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The Nun’s Corin Hardy to direct Gareth Evans series Gangs of London

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Having departed the long-gestating comic book adaptation The Crow earlier this year, The Nun director Corin Hardy has now signed on for his next project, with Deadline reporting that he will helm Cinemax and Sky Atlantic’s Gangs of London. The drama series is based on an idea from The Raid director Gareth Evans and cinematographer […]

Peter Dinklage joins The Croods 2

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Emmy-winning Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage has been cast in DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming sequel The Croods 2. The sequel to the Oscar-nominated 2013 film will see the return of Nicolas Cage (Grug), Emma Stone (Eep), Ryan Reynolds (Guy), Catherine Keener (Ugga), Cloris Leachman (Gran) and Clark Duke (Thunk) and pits the Croods against their […]

It star Sophia Lillis set for fairy tale thriller Gretel and Hansel

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THR is reporting that It star Sophia Lillis has signed on to the cast of Orion Pictures’ Gretel and Hansel, a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale from writer-director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House). According to the site, the film will take place […]

Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs and Shaw adds Eddie Marsan

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As production on the film continues, Deadline is reporting that Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan) has become the latest addition to the cast of the Fast & Furious spinoff film Hobbs and Shaw, reuniting with his Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2 director David Leitch. Hobbs and Shaw sees Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprising their roles […]

Janelle Monae joins Disney’s Lady and the Tramp

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Singer and actress Janelle Monae has become the latest addition to the cast of Disney’s live-action Lady and the Tramp remake, with the Hidden Figures and Moonlight star set to lend her voice to the wise-cracking pound dog Peg. Charlie Bean (The LEGO Ninjago Movie) is directing the film, which tells the story of Lady, […]

Image Comics’ horror anthology Ice Cream Man in development as a TV series

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Deadline is reporting that Universal Cable Productions is looking to follow the success of Happy! by bringing another Image Comics title to the small screen in W. Maxwell Prince’s horror-fantasy series Ice Cream Man. The comic, which launches in January, is an anthology series presented by the titular Ice Cream Man, who peels back the […]

New rumour suggests Avengers 4 is titled Avengers: Annihilation

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We’ve had Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet, Avengers: Endgame, and now we’ve got another possible title for next year’s Avengers 4, with a rumour from MCU Cosmic claiming that the Infinity War follow-up is going by the title Avengers: Annihilation. The term ‘Annihilation’ will be familiar to fans of Marvel Comics, having been the title of a […]

J.K. Rowling’s Strike returning to BBC One with Lethal White

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The BBC has announced that the detective drama Strike is set to return with a four-episode adaptation of Lethal White, the latest book in the Cormoran Strike series from author J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. According to Deadline, the new series “follows Billy, a troubled young man who comes to private eye […]

Tales of Arcadia: 3 Below gets a New York Comic Con trailer and poster

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Netflix has released a New York Comic Con trailer for Tales of Arcadia: 3 Below, the second chapter in DreamWorks’ Tales of Arcadia trilogy. Created by Guillermo del Toro, the animated series sees Diego Luna and Tatiana Maslany in the lead the voice cast in the roles of Krel and Aja alongside Nick Offerman, Andy Garcia, Nick Frost, […]