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Margot Robbie talks playing Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad

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One of the more exciting tidbits of casting news to come from David Ayer’s Suicide Squad was that Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) would be playing the first big screen adaptation of Harley Quinn, the faithful right hand to the Joker, and firm favourite amongst comic book fans. “Yeah, I guess it’s intimidating because […]

New details on Terminator fights in Terminator: Genisys

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After the first trailer debuted to a decidedly mixed reaction over the Christmas period, some more details on this summer’s Terminator: Genisys have emerged this week – namely on the anticipated fight sequence at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles between Arnold Schwarzenegger’s older Terminator incarnation and his 1984 version, which will be part CGI-assisted […]

Ernie Hudson changes his mind on all-female Ghostbusters, calls them “Phenomenal!”

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The other day, original Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson posted his rather negative thoughts on Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters remake saying, “two words: no comment”. Well, it looks like he may have changed his mind. Hudson told The Hollywood Reporter, “four fiercely funny, foxy, females busting ghosts … phenomenal!” In previous interviews, Hudson has said that an […]

Exclusive: Zak Penn talks Pacific Rim 2

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It was announced last year that Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk) had been hired to write the screenplay for Pacific Rim 2 along with original writer and director Guillermo Del Toro. On the latest episode of the Flickering Myth Podcast, we caught up with Penn to talk about his new documentary Atari: Game Over, as well as […]

Margot Robbie is very excited to play Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad

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The movie is set to start shooting in April, and it looks like one of the cast members is rather excited to get going on Suicide Squad. “[I’m] pretty effin excited,” Margot Robbie, who will be playing Harley Quinn, told Collider while promoting her new movie Z for Zachariah. “It’s going to be epic.” Suicide Squad is still […]

J.J. Abrams talks Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer “controversy ” and Simon Pegg writing Star Trek 3

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We are now just 10 months away from J.J. Abrams taking us to a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars: The Force Awakens and when the trailer was released late last year, there was quite a stir with Star Wars fans particularly around the lightsaber hilt. “It’s been the funniest thing to see the arguments that have […]

Fifty Shades of Grey sequels on the way

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Ahead of its release this Valentine’s Day weekend (because nothing says flowers and romance like an erotic drama), there was some news coming out of a special fan screening of Fifty Shades of Grey. Some fans tweeted and revealed that the book’s sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed would also be going into development. […]

Spider-Man officially joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe, first solo film in 2017

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The day has finally arrived: Spider-Man is coming home and officially joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe! How official is this news? Officially official, as Marvel announced their new partnership with Sony late Monday night. Under the new deal, Spider-Man will join the rest of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the MCU, while Sony will continue to release Spider-Man solo films, […]

The Wachowskis think Jupiter Ascending could mark the end of their studio financing

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With a hugely underwhelming opening weekend in the US of just $19 million, Jupiter Ascending is another in a long line of films from the Wachowski siblings where the box-office has failed to match the grand, epic-scale ideas of their films. Their previous two films, Cloud Atlas and Speed Racer, both flopped on release, with […]