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Armie Hammer talks Green Lantern Corps rumours

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Preceding the SXSW Festival screening of Free Fire, director Ben Wheatley along with star Sharlto Copley participated in a paintball shootout with attending journalists. Also present, but not on the battlefield was Armie Hammer, who is still nursing a recovery from shoulder surgery. ScreenRant took this opportunity to ask how the recovery is coming along […]

Armie Hammer denies Green Lantern Corps casting rumour

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Quite a few big names are being tossed around for the role of Hal Jordan in Warner Bros.’ Green Lantern Corps, with a rumoured shortlist surfacing last week which included Armie Hammer, Tom Cruise, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bradley Cooper, Joel McHale, James Marsden and even Ryan Reynolds. However, at the Sundance Film Festival, The Wrap spoke to Armie Hammer, […]

Dwayne Johnson says Black Adam will battle Superman, wants Armie Hammer to play Shazam

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With everyone’s attention on DC’s Wonder Woman and Justice League, its easy to forget some of the other plans in the DC Extended Universe post-Justice League. Two of those movies will be based upon Shazam, with one focusing on the hero and the other the villainous Black Adam, played by Dwayne Johnson. In an interview with Fandango, Johnson offered a little […]

Movie Review – Nocturnal Animals (2016)

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Nocturnal Animals, 2016. Directed by Tom Ford. Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, and Laura Linney. SYNOPSIS: An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale. Watching Nocturnal Animals is an enthralling, horrifying […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – The Birth of a Nation (2016)

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The Birth of a Nation, 2016. Directed by Nate Parker. Starring Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Penelope Ann Miller and Jackie Earle Haley. SYNOPSIS: Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an […]

Movie Review – The Birth of a Nation (2016)

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The Birth of a Nation, 2016. Written and Directed by Nate Parker. Starring Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Jr., Aja Naomi King, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Gabrielle Union, and Tony Espinosa. SYNOPSIS: Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising. Addressing the elephant […]

Armie Hammer joins Alicia Vikander in Ben Wheatley’s Freakshift

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Ben Wheatley continues to assemble his cast for his next film Freakshift, with Deadline reporting that Armie Hammer is set to reunite with his Free Fire director, signing on to appear alongside Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander in the action thriller. Freakshift is set to go into production in August, and follows a band of misfits who […]

More Twitter detective work links Armie Hammer to role in The Batman

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Earlier this week an eagle-eyed Twitter user found some interesting social media activity potentially linking John Cleese to a role in the DC Extended Universe, and now further Twitter detective work has made a case for Armie Hammer joining Ben Affleck’s The Batman. As pointed out by Batman-News, Hammer has recently been followed by DC […]

DVD Review – Mine (2016)

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Mine, 2016. Directed by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinario. Starring Armie Hammer, Annabelle Wallis, Tom Cullen and Clint Dyer. SYNOPSIS: After aborting his mission, an army sniper is stranded in the middle of the desert.  One small movement could kill him, so he has to fight against the elements and the psychological toll of the […]

Dev Patel, Armie Hammer and more in talks for Hotel Mumbai

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Deadline is reporting that casting is underway on Hotel Mumbai, director Anthony Maras’ upcoming dramatisation of the terror attacks on the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India in 2008. Dev Patel (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Armie Hammer (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) are in talks about joining the cast of the film, with Patel […]