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Ansel Elgort to lead Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story

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Steven Spielberg has found his male lead for the upcoming West Side Story remake, with Variety reporting that The Fault in Our Stars and Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort is set to portray the character of Tony. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story centres on the rivalry between two teenage street gangs, […]

The era of big stars is over, so are we on the cusp of the era of directors?

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George Chrysostomou on whether we’re entering the era of the director… For many a year now, movies have been marketed and sold on the big name stars who appear in them. For a very long time, this method of selling a movie worked. There were periods of time that people would see Sylvester Stallone attached […]

Steven Spielberg teams with Hillary Clinton for The Woman’s Hour

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After missing out on the presidency, Hillary Clinton has a new position in mind, with THR reporting that she is set to team with filmmaker Steven Spielberg to executive produce a TV adaptation of Elaine Weiss’ book The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment has snapped up the rights […]

Blu-Ray Review – Ready Player One (2018)

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Ready Player One, 2018. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao. SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he […]

Steven Spielberg recommended Hannah John-Kamen for Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp

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With Ant-Man and the Wasp opening in the U.S. this weekend, director Peyton Reed has been chatting to the Los Angeles Times about the Marvel sequel, and in particularly the casting of Hannah John-Kamen as the film’s villain The Ghost. “When she read [for the role] she was really tough and physical, but she also […]

Indiana Jones 5 release date pushed back, Solo: A Star Wars Story’s Jonathan Kasdan to write script

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It looks like audiences will have to wait a little longer for Harrison Ford to don the hat and whip one last time as Variety has reported that Indiana Jones 5 will not make its previous July 10, 2020 release date. The film’s release has been pushed back because their production start date of April 2019 is […]

Halo TV series coming to Showtime

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After years of speculation and development hell, the hit video game series Halo will finally be coming to the small screen. Showtime has ordered a 10-episode season for Halo, currently the working title of the series, which will be based upon the Xbox video game franchise. The Halo series comes from Kyle Killen (Awake), Rise of the Planet of the Apes director […]

Steven Spielberg could direct Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic

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Having worked together on 2002’s Catch Me If You Can, it is being reported that Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio could be set to reunite on DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic, which his Appian Way company is producing for Lionsgate. According to Deadline, Spielberg is considering directing the project, which has been scripted by David […]

Take a look inside Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in new featurette

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Universal Pictures has released a ‘look inside’ featurette for the fifth instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which takes us behind-the-scenes of the dino-blockbuster and includes interviews with Steven Spielberg, director J.A. Bayona, and stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Genetic power has been unleashed in new Jurassic World: […]