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Stephen King series The Institute opens its doors with first trailer

June 10, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

Following a batch of first-look images for The Institute, MGM+ has debuted the trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s 2019 novel of the same name. The horror series centres on Luke, a genius 12-year-old who is abducted and awakens in an mysterious facility known as The Institute, which is filled with children possessing […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, News, Television, Top Stories, Trailers Tagged With: Ben Barnes, Joe Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephen King, The Institute

MGM+ shares first look at Stephen King adaptation The Institute

June 6, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

MGM+ has shared a batch of first look images and a poster for The Institute, the upcoming horror series from executive producers Stephen King and Jack Bender (From), based on King’s 2019 novel of the same name. The cast includes Mary-Louise Parker (Ms. Sigsby), Ben Barnes (Tim Jamieson), Joe Freeman (Luke Ellis), Simone Miller (Kalisha), […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: Ben Barnes, Joe Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephen King, The Institute

First trailer for The Critic starring Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton

July 2, 2024 by Amie Cranswick

The first trailer has arrived online for The Critic, director Anand Tucker’s u[coming adaptation of Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call. Set in the 1930s, the period thriller stars Ian McKellen as a feared theatre critic who takes pleasure in regularly tearing down actress Nina Land (Gemma Arterton), until his newspaper is taken over and he […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Alfred Enoch, Anand Tucker, Ben Barnes, Gemma Arterton, Ian McKellen, Lesley Manville, Mark Strong, Romola Garai, The Critic

Ben Barnes and Mary-Louise Parker to lead Stephen King adaptation The Institute

June 15, 2024 by Gary Collinson

MGM+ has announced that it has given a eight-episode series order to The Institute, an adaptation of the 2019 novel from Stephen King.  The series is being executive produced by King veterans director Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes) and writer Benjamin Cavell (The Stand), and will see Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Amazon MGM, Ben Barnes, Benjamin Cavell, Jack Bender, Mary-Louise Parker, MGM, Stephen King, The Institute

Black Mirror season 6 trailer announces June premiere, episode synopses revealed

May 31, 2023 by Ricky Church

The official trailer for the sixth season of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror has been released with June 15th announced as the premiere date. The trailer teases of a space mission gone wrong, a mysterious Scottish countryside and someone’s life being turned into a TV series in real-time. Alongside the release of the trailer are the […]

Filed Under: News, Ricky Church, Television, Trailers Tagged With: Aaron Paul, Annie Murphy, Ben Barnes, Black Mirror, Daniel Portman, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, netflix, Salma Hayek Pinault, Zazie Beetz

Black Mirror season 6 images and episode titles revealed

May 13, 2023 by Amie Cranswick

As part of its Summer Preview, Entertainment Weekly has debuted a batch of new images from the sixth season of Charlie Brooker’s acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror featuring stars Ben Barnes, Salma Hayek Pinault, Annie Murphy, Samuel Blenkin, Myha’la Herrold, Josh Hartnett, Zazie Beetz, Clara Rugaard, and Anjana Vasan; check them out below along with […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, News, Television Tagged With: Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Ben Barnes, Black Mirror, Clara Rugaard, Josh Hartnett, Myha'la Herrold, netflix, Salma Hayek, Samuel Blenkin, Zazie Beetz

Aaron Paul, Zazie Beetz and Salma Hayek star in the Black Mirror season 6 trailer

April 26, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

Netflix has signalled the long-awaited return of Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical anthology series by dropping a teaser trailer for the sixth season of Black Mirror. With a lot going on in the world over the past few years there is so much for the Emmy-Award winning series to get its teeth into, and even though […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, News, Television, Trailers Tagged With: Aaron Paul, Ben Barnes, Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker, netflix, Salma Hayek Pinault, Zazie Beetz

Netflix shares Shadow and Bone season 2 sneak peek teaser trailer

September 25, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

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 […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, News, Television, Trailers Tagged With: Ben Barnes, netflix, Shadow and Bone, TUDUM

Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong and more set for thriller The Critic

June 28, 2022 by Ricky Church

Deadline reports an all-star cast for The Critic, a period thriller of “blackmail, deceit and murder.” Starring in the film from director Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) will be Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Gemma Arterton (Summerland) and Mark Strong (1917) as the principle trio. The Critic is set in “1934 London, McKellen plays […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Alfred Enoch, Anand Tucker, Ben Barnes, Gemma Arterton, Ian McKellen, Lesley Manville, Mark Strong, Romola Garai, The Critic

The Punisher’s Ben Barnes has spoken to Marvel Studios about a superhero role

November 5, 2019 by Samuel Brace

Ben Barnes, who was one of the stars of The Punisher, says he has spoken to Marvel Studios about a possible movie role. It is not unheard of for actors to play multiple Marvel characters and it sounds like Ben Barnes is hoping he might be next to do so. The actor has finished playing […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Samuel Brace Tagged With: Ben Barnes, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Punisher

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