Last week, we debuted a couple of new images from new movie, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and now, Time (with a nod to our pals at BleedingCool) have released the first trailer for the movie. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Benjamin Walker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jimmi Simpson, Alan Tudyk, and Rufus Sewell. It’s produced by Tim Burton so that will also give you an idea of what you might be able to expect. The screenplay comes from Seth Grahame-Smith and the movie is based on his novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter explores the secret life of our greatest President, and the untold story that shaped our nation. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of Wanted) bring a fresh and visceral voice to the blood-thirsty lore of the vampire, imagining Lincoln as history’s greatest hunter of the undead.

Have a watch of the dark but brilliant trailer below and let us know what you think in the comments section. We’re loving the awesome axe wielding! There are some serious skills right there! Sorry it’s so small. Seems to be locked down by Time which is rather annoying.

Momentum Pictures have sent over the brand new UK poster for new movie, Act of Valour which is set for release in the UK 23rd March. If you missed the trailer for the movie, click here to have a watch. Act of Valour (or Act of Valor if you’re American) uses real-life US Navy Seals to make the movie as realistic as possible as well as using real mission reports to make the storyline as authentic as possible. It stars Roselyn Sanchez, Emilio Rivera, Nestor Serrano, Gonzalo Menendez, Ailsa Marshall, Jason Cottle and is directed by the Bandito Brothers.

We’ve seen it and really enjoyed it but keep your eyes peeled for Adam’s review when it goes live in the coming weeks.

I’ve embedded the UK poster below the synopsis which you can click to enlarge.

Momentum Pictures are proud to announce the UK release of the Bandito Brothers’ explosive Navy SEAL action movie, ACT OF VALOUR, starring active-duty Navy SEALs that takes you deep into the secretive world of the most elite, highly trained and deadly group of warriors in modern combat.

Conceived by former Baja 1000 champion Mike “Mouse” McCoy and former stuntman Scott Waugh, ACT OF VALOUR goes deep into the secret world of today’s most elite and highly trained group of warriors.

When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly terrorist plot, a team of SEALs is dispatched on a global manhunt. As the men of Bandito Platoon race to stop a coordinated attack that could kill and wound thousands of innocent civilians, they must balance their commitments to country, team, and their families back home.

Based on real events, the film combines stunning combat sequences, up-to-the minute battlefield technology and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure.

The official Facebook for the movie can be found here.

Here’s a new image of Johnny Depp and co-star and former Bond Girl, Eva Green from their new movie Dark Shadows with Eva sporting a lovely blonde barnet. Dark Shadows is the latest from Tim Burton which probably goes without saying when you look at the styling of the image below and those we’ve seen so far from the movie. I’m about to wriote the rest of the cast down. Can you guess who it might be?! OK, let me put you out of your misery.

Te movie also stars…. Michelle Pfeiffer, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, Gulliver McGrath and someone called Helena Bonham Carter who you may know from every other Tim Burton movie ever!

The image comes from Luces Carmara Blog with a nod to the dudes at ComingSoon. We can expect Dark Shadows on the 11th May.

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Brouchard. A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman, to help with her family troubles.

BAFTA have just released this rather nice photo of all the people who won an award at the 2012 BAFTA Film Awards which took place last night and it’s rather nice I have to say. The shot was taken on the stage after the event and includes among many, Adam Deacon who won the Orange Rising Star award, Octavia Spencer who won Best Supporting Actress for The Help, for Meryl Streep who won for The Iron Lady, John Hurt who took the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema, Martin Scorsese who took the Fellowship Award, Asif Kapadia and his team behind the awesome movie, Senna. The big winners of the night were the team behind silent black and white movie, The Artist which came away with seven awards.

Jon, Ben and myself were all working last night to bring you as much coverage as we could from the awards. If you missed the winners list, you can see it in full right here. We also live blogged the event which you can catch up on here and and Ben is currently posting his red carpet interviews throughout the day so keep your eyes peeled for those.

Click the image below to enlarge.

Photo comes courtesy of BAFTA / Richard Kendal / Rex Features

Photo by BAFTA / Rex Features

Lionsgate have just sent over the first UK poster and trailer for their new movie starring Mel Gibson with the title ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation. he movie sees Mel Gibson in his first action movie for some years and I’m really hoping (like The Beaver) that he puts in an amazing performance. Could it be a new Lethal Weapon or has that time been and gone for Mel? I guess we’ll see.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation is directed by Adrian Grunberg and also stars Peter Stormare, Bob Gunton, Dean Norris, Scott Cohen, Patrick Bauchau. It’ll be with us May 11th.

It’s been a bad day for Driver (Gibson) and it’s not getting any better. He just made a big haul of millions that would give him a nice summer vacation on easy street.  A good idea that went south – literally.

During a high-speed car chase with the US Border Patrol, and a bleeding body in his back seat, Driver flips his car smashing through the border wall, tumbling violently, coming to a stop … in Mexico.  Apprehended by the Mexican authorities, he is sent to a hard-core prison where he enters the strange and dangerous world of “El Pueblito”, the worst prison in all of Mexico.  Not an easy place for an outsider such as Driver to survive, unless it’s with the help of someone who knows the ropes – a 10 year-old kid.

Directed by Adrian Grunberg, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, is produced by Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey and Stacy Perskie and stars Mel Gibson, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Jesus Ochoa, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Kevin Hernandez, Fernando Becerril, Mayra Serbullo, Mario Zaragoza, Gerardo Taracena, Tenoch Huerta and Peter Gerety.

This new poster echos one of the first images (from The Film Stage) from the movie which I’ve placed below. Have a watch of the trailer and let us know what you think.

So there we have it. The 2012 BAFTA Awards have now drawn to a close. The Artist had an amazing night taking seven awards including that of the award for Best Film. Michel Hazanavicius’s black and white silent film also took awards for Best Actor, Original Music, Cinematography, Costume Design, Original Screenplay, Best Director and Leading Actor. Simply amazing!

Senna came away with two out of the three awards it was nominated for including Best Editing and Best Documentary which was a new category for this year.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy won two awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Outstanding British Film but a rather big surprise was that Shame directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan left empty handed. The full list of winners is below.

Let us know what you thought in the comments section below and keep your eyes peeled for our red carpet interviews which will be going up as and when we’ve transcribed them.

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SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

• THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN Joe Letteri
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler, David Vickery
• HUGO Rob Legato, Ben Grossman, Joss Williams
• RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White
• WAR HORSE Ben Morris, Neil Corbould

SHORT ANIMATION

• ABUELAS Afarin Eghbal, Kasia Malipan, Francesca Gardiner
• BOBBY YEAH Robert Morgan
• A MORNING STROLL Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe

SHORT FILM

• CHALK Martina Amati, Gavin Emerson, James Bolton, Ilaria Bernardini
• MWANSA THE GREAT Rungano Nyoni, Gabriel Gauchet
• ONLY SOUND REMAINS Arash Ashtiani, Anshu Poddar
• PITCH BLACK HEIST John Maclean, Gerardine O’Flynn
• TWO AND TWO Babak Anvari, Kit Fraser, Gavin Cullen

ORIGINAL MUSIC

• THE ARTIST Ludovic Bource
• THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• HUGO Howard Shore
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Alberto Iglesias
• WAR HORSE John Williams

SOUND

• THE ARTIST Nadine Muse, Gérard Lamps, Michael Krikorian
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 James Mather, Stuart Wilson, Stuart Hilliker, Mike Dowson, Adam Scrivener
• HUGO Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY John Casali, Howard Bargroff, Doug Cooper, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley
• WAR HORSE Stuart Wilson, Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Richard Hymns

EDITING

• THE ARTIST Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
• DRIVE Mat Newman
• HUGO Thelma Schoonmaker
• SENNA Gregers Sall, Chris King
• TINKER TAILOR SOLIDER SPY Dino Jonsater

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• THE ARTIST Guillaume Schiffman
• THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Jeff Cronenweth
• HUGO Robert Richardson
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Hoyte van Hoytema
• WAR HORSE Janusz Kaminski

COSTUME DESIGN

• THE ARTIST Mark Bridges
• HUGO Sandy Powell
• JANE EYRE Michael O’Connor
• MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Jill Taylor
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Jacqueline Durran

MAKE UP & HAIR

• THE ARTIST Julie Hewett, Cydney Cornell
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
• HUGO Morag Ross, Jan Archibald
• THE IRON LADY Marese Langan
• MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Jenny Shircore

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• INCENDIES Denis Villeneuve, Luc Déry, Kim McGraw
• PINA Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel
• POTICHE François Ozon, Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
• A SEPARATION Asghar Farhadi
• THE SKIN I LIVE IN Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

• ATTACK THE BLOCK Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)
• BLACK POND Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director), Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer)
• CORIOLANUS Ralph Fiennes (Director)
• SUBMARINE Richard Ayoade (Director/Writer)
• TYRANNOSAUR Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

• THE ARTIST Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
• HUGO Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald
• WAR HORSE Rick Carter, Lee Sandales

SUPPORTING ACTOR

• CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Beginners
• JIM BROADBENT The Iron Lady
• JONAH HILL Moneyball
• KENNETH BRANAGH My Week with Marilyn
• PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Ides of March

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

• MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Simon Curtis, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Adrian Hodges
• SENNA Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Manish Pandey
• SHAME Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Abi Morgan
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo,
• Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan
• WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Lynne Ramsay, Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno,
• Rory Stewart Kinnear

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• CAREY MULLIGAN Drive
• JESSICA CHASTAIN The Help
• JUDI DENCH My Week with Marilyn
• MELISSA MCCARTHY Bridesmaids
• OCTAVIA SPENCER The Help

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius
• BRIDESMAIDS Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
• THE GUARD John Michael McDonagh
• THE IRON LADY Abi Morgan
• MIDNIGHT IN PARIS: Woody Allen

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH CINEMA

• JOHN HURT
  

THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

• ADAM DEACON
• CHRIS HEMSWORTH
• CHRIS O’DOWD
• EDDIE REDMAYNE
• TOM HIDDLESTON

DOCUMENTARY

• GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD Martin Scorsese
• PROJECT NIM James Marsh, Simon Chinn
• SENNA Asif Kapadia

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• THE DESCENDANTS Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
• THE HELP Tate Taylor
• THE IDES OF MARCH George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
• MONEYBALL Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan

ANIMATED FILM

• THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN Steven Spielberg
• ARTHUR CHRISTMAS Sarah Smith
• RANGO Gore Verbinski

DIRECTOR

• THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius
• DRIVE Nicolas Winding Refn
• HUGO Martin Scorsese
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tomas Alfredson
• WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Lynne Ramsay

LEADING ACTRESS

• BÉRÉNICE BEJO The Artist
• MERYL STREEP The Iron Lady
• MICHELLE WILLIAMS My Week with Marilyn
• TILDA SWINTON We Need to Talk About Kevin
• VIOLA DAVIS The Help

LEADING ACTOR

• BRAD PITT Moneyball
• GARY OLDMAN Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• GEORGE CLOONEY The Descendants
• JEAN DUJARDIN The Artist
• MICHAEL FASSBENDER Shame

BEST FILM

• THE ARTIST Thomas Langmann
• THE DESCENDANTS Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
• DRIVE Marc Platt, Adam Siegel
• THE HELP Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo

BAFTA FELLOWSHIP

• MARTIN SCORSESE
  

Last night in the US, the DVD and Blu-ray went on sale for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and fans of the movie were given a sneak peak of a clip from the final movie which is released in November and sees the final chapter of the movie which stars Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson. This clip follows the news that the first trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will hit before The Hunger Games when it’s released in March.

Both the shots of the clip below come from footage filmed on mobile phones or the like in-store but no doubt the clips will be officially released online in the coming days.

Thanks Collider for finding these. Check out the clip below which features a very pale looking Bella!

Star Wars hits cinemas today with one extra dimension than we saw back in 1999 when the movie was first released, back then there was so much hype and anticipation for the movie that everyone thought was going to be the greatest prequel of all time. Unfortunately, although the movie made an absolute fortune, it is inherently rubbish (feel free to disagree in the comments below) making you want to punch the screen in anger.

This video has found it’s way onto YouTube and is a special MTV screening from 1999 at Skywalker Ranch that George Lucas put on for as many celebs as possible before anyone had really seen it. Like I say, the movie had so much hype that literally everyone wanted to be there as this video shows.

In the video, we get to see interviews with a very young looking Elijah Wood, Justin Timberlake (as part of N-Sync at the time), Ozzy Osbourne, Tori Spelling, Katie Holmes (before she’d married her now-husband Tom Cruise) to name but a few all with The Backstreet Boys playing in the background. It’s all rather surreal but what get’s me is the anticipation for something so great!

If you want to know what we thought of the movie in 3D, have a read of Jon’s review here.

Anyone know who the heck ‘Maxwell’ is?!

I hadn’t really thought about this before but now that Lionsgate own Summit Entertainment, that means they own both The Hunger Games and Twilight. News has just broken from Lionsgate that we will be getting the trailer for the final movie in the Twilight Saga which stars Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson will debut with The Hunger Games when it hits in March and I don’t know about you, but i can hardly contain my excitement!

No doubt the trailer will hit online before we see it at the cinema but this is exciting news for all those Twihards out there desperate to see what the final movie looks like.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 hits UK cinemas November 16th and is directed by Bill Condon.

Source: Lionsgate

Here’s a couple of brand new and exclusive images from Twentieth Century Fox’s new movie, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter which sounds like something we’ve made up but I assure you we haven’t! The film is directed by the man who brought us Wanted, Timur Bekmambetov and stars Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Benjamin Walker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jimmi Simpson, Alan Tudyk, and Rufus Sewell. It’s produced by Tim Burton so that will also give you an idea of what you might be able to expect. The screenplay comes from Seth Grahame-Smith and the movie is based on his novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

We’ve been given these two new images from the movie which is set for release 3rd August just like the others that we’ve seen previously (see below), they really set the tone for the movie.

Absolutely love the image of the Vampire Hunter with his axe in the dark! These images are super high res so if you’re on a slow connection, be patient as they’re worth the wait. You can click them to enlarge.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter explores the secret life of our greatest President, and the untold story that shaped our nation. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of Wanted) bring a fresh and visceral voice to the blood-thirsty lore of the vampire, imagining Lincoln as history’s greatest hunter of the undead.

Here’s the other images in high resolution that came out earlier in the week, again, click to enlarge.

We’ve just been sent the first press release, poster and synopsis for Jonathan Sothcott’s new movie, The Mask of Red Death which is an adaption of the Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Masque of the Red Death published in 1842.

The movie adaption has been undertaken before with the most prominent version being the 1964 version but Roger Corman starring Vincent Price and Hazel Court. This new $1.5m version is due for release in 2013 with Sothcott (Elfie Hopkins, Strippers Vs Werewolves)  producing and British film maker Robert Pratten (Mindflesh, London Voodoo) helming the movie as Director. The press release informs us that the movie will be a a post-apocalyptic, steampunk-styled adaptation of the classic horror story.

The marketing for this is going to take a rather new form of ‘transmedia’ and will be be integrated with a new technology called Conducttr which allows audiences to take a participatory role in the storyworld.

“Although audiences can’t affect the outcome of the movie – it plays like any other – they will be incentivised  to collect items across the web and physical locations in order to have a heightened experience of the movie when it screens.”

Sounds fun!

No cast has been announced as yet but read on for the synopsis and click the poster to enlarge and we’ll update you with more information when we get it. Shooting is due to commence 1st June 2012 so stay tuned for more.

Synopsis:

London. 2020 as the radioactive clouds begin to fade after a devastating nuclear war, the last dregs of humanity fight to survive – drought and famine cripple this cracked, broken world. Electricity is a thing of the past. Hideous mutants stalk the night, desperately searching for food and warmth. A cold planet.A dying planet. Superstition is rife. Evil rises. Through the husk of the once great metropolis stalks a lone figure, The Red Death: to some a God, to others a freedom fighter. To all a nightmare of agonising death.

From the shell of a once great building, all that remains of his empire, corrupt billionaire Marzo rules what is left of London. His kill squads murder, pillage and rape. His group of friends indulge in every excess. Yet neither money or power can save Marzo from the Red Death… and it is coming for him.

Sothcott and Pratten team for steampunk ‘Red Death’ adaptation

 London. On the eve of the Berlin film market, prolific independent producer Jonathan Sothcott (Elfie Hopkins, Strippers Vs Werewolves) has announced ambitious plans for a post-apocalyptic, steampunk-styled adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic horror story The Mask of the Red Death, to be directed by acclaimed British film maker Robert Pratten (Mindflesh, London Voodoo).

“London. 2020 as the radioactive clouds begin to fade after a devastating nuclear war, the last dregs of humanity fight to survive – drought and famine cripple this cracked, broken world. Electricity is a thing of the past. Hideous mutants stalk the night, desperately searching for food and warmth. A cold planet.A dying planet. Superstition is rife. Evil rises. Through the husk of the once great metropolis stalks a lone figure, The Red Death: to some a God, to others a freedom fighter. To all a nightmare of agonising death.

From the shell of a once great building, all that remains of his empire, corrupt billionaire Marzo rules what is left of London. His kill squads murder, pillage and rape. His group of friends indulge in every excess. Yet neither money or power can save Marzo from the Red Death… and it is coming for him.”

Mask of Red Death will be a transmedia project encompassing a feature film, mobile app, web videos and social media. All media and marketing for the project will be integrated with a new technology called Conducttr which allows audiences to take a participatory role in the storyworld. Although audiences can’t affect the outcome of the movie – it plays like any other – they will be incentivised  to collect items across the web and physical locations in order to have a heightened experience of the movie when it screens.

Sothcott, Head of Programming for the Horror Channel prior to his successful career as a film producer, said “I have been looking for a project to work on with Robert that was more than just a film. As a producer I am constantly looking for new ways to tell stories and transmedia represents a very exciting opportunity. This version of Poe’s most famous story has everything the modern horror audience could want – its terrifying, sexy, action-packed and gory. As a film maker, Robert has a unique visual style that will make for an incredibly stylish film – this will be every bit as shocking as Mindflesh was and the post-apocalyptic setting allows us to give it a unique flavour – part steampunk, part cyber goth.”

Pratten commented“”When Jonathan mentioned the idea to me my mind first went to Tenpenny Tower in Fallout 3. It’s not quite like that at all but it does give you the idea of a rich dude trying to protect himself from the inevitability of death after an apocalypse.

This is a great opportunity to show how society might look after a reboot from a damaged hard drive: there’s a lot of what we recognize mashed up with medieval behavior we thought had been erased.In a world today in which many are predominantly hostile to spirituality, all they’ve done is replace faith in God with a faith in silicon chips and silicon breasts. In an post-apocalyptic Britain set in 2020, with life as we know irretrievably lost, new leaders will need to create myths in order to bring hope to the hopeless. And where there is no hope there’ll be violence, drugs, superstition and lust driven by the fear of facing our own mortality.”

The $1.5 million picture is scheduled to begin principal photography on June 1^st 2012. No casting has been announced as yet.

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Mask of the Red Death was first published in 1842 and has been filmed a number of times, most notably by Roger Corman in 1964 with a cast including Vincent Price and Hazel Court.

Thank you so much Funny or Die for bringing this video into our lives! French actor, Jean Dujardin has recently hit the big time in the English speaking world after his stunning performance in The Artist (our coverage here) and with the Oscars coming up, there was no better time to get involved with the terrific people at Funny or Die to create an brilliant skit about European actors who end up playing the villain in movies after they’ve made their debut performance -  Christoph Waltz is one example.

In this video embedded below, you will see Dujardin in amazing audition performances for The Muppets 2, Die Hard 5, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Skyfall, The Bourne Legacy, The Smurfs 2 and many many more.

Enjoy!

Yes we’re a few days early but that’s so that you can get a heads up on what to buy for next week on the most romantic day of the year… Valentine’s Day! V-Day is just around the corner folks and for those of you who don’t see it as another way for Clinton’s to make some money (I am a proper romantic right here), the Blu-ray Disc Association have created this top 10 list of Blu-rays that you should buy or watch for / with your loved ones this Valentine’s Day!

All of these are now available to buy on Blu-ray and I’ve provided links for you on each page. So without further ado, let’s get started!

10) Cleopatra (1963)

• Studio: (20^th Century Fox)
• Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
• Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Buy here

Why not have a glamorous and seductive evening with Cleopatra? Re-mastered in stunning HD so you can see the Egyptian queen (Elizabeth Taylor) like never before, this Blu-ray follows Cleopatra’s triumphs and tragedies with Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. The film was also where Taylor and co-star Richard Burton began their epic, off-screen romance.

Here’s a rather surreal shot for a Friday morning but it amused me greatly and had to go up! It’s not often you’ll see two of the greatest 80s action stars in bed next to one another but today is the day to make it happen as Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a picture on WhoSay.com of himself and Sylvester Stallone in adjacent hospital beds after they ‘bumped’ into one another while waiting to be seen for shoulder injuries.

Schwarzenegger posted this fab photo with the accompanying text:

After all the action, stunts & physical abuse shooting The Expendables 2 and The Last Stand, it was time for a little tune up on my shoulder. Look who was coincidentally waiting in line behind me for his shoulder surgery. Now we’re ready for another round of great times and action when we shoot The Tomb. #greattobeback

As Schwarzenegger mentioned in the text, we’ll see  the pair of them in The Expendables 2 which hits cinemas in August.

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We didn’t post an article on it but a couple of weeks ago, there was a big hoo-hah from various leprosy groups including Lepra Health In Action and the International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP) who complained about a specific scene in Sony / Aardman’s new movie, The Pirates: In an Adventure with Scientists or The Pirates! Band of Misfits (depending on which side of the Atlantic you’re from). The scene in question is where The Pirates Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) jumps on board a ship which turns out to be from a leper colony. It’s is about 10 seconds long and you’ll see pretty much all of it in all of the trailers that we’ve put up so far. I’m not really sure what I think about the scene being cut but in this world of being uber PC, I guess Sony / Aardman had to make the description to cut it. This is what they said on the matter courtesy of Deadline:

“After reviewing the matter, we decided to change the scene out of respect and sensitivity for those who suffer from leprosy. The last thing anyone intended was to offend anyone and it is clear to us that the right way to proceed is to honor the efforts made by organizations like ILEP to educate the public about this disease.”

Anyway, this evening, Sony have put up a brand new trailer, 4 seconds shorter than it’s predecessor minus the now infamous scene. I’ve placed both the original version of the trailer which we placed back in November (that’s the Yahoo embed) and then the new version which Sony have just released this evening.

The Pirates: In an Adventure with Scientists is quite possibly the movie I’m looking forward to seeing most this year. I know that’s a controversial thing to say what with the first part of The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers and Spider-Man coming out but I simply cannot wait to see the complete version of the masterpiece that Aardman have created. I mean just look at my set report! AMAZING!

The scene in question is 26 seconds in. Make sure you don’t laugh at it because it’s not funny!

Original from November

Edited Version

The official Snow White and the Huntsman Facebook page continues to update us with stonking new images from the new movie which is set for release 1st June and was filmed right here in the UK and Pinewood Studios and we’re very excited to see it.

I think this could well be my favourite image so far and it shows Kristen Stewart who plays Snow White squaring up to a strange huge monster. All that’s written on the site is ‘Friend or Foe’. I’m going to go with the half glass full option and say friend but what do you guys things? The ‘monster’ could be anything as we’ve no idea of the storyline for SWATH yet but time will tell! Keep your eyes peeled for more action from the movie and click here to see all our coverage so far.

Snow White and the Huntsman is directed by Rupert Sanders and also stars Sam Claflin, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Graham, Ray Winstone, Lily Cole, Sam Spruell, Liberty Ross and Noah Huntley.

In the epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Oscar(r) winner Charlize Theron) out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor) dispatched to kill her. Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White’s beauty and power. The breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale is from Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland, producer Sam Mercer (The Sixth Sense) and acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders.

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Remember this image (to the left) that was released last year with the expectations high about the new movie, Paradise Lost starring Bradley Cooper as Lucifer? Well, news from Deadline is that the movie has now been completely scrapped by its makers, Legendary Pictures.

Kenji last did an update on the movie which was to be postponed but it now seems to the movie has been completely scrapped. The last time I remember a project as big as this being dumped so far down the line was Newt from Pixar and more recently Disney / Bruckheimer’s The Lone Ranger (although this is now back in production).

According to Deadline, the movie has been having trouble for a long time with the visual effects and the money in which it would cost to make them look as good as they needed to. It now looks like they’ve decided to cut their losses and cancel it rather than making a movie which wouldn’t be as good as they’d want it to be. To be honest, fair play to them. I guess all we’re left with now is this image above.

More info on Deadline.

Here’s a brand new UK poster and teaser trailer for Will Ferrell’s latest movie, Casa de mi Padre. It looks completely nuts but that’s what we’ve come to expect from Mr. Ferrell isn’t it! The movie also stars Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Genesis Rodriguez and is directed by

Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father’s ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch faces financial strains, Armando’s younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancee, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez) and pledges to settle all his father’s debts. It seems that Raul’s success as an international businessman means the ranch’s troubles are over, but when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul’s business dealings turn out to be less than legit, the Alvarez family finds themselves in a full-out war with Mexico’s most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal).

I think this trailer has been released in a US cut before but I think the poster is brand new and asked the question, ‘Who is Armando Alvarez?’

Enjoy!

Just as we’ll always associates Daniel Radcliffe with Harry Potter, we’ll be associating Kristen Stewart with her role as Bella Swan in the immensely popular Twilight franchise. The final movie, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 is released in November later this year but before we see it, we’ll have Universal Studios’ new movie, Snow White and the Huntsman. The marketing for the movie has been rather great and I am actually very much looking forward to seeing it.

French magazine, “One” or could it be “Un” interviewed Kristen about her role in the new movie and compared the two characters with one another telling us that both characters are like one another as they are ‘Women who take care of their family above all” but she goes onto talk about punching Chris Hemsworth who plays ‘The Huntsman’ in the movie and has recently played Thor. Read on for the more.

What do Bella Swan and Snow White have in common?

“Yes, and they have like a hundred common points. They’re both kind of matriarch. Women who take care of their family above all. I don’t see Snow White as the cartoon’s character who’s stuck in everyone’s head. When I was little, my parents didn’t read me fairytales, I don’t this culture. A lot of people tell me that they can’t wait to see the movie because it’s kind of a rereading of the myth, but it’s all new for me. I didn’t know what to expect when I was reading the script. It was the same for Twilight. I’d never heard any vampire stories.”

How did you find being this action fighting character?

“I don’t have the physical appearance of a fighter, but I identified myself to this young woman’s state of mind, who have huge compassion. Snow White is not capable of hating, but she has to find the strength to fight and this movie opened my eyes. We don’t need to hate our rival to fight him. Snow White is the last hope for the people, she has some kind of spiritual connection with the others. She deeply feels things and forgets to think about her to concentrate on others. When she has to kill, it breaks her heart and I’ve never seen any movie action where the heroine is torn to fight.”

How do you find being a role model to so many people?

“I’m not better than them and I don’t have any particular wisdom to share with them. I don’t like being put on a pedestal. Why is my opinion suddenly important? It doesn’t make sense! I haven’t changed. I’m exactly the same person that I was before Twilight and back then, no one was asking my opinion.”

Will we see you in the role as Snow White again?

“I don’t like to plan my future, but Snow White may turn into a trilogy. If the movie succeeds, we could do a next chapter and so I could be in another franchise. But I’d love to play Snow White again.”

What was it like when you hit Chris Hemsworth?

“It was like in a movie, I’d never hit someone and I realized that I really hit him hard. Me! It was really exciting to knock Thor out! It’s comforting to know that a little girl like me can beat someone as strong as Chris. you’ll see this take in the movie, the director kept it.”

Source: Kristen Stewart France and thanks to CBM for the heads up.

We love McG here at HeyUGuys mainly because he recently serenaded Ben on the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie and it made us laugh a lot! This video below could probably go down as one of the most random videos we’ve ever posted on HeyUGuys. It was so random that I thought it needed to go up! While searching for videos on YouTube for This Means War, I can across this rather crazy footage which basically shows director McG and one of the stars of the film Tom Hardy dropping their pants (in the English sense of the word) and getting shot in the bum with paintball guns!

It was obviously part of a dare and it’s interesting to see that neither Chris Pine nor Reese Witherspoon joined the two crazy blokes in the fun! One thing it does show is that McG is obviously a man that you want to have around if you’re up for a bit of fun on set and also that Tom Hardy is up for anything.

I’d give some caution that this video is probably NSFW and contains swearing but is a rather funny watch as it shows two famous people having a lot of fun!

This Means War is released March 2nd and if you missed it yesterday, here’s nine minutes of the film for you to watch. We also have interviews with Reese, McG and Chris Pine from the UK premiere and we’ll have a more in-depth video with McG nearer the release of the movie.

Enjoy!