New US Poster Released for The Pirates! Band of Misfits

The Pirates! Band of Misfits US Poster

In the UK, Sony / Aardman’s new movie is called The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists yet over the pond, it has the title, The Pirates! Band of Misfits and the US Sony marketing team have released this, the fourth poster for the film which is one of my most anticipated of 2012. I [...]

The Pirates – In An Adventure with Scientists Set Visit & Behind the Scenes Video

Dressing Blood Island on the set of THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS.

I always had the idea in my head that Aardman was the British version of the Disney owned Pixar Animation Studios; the main idea being that the place is a hive of activity and now, after having the privilege of visiting both studios, I can confirm that I was 100% right! A couple of weeks [...]

Aardman’s The Pirates! gets a New US Trailer

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We’ve already had a new trailer for Pixar’s Brave today and now the mighty Aardman have unveiled another look at their forthcoming film The Pirates! Band of Misfits (or The Pirates! In an adventure with Scientists if you’re hailing from the good old U of, um, K…) and it’s just wonderful. Dave was lucky enough [...]

Third Fantastic Theatrical UK Trailer for Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists UK Poster

After two previous cracking trailers for Aarman’s (The creators of Wallace and Gromit) new animation, Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists, they’ve released another third new trailer this morning and it’s just as good as the previous couple. The cast is rather awesome (includes Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Jeremy Piven) while Peter Lord​ [...]

Postman Pat to Get His First Ever Animated Feature Film Starring David Tennant & Rupert Grint

Postman Pat Feature Film

Yesterday I awoke to a press release telling me that the BT Tower was going to be turned into a Lightsaber (and last night it came true) and this morning I get news that one of my childhood heroes, Postman Pat is going to get his own feature film! There’s a full press release from [...]

Fright Night Interview: Anton Yelchon and Christopher Mintz-Plasse

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Better late than never I suppose… Recently I had the chance to sit down with two of the stars of Fright Night, Gary Gillespie’s remake of the 1985 Tom Holland horror comedy in which a retired ghost hunter is recruited by two local teens to rid their town of the local vamp. Anton Yelchin is [...]

Big Screen: Sony Panel Arthur Christmas, Aardman’s The Pirates!

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists UK Poster

For the the first time in three days I find myself at my desk and not in the O2 flanked by my friends and colleagues waiting for the onslaught of dozen montages of future films to blind my senses while I liveblog events like a man possessed. Instead we’re taking a moment to reflect on [...]

The Pirates Gets a New US Poster

The Pirates US Poster

Quite frankly, the UK version of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists trailer is probably my favourite of the year so far. I love it! I must have watched it about 15 times now and I shall continue to watch it until I see the completed film. The title in the US is slightly [...]

Comic-Con: Fright Night Panel Reaction

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Here is another surprise from this week.  I love coming to con with no expectations from certain films and being turned into a believer.  Last year Megamind was one of the films changed my mind during its hour long comic-con panel. ”Fright Night” had a little bit of that wonder at today’s panel.  I don’t [...]

Comic Con: Watch an Extended Clip from Fright Night

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Comic Con has drawn to a close for the evening (at least it has for us as it’s now 2.45am!) and to end the night, here’s the extended clip from Fright Night whcih was shown during the panel introduced by former Dr. Who himself, David Tennant. Fright Night stars Christopher Mintz-Plasse , Colin Farrell , [...]

UK Trailer Released for Fright Night 3D

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He’s something nice for the evening, it’s a nice new UK trailer for the remake of the 1985 classic, Fright Night although it comes courtesy of American website, Bloody Disgusting. It gives us another little look into the movie although if you want to go in knowing nothing about it, you might want to avoid [...]

The Second (UK) Trailer for Aardman’s The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

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Man, what a crazy 60 minutes. I put up what I thought was the first trailer for Aardman’s new movie, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists only to discover that the US version is nowhere near as good as the UK one! Sony / Aardman have released the UK trailer which even better than [...]

Aardman’s The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists Gets a BRILLIANT Trailer

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists UK Poster

Update: The trailer below is good but the UK one which came out 30 minutes after this one is even better! – Watch here Last night I put up the first poster for Aardman’s new collaborative project with Sony Pictures, called (in the US) The Pirates! Band of Misfits and in the UK The Pirates! [...]

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists Gets a Poster

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists UK Poster

Sony Pictures / Aardman Animation Studios have just sent over the first poster for their new movie, with the most bizarre title ever, ‘The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists’. The movie stars Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Jeremy Piven and is based on the book ‘Pirates: in an Adventure with Scientists’ [...]

Want to See Fright Night in London This Wednesday? 4 Pairs of Tickets up for grabs…

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Dreamworks have remade the 1985 horror comedy Fright Night and this Wednesday, the 6th of July, there is a special screening being held in London’s West End and you could be coming along to see the film almost two months before it is released in UK cinemas. If you’ve not caught up with the trailers [...]

New Fright Night Characters Posters Reveal David Tennant: Vampire Slayer

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Dreamworks have kindly sent through these lovely new character posters for Craig Gillespie’s updating of the horror comedy Fright Night and we get our best look yet at David Tennant as as a tooled up Peter Vincent. Imogen Poots, Anton Yelchin and Colin Farrell complete the set and they are part of an excellent cast [...]

David Tennant Finally Shows up in New Fright Night Trailer

David Tennant Fright Night

I’m sure many of you had one question after viewing the trailer for 80’s horror remake Fright Night when it debuted a couple of weeks back – where was David Tennant? Having been offered a fun glimpse of the Doctor Who star in his full regalia as Vegas illusionist-cum-vampire hunter Peter Vincent in a couple [...]

First Look as Hugh Grant Gets Animated for Aardman as a Pirate Captain for an Adventure with Scientists

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Hugh Grant joins the animation voice actor set with the announcement of his casting as a Pirate Captain in Aardman Animation’s next big screen adventure entitled The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. Grant joins an impressive cast which has Martin Freeman, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Imelda Staunton and David Tennant amongst its merry band. [...]

First Fright Night Stills Hit

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Dreamworks Pictures have released three official Fright Night stills. A remake of the 1985 Tom Holland film of the same title, Fright Night is directed by Craig Gillespie and stars Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, David Tennant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Sandra Vergara. Senior Charlie Brewster (Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd [...]

The Hobbit Casting Begins

Now that we’ve got the news we’ve been waiting for and Peter Jackson is ready to forge ahead with The Hobbit, what concerns us are the names being bandied around in the casting whirligig about to ensue. Martin Freeman, known to most as one of Ricky Gervais’ Office mates, was rumoured for the role of [...]