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Paramount developing another remake of The Longest Yard

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Paramount Pictures are working on yet another remake of popular prison sports comedy The Longest Yard.  According to Deadline the studio, who released both the Burt Reynolds 1974 version and the 2005 Adam Sandler remake, have tapped Rodney Barnes (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty) to write the script for the film. Directed […]

Final trailer for The Marvels teases ‘One Last Fight’ for Carol Danvers

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Ahead of its release this Friday, and with presales reportedly trailing those of Black Adam and The Flash, Marvel Studios has given The Marvels one last push by dropping a final trailer for the Nia DaCosta-directed superhero-sequel.  The Marvels stars Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Park Seo-joon, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan […]

Movie Review – The Killer (2023)

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The Killer, 2023.  Directed by David Fincher Starring Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Kerry O’Malley, Sala Baker, with Tilda Swinton and Sophie Charlotte SYNOPSIS:  After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal. David Fincher once again peers into the darker recesses of the […]

Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson feature in the English-language trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron

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GKIDS has released the English-language trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and The Heron, the eagerly-anticipated animated feature from Studio Ghibli which tells the story of Mahito, a 12-year-old boy struggling to cope with grief, who follows a talking heron into an abandoned tower, and is transported to another world. The English language dubbed version […]

South Korean monster apocalypse series Sweet Home finally gets a season 2 trailer

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Netflix has finally dropped a teaser trailer for their South Korean monster series Sweet Home, which ended its brilliant first run back in 2020, and makes a return this December.  Picking up three years after the military saved some of the last remaining residents of the Green Home apartment block, the trailer shows us what […]

Journey to the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in epic first trailer

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Disney and 20th Century Studios has released the first trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Wes Ball’s continuation of the $1.7 billion grossing reboot series, which picks up the simian story years after Caesar’s death.  Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Wes Ball (The Maze Runner) and features a […]

HBO’s David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived trailer depicts the inspirational story of Harry Potter stuntman

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HBO has released the trailer for their Harry Potter stuntman documentary, David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, which charts the journey of the young Daniel Radcliffe double who suffered a life-changing accident during the production of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Executive produced by the boy-wizard himself, Daniel Radcliffe, and directed by […]

Watch the opening credits for Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

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Netflix has unveiled the opening credits for their Edgar Wright-produced anime series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, which tells us that we’ll never want to skip the intro for the eagerly anticipated show. Judge for yourself by checking out the sequence below… Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is written by the graphic novel’s creator Brian O’Malley and BenDavid […]

Warner Bros.’ Salem’s Lot remake to skip theaters for streaming release

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Warner Bros.’ Gary Dauberman-directed adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot is set to bypass cinemas altogether and make its long-overdue debut on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform. Consigned to post-production hell and locked in the Warner Bros. crypt for over a year, there’s an air of inevitability about the studios’ decision to dump the vampire-horror […]