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Walt Pictures Disney have confirmed that Gore Verbinski (Rango) has officially signed on to direct The Lone Ranger, a new film based on the character created in 1933 by George W. Trendle. The Lone Ranger is a masked Texas Ranger in the American Old West who gallops about righting injustices with the aid of his clever, laconic Native American [...]
This poster came out last Friday but what with all the Potter shenanigans and visiting Memorabilia this weekend, I never got to post it. Hop comes from the same people who made Despicable Me and is expected to come out April 1st 2011 in the UK and the US. This new poster was sent to [...]
And so it begins. We knew this was coming, like night follows day and Golden Raspberries follow Uwe Boll. The rumour mill for Superman: Man of Steel has begun to grind. Matthew Goode, who played Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt in Zack Snyder’s impressive Watchmen adaptation is being talked up by “sources” as a front-runner for Superman. There had [...]
Y Tu Mama Tambien star Gael Garcia Bernal is stepping in the ring to play celebrated five-time world boxing champion Roberto Duran. Variety are reporting that the biopic, entitled Hands of Stone (Duran’s nickname) may also benefit from the added presence of none other than Al Pacino, who has expressed interest in playing the role [...]
You can catch all of our posts on the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, On Stranger Tides, right here. Added to all of that, we now have news via über-producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s Twitter feed that principal photography on the film has wrapped, moving now into post-production ready for next summer’s release. JB also said [...]
Walt Disney Pictures have unveiled the first official trailer for Mars Needs Moms!, a new 3D performance-captured animated sci-fi film based on the book by Berkeley Breathed. Mars Needs Moms! is directed by Simon Wells and produced by performance-capture expert Robert Zemeckis (Monster House). The film features voices of Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Elisabeth Harnois, Dan [...]
Optimum Releasing have just sent us the brand new UK trailer and poster for their new movie, Animal Kingdom which is set for release 25th February in the UK. It’s directed by David Michôd and stars Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, Dan Wyllie and Jacki Weaver. This movie is high on the [...]
I’ve still never seen 2004 ‘classic’ movie, Mean Girls which starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried but everyone says I should! It looked a bit like Clueless (both of which you can buy in a box set here for £2.64 – bargain!!) and after going to see that at the cinema [...]
We’ve been given a rather cool competition this afternoon. Paramount Home Entertainment have been kind enough to give us two DVD box sets of Dexter, Season 4 to give away to you, our lovely readers. Season 4 is released on both DVD and Blu ray 29th November and if you’ve not already seen it, head [...]
The first in Kim Ki-young’s ‘Housemaid trilogy’ the original film, The Housemaid, was released in 1960 but was little known in the West until very recently. Ki-young’s The Housemaid is a stunning film that features a phenomenal performance by Eun-shim Lee as the titular housemaid. Despite bringing to mind films such as Leave Her to Heaven, Repulsion [...]
This Friday sees the release of Anton Corbijn’s The American, which stars George Clooney as a master assassin and we’ve got some very interesting prizes on offer for you this fine day. We have one main prize of · A signed poster by Anton Corbijn, Violante Placido and Thekla Reuten · A soundtrack · A [...]
This is rather fantastic news for those of you out there who love any animated Disney movie (that would be everyone then!). Disney have just sent us the press release below to let us know that every single Disney Animated movie will be screened at the BFI Southbank throughout 2011 in celebration of their brand [...]
Missing presumed dead: have you seen this man? Answers to the name of Freddy Krueger. Recognisable by his scarred face, stripy jumper and blade encrusted glove. In 1984 was considered a scary serial killer but has since mysteriously disappeared and been replaced with a desperately poor imitation. Horror fans across the globe would be grateful [...]
Two stories ran on Deadline last night which attached a star and a director to the US TV adaptation of Joe Hill’s comic book series Locke & Key. The director is a HeyUGuys favourite, Mark Romanek, whose recent film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is attracting talk of Oscar and was a [...]
With Pokemon Black and White released in Japan and the new anime series airing in Japan, now is the perfect opportunity to review the twelfth Pokemon film, Arceus and the Jewel of Life. Due to be released in America on DVD on the 23rd of November, with a UK release date TBC, even with the [...]
Empire has revealed the UK poster for gripping documentary Catfish – a film which made a splash at this year’s festivals. The film has gone on to earn over $3 million in the US (pocket change for the Harry Potter mob, but impressive for a small, purposely ambiguous low-budget doc). The film follows co-director Ariel [...]
Artificial Eye have released the UK trailer and poster for Of Gods and Men. Directed by Of Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods and Men won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, and opens in the UK on December 3. The film stars Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herli [...]
With director Darren Aronofsky recently swapping Swans for Wolverines there’s still plenty of talk, and some of it Oscar-type talk, about his latest film Black Swan, which has played to rave reviews at this year’s festivals. It’s a psychological thriller with added ballet and has Vincent Cassel shouting at Natalie Portman a lot and frankly [...]
Well, we have had rumours about when The Dark Knight Rises was going to roll before the cameras, mostly positing around April 2011 and those seem to have been not too wide of the mark as Sir Michael Caine has announced that shooting will actually kick off in May next year. Empire were interviewing Sir Michael [...]
