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Alexandra Maria Lara (Downfall) has landed the lead female role in Rush, The Playlist have confirmed. The rising actress will star opposite Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) in the racing film. Written by acclaimed screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland), Rush centers on Austrian Niki Lauda’s (Brühl) rivalry with English racer James Hunt [...]
Final Destination 5 is the latest in a series of successful horror films surrounding the mystical power of death. This time around the cast is spared from an unfortunate bridge accident and once again each of the surviving kids are killed off one by one. Hey U Guys was fortunate enough to sit down with [...]
One of the biggest shocks to rumble through the film industry in recent weeks was the news that Disney’s The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the titular hero, had been put on hold due to budget concerns. The story has taken an interesting new turn, however, with comments made [...]
Many out there may be aware that some of cinema’s most iconic characters, like the titular figure from Citizen Kane and Psycho’s Norman Bates, were partially inspired by real-life figures (newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and serial killer Ed Gein, respectively), but sometimes other, equally memorable big screen creations have been sculpted from the personality [...]
To mark the release of The Veteran on DVD and Blu-ray on August 29th, Revolver Entertainment have given us five copies of the movie to give away on DVD. Revolver Entertainment presents acclaimed British actor and BAFTA-nominee Toby Kebbell (Prince of Persia, Control, RocknRolla ) in The Veteran, the gritty, hard-hitting tale of Robert Miller, [...]
Most of the 2 ½ hour Walt Disney Studios panel was spent with animation, in some form or another. We got looks at Walt Disney Animation Studio’s new projects including their direct-to-dvd feature spinoff, “Planes” and a new project, the surprise of the presentation, “Wreck-It Ralph.” We got a look at Tim Burton’s newest Stop-Motion [...]
Cody Horn (Flipped) has been added to the cast of low-budget male stripper film Magic Mike. Horn will star as the female lead alongside Channing Tatum (The Eagle), Alex Pettyfer (I am Number Four), Matthew McConaughey (The Lincoln Lawyer), Matt Bomer (Flightplan), Joe Manganiello (Spider-Man) and Riley Keough (The Runaways). Magic Mike centers on an experienced stripper (Tatum) [...]
CinemaNX have unveiled the official U.K. poster for Niall MacCormick’s coming-of-age drama Albatross. Written by Tamzin Rafn, Albatross centers on a 17-year-old force of nature who bursts into the lives of the dysfunctional Fischer family. The film stars Felicity Jones (Cemetery Junction), Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others), Julia Ormond (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), [...]
After emerging from bankruptcy at the end of last year, MGM appears to be going a little bit nutty for remakes; new versions of RoboCop, Poltergeist and Carrie are at various stages of development, and now the studio has hired Noah Oppenheim to script a fresh take on the classic 1983 John Badham movie War [...]
Roll up, roll up! The life of famous showman P.T. Barnum is heading to the big screen (with the aptly-cast Hugh Jackson in lead role) and now a director is onboard. Michael Gracey, a relative newcomer to feature directing (he’s previously made a number of commercials, and worked in visual effects for many years) has [...]
John Foster (Christopher Dane) is fed up. He’s lost his job, bills are piling up, his partner keeps nagging him. Along with his friend and fellow couch potato Chris (Lee Boardman) he decides to put some silly things on “an online auction site” (*cough* eBay) including soiled underwear and himself. A regional news crew catches [...]
After years of crafting gorgeous shorts with which to precede their features, it looks as though a little Pixar magic has finally rubbed off on the House of Mouse. According to /Film, who attended the studio’s D23 expo, Tangled’s directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard are preparing to unveil Tangled Ever After. And I really mean finally, particularly after [...]
Last week, Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, posted a picture of himself on the first day of shooting for the upcoming sequel to 2009’s GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, entitled GI Joe 2: Retaliation. He’s now confirmed via his Twitter that Bruce Willis, who has recently been rumoured to have joined the cast for [...]
At the moment, Brad Pitt is in Glasgow filming his new movie World War Z, a post-apocalyptic horror based on the novel by by Max Brooks. The movie is being directed by Marc Forster and also stars Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Lucy Aharish and Julia Levy-Boeken. We’ve seen some set images previously from [...]
Bloody Disgusting Selects have released the official US poster for The Woman. Directed by Lucky McKee (The Woods), The Woman stars Carlee Baker, Shana Barry, Marcia Bennett, Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers and Lauren Ashley Carter. The Woman is the last surviving member of a feral clan that has roamed the Northeast Coast for decades. When the last of her family is killed [...]
Re-released into the nation’s cinemas last Friday Kind Hearts and Coronets is perhaps the most famous of Ealing’s celebrated comedies, detailing the retribution and enforced inheritance of a Dukedom via the macabre fate of the various ill-natured and intemperate members of the D’Ascoyne family. It’s a beautifully pitched comedy of terrors, leading us through an [...]
Until we see Rod Lurie’s updating of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs it is perhps unfair to hurl it towards the Pointless Remake bin and yet it is a brave move with the 1971 film still as powerful and complex ever. Perhaps sensing the relatively simple and timeless horror of the story Screen Gems are serving [...]
(Minor spoilers contained within) Yuichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a socially awkward guy who meets girls using a dating service. One girl who responds to his messages and meets up with him is the pretty and enthusiastic Yoshino (Hikari Mitsushima). She’s really more interested in the more ‘cool’ Masuo (Masaki Okada) though, a privileged guy with excessively high self esteem. [...]
By about fourth year of university, I was more than a little sick of the psychological condition known to textbooks as prosopagnosia. Good thing then, that Julien Magnat has decided to cut out all the boring bits, rename it “face blindness” and give Milla Jovovich yet another memory problem. After losing her memory in Resident Evil [...]
Following on from the previews figures that we saw last week, it’s no surprise that we’ve just heard that The Inbetweeners Movie (our review here) has raked in a massive £13.2m at the UK box office in the past 4 days breaking the previous record for a UK comedy which was previously held by Bridget [...]
