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Doctor Strange 2 conjures up $27 million overseas opening

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Doctor Strange has picked up the box-office baton from Spider-Man: No Way Home and posted impressive figures on its first day of overseas release, bringing in $27M from 20 international territories. Cast your mind back through the multiverse to 2016, when Scott Derrickson’s original solo Stephen Strange outing grossed $232M domestically and $677M worldwide, and […]

David Ayer to direct Jason Statham in action flick The Beekeeper

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As we approach the 75th Cannes Film Festival, expect plenty of announcements regarding new films being shopped up-and-down the croisette, one of which is the intriguingly titled The Beekeeper, which will see Suicide Squad‘s David Ayer directing Jason Statham in a “fast-paced action-thriller”. Deadline report that the Miramax film will come from a spec script […]

John Stewart takes the ring in trailer for DC’s Green Lantern: Beware My Power animated movie

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The ring-bearer concept of the Green Lantern affords DC the opportunity to start over following 2011’s infamous blockbuster flop, and while Warner Bros. reportedly blocked Zack Snyder from using John Stewart’s Green Lantern in his Justice League cut, the popular member of the Green Lantern Corps has now been given his own origin story in […]

Watch Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al in the trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

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Daniel Radcliffe has made some really fun career choices since hanging up his wand (Swiss Army Man, The Lost City), and it appears that he’s onto another winner with Roku’s forthcoming biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. The man who Radcliffe will be portraying took to Twitter to debut a first look at the film, […]

First look at Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington in David O. Russell’s newly titled Amsterdam

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With a cast list to rival Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, David O. Russell’s previously untitled ensemble piece has now been given the title of Amsterdam, and we’ve also been treated to a first look at the film during 20th Century Studios’ CinemaCon panel. Described as a “romantic crime epic”, what few details that were ascertained about […]

Tom Cruise announces Mission: Impossible 7 title

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The Mission: Impossible franchise had attempted the impossible by continuing to shoot throughout much of the pandemic, leading to reports that the budget for the seventh intallment had ballooned to around $290 million, but now that the eighth film in the blockbuster franchise is officially in-production, Tom Cruise has used a break in filming to […]

Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes secures a 2023 release date

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The Hunger Games trilogy grossed nearly $3 billion at the worldwide box-office, so it’s little surprise that Lionsgate are moving forward with their planned prequel to the Jennifer Lawrence headlined blockbuster franchise, and it has just been announced that The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be released in theatres on November 17th, 2023. The Hollywood […]

Kubo’s Travis Knight to direct The Night Gardener for Laika

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Of all the news we’ve been getting over the past few days about Batmen and Barbies, few announcements are as exciting as the one made by Laika Animation Studios about their next movie, because they’ve just tasked CEO Travis Knight with directing a gritty neo-noir stop-motion folktale called The Night Gardener. The Hollywood Reporter reveals […]

Lesley Manville chases her dreams in the trailer for Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

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Hoping to corner the market for counter-programming this summer, as well as surely winning Best Film Title of the Year, Universal and Focus Features have just released the trailer for period comedy Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. The film follows Lesley Manville’s widowed housekeeper Ada Harris, who decides to get up off her hands and […]

Haunting new trailer for Justin Kurzel’s critically-acclaimed Nitram

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Picturehouse Entertainment has dropped the UK trailer for Justin Kurzel’s critically-acclaimed drama Nitram, the film that won Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) the Best Actor award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Nitram, which we said was “executed with restraint, terror, and sensitivity” in our ★★★★ review, tells the story of events […]