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No matter what the subject or how affecting the lessons were, humanity never learns from mistakes of the past. Sidney Lumet’s 1976 masterpiece could easily have been made in 2017. Watching Network post-Trump feels like a particularly cynical (though accurate) look ...

While having been hesitant to appear in the proposed Ghostbusters 3 after the sequel in the franchise didn’t meet critical expectations (and a supposedly weak script), Murray has said yes to Feig’s all-female reboot. And why wouldn’t he? A cameo ...

We’re already getting a World of Warcraft film directed by Duncan Jones and now we’re getting a new Dungeons and Dragons film… life is good. Let’s just hope Warner Bros get an awesome team together for this one. And all ...

I feel like the walls of reality are caving in. Biopics, no matter how much they may be ‘based’ in reality, are always fiction. But when the subject of the biopic is also the star of the film…. Where does ...

Dystopian YA adaptations have been breeding like bunnies at the Box Office. The success of The Hunger Games made other studios desperately try to find their own teenage audience golden ticket. Fox, having had only middling success with The Maze ...

That’s right, there have been yet more announcements of live-action remakes of classic Disney animated features. When Disney find a money spinner, they grab hold and don’t let go. Last week the studio announced it was working on Genies, a ...

Disney has found a new way to make money and is running with it. I suppose I can’t really blame them for that, they are a business after all, but sooner or later the bottom will fall out – and ...

The Image Comics series Chew is set for an animated film adaptation helmed by director Jeff Krelitz (Torchwood: Web of Lies and Peter Panzerfaust). The popular and critically acclaimed comic is written by John Layman, who has also penned the ...

All hope for Hollywood might not be lost after all. Interesting stand-alone, big budget films are becoming a truly rare beast. Recently, Sony had been sitting on such a project, Passengers, umming and aahing over whether to green light the ...

StarWars.com snuck in some previously unreleased information in an article around Annie Leibovitz’s recent photos for Vanity Fair. Way down in the bottom of the seventh paragraph, Andy Serkis’s character in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released: ...