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Avatar: The Way of Water trailer takes us back to Pandora

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After debuting in cinemas this past week alongside Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the teaser trailer for the first of James Cameron’s long-gestating Avatar sequels has now officially made its way online, with 20th Century Studios offering a tantalising first glimpse at Avatar: The Way of Water. Check it out below, […]

Paul Feig calls out the omission of his Ghostbusters from Sony’s Ultimate Boxset

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It appears that Sony may have crossed their streams with Paul Feig when it comes to the release of their forthcoming Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection boxset, because the director of the divisive 2016 Ghostbusters reboot has taken to Twitter to politely enquire about why his entry into the franchise has been omitted. In his own inimitably […]

Movie Review – Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife, 2021. Directed by Jason Reitman. Starring Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Logan Kim, Celeste O’Connor, Oliver Cooper, Sydney Mae Diaz, Bokeem Woodbine, Marlon Kazadi, Tracy Letts, Paulina Jewel Alexis, Josh Gad, and J.K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: When a single mom and […]

Paul Schrader lines up Joel Edgerton & Sigourney Weaver for crime thriller Master Gardener

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Ahead of the world premiere of his latest film The Card Counter at this week’s Venice Film Festival, Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader is already lining up his next crime-thriller, tapping up Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver to star in Master Gardener. Deadline reports that Schrader will direct from his own original screenplay, which tells […]

Sigourney Weaver to lead Amazon’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart adaptation

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Deadline reports that Alien and Ghostbusters legend Sigourney Weaver is set to executive produce and star in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, an adaptation from Amazon of Holly Ringland’s novel of the same name. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart focuses on “a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult […]

Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)

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A Monster Calls, 2016. Directed by J.A. Bayona. Starring Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS: A young boy struggling to come to terms with his mother’s terminal illness is visited by a talking yew tree that tells him stories. With his first two films (The Orphanage and The Impossible) […]

Sigourney Weaver had to hold her breath for 6 minutes for Avatar 2 underwater filming

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Sigourney Weaver, one of the stars of Avatar 2, has revealed the intense training she had to go through for the film’s underwater scenes. It has been known for some time that James Cameron intends Avatar 2 to really push the limits of underwater filming. We have also learned that the extensive use of underwater […]

Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver star in trailer for My Salinger Year

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A poster and trailer have been released for the upcoming drama My Salinger Year. Directed by Philippe Falardeau, the film stars Margaret Qualley as an aspiring writer who takes a clerical job at J.D. Salinger’s literary agency; take a look here… In New York City in the late ‘90s, Joanna (Margaret Qualley) is a young […]

Sigourney Weaver shoots an underwater stunt in latest Avatar 2 set photos

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They may have recently been delayed AGAIN for another year, but the official Twitter account for the Avatar franchise continues to give fans a behind-the-scenes peek at the upcoming sequels to James Cameron’s sci-fi blockbuster with the release of two set photos featuring returning star Sigourney Weaver as she shoots an underwater stunt sequence. Check […]

Alien 5 producer still pushing for Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley return

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A producer for Alien 5 is still pushing to get franchise icon Sigourney Weaver to return as Ripley in the next film. Recently, actress Sigourney Weaver hinted that she might be done with the Alien franchise and that her character Ripley “deserved a break”. This was after she was sent a treatment for Alien 5 […]