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Legally Blonde and 10 Things I Hate About You screenwriter brings Misfit City to Boom! Studios

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Boom! Studios has announced that screenwriter Kirsten ‘Kiwi’ Smith (Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You) is teaming up with Kurt Lustgarten and artist Naomi Franquiz for the all-new monthly comic book series Misfit City. “Much like our heroines, I grew up in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, yearning to have a […]

Sam Mendes talks Bond 24

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During an interview with Charlie Rose (via MI6-HQ), Oscar-winning British filmmaker Sam Mendes has spoken about his decision to reunite with Daniel Craig for a second 007 movie after 2012’s record-breaking Skyfall. During the discussion Mendes revealed that he opted to return for Bond 24 having initially turned it down due to time constraints, and […]

Ranking the Series: The Spider-Man Franchise

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Jake Peffer ranks the Spider-Man movies… The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hit theaters a few weeks ago and now that we’ve seen all five of the Spider-Man films I thought it’d be the perfect time to rank them from worst to best. Out of the five there’s a very clear winner for the best and a […]

Video Game Review – Watch Dogs

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Andy Naylor reviews Watch Dogs…. After a creepy debut trailer at E3 2012, followed by one containing mind-blowing visuals, it seemed the first must-own game of the next generation of console gaming would have to be Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs. It promised to take gaming to the next level, the story, the world and everything connected […]

Directors announced for From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series Season Three

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Miramax and the El Rey Network have announced the list of directors set to helm the third season of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series. The list includes several newcomers to the series including Eagle Egilsson, who is known for his acclaimed work as a cinematographer for The Wire and CSI: Miami, for which he […]

Tom Hiddleston now bookmakers’ favourite for next James Bond

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Over the past year or so, there’s been a tonne of speculation as to the future of James Bond, with Daniel Craig suggesting on several occasions that his time as 007 could have come to an end following last year’s Spectre. As you’d expect, numerous actors have been mentioned as a possible successor to Craig, […]

Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench and more board Murder on the Orient Express

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Yesterday we brought word that Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer were circling director Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie mystery Murder on the Orient Express, and now 20th Century Fox has confirmed that both have officially boarded the project, along with Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Lucy Boynton, Tom Bateman, Derek Jacobi, Michael […]

Herculean Task: The Third Floor & Hercules

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With the Director’s Cut arriving on DVD & Blu-Ray for Hercules on December 1, 2014 in the UK, Trevor Hogg chats with Joshua Wassung  about the previs and postvis work contributed by The Third Floor… “Our team at The Third Floor provided close to thirty minutes of previs over eight sequences,” states The Third Floor […]

Herculean Task: Double Negative & Hercules

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With the Director’s Cut arriving on DVD & Blu-Ray for Hercules today in the UK, Trevor Hogg chats with Ryan Cook  about the visual effects work contributed by Double Negative… When it came to bringing the Lernan Hydra, Erymanthean Boar, Nemean Lion, Cerberus, Centaurs, and three half-starved, savage blood-caked wolves to life, the Herculean labour […]