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Share/Bookmark To celebrate the release of ‘The Big Year’ in cinemas Friday, we’re offering 5 lucky readers the chance to win the book on which the film was based; The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, written by Mark Obmascik. In this comedy for grown-ups, Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen [...]
Share/BookmarkA glimpse into the creative process of those big, effects-heavy Hollywood blockbusters always offers a fun and fascinating prospect, and that’s precisely what happened when one of the industry big-hitters, Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Farrar, recently took the stage to chat about his experiences working on Transformers: Dark of the Moon. An employee of [...]
Share/BookmarkEarlier this year, I got to go to Leavesden Studios to see a few of the brand new sets that are being built for Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter Studio Tour London. It was one of my personal highlights from working on HeyUGuys and if you missed my interviews with the Weasley Family and Tom Felton, [...]
Share/Bookmark After celebrating her admittance to MIT, high school student Rhoda Williams drives home while listening to a radio broadcast that reveals another planet has been found in our solar system. Drunk, and staring up into the night sky to catch a glimpse of the distant blue dot that is this new world, Rhoda fails [...]
Share/BookmarkLast week I got to sit down with Elijah Wood to chat about his new movie, Happy Feet Two. It so happened that the first question asked at the round table lead nicely into The Hobbit so this interview starts with a lot of Hobbit information on filming and what we can expect but mainly [...]
Share/BookmarkYou know the drill by now. We have loads of great stuff on the latest Men In Black film and you can get yourself bang up to speed right here. Today’s addition to the wealth of material out there is this poster, which takes the MIBIII logo (or MIB³ as now seems to be Sony’s [...]
Share/BookmarkThe ever beneficient people at Apple have delivered a new poster for Disney’s long awaited adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Cater (of Mars but don’t tell anyone). Further details of Andrew Stanton’s film have been unveiled recently, most notably some excellent new artwork, and slowly but surely Disney have started to let us in [...]
Share/BookmarkAn open mind is a wonderful thing, and I approach every film I see with one. Despite the narrative black hole that was Transformers Revenge of the Fallen there was something in the first film which gave me hope that a return to form was the only option open to Michael Bay and his enormous [...]
Share/BookmarkLast month we heard that Netflix, one of the US’s biggest TV/movie rental streaming sites, is coming to the UK and Ireland early in 2012. With the online streaming/physical rental service currently largely dominated by the Amazon-owned LoveFilm here in the UK, it will be interesting to see how Netflix fare when they arrive. Word [...]
Share/BookmarkMany of the best short films of recent years have come from the collaboration of corporations with some of the biggest directors around with Terry Gilliam’s inspired partnership with Garofalo Pasta for The Wholly family and Spike Jonze’s film with Absolut I’m Here. Continuing the trend Chivas have teamed up with director Joachim Back, whose [...]
Share/BookmarkMany of you may be aware of the sad news of Ken Russell’s passing yesterday at the age of 84. The British director was a colourful figure who, throughout his long career (which began back in TV during the late 50’s) managed to shock, perturb and upset the establishment with his sometimes controversial perspective on [...]
Share/BookmarkOne of the handful of British talents well known and loved on beyond our shores, and in my opinion one of the finest actors working at the moment, Ewan McGregor is now set to join Oscar-nominated writer-director Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s acclaimed novel, The Corrections, Deadline report. The adaptation has been set up [...]
Share/BookmarkPixar are responsible for most of the top-drawer animation coming into the market place these days. How To Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda have shown that Dreamworks are gradually upping their game and of course Studio Ghibli remains a formidable force. What is now becoming increasingly evident is that the directors of Pixar’s [...]
Share/BookmarkHere at HeyUGuys we’re open to exploring any subject given the cinematic treatment, however specialist it may appear to be. With this in mind, Saturday afternoon entertainment was provided by a documentary focusing on the humble ukulele. Entitled Mighty Uke, the film is the brainchild of Canadian editor Tony Coleman and his partner Margaret Meagher, [...]
Share/BookmarkLate last week, we put up some high resolution images from Twilight Breaking Dawn Part One that showed some wedding images that we’ve not seen before. Today, Entertainment One have given us some super high-resolution images of the dress (created by Carolina Herrera) that Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) wore when she married Edward (Robert Pattinson) in [...]
Share/BookmarkFollowing on from the fantastic new image we saw last week of Elizabeth Banks and Jennifer Lawrence together in Gary Ross’ upcoming adaptation of The Hunger Games, based on the first novel in Suzanne Collins’ original trilogy, we’ve now got a brilliant new shot from the film, courtesy of Bloody Disgusting. This time around, the [...]
Share/BookmarkThe Film The third in Shion Sono’s thematically linked ‘Hate Trilogy’ (following Love Exposure and Cold Fish), Guilty of Romance centres on a female protagonist, Izumi (Megumi Kagurazaka), who goes on an intense journey of liberation and destruction through sexual transgression. Izumi’s transformative adventure is set against the backdrop of a criminal investigation into the murder of [...]
Share/BookmarkI’ve never seen it but apparently it’s brilliant! I am of course talking about Spooks! Everyone tells me I’ll love it but I don’t like starting these TV series unless it’s from Season 1 so until I get all ten seasons, I won’t be watching but for those of you who love it (and there [...]
Share/BookmarkIn 2005, Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer were an unlikely pair to be headlining a film together. Downey Jr. was in the early stages of his comeback from years struggling with drug addiction, and Kilmer’s casting as a camp private eye seemed at odds with his reputation as a difficult and intense presence on [...]
Share/Bookmark Last month the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival took over the Katara Cultural Village in Qatar, showcasing the best in Arab and international cinema. The festival opened with the world premiere of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s epic Black Gold, an adaptation of Hans Ruesch’s classic novel ‘The Great Thirst’ and its stars were out in [...]
