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James Earl Jones retires from Darth Vader role with Lucasfilm using AI for future Star Wars projects

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45 years after first lending his voice to the Dark Lord of the Sith, it seems that James Earl Jones has decided to call time on his iconic role as the voice of Darth Vader, with a Vanity Fair report revealing that the screen legend has stepped back from performing the character following the AI-produced […]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Partings’

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Ricky Church reviews the fifth episode of the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power…Over the last couple of episodes the stories in The Rings of Power have been coming together and ‘Partings’ took a big leap forward connecting all the characters and pushing them forward. There was a great balance of character development and […]

The Time of Contempt is coming with The Witcher season 3 poster and synopsis

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As part of Netflix’s Tudum event, the streamer released the first poster for season 3 of The Witcher as well as its synopsis. Based on the second novel in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series The Time of Contempt, the third season will find Geralt and Yennefer training Ciri as new threats continue hunting her. Check out the poster and […]

Manifest returns with season 4 trailer and images

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Having saved the show follow its cancellation at NBC, Netflix has now unveiled a trailer and promotional images for the first half of the fourth and final season of Manifest ahead of its premiere this November. Check them out here… Two years after the brutal murder of Grace turned their lives upside down, the Stone family […]

Hellbound returning to Netflix with season 2 announcement trailer

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If like us you were a fan of Yeon Sang-ho’s 6-part horror/thriller hybrid Hellbound, then amongst all of the announcements at Netflix’s Tudum event the news that a second season was coming to the streaming-service was the most exciting of the weekend. Based on the Korean webtoon Hell, and directed by Train to Busan‘s Yeon Sang-ho, Hellbound […]

Netflix shares Shadow and Bone season 2 sneak peek teaser trailer

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Netflix has released a sneak peek teaser trailer for the second season of Shadow and Bone, the small screen adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s ‘Grishaverse‘ fantasy book series; watch it below…In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, where unnatural creatures feast on human flesh, a young soldier uncovers a power […]

Wednesday vs Thing in first clip from Netflix’s live-action Addams Family spinoff

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During today’s Netflix’s TUDUM global fan event, Jenna Ortega was on hand to introduce the first clip from the upcoming The Addams Family spinoff Wednesday, which pits Ortega’s Wednesday Addams against Thing! Watch it below…The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to […]

Netflix shares first look at Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

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Following yesterday’s first look image of India Amarteifio as a young Charlotte, we now have a clip from Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, which has just been revealed during Netflix’s TUDUM global fan event and gives us our first glimpse of the streamer’s first Bridgerton spinoff.Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story tells the story of how […]

Val Kilmer’s Madmartigan will be part of Willow sequel series “in a big way”

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On Thursday, Lucasfilm released the first trailer for Willow, the upcoming Disney+ original series which serves as a sequel to the classic 1988 fantasy film.As we saw in first look at the show, Warwick Davis is back in his role as Willow Ufgood for the new adventure, as is Joanne Whalley as Sorsha, but much […]