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The Week in Star Wars – Force Friday toys, Episode VIII casting, new The Force Awakens character revealed and more

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It’s a toyetic edition of The Week in Star Wars as we have all the fallout from Force Friday, some casting news for Star Wars: Episode VIII, a new banner for The Force Awakens and more… We hope you’ve got a lot of money saved, as the global Force Friday event has revealed all the […]

Live action Mega Man movie in development

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There’s been a resurgence in video game movies over the last couple of months. Not only did we get the release of Hitman: Agent 47, but there has been news of James Wan producing the a Mortal Kombat reboot and Nintendo throwing their hat into the movie business again after the failure of 1993’s Super Mario […]

Emma Thompson: “If I see yet another Spider-Man, I’m going to have to actually hang myself”

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We may be done with superhero and comic book movies for 2015, but there’s a load of the coming next year (Captain America: Civil War, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse to name but a few). Some feel like we’re in a glory period of comic book flicks (unless you’re our own […]

Mark Ruffalo says Hulk is NOT in Captain America: Civil War

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It had been rumoured for some time that Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner/Hulk would be featured in the already-packed Captain America: Civil War, but according to the actor, this isn’t the case. Just so you know, this quote has been translated from Italian by Google. “I thought that I would be in the film, but in the […]

Goosebumps sequel already in development

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It’s not even released yet (but will be shown at this year’s London Film Festival), but it looks like Sony already have plans for a sequel to Goosebumps. Sources for The Tracking Board have confirmed to them that Sony are looking for a new writer to start work on the sequel draft. There’s no word […]

Universal planning reboots for Jaws and Back to the Future

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Let’s be honest, if you didn’t think you’d hear this news in your lifetime, you were kidding yourself. In the wake of the news that Spielberg and Dreamworks were splitting from Disney to go and work with Universal, The Hollywood Reporter dropped in a very interesting note. It turns out that the studio has had plans […]

10 best films of Film4 FrightFest 2015

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Luke Owen looks at this year’s FrightFest… What a year this was. Every time FrightFest rolls around, the four madmen behind the festival promise the ‘best line-up ever’, and this year was no different. Each screen was packed out, there was plenty of surprises on offer and some great interviews with the likes of Barbara […]

Film4 FrightFest 2015 Review – Curve (2015)

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Curve, 2015 Directed by Iain Softley Starring Julianne Hough, Teddy Sears   SYNOPSIS: A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident. Jason Blum is the smartest man in Hollywood today. He’s the only man who get is. He has such a strong business model that he’s guaranteed […]

Film4 FrightFest 2015 Review – Tales of Halloween (2015)

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Tales of Halloween, 2015 Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin, John Skipp, Paul Solet SYNOPSIS: Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one […]