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Fox to air Gotham Stories animated comic during The X-Files

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With Gotham currently on its winter break and The X-Files currently occupying its Monday night timeslot, Fox has announced that it will air a five-part animated comic book series Gotham Stories during episodes of Mulder and Scully’s latest adventures. Check out a teaser here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpmN2B6kpM SEE ALSO: Follow all of our Gotham coverage here

Zach Galifianakis wishes they’d not made The Hangover sequels

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Todd Phillips’ The Hangover was one of the biggest comedy successes in recent memory; a runaway success at the box office, it also made stars out of its three leads Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms. Sadly, it was followed by two abysmal sequels, which virtually everyone agrees should never have seen the light of day. Including […]

Netflix finds its Violet and Klaus for A Series of Unfortunate Events

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Earlier this month it was revealed that Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) is to play Count Olaf for the upcoming Lemony Snicket TV adaptation A Series of Unfortunate Events, and now Netflix has announced that it has found two of its Baudelaire children. Malina Weissman, who plays the young Kara Zor-El in […]

Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, The Angry Beavers and more coming together for NickToons movie – Jared Hess to direct

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Anyone of a certain age will have a particular fondness for the bizarre cast of characters from Nickelodeon’s NickToons line-up. It had been reported last year that Paramount were looking to bring these characters together for an Avengers/Justice League-style team-up, and now its being reported that they’ve found a director in the man behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho […]

Taron Egerton teases new Kingsman 2 villain, says film will have an “international story”

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Kingsman 2, the sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s 2015 sleeper hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, is set to begin filming later this year, and while the film will most likely include another eccentric villain and more brutal but comical action, the people behind the production presumably want to surprise viewers the same way they did with […]

ABC developing Watergate event series

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ABC and Entertainment One are developing an event series entitled Watergate, which will take place in the Nixon White House during the 1970s scandal; written by Jon Maas (The Last Debate), the project will use John Dean’s The Nixon Defense: What He Knew And When He Knew It and Alden Duer Cohen’s The Women of Watergate […]

Miley Cyrus and Elaine May to star in Woody Allen’s Amazon series

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Last year it was revealed that Woody Allen has signed a deal with Amazing to create a TV series for the streaming service, and now Deadline has details on the first casting. The site reports that Allen will star alongside Miley Cyrus and Elaine May, the latter of whom worked with Allen on the 2000 […]

Kevin Spacey joins Nicholas Hoult in J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye

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Kevin Spacey has joined the cast of the upcoming J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye, which will star Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past) as the famed American writer and author of The Catcher in the Rye. According to Deadline, Spacey “will play Whit Burnett, a professor at Columbia and editor of Story magazine. He became […]

David Simon’s porn drama The Deuce gets a series order from HBO

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HBO has given a series pickup to The Deuce, a new drama from David Simon (The Wire), George Pelecanos (Treme) and Richard Price (The Color of Money), which is set to star James Franco (The Interview) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight). The Deuce follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry […]