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Peter Jackson: Gollum is two weeks from wrapping, and Tintin 2 has finally been written (film news).
Peter Jackson says The Hunt for Gollum has two weeks of filming left, Shadow of the Past is being scripted, and Tintin 2…
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October 2026
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Best Pancakes in the County Trailer: Nicolas Cage Brings a Prosthetic Nose to a Gunfight.
Nicolas Cage, Justin Long and Shelley Hennig fight it out over one long night in a small-town diner in Ken Sanzel's action thriller,…
NewsHorror
Thunderbolts*: an unused storyboard shows Man-Thing nearly joined the team, before a swamp monster was ruled too distracting (film news).
An unused Thunderbolts* storyboard shows Man-Thing with the team. Writer Eric Pearson explains why Marvel's swamp monster didn't make the cut.
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Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film goes ‘very iced’, and joins Han Solo in the carbonite cupboard (film news).
Taika Waititi says his Star Wars film is 'very iced' as he and Tony McNamara move on to another project. Six years on,…
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Fangs for the rumour: is A24’s bachelor-party horror from The First Omen’s Arkasha Stevenson a vampire film? (news).
A24 has a horror film on the way from The First Omen director Arkasha Stevenson, and the internet has decided, more or less…
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The Batman film we never got: Joe Manganiello’s memoir reveals how Deathstroke planned to ruin Bruce Wayne’s life (news).
There is a whole branch of film history devoted to the films that never got made: Jodorowsky’s Dune, Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, George…
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Street Fighter wins round one at the box office, and the critics can take a Hadouken (news).
Watch the trailer on YouTube: Street Fighter | Official Trailer (2026 Movie) Thirty-two years after Raul Julia’s M. Bison told Chun-Li that the…
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Red Rising finally climbs out of the mines as Paramount hands it to Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence (news).
Pierce Brown’s Red Rising has spent more than a decade in development tunnels deeper than any Helldiver’s shaft, and somebody has finally struck…
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s week: three one-star reviews for Klara and the Sun, and a Tim Burton film he is writing himself
Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun gets one star from the Guardian, Times and Telegraph, while Tim Burton signs up for an original…
TrailerFantasy
Laika’s Wildwood: Fifteen years, nine thousand feathers and one very cross eagle (trailer).
Laika's stop-motion epic Wildwood reaches cinemas on 23 October, fifteen years after the studio bought the book and 9,000 hand-crafted feathers later.
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Zendaya and Alex Garland were both meant to be taking a break, and now they’re making an A24 sci-fi film together
Zendaya will star in Alex Garland's untitled A24 sci-fi film, due to shoot in 2027, though both had promised to take a break.
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Van Helsing And His Kin by Daniel O’Brien (book review)
Author Daniel O’Brien makes a strong point in his introduction to ‘Van Helsing And His Kin’ that, next to the legendary Count…you know…