Marvel legend Stan Lee’s likeness and voice will be brought back to “life” by an AI company. More on those depressing news below. Marvel sure loves to bring back characters from the dead, but this is quite something. Marvel legend Stan Lee’s estate has made a deal with ElevenLabs to bring the mastermind back with ... Stan Lee will be “resurrected” in AI form
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This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: podcast milestones, dark avengers, camp heroes and much more. Here’s what we’ve been up to… CineMortuary In a podcasting milestone, Rob Yeomans, Dave Walker and Chris ‘Willy’ Wilson celebrate 200 episodes of the show with fan feedback and a chat about 1985’s Day of the Dead... Podcast-616 ... Film Stories Podcast Network | CineMortuary @200,…
Kane Parsons brings his internet phenomenon to the big screen with A24’s budget powers. Here’s our Backrooms review. It’s hard not to admire Kane Parsons. Taking inspiration from the 2019 creepypasta phenomenon, the guy released his own – and very good! – short film titled Backrooms (Found Footage) which gathered enough attention to turn it ... Backrooms review | The era of YouTube horror is…
Enola Holmes 3 is heading to our screens in July and there’s now proof of it, too. Take a look at the first Enola Holmes 3 teaser trailer. Don’t you just hate it when it’s your wedding day and you have to pull a rifle out to fight some bad guys atop your horse-pulled carriage? ... Sherlock’s been kidnapped in the first Enola Holmes 3 trailer
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Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman star in a sweet crime caper with a toe-tapping jazz soundtrack. Here’s our Tuner review. Tuner – the new crime rom-com from, implausibly, Navalny director Daniel Roher – is a lot like Baby Driver. I mean, it’s a lot like Baby Driver. There’s the premise, of a young man with ... Tuner review | Good vibrations
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Years before it won its Oscars, Shakespeare In Love was three weeks away from filming with a different director and cast – here’s what happened. On the 21st March 1999, Harrison Ford took to the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles at the end of another exhaustively long Academy Awards ceremony. His ... When Shakespeare In Love dramatically fell apart, three weeks before…
The Mandalorian And Grogu secured the lowest ever opening weekend for a Star Wars movie since Disney bought Lucasfilm. More on that below. Din Djarin and Grogu didn’t quite beat young Han Solo’s low opening box office as the pair made the move from the small screen to the big screen. The Mandalorian And Grogu, ... The Mandalorian And Grogu scores the lowest opening weekend for Star Wars
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You’ll be able to see Christopher Lee’s Count Dracula in glorious 4K with the film restored with footage not seen before. Happy Dracula Day! To mark this wonderful day, Hammer Films has announced that they are releasing Terence Fisher’s iconic 1958 horror film Dracula in 4K. The film is also set to hit cinemas in ... Dracula arriving on 4K, will include long-lost footage
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Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell are set to write Paddington 4 and Dougal Wilson might return to directing duties. Paddington 4 is slowly moving ahead after things being very quiet for a while. We heard in 2024 that StudioCanal wanted to make a fourth film and potentially some spin-offs too, but it’s only now that ... Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell to pen Paddington 4
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Legendary British horror studio Hammer was struggling in the 1970s – so it decided to mix Dracula with a kung fu film. Hammer was almost dead and buried, and not for the first time. The golden era of Britain’s foremost horror production company had come and gone, and while it would be iconic for the ... When Hammer made a vampire kung fu movie
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The James Bond team knew they were pushing their luck with the character of Pussy Galore – but they had a plan to beat American censors. You don’t need this website to alert you to the fact that the James Bond movie series isn’t shy of a double entendre. Still, even the team behind 1964’s ... James Bond, Goldfinger, and how Pussy Galore got past the censors
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The stars of Bond’s first videogame outing in 14 years talk updating an old dog for the 21st century. This article is available as a digital cover in the PDF below. For more pieces like this one, subscribe to our Week In Film newsletter here. The plain text version of the article follows. “I knew ... 007 First Light is a Bond game for today
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As The Mandalorian And Grogu rightly puts puppetry centre stage in a movie, a look back at Gremlins 2’s astonishing creature effects. Just when he thought he was out, Warner Bros pulled him back in. Joe Dante famously hated directing his 1984 comedy horror, Gremlins, and it famously took a great deal of convincing before ... Gremlins 2 | Before Grogu, there was Gizmo, and some of the most…
The new Cliffhanger, with Lily James replacing Stallone, was supposed to be in cinemas this August. Financial trouble means that Neon may step in as its distributor… The behind-the-scenes story of Cliffhanger is turning into a right old saga. After all sorts of personnel changes during its pre-production, there’s now a separate drama as it ... Cliffhanger reboot stuck up mountain; no longer out…
How long does Christopher Nolan need to tell his story of a Greek king abroad? 172 minutes according to a cinema listing for The Odyssey. Director Christopher Nolan had previously said in April that his mythological epic The Odyssey would be shorter then his bomb-making drama, Oppenheimer. It now looks as though that statement’s true ... The Odyssey | Christopher Nolan epic has a runtime of 172…
Lionsgate boss Adam Fogelson has talked about a potential Michael sequel, which he says will be an “incredibly entertaining movie.” Released in April, music biopic Michael didn’t so much as dance around the allegations that dogged its subject’s career as moonwalk straight past them. From a coldly financial standpoint, turning the story of Michael Jackson ... Michael 2 | Lionsgate boss promises…
The Ready Or Not directors are planning to bring a Choose Your Own Adventure story to the big screen. More on Radio Silence’s new project below. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, also known as Radio Silence, are busy men. Not only has the directing pair released Ready Or Not 2: Here We Go Again into ... Radio Silence directing a Choose Your Own Adventure movie
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A brand new romantic comedy from Working Title, set in Manchester? He’s our review of Finding Emily, doing battle with Star Wars in UK cinemas. Not seen one of these for a while. The Working Title romantic comedy, in tandem with whatever Guy Ritchie and his imitators were pumping out in the early 2000s, was ... Finding Emily review | Hang on, they’re making romcoms for cinemas again?
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Two of this summer’s big releases highlight the difference between 2026 and the 1970s, when studios took risks on Star Wars and Close Encounters. Exactly 50 years ago, directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were working away on two pivotal genre movies: Lucas was on a soundstage in Elstree shooting Star Wars. Over in California, ... Why Star Wars and Close Encounters wouldn’t get made in…
Netflix has announced a two-week IMAX tour for David Fincher’s The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, but a press release avoids mentioning its title… Is The Adventures Of Cliff Booth getting a title change? A press release sent to us from Netflix certainly gives us that suspicion – but more on that in one second. First, ... The Adventures Of Cliff Booth | David Fincher’s film is getting an IMAX…
Jeff Bezos denies having anything to do with Amazon’s Melania documentary film, but insists it was a “good business decision.” A rare interview with Amazon founder and very rich man, Jeff Bezos, has popped up on CNBC over the last day or two. As many note, Bezos’ net worth is inseparable from conversations about the ... Melania | Jeff Bezos praises “good business decision”, but wasn’t involved…
Move over Skibidi Toilet: Michael Bay is turning his roving eye to Donald Trump’s calamitous Iran campaign. For months, music video director Michael Bay was attached to an adaptation of the viral YouTube series, Skibidi Toilet – a story that persisted despite his repeated denials. It’s now been announced that Bay is taking on another ... Michael Bay to direct a movie about Donald Trump’s bombing…
Disney combines the familiarity of its hit TV series with the expense of a cinema ticket with The Mandalorian And Grogu. Our review: Over six years on, here it is: the first new Star Wars movie since 2019’s The Rise Of Skywalker. It says a great deal about the state of one of the world’s ... The Mandalorian And Grogu review | Star Wars for shareholders
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4K Ultra HD Blu-ray releases of both Practical Magic and Interview With The Vampire are incoming from Warner Bros. Amidst a bit of a year for Warner Bros, one thing very much to the company’s credit is its ongoing commitment to physical media, and the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format. In sharp contrast to Disney, ... Practical Magic, Interview With The Vampire heading to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray
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Ladies First director Thea Sharrock joins Simon for a Film Stories podcast special – and there’s a lot to natter about… Director Thea Sharrock is the guest for this special edition of the Film Stories podcast. She joins Simon to chat about her new film, Ladies First, which stars Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen. ... Podcast | In conversation with Thea Sharrock – Ladies First, Wicked Little…
This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: magic, comedians, dark futures and much more. Here’s what we’ve been up to… Modern Horror It’s all a load of Hokum this time as AJ Black, Hugh McStay and guest Emma Arneil chat the latest Irish chiller from Damian McCarthy… Don’t Call Us Shirley! Speaking of up ... Film Stories Podcast Network | Hokum, Scary Movie, Yakuza Apocalypse and more
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Adolescence director Philip Barantini is set to remake 1972 Steve McQueen thriller The Getaway for Netflix. But will it return to the original book? A year after Adolescence became an international talking point, director Philip Barantini has another project lined up at Netflix. He’s now set to direct a remake of The Getaway, the 1972 ... The Getaway | Adolescence director to helm Steve McQueen…
How a battle over Francis Ford Coppola’s unmade Pinocchio led to the biggest ever civil financial verdict against a Hollywood studio. Multi-Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola had huge success with his films in the 1970s, although in the aftermath of the troubled production of Apocalypse Now, his movies of the 1980s struggled to break through ... When Francis Ford Coppola was awarded…
Adult Swim’s Rick And Morty might finally be getting a movie – and it looks as though a series veteran might be directing. More on that below. A Rick And Morty movie has been bubbling under the surface for quite some time now. Adult Swim’s animated show is returning for season nine this week and ... Rick And Morty movie is finally moving ahead
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John Krasinski takes the lead as Jack Ryan: Ghost War joins the movie boxset based on Tom Clancy’s character. Here’s our review. A drone flies up to the sky, absorbing the scenery. Dubai sparkles under the camera lens, as if selected specifically by the local tourist board. It looks beautiful, only mildly inconvenienced by the ... Jack Ryan: Ghost War review | The first Ryan feature film in 12…