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Watch the trailer for the final season of Black Sails
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Starz has debuted a teaser trailer for the fourth and final season of the Emmy Award-winning pirate drama Black Sails; take a look below after the official synopsis…
In the wake of Charles Town, the world lives in fear of Captain Flint. But when his campaign of terror crosses over into madness, it falls to John Silver to locate the man within the monster. Meanwhile, with Eleanor Guthrie gone, Jack Rackham and Captain Charles Vane struggle to secure Nassau for the ages. All will be tested when a new threat arrives. It knows them. It understands them. And in the blink of an eye, it will turn them against each other.
Black Sails season 4 premieres January 2017 on Starz.
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- Amie Cranswick
Anne Hathaway open to Catwoman spin-off movie
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While it would seem highly improbable given that Warner Bros. is now in full swing with its DC Extended Universe, Anne Hathaway has revealed that she’s open to reprising the role of Selina Kyle from The Dark Knight Rises should the opportunity for a Catwoman spinoff film ever arise.
“I loved that character and I had such a blast playing her,” said Hathaway in an interview with Variety. “I’m not sure how it would work because I think the Chris Nolan chapter of the Batman story has been wrapped up and I’m part of that, but I love the DC Universe and it would be fun to take a trip back.”
More likely is that Warner Bros. and DC Films will introduce a new Catwoman into the Dceu, and Hathaway went on to state that she has no issue with another actress taking on the iconic role: »
- Gary Collinson
Bryan Fuller says ‘Balance of Terror’ episode is a “touchstone” for Star Trek: Discovery story
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Star Trek celebrated its 50th anniversary this past week, and to mark the occasion Bryan Fuller – showrunner of the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery – took to Twitter to reveal that the famous ‘Balance of Terror’ episode of Star Trek: The Original Series is a “touchstone” for the new show’s story arc. Here’s Fuller’s tweet…
A Favorite Tos Episode "Balance Of Terror" Is A Touchstone For The #Startrekdiscovery Story Arc #STARTREK50 #LLAP50 pic.twitter.com/3UqKS46Tnu
— Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) September 9, 2016
The fifteenth episode of the first season of Star Trek, ‘Balance of Terror’ is notable for introducing the Romulans to the world of Star Trek. The episode sees Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise battling a Romulan Bird of Prey which is attacking Federation outposts along the Neutral Zone – an area of space established following a peace treaty that ended the Earth-Romulan War a hundred years prior. »
- Gary Collinson
Suicide Squad tops $700 million worldwide, David Ayer thanks fans
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Having surpassed the global haul of Man of Steel last weekend, Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad has hit another box office milestone today, with the DC supervillain team-up crossing the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office.
Given that it’s a new superhero franchise, based upon a lesser-known comic book, and was absolutely ripped to shreds by critics, it’s certainly an impressive achievement, and director David Ayer has taken to Twitter to show his appreciation to fans:
@SuicideSquadWB Over $700 million World Wide! #humbled #nowords #thankyou pic.twitter.com/nyKimY5w2h
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) September 11, 2016
See Also: David Ayer wanted to cast Shia Labeouf in Suicide Squad, but Warner Bros. thought he was too crazy
It feels good to be bad…Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off »
- Gary Collinson
Ghost Rider promo for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4
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Vengeance is coming to ABC in just over a week as the fourth season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gets underway – and introduces the character of Ghost Rider into the McU – and the network has released a brief new promo which focuses on Gabriel Luna’s Spirit of Vengeance; take a look here…
See Also: First promotional images from the season 4 premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – ‘The Ghost’
“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” returns with a vengeance for the fourth exciting season in an all-new time period, Tuesday, September 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Edt), on the ABC Television Network. In the aftermath of their journey to another planet, Director Phil Coulson and the rest of the team were driven more than ever to put an end to the Hydra organization. Little did they know that they were up against the deadliest threat they’ve ever faced – an extremely powerful Inhuman, »
- Amie Cranswick
J.A. Bayona confirms Jurassic World trilogy
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With Jurassic World proving to be a mega-hit at the box office, grossing a whopping $1.67 billion worldwide, Universal Pictures wasted little time in announcing a sequel, set for release in 2018.
However, with director Colin Trevorrow signing on for Star Wars: Episode XI, J.A. Bayona (The Impossible) is taking over the reins for the next chapter of the dinosaur franchise, and Bayona has been chatting to Latino Review about the sequel, confirming that it is planned as the middle instalment of a Trevorrow-steered trilogy.
“The whole Jurassic World is a trilogy that Colin Trevorrow has envisioned,” said Bayona during a promotional interview for his new film A Monster Calls. “We’re writing the second chapter, and it’s very interesting where he’s leading the story. I grew up watching Steven Spielberg movies and I love those movies and the legacy, so it’s a question of being truthful to »
- Gary Collinson
James Cameron says the Avatar sequels are “a family saga”
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Earlier this year James Cameron revealed that he’s expanded his plans for the Avatar franchise to four sequels, and while production was initially slated to begin in April, it seems the filmmaker is not quite ready to pull the trigger on the massively ambitious project. Nevertheless, speaking to Variety about the sequels and the and the new Cirque du Soleil prequel Toruk, Cameron offered a brief update on his progress, as well as suggesting that the story will present “family saga”.
“We’ve got most of the sequel stuff already designed, but I like this idea of weaving back and forth between the two worlds, the live world and the film world. The storyline in the sequels really follows Jake and Neytiri and their children,” he added. “It’s more of a family saga about the struggle with the humans. But thematically, Toruk manages to land very very closely »
- Gary Collinson
An extended cut of Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead set for release in October
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Evil Dead fans will soon be able to get their hands on an extended edition of Fede Alvarez’s 2013 remake, with the Don’t Breathe director revealing in an interview with Altapeli that the extended cut will hit Blu-ray in time for Halloween.
An extended version of Alvarez’s Evil Dead has been airing on Channel 4 and Film 4 in the UK since 2015, which Movie-Censorship reports is 4 minutes 50 seconds longer than the theatrical version. Along with 21 additional scenes (many of which had been removed at the request of the MPAA), it also features an alternative ending.
Evil Dead was released in 2013, and featured a cast that included Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas and Elizabeth Blackmore.
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- Gary Collinson
Cm Punk Taps Out In Ufc Debut! Is He Done With Ufc? | WrestleTalk News
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After almost two years after signing with Ufc in November 2014, Cm Punk made his mixed martial arts debut in the same venue where he told Vince McMahon he was leaving WWE on the 27th January 2014 Raw – the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
Having no professional or amatuer experience in Mma, Punk went up against the brown belt, 2-0 record holding Mickey Gall. Punk went for Gall as soon as the bell rang, but the 24-year-old took him down to the mat and spent the next two minutes pounding on Punk while trying to transition into a rear-naked choke. Once he got it locked in, Punk tapped – just 2 minutes 14 seconds into the first round.
In a typically brilliant promo after the fight, Punk promised:
“I will be back, believe it or not. This was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life, the second best night of my life besides marrying my wife, »
- Oli Davis
Movie Review – Don’t Breathe (2016)
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Don’t Breathe, 2016.
Directed by Fede Alvarez.
Starring Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, and Daniel Zovatto.
Synopsis;
Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn’t as helpless as he seems.
2016 has been a great year for horror so far. We’ve enjoyed The Conjuring 2, The Witch, and 10 Cloverfield Lane and now we can add Don’t Breathe to the list of great horror thrillers.
A trio of disillusioned teenagers in Detroit (Levy, Minette and Zovatto) spend their time breaking into houses, making sure they never take enough to commit grand larceny. When the opportunity for a score of $300k comes up, the trio sneak into the house of a blind army vent (Lang), not realising that he’s more dangerous than they could ever imagine.
Don’t Breathe doesn’t do anything new in terms of character creation. »
- Helen Murdoch
Neill Blomkamp teases mystery new project
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Following the release of his latest film Chappie, Neill Blomkamp moved into development on his Alien sequel, only for 20th Century Fox to apply the breaks when Ridley Scott decided to return to his Alien universe for the Prometheus follow-up Alien: Covenant.
So, with Alien 5 now on indefinite hold, the South African filmmaker has moved on to other things, and he’s taken to Instagram to tease a new mystery project, posting the following image with the caption “working on new things. Currently not alien”:
Now, it’s unclear whether the above image relates to a movie, or a TV project, but it’s probably safe to assume that Sharlto Copley will be involved somehow. And maybe an exosuit or two.
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- Gary Collinson
Meryl Streep teaming with J.J. Abrams for TV adaptation of The Nix
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According to Deadline, Hollywood heavyweights Meryl Streep and J.J. Abrams are teaming for a TV adaptation of Nathan Hill’s bestselling debut novel The Nix. The limited series is being produced by Bad Robot, with Abrams said to be in line to direct at least some of the episodes.
Described as a sprawling generational tale, The Nix “focuses on a hippie-era mother who gets national press exposure for throwing rocks at a conservative governor on the presidential campaign trail. Before you know it, her estranged son — a professor, aspiring novelist and general underachiever — seizes an opportunity to get himself out of debt by writing a scathing profile of his estranged mother.”
Meryl Streep is expected to be in the mix for what would be her 20th Oscar nomination for her latest film Florence Foster Jenkins, and is set to reunite with her Into the Woods director Rob Marshall for Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns. »
- Gary Collinson
Why We All Love Flops
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Neil Calloway argues that we enjoy it when a film fails at the box office…
This week brought the news – unsurprising to most – that this year had been less than stellar at the box office, with several films disappointing in terms of their grosses The Bfg, Alice Through The Looking Glass and Ben-Hur have joined Ghostbusters in not pulling in the crowds.
Much of this has been blamed on sequel and franchise fatigue, though two of the biggest films of the year have been Captain America: Civil War and Finding Dory, so it certainly doesn’t explain everything, but of course we all love a good flop.
Part of it is that we like to see big studios come a cropper when they remake beloved classics; schadenfreude at seeing Hollywood studios ailing and part of it is just that disasters have more interesting stories behind them. Recent documentaries have been »
- Neil Calloway
Katee Sackhoff reprising her Clone Wars role for Star Wars Rebels season 3
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We’ve already seen a few characters from Star Wars: The Clone Wars making their way into Star Wars Rebels – including Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex and Hondo Ohnaka – and now we can add another name to that list, with Katee Sackhoff revealing at the Oz Comic-Con in Sydney (via Jedi News) that she’ll be reprising the role of Bo-Katan Kryze in the third season of the animated series.
A female Mandalorian warrior and the sister of Duchess Satine, Bo-Katan served the Death Watch during the Clone Wars, becoming the trusted lieutenant of their leader Pre Vizsla and a member of Darth Maul’s Shadow Collective. However, she would split from the Shadow Collective after Pre Vizsla’s death at the hands of Maul, forming her own group, the Nite Owls, who battled the former Sith Lord’s followers and helped Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi escape from Mandalore.
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- Gary Collinson
Jonah Hex returning to DC’s Legends of Tomorrow for season 2
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DC’s gunslinger Jonah Hex made his Arrowverse debut in the first season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and actor Johnathon Schaech has revealed on Twitter that he’ll be reprising the role in season two, guest starring in an episode called ‘Outlaw Country’…
See Also: First images from the season 2 premiere of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow – ‘Out of Time’
Look who's officially coming back!!! We're gonna kick some serious ass! #JonahHex #LegendsOfTomorrow pic.twitter.com/H7mV4ZaDQO
— Johnathon Schaech (@JohnSchaech) September 9, 2016
After the defeat of the immortal villain Vandal Savage and the corrupt Time Masters who colluded with him, a new threat emerges. Dr. Nate Heywood (Nick Zano), an unconventional and charming historian, is thrust into the action upon making a shocking discovery – the Legends are scattered throughout time. Nate must find a way to rescue season one’s beloved team of heroes and rogues, including »
- Gary Collinson
Jeff Nichols to direct Alien Nation remake
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Back in March it was revealed that 20th Century Fox is developing a remake of the 1988 sci-fi buddy cop movie Alien Nation, and now comes word that the project has secured a director in Jeff Nichols, the filmmaker behind the likes of Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special and Loving. Nichols will also write the script, as well as producing alongside his Loving collaborators Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sara Greene.
Alien Nation starred James Caan as a racially-insensitive police detective forced to partner up with an extraterrestrial police officer (Mandy Patinkin), a member of an alien race who came to earth to escape slavery and assimilated in Los Angeles. The film spawned a TV series, along with a number of made-for-tv movies.
Nichols’ latest movie Loving, stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga as an interracial couple arrested and imprisioned in 1950s Virginia, is set for release in the States this November.
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- Gary Collinson
Live-action Mulan movie in development at Sony
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In an article over at Variety discussing former Sony executive Doug Belgrand, it has been revealed that the studio is developing a live-action Mulan movie, which will be shot in China with a Chinese financing partner and a mostly Chinese cast.
The project is one of six movies that Belgrand is co-financing at Sony, including Bad Boys For Life, Zombieland 2, Mallory, a Charlie’s Angels reboot and the live-action/CG hybrid Peter Rabbit.
Mulan is based upon the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan and tells of a legendary warrior woman during the Han Dynasty. There have been several film adaptations of the story, most notably Disney’s 1998 animated feature.
As it happens, Disney also has a live-action Mulan movie in development, with news breaking last year that the studio had snapped up a script from Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hyneck.
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- Gary Collinson
The Week in Movies – Original Suicide Squad plans revealed! Deathstroke confirmed for Batman solo movie, first look at Spider-Man: Homecoming villain and more…
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The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, including some of the original plans for Suicide Squad revealed by Shia Labeouf, Deathstroke being confirmed for the Batman solo movie, our first look at Shocker in Spider-Man: Homecoming and more…
The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox every Sunday.
Only 298 sleeps left!
Spider-Man: Homecoming is out in July. That’s only ten months away. We’ll have a new solo Spider-Man movie in less than a year. Let that sink in for a moment.
And that’s not the only new Marvel movie we’ll be seeing soon. Doctor Strange’s UK release has been moved forward A Whole Three Days.
Every time I start to feel bad for North America, I just remember having to watch bootlegged episodes of Lost Season »
- Oli Davis
Watch an eight-minute blooper reel for X-Men: Apocalypse
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X-Men: Apocalypse is set to hit Blu-ray and DVD next month, and we have an early sneak peek at one of the bonus features, with a blooper reel arriving online featuring over eight minutes of outtakes from this year’s big mutant superhero sequel; check it out here…
See Also: Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey featured in deleted scene from X-Men: Apocalypse
Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-men: Apocalypse. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, »
- Gary Collinson
First poster for Bruce Lee biopic Birth of the Dragon
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Ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the first poster has arrived online for the new Bruce Lee biopic Birth of the Dragon; check it out here…
Directed by George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau), Birth of the Dragon explores how a private fight between Bruce Lee (Philip Ng) and Shaolin monk Wong Jack Man (Yu Xia) forged a new fighting style for the martial arts icon and led to his ascension to global superstardom before his untimely death in 1973.
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- Gary Collinson
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