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Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson are in negotiations to fill the other lead spots, alongside James McAvoy, in Danny Boyle’s follow-up to this year’s fantastic 127 Hours, Deadline report. Boyle will be directing the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, so production on Trance will start this autumn in London until he switches projects in January, [...]
New poster time for Ariel Vroman’s big screen telling of the story of Richard Kuklinski, a contract killer whose prolific career as a hitman on America’s East coast spanned four decades and, Kuklinski claimed, claimed the lives over 250 men. Based on Anthony Bruno’s book The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer Vroman’s [...]
It was reported last month that ahead of his Olympic duties next year Danny Boyle had signed on to direct on heist-gone-up-the-swanny thriller Trance with recent X-Men alumni James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender taking up leading roles. The film is a remake of Joe Ahearne’s 2001 TV movie starring Neil Pearson, Susannah Harker and Philip [...]
This week sees the Blu-ray and DVD release of Danny Boyle’s follow up to the Oscar grabbing Slumdog Millionaire and with his retelling of the true story of Aron Ralston he has given us an intense and divisive film, with a fierce, magnetic central performance from James Franco. 127 Hours is not an easy watch, [...]
To celebrate the release of the Danny Boyle directed movie 127 Hours, (released on DVD and Blu-ray 6th June), Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have given us three copies of the movie to give away on Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD). It stars James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Botta and Lizzy Caplan and [...]
Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave) has signed on to direct heist-thriller Trance. Boyle will reunite with his 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire producer Christian Colson, and are in talks with Fox Searchlight and Pathé for finance and distribution. The film is described as an art heist gone wrong, with the dark, sexy, hard-edged tone of previous Boyle films. It [...]
Last night HeyUGuys had the pleasure of attending the 31st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. Hosted at the BFI Southbank, it was a great evening, featuring talented names aplenty all supping from complimentary miniature bottles of Moët served up classily with bendy straws. It might not have the same profile as this weekend’s BAFTA ceremony, [...]
Tonight saw the fall of the 31st Critics’ Circle Film Awards, which was held for the first time at London’s BFI Southbank. Our full report will be online later today with all the red carpet gossip and winner’s reactions. Want to see Danny Boyle advertising Moët, hear about Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series, or find [...]
Following the critical and commercial bonanza of Slumdog Millionaire with 127 Hours was a bold move for Danny Boyle. No doubt the director was offered all manner of scripts bookmarked with blank cheques but he wisely chose to use the Oscar momentum to tell the story he wanted to and now his film, and its [...]
This week, I was cordially invited to attend a See Film Differently event in Edinburgh on behalf of HeyUGuys. See Film Differently is a concept established by Volkswagen and Little White Lies. The idea is to hold unique and immersive film screenings, where press and members of the public can enjoy classic films in the places [...]
Danny Boyle’s Oscar winning success with Slumdog Millionaire must have led to floods of offers, but Boyle chose to take on the story of Aron Ralston and the 127 hours he spent at the bottom of a canyon with his arm trapped by a falling boulder. The film is out in UK cinemas tomorrow and [...]
Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours closed the London Film Festival last October and finally gets a release in UK cinemas this week. The true story of adventure seeking extreme sports nut Aron Ralston who, in 2003, became trapped in a canyon when a boulder fell on his arm leaving him with limited supplies and no way [...]
Danny Boyle’s latest, 127 hours, divided audiences when it played at the London Film Festival this year, few could deny the powerful performance from James Franco but Boyle’s visual flourishes were deemed by some as incongruous with the intimate nature of the film. For what it’s worth I really enjoyed it. While we await the [...]
Vanity Fair have broke the news that Kelly MacDonald (Choke) will be playing The Gray Lady, aka the Ghost of Ravenclaw in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Despite the fact filming on the final installment has now wrapped, the casting news has previously been unreported. Kelly MacDonald made her acting debut in Danny Boyle’s [...]
A movie I simply can’t wait to see is that of Danny Boyle’s new, 127 Hours. It closed the London Film Festival last week and Jon got to see it and loved it. You can read his review here. Unfortunately those of us who didn’t get to see it at LFF will have to wait [...]
We saw Danny Boyle’s latest film a few days at the close of the 54th London Film Festival and while Craig and I differed in our opinion of the film we both agreed that James Franco’s performance is one of the best things about the film and this new clip gives us a little look [...]
It’s hard to believe Twentieth Century Fox’s indie offshoot Fox Searchlight is 15 years old this year. Ed Burn’s debut The Brothers McMullen was the first production for this multiple award-winning company, whose input has successfully straddled the line between audience pleasers and work of a more serious nature, as The Full Monty and The [...]
Looks like we got ourselves another TV spot for James Franco’s new adventure drama 127 Hours. The film, which is directed by Danny Boyle tells the true story of Aron Ralston, a mountain climber who has to amputate his arm in order to escape death after a climbing accident. Below you will find the fourth [...]
