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Robert Downey Jr. and Shane Black to Play Dirty for Amazon

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Robert Downey Jr. is set to reunite with his Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man 3 director Shane Black on Play Dirty, the first of what is planned to be a number film and TV projects centred on the character of Parker, a professional thief and the protagonist of Donald E. Westlake’s book series. […]

Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton hunt a CIA mole in All the Old Knives trailer

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Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Olen Steinhauer’s novel All the Old Knives. Directed by Janus Metz, the espionage thriller stars Chris Pine as a CIA operative who teams up with his former colleague and ex-lover (Thandiwe Newton) as he tries to uncover a double agent within […]

Regina Hall stars in trailer for horror-thriller Master

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Following its premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for Master, a horror-thriller following three women as they strive to find their place at an elitist New England university that may be hiding a sinister secret. The film marks the feature debut for writer-director Mariama Diallo and […]

Amazon releases trailer for The Outlaws starring Stephen Merchant and Christopher Walken

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Amazon Prime Video has released a trailer for The Outlaws, the BBC One comedy-crime thriller series from creators Stephen Merchant and Elgin James which follows seven lawbreaking strangers who are forced to repay their debt to society with court mandated community service. The series, which aired here in the UK back in November, sees Merchant, […]

TV Review – The Boys Presents: Diabolical

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Justin Cook reviews The Boys Presents: Diabolical… In a pop-culture landscape that has been gripped with “superhero fever” for well over a decade now, it can often feel like every possible permutation of the genre has already been well-explored, both narratively and artistically. Therefore, it’s hardly a novel idea within an established superhero franchise to […]

Amazon teams with dj2 for video game adaptations, including Life is Strange and Disco Elysium

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Amazon Studios is looking to the world of video games as it seeks to expand its film and television output, with Collider reporting that the streamer is looking to bring Life Is Strange and Disco Elysium to life with TV adaptations. As revealed by the outlet, Amazon has signed a deal with dj2 Entertainment, the transmedia […]

Walton Goggins ventures into the Wasteland for Amazon’s Fallout TV series

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Last month it was announced that Amazon is teaming with Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy to bring the hit video game series Fallout to life on the small screen, and now comes word that Walton Goggins (Ant-Man and the Wasp, The Righteous Gemstones) has signed on for a lead role the live-action adaptation. Originally […]

The Boys Presents: Diabolical gets a new trailer and episode images

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The world of Amazon’s critically-acclaimed superhero series The Boys expands this March as the streamer launches the comic book adaptation’s first spinoff, The Boys Presents: Diabolical. Ahead of its premiere, Amazon has released a new trailer for the animated anthology series, which offers a peek at all eight episodes from this first season, each featuring […]

Return to Middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer

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During last night’s Super Bowl, Amazon Prime Video debuted a teaser trailer for the hotly-anticipated fantasy drama The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, giving us our first look at the adventures of the heroic legends of the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epics The […]

Amazon orders live-action Blade Runner series from Ridley Scott and Alcon Entertainment

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Last year Ridley Scott revealed that, in addition to the upcoming Alien TV show at Hulu, he was also working on bringing another of his iconic sci-fi films to the small screen with a Blade Runner TV show, and now comes word that Amazon has granted a ten-episode order for a live-action show set within […]