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Henry Cavill producing and starring in Warhammer 40,000 series for Amazon

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It’s been quite the week for Henry Cavill. From the lows of being dropped as DC Studios’ Superman (just weeks after officially announcing his return following a Black Adam cameo opposite Dwayne Johnson), the British actor is now teaming with Vertigo Entertainment to bring Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 to life on Amazon Prime Video. Cavill, […]

Marvel’s Iron Man has been inducted into the National Film Registry

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Marvel Studios’ first feature Iron Man has been announced as part of this year’s inductees into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, a collection of films chosen for preservation due to their historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions. The full list of 25 films chosen for the 2022 National Film Registry are: Mardi Gras Carnival […]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power sets all-female directing team for season 2

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Prime Video has announced that directors Charlotte Brändström (The Witcher), Sanaa Hamri (The Wheel of Time) and Louise Hooper (The Sandman) are set to take charge of the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, with the trio directing multiple episodes apiece across season two’s eight episodes. Brändström, who directed […]

John Krasinski has had no talks with Marvel over Reed Richards return for Fantastic Four

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For the first time since joining the Marvel Studios fold as a result of Disney’s Fox takeover, the Fantastic Four made their first mark on the MCU this year with John Krasinski’s cameo as Reed Richards in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Krasinski had long been mentioned by fans as not only a […]

Comic Book Preview – Gun Honey: Blood for Blood #4

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Titan Comics and Hard Case Crime’s Gun Honey: Blood for Blood reaches its climax this coming Wednesday with the release of the fourth and final issue; check out the official preview here… On the run from Malaysia to Milan, from Montana to Monaco, can Joanna Tan, the legendary ‘Gun Honey’, catch up to her ruthless […]

Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid gets a first teaser poster

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With Hereditary and Midsommar behind them, there’s certainly a lot of anticipation for A24 and director Ari Aster’s third collaboration, and we now have a look at the teaser poster for Beau Is Afraid, headlined by Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Previously titled Disappointment Blvd. and described by the filmmaker as a “nightmare comedy”, the film is […]

IDW celebrates Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 30th anniversary with “lost episode” miniseries The Dog of War

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IDW Publishing has announced that it will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with The Dog of War, a new five-issue miniseries marking the comic debut of celebrated novelist Mike Chen (Star Wars: Brotherhood), who along with artist Angel Hernandez (Star Trek: Picard—Stargazer) has crafted this “lost episode” set within the […]

Avatar: The Way of Water tracking $525 million worldwide opening weekend

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13 years in the making, and with hundreds of millions of dollars ploughed not only into the production but also the actual development of much of the technology used to bring it to life, James Cameron has claimed that Avatar: The Way of Water will need to become “the third or fourth highest-grossing film in […]

New poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy

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Coming in hot – white hot, in fact – on the heels of yesterday’s promotional images, we now have a new poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer as he observes first hand the terrifying achievement of the Manhattan Project with ‘Trinity’, the world’s first ever nuclear explosion.  SEE ALSO: […]

Rise of the Footsoldier: The Mobile Game releasing in January

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Carnaby International has announced that it is bringing the British indie film franchise Rise of the Footsoldier to mobile devices in 2023 with an all-new video game which reimagines the series as an old-school Beat ’em Up. Inspired by the 2007 British gangster film of the same name, Rise of the Footsoldier: The Mobile Game […]