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Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis to reunite for adaptation of acclaimed graphic novel Here

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Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis are set to work together once again on an adaptation of the critically acclaimed Robert Maguire graphic novel Here. You wait nearly two decades for a Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks reunion, following their work on this year’s live-action Pinocchio, and then the Academy Award winning double-act behind Forest Gump, […]

Marc Forster to direct Tom Hanks in comedy A Man Called Otto

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Tom Hanks is set to star in a comedy adaptation of Scandinavian hit A Man Called Ove for STX Films, with Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster calling the shots. According to Deadline the adaptation will be retitled A Man Called Otto and that joining Hanks in the cast will be Mariana Treviño (Overboard), Rachel […]

10 Golden Age Hollywood Stars and Their Modern Successors

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Murray Ferguson looks a ten Golden Age Hollywood stars and their modern successors… Awards season is in full swing, meaning endless discussions of which performances deserve to be rewarded and who has been snubbed. This means it is as good a time as any to celebrate some of the best talent to emerge from Hollywood. […]

Time to get All Shook Up as Baz Luhrmann shares first look at his untitled Elvis movie

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Starring Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as Elvis, Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) as Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker, Olivia DeJonge (The Visit) as Elvis’ wife Priscilla, Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves) as B.B. King, and Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge) as Vernon Presley, Elvis’s father, Baz Luhrmann has shared the first […]

Movie Review – Finch (2021)

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Finch, 2021. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik. Starring Tom Hanks and Caleb Landry Jones. SYNOPSIS: On a post-apocalyptic earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his creator’s beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human. Can man’s best friend also be machine’s best friend? It’s rare to see […]

Band of Brothers: Remembering the HBO Masterpiece On Its 20th Anniversary

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Ricky Church revisits Band of Brothers on its 20th anniversary… 20 years ago, HBO partnered with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg for a miniseries that still remains among the top of HBO’s many outstanding series: Band of Brothers, a World War II epic following the soldiers of Easy Company as they fight through the war […]

Tom Hanks leads an unlikely family in trailer for sci-fi drama Finch

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Following last week’s poster, Apple TV+ has now released a first trailer for the sci-fi drama Finch, which is directed by Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones) and stars Tom Hanks as a man in a post-apocalyptic wasteland who forms an unlikely family with a robot and a dog. Check it out here… In “Finch,” a […]

Tom Hanks sci-fi Finch to premiere on Apple TV+ in November

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Apple Original Films has released a first-look image from Finch, the upcoming sci-fi movie starring Tom Hanks, as well as announcing a November premiere date for the film on the Apple TV+ streaming service. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones), Finch sees Hanks in the title role as a “a robotics engineer and one […]