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Terminal cancer patient asks J.J. Abrams to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens early as his dying wish

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Cancer sucks, we just wanted to put that out there. Remember a couple of years ago when a terminal cancer patient asked J.J. Abrams to see an early cut of Star Trek Into Darkness as his dying wish? Well this chap is trying the same tactic, only this time with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. […]

The Week in Star Wars – No more trailers for The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams on Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford, Gwendoline Christie and Kevin Smith discuss the movie, classic character rumoured to return

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Following last week’s bumper edition of The Week in Star Wars, it’s a slightly shorter version this time round. But we do have J.J. Abrams talking about the lack of Luke Skywalker and trailers while Kevin Smith talks about seeing “a chunk” of the movie and how it made him feel… After all the theories coming […]

Deadpool will get an IMAX release

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20th Century Fox have landed a multi-picture deal with IMAX to show several of their future tentpole movies on the cinema format, including Independence Day: Resurgence, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the untitled Wolverine movie and Deadpool. “We are very happy to announce this new global affiliation with IMAX and look forward to offering our audiences another […]

Rumour: Daredevil will appear in Jessica Jones

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With Daredevil set to join Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and either Iron Fist or The Punisher (depending on whether the rumours are true), it was likely that The Man Without Fear would cross paths with his Defenders co-horts before their mini-series at some point. But if The Death of Superman Lives director John Schnepp is to […]

Paradise Lost: The Already Troubled Production History of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5

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With Alien 5 being put “on hold”, Luke Owen looks back at the movie’s brief troubled production… “The way Fox dealt with me was not cool,” Neill Blomkamp recalls of his time on the unproduced Halo movie. “Right from the beginning, when Mary [Parent] hired me up until the end when it collapsed, they treated me […]

Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 now on indefinite hold due to Ridley Scott’s Alien: Paradise Lost

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The Internet was abuzz last year when it was announced that District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp was working with 20th Century Fox on a new sequel to Alien starring Sigourney Weaver and Micheal Biehn, but it now looks like that movie is in trouble. Following the announcement that Ridley Scott was making three sequels […]

All-female Ocean’s Eleven sequel/reboot/spin-off in development with Sandra Bullock; George Clooney could cameo

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Following the positive response to Paul Feig’s all-female reboot of Ghostbusters, it looks like the world of Ocean’s Eleven could follow suit. The Playlist are reporting that an all-female sequel/reboot/spin-off/remake is in development with Gary Ross (The Hunger Games) set to direct and Olivia Milch (Little Women) writing the script. At present, Sandra Bullock (Gravity) […]

Power Rangers reboot rumoured to be titled Saban’s Power Rangers; character names revealed?

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We’ve been hearing drips and drabs from the Power Rangers reboot casting (see here, here, here and here), and some new details have come out from Collider about the title for the movie as well as the character names for our heroes. The site is claiming that Saban are going to brand Power Rangers the same […]

Another Monopoly movie in development

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Despite the failings of Battleship, the idea of developing a board game into a feature length movie is still doing the rounds in Hollywood, but this new movie based on popular family game Monopoly is looking at the games inception rather than creating a story from it. Tracking Board are reporting that Big Beach Films are developing […]