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Spider-Man: Homecoming casts Michael Barbieri

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Spider-Man: Homecoming has cast young actor Michael Barbieri in an unknown role. This news makes it the first new official announcement since Robert Downey Jr. revealed he will appear in the new Spider-Man film and rumours of Michael Keaton’s negotiations. While his role has not been stated yet, given his age it would be no […]

Animated Ghostbusters hires Fletcher Moules as director

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Hot on the heels of the recently released trailer for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters comes news from The Hollywood Reporter that Sony Pictures Animation has hired a director for its animated Ghostbusters movie, a project that was announced last fall as they seek to expand the Ghostbusters franchise. Fletcher Moules has been given the job to […]

Daredevil Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Semper Fidelis’

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Ricky Church reviews the seventh episode of Daredevil season 2… One aspect that makes Daredevil, both the show and the hero himself, unique is his daytime career as a lawyer pursuing justice for the common person. Half of Daredevil’s first season came off as a legal drama as Nelson & Murdock worked to take Wilson […]

Supergirl casts Tyler Hoechlin as Superman

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On the heels of last week’s announcement that Superman himself will appear in Supergirl’s second season, we now have confirmation of who will play the Man of Steel for the series: Tyler Hoechlin has been cast. Hoechlin is a veteran of The CW after starring in Teen Wolf and has more recently appeared in Fifty […]

Emma Stone, Jonah Hill and Cary Fukunaga board Netflix’s Maniac

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Netflix and Paramount have just acquired some high-profile talent for its upcoming series Maniac. According to Deadline, Emma Stone and Jonah Hill will star in the series with True Detective‘s Cary Fukunaga set to direct all 10 episodes of the dark comedy. Production will begin this summer. This will be the first time Hill and Stone have starred […]

Heat prequel novel coming from Michael Mann and author Reed Farrel Coleman

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From Michael Mann’s long career as a director, one of the films people point to as his best work is the 1995 crime thriller Heat, pairing the iconic Robert De Niro and Al Pacino together for the first time ever. Per Deadline, Mann has partnered with author Reed Farrel Coleman to create a prequel novel of […]

Supergirl casts former Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter

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Supergirl’s second season has just cast a DC veteran in the role of the President of the United States and it is rather, ahem, wonderful. Lynda Carter, the Wonder Woman of the 1970s series based on the Amazon Princess, has been cast and will make her introduction in the third episode of the season before […]

The State of the DCEU: Cooler Heads Should Prevail

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Ricky Church on the rumours of trouble behind-the-scenes of the DC Extended Universe… Ever since Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice came out, it seems as if there has been no end to bad news for Warner Bros. and DC comics on film. Fans have been in a constant state of worry over the future […]