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Rumoured Star Wars: Episode VIII scene description details an epic Jedi battle

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Warning: Possible spoilers for Star Wars: Episode VIII follow… Over the past couple of months we’ve had a few spy reports from the set of Star Wars: Episode VIII – including a rumoured cameo from Tom Hardy and a scene featuring Laura Dern’s character and Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron – and now the folks on Making Star Wars have a […]

Rumour: Bottom star Ade Edmondson cast in Star Wars: Episode VIII

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Now, this one comes from The Sun, so it could very well be as fictional as it is surprising, but according to the UK tabloid The Young Ones and Bottom star Ade Edmondson has bagged himself a role in Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode VIII. According to the report, Edmondson impressed director Rian Johnson […]

DVD Review – The Secret of My Success (1987)

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The Secret of My Success, 1987. Directed by Herbert Ross. Starring Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow, Fred Gwynne. SYNOPSIS: A college kid from Kansas moves to New York and blags his way to the top of a multinational corporation, falling in love along the way. For a few years […]

Michael Giacchino to compose Doctor Strange score

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Despite getting many things right, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has long struggled with one thing: its film scores. While Alan Silvestri managed to make an alright theme for The Avengers, it didn’t stick around after Phase One of the MCU, and was nowhere near as iconic as the superhero themes from composers like Danny Elfman, John Williams […]

Deadpool overtakes X-Men: Days of Future Past to become highest-grossing X-Men movie of all time

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Last week Deadpool claimed the record as the biggest R-rated movie of all time, and now the Ryan Reynolds-headlined film has reached another milestone, overtaking X-Men: Days of Future past to become the highest-grossing instalment of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise. Deadpool has pushed its worldwide total to $749.9 million this weekend, surpassing the $747.9 million that […]

Akiva Goldsman writing The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep

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It looks like Warner Bros. has decided to press ahead with its plans to adapt Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, with The Tracking Board reporting that Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has been set to write the script for the sequel to The Shining. Doctor Sleep picks up some years after the events at the Overlook Hotel, […]

Tom Hiddleston says Kong: Skull Island will be “spectacular and epic”

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King Kong is set to return to the big screen next year courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island, and Tom Hiddleston has been speaking about the upcoming monster movie during a chat with Entertainment Weekly, describing the film as “spectacular and epic.” “We’re done [filming]. We were in Hawaii, Australia, […]

Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin returning for Sicario 2

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During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the producers behind last year’s acclaimed crime drama Sicario have revealed that development is underway on a sequel, which will reunite stars Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin. “We’re in full development with the studio. I just got a draft [of a script from writer Taylor […]

Stefano Sollima to direct Sicario sequel Soldado

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With Denis Villeneuve tied up with the Blade Runner sequel, Deadline is reporting that Lionsgate and Black Label Media have tapped Sefano Sollima (Gomorra) to helm the Sicario sequel Soldado. The sequel, which has once again been written by Taylor Sheridan, “focuses on Alejandro Gillick, the shadowy Man on Fire-like protagonist played by Benicio Del […]