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The Thing hits UK cinemas today and if you missed it, you can catch our review of the prequel to the John Carpenter movie here. The movie stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, Kim Bubbs and our friends from Upbeat caught up with many of them at the [...]
John Carpenter may well be the master of horror filmmaking, but that’s not to say that someone else can’t tackle his esteemed previous work. In fact, Dutch filmmaker Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s 2011 version of The Thing could be argued as a brave career choice, considering the 1982 film’s cult following. Not to be confused [...]
Yes it’s the same as the Russian version that we put up a week or two ago but it IS different as it has English writing of The Thing! Here’s the UK poster. If you missed the new featurette that I put up yesterday, you should check that one out too and it’s a good’n. [...]
This morning has been full to the brim of new UK exclusives with a new Tintin trailer, the new Wuthering Heights poster and now Universal Studios have released this great new featurette from their movie, The Thing. In the featurette, we get to find out exactly how the new prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 movie, [...]
Liking this a lot!! Here’s the brand new red band (seriously freaky) trailer for the brand new movie, The Thing which is a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 version which starred Kurt Russell. The 2011 movie is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, [...]
That’s a terrible pun and I’m actually genuinely sorry. But hey – it’s gets better because we’ve finally got a clip from the prequel to The Thing, called The Thing. Following the creepy as heck poster and a trailer which did a good job of teasing Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s film and this new clip [...]
Apparently the UK is going to have a longer wait for Matthijs van Heijningen’s prequel to The Thing, which is also called The Thing, as a new release date has been announced of the 2nd of December 2011. The film’s Facebook page served up the bad news but did offer us a few images of the [...]
In fine marketing tradition a few days ago we had the first poster for the prequel to The Thing, confusedly called The Thing, and now there’s the first trailer for Matthijs van Heijningen Jr directed film. It is the same as the leaked trailer which found its way onto the internet last year and it’s [...]
UPDATE BELOW We’ve not heard that much about the forthcoming prequel to The Thing, the Matthijs van Heijningen Jr directed The Thing (more on this later…), but here’s what purports to be the first poster for the film. AICN posted the image which isn’t the best quality but it’s an appropriately stark effort nonetheless. The [...]
It’s been a while since we saw anything from the Matthijs van Heijningen Jr directed prequel to The Thing. Let’s remedy that shall right now, shall we? Here’s a picture of Joel Edgerton who plays Sam Carter in the film alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eric Christian Olsen, and Kim Bubbs, and Edgerton has [...]
Universal have mysteriously pulled The Thing from it’s original release date of April 29, 2011. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., The Thing, a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film of the same name, stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Universal are actively looking for a new release [...]
On Saturday over at the NY Comic Con, which I attended, Universal held a panel for the upcoming prequel of John Carpenter’s 1982 film, The Thing. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it to this panel but I can say that a handful of people did and at least one snapped a picture of the new banner [...]
Universal Studios (via Hitfix) have debuted some rather nice new images from the prequel to John Carpenter classic movie, The Thing. The new movie stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eric Christian Olsen, Kim Bubbs, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jonathan Walker and is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. IMDb Synopsis: At an Antarctica [...]
Prequels are the next big thing, with Ridley Scott going back to the future to follow the exploits of the Space Jockey in his Alien prequel, Andy Serkis and James Franco showing us how it became the Planet of the Apes, Zack Snyder returning to a pre-300 Xerxes, The Hobbit hopefully rolling before the cameras [...]
Encore Magazine managed to take a picture of an early poster for The Thing – a prequel to 1982 John Carpenter film of the same name – at the Australian International Movie Convention. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., the film stars a host of up-and-coming talent, including Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World), [...]
The prequel to John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ is definitely an intriguing idea and one that every fan of the original movie must be curious about as we get to see what happened in the events that led to them Norwegian chaps chasing the dog at the start of the 1982 classic. It’s currently filming in [...]
Last night, Leicester Sq. saw it’s latest premiere on the ‘pink carpet’ in the form the The Back-up Plan which is directed byAlan Poule and stars Jennifer Lopez, Alex O’Loughlin, Michaela Watkins, Eric Christian Olsen, Anthony Anderson and Noureen DeWulf. The movie is released in cinemas May 7th and our review of the movie is [...]
I’ve not seen Jennifer Lopez in anything for a while but that is about to change with her new movie, The Back-Up Plan being released in cinemas 19th March 2010. Click the poster to enlarge. The Back-Up Plan also stars Eric Christian Olsen, Michaela Watkins, Noureen DeWulf, Melissa McCarthy and Danneel Harris and is directed [...]
