Neil Gaiman Preps Script for ‘Monkey King’ Trilogy.

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Continuing to branch out into screenwriting, with a co-writer credit on Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf and an episode of Doctor Who under his belt, Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) has announced plans to pen an English language outline of Chinese classic Journey to the West for television producer Zhang Jizhong. THR reports that the project, a long-planned [...]

Three Your Highness Character Posters

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Universal Pictures have debuted three wicked new character posters for medieval stoner-comedy Your Highness. Directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express), Your Highness stars Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, Michael Clarke Duncan, Toby Jones and Damian Lewis. Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, [...]

SXSW Day 3 – Falling & Fainting at the Paramount

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This post would have been written last night but due to circumstances beyond my control, I wasn’t really in a fit state to write anything. Read on for more! Yesterday was a great day right until the end of it. I attended my first interactive panels to find out more about how I can make [...]

Official Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Poster

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Walt Disney Pictures have unveiled the official poster for fantasy action-adventure sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Directed by Rob Marshall, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the fourth installment in the hugely successful Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and stars Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Stephen Graham, Gemma Ward and Richard Griffiths. Johnny Depp returns [...]

Fight Night Champion Review

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If video games are the embodiment and height of wish fulfillment, boxing games should – in theory – be my favourite genre. The only punch I’ve ever thrown was when I was around 14 (and that was at a horse), and the thought of hundreds of people screaming my name whilst I skip around in [...]

Two More Exclusive Images from Jack Falls

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Unless you’re heading out to the premiere tonight of Paul Tanter’s Jack Falls you’ll have to wait a week to see how the tale of Jack Adleth is resolved when the DVD and Blu-ray is released on the 21st of March. Concluding the Jack Trilogy, comprising of this film’s predecessors Jack Says and Jack Said, [...]

First Look at Disney’s The Ballad of Nessie

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The Ballad of Nessie is the short film which will play before Winnie the Pooh which is due on the big screen on the 15th of April and Disney have sent through some pictures and a synopsis, which is awfully decent of them. Billy Connolly narrates the short and directors Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters [...]

SXSW – Attack the Block Screening Intro & Q&A Videos

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A couple of days ago I got to see the awesome Attack the Block here at SXSW (my review here) and after trying multiple times to get the videos uploaded, I have now managed it! Director Joe Cornish, Executive Producer Edgar Wright and stars of the movie Luke Treadaway and Nick Frost all introduced the [...]

Fresh Poster For Hesher

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Newmarket Films have released a fresh poster for acclaimed Sundance drama-comedy Hesher. Directed by renowned documentary maker Spencer Susser, Hesher stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Rainn Wilson (Super), Devin Brochu (In the Valley of Elah), John Carroll Lynch (Shutter Island) and Piper Laurie (Carrie). After the tragic loss of his mother, T.J. (Devin Brochu) and his pill [...]

Hayley Atwell Joins I, Anna

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Hayley Atwell has been added to the cast of Embargo Films’ drama-thriller I, Anna. Atwell will star opposite Charlotte Rampling (Never Let Me Go), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Eddie Marsan (The Disappearance of Alice Creed), Honor Blackman (Goldfinger), Bill Milner (Son of Ranbow) and Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake). A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme [...]

SXSW 2011 – The City Dark – REVIEW

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The City Dark Illuminates, Could Shine Brighter. Austin, TX – The City Dark, recently had its world premiere in the Documentary  Feature competition at this year’s SXSW film festival. The environmental film explores the issue of light pollution, and the disappearance of starlight in the urban sprawl of industrialized nations. Directed and narrated by filmmaker [...]

London Boulevard DVD Review

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Fresh out of prison, a young man named Mitchell (a greying and older-looking Colin Farrell) is sought out by his former associates who want to see him back to his old, unlawful way of life. Unsure of committing, Mitchell also has his sights set on taking on the potential role of bodyguard to a reclusive, [...]

Salman Rushdie Onboard as Writer for New US TV Drama

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Novelists lending their talents to the world of US TV is becoming an increasingly popular activity. Crime writer George Pelecanos was heavily involved in the latter stages of The Wire, while it was recently announced that chef-turned-author Anthony Bourdain was joining the Treme writing team. Now British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie is joining these celebrated writers [...]

Win Stone on DVD

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Lions Gate home entertainment have got in touch and asked us to run a competition for their new movie, Stone which is released on March 28th in the UK. It stars Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Mila Jovovich. We’ve been given three copies to give away and you can scroll down to enter. Academy [...]

Four French Sucker Punch Trailers? Mais, Oui

Zack Snyder has had us follow him down a particularly stylish rabbit hole over the last year as the road to Sucker Punch nears its end and we get to see if the director has a story to match the visuals. Snyder has quite a cast lined up for this tale of a young woman [...]

New Hanna TV Spot Gets the Job Done

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Joe Wright’s teenage assassin thriller Hanna is coming to UK cinemas on the 6th of May and there’s a new TV spot out in the wild today showcasing Saoirse Ronan going cold-eyed crazy ape on all manner of people, all of whom are probably very bad indeed. Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Tom Hollander and Olivia [...]

Win Arrivederci Millwall on DVD

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Vertigo and Momentum Home Entertainment have gotten in touch with us and asked if we’d like to give away three copies of their movie, Arrivederci Millwall combined with The Football Factory on DVD…. Of course we would!! Arrivederci Millwall / The Football Factory double pack is released on the 21st March. Adapted by Nick Perry [...]

Win We Are What We Are on DVD

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Startlingly original Mexican horror drama WE ARE WHAT WE ARE comes to DVD and Blu-Ray on 21 March 2011, and to celebrate we have 3 DVDs of the film to give away! A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his [...]

Win Jack Falls on Blu-ray

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To celebrate the release of the first ever British Trilogy know as the ‘JACK’ trilogy, Lions Gate Home Entertainment have been kind enough to give us three copies of the final instalment, Jack Falls, to give away on Blu-ray. Not only that, but we’ve managed to get our hands on three copies of the graphic [...]

Win London Boulevard on Blu-ray

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To celebrate the release of Colin Farrell’s new movie, London Boulevard on 21st March, Entertainment have been kind enough to give us three copies of the movie to give away on Blu-ray. Based on the book by Ken Bruen, “London Boulevard” is the story of a man newly released from prison that falls in love [...]