.S. distribution rights to Between Worlds, a new supernatural thriller from director Maria Pulera, which sees Nicolas Cage leading a cast that includes Penelope Mitchell (The Vampire Diaries), Franka Potente (The Bourne Supremacy) and Hopper Penn (War Machine). The film sees Cage as Joe, “a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted […]

Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper reuniting for The Mule

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Back in February it was announced that Clint Eastwood is set to direct and star in The Mule, marking the Hollywood legend’s first on-screen appearance since 2012’s Trouble With the Curve, and now comes word that Eastwood’s American Sniper star Bradley Cooper is in talks to appear alongside him. The Mule is based upon a […]

Marvel enlists two screenwriters for Eternals

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Back in April, it was rumoured that Marvel Studios has quietly been developing a new project for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Eternals, with Kevin Feige subsequently confirming during a press interview for Avengers: Infinity War that “[Eternals] is one of many many many things that we are actively beginning to have creative discussions about […]

Steven Spielberg could direct Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic

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Having worked together on 2002’s Catch Me If You Can, it is being reported that Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio could be set to reunite on DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic, which his Appian Way company is producing for Lionsgate. According to Deadline, Spielberg is considering directing the project, which has been scripted by David […]

Rumour: Avengers 4 to see the return of long-dead Marvel character?

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It seems safe to assume that next year’s Avengers 4 will see the return of many dead Marvel characters as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes somehow reverse their shattering defeat at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, which concluded with the Mad Titan wiping out half of all life in the universe. Well, if rumours […]