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Melissa McCarthy is a Genie in trailer for Richard Curtis’ new Christmas comedy

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Peacock has released a poster and trailer Genie, the festive fairytale comedy directed by Sam Boyd and written by Richard Curtis (Love Actually). Melissa McCarthy stars as Flora, a genie who has spent the last 2,000 years trapped inside an antique jewellery box until she is accidentally summoned by Bernard (Paapa Essiedu), a man down […]

First poster and images for The Family Plan starring Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan

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Apple TV+ has released a poster and first-look images for The Family Plan, the upcoming action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones, the film stars Wahlberg as Dan, a former elite government assassin who is enjoying his quiet suburban family life as a car sales man until a deadly […]

A24’s Death of a Unicorne reveals full cast including Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Richard E. Grant and more

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A24 has announced the full cast for its upcoming film Death of a Unicorne with Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) and Richard E. Grant (Saltburn) leading. Writer and producer Alex Scharfman (Resurrection) will be making her directorial debut on the film. Death of a Unicorne focuses on “a father (Rudd) and daughter (Ortega) who accidentally […]

Warner Bros.’ Salem’s Lot remake to skip theaters for streaming release

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Warner Bros.’ Gary Dauberman-directed adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot is set to bypass cinemas altogether and make its long-overdue debut on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform. Consigned to post-production hell and locked in the Warner Bros. crypt for over a year, there’s an air of inevitability about the studios’ decision to dump the vampire-horror […]

Sci-fi horror The Last Boy on Earth gets a trailer and poster

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With just a week to go until its digital release, a poster and trailer have arrived online for director Nicolás Onetti’s sci-fi horror The Last Boy on Earth which stars Sam Hoare, Arben Bajraktaraj, John Bubniak, Joshua Grothe; take a look here…   In a distant future, an enigmatic boy becomes the central figure in […]

Marvel In Crisis Mode: Kang situation is “f*cked”, plans to revive Iron Man and Black Widow

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Marvel Studios has openly been struggling for some time, with 2023 now being described as “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” And, per a major new article from Variety, we are about to see some massive retooling begin within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The article points out one of the significant issues centering around […]

HBO’s David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived trailer depicts the inspirational story of Harry Potter stuntman

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HBO has released the trailer for their Harry Potter stuntman documentary, David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, which charts the journey of the young Daniel Radcliffe double who suffered a life-changing accident during the production of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Executive produced by the boy-wizard himself, Daniel Radcliffe, and directed by […]

Biopic thriller of Canadian WWII spy Winthrop Bell in development

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Deadline reports a biopic of Winthrop Bell, a little-known Canadian spy during World War II who helped uncover the Nazi’s secrets, is in development from Wilding Pictures with director Adam Yorke (See For Me) attached to write and direct the film. The currently untitled film is based on the recently published non-fiction book Cracking The […]