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Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and Joey King team up for Netflix comedy

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Zac Efron was last seen playing a dad to a kid with pyromaniac tendencies in Firestarter, Nicole Kidman was facing a marriage crisis while delivering an Oscar-nominated turn in Being the Ricardos, and Joey King was caught up in Welcome to the Blumhouse’s The Lie. Well, now the trio have decided to lighten up by […]

Stephen King adaptation Firestarter unleashes two clips

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We’re just a few days out from the release of Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s new Stephen King adaptation Firestarter, although given the lack of promotion, even the biggest fan of King’s would be forgiven if this one had slipped under the radar. However, it seems someone at Universal has realised they have a movie to […]

Zac Efron looks like he’s having a rough time in new image from The Greatest Beer Run Ever

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It seems as though Zac Efron is intent on putting himself through the wringer these days, because off the back of his dirt-under-the-nails drama Gold (read our review here), a first look image from Peter Farrelly’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever appears to show the one-time song-and-dance man looking equally dishevelled. The image shows Efron […]

First trailer for Stephen King adaptation Firestarter starring Zac Efron

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Universal Pictures has debuted the first trailer and poster for Blumhouse’s upcoming Stephen King adaptation Firestarter. Directed by Keith Thomas, the thriller stars Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon as parents who have spent more than a decade hiding their daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) from the shadowy federal agency look to harness her pyrokinetic powers; take […]

Watch Zac Efron fight to survive in the trailer for Gold

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Zac Efron is a long way from East High School and the razmatazz of The Greatest Showman in the trailer for Australian survival thriller Gold. Written and directed by co-star Anthony Hayes, along with co-writer and partner Polly Smyth, Gold puts Efron through a gruelling set of endurance tests that make The Revenant look like […]

Blumhouse’s Stephen King adaptation Firestarter begins production

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Blumhouse Productions has announced the start of principal photography on Firestarter, the new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic sci-fi thriller novel of the same name. Walking into the first day of production like…. #firestarter @jason_blum @ZacEfron @AkivaGoldsman @StephenKing @MichaelGreyeyes pic.twitter.com/bOtUWd4k56 — Blumhouse (@blumhouse) May 25, 2021 As with the novel, Firestarter revolves around a young […]

Peter Farrelly’s Vietnam War movie enlists Russell Crowe, Zac Efron, and potentially Bill Murray

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Apple are trying to secure Peter Farrelly’s Green Book follow-up, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, possibly due to the fact that that Russell Crowe and Zac Efron are now attached to star, with Bill Murray also circling a role for his Kingpin director. Based on a novel by Joanna Molloy and John Donohue, The Greatest […]

Movie Review – Baywatch (2017)

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Baywatch, 2017. Directed by Seth Gordon. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Priyanka Chopra, Kelly Rohrbach, Ilfenesh Hadera, and Jon Bass. SYNOPSIS: A washed-up Olympic swimmer finds himself teaming up with a squad of elite lifeguards to uncover an international drug smuggling plot and save the beach they’re sworn to protect. Try as it […]

Zac Efron set for Australian survival thriller Gold

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Zac Efron is heading Down Under for Gold, an Australian survival thriller which is being directed by actor Anthony Hayes (Animal Kingdom), who also co-stars. As reported by Deadline, Gold will “follow two strangers traveling through a desert who stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found. They hatch a plan to protect and excavate […]

Zac Efron set for Stephen King adaptation Firestarter

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Having brought in a new director back in December in Keith Thomas (The Vigil), Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions long-gestating Stephen King adaptation Firestarter has added its first cast member in Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, The Greatest Showman). Published in 1980, Firestarter tells the story of a young girl develops pyrokinetic […]