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Stephen King’s It adaptation finds its Pennywise in Bill Skarsgard

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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Bill Skarsgard (Hemlock Grove) is set to portray the fearsome Pennywise in New Line Cinema’s two-movie adaptation of the Stephen King horror classic It. In addition to Skarsgard, director Andy Muschietti (Mama) is also said to be close to casting The Losers’ Club, with Jaeden Lieberher (St. Vincent), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger […]

Movie Review – The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016)

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The Divergent Series: Allegiant, 2016. Directed by Robert Schwentke. Starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Naomi Watts, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Zoe Kravitz, Jonny Weston, Keiynan Lonsdale, Maggie Q, Daniel Dae Kim, Octavia Spencer, Bill Skarsgard, Nadia Hilker, Mekhi Phifer, Ray Stevenson, and Ashley Judd. SYNOPSIS: After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must […]

Movie Review – It (2017)

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It, 2017. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring Bill Skarsgard, Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Nicholas Hamilton, Jack Dylan Grazer, Stephen Bogaert, Jackson Robert Scott, Chosen Jacobs, Wyatt Oleff, Jake Sim, Owen Teague, Stuart Hughes, Logan Thompson, Geoffrey Pounsett, Pip Dwyer, and Javier Botet SYNOPSIS: A group of bullied kids band together […]

Bill Skarsgard and Maika Monroe set for dark comedy thriller Villains

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Bill Skarsgard (It) and Maika Monroe (It Follows) have signed on for leads roles in the upcoming dark comedy thriller Villains, which is being directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen (The Stakelander) from their 2016 Black List script. Villains tells the story of a pair of amateur criminals who break into a suburban home, […]

Rumoured details and casting for the X-Force team in Deadpool 2

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Last we we got our first real look at May’s hotly-anticipated sequel Deadpool 2 with a trailer that not only officially introduced Josh Brolin’s Cable, but also featured a rather intriguing shot of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Zazie Beetz’s Domino alongside three other mystery costumed characters. One of them was fairly easily identified as Terry Crews […]

Castle Rock TV spot released ahead of Super Bowl

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As we get closer to the Super Bowl and the onslaught of movie ads that come with it, Hulu has released their Super Bowl spot for the upcoming Stephen King and J.J. Abrams series Castle Rock. The series stars André Holland (Moonlight), Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness) , Sissy Spacek (Carrie), Bill Skarsgård (It), Jane Levy (Suburgatory), Scott […]

First teaser trailer for hacker thriller Assassination Nation

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Coinciding with its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, a teaser trailer has arrived online for writer-director Sam Levinson’s upcoming thriller Assassination Nation which stars Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, Abra, Bella Thorne, Bill Skarsgard, Joel McHale, Colman Domingo, Maude Apatow, and Melanie Lynskey; check it out here… “An anonymous hacker begins to […]

Blu-ray Review – It (2017)

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It, 2017. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Nicholas Hamilton, and Bill Skarsgard. SYNOPSIS: A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children. I saw the original miniseries of It when I […]

Exclusive Interview: Castle Rock cast and creators talk about new Stephen King series

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With Castle Rock coming to Hulu next year, the cast and creators of the show took a break from production on the fifth episode of the 10-part series to come on down to New York Comic Con f0r a panel at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Beforehand, however, Flickering Myth had the pleasure of asking a few […]