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Looks like that rumoured Suicide Squad game has been cancelled

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Ever since the movie was announced, there have been rumours circulating online that Warner Bros. Montreal were working on a Suicide Squad game that would be released to promote the movie. Despite several teases in their Arkham Origins and Arkham Origins Blackgate games, the game has now officially been cancelled. “Executives at Warner Bros. decided to […]

Civil War comic writer Mark Millar was not a fan of the film and felt it was too bleak

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The film may have made over $1 billion for Marvel and Disney this year, but the man who wrote the comic on which its based – Flickering Myth’s friend Mark Millar – felt the film was too bleak. “Civil War had a good opening twenty mins, but then I honestly can’t remember what the movie […]

Deadpool goes to war with his wife in Til Death Do Us crossover

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Deadpool and Shiklah’s marital problems are set to reach a whole new level this March, as The Merc with a Mouth is forced to choose sides when Queen of the Monster Metropolis declares war on humanity in the six-issue crossover event Deadpool: Til Death Do Us…, which will run through the pages of Deadpool, Spider-Man/Deadpool and Deadpool […]

Logan Marshall-Green to star in Leigh Whannell’s sci-fi thriller Stem

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Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus) has signed on to star in Stem, a sci-fi thriller from writer-director Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), which is set to go into production in Whannell’s home town of Melbourne, Australia. THR is reporting that the project “is set in a near-future when technology controls nearly all aspects of life and centers on […]

Will Smith suffers worst box office opening of his career with Collateral Beauty

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Will Smith may have enjoyed a solid box office hit earlier in the year with Warner Bros.’ DC ensemble Suicide Squad giving him the biggest opening weekend of his career, but he’s ended 2016 on a sour note, with his new film Collateral Beauty doing the exact opposite. The movie, which sees Smith starring alongside […]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them tops $700 million worldwide

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While Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was topping the charts around the globe, Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them passed another box office milestone this weekend as it crossed the $700 million mark worldwide. Fantastic Beasts has grossed $207.7 million domestically and now has a total of $717.5 […]

Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara join Joaquin Phoenix in Gus Van Sant’s new film

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Variety is reporting that Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara have joined Joaquin Phoenix in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, director Gus Van Sant’s upcoming biopic of quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan. The project is based upon the 1989 autobiography of Callahan, who became paralyzed aged 21 after a car accident and turning to art […]

R.I.P. Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917 – 2016)

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Hungarian-born actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor has passed away aged 99, having suffered a heart attack at her home after several years of illness. Known for her nine marriages and her glamorous, larger than life celebrity persona as much as her acting work, the former beauty queen enjoyed moderate success on the big screen, appearing in […]