Sing Along To Beauty And The Beast This September 29th

Beauty and the Beast

After the phenomenal success of Mamma Mia! Sing Along a few summers ago, it was only a matter of time before the gimmick was used again. With Grease scheduled to screen in a sing-along format at selected Vue Cinemas this month, THR are reporting that Disney have gotten behind the bandwagon with plans to re-release Beauty and [...]

Akerman and Ambrose Join Apatow’s Wanderlust

Wanderlust

Malin Akerman (The Romantics) and Lauren Ambrose (Where the Wild Things Are) have been added to the cast of David Wain’s Wanderlust, The Playlist have confirmed. Akerman and Ambrose will star alongside Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd and Louis Theroux in the comedy project written by David Wain/Ken Marino and produced by Judd Apatow. Wanderlust centers [...]

The Other Guys Premiere Report

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Yesterday London was assaulted by the stars of Adam McKay’s cop comedy The Other Guys, and they were on excellent form when they turned out for the crowds. No doubt you’ll have seen the trailers for the film, which stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as a team of incompetent cops, with dynamic duo of [...]

The Social Network: Initial Reaction

A couple of early reviews for David Fincher’s The Social Network have made their way online, so I thought I’d pull them all together and package them into a post for you. The Social Network was penned by Aaron Sorkin and is loosely based on Ben Mezrich’s 2009 nonfiction book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A [...]

The Weinstein Co. Acquire Richard Ayoade’s Submarine

Submarine

The Weinstein Co. have successfully acquired the US and Canadian distribution rights to Richard Ayoade’s debut feature film Submarine, following it’s premiere at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival. Submarine is a dark British comedy adapted from the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Gemma Chan, Yasmin [...]

The Tourist Trailer Arrives

The Tourist has Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp going for it, so there’s a good chance that anyone halfway inclined to spend money at the cinema will be turned on by this, though the spectre of Knight & Day’s box office failure might hanging over Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film. Anyway, there’s a trailer out [...]

New International Tangled Trailer Appears

Disney have just released the new International trailer for their CG take on the story of Rapunzel, Tangled. The movie is directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard and features a voice cast which includes Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ewan McGregor and Steve Martin. And there is some lovely new footage here for [...]

Killer Pig Film Picked Up for US Release

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Variety brings news that the genre arm of US distribution company Magnolia Pictures have picked up the rights for new Korean monster movie Chawz (geddit?). The story follows a giant killer pig which terrorises the countryside, including a group of organic vegetable-picking tourists (sounds like a far from subtle dig at the non-meat eating population). [...]

Director Hirschbiegel goes to “Dark Side of the Moon”

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Director Oliver Hirschbiegel first came to our attention with the exceptional “Downfall”, a film about Hitler’s last days. Sadly, he then followed that up with “Invasion”, a fairly lifeless reworking of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, although that seems to have had more to do with problems with the studio than with Hirschbiegel himself. Variety [...]

Dante & Firth to make Corman biopic

Joe Dante

After first making a name for himself in the 70′s and 80′s with Gremlins, Piranha, The Howling and Innerspace, Joe Dante went a little quiet, popping up occasionally for lesser fare such as Small Soldiers, Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Matinee. Well, he is back on the scene now with new 3D feature The [...]

Nichola Burley Joins Kaya Scodelario in Wuthering Heights

Nichola Burley

Nichola Burley has joined the cast of Andrea Arnold’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The Streetdance 3D actress will join Skins’ Kaya Scodelario and another, as yet uncast, actor – filling the film’s three main roles. Burley’s performance in Streetdance 3D drew promising reviews, as did her portrayal of heroine-in-distress Tammi in 2008′s Donkey Punch. Ecosse [...]

Will Ferrell Reads Radio 1 News as Ron Burgundy

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Yesterday the cast of The Other Guys were in town for the UK premiere of Adam McKay’s film. Taking some time with Radio 1′s Chris Moyles, Will Ferrell was asked to channel his inner Burgundy and the following footage was captured by the Radio 1 webcam – Anchorman returns. Seeing as the much anticipated Anchorman [...]

Brenda Blethyn and Jim Broadbent to voice Raymond Briggs’ Ethel & Ernest

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Raymond Briggs will forever be linked with the annual walk in the wintry air with The Snowman and now news comes to us of a new animated feature of the 1998 graphic novel based on the lives of his parents, Ethel & Ernest. Fans of Briggs’ work may remember the last time a feature length [...]

TIFF Review – Vanishing on 7th Street

The latest from director Brad Anderson (The Machinist, Transsiberian) is a mediocre horror entry that has more in common with the murky hokiness of M. Night Shymalan than the body horror of David Cronenberg or David Lynch. Despite the best efforts of the excellent cast, who emote mightily, the very slight script doesn’t give them [...]

Winter’s Bone Review

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Winter’s Bone was the winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Dramatic award in 2010. It is also a film that has received a lot of praise from its screening at this years Edinburgh International Film Festival so I was very excited to see what director Deborah Granik has got everyone so enthusiastic about with her [...]

Buscemi, Weaver, Nixon, Heche and Wright Added to Rampart

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Steve Buscemi, Sigourney Weaver, Cynthia Nixon, Anna Heche and Robin Wright have been added to the cast of Rampart. They will star alongside Woody Harrelson, Ice Cube and Ben Foster in the thriller to be directed by Oren Moverman. Rampart “is based on a story by James Ellroy. It follows a single cop against the [...]

En Garde! New Set Photos from The Three Musketeers Arrive

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Fresh from the set of Paul W.S. Anderson’s new 3D film, The Three Musketeers, come these awesome behind the scenes photos from Germany. The pictures show how large this film is going to be and include shots of Ray Stevenson in costume along with a shot of a fully decked out soldiers and there is even a picture [...]

Win 80’s Cop Classics for the release of COP OUT

Cop Out DVD 3D

Kevin Smith’s latest comedy COP OUT arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Platforms on 20th September. In a throw back to the brilliant cop movies of the 80’s, action movie legend Bruce Wills, and comedy king Tracy Morgan, play bickering-but-got-your-back Brooklyn-based NYPD detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges, who are partners on the hunt for [...]

Kathryn Bigelow’s Drug-Parable Titled Sleeping Dogs; Filming to Start in Winter?

Kathryn Bigelow’s highly-anticipated follow-up to the Academy Award winning The Hurt Locker looks set to be picking up pace with Bigelow, along with writer Mark Boal and producer Grant Hill being photographed location-scouting in Brazil. Nation Films reported the team’s visit to Brazil, while also noting that the project is now called Sleeping Dogs, instead [...]

Brand New Clip from Winter’s Bone

Empire have posted an exclusive new clip from Artificial Eye’s Winter’s Bone, an adaptation of the 2006 novel by Daniel Woodrell. Directed by Debra Granik, Winter’s Bone premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival where it picked up the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film, subsequently leading to it’s UK distribution. Winter’s Bone [...]