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Captain America earns $192 million worldwide, while Bridget Jones does boffo box office

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Despite soft projections and a mixed critical response, Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World has posted decent numbers from its opening weekend at the worldwide box-office.  We called Brave New World the “same new mediocrity” in our ★★ review (which you can read here), and the film launched with 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, but […]

A new Doctor Who mystery for The War Doctor available to preorder now from Big Finish

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Big Finish Productions has a brand new audio adventure available to pre-order (prior to its release in May) for those who are fans of the War Doctor. The War Doctor Rises: Fallen Heroes takes the action away from the Daleks and Gallifrey to the backwater planet of Falk, where the mayor is the victim in a […]

Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe to star in The Weight

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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed a powerhouse team-up between Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe. The outlet reports that Hawke and Crowe will star in The Weight, an upcoming historical period epic set in Oregon in 1933. Padraic McKinley will direct from an original screenplay by Shelby Gaines, Matthew Chapman, and Matthew Booi, based on an original story […]

Catherine Zeta-Jones to star in thriller series Kill Jackie

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The powerhouse Oscar, BAFTA, and Tony Award-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones has a big new series ahead as Zeta-Jones will star in an adaptation of Aidan Truhen’s “gonzo thriller” The Price You Pay, currently under the working title of Kill Jackie. Per Deadline, “the series is for Prime Video, Fremantle, and Steel Springs Pictures. Amazon has rights in several […]

Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper returning for new Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish

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Back in 2005 Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper pulled in a new generation of Doctor Who fans to follow his journey through time and space. This August,thanks to Big Finish Productions, the Ninth Doctor and Rose will be coming back for a new twelve part series of Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures, and these are […]

Benedict Cumberbatch replacing Tom Hardy in Blood on Snow

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Benedict Cumberbatch has joined Blood on Snow with THR breaking the news that the actor will step into the role once set for Tom Hardy. Aaron Taylor-Johnson leads No Time To Die director Cary Fukunaga’s crime thriller alongside Cumberbatch, Eva Green, Emma Laird, and Ben Mendelsohn. Taylor-Johnson stars as a hitman/fixer named Olav, who is […]

Prime 1 Studio unveils Leon S. Kennedy Resident Evil 4 quarter scale collectible statue

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Prime 1 Studio has unveiled its upcoming quarter scale Leon S. Kennedy statue from the iconic video game Resident Evil 4, which is available to pre-order now along with a limited edition Bonus Version Leon vs. Chainsaw Villager; check out the official promo images and details here… A bullet piercing madness, a mature expression of […]

Dungeons & Dragons: The Forgotten Realms series in development from Netflix and Stranger Things’ Shawn Levy

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Netflix is set to roll the dice on a new big-budget fantasy series, with Deadline revealing that the streamer has tapped Stranger Things executive producer and Deadpool & Wolverine helmer Shawn Levy to develop a live-action Dungeons & Dragons series. Entitled Dungeons & Dragons: The Forgotten Realms, the potential series will take place within the […]