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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 of […]

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 note […]

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, a […]

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 latest […]

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 spring, […]

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 look […]

Daredevil’s Vincent D’Onofrio is delighted by the MCU canonization of Netflix’s Marvel shows

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Ever since Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio made their Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk returns in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye, fans have been left questioning the status of the Marvel TV shows falling under the Netflix banner of The Defenders.Given Charlie Cox’s subsequent guest appearance in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and character recastings […]

Aang, Zuko, Katara and Sokka feature on Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action character posters

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Netflix has released four new character posters for the hotly-anticipated live-action reimagining of the beloved Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender which put the spotlight on Aang (Gordon Cormier), Zuko (Dallas Liu), Katara (Kiawentiio), and Sokka (Ian Ousley); check them out here…SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Avatar: The Last AirbenderSet in an Asiatic, […]

Masters of the Universe: Revolution prequel comic will team Skeletor and Hordak

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As Kevin Smith’s Masters of the Universe: Revolution prepares to come to Netflix, Dark Horse has announced the upcoming launch of a four-issue prequel comic book series penned by Revolution producers Tim Sheridan, Rob David and Ted Biaselli with art from Daniel HDR.Journey to the earliest days of one of the universe’s most consequential and […]