DiCaprio to Play Hoover for Eastwood

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Soon to be seen fighting the windmills of our minds, Quixote style, in Christopher Nolan’s Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio’s status as one of the most in-demand talents of his generation is bolstered by the news coming out of the ether that he is to play FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood’s forthcoming biopic. It’s [...]

Alexander Skarsgard Goes Naval Gazing In Battleship

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Whether or not you buy into the notion of a film based on a board game, Peter Berg’s Battleship is taking shape, adding the curious twist of an alien invasion into the mix. Taylor Kitsch has already jumped on board and now HeatVision are adding a new name to the cast list, one which will [...]

X-Men: First Class Finds Its Magneto and Beast?

Previously discussed was the tug-of-war between Sony and Fox for the services of one of our favourite actors, Michael Fassbender, for their Spider-Man and X-Men: First Class films respectively. Anyone who has watched Fassbender in his British films such as Fish Tank  and the outstanding Hunger will know exactly why he is being courted and [...]

Confirmed: Toy Story Short Set To Play In Front of Cars 2

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As the world prepares to slowly disappear under the tangible haze of excitement generated by the world-wide release of Pixar’s Toy Story 3, director Lee Unkrich could be forgiven for sitting back and basking in the adulation already streaming his way. Instead  the excitement gauge has been turned up even further with the news that Unkrich [...]

First Trailer for The Chronicles of Nania: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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I put this trailer up yesterday but it was a pretty poor quality version so I thought it would only be fitting to show you again it all it’s high definition glory! Today we have the full HD trailer version of The Chronicles of Nania: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third installment from [...]

The First Set Photos from Johnny Depp’s The Rum Diary

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Here we get to see the first couple of official images from the Johnny Depp movie, The Rum Diary. Depp is a busy chap at the moment with the first photo from his film, The Tourist, with Angelina Jolie being released last week along with filming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which is [...]

Brand New Images from Tom Cruise’s Knight and Day

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The chaps over at Filmofilia have some lovely new images from the Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz movie, Knight and Day which is set for release in the UK 6th August. Reuniting Hollywood superstars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, Twentieth Century Fox will release the high-octane summer blockbuster KNIGHT AND DAY on Wednesday August 6th, 2010. [...]

Edinburgh Film Festival – Round Up of Days 1 & 2

The 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival is well under way I’m here to bring you all the news, including this – my take on the first two days of the festival. I’ll be keeping you in touch with everything that is happening here in Edinburgh on HeyUGuys along with reviews, you can read my take [...]

Brand New International Trailer for Eat Pray Love

Sony Pictures have just sent us this brand new HD trailer for Julia Roberts’ new movie, Eat Pray Love. If you want something vibrant and beautiful then this is the trailer for you. The movie is directed by Ryan Murphy and also stars Julia Roberts, James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis, Billy Crudup, and Javier [...]

Conviction Trailer Appeals

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Two words attracted me to this one – ‘Sam’ and ‘Rockwell’. The two words which Fox Searchlight are hoping will appeal to you are ‘Academy Award’, as this new trailer for the Tony Goldwyn film Conviction puts its stellar cast front and centre. Goldwyn has worked extensively in TV in the US and Conviction looks [...]

New Behind the Scenes Featurette for Twilight Eclipse

A brand new clip / featurette has been released by Moviefone for Twilight: Eclipse which is release in the US in just 2 weeks on 30th June. We get it on the 9th July on the weekend of the World Cup final but I guess Summit Entertainment and thinking that they’re main audience won’t be [...]

Soulboy Review – HeyUGuys at the Edinburgh Film Festival

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A charming film from Shimmy Marcus, SoulBoy is the story of Joe (Martin Compston, Sweet Sixteen), an aspiring cool guy in his late-teens. Life in Stoke-on-Trent becomes more exciting when a new girl in town (Nichola Burley) introduces him to the world of Soul. With his heart set on her, he throws himself into the [...]

Mouth Off Episode 24 – Please Give, Trash Humpers & Hierro

It’s been a busy week on HeyUGuys and to ease the journey into the weekend let’s cosy up and let the calming influence of the Mouth Off podcast wash over us, shall we? Lets. You’d be hard pressed to find three more diverse films than the ones we’re discussing – a liberal guilt trip with [...]

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has its Grand Opening

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They may have finished shooting this time last week but fear not Potter fans as we still have a years worth of films left to watch and then after that, we can just visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter which had it’s grand opening yesterday. The stars of the movie including Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert [...]

Legend of the Guardians Poster Swoops Online

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Owls are great, I’m not the only one to think so. From what we’ve seen of Zack Snyder’s CG 3D adaption of Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’hoole books, retitled Legend of the Guardian, there’s a sumptuous world on offer here and if you want to see owls talking and swooping then I’d recommend checking out [...]

Summer Box Office Crash?!

Last weekend’s big movies made money, with The Karate Kid doing particularly well against its production budget. However, compared to some of the numbers seen over the Spring, the Summer box office appears to be declining, with the A-Team particularly falling far short of expectations. Usually, Summer is the big seller, and there has been no [...]

In The Pit DVD Review

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Filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo brings us the wonderful documentary In The Pit (En El Hoyo) about the countless Mexican workers labouring to construct the massive second story of the Periferico freeway in Mexico City filmed during March 2003 to December 2005. Focusing on a handful of the tireless workers who are no more than just [...]

Go Behind the Scenes of Cyrus

Cyrus looks like one of those quirky movies that will either be awesome of dire! I’m very much hoping for the former. Cyrus stars John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener and Matt Walsh. It’s directed by The Dupress brothers (directors) who introduced this new behind the scenes footage courtesy of Yahoo. If [...]

Alex Garland To Adapt Logan’s Run

The good news that Carl Erik Rinsch has jumped aboard the Logan’s Run remake is further compunded by the news today that Warner Bros have enlisted the services of novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland to adapt the story. Bear in mind that this is not a remake of the 1976 film which starred Michael York [...]

The Edinburgh Film Festival – Opening Night Report

The Edinburgh Film Festival kicked off yesterday and our friends from Upbeat were there to capture the whole thing on camera. Sean Connery, Jason Isaacs, Ben Miller, Sir Patrick Stewart and Ugly Betty herself, America Ferrera all made an appearance and they also got to chat with the director of new animation, The Illutionist which [...]