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Coming 2 America is the most-watched debut for a streaming film in the pandemic era

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The reviews may have been decidedly mixed (read our ★ ★ ★ take here), but it appears that a 33-year wait for the sequel was enough to ensure that viewers rushed to stream Coming 2 America during its opening weekend, so-much-so that according to Screen Engine/ASI’s weekly tracking, the Eddie Murphy comedy was the #1 […]

Movie Review – Coming 2 America (2021)

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Coming 2 America, 2021. Directed by Craig Brewer. Starring Eddie Murphy, James Earl Jones, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Shari Headley, Teyana Taylor, Michael Blackson, Louie Anderson, Paul Bates, Wesley Snipes, Leslie Jones, KiKi Layne, Rick Ross, John Amos, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Tracy Morgan, Clint Smith, Rotimi, Nomzamo Mbatha, Luenell, Bella Murphy, Trevor Noah, and Morgan […]

Winston Duke to play political activist Marcus Garvey in Amazon’s Marked Man

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Black Panther and Us star Winston Duke is set to play political activist Marcus Garvey in Amazon Studios Marked Man. Deadline exclusively reports that Marked Man will be directed by Andew Dosunmu (Restless City) and that as well as Winston Duke, Jesse Williams (The Cabin in the Woods) and DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World: Dominion) are […]

G.I. Joe Lady Jaye series in development at Amazon

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Deadline has announced the G.I. Joe franchise is set to expand in the form of an Amazon television series that will follow the team’s undercover operative Lady Jaye. Lady Jaye is one of G.I. Joe’s most efficient members. She is skilled in a wide variety of weaponry, and fluent in several languages. She was previously played by […]

Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad gets first poster and trailer

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Amazon Prime Video has debuted a poster and teaser trailer for Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Underground Railroad. The limited drama series stars Thuso Mbedu as Cora Randall, a young woman who escapes the Georgia plantation where she is enslaved for the rumoured underground railroad in a desperate bid […]

Taylor Kitsch joins Amazon’s The Terminal List with Chris Pratt

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Deadline has revealed that Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) has joined Amazon Studios’ conspiracy thriller The Terminal List. Kitsch will star alongside Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) from director Antione Fuqua (The Equalizer) and writer/showrunner David DiGilio (Strange Alien). The Terminal List is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Carr that […]

Amazon’s adult animated superhero series Invincible gets a new trailer

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With a little over a month to go until Invincible premieres on Amazon Prime Video, a poster and trailer have been released for the adult animated superhero series which is based on the comic book from Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) follows Mark Grayson, a teenager whose father is the world’s most powerful superhero, as […]

Amazon cancels Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Truth Seekers after one season

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It may have garnered largely positive reviews when it was released at the tail end of 2020, including our own which said “This show is something which will get better over time”. However, time is something that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Truth Seekers TV show won’t be afforded the luxury of, because Amazon have […]

Movie Review – The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, 2021. Directed by Ian Samuels. Starring Kathryn Newton, Kyle Allen, Jermaine Harris, Anna Mikami, Josh Hamilton, and Cleo Fraser. SYNOPSIS: Two teens who live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create the titular map. Highschooler Mark (Kyle Allen) starts his day with a rhythm that is too tuned […]