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  • Global Warning: Industry goes cold to HFPA awards…

    In recent weeks and months the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, whose members vote for the nominees and recipients of the Golden Globes each year, has come under scrutiny and fire for charges ranging from bias and lack of relevance, to racism. A string of controversial remarks by former HFPA...
  • The Con’s Back On: Leverage looks for ‘Redemption’ in July…

    In an age of rather cynical and dark television, one of the successes of the last decade was the far-more-positive vibes from Leverage. Created by Chris Downey and John Rogers, it told the tale of a group of grifters and con-artists brought together to act like a Robin Hood...
  • Venom: Let there be (the trailer for) Carnage….

    The original Venom film, released in 2018, was something of a mixed bag. Part of SONY‘s Marvel Studios-Adjacent titles it occupied the space that couldn’t quite compare to its MCU cousins on character-development and CGI-budget, but despite withering reviews worked fairly well as a guilty-pleasure. Based on the famous...
  • Whatever your Viewpoint, Noel Clarke isn’t Bulletproof…

    Late Thursday the UK’s Guardian newspaper ran a lengthy piece detailing numerous and serious  allegations made against British actor/director/producer Noel Clarke – including that he allegedly used intimidation in projects he controlled, had threatened careers, inappropriately touched women he worked with and that he had shared explicit, inappropriate imagery without...
  • Who Daenerys Wins? Emilia Clarke to join Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’?

    For the best part of a decade Emilia Clarke played Daenerys Targaryenin, the ‘Mother of Dragons’ in HBO‘s Game of Thrones (only her third professional acting job), but it was the role that launched her career to a whole new level. After the show’s controversial ending, she went on to other genre...
  • Shang-Chi: Marvel’s Martial Artwork and Teaser….

    Marvel Studios‘ Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings  began filming early in 2020 was originally due for release in May, then moved to July and now September 2021, just one of the many, many scheduling casualties of the covid pandemic. It’s an interesting choice for Marvel,...
  • Royal Rumble? Marvel eyes The Queen for ‘Secret Invasion’ role…

    If reports on industry site The Hollywood Reporter are true then Marvel may be looking  to cast a right royal actor for a key role in their upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion. Olivia Colman, who most recently played Queen Elisabeth II in The Crown (but whose other work includes...
  • Netflix gambles on Snyder’s ‘Army of the Dead’…

    Now that some of the sturm und drang about Zack Snyder’s Justice League have faded, it’s probably time to start talking about his next film – heading to both Netflix and ‘select cinemas’ at the end of May.  Army of the Dead is a typically bombastic, high-concept action-fest from...
  • Mads for it: The State of Indy’s dependents…

    After long delays and many years of being an idea and a rumour, it finally looks as if the next Indiana Jones is gathering some speed towards actually being in production.  The hope is now to get before the cameras at some point this summer for an intended 29th July,...
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