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  • Studios order Hansel and Gretel sequel

    Studios order Hansel and Gretel sequel

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    Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is to get a sequel, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) and MTV Films have announced. The first film catches up with Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) 15 years after the traumatic gingerbread house incident and finds them now serving as bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches. Despite receiving…

  • The Princess Bride: 25th Anniversary Edition

    The Princess Bride: 25th Anniversary Edition

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    The film remains as great as ever, with Reiner’s masterful direction fusing perfectly with William Goldman’s imaginative and fun story.

  • Classic cop drama The Bill goes online

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    Classic episodes of The Bill are to go online, allowing fans to relive the iconic police drama starting with the very first episode, Woodentop. Created and written by Geoff McQueen, Woodentop introduced audiences to newly qualified PC Jim Carver (Mark Wingett) and WPC June Ackland (Trudie Goodwin). The pair appeared in the series for much…

  • Freesat launches new < free time > box

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    Freesat, the BBC and ITV backed free-to-air digital satellite platform, has unveiled a white version of its new box. Launched last September as a rival YouView, combines live channels with a backwards EPG and catch-up content from selected providers. Although the service launched with the promise of catch-up players from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and…

  • BBC sells Lonely Planet for £80m loss

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    The BBC’s commercial arm has sold its Lonely Planet travel publishing guide for £51.5m, £80m less than it paid for company. BBC Worldwide bought 75% of Lonely Planet in 2007 for £88.1m and four years later paid a further £42.17m for the remaining 25%. The acquisition was hugely controversial with rival publishers as the company…

  • Evil Dead – new image

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    Studiocanal has released this terrifying image from Fede Alvarez’s highly anticipated remake of cult horror Evil Dead. Holed up in a remote cabin, five twenty-something friends discover a Book of the Dead and unwittingly summon dormant demons living in the nearby woods. One by one the friends are possessed until only one is left intact…