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Legion season 2 likely to consist of more episodes than the first

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The second season of X-Men universe TV show Legion is likely to feature more episodes compared to its first season. With season one of the bizarre mutant series Legion finishing up its eight episode run last night on FX, attention is now turning to the future and the already confirmed season two of the show. […]

Jordan Peele is being courted to direct the live-action Akira movie

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Warner Bros. is courting Jordan Peele to direct the long awaited film adaptation of the popular anime Akira. With the success brought his way through his work directing Get Out – a horror film centred on a young black man visiting his girlfriend’s creepy Caucasian family – one can imagine that Peele will be getting […]

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk impresses at CinemaCon

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Footage of Christopher Nolan’s much anticipated World War II drama Dunkirk has impressed theater owners at CinemaCon. Christopher Nolan, director of such films as Interstellar, Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy, delighted those in attendance at CinemaCon when he dropped footage of his upcoming film Dunkirk. Dunkirk tells the story the British military evacuation of Dunkirk […]

Netflix picks up revenge thriller Apostle from The Raid director

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Netflix has managed to acquire the rights to the Gareth Evans revenge thriller Apostle. Evans, who is the writer and director of the film, and is mostly known for his work on the The Raid movies, is set to start filming on his new project, Apostle, this April. According to Deadline, the movie, which follows a man […]

Spider-Man could leave the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Homecoming sequel

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Spider-Man’s stay in the MCU may be short lived as it has been revealed that he may be departing once the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming has been released. Fans had waited a long time to see Spider-Man finally join Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. The much loved superhero character had been handling things all by himself up […]

True Detective season 3 in the works with Deadwood creator

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There is life! True Detective is to be brought back to TV after a two year absence for a third season. When season one of the show hit screens back in 2014, quite the cultural phenomenon was created. The anthology drama based around two cops investigating a deeply disturbing string of murders hooked audiences on […]

Patrick Wilson is teasing his Aquaman villain Ocean Master

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Actor Patrick Wilson has been teasing the arrival of his upcoming Aquaman villain Ocean Master. A consistent and prevalent problem in the modern day superhero genre – one that exists across the Marvel/DC spectrum- is the lack of interesting and substantive villains. While all the attention is thrown at the film’s heroes, the antagonists in […]

Life: One Dread-Inducing Reason to Watch the Sci-Fi Horror Movie

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Samuel Brace on the new sci-fi horror Life… Space is awesome. And no, that’s not THE reason suggested in the title of this piece, but it was certainly MY reason for initially buying a ticket. But with that being said, it is a statement that should ease us nicely into this sincere endorsement of the […]

Assassin’s Creed TV series in development

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A TV adaptation of the popular video game franchise Assassin’s Creed is in development according to Ubisoft. With the very recent relative failure, financially and critically, of the big screen adaptation of the video game series Assassin’s Creed, one would think that the franchise is done in terms of live action drama. But apparently this is […]