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New image from Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns released

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USA Today has unveiled a new image from Disney’s upcoming sequel Mary Poppins Returns featuring Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt), Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda), Georgie (Joel Dawson), Jane (Emily Mortimer), John (Nathanael Saleh), Annabel (Pixie Davies), and Ellen (Julie Walters); take a look here… Mary Poppins Returns is set in 1930s depression-era London (the time period of the original […]

Sicario screenwriter on why Emily Blunt isn’t part of the sequel Soldado

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Back in June it was announced that Lionsgate had given the green light to a Sicario sequel entitled Soldado, which would see Sefano Sollima (Gomorra) taking over directing duties from Denis Villeneuve, and Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin returning to the cast. Conspicuous by her absence though was Emily Blunt, who portrayed FBI Agent Kate Macer […]

Movie Review – The Girl on the Train (2016)

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The Girl on the Train, 2016. Directed by Tate Taylor Starring Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Justin Theroux, Allison Janney. Edgar Ramirez, Laura Prepon, and Lisa Kudrow SYNOPSIS: A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. The Girl on the Train begins quite […]

Second Opinion – The Girl on the Train (2016)

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The Girl on the Train, 2016. Directed by Tate Taylor Starring Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Justin Theroux and Allison Janney. SYNOPSIS: A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. “A drunk, a whore and a mother walk into a bar,” seems to […]

Meryl Streep to reteam with Emily Blunt and Rob Marshall for Mary Poppins Returns

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Disney’s upcoming Mary Poppins sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, is shaping up to be an Into the Woods reunion, as Oscar winner Meryl Streep is in talks to join actress Emily Blunt, producers Marc Platt and John DeLuca, and director Rob Marshall on the film. Variety first reported the news and claims that Streep will be playing […]

5 Actresses Who Should Play Captain Marvel

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Thomas Roach with five actresses who should play Captain Marvel… One of the projects Marvel is working on for Phase Three is Captain Marvel, which will be the studio’s first female led superhero movie. So far the new characters of Black Panther and Doctor Strange have been cast with Chadwick Boseman and Benedict Cumberbatch securing […]

More from Emily Blunt on Captain Marvel casting rumours and why she turned down Black Widow and Peggy Carter roles

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A few days ago, Emily Blunt addressed the rumours linking her to Marvel Studios’ first female-led superhero movie Captain Marvel, which is due to arrive in 2018 as part of Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, during an interview with Vulture to promote her new film Into the Woods, the British actress has […]

The Huntsman’s Winter War: Why the Box Office Defeated Him

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Tony Black on the box office failure of The Huntsman: Winter’s War… So it seems we have the first confirmed box office dud of 2016: The Huntsman’s Winter War, positioned as a potential new fantasy franchise under the Universal banner. It was confirmed in the Guardian yesterday that Universal, who broke box office records last […]

Emily Blunt to play Mary Poppins in Disney’s sequel

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Having been rumoured back in September, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow, Into the Woods) is now in talks with Disney about portraying the magical nanny Mary Poppins in Disney’s upcoming sequel. The project will reunite Blunt with Into the Woods director Rob Marshall, and is said to be set in […]