This is quite a special competition, just in time for Christmas. The Masters of Cinema books from Cahiers du cinema come to us under their banner from Phaidon Press. Ten books, each dedicated to a director, dissecting their style, influences, and techniques. Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese, Lynch, Burton, Hitchcock are among the subjects and a more [...]
Rockstar (More or Less) Turn Down BAFTA Award
December 15, 2010 By 4 Comments
In a brazenly self-confident move, Rockstar Games have denied Red Dead Redemption the chance of winning a BAFTA Video Game Award. Well, at least they’re living up to the company name. While the shortlist has yet to be announced, CVG has learnt that the studio’s Grand Theft Western hasn’t been nominated in any of the [...]
270 Films from 2010 in 6 minutes!
December 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Well this is a real treat. There have been a few of these montages popping up lately, with the two most well known being Arnie yelling and Nic Cage going mental. Now we can bring you a 2010 montage, with clips short and long from (apparently) some 270 of 2010′s cinematic offerings. It is always [...]
Matt Damon Pining for Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium
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Matt Damon seems to be keen to keep himself busy. He has already had Green Zone out this year and his second collaboration with Clint Eastwood, Hereafter, is up next. He has wrapped True Grit for the Coens, Margaret and Philip K Dick adap The Adjustment Bureau and is now filming Contagion for Steven Soderbergh before [...]
Not In The English Language #1. – Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud
December 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Welcome to “Not In The English Language”, a new weekly column from HeyUGuys. Each week a different film not in the English language will come under scrutiny. First up is Louis Malle’s 1958 French crime drama, Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud (Elevator To The Gallows), one of the key influences behind the Nouvelle Vague. If the work [...]
Top Twitter Trends for Film Offer a Pil(grim) Look at Mainstream Tastes
December 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a sign of the times, Twitter has released a list of this year’s top ten trending subjects (Thanks to /Film for the heads up). There’s some interesting reveals here, alongside more predictable topics (Justin Bieber’s tragic number one position in the People section speaks volumes about the largest demographic to use the site). The [...]
Universal Want to Start a Firestarter Franchise
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Remember Firestarter? The film based on a Stephen King novel about a pyrokinetic child, with the said child played by a post-ET Drew Barrymore? Thought so, well you’re not the only ones and Universal have set wheels in motion to restart the fire as a franchise. Joining with the Dino De Laurentiis Company Universal clearly [...]
X-Men Destiny Teaser Trailer
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X-Men Legends aside, X-Men games don’t have the greatest pedigree. Activision and Too Human developer Silicon Knights are looking to buck the trend with their brand new RPG-esque X-Men Destiny. The teaser trailer doesn’t reveal too many details, but we’re able to discern a couple of things when coupled with the info Activision has already [...]
Neve Campbell Joins Singularity as Time Traveller’s Wife
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About to jump back into the Scream arena for the fourth film Neve Campbell may have lined up her next film, Roland Joffe’s timewarp Singularity, according to THR. With shooting recently finished on There Be Dragons, a journey of self discovery set during and after the Spanish Civil War with Dougray Scott, Wes Bentley and [...]
Check Out Judge Dredd’s Helmet!
December 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We are gradually getting a few snapshots from the new version of Judge Dredd, with Karl Urban (Lord of the Rings, Doom, The Bourne Supremacy, Red) as Dredd and Pete Travis (Vantage Point, Endgame) on direction duties. It’s not been too easy so far to see exactly what the look of the film is going [...]
Robert Pattinson, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas Dress Up for Bel Ami
December 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
With Twilight entering its, ahem, twilight Robert Pattinson’s future career will no doubt be of great interest to the millions of die hard fans of the vampire series, and these new pictures from Bel Ami should sate the desire to see more of Mr P. As well as starring alongside Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz [...]
High Resolution Images from Fast Five
December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
To accompany the trailer that we posted earlier, Universal have released some new images for Fast Five which is released in UK 29th April. Fast Five sees Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris and The Rock himself, Dwayne Johnson all starring in the fifth movie which is helmed by Justin Lin who [...]
Eminem to go the Distance for Dreamworks in “Southpaw”
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Eminem showed great acting ability and screen presence with his debut, “8 Mile”, which told the story of a rapper trying to compete in rap battles and get his foot in the door for some studio time. Although the role was not much of a stretch for Eminem, he essayed it superbly and so it [...]
New Rango Trailer
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Fans of Johnny Depp are getting a lot to love this week with The Tourist in cinemas (and doing bizarrely well at the Golden Globes nominations), the new trailer for the Jack Sparrow Show: On Stranger Tides out last night and now there’s a new trailer for Rango. Gore Verbinski directs this animation with Depp [...]
Jon Favreau WILL NOT Direct Iron Man 3
December 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
Quite big news this evening (and no, I’m not talking about the Fast Five trailer!), this news relates to the man who helmed the first and second Iron Man movies, that man is Jon Favreau. News comes this evening from Vulture than Favreau will NOT be directing Iron Man 3. It’s all speculation as to [...]
Great On Set Pics from 127 Hours Show Danny Boyle, James Franco, Rock
December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Danny Boyle’s latest, 127 hours, divided audiences when it played at the London Film Festival this year, few could deny the powerful performance from James Franco but Boyle’s visual flourishes were deemed by some as incongruous with the intimate nature of the film. For what it’s worth I really enjoyed it. While we await the [...]
The First Trailer for Fast Five + New Images
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Who knew that nearly ten years ago, The Fast and the Furious franchise would become so successful that a fifth movie would be made?! I guess Universal hoped it would happen but I don’t think anyone really thought they would. The first trailer for the fifth movie has just been released on this evening to [...]
HeyUGuys World Cinema Trailer Park
December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
HeyUGuys brings you the latest in World Cinema film trailers in association with Film Dates UK. We’ll be showcasing some of most anticipated foreign releases as well as highlighting a few hidden gems which may have fallen off your radar. It’s no surprise that Hollywood has turned to World Cinema for inspiration in recent years [...]
Owen Wilson Says Zoolander 2 Should Happen
December 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
Owen Wilson was on promotional duties recently for the upcoming “Meet the Parents” sequel, Little Fockers and without any prompting on the matter, raised the prospect of a Zoolander sequel. For the uninitiated (and if you haven’t seen Zoolander you ought to immediately), Zoolander told the tale of a brainless male model, Derek Zoolander (played [...]
The Deadly Crossing Trailer Features Steven Seagal Being Awesome!
December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The title is pretty much obvious! If a movie has Steven Seagal in it, then it’s going to be awesome! Fact!! Optimum have just sent us the brand new trailer for his latest movie, Deadly Crossing (which I think is actually the first episode for TV series, Southern Justice) which features Seagal kicking butt then [...]
