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War Room takes top spot on weak weekend at US box office

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After three weeks atop the US box office chart, Universal’s massive success Straight Outta Compton has been replaced on its fourth week of release by Sony’s War Room. War Room, the faith-based film, dropped just 18% on its second week of release, grossing around $9.3 million over the three-day weekend to take top spot. Compton had […]

Colm Feore joins House of Cards season 4 as series regular

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Production on season four of Netflix’s award-winning House of Cards is gearing up to get underway and the show have added actor Colm Feore (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Gotham) to the cast as a regular for the new season.Feore, who has also featured in hit shows The Borgias and 24 over the last few years, […]

Kate Hudson replaces Rebel Wilson in Kung Fu Panda 3

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Kate Hudson (Wish I Was Here) is set to replace Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect 2) in the voice cast for Kung Fu Panda 3, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Kung Fu Panda 3Wilson was set to voice the character of Mei Mei, “a crazy ribbon-dancing panda (the movie series’ first […]

David Strathairn and Uzo Aduba join Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral

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The cast of the upcoming film American Pastoral has swelled this week, with four more actors announced as having joined Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut. David Strathain (Good Night and Good Luck), Peter Riegert (The Mask), Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black) and Valorie Curry (The Following) have all joined the cast, and will team […]

Movie Review – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, 2015.Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Starring Olivia Cooke, Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Jon Bernthal, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon.SYNOPSIS:High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has […]

Vincent Cassel to play the villain in Bourne 5

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Variety has revealed that Black Swan star Vincent Cassel is to play the villain in the fifth installment of the Bourne franchise.Director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon are returning to the series after skipping The Bourne Legacy, and have already signed Alicia Vikander (Ex_Machina) and Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive) to star alongside Damon, […]

Cate Blanchett set to play Lucille Ball in new biopic from Aaron Sorkin

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Cate Blanchett (Carol) is set to play legendary actress Lucille Ball in a new biopic to be written by Steve Jobs and The Newsroom scribe Aaron Sorkin, according to The Wrap.The film is set to be produced by Sony’s Escape Artists and is said to focus on Ball’s marriage to actor Desi Arnaz who was […]

We Are Your Friends has one of the worst openings of all time

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Zac Efron’s new film We Are Your Friends has found itself in the Hollywood record books for all the wrong reasons as it suffered one of the worst opening weekends of all time. Grossing a pretty dismal $1.8 million over the last weekend (good enough to scrape into the Top 15 and a result of […]

Paddington becomes StudioCanal’s quickest film to sell 1 million copies on Blu-ray and DVD

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StudioCanal has announced that the wildly-successful Paddington has reached the 1 million sales mark in the quickest time ever for the distributor. Paddington reached the milestone of Blu-ray and DVD sales in just five months, and follows on from the film becoming StudioCanal’s highest-grossing cinema release of all time. It is also the fourth title […]