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Comic Book Review – Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Vol. 12

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Vol. 12… The end of IDW’s previous Transformers continuity has come with the twelfth volume of Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two. For a collection focused on providing a conclusion of sorts and laying the groundwork for the new status quo as IDW merged all of their […]

American Gods cancelled, but may return for event series or movie

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After three seasons and several behind-the-scenes struggles, Starz has decided to cancel American Gods. The series, which is based on Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel of the same name, followed the gods of the old world struggling and fighting to survive in the world of today where the new gods of technology, television, money and others gain […]

The Witcher: Blood Origin prequel casts Laurence O’Fuarain

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Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin, the prequel to the Henry Cavill-led fantasy series The Witcher, has just cast its second leading role. Deadline reports that Laurence O’Fuarain (Vikings) has joined Jodie Turner-Smith in the upcoming series. O’Fuarain will play a character named Fjall. His description is: “Born into a clan of warriors sworn to protect a King, […]

A new Transformers film is in development from Charm City Kings director Angel Manuel Soto

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Deadline has revealed a new Transformers film is in development from Charm City Kings director Angel Manuel Soto, joining the previously-announced movie from Creed II’s Steven Caple Jr. as part of the franchise’s upcoming slate. Soto will direct this latest film in the Transformers franchise with Marco Ramirez, the co-creator and showrunner of Netflix’s Marvel team-up limited series The Defenders, writing […]

Ron Livingston replaces Billy Crudup as Henry Allen in The Flash movie

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Just a few days after the news that Billy Crudup is unable to reprise the role of Barry Allen’s imprisoned father in The Flash, Variety reports the film has already found its replacement. Joining the cast of the Warner Bros. and DC Films movie is Ron Livingston (Office Space) who will take over the role […]

Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy to be adapted by Hulu

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Hulu’s partnership with author Margaret Atwood is expanding as Deadline reportsthat  the streaming service has tapped Michael Leslie to develop MaddAddam, a new series based upon Atwood’s dystopian trilogy that includes her novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam. Leslie, who previously developed The Little Drummer Girl for AMC, will develop the series by writing […]

Jimmi Simpson and Naomie Harris join The Man Who Fell to Earth

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Deadline reports the that Showtime sci-fi series The Man Who Fell to Earth has added Jimmi Simpson (Westworld) and Naomie Harris (No Time To Die) to the cast. They will star alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor in the series. The Man Who Fell To Earth follows “an alien who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution […]

Ryan Murphy series Monster casts Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer

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Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan have found their serial killer for the upcoming Netflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story as Deadline reports that American Horror Story star Evan Peters will play the infamous killer alongside a cast that includes Niecy Nash (Reno 911!), Penelope Ann Miller (American Crime), Shaun J. Brown (Future Man), Colin Ford (Daybreak) […]

Stowaway trailer sees Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette on a mission to Mars

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Netflix has released a trailer for Stowaway, a sci-fi survival thriller starring Anna Kendrick (Love Life), Toni Collette (Knives Out), Shamier Anderson (Wynnona Earp) and Daniel Dae Kim (Lost). Watch the trailer and check out the poster below… Stowaway follows a group of scientists on a mission to Mars, but during their travel to the planet they […]