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Johnny Depp’s City of Lies pulled from cinemas weeks before release

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Due for release on 7th September, Brad Furman’s investigative crime drama City of Lies, starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker, has been pulled from US cinemas mere weeks before release. Reopening the casefile on the infamous murders of The Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur, the movie was set to be released by Global Road Entertainment, yet The […]

New Bumblebee poster ups the 80s nostalgia

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Paramount Pictures has revealed a brand new poster for the upcoming live- action Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, which you can check out in all of its 1980’s video rental cover style glory below. Let us know your reactions to it in the comments section below… SEE ALSO: Transformers spinoff Bumblebee gets a Comic-Con poster and cast interviews On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee […]

Yippee ki-yay? Die Hard: Year One director provides an update on the film

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You could be forgiven for thinking that Hollywood had seen sense in deciding to let the idea of a John McClane origin story be buried over time, but Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0 (delete where applicable) director Len Wiseman has revealed in an interview with Slashfilm that Die Hard: Year One is very […]

Second Opinion – Sicilian Ghost Story (2017)

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Sicilian Ghost Story, 2017. Directed by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza. Starring Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari, Federico Finocchirao, and Andrea Falzone. SYNOPSIS: Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick […]

Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book film Mowgli heading to Netflix rather than theaters

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Originally slated for theatrical release on October 19th of this year, having already been shunted around the release date schedule to avoid Jon Favreau’s 2016 blockbuster, Andy Serkis’ adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, titled Mowgli, will now surprisingly swing its way onto Netflix instead. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the streaming giant has picked […]

HBO has “very, very high hopes” for Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen pilot

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HBO’s Television Critics Association presentation has taken place this week, and it has offered up some snippets of information on the current state of Damon Lindelof’s (The Leftovers, Lost, Prometheus) adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel, Watchmen. Deadline is reporting that the network’s programming president, Casey Bloys, discussed the pilot, which has been directed by Nicole […]

Showrunner confirms Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot will focus on a new Slayer

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One of the biggest pieces of news to emerge from the Hellmouth of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con was the fact that Warner Bros. confirmed that they were to reboot Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This brought with it an understandable level of consternation from a fanbase who cherished the adventures of Buffy Summers […]

Justin Theroux and Ashley Jensen join Disney’s Lady and the Tramp live-action remake

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As Disney continue to mine their back-catalogue for live-action adaptations, Collider are reporting that Justin Theroux (The Spy Who Dumped Me) is joining the remake of 1955’s Lady and the Tramp. Theroux, familiar to most as Kevin Garvey in HBO’s stunning The Leftovers, will voice the character of Tramp, the confident stray mongrel who strikes up […]

Alita: Battle Angel gets a stunning new trailer

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20th Century Fox has released a brand new trailer for the Robert Rodriguez-directed, James Cameron-produced manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel, and you can check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCup41IzMJI Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set […]

Stephen King’s From A Buick 8 finds its director

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Hyde Park Entertainment have named their director for the next instalment of the Stephen King adaptation renaissance, From A Buick 8. According to Deadline, William Brent Bell, whose credits include The Boy, The Devil Inside, and Wer, will take control of the wheel on the evil car horror. From A Buick 8 was originally published […]