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Simon Pegg in talks to join Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

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Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best selling science fiction novel Ready Player One has already cast Tye Sheridan (Mud, X-Men: Apocalypse) as lead Wade Watts aka Parzival, with support from Olivia Cooke (Me, Earl and the Dying Girl) and Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). Now it looks like it’s about to […]

Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke admits that filming Season 6 “almost killed” the cast

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It’s only a few months away until the premiere and rumours and spoilers have been readily dropping about Season 6 of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Most of the talk has been about the apparent death of a huge character. Hopefully we will find out for sure about the status of Jon Snow on April 24th […]

Steven Soderbergh working on new movie project with Channing Tatum

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Well it looks like Steven Soderbergh might be coming out of his theatrical retirement to work on a new movie project with Channing Tatum, which will revolve around a heist during a NASCAR-style race. According to a source close to THR, the new movie will be “Ocean’s Eleven but with hillbillies”. Not much else is known […]

Watch footage from The Dark Knight cancelled video game

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In 2005, Electronic Arts published a video game version of Christopher Nolan’s epic superhero reboot Batman Begins. It got mixed reviews, however due to Batman’s evident popularity and the hype surrounding the release of Nolan’s sequel The Dark Knight, another video game tie-in was warranted and EA and Pandemic Studios began working hard to get […]

Real reason why Rupert Wyatt walked away from Gambit revealed

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Fox are really having a tough year aren’t they when it comes to their superhero projects? Despite most people being fairly excited for their upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse and Deadpool movies, it’s their other comic-book projects that are hugging the headlines this year. The Josh Trank helmed reboot of Fantastic Four was critically panned as one […]

Genndy Tartakovsky won’t return for Hotel Transylvania 3

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A third instalment in the record-breaking animated franchise Hotel Transylvania hasn’t officially been announced just yet but with the second movie taking in over $48 million in its opening weekend, it seems likely that Sony will want to cash in on a trilogy and confirm details sooner rather than later. If and when Hotel Transylvania […]

Composer Alan Silvestri to partake in live Q&A at 30th anniversary screening of Back to the Future in Belfast

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Most movie fans will already know that 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the much-loved, classic time-travel comedy Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown. There has already been a bunch of celebratory screenings of the movie throughout the year and another one has just […]

Judge Dredd co-creator says, “There will be a new Dredd film…”

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Ever since the ultra-violent 2012 Karl Urban headlined adaptation of Dredd hit theatres, fans everywhere have been holding their breath for a much deserved sequel. Unfortunately their hopes have been dashed several times despite highly publicised campaigns aimed at turning the studios heads. However, there may be some shining light at the end of the […]

Legendary guitarist Slash to produce new “franchise starter” horror movie

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When the ex-Guns ‘N’ Roses guitarist isn’t melting our faces with insane rock ‘n’ roll riffs and spine tingling guitar solos, he sometimes likes to try his hand at filmmaking, and specifically film production. According to THR, Slash’s new venture – which is still currently untitled – will be a throwback to horror classics of […]