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Blade Runner sequel officially titled Blade Runner 2049

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One year from today the highly anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner will come out in theaters and now we have an official title: Blade Runner 2049. Very little is known about the long-gestating film, but director Denis Villeneuve revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the film will take place decades after the original and will again be […]

Stanley Tucci cast in A Private War

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Variety has reported that Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games) will be joining Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades Freed) and Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) in the independent journalism biopic A Private War. The film is being directed by Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghosts) and stars Pike as American-born British war reporter Marie Colvin, exploring […]

Scoot McNairy joins True Detective season 3

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The third season of True Detective continues to build up its cast as Godless actor Scoot McNairy has signed on to appear in HBO’s anthology series, reports Deadline. He’ll star opposite Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Carmen Ejogo (Selma) and Stephen Dorff (Blade). McNairy will portray Tom, a father who suffers a terrible loss that ties his fate to that of […]

Comic Book Review – Trinity Vol. 1: Better Together

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Ricky Church reviews Trinity Vol. 1: Better Together… The Dark Knight. The Man of Steel. The Amazon Warrior. The three greatest heroes in the DC Universe unite when the threats to our planet are bigger than any one of them can handle. But now, the deadly White Mercy has Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman in […]

DC Super Hero Girls TV series coming to Cartoon Network

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It looks like DC Super Hero Girls is about to become a full fledged cartoon series. Cartoon Network will bring the animated action-comedy from Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment to air in 2018 with My Little Pony’s Lauren Faust and Justice League Action’s Sam Register acting as producers. The series will expand the direct-to-DVD movies and webisodes that […]

TIFF 2016: Antoine Fuqua and cast discuss The Magnificent Seven

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One genre that has been making a bit of a comeback in the last several years is the Western from remakes such as 3:10 to Yuma to originals like The Hateful Eight. Director Antoine Fuqua took on the task of remaking one of the most famous, and arguably defining, Western films with The Magnificent Seven. […]

Joe Manganiello talks Ben Affleck and The Batman

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Though a rumour popped up last week that the script for The Batman has “serious problems” (something which has since been downplayed), there is still a lot of excitement over the next Batman film. Current Batman actor Ben Affleck is writing the script with DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns and is set to direct as well as […]

Tom Holland is signed up for six Marvel films

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When he was cast as Marvel’s resident wall-crawler, one question that everyone had was just how many Marvel Cinematic Universe films Tom Holland had signed on for as Spider-Man. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Holland has confirmed that he signed on for six films, three of them being Spider-Man solo films, and the remaining three […]

Comic Book Review – Nightwing #5

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Ricky Church reviews Nightwing #5… “Night of the Monster Men” part 2! The Monster Men are stomping their way through Gotham City. How can the Bat-team face the monsters and the storm of the century? And when Nightwing goes behind the scenes to discover where the monsters came from, what lurks in the shadows may […]