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Rivalry Resumed: Sonic the Hedgehog movie races ahead of Super Mario Bros.

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Having spent the last few weeks reporting the news that Nintendo were to move ahead with their long in the pipeline Super Mario Bros. animated movie, Paramount has confirmed that the plumbers’ biggest pixelated rival, Sonic the Hedgehog, will beat them to the big-screen with a November 15th, 2019 release date.  The Hollywood Reporter have revealed […]

Nightwing director to tackle Dungeons & Dragons movie

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Paramount Pictures, Hasbro Studios and their newly formed production division Allspark Productions are reportedly in negotiations with The LEGO Batman Movie‘s Chris McKay to direct the Dungeons & Dragons reboot. McKay will be busy, having also signed on to helm Warner Bros. and DC’s Nightwing movie, as well as his producer duties on The LEGO […]

UPDATE: Conflicting rumours emerge about the future involvement of Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers

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Ross and Matt Duffer, the creators of TV phenomenon Stranger Things, would have to be as mad as a jealousy fuelled Eleven to consider departing the Netflix show, but that’s exactly what some reports have suggested. Moviefone reported that a source close to the production had said that the next season could well be their […]

Legion season 2 promo claims ‘It’s all in your head’

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Those of you willing to embrace the creative lunacy of Legion were rewarded with one of the best TV shows of recent times. Now ahead of its April 3rd season 2 bow, FOX have released a brand new promo that suggests the mind boggling brilliance is set to continue. Watch the trailer here… Are you […]

Kevin Feige says Michelle Pfeiffer is ‘iconic and amazing” in Ant-Man and The Wasp

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During a discussion with Vulture about the prominence of female characters in the MCU, head honcho Kevin Feige has been talking up Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance as Janet Van Dyne in Marvel’s Ant-Man and The Wasp. The wife of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and mother to Hope (Evangeline Lilly), Janet is currently lost in the Quantum […]

William Sadler’s Death to return in Bill & Ted Face the Music

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We’re getting more totally excellent details on a potential third Bill & Ted movie, Bill & Ted Face the Music. Following Digital Spy’s interview with original writer Ed Solomon, comes with the news that William Sadler, who played the Grim Reaper in 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, is “keeping [his] bony white fingers crossed” […]

Movie Review – Father Figures (2018)

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Father Figures, 2018. Directed by Lawrence Sher. Starring Ed Helms, Owen Wilson, Glenn Close, J.K. Simmons, Harry Shearer, and Ving Rhames. SYNOPSIS: Peter (Ed Helms) and Kyle (Owen Wilson) are polar opposite twin brothers; the former is a physicist who specialises in the colon, the other a lucky lay about who got rich from being […]

How many people watched The Cloverfield Paradox on Super Bowl Sunday?

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In one of the most audacious marketing moves ever, Netflix released The Cloverfield Paradox last Sunday, having teased it hours earlier during the first quarter of the US broadcast of the Super Bowl. The reaction was decidedly mixed (read our review here), but there’s no denying the power of the stunt, and the viewing figures make interesting […]

Maisie Williams discusses the delay and “frightening” tone of The New Mutants

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Currently doing the press rounds for Aardman Animation’s Early Man (read our review here), Maisie Williams has been addressing the almost-year long delay for Josh Boone’s mutant asylum horror, The New Mutants. When Collider spoke to the actress about the movie being pushed back from April 13, 2018 to February 22nd , 2019, she had the following […]