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Register now for Game of Thrones: Conquest, the MMO strategy game for your mobile

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Want to fill that Game of Thrones shaped hole in your life? Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and HBO Global Licensing have just announced pre-registration for their upcoming mobile game, Game of Thrones: Conquest. Head your own house, as you set out to claim the Iron Throne and traverse the perilous land of political pitfalls that is […]

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 […]

Sandra Oh and more join Robert Downey Jr. in espionage thriller The Sympathizer

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The espionage thriller series The Sympathizer has added more to its cast. Joining Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers: Endgame) in the HBO and A24 series is Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Kieuh Chinh (Dynasty) and Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen (Paris By Night). The Sympathizer is “an espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist […]

True Detective: Night Country with Jodie Foster begins production

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The fourth season of HBO’s anthology series True Detective has begun production. Starring Jodie Foster (The Mauritanian) and Kali Reis (Catch The Fair One), True Detective: Night Country has begun filming in Iceland. The fourth season will follow Foster and Reis as a pair of detectives investigating the disappearance of six men in an Alaskan workstation. The official synopsis […]

HBO cancels Westworld after four seasons

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The park is closed for good as HBO has cancelled Westworld. The series, which premiered in 2016, ran for four seasons from creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Westworld, which was based on Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton’s 1973 film, followed a group of highly-intelligent androids called ‘Hosts’ as they catered to the needs of their human guests […]

HBO Max releases poster for The Last of Us TV series

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Following on from the show’s premiere date announcement, a new poster has been released for the hotly-anticipated video game adaptation The Last of Us teasing Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as they travel through the post-apocalyptic landscape of the United States; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for The Last […]

HBO teases Succession season 4 with first trailer

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HBO has released a teaser trailer for the fourth season of the Emmy award-winning drama series Succession which sees the Roy family divided and a power struggle ensues as the sale of Waystar Royco moves closer; watch it below… In season four, the sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson (Alexander […]

In a shocking turn of events, Alan Moore hated the idea of HBO’s Watchmen

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If you know anything about Alan Moore, you’ll know he can sometimes be a bit grumpy. The legendary comic book author fires off hot takes on the regular and is even critical of his work at times. That’s where the latest story with Moore comes from, as he continues to distance himself from Watchmen, the […]

The Blacks prepare for war in House of the Dragon season one finale trailer

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HBO has released a trailer for next week’s season finale of House of the Dragon, which sees alliances formed and pledges made as Rhaenyra plans to go to war against the Hightowers and take the throne that was promised to her following the events of the last episode, where her half-brother Aegon was crowned King […]