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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36170063)

The one Hugh posted went out at Super Bowl half time.

I think it’s going to be great but with the TVA, if you haven’t watched Loki you may be a bit bemused.

This is the problem now. My Dad watched The Marvels and had no idea who Monica or Kamala was. He has now decided to swerve them from now on

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I am genuinely so excited for that.

The world looks fun and colourful just the way it should be. Also that version of the JW theme. OMG I got chills.

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Its an impressive first look, but then trailers often are. We'll see.

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Fantastic Four teaser trailer

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Creative control of the long-running James Bond franchise has been handed to Amazon MGM Studios, in a joint venture with the current owners.

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In 2022, Amazon bought MGM Studios, which distributes Bond, for $8.45bn (£6.79bn).

Since the acquisition, the streamer has held the rights to distribute all the Bond movies.

https://news.sky.com/story/james-bon...chise-13313350

Who's the next bond :hyper:

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It's a disaster Amazon is taking over. Broccoli and co really looked after the franchise, limiting the movies to one every few years without a wider universe and trying to keep the Bond tradition with premium brands and a British feel.

Amazon will be creating spin-off after spin-off, they are more likely to cast an American bond if they feel there is star power there and they will milk it for all it's worth.

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This will probably be the demise of Bond as we know it.
A shame as the Bond franchise is basically as old as myself.

Get ready for 'Jamie' Bond (and I dont mean the male version).

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36191634)

Actually I don’t think that’s at all likely based on what Amazon has commissioned and produced so far. Rings of Power is probably as good an example as any - whatever the purists have had to say about the characterisations, the series has been very faithful to the previous screen adaptation in look and feel. Way more than it needed to be, seeing as the Jackson movies were themselves an adaptation. But Amazon has understood it is producing the series for a screen audience and not bookish Tolkien purists, and has really delivered.

I also disagree that the Broccoli family has been that great at stewarding the franchise. By the late 1970s it was getting ridiculous, they were bringing films out every year, Moonraker is an absolute train wreck built on blind panic about Star Wars and they should have had Roger Moore out to pasture long before View to a Kill. And while I enjoyed the Craig series immensely, they maintained too little control over the artistic direction, especially given they were trying to do all his films as an arc, giving the overall body of work an inconsistent feel. And the negotiations over getting to use SPECTRE were allowed to drag on way too long, meaning the unfolding villainy across the series doesn’t entirely make narrative sense. And they can hardly have been unaware of how difficult some purchasers of parts of the Fleming estate can be to deal with.

The films are going to be made by MGM, which Amazon owns, and which has been the distributor for Eon productions Bond films. MGM knows what a good Bond film is meant to be like. What I hope we see is a faithful exploration of the character in an entirely new and original set of adventures, without any sense of obligation to weave in a bit of one short story here and a bit of another novel there, which is what often seemed to be the case previously.

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More of the Doomsday cast announced...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ed-1236172556/

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Marvel Studios is in the midst of revealing its cast for Avengers: Doomsday on a livestream. The move comes ahead of the feature going into production in London next month.

The cast announced so far include MCU mainstays such as Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Anthony Mackie (Captain America), Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Letitia Wright (Black Panther), Wyatt Russell (U.S. Agent) Simu Liu (Shang-Chi), Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Danny Ramirez (The Falcon) and Winston Duke (M’Baku).

It also notably includes X-Men actors Patrick Stewart (Prof. X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), James Marsden (Cyclops) and Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), who kicked off the modern era of superhero movies with 2000’s X-Men. They will be joined by X2: X-Men United‘s Alan Cuming (Nightcrawler) and Kelsey Grammer (Beast), who starred in X-Men: The Last Stand for 20th Century Fox and had a cameo in The Marvels. Channing Tatum, who once was attached to a Gambit movie that never happened, will also appear in Doomsday after making his debut in Deadpool & Wolverine.

Members of the Fantastic Four are also in the cast, including Vanessa Kirby (The Invisible Woman), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing) and Joseph Quinn (The Human Torch). While Thunderbolts* newcomer Lewis Pullman (Bob) is on the callsheet, along with stars David Harbour (Red Guardian) and Hannah John-Kamen (Ghost).

Tenoch Huerta Mejía, who played the Submariner in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, was the first true surprise of the casting event.

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Browsing on Netflix, this popped up.

Whoop whoop!

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...0&d=1745017096

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Ryan Gosling is to star in the latest Star Wars film.

Currently titled "Star Wars: Starfighter" its due for release in 2027.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyq9d35ljro

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This looks like good (silly) fun.

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In the action-comedy Heads of State, the UK Prime Minister Sam Clarke (Idris Elba) and U.S. President Will Derringer (John Cena) have a not-so-friendly and very public rivalry that jeopardizes their countries' "special relationship." But when they become the targets of a powerful and ruthless foreign adversary—who proves more than a match for the two leaders' security forces—they are begrudgingly forced to rely on the only two people they can trust: each other. Allied with brilliant MI6 agent Noel Bisset (Priyanka Chopra Jonas), they must go on the run and find a way to work together long enough to thwart a global conspiracy that threatens everyone.