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How ‘Justice League’ can save the DC universe
Here are five tasks the superhero team must complete to stop the film franchise from heading down the Suicide Squad route → Read More
Why Linda Hamilton should not go back to ‘Terminator’
Plenty of great directors from Ridley Scott to George Lucas have stalled when returning to past glories → Read More
Can Robert Downey Jr put off Iron Man’s retirement?
In Spiderman Homecoming Iron Man takes a back seat for Tony Stark to shine → Read More
Hollywood’s most difficult directors to work for
Tom Hanks recently said Clint Eastwood was intimidating as hell on the set of Sully and treated his actors like horses He clearly hasn t worked with these directorial terrors → Read More
Kristen Stewart: I left Snow White sequel as none of the scripts were good
Actor rejects suggestion that her relationship with film s director caused her to drop out of The Huntsman Winter s War saying that instead that proposed scripts were not of sufficient quality → Read More
Scarlett Johansson’s anime role reignites whitewashing row
Mulan star Ming-Na Wen among those to criticise Hollywood for failing to cast Asian actor as Major Kusanagi → Read More
Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange: What we think so far
Scott Derrickson s film looks like it can harness enough weird-power to magic up a whole new superhero dimension → Read More
Leonardo DiCaprio ‘not blacklisted’ from Indonesia, minister says
Environment and forestry minister Siti Nurbaya denies reports authorities will deny actor entry if he keeps making pro-environment statements → Read More
How J. K. Rowling Americanised Harry Potter
US magic is controversially entwined with Native American culture → Read More
2016: The year of superheroes, sci-fi and fantasy films
Here are some of the most exciting films made for genre fans to come out this year → Read More
Captain America: Civil War — 5 things we learned
New Spider-Man looks smooth but supercool and TeamIronMan looks to have a serious advantage → Read More
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch to marry Jerry Hall
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will marry actress and former supermodel Jerry Hall the couple announced → Read More
Amitabh Bachchan’s new film ‘Eve’ to be shot in Delhi
The film will be directed by National Award-winning Bengali director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury → Read More
Aamir, Anushka crowned PETA’s hottest vegetarians
The two winners beat actors Amitabh Bachchan Alia Bhatt Kangana Ranaut Shahid Kapoor R Madhavan and Dhanush → Read More
Sacha Baron Cohen and wife fund help for Syria victims
The couple are donating to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee → Read More
Bieber graffiti draws flak from SF attorney
City attorney demands that music publisher help determine who is responsible for sidewalk graffiti promoting the pop star s latest album → Read More
Priyanka takes five-day leave after three years
The actress is headed out of Mumbai with friends to a secret destination → Read More
Studio denies DiCaprio raped by bear in ‘The Revenant’
The Drudge Report sparked an internet frenzy after claiming Oscar-tipped actor is sexually assaulted in the brutal western → Read More
Bea Alonzo talks Second Chance
tabloid chats to the star of this year s biggest Filipino film out in the UAE on December 3 → Read More
Priyanka Chopra’s ‘Quantico’ sued by filmmakers
Lawsuit claims the TV series was lifted from a 1999 documentary film → Read More