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First trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz

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Fox Searchlight has revealed a teaser trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film, the historical drama The Favourite, which stars Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, James Smith, and Mark Gatiss; watch it here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LmeQW8j-aE&feature=youtu.be Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are […]

Nicholas Hoult, Miles Teller and Glen Powell wanted for Goose’s son in Top Gun: Maverick

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Despite the fact that it is gearing up for production, the long-awaited Top Gun sequel Top Gun: Maverick is yet to cast one of its major roles – that of Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s former wingman Goose. According to THR, director Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) and producers Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison […]

Production wraps on Tolkien starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins

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Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that filming has wrapped on Tolkien, director Dome Karukoski’s (Tom of Finland) biopic of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien, which stars Nicholas Hoult (Rebel in the Rye) as Tolkien and Lily Collins (Rules Don’t Apply) as his wife Edith. “As a lifelong fan of […]

Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, George MacKay and more join The True History of the Kelly Gang

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After trying his hand with a Hollywood blockbuster in Assassin’s Creed, director Justin Kurzel is heading back to his native Australia for his next film, reuniting with his Snowtown screenwriter for The True History of the Kelly Gang, which is based on Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name and tells the story […]

Colm Meaney joins the cast of Tolkien

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Colm Meaney has joined the cast of the upcoming J.R.R. Tolkien biopic, Tolkien. He joins X-Men: Apocalypse’s Nicholas Hoult and To The Bones‘ Lily Collins in the film with, Dome Karukoski directing from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. Per Deadline, Meaney will portray Father Francis, one of Tolkien’s school teachers. Tolkien will […]

First poster and trailer for Drake Doremus’ Newness starring Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa

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Ahead of its VOD release next month, the first trailer and poster have debuted for the upcoming romantic drama Newness. Directed by Drake Doremus, the film stars Nicholas Hoult, Laia Costa, Danny Huston, Courtney Eaton, Matthew Gray Gubler, Pom Klementieff, Jessica Henwick, and Albert Hammond Jr.; take a look below… “In contemporary Los Angeles, two […]

Movie Review – Rebel in the Rye (2017)

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Rebel in the Rye, 2017. Written and Directed by Danny Strong. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Zoey Deutch, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson, Lucy Boynton, Victor Garber, Hope Davis, Amy Rutberg, and Brian d’Arcy James. SYNOPSIS: The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in […]

First trailer for The Current War starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon and Nicholas Hoult

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The first trailer has debuted for the upcoming drama The Current War. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon as rival industrialists Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, alongside Nicholas Hoult, Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tuppence Middleton THE CURRENT WAR is the epic story of the cutthroat competition between […]

Simon Kinberg to direct X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Jessica Chastain cast alongside returning stars

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Fox has finally settled on a director for the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix. As per Deadline (and previous reports), longtime X-Men producer Simon Kinberg is now confirmed to take the director’s chair in his directorial debut. Furthermore, the rumour that Jessica Chastain was in talks for the film has also panned out: she will reportedly play the film’s villain, […]