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Paul Walter Hauser to play Captain Ed in The Naked Gun reboot

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The Naked Gun remake has found its Captain Ed as Deadline reports Paul Walter Hauser signed onto the production, continuing his hot streak of roles recently. The actor, who just became attached to play Chris Farley in a new biopic, will take over the role of Captain Ed Hocken from George Kennedy, who portrayed the […]

Pamela Anderson-led The Last Showgirl heading to Cannes

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Pamela Anderon is beginning her comeback. First, she joined The Naked Gun reboot, and now her starring indie effort is heading to Cannes for sale. Per Deadline, Goodfellas and Utopia are teaming up for a co-sell deal on Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl. The film stars Pamela Anderson as a veteran Las Vegas showgirl reinventing […]

Emma Stone to lead A24 chess movie Checkmate

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Emma Stone is set to follow-up her Academy Award winning turn in Poor Things by teaming up with her The Curse co-star Nathan Fielder to headline A24’s chess drama Checkmate.  According to The Hollywood Reporter A24 fought off serious competition from streamers and studios to secure the rights to Checkmate, which is based on a […]

Survival thriller The Girl in the Trunk gets a poster, trailer and images

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Ahead of its digital release later this month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the survival thriller The Girl in the Trunk which stars Katharina Sporrer and Caspar Phillipson. Written and directed by Jonas Kvist Jensen, the film centres on a woman as she wakes up to find herself trapped in the trunk […]

Movie Review – The Fall Guy (2024)

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The Fall Guy, 2024. Directed by David Leitch. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke, and Stephanie Hsu. SYNOPSIS: A down-and-out stuntman must find the missing star of his ex-girlfriend’s blockbuster film. Barbie and Oppenheimer collectively dominated the 2023 movie landscape both in terms of box office and awards, coincidentally […]

Kate Winslet plays a feted photojournalist in the trailer for Lee

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Sky Cinema has released the trailer for their Kate Winslet-led prestige-piece Lee, which tells the true story of American photographer Lee Miller, who was responsible for some of the most iconic images of World War II.  Lee marks the directorial-debut of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind cinematographer Ellen Kuras, and as well as starring […]

StudioCanal developing new live-action Asterix movie

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The French comic strip hero Asterix is heading back to pop culture, and back to the big screen. French publishing house Éditions Albert René celebrates the 65th anniversary of the comic character, created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, with a new live-action adaptation. Studiocanal and Editions Albert René have signed an exclusive development, which […]

Watch an exclusive clip from the upcoming action film Kitty the Killer

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Epic Pictures Group is bringing Lee Thongkham’s action/comedy Kitty the Killer to select theaters on May 3rd and on digital May 7th. Before the release we have an exclusive clip to share with you titled “Call for Charlie”. Kitty the Killer follows Dina, a highly trained teenager assassin who has worked with her mentor, Keng, […]

The Little Mermaid trailer teases more R-rated fairy tale horror

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With Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey opening the door to a slew of R-rated horrors featuring beloved children’s characters and fairy tales from the public domain, MSR Media International has unleashed its own take on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale with the release of a poster and trailer for The Little Mermaid. Check them out here… […]