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With Disney’s Princess and the Frog doing good business critically and commercially in the cinemas right now there’s an update on one of their future animations, a film based on the fairytale of Rapunzel. Announced directly to Disney’s Facebook fans Roy Conli, the film’s producer, gave the film its new name: Tangled. He wrote, Hey [...]
Episode 7 of the official HeyUGuys podcast, MouthOff, is here! Among the gems up for discussion this episode we have our take on Valentine’s Day, The Wolfman, A Single Man and the ubiquitous Percy Jackson, and we delve into the mass of film news to talk about Christopher Nolan’s Godfather role in the forthcoming Superman [...]
The Ghost might not be a film that you’ve heard of and until today I was with you. In the US, the movie is called The Ghost Writer and that’s what we’ve been calling it too until today. The Ghost is directed by Roman Polanski, stars Ewan McGregor, Pierece Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams and [...]
Two weeks today sees the release of The Crazies, a remake of the 1973 horror movie which was directed by George A. Romero. This new version is directed by Breck Eisner and stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson and Danielle Panabaker. The story focuses around a hidden away small town in America. One day, [...]
Universal Pictures have been thinking outside the box and have created this awesome competition where you can create your own Kick-Ass character and win a poster of yourself as your alter-ego.The promotion is to coincide with Matthew Vaughn’s new movie which comes out 2nd April and stars Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz-Plasse [...]
A few weeks ago, I posted some images from the The Pacific, which is the follow-up to the Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg produced series, Band of Brothers. In that post, I mentioned that ‘the lucky dabbers at Sky Movies had been lucky enough to see the first two episodes’ from the new 10 part mini-series. [...]
A great new trailer has just been released for Edward Norton latest movie, Leaves of Grass. It’s directed by Tim Blake Nelson and also stars another Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Keri Russell and Richard Dreyfuss. The movie screened at the Toronto Film Festival and everyone is raving about it with apparently an awesome performance from [...]
IGN have just posted the new trailer for the Neil Marshall directed Centurion which stars Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko and last years winner of the Newcomer BAFTA Noel Clarke. The title suggest it’s about a Roman centurion and after yuo watch the trailer, you’ll realise you’re right! Neil Marshall has previous brought us [...]
There is a lot happening in British independent film at the moment, with Gerard Johnson’s Tony making waves and Steve Lawson’s Dead Cert looking good for this year. A chorus of new voices are being heard, and their passion and talent is evident with every new release. Here at HeyUGuys we are always looking to [...]
Luxuriously, plush seats. Ample leg room. Digital screens boasting the size of 4 double-decker buses. Welcome to the digital revolution! Last night, I headed down to the brand new swanky cinema that is Vue Westfield. We were invited along by Vue to check out their newest cinema and it really was spectacular. Turn left out [...]
In what is becoming a test case, the news being reported that the UK’s biggest cinema chains, a group consisting of Vue, Cineworld and Odeon, are threatening to boycott Disney’s forthcoming Tim Burton film Alice in Wonderland over a reduction in the time delay between the cinematic release and the home entertainment release, is timely [...]
Yesterday, I got to go along to the UK press conference for Valentine’s Day which has a rather large cast which includes Ashton Kutcher, Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper, Topher Grace, Emma Roberts, Hector Elizondo, Carter Jenkins, Queen Latifah, Jamie Foxx, Taylor Lautner. Were they all [...]
You can’t beat a good Saturday afternoon watch of the 1973 Oliver Reed / Richard Chamberlain version of the Three Musketeers followed nicely by the 1974 version of the Four Musketeers! Well, it appears someone at Warner Bros. isn’t content with my beloved version as news has come out today that the Alexandre Dumas père [...]
Picture it, summer, 2009 and I’m on my holiday in New York City. I’m walking down 5th Avenue to get stopped by someone with a badge of their shirt which says ‘Get Him to the Greek’. I have no idea what that is but they say to me “Come with us and we’ll make you [...]
The Berlin Film Festival is underway and reports of what’s next for some big stars is coming thick and fast. First up in the news that Colin Firth is to join Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Sturgess in Michael Winterbottom’s film The Promised Land, a political thriller set in Palestine at the end of the Second [...]
Ok, so you’ve all taken a good look at the lovely new trailer for Toy Story 3? (You haven’t? Rush over here and enjoy!) You’ll notice that there’s a new character jumping from the Toy Box and onto the screen – that’s Lots-O’-Huggin’-Bear, Lotso to his friends, and Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich has [...]
I was one of the lucky few who got to see a very advanced, unfinished version screening of How to Train Your Dragon a few weeks ago and, although I’m not allowed to review it yet, I am allowed to tell you that you’re going to absolutely love it, cos I did! After the screening, [...]
You may have sneaked a peek at this new trailer, released in full today direct from our friends at Disney, had a good look at the latest characters revealed yesterday, or enjoyed the reveal of the marvellously named Mr Pricklepants and watched the manic first look issued last year, but chances are this is the [...]
The road to a live action Akira has been a suitably long and arduous one, and the 1988 Katsuhiro Otomo anime adaptation of his own mammoth manga was not only a high point of the form, and an achievement considering the complexity and scale of the source material, but it led the way for us [...]
