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With Rise of the Planet of the Apes there was a risk that Fox were returning to a tainted well once too often, with the series still in the doldrums following the much-derided Tim Burton adaptation of the original story ten years ago. Yet the studio’s faith in British director Rupert Wyatt proves well placed, [...]
To mark the release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes on Blu-ray this Monday 12th December, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have given us three copies of the movie to give away to you lovely people on Blu-ray Triple Play. If that wasn’t enough, the winners will also receive a signed poster with [...]
We seem to have gone a little Halloween crazy at the moment but we know that so many of you love a good horror film that it’s hard not to! Sky Movies HD have been in touch and have very kindly given us five pairs of tickets to their silent ‘screaming’ of The Ring next [...]
Until recently, writer-director Nick Murphy’s credits mostly included a few episodes of the odd TV series or documentary. He’s now starting to make a big name for himself with his first feature film, The Awakening, starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, due out in November. Murphy is now set to go behind the camera again [...]
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, [...]
With rumours swirling that the Ralph Fiennes directed Shakespeare adapatation Coriolanus will be present in some form at this year’s London Film Festival we’re starting to see more and more of the film. A few scenes were shown to the crowds at the Big Screen event a few days ago and the sight of a [...]
As Rise of the Planet of the Apes throws a banana at The Smurfs Movie to claim the number one spot at the box office on its opening weekend, we bring you a conversation with director Rupert Wyatt, and visual effects supervisor Dan Lemmon where they discuss how they managed to capture Andy Serkis’ on [...]
Here at HeyUGuys, Andy Serkis has kicked off a Rise of the Planet of the Apes question and answer challenge, which will test your intelligence, your wit and your use of the comments section! The answer to the first question will be revealed tomorrow on the official UK Rise of the Planet of the Apes [...]
Ralph Fiennes – actor, ambassador, Dark Lord – will make his directorial début with Coriolanus, an updated adaptation of the William Shakespeare play of the same name. The trailer is now online and it looks incredibly promising, boasting as it does a winning ensemble of Britain’s finest. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox and Jessica Chastain, John Logan’s screenplay [...]
Love the marketing for this one! I’m not sure who has made them but someone clever has thought up these new posters for Rise of the Planet of the Apes which hits UK cinemas NOW! You can see Jon’s glowing review of the movie here and all our coverage of the film which is rather [...]
Here’s another new featurette from Twentieth Century Fox’s new movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and this time we get to find out about how they cast the apes. This featurette coincides very nicely with the WETA interviews which I put up recently. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by [...]
In a bid to make Planet of the Apes look like a Michael Bay movie, the Indian marketing department at Twentieth Century Fox have decided to give us lots of head-shots, helicopters and destruction! What’s not to like! Doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the UK and US marketing campaigns though does it! [...]
We loved Rise of the Planet of the Apes . A surprising amount in fact – we called it the ‘surprise hit of the summer’ and we meant every one of those words. It’s out on the 11th of August and we have various other competitions running for this film but none quite like this… [...]
Over the past few years, we’ve seen effects house, WETA do some simply amazing things inside a computer to create some of the mos astonishing visually amazing movies ever. They have been responsible for effects in movies including King Kong, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and most recently, some movie that you may have [...]
We are firmly in blockbuster season, and in a time when the common wisdom has it that you are encouraged to switch off your brain to enjoy what’s on offer there comes a film about the power of intelligence. Fox were asking a lot of Rupert Wyatt, the British director who found himself in charge [...]
To celebrate the release of their new movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes on 11th August, Twentieth Century Fox have given us four sets of goodie bags to give away. Each bag contains a pen, keychain, Blackberry Case, metallic notepad, t shirt and a watch and then one extra goodie bag winning the [...]
There are only a few weeks left to prepare for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Fox have debuted another trailer for the film out at San Diego for Comic-Con. If I’m honest this clip stretches the definition of the word ‘tease’ and actually gives away an entire plot line revealing how [...]
Here’s the third clip from Twentieth Century Fox’s summer movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. There’s quite a few new bits of footage in there so check them out below. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto of Slumdog [...]
As August’s release date for Rise of the Planet of the Apes draws ever closer, we are getting more and more in the way of publicity material and so far, all of it is pretty strong. This time, we have a clip introduced by Andy Serkis, once again on ape perf-cap duties as Caesar. We [...]
Here’s the first (4 minute long!) clip from the new Twentieth Century Fox movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes which is introduced by the fabulous Andy Sirkis who plays Caesar in the movie. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, [...]
