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Fox renews Empire for season 4

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Fox’s marquee show, Empire, has just been renewed for its fourth season.  The series is currently on hiatus and will return with its new season premiere on March 22nd. While not quite as popular as it once was, the top Fox drama starring Terence Howard as a hip hop entertainment mogul is still a flagship product […]

La La Land takes huge receipts at the UK box office

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Critical darling and fan favourite musical La La Land is making big waves at the UK Box Office. The film from Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash, has stormed out of the gates in UK cinemas and has already accumulated an impressive sum of £6 million. That’s a bigger haul than Lionsgate’s Hunger Games opening […]

Kingpin is unlikely to appear in future Marvel movies, says Vincent D’Onofrio

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Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin has become a fan favourite after appearing in Netflix’s Daredevil. But it seems the crime lord is unlikely to make an appearance in any future Marvel movies. Speaking to Digital Spy while promoting his latest project Emerald City, the actor was asked about Kingpin’s future as it pertained to the MCU. The […]

3 Things to Take Away from Ben Affleck’s The Batman Saga

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Samuel Brace with three things to take away from Ben Affleck’s The Batman saga… The past week has been all over the place with regards to Ben Affleck’s forthcoming Batman solo film. Is he going to direct it? Is he not going to direct it? Is the script horrible? Is it fine? Is production on […]

Rumour: Ben Affleck could drop out of The Batman entirely

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Oy. Where to begin. This thing has been a bit of an epic and people are starting to get sick of hearing about the various woes of Ben Affleck’s solo Dark Knight movie, The Batman. The ‘will he, won’t he’, the ups and downs, all eventually leading to Affleck relinquishing his directorial duties to instead […]

Tom Hardy is waiting on the call for Mad Max: Fury Road sequels

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Talk of a sequel to George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road has been rampant since the action adventure rocked cinemas back in 2015, with a rumour from September going so far as to claim that a prequel was gearing up to go into pre-production. Now Tom Hardy, Mad Max himself, has spoken to the The Wrap about the sequels […]

Benedict Cumberbatch to adapt novel The End We Start From

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The novel The End We Start From is going to be adapted into a movie by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company. Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch and Hera Pictures have picked up the right’s to the much anticipated debut novel by Megan Hunter. The book was only published this week by Picador and follows an environmental crisis in the […]

Aquaman’s Patrick Wilson still excited over the DC Extended Universe

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Aquaman star Patrick Wilson is still excited for the future of the DC Extended Universe. Wilson is set to appear as the villain Ocean Master in the Aquaman solo movie, to be directed by James Wan. And while the latest entry in the series, Justice League, didn’t go down as well as many had hoped, […]

What the hell is going on with The Dark Tower movie?

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Samuel Brace is starting to get a little concerned about The Dark Tower… The Dark Tower adaptation currently set for release this summer seems to be in big trouble. We are months from release and there’s no trailer, the film has recently been delayed, and now reshoots are taking place. None of this looks good […]