Review: Carriers

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With all the hype surrounding the big release of Star Trek this week I was very interested in seeing Chris ‘Captain Kirk’ Pine’s next role in ‘Carriers’ and it was a strange film, fascinatingly apocalyptical but drowning in it’s own idea. Looking into the history of the film it was interesting to see that it [...]

Preview: Ninja Assassin

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Ten years ago, the Wachowski brothers, little known at the time, released their second movie as directors, The Matrix. A product of their love of Hong Kong action movies and Manga, it became huge. The mix of stylish action and spiritual introspection struck a chord, particularly with teenage boys searching for an identity. Two inferior [...]

Fassbender and Wasikowska To Star in Jane Eyre?

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Following his success with Sin Nombre Cary Fukunaga is to adapt Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre from a script by Moira Buffini, and today rumours blossomed that soon-to-be Alice In Wonderland MiaWasikowska is in talks to play the eponymous heroine. Jane Eyre has been adapted many times in recent years with actresses such as Samantha Morton [...]

Audio Interview with Gerard Butler on Law Abiding Citizen

Our friend James Kleinmann has been at it again and this time has scored an interview with lead actor, Gerard Butler from his new movie, Law Abiding Citizen which is out next Friday (27th November) in UK Cinemas. Synopsis: Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an honest, upstanding family man.  Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) is an [...]

Spielberg and King To Develop Under the Dome for TV

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It is a marketing department’s dream, and it marks the first collaboration between Steven and Stephen in twenty years, as Variety are reporting that the duo are working to bring a mini series adaptation of King’s recently published novel Under the Dome. Dome has garnered some serious praise, and it is hoped that it will [...]

Competition: Win Terminator Salvation on Blu Ray in a T-600 Skull Box

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To celebrate the release of McG’s, Terminator Salvation being released on DVD & Blu Ray on Monday (23rd November), Sony Pictures have given us a Skull Box edition to give away. It’s on Blu Ray and as you can see from the image, it comes inside a T-600′s head! To be in with a chance [...]

Glorious 39 – Taking Another Look

Stephen Poliakoff’s dark, labyrinthine account of England’s tumble into the Second World War was premiered at the London Film Festival this year and we were impressed by it. As today sees the film’s release I wanted to take another look at this drama, to see if it lives up to its name. Glorious 39 is [...]

Lost Final Season Date Announced

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It’s been a long time coming with polar bears, VW Campers, a company called Darma and a lot of characters but the hit TV show, LOST has been given it’s finale date by hosts, ABC as Tuesday, 2nd February 2010. They also said that they’d end the show with a special “all-night event” which will [...]

More News On The Rome Movie

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Almost a year after Bruno Heller first hinted at a feature adaptation of his acclaimed HBO series Rome, actor Kevin McKidd, better known to fans of the film as Lucius Vorenus has been talking about the film. A lot. In an interview with the New York Post’s Popwrap column McKidd talked about the script, saying [...]

The Fall or Rise of Richard Kelly?

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In 2001, Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko opened in theatres. With only a limited release, just 58 screens across the US it wasn’t able to set the box office alight, with a domestic gross of around $520,000, and $4.1M worldwide. When it came to DVD, however, it found a new lease of life. With some interesting [...]

Brad Pitt to Enter a Dark Void?

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Video game adaptations have always been a tough sell, not least because games are an interactive experience whose narratives are often an afterthought, but mainly because so many of the attempts to adapt a video game have sucked beyond belief. Directors such as Paul W.S. Anderson and Uwe Boll have looked to bastardise well known [...]

Ten of the best for Klausner, Adams

The Hollywood Reporter announced today that Josh Klausner, co-writer of Shrek the Third and writer of next year’s comedy Date Night, is about to start work on adapting the novel The Ten Best Days Of My Life, by Adena Halpern. The story concerns a woman who has to win a place in the top level [...]

Kirsten Stewart Not Linked To Spidey 4

At least not as far as we know, but while we have your attention: Yet more actresses have been linked to a role in the forthcoming Spider-sequel. On Tuesday UGO reported that Julia Stiles was in talks with a casting company to discuss a role in the film, while yesterday Deadline Hollywood revealed that Anne [...]

Kick-Ass Gets Worldwide Distribution

Good news for those of us outside the US. Screen are reporting that Focus Features International have obtained distribution rights for Kick-Ass in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Latin America, while sister company Universal Pictures International will be releasing the film in New Zealand. Although there is no release date set, Screen point to [...]

UK Trailer & Poster – Astro Boy

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Here’s the brand new UK trailer and poster for Astro Boy which we can expect to see at our local cinemas 29th January 2010. Check out the trailer below and click the poster to enlarge. Directed by Dave Bowers (Flushed Away), and written by Bowers and Timothy Hyde Harris (Kindergarten Cop). “˜Astro Boy’ is based [...]

Aaron Sorkin Returning to TV?

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While busy completing the script for David Fincher’s Facebook biopic The Social Network it seems Aaron Sorkin is returning to the small screen for his next venture. He tells TV Guide (via Total FIlm) “I’m going to be starting on a new TV series when filming is done on the upcoming movie The Social Network,.. [...]

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Hopefully you’ve seen the new posters for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland over the past couple of weeks (check them out in the related links below if not). They’ve all been beautifully thought out and really sell the new re-telling of the story that we know and love. Well, today, the lovely people over at Disney [...]

Review: Did You Ever See… Rounders?

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This week sees the UK release of Steven Soderbergh’s whistle blower movie The Informant. Based on the true story of Mark Whitacre, an executive who reported his corporation’s price-fixing tactics to the FBI, Soderbergh has put a comedic spin on it. This relies heavily on the lead actor, Matt Damon, and Damon has won critical [...]

Star Trek Sequel Casting News – Spock, Pike Out?

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And by Spock I mean Leonard Nimoy, not Zachary Quinto – there’s no chance J. J. Abrams would leave out the logical half of the dynamic duo, but word comes from MovieWeb that Nimoy may not be in the expected sequel. He told MovieWeb: If J.J. asked me to come back, I would consider it. [...]

Twilight New Moon: Why are we Obsessed with Edward and Bella?

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With New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight saga, on its way to our cinema screens (you may have seen that HeyUGuys has gone a little Twilight-crazy over the last few weeks…) HUG writer Kelly Alyse has taken a look at the first movie Twilight to see why we’ve become so obsessed by the [...]