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It’s been 23 years since Hollywood last took a stab at adapting Dungeons & Dragons, the swords and sorcery role-playing game much beloved by teenage geeks. That film was a cheap, joyless affair which didn’t even have the decency to be amusingly terrible. But a lot has happened in the …

Details of the next James Bond movie have been scarce in recent weeks, but 007 fans were extremely excited earlier this month when a report surfaced suggesting the new-and-improved version of M had been cast. However, the star herself has now revealed what is really going on behind the scenes. …

In an interview with Total Film, Gunn revealed that Rocket Raccoon is going to be the third movie’s focus. The vicious hero’s backstory has been touched upon briefly in the previous movies, noting that he was “pulled apart and put back together” so he could be the best fighter around. …

Everyone’s heard of Tetris, but even the director of the new movie about one of the most famous video games in the world thought it was invented in Japan. When Jon S Baird (Filth, Stan & Ollie) first read Noah Pink’s script about the high-stakes business scrap for the intellectual …

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is due to hit cinemas in a matter of weeks and will to close out the characters’ stories once and for all. After that, Marvel actor Chris Pratt could see himself joining the likes of Batman and Superman in the new-and-improved DC Studios. Guardians …

Some reports have claimed that Loren was paid an enormous $1million for the role, but that didn’t happen until 1964’s The Fall of the Roman Empire. It seems more likely she was paid $200,000, still a huge amount in those days ($1.9million today). And it is claimed more than Heston …

Pirates of the Caribbean fans have been patiently awaiting news on when the next swashbuckling adventure will be hitting the big screen. Everything ground to a half after Johnny Depp was dropped from the series by Disney when he was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, Amber Heard. With …

It’s been a year and a half since it turned out that James Bond did have time to die after all. Daniel Craig has bowed out as 007, but just who will replace him in the reboot? The latest bookies’ odds are in and his Casino Royale runner-up Henry Cavill …

John Wayne, whose cowboy characters regularly killed Native Americans in his movies, was watching from the wings. Speaking with The Guardian a year before her death, Littlefeather recalled: “During my presentation, he was coming towards me to forcibly take me off the stage, and he had to be restrained by …

After Daniel Craig stepped down from the role of James Bond in 2021, all eyes have been on who might replace him – and things were exactly the same in the 1980s. After Roger Moore had stepped down from the series in 1985, Bond bosses were keen to get some …