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Ewan McGregor, Val Kilmer, Shiloh Fernandez and more set for mob drama The Birthday Cake

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THR is reporting that Ewan McGregor (Christopher Robin), Val Kilmer (Top Gun), Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead), Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas), Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars) and David Mazouz (Gotham) have been cast in the mob drama The Birthday Cake. The feature directorial debut of Jim Giannopoulos, who has written the script with Fernandez and Diomedes Raul […]

Ewan McGregor officially returning as Obi-Wan Kenobi for Disney+ Star Wars series

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After many, many rumours that have steadily increased in the last couple weeks, it has now been confirmed Ewan McGregor is officially returning to the galaxy far, far away to reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a new Star Wars series for Disney+. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy saved the announcement for last at the D23 Star […]

Ewan McGregor in talks for Obi-Wan Kenobi return in Disney+ Star Wars series

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Deadline is reporting that Ewan McGregor is in talks with Lucasfilm to reprise his role as the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi for a live-action Star Wars TV show on the Disney+ streaming service. As previously rumoured, Lucasfilm had been planning an Obi-Wan movie under its Star Wars Anthology banner, although both this and the long-planned […]

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

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Ricky Church on the 20th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace… For children of the 1980s and 90s, the Star Wars trilogy was exciting, groundbreaking and amazing, but it was all we would ever get of the galaxy far, far away. That is until this day 20 years ago on May 19th, 1999 […]

Trailer for The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep takes us back to the Overlook Hotel

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Warner Bros. has released the first trailer and poster for the upcoming Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep. The supernatural thriller is set 40 years after the events of The Shining and stars Ewan McGregor as Danny Torrance, who after living a peaceful life as a hospice worker, is forced to use his powers against a […]

Rumour: Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars TV series in development for Disney+

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For a time last year, it looked as though the long-rumoured Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars spinoff movie was about to become a reality, with a director on board in Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) and rumours abound that production would get underway this spring. Unfortunately for fans of Ewan McGregor’s Jedi Master, the box office failure of […]

First teaser for DC’s Birds of Prey introduces the cast of the DC movie

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Hot on the heels of a behind the scenes image featuring Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, a teaser has arrived online for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) which gives us our first peek at The Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smolett-Bell), Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), Cassandra Cain (Elle Jay […]

Ewan McGregor to star in Simply Halston limited series

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Deadline is reporting that Ewan McGregor is set for a return to the small screen, with the actor set to take on the role of American fashion designer Halston in the limited series Simply Halston. Written by Sharr White (The Affair) and directed by Dan Minahan (American Crime Story), the series will see McGregor portraying […]

Ewan McGregor cast as Black Mask in DC’s Birds of Prey

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Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey has found its villain. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ewan McGegor (Christopher Robin) has been cast as the villainous mobster Black Mask in the DC superhero film. Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask, first appeared in the Batman comics in 1985 as a powerful mob figure in Gotham’s underworld. Since then, he has plagued Batman […]

Ewan McGregor and Sharlto Copley reportedly up for Black Mask role in DC’s Birds of Prey

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Yesterday it was announced that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Fargo) and Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Underground) have joined Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn in the upcoming DC Films girl gang movie Birds of Prey, with the actresses cast as Huntress and Black Canary respectively. Still to be cast in the film are Detective Renee Montoya, who will join Harley, Huntress […]