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Netflix adapting Pride and Prejudice as limited series

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A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice is on the way. Netflix will develop the book into a limited series with Dolly Alderton (Everything I Know About Love) writing the series. Austen published Pride and Prejudice in 1813 as her follow up novel to Sense and Sensibility. It follows “the intelligent yet stubborn […]

Sophie Rundle, Stephen Graham and more Blinders return for Peaky Blinders film

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The Peaky Blinders feature film will see more of its previous cast return from the TV series alongside Cillian Murphy as Sophie Rundle, Stephen Graham, Ned Dennehy, Packy Lee and Ian Peck will reprise their roles among a group of other newcomers. Rundle played Ada, Tommy Shelby’s younger sister. Tommy and Ada often had a tumultuous relationship […]

Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld animated series gets a trailer from Netflix

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Netflix has released a new trailer for the animated supernatural action comedy Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld. The series centres on Chinese-American teen Jentry as she discovers a demon king is hunting her for her powers, forcing her to take on an underworld’s worth of evil beings and trying to balance the complexities of high […]

Lara is attacked by an alligator in Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft clip

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Ahead of its premiere tomorrow on Netflix, the streamer has released a clip from the animated action adventure series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft which sees Lara take on a hungry alligator; watch it below… The animated series TOMB RAIDER: THE LEGEND OF LARA CROFT picks up after the events of the highly […]

Netflix releases trailer for The Diplomat season 2 starring Keri Russell

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Netflix has released a trailer and images for the second season of the political drama series The Diplomat which sees US Ambassador Kate (Keri Russell) find herself on a desperate search for the truth after a London bombing shatters her world, and she begins to suspect that the attack came from inside the British government; […]

Michael Bay in talks to direct Will Smith in Fast and Loose

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An all-star blockbuster duo is coming together again with Netflix’s Fast and Loose as Deadline reports that director Michael Bay will likely join actor Will Smith in this upcoming actioner. The outlet notes that the deal is not official yet, but it will likely be the next project for both. Fast and Loose focuses on […]

Topher Grace joins Kevin Williamson’s Netflix drama The Waterfront

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A new addition has been made to the ensemble cast of Netflix’s upcoming drama The Waterfront from Scream creator Kevin Williamson. Per Deadline, That 70’s Show alum Topher Grace will feature in a recurring role. The Waterfront is based on true events focusing on the Buckley family’s attempts to use any means necessary to retain control of their fishing empire. Grace will […]

Netflix releases trailer for IVF drama Joy starring Thomasin McKenzie, Bill Nighy and James Norton

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Ahead of its world premiere at the London Film Festival later this month, Netflix has released a poster and trailer for director Ben Taylor’s Joy. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy, the film tells the remarkable story of the journey of the birth of IVF in 1978, as a young embryologist, scientist, and […]

That ’90s Show cancelled at Netflix, but will be shopped to other networks and streamers

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Things are not all right in Point Place, Wisconsin as Netflix has cancelled That ’90s Show after two seasons. That ’90s Show was a sequel series to That ’70s Show, following Kitty and Red Forman having to deal with a new generation of youths when their granddaughter Leia visits during the summer and makes friends with the local kids. […]

A teenage girl travels back in time to stop her sister’s murder in Netflix’s Time Cut trailer

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Netflix has released the trailer for Time Cut, their science-fiction film that centres on a teenage girl who discovers a time machine, and uses it to travel back to the noughties in order to try and prevent the murder of her sister. Directed by Hannah Macpherson (T@gged) and written by Macpherson and Michael Kennedy (Freaky), […]