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Natasha Lyonne joins Marvel’s The Fantastic Four

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Marvel is really stacking up its cast for The Fantastic Four. After casting Ralph Ineson as the cosmic villain Galactus, Deadline reports Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face) is the latest to join the upcoming MCU film. There is no word on who Lyonne will play as Marvel is keeping most of the film a secret as per […]

Reese Witherspoon-produced Legally Blonde prequel Elle gets series order

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Legally Blonde became a cultural touchstone for many in the 00s, and now, with a new prequel series, we’ll be able to revisit the pink and blonde world of Elle Woods. As we reported previously, a new Legally Blonde project was in development. We’ve learned it will be a prequel series following a young Elle […]

Kathryn Bigelow to direct real-time White House thriller for Netflix

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Kathryn Bigelow is set to make her long-overdue comeback by directing an untitled ticking-clock action-thriller for Netflix.  According to The Hollywood Reporter Netflix has tasked the Oscar-winning Zero Dark Thirty filmmaker with directing the real-time actioner, which will be centered on a group of White House officials scrambling to deal with an incoming missile attack […]

Jodie Comer to lead Kenneth Branagh’s The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde

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Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) and Kenneth Branagh (A Haunting in Venice) will team up for The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, an original film Branagh wrote and will direct according to Deadline. There is no logline for the film, but it will be “a contemporary psychological thriller” with Comer as the lead. This will mark the […]

Universal unveils magical first trailer for Wicked starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande

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Universal Pictures has debuted the first full trailer for Jon M. Chu’s upcoming adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical and Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked. The film tells the story of witches of Oz Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) as they forge an unlikely friendship as students at Shiz University, where their desire and […]

Hasbro rolls out new Transformers figures for 40th Anniversary

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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Transformers, Hasbro has unveiled six new additions to the Studio Series line with new figures from Transformers: War for Cybertron, Transformers: Bumblebee and Transformers: The Movie; check them out here and head on over to Hasbro Pulse to pre-order… TRANSFORMERS STUDIO SERIES DELUXE TRANSFORMERS: WAR FOR CYBERTRON 08 DECEPTICON SOLDIER […]

Jake Gyllenhaal returning for Road House sequel

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With its domination on Prime Video, you can expect another round in the ring with the boys of Road House. During the Upfronts event in New York, Amazon MGM Studios announced they’ll be developing a sequel to the 2024 smash hit, with star Jake Gyllenhaal reprising his role as Dalton. At the time of reporting, […]

Jean-Claude Van Damme gets caught up in a turf war in Darkness of Man trailer

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Altitude has released a UK trailer for Darkness of Man, the upcoming action thriller from director James Cullen Bressack (Survive the Game, Hot Seat). Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Russell Hatch, a former Interpol operative who will stop at nothing to protect the son of a murdered informant when he gets caught up in a […]

Movie Review – IF (2024)

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IF, 2024. Written and Directed by John Krasinski. Starring Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr., Steve Carell, Fiona Shaw, Bobby Moynihan, Alan Kim, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Sebastian Maniscalco, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Meloni, Awkwafina, Jon Stewart, Liza Colón-Zayas, Catharine Daddario, Matthew Rhys, Keegan-Michael Key, Bradley Cooper, […]

Acclaimed British horror The Moor gets UK trailer and theatrical release date

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Coming off an acclaimed festival run following its premiere at last year’s FrightFest, Bulldog Film Distribution has announced that director Chris Cronin’s acclaimed feature debut The Moor is set for a UK theatrical release on June 14th, before arriving on digital from July 1st. Starring Sophia La Porta, David Edward-Robertson, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, and the late […]