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Doom Patrol gets six season 3 character posters

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With a little over two weeks to go until Doom Patrol season 3 premieres on HBO Max, six character posters have landed online for the hit DC superhero series featuring Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Cyborg (Joivan Wade), Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), Robotman (Brendan Fraser), and Madame Rouge (Michelle Gomez); check them out […]

Band of Brothers: Remembering the HBO Masterpiece On Its 20th Anniversary

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Ricky Church revisits Band of Brothers on its 20th anniversary… 20 years ago, HBO partnered with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg for a miniseries that still remains among the top of HBO’s many outstanding series: Band of Brothers, a World War II epic following the soldiers of Easy Company as they fight through the war […]

HBO Review – Scenes from a Marriage

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Martin Carr reviews HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage… This intimate examination of long term relationships is stylistically absorbing, intrusively unsettling and genuinely engrossing. Adapted from the Ingmar Bergman original by Hagai Levi, who came to prominence on HBO through The Affair, it features some powerhouse performances from Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain. Playing Jonathan and […]

HBO’s The Last of Us series’ pilot episode has wrapped filming, confirms director Kantemir Balagov

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Kantemir Balagov, the director for the pilot episode for HBO’s series adaptation of the hit Naughty Dog video game The Last of Us, has taken to Instagram to confirm that filming has wrapped on the first episode, with a messaging stating “My job is done here.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared […]

Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac star in trailer for HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage

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HBO has released a poster and trailer for the upcoming TV adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 drama Scenes from a Marriage. Directed by Hagai Levi, the limited series examines the relationship of a contemporary American couple Mira (Jessica Chastain) and Jonathan (Oscar Isaac); take a look here… A captivating re-examination of the dilemmas probed by […]

J.J. Abrams and Issa Rae team for sci-fi vampire series Fledgling

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Variety is reporting that J.J. Abrams is teaming with Insecure creator Issa Rae to produce a TV adaptation of Octavia Butler’s 2005 sci-fi vampire novel Fledgling, which has received a pilot script order from HBO. As per the trade, Fledgling tells the story of “an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities […]

Westworld resumes production on fourth season

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HBO has resumed production on season four of Westworld after being shut down for two weeks due to a positive Covid-19 test from one of its crew members, according to Deadline. Filming resumed last week and is currently taking place at Melody Ranch in Newhall, California, a location the series has shot in several times in […]

Days of Abandonment abandoned by HBO as Natalie Portman exits film

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HBO Films has cancelled production on The Days of Abandonment after Natalie Portman had to exit the film due to personal reasons. “Due to unforeseen personal reasons, Natalie Portman has stepped down from HBO Films’ Days of Abandonment prior to the start of filming,” HBO said. “Unfortunately, the production will not move forward. We are very sorry we […]

HBO’s The Last of Us series adds Anna Torv as Tess

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HBO’s series adaptation of the hit Naughty Dog video game The Last of Us has added another member to its cast in a major role. According to Deadline, Anna Torv, who is perhaps best known as Wendy Carr in Netflix’s Mindhunter, is set to take on the role of Tess. In The Last of Us video game, Tess is Joel’s […]