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George Lucas tops the list of the richest Hollywood movie moguls

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This will come as little surprise given his $4 billion sale of Lucasfilm to Disney back in 2012, but George Lucas has topped the list of richest Hollywood movie moguls with an estimated net worth of $5.4 billion.Lucas, whose former company produced the likes of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, narrowly takes first place ahead […]

Disney to co-produce Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, full cast announced

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With production underway in Vancouver, Walt Disney Studios has announced that it will co-produce and co-finance The BFG, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic book. Three-time Tony Award winner Mark Rylance (The Gunmen) will play the title character, with newcomer Ruby Barnhill cast as Sophie, but today with the Disney deal comes news of […]

T.J. Miller joins Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

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According to THR, Deadpool and Silicon Valley actor T.J. Miller has joined Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One.  Miller has been cast as i-R0k, “an annoying troller in the online forums of the game” that humans of the near-distant future practically live in. i-R0k had a small, but important role to play in the book, and I’m […]

Oscar Isaac joins Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

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While 2015 marked a breakout year for Oscar Isaac, this year has been a rather quiet one for the actor (as far as movie releases go), with the exception of his villainous appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse. But with a slate of big films, which now includes Steven Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, in the […]

Blu-ray Review – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982.Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, and Drew Barrymore.SYNOPSIS:Anniversaries divisible by five remain popular with the Hollywood studios’ home theater divisions, so of course E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial needed (not really) that treatment for its 35th anniversary. If you have the Blu-ray issued five years ago, […]

Paramount looking to expand its Transformers output with a multi-part sequel and spin-off films

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Having topped the worldwide box office chart in 2014 with Transformers: Age of Extinction, it looks like Paramount Pictures is keen on expanding its output for the Robots in Disguise, with Deadline revealing that the studio has launched a “writer’s room” for a multi-part Transformers sequel and spin-off films, a la Disney’s plans for Star […]

Movie Review – The Post (2017)

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The Post, 2017.Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Rhys, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Zach Woods, Pat Healy, John Rue, Justin Swain, Deborah Green, Phillip Casnoff, Jessie Mueller, and Michael Stuhlbarg.SYNOPSIS:A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed […]

Steven Spielberg still hoping to adapt Stephen King’s The Talisman

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Back in 1982, two years prior to its publication, filmmaker Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to The Talisman, a fantasy novel from Stephen King and Peter Straub.As King notes in a piece over at Entertainment Weekly, “several times [Spielberg] came very close to making it”, and it seems the filmmaker isn’t ready to give up […]

Steven Spielberg says Indiana Jones 5 will be Harrison Ford’s last outing, open to female-led reboot

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Given that he’ll be pushing eighty years old by the time it hits cinemas, it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to hear that the upcoming Indiana Jones 5 will mark Harrison Ford’s final outing as the bullwhip-cracking, fedora-wearing archaeologist and adventurer.Speaking to The Sun during a promotional interview for his new film […]