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Hilary Swank reacts to Netflix cancelling Away after one season

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Hilary Swank, the star of Netflix’s Away, has reacted to the news of its cancellation after just one season. A Netflix original series starring Oscar winner Hilary Swank all about a mission to Mars should have been a slam-dunk but just months after Away‘s first season premiere, the platform decided to cancel the show. What […]

Netflix cancels Away after a single season

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Another day, another Netflix series cancellation. Six weeks after the release of the show’s ten-episode first season, the streaming service has confirmed they will not be renewing the Hilary Swank-starring science fiction drama series Away for a second season. Created by Andrew Hinderaker, Away follows astronaut Emma Green, who leads the first crewed expedition to Mars […]

Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star in trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

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Netflix has released the first trailer for the upcoming film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Starring Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final role, this first look at the biopic of Ma Rainey looks to be as powerful as expected. Check out the trailer below along with the poster and official synopsis… Tensions […]

Netflix releases trailer for The Christmas Chronicles 2

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Netflix has released a new trailer and a poster for writer-director Chris Columbus’ festive sequel The Christmas Chronicles 2 which sees Kate (Darby Camp) unexpectedly pulled into a new adventure along with her mom’s new boyfriend’s son Jack (Jahzir Bruno), when Belsnickel (Julian Dennison) threatens to destroy the North Pole and the pair must work […]

Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train is getting a teen reimagining at Netflix

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Variety is reporting that Someone Great director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is reuniting with Netflix for a dark comedy thriller inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 classic Strangers on a Train. Titled Strangers, the film will follow Drew, an alpha ‘It’ girl and Eleanor, a beta ‘alt’ girl, who agree to go after each other’s bullies, with […]

Emma Roberts teams with Netflix for vampire series First Kill

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American Horror Story and Scream Queens star Emma Roberts is teaming with Netflix to produce a YA vampire series entitled First Kill, which is based upon a short story from bestselling author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab. First Kill has received an eight-episode series order from Netflix, and the logline reads: “When it’s time for teenage […]

The Crown gets a batch of season 4 character posters

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Following on from this week’s trailer, a batch of character posters for season 4 of The Crown have been released and feature Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman), Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies), Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor), Lady Diana Spencer (Emma Corrin), Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter), Princess Anne (Erin Doherty), and Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson); take a […]

Movie Review – Rebecca (2020)

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Rebecca, 2020. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Keeley Hawes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Anna Dowd and Bill Paterson. SYNOPSIS: Manderley is the ancestral country seat of Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer). Shrouded in secrets, rife with scandal and cloaked in tragedy it sits precariously overlooking a ravaged coast line. It […]

Mike Flanagan on whether there will be a third season following the release of The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Over the weekend, Netflix released The Haunting of Bly Manor, the second chapter in The Haunting… anthology series and the follow-up to 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House. Now, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, executive producers Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy discussed the possibility of a third season in the horror series, and while there is nothing official […]