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Middle-earth gets the anime movie treatment with New Line’s Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

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Tolkien fans can prepare themselves for another trip into Middle-earth history as Deadline reports New Line Cinema and Warner Animation is developing an anime feature film titled The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. The film will be directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) […]

Comic Book Review – Batman: Earth One Volume 3

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Ricky Church reviews Batman: Earth One Volume 3… After years of delays and anticipation, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank return to their world of Batman: Earth One with the third that sees a young Bruce Wayne grow into a more fully primed and realized Batman, all as Harvey Dent apparently comes back from the dead to wreak […]

Stranger Things casts Amybeth McNulty, Myles Truitt, Regina Ting Chen and Grace Van Dien for season 4

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Hawkins is about to grow just a little larger as Netflix’s sci-fi horror series Stranger Things has added Amybeth McNulty (Anne with an E), Myles Truitt (Black Lightning), Regina Ting Chen (Queen of the South) and Grace Van Dien (The Village) to its cast. The four new additions will star in recurring roles for season four. […]

MacGruber series enlists Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne and Mickey Rourke

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Peacock’s upcoming MacGruber series has just cast some pretty high-profile names as Sam Elliott (A Star is Born), Laurence Fishburne (John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum) and Mickey Rourke (War Pigs) join the eight-episode series. MacGruber will see Will Forte reprise his Saturday Night Live character of MacGruber alongside his SNL co-star Kristen Wiig (Wonder Woman 1984) and Ryan Phillippe […]

Catherine Dyer cast in Amazon’s conspiracy thriller The Terminal List

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Amazon has added a new name to The Terminal List. According to Deadline, Catherine Dyer (Stranger Things) will star in a recurring role alongside Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) in the series from director Antione Fuqua (The Equalizer) and writer/showrunner David DiGilio (Strange Alien). The Terminal List is based on the novel of the same […]

Knives Out 2 adds Outer Banks star Madelyn Cline

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Director Rian Johnson has made another addition to his Knives Out sequel as Deadline reports Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks) is the latest to join the already large ensemble cast. Like her co-stars, Cline’s role is being kept under wraps as is the story, but it will feature Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc returning to solve another mystery among […]

X-Men: The Last Stand Turns 15 – Where The X-Franchise First Went Wrong

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Ricky Church revisits X-Men: The Last Stand on its 15th anniversary… Superhero films may be all the rage now, but in the early 2000s they were rarely in development with only two or maybe three produced a year compared to the several we have now. In those early years of of the superhero genre, one […]

Showtime renews City on a Hill for third season

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Two weeks after the second season concluded, Showtime has renewed the Boston crime drama City on a Hill for a third season. The series stars Kevin Bacon as corrupt FBI agent Jackie Rohr and Adlis Hodge as Boston Assistant District Attorney Decourcy Ward who has targeted Rohr’s methods. The third season will consist of eight episodes […]

Jupiter’s Legacy effectively cancelled as Netflix moves onto other Millarworld properties starting with Supercrooks

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While the word ‘cancelled’ was not used, Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy effectively is as Deadline and Jupiter’s Legacy creator Mark Millar announced the cast was being released from their contracts as Netflix is shifting its focus onto Supercrooks, another Millerworld property. Jupiter’s Legacy is based off the comic series by Millar and artist Frank Quietly. It starred Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, […]