New Image from Priest

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Following their collaboration on the poorly received Legion, Paul Bettany and director Scott Stewart have reunited with another religious themed horrorshow for their take on Hyung Min-woo’s comic series Priest, which at its heart is a blend of cowboys, vampires and a host of hellbent craziness. A behind the scenes clip surfaced a few months [...]

Dinner For Schmucks Has a Subtle Poster

Dinner For Schmucks Poster

If the two trailers already out in the wild have not convinced you to check out Jay Roach’s comedy Dinner for Schmucks then this new poster won’t either. It’s got a great cast, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and Zach Galifianakis are all very capable comedic actors and Jermaine Clement and the UK’s David Walliams apparently [...]

The Social Network Gets a Teaser Trailer – We Like

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Not too long ago there was a poster – simple, elegant, some would say enigmatic. David Fincher’s film adaptation of The Accidental Billionaries by Ben Mezrich on the founding of Facebook is one of the most anticipated films of the year and now we get a teaser trailer to make us wish our lives away. [...]

High Quality Trailer for Studio Ghibli’s The Borrower Arietty

A couple of weeks ago we posted footage from Studio Ghibli’s forthcoming The Borrower Arietty (Karigurashi no Arietty). This was wonderful but sadly lacking quality wise and also not a complete trailer. Well today we have the trailer in beautiful HD thanks to a tip from nipponcinema. The Borrower Arietty is based on The Borrowers [...]

Breaking News: Peter Jackson in Negotiations to Direct The Hobbit?

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I’ll keep this post short for two reasons: 1) This news will no doubt change like every other time someone says they’re going to Direct The Hobbit 2) I need to go out! A couple of weeks ago, Guillermo del Toro walked from directing the The Hobbit movie after MGM couldn’t work out what’s going [...]

Edinburgh Film Festival – Round of Days 8 & 9

Day 8 Wednesday was a day of transitions – first-week guests left and second-week guests had not yet arrived, and the Filmhouse was like a ghost town as everyone took off to watch the World Cup. Feeling listless after transcribing interviews for hours (lots to come, keep an eye out!), I caught the 5pm screening [...]

Three New Clips from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Hoping to be a positive shot in Disney’s live action arm is the Nicolas Cage fantasy adventure The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. We’ve seen much from this one in the form of trailers, teasers, posters and the like, and now there’s three more clips hoping to cast their spell on you. The CG infusion of the age [...]

BFI’s Summer Sci-Fi Season Revealed

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Though much of the recent news on the UK film industry has been concerning government cuts I’m pleased to say that the British Film Institute continues its great work in championing the art of film, and the announcement of their summer season of Science Fiction classics is a great example of this. Entitled Film Science: [...]

New Last Airbender Clip Shows Oncoming Storm

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M. Night Shyamalan is currently stumbling around the rumour mill with whispers of his next Bruce Willis shaped project, but it is his imminent movie The Last Airbender that concerns us here, and with just under a week to go until it hits US cinemas there’s yet another clip to beat your apathy into submission. [...]

Exclusive Interview with John Stalberg, Director of HIGH School

HIGH School

I met with John Stalberg, director of HIGH School here at Edinburgh International Film Festival and we had the chance to chat about his latest film and the inspirations behind it. Starring Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, and Colin Hanks, HIGH School is a comedy in which top-of-the-class Henry (Matt Bush) reconnects with his burn-out friend [...]

UK Cinemas To Show the World Cup in 3d

Fifa World Cup 2010

47 Cinemas across the UK will be showing the final 16 countries in 3d for the first time ever. We’ve got a list of the cinemas that will be showing the games in 3d which you can see below. All the main chains in the UK including Cineworld, Vue, Empire and Odeon cinemas will be [...]

First Look at Verbinski’s Rango Characters

Rango Characters

The guys over at /Film have released the first image of characters for the upcoming animation project by Gore Verbinski- the curiosity that is Rango. The movie, which has cast Johnny Depp as the titular chameleon with an identity crisis, alongside Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, and Timothy Olyphant as [...]

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is the Highest Grossing Video Game Movie of All Time!

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Thanks to FilmJunk, we now know that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has become the single biggest video game movie adaptation in history in terms of international box office. “What?!” I hear you cry, “surely Street Fighter deserves that heady accolade”. Well, frankly no, it doesn’t. It’s hardly a huge achievement in all [...]

Friday Lunchtime Brilliance: The Maltin Game

Doug Benson I Love Movies

Ever spent one of those mundane Friday afternoon blankly staring at your office screen, nursing a dull head from last night’s impromptu and badly conceived visit to the local and in full knowledge that you will achieve precisely nothing before the end of day bell goes and you run off for the weekend? Well, curse your bad [...]

Win Green Zone on Blu Ray

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MATT DAMON (The Bourne franchise, Invictus, The Informant!) and internationally renowned director PAUL GREENGRASS (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93) re-team for their latest electrifying thriller in GREEN ZONE – available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD from 12th July 2010. You can pre-order it here. In the film, U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer [...]

Breathless Review

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So much has been written on Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle that all I can do is champion its life and its vivacity, and urge you to catch this on its 50th anniversary re-release in cinemas and on the restored DVD. The restored print was overseen by the film’s cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Studio [...]

Win Beyond the Pole on Blu Ray

Beyond The Pole - Blu-ray 3d

The multi-award winning ‘BEYOND THE POLE’ will make it’s highly anticipated U.K. DVD and Blu-ray debut on 5th July 2010. You can pre-order it here. Brian Tongue (Rhys Thomas – Bellamy’s People) and Mark Bark Jones (Stephen Mangan – Green Wing) are setting out on the first Carbon Neutral, Vegetarian, and Organic expedition ever to [...]

Exclusive Look at Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief DVD Extra: Inside Camp Half Blood

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Twentieth Century Fox have given us this special exclusive look at one of the new featurettes which will appear on the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Dvd & Blu ray when it’s released in the UK 5th July. The featurette is called Inside Camp Half Blood and features interviews with director, Chris Columbus and [...]

The People Vs. George Lucas Review – Edinburgh Film Festival

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After directing a series of short films director Alexandre O. Philippe has directed his first feature-length documentary and as you can probably guess – it is fans, filmmakers and authors talking about the story of George Lucas and his rise and fall, from original trilogy to prequel. This is probably the best documentary that I [...]

Shrek Forever After Review

This weekend sees the public previews of the latest movie in the Shrek series so now seems a good a time as any to give a HeyUGuys review of it! Shrek has been a big hit in our household since the first film came out what seems like half a lifetime ago but the announcement [...]