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The Week in Star Wars – The Force Awakens runtime, Drew Struzan calls it the best Star Wars movie ever, Pop! Vinyl figures revealed, Darth Vader PS4 and more

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In this week’s edition of The Week in Star Wars, we recover from the bumper edition coming off D23 with some smaller nuggets of news for The Force Awakens and more… Kicking things off with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and J.J. Abrams has revealed the runtime for the highly-anticipated movie. It’s shorter than any […]

R.I.P Yvonne Craig (1937 – 2015)

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We are sad to report this morning the passing of Yvonne Craig, who has died at the age of 78. Her official website broke the news. Craig was perhaps best known for her role as Batgirl in the 1960’s Batman TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. She also featured in the Star Trek […]

Original version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four had Galactus, Mole Man, Herbie the Robot, the Fantasticar and Doctor Doom as a Latverian dictator

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Like Tim Burton’s Superman Lives or James Cameron’s Spider-Man, we will never see the true version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. Among the many public problems the film has had in the last couple of weeks (see here, here, here, here, here and here), it was revealed by screenwriter Jeremy Slater that not much of his script was […]

New details about Bebop and Rocksteady in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

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Warning – minor spoilers below… We’ve seen some set photos of Gary Anthony Williams and WWE Superstar Sheamus as Bebop and Rocksteady pre-mutation, and it was always assumed they would end up as the rhino and warthog that we know an love from the cartoon. Well, looks like that is the case. Former WWE Superstar and […]

Ali Larter says Resident Evil: The Final Chapter will be the last in the series

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Filming for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter begins in South Africa next month, and Ali Larter (who was announced to return last month) has confirmed that this will, indeed, be the final chapter of the long-running franchise. “We are not allowed to say one thing,” she told IGN. “I am held to secrecy, but what […]

Tom Holland joins the Captain America: Civil War cast in Germany; not allowed to talk about the character

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New Spider-Man Tom Holland has officially joined the cast of Captain America: Civil War as they film in Germany and is expected to film for the next couple of weeks. This does however conflict with earlier reports that Holland had already shot his scenes for the movie, unless he does have a larger role in […]

Prometheus 2 could push Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 back; Michael Biehn not officially cast

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With the announcement of Prometheus 2 finally heading into development, sources have told Bloody-Disgusting that it could have an impact on Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5. “Alien 5 is still very much in the works, as Fox remains hot on the idea,” the source claims. “Blomkamp continues to work on the script (only an outline existed previously) […]

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. stumbles at the box office with just $13.5 million

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Warner Bros. was probably expecting a warmer reaction to the big screen reboot of the classic TV show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., but sadly the film has under-performed at the box office. Opening on 3,700 screens, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. made just $13.5 million, opening third behind Universal’s Straight Outta Compton and Mission: Impossible – […]