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Mary, a teenage girl growing up in Rome-occupied Nazareth, is betrothed to Joseph, a modest but kind carpenter. An angel tells her she will bear a child from God and after negotiating the anger and confusion of her family and Joseph at how this could be, she then finds that she, Joseph and the boy [...]
All through the marketing campaign for this film I kept my mind open and hopes relatively high. Catherine Hardwicke scolded those who noted the film’s apparent similarities to Twilight, something the trailers and posters played very heavily on, and yet I knew this was a sure fire way of getting people into the cinemas in [...]
All is very much busy on the remake front with news from Deadline that director Mimi Leder has chosen her next big budget project – a new adaptation of famed World War One novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. The story (which was turned into a 1930 Oscar-winning film, and remade again as a [...]
Catherine Hardwicke, the director previously responsible for adapting Twilight and the Red Riding Hood fairytale for cinema audiences, appears to have taken a hiatus from supernatural teen romances; with the news that she is to adapt Martha O’Connor’s 2006 “The Bitch Posse” demonstrating a greater grounding in reality. The novel, which follows a trio of high school friends [...]
Red Riding Hood is coming out at the end of this week, and HeyUGuys recently caught up with the film’s star, Amanda Seyfried to talk about her experience making the film. During the course of the interview she spoke about the script, her casting, working with Catherine Hardwicke, and how strange it was for her [...]
There is, I am sure, an audience for Red Riding Hood. My best guess is that it is made up of the same hormonal teenage girls, and depressed, middle aged women who are responsible for the Twilight franchise taking nearly two billion dollars at the box office. If you recognise yourself in this description, you [...]
To celebrate the release of Red Riding Hood in cinemas on April 15, we are offering one lucky reader the chance to win a Red Riding Hood cape and goody bag. Four runners up will also receive a goody bag! Synopsis: Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is [...]
It’s hard to know exactly where Catherine Hardwicke is pitching her telling of the Red Riding Hood fairy tale. The spectre of Twilight hovers over the trailers and posters and is an easy target, but if you’re selling your ‘twisted’ fairy tale to an audience it makes sense to play on the similarities. I still [...]
This is the one you Red Riding Hood marketing completists have been waiting for – Russia’s own poster for the Catherine Hardwicke film. We are so good to you. Amanda Seyfried leads the Hardwicke film and stars alongside with Virginia Madsen, Billy Burke, Julie Christie, Shiloh Fernandez, Gary Oldman, Michael Shanks and Luke Haas – personally [...]
Getting in ahead of the numerous fairy tale inspired films coming our way is Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood, and if the previous clips, trailers and assorted imagery haven’t convinced you then why not take some time with these new offerings? Amanda Seyfried looks more than a little unhinged in this new Spanish poster, though [...]
Warner Bros. Pictures, have released a brand new Red Riding Hood trailer, a re-imagining of the folk tale Little Red Riding Hood. Red Riding Hood is directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) and stars Amanda Seyfried, Virginia Madsen, Lukas Haas, Billy Burke, Julie Christie, Gary Oldman, Michael Shanks, Max Irons and Shiloh Fernandez. Valerie (Seyfried) is [...]
Another poster has been unveiled for Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood. A recent trailer played up the romantic elements and while the Twilight connection of Hardwicke are being promoted to sell the film I’m hoping there’s more to this film then meets the eye. According to this new poster Red Riding Hood is a breathtaking [...]
More images spill forth from Catherine Hardwicke’s telling of Red Riding Hood, and our heroine, played by Amanda Seyfried, is both front and centre. A few weeks ago we enjoyed the first trailer for the film and while these new images don’t offer much more of an insight we do know that there’s some kissing [...]
These pictures from Catherine Hardwicke’s retelling of the enduring tale of Red Riding Hood aren’t new, but neither are they scanned from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, so you can enjoy them in a decent resolution now. The trailer and poster were released recently and there is something striking about the vivid red of [...]
Barely a few days after we had our first glimpse of Amanda Seyfried in the title role of Catherine Hardwicke’s take on the story of Red Riding Hood we are graced with the presence of the first trailer and poster to emerge. It’s not exactly what I expected, although Gary Oldman looks the spirit of [...]
In their latest issue, Entertainment Weekly have scored the first two official stills from Dark Castle Entertainment’s Red Riding Hood. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), from a script by David Johnson (Orphan), Red Riding Hood stars Amanda Seyfried, Virginia Madsen, Billy Burke, Julie Christie, Shiloh Fernandez, Gary Oldman, Michael Shanks and Luke Haas. Set in a [...]
Dakota Fanning recently made us all feel old when she took on a role in The Runaways, and her turn in the various Twilight films clearly impressed Summit so much that she is in talks with the studio to star in a supernatural drama Variety have this as a synopsis, Story revolves around a musician, [...]
Having directed Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown and then the first installment of the Twilight franchise, Catherine Hardwicke then signed on for an adaptation of Red Riding Hood. We reported here that Amanda Seyfried was to play Red Riding Hood herself and now Accidental Sexiness have put up a whole bunch of on-set stills, showing the [...]
With New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight saga, on its way to our cinema screens (you may have seen that HeyUGuys has gone a little Twilight-crazy over the last few weeks…) HUG writer Kelly Alyse has taken a look at the first movie Twilight to see why we’ve become so obsessed by the [...]
