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REPORT: Michael Keaton Will Be the DCEU’s Main Batman
With production set to finally begin on Warner Bros.’ standalone Flash movie in just a few short months, a new development may see Michael Keaton’s version of the Dark Knight beyond a one-shot appearance in the Andy Muschietti-directed film. According to New York Times writer Brooks Barnes, who recently did a profile of DC Films president Walter Hamada, a quote from the WB exec actually indicates that m

"The most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image." Let's kick off the New Year with a mesmerizing and unique stop-motion short Freeze Frame by animator / filmmaker Soetkin Verstegen based in Brussels. "This chilly 5-minute experimental animation was literally created out of ice sculptures and puppets frozen inside frames of ice!" Freeze Frame is described by Soetkin as "miniature cinema inside an ice cube", with an old school, grainy black & white look and feel. It's also

CS Plays the First Hour of Cyberpunk 2077
By now you’ve probably heard all the bad press over the release of Cyberpunk 2077. Since its launch, players have complained about shoddy graphics, glitches, bugs and a number of issues the render the game practically unplayable on consoles — though, PC versions of the game seem to have been received positively. Click here to purchase Cyberpunk 2077 for PC!
Check out our video walkthrough in the player below!
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Zack Snyder Reveals There Are No Plans for a Justice League Sequel
Filmmaker Zack Snyder was recently interviewed on ComicBook Debate (which you can view in the player below) and revealed that he no longer has any plans to develop a Justice League sequel following the highly-anticipated release of Snyder’s director’s cut of the movie on HBO Max this year.
“Look, I never thought I’d be here doing this. I didn’t think I’d be finishing Justice Le

Enter ComingSoon’s Love and Monsters Giveaway From Paramount!
Ahead of Love and Monsters’ arrival on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on January 5 from Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with a kit that includes colored pencils, a custom Monster Apocalypse Survival Guide designed to look like Joel’s book from the film and showcasing the director’s monster sketches on the first page, a can of bug spray, a custom T-shirt with a design that

Over the previous 12 months, I've seen more than 110 new releases, and I'm happy to report that it's been another fantastic year at the movies, despite not being able to actually go to the movies in 2020. Throughout 2020, we got to see new work from visionary filmmakers like Spike Lee, David Fincher, Chloe Zhao, Regina King, Lee Isaac Chung, Emerald Fennell, and Oz Perkins, whose dark fairytale Gretel & Hansel is one of the most atmospheric and aesthetically pleasing horror movies of 2020.

"You need to understand what is at stake here." Amazon Prime Video has debuted a second official trailer for One Night in Miami, the outstanding film marking the narrative directorial debut of actress Regina King. What happens when Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke all find themselves in the same room? This is a fictional account of an evening in Miami in the 1960s, bringing together four greats who talk about their life and their accomplishments. Starring Eli Goree as Cassius C

January 2021 Free Games for PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold
Sony and Microsoft have both announced the slate of January 2021 free games that will be available to subscribing PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members.
PlayStation Plus members will receive two PlayStation 4 titles, including the action-adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider and the action RPG Greedfall, on Tuesday, January 5. On the same day, PlayStation 5 owners with a

"You get me there… you get what's yours." Signature Entertainment has released a new official UK trailer for a western thriller titled The Furnace, made by Australian filmmaker Roderick MacKay. This originally premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival. The Furnace is a tense Western set in the 1890s gold rush of Western Australia. To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer named Hamif falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with two bars of stolen Crown gold. The film stars

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New WandaVision TV Spot Features Original Theme Song From Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
A new WandaVision TV spot has been released, featuring an original theme song written by Oscar-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Frozen), who penned unique songs for several episodes, spanning from the 1950s to the early 2000s. You can check out the new promo now in the player below!
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Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins has discussed the “internal war” she faced with Warner Bros over the new DC film.READ MORE: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ review: a smart and stylish superhero sequel with lots of heartSpeaking on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Jenkins alleged that Warner were more interested in the symbol of having a woman direct a superhero film than her actual ideas.
“They wanted to hire me like a beard,” she told Maron. “They wanted me

Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins has discussed the “internal war” she faced with Warner Bros over the original in the DC series, 2017’s Wonder Woman.READ MORE: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ review: a smart and stylish superhero sequel with lots of heartSpeaking on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Jenkins alleged that Warner were more interested in the symbol of having a woman direct a superhero film than her actual ideas.
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Mondo Announces Slate of DC Film & TV Series Vinyl Soundtracks for 2021
Kicking off a new year, Mondo has announced plans to celebrate the heroes of the DC Universe throughout 2021 with the premiere vinyl pressings of soundtracks to multiple DC films and TV series. Leading the charge, Aquaman will be available beginning Wednesday, January 6 at MondoShop.com and will be followed by Shazam!, Doom Patrol Seasons 1 and 2, and a re-issue of John Williams’ 1978 masterpiece S

Anne Hathaway is starring in Locked Down, a new heist comedy from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight set amid the coronavirus pandemic – get a first look below.READ MORE: Please Hollywood, don’t make a coronavirus movieAs first announced last September, the film – previously titled Lockdown – is described as “a heist movie/romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the pandemic lockdown”.
The film, which has an under $10 million budget, sees couple Lin

Director Chloe Zhao Reveals She’s Also the Writer for Marvel’s Eternals
It looks like director Chloe Zhao is taking full creative liberty with Marvel’s Eternals. In her previous works, the Chinese director was both writer and director. While talking about the importance of writing to her filmmaking process, Zhao revealed that she worked on the script of the upcoming Marvel’s Eternals movie as well, previously credited to documentarians Kaz a

"I rather think she would've liked it as well." Sky Cinema in the UK has debuted the first look teaser trailer for a film titled To Olivia, described as "the true story of renowned writer Roald Dahl and actress Patrica Neal." Set in the 1960s, the film follows Dahl & Neal around their secluded home in the English countryside where they have moved to raise their expanding young family in peace. But an "unimaginable loss" in their family changes them forever as they try to figure out how to l

Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova has said she felt a “duty” as an actor to complete the film’s controversial scene with Donald Trump‘s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.READ MORE: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm review: how the controversial Kazakh journalist got wokeBakalova, who played Borat’s daughter Tutar in the recently-released sequel, posed as a journalist interviewing Giuliani in a scene that’s attracted widespread controversy.
Asked to explain the scene in a new interview

Exclusive Traces Clip Starring Martin Compston & Molly Windsor
ComingSoon.net has an exclusive clip from BritBox’s mystery crime thriller series Traces, featuring stars Martin Compston (Line of Duty) and Molly Windsor (Three Girls). You can check out the clip now in the player below!
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Twenty-three-year-old chemistry graduate Emma Hedges (Windsor) has got a new job at The Scottish Institute of Forensic Science

BEGIN SLIDESHOWPatty Jenkins Talks Wonder Woman 1984 Deleted Scenes
In a recent interview with Collider, Patty Jenkins discussed Wonder Woman 1984’s deleted scenes — and it turns out there aren’t that many. which makes sense considering the film is already two-and-a-half-hours long. Meaning, we’re unlikely to see any turn up on the eventual Blu-ray release of the film.
“I didn’t cut out very many scenes in this movie. I cut out only parts of scenes,” Jen

Jay Olivia Says Ben Affleck’s Batman Film “Would Have Made Fans Proud”
In an alternate reality, Warner Bros. would have allowed Zack Snyder to complete his “Snyder-verse” which would have paved the way for Ben Affleck’s The Batman. While not a ton is known about the flick, it sounds like Affleck’s take on the character would have been awesome. At least according to Justice League storyboard artist who took to Twitter to reveal that Batfleck’s solo

Vanessa Kirby has shared a statement ahead of the release of her new film with Shia LaBeouf, relating to the ongoing abuse allegations that have been made against LaBeouf.
LaBeouf and Kirby star as husband and wife in Pieces Of A Woman, set to come out on Thursday (January 7) on Netflix.
“I stand with all survivors of abuse and respect the courage of anyone who speaks their truth,” Kirby said in a statement shared with The Sunday Times.
She added: “Regarding the recent news, I

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In a recent Twitter exchange with a fan, The Suicide Squad director James Gunn confirmed that the DC film will indeed carry an R-rating — something we all assumed ever since that wild teaser. Now, whether the harder rating makes for a better film than the original Suicide Squad remains to be seen.Yes it’s rated R.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) December 31, 2020RELATED: First The Suicide Squad Footage Promises a Wild Action Adventure!
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWUncharted: Sony Unveils Photos From Its Big Screen Adaptation
Sony has unveiled a batch of intriguing new photos from its upcoming adaptation of Uncharted starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. Said photos feature a number of artifacts, likely giving us a clue as to the artifact Nathan Drake will search for when the movie hits theaters this summer. Hopefully, this means we’ll get a trailer soon as well. Check out the photos below!
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Wonder Woman Dips 67% in Second Weekend at the Domestic Box Office
Yikes! As it turns out, audiences weren’t particularly enamored with Wonder Woman 1984 as the Patty Jenkins-directed sequel dipped a massive 67% and hauled in just $5.5M at the domestic box office in its second weekend, according to Deadline. Naturally, there are a handful of reasons as to why this happened, first and foremost being the sequel’s simultaneous release on HBO Max, but its hard to look at the ho hum B+ a

Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival have launched a new experience for their 2021 festival, inviting one fan to spend a week alone on an isolated island watching their films.
The chosen fan will spend a week in a lighthouse-turned-luxury hotel and cinema on the tiny Pater Noster island off the west coast of Sweden, where they’ll be able to watch up to 60 films from the 2021 Göteborg Film Festival line-up.READ MORE: Pandemic at the pictures: can social distancing work in cinemas

A new documentary from Elton John is reportedly in the works, featuring scenes that didn’t fit in 2019 biopic Rocketman.READ MORE: ‘Rocketman’ film review – a hurricane of imagination and exuberanceAccording to sources, the follow-up to the film would come in a documentary format, featuring behind-the-scenes footage that weren’t shown in the original biopic.
The film, reportedly titled The Pillars Of Hercules, is set to cover John’s tours across the 1970s, and

A documentary sequel to Elton John’s 2019 biopic Rocketman is reportedly in the works, with plans to release on Netflix.READ MORE: ‘Rocketman’ film review – a hurricane of imagination and exuberanceAccording to sources, the follow-up to the film would come in a documentary format, featuring behind-the-scenes footage that wasn’t able to fit in the original biopic.
The film, reportedly titled The Pillars Of Hercules, is set to cover John’s tours across the 1970s

Justin Bieber has said that Tom Cruise is “toast” after jokingly reviving a past offer to fight the Hollywood icon.
Bieber first issued the bizarre challenge in June 2019 and attempted to secure the services of UFC boss Dana White in a bid to organise the bout.
“I wanna challenge Tom Cruise to fight in the octagon. Tom if you don’t take this fight your [sic] scared and you will never live it down. Who is willing to put on the fight? @danawhite?,” Bieber wrote at the

Tanya Roberts, who starred in That ’70s Show and appeared in A View To A Kill, has died. She was 65.
The American actress had collapsed on Christmas eve after going for a walk with her dogs, TMZ reported. She was admitted to Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and died on Sunday (January 3).
Roberts’ death was not COVID-19 related, both publications reported, and she was not ill in the days leading up to her passing, even conducting Zoom ‘s

Tanya Roberts, who starred in That ’70s Show and played a Bond girl in A View To A Kill, has died. She was 65.
The American actress had collapsed on Christmas eve after going for a walk with her dogs, TMZ reported. She was admitted to Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and died on Sunday (January 3).
Roberts’ death was not COVID-19 related, both publications reported, and she was not ill in the days leading up to her passing, even conducting Zoo