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Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #3

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #3… An uneasy peace between Optimus Prime and the newly arrived Junkions is threatened by Soundwave’s discovery within their massive ship… Optimus Prime #3 was another relatively quiet issue, but that still didn’t stop it from being a good one. It continued to build the tension between Optimus, Earth and […]

Saw: Legacy adds Laura Vandervoort and Hannah Anderson, release set for October

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Saw: Legacy, the next instalment of the Saw franchise, is coming and much sooner than expected. Variety has announced that Smallville and Bitten actress Laura Vandervoort and Shoot the Messenger’s Hannah Anderson are set to star in the horror sequel, and not only that, but the film was secretly shot last November for an October 27th, 2017 release date. This is surprising […]

Joby Harold tasked with a page-one rewrite for The Flash

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In yet another shake-up for the DC Extended Universe’s The Flash film, Variety is reporting Warner Bros. has hired King Arthur: Legend of the Sword scribe Joby Harold to do a page-one rewrite of the film. This means WB and DC Entertainment will no longer use the script penned previously by Seth Grahame-Smith and former director Rick Famuyiwa. […]

NBC orders female-led What About Bob? pilot called What About Barb?

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NBC has decided to use Frank Oz’s 1991 feature What About Bob?, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfus, as the basis for a new comedy series. Rather than follow men, it will instead be led by a female cast and titled What About Barb?, with a pilot order to test the potential of the series. The series […]

Naomie Harris cast alongside Dwayne Johnson in Rampage

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Recently nominated Oscar actress Naomie Harris has just been cast in the adaptation of the 1980s arcade game Rampage according to The Hollywood Reporter. She will be starring alongside Dwayne Johnson, who is also reuniting with his Journey 2 and San Andreas director Brad Peyton. The film will see the three monsters from the original game – a giant ape, lizard […]

Daisy Ridley to star in spy drama A Woman of No Importance

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens actress Daisy Ridley has put yet another project on her growing schedule, signing on to star in A Woman of No Importance. Per Deadline, this isn’t an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play, but rather an adaptation of Sonia Purnell’s biography of Virginia Hall, an American heiress and spy. Before World War II, Hall […]

Stephen Rea, Richard Schiff and Sarah Bolger cast in Counterpart

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Starz has cast three actors in their upcoming original series Counterpart: V for Vendetta‘s Stephen Rea, The West Wing‘s Richard Schiff and The Tudors‘ Sarah Bolger. They will appear in recurring roles in the series led by J.K. Simmons (Whiplash). Counterpart is the story of Howard Silk (Simmons), a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency, who discovers that the agency […]

Adam McKay to produce corruption drama Crook County

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Deadline is reporting that The Big Short‘s Adam McKay has found a new project to work on. He will produce Crook County, a film based on the true events of Terrance Hake and the FBI’s biggest corruption sting in America’s history. The script has been written by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, who will also direct, with Brooklyn‘s […]

D.J. Caruso’s G.I. Joe 3 would have crossed over with Transformers

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Before he was brought on to direct xXx: Return of Xander Cage, D.J. Caruso was tapped to helm a third G.I. Joe film for Paramount Pictures. While that project ultimately failed to materialise, Caruso has revealed in an interview with Collider that the third film was originally going to set up a shared universe with Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise, leading to […]

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens being produced by Amazon

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There’s only a couple months left until American Gods premieres, but already another of Neil Gaiman’s properties is coming to television. Amazon Studios has announced it has acquired his and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens novel to adapt as a miniseries. It will premiere in 2018 on Prime Video for six episodes and will be released globally and exclusively on Amazon. […]