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Succession to end with upcoming fourth season

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When the fourth season of HBO’s hit drama series Succession premieres next month, it will be the beginning of the end as creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong has revealed the series will conclude with the forthcoming season. Succession follows Brian Cox’s Logan Roy and his family which controls one of the most powerful media and entertainment […]

Steven Spielberg sets Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon as seven-part HBO series

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Coming off the back-to-back productions of the Best Picture-nominated West Side Story remake and semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans, legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg has revealed during the Berlin Film Festival that his upcoming movie slate is empty for the first time in a long time… although he does have one little project to keep him busy. […]

Perry Mason takes on a new case in trailer for season 2 of HBO Max series

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With less than a month to go until Perry Mason returns for its second season, HBO has released a new trailer for the crime drama series which will see Perry (Matthew Rhys), Della (Juliet Rylance), and Paul (Chris Chalk) brace themselves for the murder trial of the century, as they delve into a new case […]

James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios slate promises Gods and Monsters

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The DC Extended Universe is dead (sort of)! Long live the new DC Universe (and standalone DC Elseworlds projects)! Yes, some three months on from the surprise news that Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad director James Gunn would be teaming with Aquaman producer Peter Safran to head up the newly-revamped DC Studios, […]

The Last of Us second episode ratings up 22% from premiere

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Following last week’s impressive debut, The Last of Us has jumped 22% for a record-breaking second-week viewership of 5.7M viewers on Sunday night. The videogame adaptation got off to a strong start, drawing HBO’s second largest figures for a debut since 2010 with 4.7 million across linear and HBO Max, which has grown to 18 […]

The Last of Us trailer teases what lies ahead for Joel and Ellie

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Following its series premiere this past Sunday, HBO has released a trailer for its video game adaptation The Last of Us, which teases what to expect in the weeks ahead as the series takes us through Joel and Ellie’s perilous journey. Watch it below… The Last of Us story takes place twenty years after modern […]

The Last of Us featurette takes us onto the set of HBO’s video game adaptation

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With a little over a week to go until The Last of Us premieres on HBO Max, a new featurette has been released for the hotly-anticipated video game adaptation which goes behind the scenes of the series and includes interviews with stars Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal, and members of the creative team; watch it […]

The Last of Us won’t overstay its welcome, promising only a limited run

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If you were worried The Last of Us would stretch itself too thin, fear not, as the creators say the HBO series will stay true to the games. Game creator Neil Druckmann and one of the minds behind the HBO series Craig Mazin dove into where they see the story heading after adapting The Last […]

James Marsden speaks about Westworld cancellation: “We had plans to finish it the way we wanted to”

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At the end of last year HBO announced that they would be closing the gates to Westworld forever and removing the show from their streaming services, leaving viewers who were hoping for a fifth and final season that would answer the multitude of questions posed by showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, extremely disappointed.  Well, […]