BAFTA Red Carpet Interview – Paul Feig , Director Bridesmaids

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And now we have Paul Feig, up for awards for his movie, Bridesmaids (see all our BAFTA coverage including the full winners list and other interviews here). ———————- This was a bit of a surprise awards hit. ‘Yeah, who would have thought? When you do comedy you don’t expect this, you just have to hope [...]

BAFTA Red Carpet Interview – Asif Kapadia, Director Senna

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Next we have our interview with the Director of Senna, Asif Kapadia which is up for three awards (see all our BAFTA coverage including the full winners list and other interviews here). Senna walked away with two awards this evening which we are very, very pleased about! MASSIVE congrats! ———————– At this stage now, walking [...]

BAFTA Red Carpet Interview – Sarah Smith, Writer/Director Arthur Christmas

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Next up in our Red Carpet interviews, Sarah Smith, writer/director Arthur Christmas. (see all our BAFTA coverage and other interviews here) ——————- Congratulations, it’s an astonishing achievement to be nominated against Steven Spielberg and Gore Verkinski certainly. ‘It’s hilarious that it happens to be the year that those two people made movies, but it’s hilarious [...]

BAFTA Red Carpet Interview – Thelma Schoonmaker: Editor of Hugo

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I’m currently sat in the media centre at BAFTA, trying to warm up after spending several hours in the freezing cold. Still, it was all worth it as I managed to snag some great interviews with the nominees and attendees. To make it even more worthwhile, I’ll be posting the interviews as soon as they’re [...]

Big Miracle Exclusive Interview: Environmental Campaigner Cindy Lowry

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Cindy Lowry is an American environmental activist and the former executive director of Greenpeace in Alaska who has dedicated more than 25 years to protect marine wildlife and the marine environment. She is also the founder of Oceans Public Trust Initiative, developed out of a concern over the rapid expansion of offshore renewable energy development, [...]

Exclusive Interview with Miss Piggy on The Muppets

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When it comes to interviewing people in the film industry, there are a great many unwritten rules if you want to be considered professional: Be reasonably respectful and polite, don’t beg for autographs and don’t dribble on yourself. Beyond that it helps to have some idea what to ask, and it’s certainly considered a bit [...]

Kristen Stewart Compares Bella Swan to Snow White in New Interview

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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 [...]

Exclusive: Hammer CEO Simon Oakes on The Woman in Black, Rebooting Dracula and Bringing back Quatermass

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The last time I sat down with Hammer president Simon Oakes Let Me In was about to roll into cinemas and he was in similarly upbeat fashion this time, just returned from the Paris premiere of Hammer’s latest film, The Woman in Black and with a big opening weekend in America behind him we talked [...]

Eddie Redmayne Chats with BAFTA Guru on his Acting Career

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Eddie Redmayne is an absolute gent. I got to meet him when I interviewed him for My Week with Marilyn a few months ago and I could have chatted with him all day long. He’s such a nice guy, humble and is one of Britain’s best upcoming actors. He’s currently up for the Rising Star [...]

Exclusive Interview – Director Niall MacCormick Talks Albatross

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Hitting DVD this week is Albatross, a coming-of-age comedy-drama about a Emelia (Jessica Brown Findlay), a verbose, would-be writer’s incendiary effect on a struggling author, Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), and his respective family, including wife Joa (Julia Ormond) and daughter Beth (Felicity Jones). The film, which premiered at last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival to wide acclaim, [...]

Exclusive Interview: Daniel Radcliffe Talks Woman In Black, Horror Movies & Creepy Props

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We’re now only days away from the creepiest and most upsetting movie in years hitting cinemas (our review here). It’s already been well received in the US, where it made back its budget this weekend, and in case you haven’t read our review, we thought it was rather good. Last week we published our premiere [...]

Exclusive Interview with Gemma Atkinson – How To Stop Being A Loser

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How To Stop Being A Loser arrives on the small screen on Monday, 6th February. You can see what we thought of this at times laugh out loud funny British comedy here and indeed you can win yourself your own copy right here if you get your skates on. As part of our coverage of [...]

Sundance 2012: An Exclusive Interview with Director Quentin Dupieux about his new film ‘Wrong’

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When it comes to being a jack of all trades, Quentin Dupieux wrote the book.  He can write, produce, shoot, edit, score, and these abilities have led to an extremely successful career both in music and film. His last film, Rubber, the story of a killer car tyre with psychic powers was a runaway success [...]

Watch the Opening Scene from The Woman in Black

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The Woman in Black is a scary film. Ben reviewed the film and called it the scariest film he has ever seen and I can attest to that as I was sitting next to him in the screening We’ve done our best to shout our love for the film from the rooftops of the internet [...]

Exclusive Interview – Dwayne Johnson Talks Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island hits UK cinemas today (our review of the movie is up here) and we got the chance to chat with Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) who stars in the sequel to to the 2008 movie, Journey to the Center of the Earth. This time, it’s Dwayne who takes over the [...]

A Dangerous Method Premiere Report & Interviews

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At this week’s second UK premiere* for A Dangerous Method, we spoke to Viggo Mortenson about the attraction of working with David Cronenberg.He explained, “He makes what can sometimes be a very trying or difficult job, or emotionally demanding, he makes easy and fun. He never loses sight of the fact that, after all it’s [...]

Exclusive Chronicle Cast Interviews

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I think it’s safe to say that Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and Michael B. Jordan have pretty bright futures ahead of them.  They’re relationships with each other on screen are believable, brought on by incredible circumstances and full of tension.  Not unlike any relationship you or I might be in. That, in my opinion, is [...]

Exclusive Interview with Chronicle Director Josh Trank

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Josh Trank is the first guy to tell you that he invites comparisons of his newest film “Chronicle”.  While the film attempts, and succeeds,  to do something unique, Josh has stated that he pulled a lot from projects that inspire him. There are obvious similarities to films you’ve seen before but on a whole “Chronicle” comes [...]

Listen To Our Round Table Interview with Kermit, Miss Piggy & James Bobin

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In case you somehow missed it, there’s a new Muppet film coming out early next month, and at HeyUGuys, we’ve gone a little bit Muppet-crazy. On Friday we live-blogged the press conference, where Kermit, Miss Piggy and director James Bobin discussed the film. In the next few days we will be posting a one-to-one interview [...]

Sundance 2012: Armando Bo Discusses his New Film – ‘The Last Elvis’

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Last week, Director Armando Bo (screenwriter of Biutiful), had the opportunity to premiere his new film The Last Elvis at the Sundance Film Festival here in Park City.  It is a touching story about an Argentinian Elvis impersonator, who slowly starts to slip further and further into the mindset of the man he is impersonating. [...]