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For those out there who are still mystified as to how Santa manages that seemingly superhuman feat of single-handedly delivering presents to every child on earth the night before Christmas, this new Aardman/Sony Pictures co-production offers a feasible explanation. In a position passed down through generations of Clauses, the close-to-retirement Santa (Jim Broadbent, in a [...]
Although it represents another seemingly unnecessary spin off, Puss in Boots may yet surprise us by being, well, good. For every Elektra or Catwoman, there’s a Borat out there and let’s hope we’re not being foolishly optimistic in wishing for less of the former and more of the latter. The material that has been put [...]
Roald Dahl has long been a rich vein of source material for cinema. The live-action adaptations of The Witches and Matilda are rightly well-regarded, as are the less conventional stop-motion versions of Fantastic Mr Fox and James and the Giant Peach. There has already been a cartoon version of the BFG, Dahl’s tale of a [...]
Animation, Art, and Technology. Vancouver, BC – Hey U Guys had a chance to attend SIGGRAPH 2011 (Aug 7 – 11), a computer graphics conference that encompassed a wide array of topics relating to the entertainment, and graphic design industry. A celebration of technology and the digital art community, everything from advances in software, to [...]
If anyone can sell us on a big screen version of Robot Wars then it’s Dreamworks and Hugh Jackman. This new Japanese trailer for Real Steel unleashes a load of plot along with the obligatory CG robot fighting. What this trailer does better than the previous theatrical trailer is lay out the emotional centre of [...]
Kung Fu Panda 2 comes out at the end of this week and yesterday HeyUGuys trecked down to Westfield for the UK premiere of the film. During the course of the afternoon we were treated to a display of Kung Fu, two men dressed up as a dragon, and Jack Black being paraded around on [...]
Dreamworks have just sent over the first new international UK poster for their new movie, Reel Steel. If you missed the trailer for it a month or so ago, you can check it out here. This new poster follows the US version which was released a couple of weeks ago and although I like it [...]
Kung Fu Panda 2 hits UK cinemas 10th June and to celebrate, Dreamworks have given us this featurette for the movie which announces to the world: Po is Back! In the featurette we get to see Jack Black at work with all his co-stars talking about him and how he becomes Po while conducting his [...]
Kung Fu Panda 2 begins with a flashback introduction to the movie’s bad guy, the preening peacock Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), explaining that a terrifying prophecy foretold that a black and white warrior would be his downfall and how this resulted in his killing of all of the pandas in China. From there we find [...]
Love this new poster for Real Steel. We got to the see the theatrical trailer for the new Hugh Jackman movie a few weeks ago and the more I see from it, the more I can’t wait to see it! If you know nothing about it, you should most definitely check out the trailer. Real [...]
To coincide with the release of the full theatrical trailer for Real Steel, Dreamworks have sent over five new images from the movie which stars Hugh Jackman. Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and also stars Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 7th October. [...]
Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom, the nigh-on inevitable sequel to the successful and impressive original Dreamworks film will be upon us soon. While it is tempting to assume that we will get more of the same this time around, there is no reason to think that Dreamworks are incapable of fleshing out the [...]
Yesterday before the Pirates of the Caribbean screening, Disney chose to show us the full theatrical version of the trailer for Real Steel which they are distributing for Dreamworks. Bottom line, it looks absolutely awesome!! Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. [...]
The prospect of a movie based on the extremely successful video game series Halo has been dangled in front of the army of besotted gamers for a while now, with names such as Peter Jackson, Neill Blomkamp, Alex Garland and even Steven Spielberg being run through the rumour mill over the course of the last [...]
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 [...]
DreamWorks Animation have announced a very exciting total of nine films to be released in the coming five years. Three of the nine will be sequels to previous successes (Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar 3, and How To Train Your Dragon 2), and the rest will be originals – albeit, with Puss In Boots being [...]
While we already knew that DreamWorks’ magisterial How to Train Your Dragon was to receive a sequel, and that the budding franchise was set to make its small screen début in the interim, we had little information regarding how forlorn Viking Hiccup’s story might continue. Speaking to Italian site BadTaste, executive producer Tim Johnson spoke of DreamWorks‘ current plans for the highly [...]
Steven Spielberg clearly has a big affinity towards those unidentifiable flying objects of folklore. As a director, he’s covered the lovable and lethal side to alien life in both ET and War of the Worlds, and the subject has cropped up time and time again in many of the features he’s produced through Amblin and [...]
Olivia Wilde (Tron: Legacy) has been cast in Dreamworks’ forthcoming drama Welcome to People. Welcome to People centers on a businessman (Pine) who returns home after his estranged father’s death and discovers that he has an alcoholic sister (Banks) with a 12-year-old son. Wilde joins Chris Pine (Unstoppable) and Elizabeth Banks (The Next Three Days), [...]
Eminem showed great acting ability and screen presence with his debut, “8 Mile”, which told the story of a rapper trying to compete in rap battles and get his foot in the door for some studio time. Although the role was not much of a stretch for Eminem, he essayed it superbly and so it [...]
