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Share/Bookmark It may have been five years before Willis O’Brien’s ground-breaking first use of stop-motion animation in The Lost World, and the most famous use of the medium in 1932′s King Kong, but it was in 1920 that the triumverate worlds of movie special effects, stop motion, and monster movies was fundamentally changed forever. For [...]
Share/BookmarkThose following the career of Paul Bettany might be wondering whatever happened to the man who stared into the dark abyss of our souls in Gangster Number One all those years ago. He established himself instantly with his portrayal of a young Malcolm McDowell in Paul McGuigan’s film, and while he has dipped his toes [...]
Share/Bookmark It’s been a rather busy couple of weeks at the Edinburgh Film Festival and our roving reporters, Martyn Warren and Nicola Balkind have done a sterling job bringing you reviews from all the major films as well as daily roundups from the event. Our friends at Upbeat have just sent us the final round [...]
Share/BookmarkTron Legacy is possibly Disney’s biggest movie of the year, at least from what we’ve seen of the marketing from the movie, it seems to be. San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) kicks off on July 22nd but that hasn’t stopped the banners for the big movies being placed on the cities streets outside the convention [...]
Share/BookmarkHere’s something that I was never expecting to say…. Jerry Bruckheimer is looking at reviving the Top Gun franchise. Bruckheimer was the producer of the 1986 movie which jet planed Tom Cruise into the mainstream and made him the man he is today…. and still no apology! Bruckheimer has told MTV during the junket for [...]
Share/BookmarkUnmistakably quirky and stylish, The Avengers was a series truly ahead of its time. Now you can enjoy the seven DVD box set of Series 4 with this competition from HeyUGuys. You can follow the adventures of the most dapper man in living memory, Patrick Macnee’s John Stead and the becatsuited Diana Rigg as the [...]
Share/BookmarkThe Hollywood Reporter have announced that the upcoming Lego movie project now officially has its directors’ chair filled. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller are currently locked in final negotiations to write and direct the movie for Warner Brothers and producers Dan Lin and Roy Lee. The pair are [...]
Share/BookmarkWhen marketing films in different countries studios often focus the marketing materials on any characters or actors that they think will have a pull in that particular country. Back when Cannonball Run was released, for instance, the posters in Hong Kong featured Jackie Chan much more prominently than the film’s actual star, Burt Reynolds. A [...]
Share/BookmarkWith Toy Story 3 currently causing a torrent of tears (of joy and sadness in equal measure) across the pond, we here in the UK still have a few more weeks to wait and even though I can’t tell you what I thought of it* there are powerful forces at work in the world of [...]
Share/BookmarkTo celebrate the release of Eclipse, the next installment of the Twilight Saga on 9th of July, we’ve teamed up with E1 Entertainment to offer three winners the chance to win a fabulous Eclipse book set! The book set includes: a special Bella edition and hardback edition of Eclipse, an Eclipse movie companion and a [...]
Share/BookmarkOptimum Releasing have just sent us this new International trailer for Gainsbourg which is directed by Joann Sfar and stars Eric Elmosnino, Eric Elmosnino, Anna Mouglalis, Laetitia Casta, Lucy Gordon and Mylene Jampanoi. It’s set for release 30th July and is based on the true life story of Serge Gainsbourg and from the trailer and [...]
Share/BookmarkLead animators and Pixar veterans Bobby Podesta and Mike Venturini visited Edinburgh International Film Festival this week for the UK Premiere of Toy Story 3. Screening only 24 hours after opening in the USA, it was the first chance to see the film this side of the Atlantic. I met with Bobby and Mike to [...]
Share/BookmarkNot completely unexpectedly Universal have chosen to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the seminal 80s movie Back to the Future by releasing a Blu-ray trilogy box set. Now, we’re already sold on this. These films hold up very well today and the first film in particular benefits from one of the tightest screenplays ever, and [...]
Share/BookmarkTommy Lee Jones is going to be a busy man over the year couple of years. As well as appearing in Men in Black 3 (watch the promo that we featured recently for the new movie), he has also been confirmed to appear as to General Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger according [...]
Share/BookmarkFollowing a teaser earlier this year we now have a full trailer for Space Battleship Yamato, thanks to Twitch. The film is an adaptation of the anime Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers as it was known in the USA) and will be released in Japan in December. The filmmakers are clearly aiming for a grand [...]
Share/BookmarkPercy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is scheduled for release in the UK next Monday, 5th July and since we know how much readers of HeyUGuys like it, we’ve managed to get 3 copies of the DVD to give away from our friends at Twentieth Century Fox. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is based [...]
Share/BookmarkTo begin at the beginning then. Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, who previously impressed with Stardust and Kick-Ass, took over as Headmaster and Headmistress of Marvel’s next step into the mutantverse as director and writer of X-Men: First Class. They cast James McAvoy as the young Charles Xavier. This was a good move, and the [...]
Share/BookmarkTron Legacy is one highly anticipated film and following recent posters, stills, viral marketing and trailers the hype surrounding this film looks set to rise and rise until its release in the US on the 17th of December and the UK on the 26th. Thanks to a post at IMdb (via Collider) we have a [...]
Share/BookmarkGemma Arterton picks her movies very carefully. When I got to meet and interview her a few months ago for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time she talked about how much she enjoyed doing the smaller independent movies as well as the Hollywood blockbusters. The Disappearance of Alice Creed has been and gone in [...]
