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Star Trek 4 writers to develop Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series

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Amazon has made some headway on its Lord of the Rings television series by hiring JD Payne and Patrick McKay to develop the hotly-anticipated show. Payne and McKay most recently wrote a script for Star Trek 4, and Disney’s Jungle Cruise with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. “The rich world that J.R.R. Tolkien created is filled with majesty and […]

Supergirl season 4 adds Rhona Mitra as Mercy Graves and Robert Baker as Otis

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Supergirl will be facing off against a fan-favourite villain in the form of Mercy Graves, Lex Luthor’s loyal bodyguard, in the upcoming fourth season of the DC show. Deadline has revaled that the series has cast Rhona Mitra (Strike Back) to portray Mercy while Robert Baker (Grey’s Anatomy) has been cast as her brother and […]

HBO’s Watchmen adds Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Sara Vickers

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After the recent castings of Jeremy Irons and Tom Mison, you’d think the roster for the pilot for HBO’s Watchmen would be complete, but you’re wrong. Variety has reported Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (The Get Down) and Sara Vickers (Shetland) are now the latest to join the pilot. Like the majority of their fellow cast, their roles for […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Written and Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan, Wes Bentley, Frederick Schmidt, Liang Yang, Kristoffer Joner, Wolf Blitzer, and Alec Baldwin.   SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar […]

Starz’s supernatural spy thriller The Rook adds Shelley Conn and James D’Arcy

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Starz’s upcoming supernatural spy thriller TV series The Rook has added two additional actors to its cast. Per Deadline, Shelley Conn (Liar) and James D’Arcy (Dunkirk) are set to star in recurring roles for the series alongside the previously announced Emma Greenwell, Joely Richardson and Olivia Munn. Based on the novel by Daniel O’Malley, The Rook is adapted by […]

Blu-Ray Review – Ready Player One (2018)

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Ready Player One, 2018. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao. SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he […]

The Crown adds Josh O’Connor and Marion Bailey

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As Netflix gears up for the third season of The Crown, the series has added two more additions to its cast, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that Josh O’Connor (Florence Foster Jenkins) will portray Prince Charles and Marion Bailey (Allied) as the Queen Mother. The pair are replacing Julian Baring and Victoria Hamilton in the roles from […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #21

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #21… ‘The Falling’ finally concludes in Optimus Prime #21 as Optimus, Bumblebee and Pyra Magna put a stop to Shockwave’s plan, yet leave the door open for new threats as the series leads into Transformers: Unicron. John Barber subverts expectations though with what Shockwave’s ultimate goal in this phase was, […]

Alexandra Daddario to produce and star in Can You Keep A Secret?

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Deadline has reported Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch) will soon be starring in and executive producing an adaptation of Sophie Kinsella’s novel, Can You Keep A Secret?. The film will be directed by Elise Duran (Finding Sarah), who will also be an executive producer alongside Daddario. Daddario will play Emma Corrigan, a girl with a few secrets. On […]