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First trailer for Bong Joon-Ho’s sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson

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Warner Bros. has released a trailer for Mickey 17, the sci-fi comedy from director Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite) and based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7. Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, a man who accepts a job as an ‘expendable’, whose role is to sent onto missions into space… and every time he dies a new […]

Matt Reeves rules out “fantastical” villains for The Batman Part II, talks The Penguin connections

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When director Matt Reeves boarded The Batman, his objective was to make a grounded and gritty film noir mystery set in Gotham City. With The Batman spin-off series The Penguin premiering later this month and The Batman Part II currently being written, Reeves has teased his plans for the sequel and how much more of this grounded reality fans can expect. The […]

Robert Pattinson’s Batman won’t appear in The Penguin series

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You may have been asking for too much if you wanted The Batman in a Gotham-set spinoff. As we gear up for HBO’s The Penguin, set in the universe of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, writer and showrunner Lauren LeFranc revealed that Robert Pattinson’s Batman does not have a role in the series. However, the reason […]

Robert Pattinson teams with Jennifer Lawrence for the first time in Die, My Love

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A 2010s dream team is finally happening: Robert Pattinson will team up with Jennifer Lawrence for a new film. Directed by Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Deadline reports the duo is set for the thriller Die, My Love. Ramsay also co-wrote the script with Enda Walsh. The story follows a mother in […]

The Possession Remake Makes Me Want To Scream In The Subway

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It’s finally happened, the acquired taste cult-classic Possession is being given the Hollywood remake treatment. Is nothing sacred? Hollywood’s baffling lack of creative ideas is nothing new, nor is the preoccupation with remaking cult movies from decades ago. We have a reboot of The Crow on the way that could have chosen a number of […]

The Batman Part II delayed a full year into 2026

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History is repeating itself somewhat as Warner Bros. has announced that Matt Reeves’ The Batman Part II has been delayed a fully year from October 2025 to October 2026. The Batman similarly suffered from several release date shifts, mostly due to production delays and shutdowns during the pandemic, before settling on a March 4th, 2022 release. The […]

Kristen Stewart says her and Robert Pattinson “can’t just keep talking” about Twilight

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Kristen Stewart’s career is so far removed from her Twilight days, but that still doesn’t stop the iconic vampire love franchise from reappearing throughout the years. Twilight and her work in the films were brought up in a recent spread with Rolling Stone. She went on to discuss her acting and working with her equally […]

Netflix shelves Adam McKay’s Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Pattinson project Average Height, Average Build

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Netflix has decided not to move forward with Adam McKay’s planned serial killer comedy Average Height, Average Build, which was to feature a star-studded cast headlined by Robert Pattinson and Robert Downey Jr. According to Deadline the Anchorman director will no longer be making Average Height, Average Build, which McKay had brought to the streamer, […]

The Most Incredibly Annoying Movie Characters

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Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the most annoying movie characters ever… Cinema at its best delights and enthrals. For that to work, we need engaging characters we can get behind. There’s a problem though. Sometimes for an array of reasons, some characters just end up being incredibly annoying. It can be the cherry on […]