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Mindy Kaling’s Velma to premiere on HBO Max in January

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HBO Max has announced Mindy Kaling’s animated Scooby-Doo prequel Velma will premiere on the streamer January 12th, 2023. Velma follows Mystery Inc. member Velma Dinkley before she met Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred and Daphne and explores how she became a renowned detective. Kaling is voicing Velma as well as producing and writing the series. The premiere comes not long after Velma came […]

Joel and Ellie must endure and survive in the latest tease for HBO’s The Last of Us

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At this point we can just skip the holiday season and fast-forward to the most anticipated thing on our calendar for the next few months, and that’s HBO’s adaptation of the acclaimed video game The Last of Us. Following the release of the official trailer earlier this month, HBO have teased a few more scenes […]

Love Life cancelled and pulled from HBO Max alongside Westworld and The Nevers

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As WBD CEO David Zaslav continues his cuts across the board, HBO Max has cancelled the dramedy Love Life after two seasons. Not only that, the series has already been pulled from HBO Max along with all four seasons of Westworld and the first half of The Nevers. Love Life was an anthology series which followed characters navigating their relationships and […]

HBO Max’s The Last of Us gets a new trailer

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Following a batch of character posters for The Last of Us, HBO Max has released a trailer for the hotly-anticipated video game adaptation which features new footage of Joel and Ellie’s brutal journey through the post-apocalyptic landscape, as well as offering a peek at a bloater; check it out below… The Last of Us story […]

Mark Strong, Jade Anouka and Chris Mason join Dune: The Sisterhood

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With Dune: The Sisterhood in the early stages of filming, more cast members have been announced for the HBO Max series with Mark Strong (Tár), Jade Anouka (His Dark Materials) and Chris Mason (Broadchurch) the latest to join the Dune spin-off prequel. Dune: The Sisterhood will take place 10,000 years prior to Dune and will chart the creation of the […]

The Last of Us TV series gets eleven character posters

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With its January premiere date creeping ever closer, HBO has unveiled eleven character posters for the hotly-anticipated small screen adaptation of the hit video game, The Last of Us, featuring Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey), Tommy (Gabriel Luna), Tess (Anna Torv), Marlene (Merle Dandridge), Sarah (Nico Parker), Bill (Nick Offerman), Frank (Murray Bartlett), Riley […]

Dune: The Sisterhood creator Diane Ademu-John exits co-showrunner role

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Just as Dune: The Sisterhood begins production for HBO Max, Deadline has reported its creator Diane Ademu-John is exiting her role as co-showrunner. Ademu-John was serving as co-showrunner with Alison Schapker (Westworld), but is vacating the role to focus on other commitments. She is not leaving the show entirely, though, as she will remain an executive producer […]

New poster for The Last of Us featuring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey

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HBO Max has released a new poster for its hotly-anticipated TV series adaptation of the critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us featuring Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for The Last of Us here The Last of Us story takes place twenty years after […]

HBO Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood begins production

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Dune fans have a lot to look forward to as not only is Denis Villeneuve is currently filming Dune: Part Two, but production on the HBO Max spin-off series Dune: The Sisterhood has officially begun production. Based on Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s Sisterhood of Dune, the series takes place 10,000 years prior to Paul Atreides, and serves as […]

Money to Burn: When Hollywood Spending Gets Silly

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Tom Jolliffe on when spending in Hollywood gets out of hand… Money is great isn’t it? It makes the world go round, and since the birth of the studio system in Hollywood, a lot of money has been thrown into creating movies. Even making films deemed lower budget can be deemed a costly exercise. Actors […]