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As the Hollywood actors’ strike comes to an end, shooting on Sir Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 is set to resume on December 4 in Malta. Set after the events of the original movie, the sequel follows a grown-up Lucius, the nephew of Commodus, who was saved by Maximus. Oscar-nominee Paul …

Four years ago, James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s Alita Battle Angel arrived in cinemas almost 20 years after it was first announced. Making over $405 million worldwide, it became the latter’s highest-grossing movie, receiving praise from critics for its visual effects and action sequences. The cyberpunk adventure, based on the …

Scrapper director Charlotte Regan is part of this year’s BAFTA Breakthrough cohort, but she’s given a fair share of credit to her breakthrough leading actress, Lola Campbell. In her heartwarming and gritty debut, Lola portrays young girl Georgie, who lives by herself in a London flat after the death of …

Queen’s epic 1981 Montreal concert film has been digitally re-mastered for IMAX for the first time ever. Queen Rock Montreal is heading to IMAX cinemas around the world from January 18-21, 2024 and just from the trailer it’s clear how crystal-clear the restored footage looks. Sir Brian May said: “I …

It’s been 18 years since Daniel Craig was cast in Casino Royale but just who will follow him as the next James Bond? EON Productions will be having secret auditions if they haven’t begun already and fans have their favourites. As for the bookies’ race, there’s been a recent shake-up …

John Lennon was tragically gunned down at just 40-years-old on December 8, 1980 by jealous Beatles fan Mark Chapman, who remains incarcerated to this day. Now 43 years later, a three-part miniseries narrated by Kiefer Sutherland is set to start streaming on Apple TV+ next month with its trailer launched …

Following the teaser trailer for their rival Snow White movie to Disney’s upcoming live-action remake, Daily Wire also have their first feature film arriving this week. The comedy Lady Ballers, which satirises the controversial inclusion of biological men competing in women’s sports, has had its first trailer released by the …

Elvis Presley famously had two types of girls. He liked them sweet and demure like Anita Ward or his teenage girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu, who lost his interest when she became a mother to Lisa Marie. Or The King liked them sexy and sassy like Debra Paget and Ann Margret. But …

No Time To Die is on ITV2 this evening over two years after Daniel Craig’s fifth and final James Bond movie hit cinemas. The star famously went out with a bang, killing off Ian Fleming’s character for the first time ever. Nevertheless, the end credits promised that James Bond will …

It’s been over two years since the last James Bond movie was released, with Daniel Craig exiting the role so explosively after a record 16 years. The 60th anniversary of the film franchise and the new reality TV show 007 Road to a Million have come and gone with fans …

It’s no secret that Christopher Nolan is a massive James Bond fan with tributes to the franchise littered throughout his films from The Dark Knight trilogy to Tenet. The filmmaker’s current rate of turnover is a new film every three years and having delivered Oppenheimer this summer he’s free to …

It’s been 18 years since Johnny Depp starred in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and over half a century on from Gene Wilder’s take on Willy Wonka. Rather than yet another adaptation of the 1964 Roald Dahl classic book, Warner Bros has instead opted for a …

It’s been seven years since Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass returned to the Jason Bourne film franchise. The pair had worked together on the original trilogy, which concluded with 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum. A spin-off sequel with Jeremy Renner’s black ops agent Aaron Cross followed in 2012’s The Bourne …

After a century of animation, Disney knew they had to deliver something special for the company’s 100th anniversary.  Enter Wish, the latest musical fantasy movie from the House of Mouse, with its special focus on the origin of the famous “wish upon a star”. Frozen co-directors and writer Chris Buck …

The MCU is currently in the middle of its Multiverse saga with stars of 2000s Fox and Sony Marvel movies reprising their roles. Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield returned as their Peter Parkers in Spider-Man No Way Home, while Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is starring in 2024’s Deadpool 3. But apparently, …

It’s been over two years since No Time To Die was released and fans are forever discussing who should be the next James Bond. N. Peal, whose clothing featured in the latest Daniel Craig 007 movie, has polled 2000 Brits to find out who we think should take up the …

Back in 1968, having shot his Oscar-winning performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, John Wayne made another Western with Rock Hudson. The Undefeated followed the French Imperial intervention in Mexico during the 1860s and was loosely based on a Confederate General’s real escape south of the US border after …

Loki season 2 concluded with the titular immortal finally embracing the burden of his Glorious Purpose. To save not just the Sacred Timeline, but also its alternate strands, the God of Mischief became the God of Stories, taking He Who Remains’ place and overseeing the timelines. Meanwhile, the TVA’s focus …

Amazon has not forgotten about the film fans this Black Friday. Today, Friday, November 17, 2023, marks the first day of the Black Friday Week event the retail giant has just started. Included in the endless air fryer and beauty deals are a number of massive DVD and Blu-ray discounts. …

But there’s also a far older one, made when the big social networks were MySpace and Friends Reunited. “Prepare to have the stuffing scared out of you” ran the tagline of Roth’s fake promo for a then non-existent video nasty which featured in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 horror …

If you’ve watched Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 double feature Grindhouse then you may have a sense of déjà vu about this movie, as the premise was one of the fake trailers that featured in that movie.  Created by director Eli Roth, who is known for films that have …

It was 45 years ago today that the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special aired on the American TV channel CBS. A year earlier in 1977, Star Wars had smashed box office records becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time. But before The Empire Strikes Back, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and …

Here, the director of the final three films based on Suzanne Collins’s trilogy sticks with a winning formula with a tale set six decades before Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss was forced to fight for her life in the deadly reality TV show. It’s another heady mix of teen romance, glamorous frocks, …

Back in 1950, John Wayne starred in Rio Grande, the third of his Cavalry Trilogy (alongside Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) with director John Ford. Cast and crew struggled terribly with the extremely hot Utah location, with sets and stages having to be built in such challenging …

The Fantastic Four have not had a great run at the cinema, with both iterations by 20th Century Fox being panned by the critics. Nevertheless, now that Disney has the rights the MCU can finally do Marvel’s First Family right. We were treated to a fan-cast variant of Mr Fantastic …

Back in 1963, John Wayne starred in a Western comedy loosely based on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Duke played an ageing rancher called George Washington McLintock, a wealthy self-made man facing a number of issues. High-ranking government officials, his own sons and local Native Americans all want …

Tom Holland may be Spider-Man in Disney’s MCU thanks to a deal with Sony, but the latter studio continues to churn out Marvel villain solo movies set in other universes. Following Tom Hardy’s Venom, Jared Leto’s Morbius and the delayed Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven the Hunter comes Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web. …

Colin Baker played Doctor Who for just two years (Image: BBC) It is September 1986 and actor Colin Baker has been playing Doctor Who for just two years. However, all is not well on Gallifrey or Earth. There is, to put it bluntly, trouble in the Tardis. BBC Controller Michael …

John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed both of those films, wanted to make it a third time in 1970’s Rio Lobo. When the filmmaker first approached Duke about the …

Ingrid Bergman remains best known for Casablanca, from a career that garnered three Oscars and numerous other accolades. The Swedish star enjoyed huge critical and commercial success but later confessed she had felt trapped in roles too often dictated by her beauty and her innate elegance. One film could have …

Over his incredible Hollywood career, John Wayne had many regular collaborators in his movies like Ward Bond, Howard Hawks and John Ford. Duke and these men were part of Tinseltown’s strong conservative circle who were in favour of blacklisting suspected communists and progressive Democrats. One of these Republican close friends …

From this week onwards, I shall never hear How Soon Is Now? without seeing Michael Fassbender shoot a prostitute through the chest with a sniper rifle. It’s far from the only song by the indie icons in director David Fincher’s slick, brutal and utterly brilliant action movie. Fassbender’s nameless hitman …

As the Hollywood strike comes to an end, studios are getting back to work and announcing some inevitable release date delays. Disney’s Marvel Studios will be moving back four of their next five MCU movies. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s Deadpool 3, which is 50 per cent through filming, has …

In 2020, Disney CEO Bob Chapek announced “a strategic reorganisation” to prioritise “streaming services”. Yes, in 2019, Marvel’s Captain Marvel took $1billion at the box office but cinema seats are so last year. So now Disney and Marvel present $260million blockbuster The Marvels. But, if fans want to grasp what’s …

Today the new James Bond reality TV game show 007: Road to a Million lands on Prime, two years after the release of No Time To Die. As members of the public take on Bond-esque challenges around the world in the new series, fans continue to speculate over who the …

Today is double treat day for Marvel fans. Not only do we get a new movie with The Marvels in cinemas today, but also the Loki season 2 finale on Disney+. The conclusions to both have huge moments that will have massive implications for the future of the MCU.  The …

Dream Scenario finds the Oscar winner in an unusually restrained mood, playing a boring sad-sack university professor. Cage’s job is to raise wry smiles and ground an outlandish plot in reality. There’s no shouting or set shaking as in Pig or Mandy, but his understated performance is just as explosive. …

After 118 days, the longest Hollywood actors strike in history has come to an end and filming can resume on some big 2024 movies.  These include Gladiator 2, Beetlejuice 2 and what may be Clint Eastwood’s final movie Juror No 2. This is also the case for Tom Hardy’s Venom …

The Marvels is sure to delight die-hard fans of the interconnected superhero multiverse, but there’s not much to recommend for casual viewers. Marvel Studios’ latest big screen offering picks up decades after 2019’s 90s-set blockbuster Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson as the titular hero, while juggling follow-ups to two Disney+ …

It’s been eight years since Inside Out hit cinemas and now the sequel is set to land next summer. Inside Out 2 follows Riley and the emotions inside her head, but she’s now a teenager which means new ones are arriving to join Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust. The …

Barbie has been voted the best film of 2023 – for challenging conventional stereotypes. The star-studded blockbuster was applauded by 2,000 film fans for putting a spotlight on gender norms and imbalances. Second spot went to The Little Mermaid for its casting of black actor, Halle Bailey, in the lead …

The 33rd MCU movie arrives in cinemas tomorrow but are you ready with all the character background build-up in previous films and Disney+ miniseries? The Marvels is essentially Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel 2 and co-stars Teyonah Parris’ Photon, Iman Vellani’s Ms Marvel and Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury, who have …

Hannah Waddingham is quickly becoming the queen of Christmas. As if her festive Ted Lasso performances weren’t enough to cement her as a national treasure, she’s gone all out this year with her first (of many?) Christmas Special – Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas, a one-off special on Apple TV …

Nintendo has announced that a live-action Legend of Zelda movie is now in the works with Sony Pictures. The video game franchise creator Shigeru Miyamoto tweeted via his company’s Japanese X (formerly Twitter) account: “I have been working on the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda for many years …

Two years on from Ghostbusters: Afterlife and the fourth Ghostbusters movie in the main series has its first trailer today. As previously leaked, the title is Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and the Oklahoma action of the last movie moves back to New York City. This time around, the family of the …

The Mean Girls movie has finally dropped its first look trailer – but fans have been left confused by the lack of music for the musical. In the first look of the highly anticipated movie, out on January 12, Renee Rapp takes over from Rachel McAdams in the role of …

It’s been over four years since Avengers Endgame when Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man died and Chris Evans Captain America aged and retired. Both stars left the franchise but have said in various interviews since that they’d be open to a Marvel return if it made sense narratively speaking. In …

Last night, The Marvels premiere was in Las Vegas, with screenings simultaneously taking place in New York and Los Angeles. Ahead of the reviews in the next 24 hours (including Express.co.uk’s) there have been some glowing first reactions for the new MCU movie. A sequel to Captain Marvel with narrative …

Following Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, the third and final MCU blockbuster of 2023 will be The Marvels. Essentially Captain Marvel 2, the movie teams up Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers with Teyonah Parris’s Monica Rambeau (WandaVision) and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan (Ms Marvel). …

Joe Manganiello is a nerd. Yeah, I know he’s been pushing that narrative for a while, but he wants you to know he really is. Last week, he attended Lucca Comics & Games 2023 as the festival’s esteemed guest to promote nerdom, play Dungeons & Dragons in a medieval Italian …