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Pokemon Detective Pikachu director to helm Beyond Good & Evil movie for Netflix

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Having steered Pokemon Detective Pikachu to a $433 million global box office haul, director Rob Letterman is returning to the world of video games for his next project, having signed on to helm a Beyond Good & Evil movie for Netflix.Published by Ubisoft and first released on Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Gamecube back in 2003, […]

John Wick creator developing Splinter Cell anime series

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While it seems we’re no closer towards that long-planned Tom Hardy feature film adaptation, it seems that Sam Fisher will be heading to the screen soon as Netflix and Ubisoft have teamed up to produce an anime series based upon the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell video game franchise.As reported by Variety, John Wick creator Derek […]

Netflix Review – Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege…After a few lighter TV series over the past several years, the Transformers franchise returns to a darker and more serious vision in Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege. While the latest animated series from Netflix and Red vs Blue creator Rooster Teeth doesn’t stray too far from the […]

Netflix Review – The Umbrella Academy Season 2

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Shaun Munro reviews the second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy…There’s no sophomore slump for The Umbrella Academy, which returns to screens with a vibrant second season that’s at least as smart, thrilling, funny, and heartfelt as what came before – if not a touch more so.If the basic narrative through-line once again sees the […]

Black Desert launches crossover event with Netflix’ Cursed

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Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games have announced that they will be introducing crossover content from the new series on Netflix, Cursed, to Black Desert on all platforms.  This content will feature a new Cursed themed questline and will arrive on PC tomorrow 29th July, on Xbox One and PS4 on 5th August and for those […]

Watch the opening of The Umbrella Academy Season 2

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With just two days until the return of The Umbrella Academy, Netflix has released the opening minutes of the second season. After travelling back in time to prevent the apocalypse, the Hargreeves family have to prevent another apocalypse in an altered 1960s where the US and Russia are at war. Watch the opening scene here…SEE […]

Millie Bobby Brown to star as a con artist in The Girls I’ve Been

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Deadline has reported Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown is set to star in and produce The Girls I’ve Been, an adaptation of Tess Sharpe’s upcoming novel. The film will be released on Netflix with Jason Bateman (Ozark) producing.The Girls I’ve Been is “a twisty, exhilarating thriller centering around a con artist, Nora, who must use her […]

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 image features a baby Pogo

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Netflix has released a new image from its upcoming second season of The Umbrella Academy, which features the Academy’s intelligent chimpanzee and surrogate father figure Pogo as a baby. Check it out here…Pogo was Sir Reginald Hargreeves’ assistant after he experimented on the chimp to turn him into an intelligent and talking animal. He was a […]

Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy teaming with Netflix for time-travel action-adventure movie

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Actor Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy are set to follow their upcoming action comedy Free Guy by reuniting for an as-yet-untitled time-travel action-adventure set up at Netflix.Produced by Skydance Media, which recently worked with Reynolds and Netflix on Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, the film will see Reynolds starring “as a man who must travel […]