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Jodie Foster Hired to Direct Money Monster

Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster has been hired to direct Money Monster, The Playlist has reported. The actress turned director, who last helmed the poorly received The Beaver, will direct the financial drama from a script penned by Alan DiFiore and Jim Kouf. Money Monster (title change, please) will center on Lee Cates, a TV money mastermind, who is taking hostage [...]




Awesome First Look Image of Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

Elysium - Matt Damon

Neill Blomkamp’s immense debut with Disctrict 9 got absolutely everyone talking back in 2009, becoming a global success story that summer, and everyone’s been looking forward to his follow-up project ever since. Due out in March next year, Elysium is another sci-fi/drama (with political overtones) shaping up to be one of 2013’s most anticipated films [...]




Arthur and the Great Adventure DVD Review

Arthur and the Great Adventure 2

Beginning life in 2007 with Arthur and the Invisibles (which at that time, was the most expensive French production in history), the third entry in this children’s animated series (co-created and directed by Luc Besson) comes to DVD. A mixture of live-action and computer animation, this is the tale of a young boy called Arthur [...]




Exclusive Infographic – The Movie Elements of Battle: Los Angeles

Battle LA Infographic

Next Friday 11th March sees the release of Sony’s new epic alien invasion movie, Battle: Los Angeles. If you’re not sure after seeing all the coverage that we’ve put up so far if this movie is for you, hopefully this infographic will help you decide. As the infographic suggests, the movie appears to have similar [...]




Jodie Foster Cast in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster (Flightplan) has signed on to star in Elysium, writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed low-budget District 9. Foster will star opposite Matt Damon (Hereafter) and Sharlto Copley (The A-Team) in the sci-fi film Blompkamp has wrote and will direct. Plot details are being kept under wrap, but we’ll be sure to [...]




Matt Damon Pining for Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

Matt Damon seems to be keen to keep himself busy. He has already had Green Zone out this year and his second collaboration with Clint Eastwood, Hereafter, is up next. He has wrapped True Grit for the Coens, Margaret and Philip K Dick adap The Adjustment Bureau and is now filming Contagion for Steven Soderbergh before [...]




District 9 Duo Back For Elysium

Copley and Blomkamp

Good news for fans of fantasy cinema who enjoy a cerebral side to the state-of-the-art computer imagery and pyrotechnics on display – the director and star of last year’s breakout hit District 9 are set to reunite. According to Deadline, Neill Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley will be back together for Elysium, which is reportedly another sci-fi [...]




Sam Raimi to Enlist the Help of the Earth Defence Force

Sam Raimi appears to be playing a guessing game with his plans to bring the game World of Warcraft to the big screen, but until then, it looks like he’ll also been involved (albeit in a producing capacity) with another large scale fantasy epic. Vulture are reporting that the Evil Dead creator has teamed up [...]




Judge Dredd’s Going For the ‘Urban’ Look

Karl Urban

Following the scoop from Bleeding Cool last month, Empire brings news from Movie-Con this evening that New Zealander Karl Urban has definitely been confirmed as Judge Dredd in the upcoming rebooted. This is great news for fans of the infamous Mega-City One lawman. Urban is a fine character actor, and thanks to his winning turn [...]




First Image from Skyline

Skyline

Comingsoon have unveiled the first official image from the upcoming independent sci-fi / alien film, Skyline. The film, directed by brothers Greg and Colin Strause, stars Donald Faison, Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson and Brittany Daniel. Synopsis: After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie [...]




UK Poster for a Potentially ‘Monster’ Success

Monsters

Our friends at Digital Spy have this brand new UK Quad poster for Monsters, the first feature from Britain’s answer to Neill Blomkamp, Gareth Edwards Made on the kind of budget which would probably pay an extra’s wages for the day on something like Terminator Salvation, the film is set for release in the UK [...]




Web Short The Raven to be Made into Feature

The Raven

As District 9 illustrated last year, it’s an exciting time for young, technically gifted film-makers to use short films/test reels as a way of showcasing their talents and nabbing that highly sought-after Hollywood feature deal. I remember seeing an impressive short called The Raven (embedded below) by filmmaker Ricardo de Montreuil a few months back [...]




Neill Blomkamp’s Set Sights on Elsyium Fields, Not The Shire

The news we all expected arrived today, Neill Blomkamp will not be following up his trip to District 9 with a sojourn at the Shire for the directorless Hobbit films, and within these reports came a few hints about where Blomkamp will be heading with his next film. It’s not the rumoured District 8, but [...]




Exclusive: Done in 60 Seconds Shortlist Party

Done in 60 Seconds

HeyUGuys are conflicted.  We exist because we love film and celebrate the artistry and endeavour of anyone who has the sack to commit pen to paper and scenes to celluloid but sometimes we despair of a world where originality has been overthrown by the banal, the safe and the (ick) reimagined.  As a rule we’d [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 3

thing

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, [...]




Would you Watch a District 9 Prequel?

District 8

In a recent interview with The L.A. Times Neill Blomkamp talked all things District 9, including video game adaptations, a potential TV series and the prospect of returning to the hell of District 9 for another film. While there’s no movement on the video game front, despite Blomkamp being linked to the touted Halo movie [...]




Win a District 9 Blu-Ray

District 9 Blu-Ray Comp

District 9 was one of our films of 2010, and to celebrate the DVD and Blu-Ray release HeyUGuys are giving you the chance to win a Blu-ray copy of Neill Blomkamp’s outstanding debut film. You can read our review of the Blu-Ray here and it’s an excellent disc with special features giving a thorough account [...]




Blu-Ray Review: District 9

District 9 Blu-ray

When the trailers appeared and we got our first look at Neill Blomkamp’s alternative reality film, the apartheid with aliens narrative was glimpsed in a series of extraordinary images, not least the enormous alien mothership hanging dead in the skies over Joburg. When we had our chance to walk in Blomkamp’s world it was clear [...]




YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal

Panic Attack

This is the stuff of legend, and as a million hungry directors pile onto Youtube it marks another step towards the internet, and Youtube in particular, becoming the place for your showreel to be discovered. Uruguayan Fede Alvarez uploaded his short film Ataque de Pánico to the video sharing website and so far it has had [...]




Last Minute Christmas Present Recommendations!

Christmas

Ho Ho Ho! It’s that time of the year for giving and receiving and if your having trouble finding the perfect gift for your loved one then i will hopefully mention something that will help fill that stocking in time for 25th December. I’m going to run down my top Blu-Ray films, Top DVD’s, Top [...]