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Jerry Bruckheimer developing two Pirates of the Caribbean movies, one of which features Johnny Depp

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Moana 2 is capping off Disney’s 2024 with impressive numbers, and the studio hopes to return Marvel to regular form in 2025. But what about classic live-action Disney projects? We could see the return of Pirates of the Caribbean sooner rather than later. Disney’s live-action division, headed by David Greenbaum, wants to continue the iconic […]

John Lithgow unleashes his dementia doll in The Rule of Jenny Pen trailer

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A trailer has arrived online for writer-director James Ashcroft’s The Rule of Jenny Pen, an upcoming horror-thriller praised by Stephen King as one of the best movies of the year. Based on Owen Marshall’s short story, the film follows a Stefan (Geoffrey Rush), a judge who moves into a retirement home following a stroke where […]

New poster for John Wick spinoff Ballerina featuring Ana de Armas

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Ahead of its panel at this weekend’s Brazil CCXP, Lionsgate has shared a new poster and image for Ballerina, its upcoming John Wick spin-off featuring No Time to Die’s Ana de Armas as assassin Eve Macarro. Take a look here… SEE ALSO: Ana de Armas enters the world of John Wick with Ballerina trailer Ballerina […]

Die Hard on a Shoestring: The Low Budget Die Hard Clones

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As the festive season approaches and Die Hard becomes mandatory viewing, we take a look at some low budget clones… It may not have been the first of its kind, but when Die Hard came out, from the moment Bruce Willis entered the Nakatomi plaza, a new sub-genre all of its own was launched – […]

Trailer for Australian horror Birdeater teases a feral nightmare

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Ahead of its US release this January, Dark Sky Films has shared a poster and trailer for directors Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Australian horror-thriller Birdeater. Shabana Azeez stars as Irene, a young woman who is invited to join her fiance’s bachelor party in a remote location in the Outback, only for the celebrations to […]

Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World Pop! Vinyls unveiled by Funko

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Funko has revealed a wave of Pop! vinyl figures for the upcoming Marvel Studios blockbuster Captain America: Brave New World, the line includes Captain America (Sam Wilson), Thaddeus Ross, Red Hulk, Falcon (Joaquin Torres), Ruth Bat-Seraph, and The Leader; check them out here… SEE ALSO: LEGO Captain America: Brave New World sets unveiled ahead of […]

John Cena and Eric André team for Netflix comedy Little Brother

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John Cena and Eric André will team together, not in the ring but with a new Netflix comedy. The streamer is in early development on Little Brother, with David Bernad and Ruben Fleischer attached as producers. A director has yet to be announced. Little Brother centers on a well-known real estate agent whose meticulously planned […]

An Olympic hopeful turns adult film star in Her Body trailer

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Ahead of its US release later this month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for Czech writer-director Natálie Císařovská’s biographical drama Her Body. The film tells the true story of Andrea Absolonová (Natalia Germani), a diver who finds her dreams of participating in the Olympics shattered after a spinal injury and reinvents herself as […]

Elizabeth Olsen joins Julia Roberts in Sam Esmail thriller Panic Carefully

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Marvel alum Elizabeth Olsen is set to star opposite Julia Roberts in Panic Carefully, a paranoid thriller from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. Per Deadline, the film will be produced and distributed by Warner Bros. from a script Esmail wrote. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Panic Carefully is described as a paranoid thriller that is a cross […]