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Simon Pegg says Star Trek 4 script was finished before Quentin Tarantino pitched his idea

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Prior to the release of Star Trek Beyond, Paramount Pictures officially announced that development was underway on Star Trek 4, which would have seen Chris Hemsworth making his return to the series as George Kirk, father of Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk. The studio got as far as releasing an official synopsis for the sequel, […]

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Slaughterhouse Rulez will feature a subterranean monster

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A little over a year ago it was announced that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost had formed their own production company Stolen Banner, and would be teaming up to produce and star in its very first project, the horror-comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez from director Crispian Mills (A Fantastic Fear of Everything). During an interview with Digital […]

Blu-ray Review – Absolutely Anything (2015)

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Absolutely Anything, 2015. Directed by Terry Jones. Starring Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Robin Williams, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Rob Riggle, Eddie Izzard. SYNOPSIS: An absolutely average earthling (Simon Pegg) is given the galactic power to do absolutely anything by a group of sinister aliens. Whether he uses his power […]

First images from Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Truth Seekers

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Amazon Prime has released three first look images from the upcoming Nick Frost and Simon Pegg-produced paranormal comedy series Truth Seekers featuring Frost, Emma D’Arcy, Samson Kayo, and Julian Barratt; take a look here… “A ghost-hunting duo team up to uncover and film paranormal sightings across the U.K. They stake out haunted churches, underground bunkers, […]

Simon Pegg and J.K. Simmons set for bank heist comedy My Only Sunshine

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Director Mark Palansky (Penelope) has enlisted Simon Pegg and J.K. Simmons to star in My Only Sunshine, an independent comedy heist thriller which is set to begin shooting this fall. The film, scripted by J.T. Petty and K. Reed Petty, will follow “a passionately dysfunctional couple who orchestrate a bank robbery as an unconventional act […]

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for Amazon horror-comedy Truth Seekers

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Variety has revealed that Simon Pegg (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) and Nick Frost (Fighting with My Family) are set to reunite in Truth Seekers, a horror-comedy series they developed that has been picked up by Amazon Prime Video. The series is produced by Frost, Pegg and Miles Ketly’s production company Stolen Picture. The series […]

Orion Pictures teams with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg for horror Svalta

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Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Stolen Picture is teaming with Orion Pictures for the horror film Svalta, Deadline has revealed. Scripted by Frost and Stolen Picture creative directors James Serafinowicz and Nat Saunders, Svalta will follow “a family on their summer vacation to a remote Swedish island where they discover a serial killer is on […]

Movie Review – Slaughterhouse Rulez (2019)

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Slaughterhouse Rulez. 2019. Directed by Crispian Mills. Starring Asa Butterfield, Michael Sheen, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Jo Hartley, Jamie Blackley, Tom Rhys Harries, and Margot Robbie. SYNOPSIS: An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror. Simon Pegg […]

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Picture to adapt Rivers of London

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Deadline is reporting that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Picture production company has secured the screen rights to Ben Aaronovitch’s fantasy book series Rivers of London and is working on a TV adaptation. Rivers of London follows Peter Grant, “an ordinary police constable turned magician’s apprentice as he solves crimes across the British capital […]