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Netflix action thriller The Wages of Fear gets a trailer and images

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Netflix has released a trailer and images for The Wages of Fear, director Julien Leclercq’s adaptation of George Arnaud’s 1950 novel Le Salaire de la peur. Previously adapted by Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of  Fear – 1953), Howard W. Koch (Violent Road – 1958), and William Friedkin (Sorcerer – 1977), the French action thriller follows a […]

Avatar: The Last Airbender character posters showcase the Fire Nation

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Last week we got a batch of Avatar: The Last Airbender posters for Aang, Zuko, Katara, and Sokka, and now Netflix has dropped four new character one sheets from the fantasy action adventure series for the Fire Nation members Azula (Elizabeth Yu), Ozai (Daniel Dae Kim), Iroh (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee), and Zhao (Ken Leung); check […]

Rian Johnson’s Knives Out 3 will shoot later this year

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We may soon see the return of private detective Benoit Blanc as Deadline reports director Rian Johnson and his company T-Street are gearing up production on Knives Out 3 to begin later this year. The news comes from a report which announced Johnson and fellow T-Street producer Ram Bergman have hired producer Katie McNeill (Wildflower) as […]

Laurence Fishburne joins The Witcher Season 4

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Netflix has announced The Matrix and John Wick alum Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast of The Witcher for its fourth season, which will see Geralt of Rivia played by Liam Hemsworth after Henry Cavill’s departure following the third season. Fishburne will portray Regis, a “world-wise Barber-surgeon with a mysterious past.” The character was introduced in The Witcher novel Baptism […]

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon re-team for Netflix’s crime thriller Animals

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The dynamic duo of Ben Affleck & Matt Damon are back together as news has broken, confirmed by Variety, that Affleck will direct Damon in an upcoming thriller titled Animals. Recently acquired by Netflix, the kidnapping-focused crime thriller Animals will see Affleck bringing to life a script by Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray. Variety does […]

Netflix won’t release Halle Berry sci-fi The Mothership

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Netflix has downed Halle Berry’s science-fiction film The Mothership, cancelling any plans to release the Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies) directed movie in the future.  According to Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider newsletter, the in-the-can film has been shelved by the streamer for a number of reasons, although non are the du jour decision of a tax write-off, […]

Kelly Rowland and Trevante Rhodes star in Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa trailer

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Netflix has released the trailer for Tyler Perry’s Mia Culpa, which stars Kelly Rowland (Think Like a Man) as a criminal defense attorney who takes on the case of Trevante Rhodes’ (Moonlight) seductive artist who has been accused of murdering his girlfriend. Written and directed by honorary Oscar winner Tyler Perry, Mea Cupla is the […]

Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender gets a new trailer and poster

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With just a month to go until Avatar: The Last Airbender lands on Netflix, the streamer has released a new poster and trailer for the eagerly-anticipated live-action reimagining of the beloved animated series which centres on the adventure sof Aang (Gordon Cormier) and his friends Katara (Kiawentiio) and Sokka (Ian Ousley), as they set out […]

Netflix to follow Fool Me Once with two more Harlan Coben series adaptations

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Fresh from the success of its latest Harlan Coben adaptation Fool Me Once, Netflix has announced that it will bring another two of the American author’s novels to the streaming service with series adaptations of Missing You and Run Away. First up is Missing You, which is slated to shoot in the UK in the […]

Andrew Scott is Ripley in trailer for Netflix’s Patricia Highsmith series

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Netflix has debuted the first trailer and a poster for Ripley, the upcoming eight-episode thriller from writer-director Steven Zaillian. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels, the series stars Andrew Scott in the title role as the grifter Tom Ripley, alongside Dakota Fanning as Marge Sherwood, and Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf; take a […]