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Will Smith confirms that Genie will be blue in Aladdin

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Aladdin star, Will Smith, has confirmed that his character Genie will be blue like fans remember from the classic Disney film. Disney is lining up their next live-action remake of a classic animated tale with Aladdin. The film stars Will Smith as the iconic character Genie. The first-look images from Aladdin were released today but in typical […]

Disney’s live-action Lady and the Tramp uses real dogs rather than CGI

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Rather than the photorealistic CGI employed on The Jungle Book and the upcoming The Lion King, actor Thomas Mann has revealed that Disney has employed real dogs for its live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp, which has been produced for the Disney+ streaming service. “The dogs were there,” Mann told Collider. “We shot with […]

Poster and trailer for psychological thriller Escape Room starring Taylor Russell, Deborah Ann Woll and Logan Miller

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Sony Pictures has debuted a trailer, poster and images for director Adam Robitel’s upcoming psychological thriller Escape Room which stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, and Yorick van Wageningen; check them out here… Escape Room is a psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond […]

First trailer for The Vanishing starring Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan and Connor Swindells

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The first trailer has arrived online for the psychological thriller The Vanishing. Formerly titled Keepers, the film is inspired by the true events of the Flannan Isles Mystery of 1900 and sees Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing) directing a cast that includes Gerard Butler (Hunter Killer), Peter Mullan (Ozark) and Connor Swindells (VS.); watch it here… […]

CBS cancels Elementary after seven seasons

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CBS has announced that its modern Sherlock Holmes reimagining Elementary is set to come to an end after its upcoming seventh season. The series launched in 2012, and stars Jonny Lee Miller as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master detective along with Lucy Lui as his partner Dr. Joan Watson, with the two investigating cases in […]

Promo images from Disney’s Aladdin offer first look at Jasmine and the Genie

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We got a teaser trailer back in October, and now Entertainment Weekly has unveiled the first promotional images for director Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin, which feature Mena Massoud’s titular street thief, Naomi Scott’s Princess Jasmine, and Will Smith’s Genie. SEE ALSO: Original Aladdin screenwriter unhappy with Disney over live-action remake Now, before you get too outraged […]

Henry Thomas to play Dr. Mid-Nite in DC’s Stargirl

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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Haunting of Hill House star Henry Thomas has become the latest addition to the cast of DC Universe’s Stargirl series, where he’ll portray Dr. Charles McNider, a.k.a. Dr. Mid-Nite. The official character breakdown for Thomas’ Dr. Mid-Nite describes him as “a brilliant and forward-thinking medical […]

James Wan cut a bloody and violent shark scene from Aquaman

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James Wan, the director of Aquaman, apparently had to cut a bloody shark scene from the film. With fans around the world now enjoying Aquaman in cinemas, the fun can start surrounding how different the film may have been if certain scenes hadn’t been cut. Was there anything crazy that didn’t make the theatrical release? […]

Disney executive says the Fox deal is “almost done”

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Kevin Mayer, an executive at Disney, has revealed that the Fox deal is nearly complete. It feels like we’ve been talking about the Disney/Fox deal forever and while we’ve known for some time that the deal is virtually complete, any further news will be welcomed by film fans. Luckily, now we have confirmation that closure […]