Bringing together the Oscar-nominated calibre of both Ethan Hawke (Training Day) and Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) certainly sounds promising for writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest film, The Woman in the Fifth.

Artificial Eye have put out the first UK trailer for the film, with thanks to ComingSoon.net for the tip-off, and it gives us a look at the thriller and darkness that we can expect from the film when it arrives next month.

“American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter.

When things don’t go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet.

Then Margit, a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events… as if an obscure power was taking control of his life.”

The film is based on the original novel by bestselling author Douglas Kennedy, whose novel The Big Picture has also recently been adapted for the big screen in French, and is set to be released on 22^nd July here in the UK.

The Woman in the Fifth will be with us much sooner on 17^th February, which means we’ve got less than a month to go until it arrives on our shores. The film was screened at Toronto International Film Festival last September and was received with mix reviews, which is perhaps not unexpected for what looks to be an art house film. Hopefully its art house nature won’t prevent it from having a wide release next month, because it seems pretty interesting to me. Here’s the trailer for your viewing pleasure.

We’re coming to the end of our first look images Toronto Film Festival image posts now and this one has been made in France, Poland and our very own United Kingdom. It’s called The Woman in the Fifth or La femme du 5è, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke, Joanna Kulig and Samir Guesmi.

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times. Befriended by a French Arab who offers him a job, Tom finds himself employed as a security agent as he struggles to write his second novel and see his daughter. Meanwhile, his personal life takes a turn as he becomes involved with a beguiling woman.

Ethan Hawke looks very odd in this shot below.

While some fims are produced under a Promethian cover of secrecy others bask in the sunlight and are in plain sight of passing film fans. Toronto is currently home to the Len Wiseman remake of the 90s Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s We Can Remember it for you Wholesale, renamed then and now Total Recall.

Colin Farrell leads Kate Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston and Ethan Hawke in this retelling, and it’s not clear how near or far this new film is sticking to either of its forebears but a few happy snappers have given us the chance to see what Wiseman’s world will look like.

First and foremost is the flying police car, looking a touch like the wall skimming Minority Report vehicles, which are all over the set along with the stormtrooper-esque policeman. As you would expect there’s a lot of greenery so the final shots will only have the minimum of what you see here.

So here you are, via AICN and a twitterer called Ian, some sci-fi imaginings in the style of Minority Report and Star Wars – very much looking forward to seeing how this one pans out.

Here are your pics,

Jessica Biel (The Illusionist) and Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) have officially signed on to play the female leads, Melina and Lori respectively, in Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall remake.

Biel and Beckinsale will star opposite Colin Farrell (Phonebooth), Bryan Cranston (Little Miss Sunshine) and Ethan Hawke (Before Sunset).

As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker (Farrell) begins to suspect that he’s a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he’s on.

Len Wiseman is attached to direct the remake, which is expected to start filming next Monday in Toronto.

Total Recall is scheduled to be released in the UK on August 22, 2012.

Source: Collider

Another name has been added to the cast list for the remake of famed Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi actioner, Total Recall, and the actor in question represents perhaps a slightly unusual (but very welcome) presence to the film.

Former Generation X heartthrob and Richard Linklater regular Ethan Hawke is down for a small, cameo part which is being kept under wraps for the time being. He’ll join villain Bryan Cranston and either Kate Beckinsale or Jessica Biel for this futuristic yarn about (like you need a reminder!) a factory worker who undergoes a memory implant which reveals he may (or may not) be some kind of secret agent.

Colin Farrell takes over from Arnie in the lead and Len Wiseman is in the director’s chair for this Philip K. Dick adaptation. The actors who have been assembled so far here (Cranston in particular is a delicious casting choice) suggest this retread may have more tricks up its sleeve than what was initially believed.

Concentrating on a storyline which focuses on the heroes’ journey to the intriguingly-sounding integrated nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai, instead of getting his “ass to Mars”, also offers an interesting departure to the original. Fingers are firmly crossed here.

Via The Hollywood Reporter

Here at HeyUGuys, we aim to provide you with an all-encompassing look into the world of film. Whether you’re a fully-fledged cineaste, or just possess a casual interest, there’s something for anyone with our alternative A-Z of cinema, which starts today and runs through the week.

If you’ve ever wondered just what it is an Executive Producer does, or maybe if you’ve heard the ambient sounds of Tangerine Dream in an 80’s film favourite without knowing who you were listening to, this is the list for you!

Underground Film is a label which refers to a feature which exists outside the mainstream either in its style, genre or financing. The first use of the term was coined in a 1957 essay by famed American film critic Manny Farber, entitled Underground Films.

In the late 1950s, underground film was used to describe early independent filmmakers working in San Francisco, California and New York City. Leading figures who grew out of that era included Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Jack Smith and Bruce Conner. By the late 1960’s filmmakers within the movement began to employ terms like avant-garde or experimental to describe their work.

Through both the 1970’s and 80’s the term would still be used to refer to the more countercultural fringe of independent cinema. Pink Flamingos (John Water’s transgressive tour de force from 1972) is an example of an underground film that, due to its notorious content, found a bigger, cult-like audience and become a permanent fixture on the Midnight Movie circuit.

Vittorio Storaro (1940-) is widely regarded as one of the masters of modern cinematography. By using and adapting the premise inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s theory of colours (which focuses, in part, on the psychological effects different colours have) throughout his own work, Storaro has influenced a whole generation of DoP’s.

One of his most famous and recognised work is in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam odyssey, Apocalypse Now. While many of the cast and crew were losing their heads (director included) Storaro soldiered on, imbuing the film with a bold visual landscape which undoubtedly attributed to a large part of it’s success.

Other equally productive collaborations with filmmakers from Coppola’s era have included Bernardo Bertolucci (Storaro shot his 1970 masterpiece The Conformist) and Warren Beatty. His oeuvre also includes the likes of 1900 Last Tango in Paris, Bulworth, The Sheltering Sky and Dick Tracy. He received Oscars for Reds (1981) and The Last Emperor (1987).

Waking Life is a 2001 feature from Slacker director Richard Linklater which explores the nature of dreams and the sub-conscious. Like his aforementioned 1991 debut, this film has a similar loose and free-wheeling structure, which is composed of various scenes where people muse over their place in the universe and what their purposes are within it.

The film is also known for its use of the rotoscoping animation technique. To achieve this, the animators overlaid the live action footage shot by Linklater (frame by frame) with animation, lending the film a surreal and dream-like quality of its own. Linklater fans will also note that the director has a couple of familiar faces amongst the ensemble. Dazed and Confused’s Wiley Wiggins plays the protagonist, while Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their characters from Before Sunrise for one scene.

Waking Life premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2001, and Linklater would later apply the same effect (with a bigger budget) for his 2002 Philip K. Dick adaptation, A Scanner Darkly.

X-rating. The original X certificate in the UK was issued between 1951 and 1982 by the British Board of Film Censors. From 1951 to 1970, it classified as being “Suitable for those aged 16 and over”. From 1970 to 1982 it was redefined as “Suitable for those aged 18 and over.” The X certificate was replaced in 1982 by the 18 certificate.

In the United States, the X-rating originally referred a film with extreme content that was for adults only, with no concessions made for minors.

Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the first and only X-rated film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Cult sci-fi comic book shoot em’ up RoboCop was originally given an X rating by the MPAA for scenes of “excessive violence” and director Paul Verhoeven (no stranger to controversy) had to remove the blood and gore from the most violent scenes for the film to receive an “R” rating.

Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) is a 2001 Mexican coming-of-age/road movie. Directed by Children of Men’s Alfonso Cuarón, it follows the exploits of two male horny adolescents who end up taking a trip with an older woman to a beautiful, secret beach called Boca del Cielo (Heaven’s Mouth). During the journey, the duo’s playful and care-free outlook of life is challenged as painful truths are revealed and untapped emotions surface.

As well as being known for its frank and refreshing depiction of sexuality, it also launched the careers of both Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, who teamed up again in 2008 for comedy drama Rudo y Cursi. Their companion on the trip is played by Spanish actress Maribel Verdú, who was Ofelia’s weak-willed mother in Pan’s Labyrinth.

The film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards (Cuarón co-write it with younger brother, Carlos), as well as receiving a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards that same year.

Zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. The term zoetrope is from the Greek words “zoe” (which means life) and “tropos” (turning).

It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits on the inner surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder’s interior. The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD.

American Zoetrope (the studio founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1969) was named after the device. In 2008 a UK visual effects house built a 10 meter wide, 10 tonne zoetrope for a Sony promotional exercise, which has since been declared the largest in the world by Guinness World Records.

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#3 – “BEFORE SUNRISE” (1995)

Directed by Richard Linklater

Love and romance can often be both unexpected and wholly ephemeral yet unmistakably enchanting while it lasts, gently enveloping all it touches in a warm fairytale glow of seductive splendour and thus transporting those it embraces into an altogether parallel existence temporarily detached from the day to day mundanity of everyday life.

And it’s this very feeling that Richard Linklater evokes so sensuously in “Before Sunrise”, only his third film following “Slacker” (1991) and “Dazed and Confused” (1993).

A chance encounter on a train leads Jesse (Ethan Hawke) to make an impromptu proposal to Celine, a French graduate student on her way to Paris (played by the luminously beautiful Julie Delpy) when he asks her to get off the train with him in Vienna and spend the night with him before he’s due to catch his plane back home the next morning. Much to his delight she agrees and what follows is a truly beguiling adventure as the two of them explore the majesty of Vienna, talk about their lives and loves and grow forever closer knowing that come sunrise they may very well never see each other again.

It’s a wonderfully simple premise yet one that gives the film a definite sense of romantic urgency as their feelings grow ever stronger and the realisation of their potentially tragic predicament slowly begins to dawn on them.

Ignoring a handful of supporting characters the film solely rests on the shoulders of its two leads and both Hawke and Delpy deliver wonderfully believable performances with Jesse and Celine emerging as such instantly likeable characters that the audience are sure to impart a great deal of empathy towards them as the film draws to its inevitable bittersweet conclusion.

If there were to be a third party in this most magical of affairs then it would surely be Vienna itself which provides a sumptuously shot playground in which the two young lovers can play out this most fleeting of fairytales amidst a wealth of art, poetry, music and romance. And speaking of romance, watching this particular one blossom is a wonderfully heart-warming thing to behold from the sense of quiet awkwardness and cursory glances the couple share as they listen to a record in a listening booth to the endearing fake phone calls they take part in whilst at a restaurant that allows them to express their fondest hopes, desires and feelings.

An encounter with a street poet halfway through the film leads to a gorgeous scene in which he offers to write a poem for the two of them and in just a handful of lines perfectly encapsulates the turmoil of emotions the two of them are feeling at that moment. “I’m a delusion angel / I’m a fantasy parade”, the poet recites, such words further highlighting the sense that this is truly a magical realm they currently inhabit in which only the two of them matter and all else is transitory. Yet the coming dawn will sadly bring with it an end to this most intoxicating of illusions as the veil of darkness is pulled aside and reality is forced to take centre stage one more. As Jesse so succinctly puts it near the film’s dénouement it’s as if the two of them have re-entered “real-time” and following the heartbreaking goodbyes at the train station the film ends on a poetic series of shots as we see a handful of locations in and around Vienna that only the previous night seemed so magical and otherworldly to Jesse and Celine yet in the harsh light of day are nothing more than simple buildings, parks, bridges and cafés.

Nine years later Linklater, Hawke and Delpy were to reunite for “Before Sunset” which saw a chance encounter between Jesse and Celine in Paris lead to reignited emotions, regret, re-evaluation and reconciliation yet for me “Before Sunrise” will always be the more deeply romantic of the two films if only for its masterful handling of the sheer impulsive and magical quality of romance and the haunting sense of ambiguity that ends this most passionate of brief encounters. Witty, warm, smart, sensitive, passionate, magical and memorable “Before Sunrise” is everything you could possibly ask for in a romantic movie and one that never fails to lift my spirits and warm my heart.

“When isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?.”

Track #12 – “COME HERE”

Written and Performed by Kath Bloom

80’s Hollywood proved to be an incredibly fertile time for much-loved and long-cherished fantasy films. Thousands of column inches and blogging space has been devoted to the likes of firm favourites such as Ghostbusters, The Thing and the Indiana Jones series, but it’s sometimes the smaller films from that period (which for one reason or another got lost in the crush), that resonate more deeply with an audience.

For me, Joe Dante’s Explorers is one such example – a film which, coincidentally, celebrates its 25 anniversary this year, alongside two of the more obvious box office hits from that era, The Goonies and Back to the Future.

I remember first watching this in primary school as an end-of-term Christmas treat and being instantly smitten. Coming off the hugely successful Gremlins (which was made by Steven Spielberg’s company Amblin) Dante chose to direct this rather low-key and more personal feature. It’s a fun and whimsical little tale of three kids (featuring Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix) who receive coded messages (via Hawke’s character’s dreams!) enabling them to build a spaceship and make contact with extra terrestrials. Talk about the ultimate in childhood wish fulfilment!

You can clearly see why Spielberg was drawn to filmmakers like Dante and I can almost imagine the two of them at school, about the same age as the characters in this film, staring wistfully outside during lessons and sketching flying saucers in their book instead of the maths equations they’re supposed to be working on.

With the exception of Gremlins, Dante’s films from that period didn’t come close to matching Spielberg’s in terms of acclaim and box office revenue, but they do share that same sense of wonder, and it’s particularly evident in one of Explorers beautifully constructed montage sequences, where the boys cobble together their spaceship out of an old waltzer car and various household bits and pieces (helped along by a stirring Jerry Goldsmith score). I think the reason why Dante has remained more of a cult figure, and perhaps why his films haven’t caught on the way they should have, is that they are infused with a more deliberate B-movie sensibility than that of his peers.

In fact, Explorers offers many nods to the directors own childhood sci-fi influences. Hawke’s character Ben is first introduced, asleep in his bedroom, while the 50’s version of War of the Worlds is nosily playing out on the TV in the corner. There’s also a sweet scene where the kid’s spacecraft (christened Thunder Road) flies across a huge drive-in screen, confusing the audience who appear to looking at a real third dimension to the old black and white schlocky sci-fi film playing in the background.

When the kids finally reach the origin of the messages (a huge starship) they’re confronted by a couple of cartoonish-looking, Looney Tunes-esque aliens (another unmistakable Dante touch). The two creatures babble in a weird dialect which the kids soon discover they have learned through beaming in hours of trashy American TV. It’s an interesting premise, with a subtle message (the aliens perceive the earth to be an evil place, due to all the violence they’ve witness via channel-hopping), bit it’s also a little too silly and overindulgent, failing to really offer a satisfying conclusion and sapping the film a little of it’s momentum and excitement. It’s a minor quibble however and something my 10 year-old self certainly didn’t have an issue with!

I can only imagine the film’s weak ending may have contributed to it’s less than stellar performance at the US box office (it made a little under $10m – pretty dismal for back then even). Dante has claimed many times in the past that budget and script issues restricted him from making the film he originally envisioned, and I genuinely believe if everything had gone according to plan, Explorers would have been up there with the aforementioned classics.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Dante’s films, particularly The ‘Burbs and Innerspace, and it’s reassuring to see that this unique filmmaker has a 3D cinema feature film coming soon – his first since 2003 (when he directed the ill-received cartoon/human mash-up, Looney Tunes: Back In Action). If the film does well and I think it has the potential to (3D is a format which is probably closest to his own tastes), I hope a new generation of kids will seek out his earlier work.

After all, there’s more to him than just a mischievous Mogwai.

Frustratingly, Explorers appears to have been deleted on Region 2. However, it does make a regular appearance on Film4 in the UK.

Here’s a (not great, but the best we could find) trailer

Variety are reporting that Ethan Hawke is set to play one of the leads in A Late Quartet.

Co-written and directed by Yaron Zilberman, Hawke will play the second violinist of a long-running quartet whose lives are altered with one member retires due to illness.

The actor is no stranger to straddling the line between independent features and studio product and it’s nice to see him taking on a role like this after doing the big vampire action flick Daybreakers, earlier this year.

He’s also just finished work on a New York-based feature called Tonight at Noon for director Michael Almereyda, whom he played Hamlet for in a modern day retelling in 2000.

Get the full low-down on Variety.

Momentum Pictures have just sent us this brand new trailer for new movie called Brooklyn’s Finest. I was sure the name rang a bell a did a little hunt on HeyUGuys to discover that the last clip we had from the movie was back on the evening of the Superbowl in February. Seems odd we’ve heard absolutely nothing since the especially as the movie is out tomorrow!

Brooklyn’s Finest stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes and Ethan Hawke. It’s been directed by Antoine Fuqua who brought us Training Day.

Synopsis: DON CHEADLE, RICHARD GERE and ETHAN HAWKE are BROOKLYN’S FINEST. This gritty urban thriller follows three doomed New York police officers, each trying to overcome their own demons whilst working in the city’s most dangerous precinct run by ruthless drug-running gangsters.

Detective Salvatore “Sal” Procida (HAWKE), desperate for money to feed and house his rapidly growing family, has started pocketing the money left on the table during drug raids. Deeply religious, he finds that he’s in the bad place of trying to reconcile his misdeeds with his needs. The mold in the walls of his home is making his wife (LILI TAYLOR) ill and endangering the life of his unborn twins. And the down payment on his coveted new, bigger house is past due.

It’s released in the UK, tomorrow, 9th June. Check out the new trailer below and let us know what you think.

After all the Vampire rule breaking nonsense that was Twilight, it was a real pleasure to watch the enjoyable Day Breakers and witness a bloody, gory, entertaining and faithful rule abiding Vampire film with a very interesting take on the Vampire story.

Day breakers is set in a 2019 dystopian sci-fi future where Vampires rule the world after an unknown virus turns majority of the worlds population into Vampires and now humans are the endangered species, at only 5% of the worlds population, which are hunted and farmed for their blood, but with the human race facing extinction and blood supplies running dangerously low a new food source is needed to sustain the population of Vampires.

So introducing another Edward the Vampire, Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke), who’s a hematologist working for the company that farms humans for blood. Edward is given the burdening responsibility in finding an artificial substitute for human blood to prevent Vampires turning into a vicious vampire killing Feral mutation due to starvation, a problem that is increasing within the poor society of the Vampire world.

Problem for Edward is that he has sympathy for the human race and gets involved with a group of human survivors that’s lead by Lionel ‘Elvis’ Cormac (Willem Dafoe) a human that claims to have once been a Vampire but was cured. Could this be the solution for the blood shortage, a cure to change everyone back. But that is the dilemma of the story, if you could live forever with no disease or pain (unless you walked into sunlight and fried) why would you want to change back into a human.

The film starts off brilliantly showing how Vampires live at night, living as they did as humans by commuting to work on the train and buying coffee (although with 20% blood in it) for their journey. They have adapted buildings, cars and their homes to prevent sunlight leaking in with a daily public address announcement warning that sunrise is due within the hour and as well as having alarms notifying you that your lights are on on your vehicle, there are alarms letting you know UV levels are high outside. It’s a well thought out concept.

Head of the Bromley Marks company that farms humans for blood is Charles Bromley (Sam Neill), the villain of the film that has become as complacent as almost everyone else as the stocks of humans diminishes and cares little for both races as long as he makes money due to the rises prices of blood stocks. There is a subplot involving Charles Daughter Alison (Isabel ‘ruined Transformers’ Lucas) that seemed completely pointless but led to a nice execution scene.

Edward joins the human survivors and learns how Elvis was turned back to a human, the idea is dubious but well carried out but difficult to bite as a solution to cure Vampires back to human, but to progress the story it works well and gives hope to the Human race and also gives hope to Charles Bromley as he can use this procedure to create more stocks of humans instead of using it to cure the world of Vampires which is what Edward and Elvis want to do, is another interesting dilemma for the characters to face.

Overall the film is a excellent idea, not executed as well as it probably read off the page but never-the-less it has enough to entertain and with Ethan Hawke in top form as Edward and Willem Dafoe clearly enjoying himself, the two actors make Day Breakers a decent film and without them I doubt it would have been anywhere near as enjoyable.
Sam Neill is solid enough as the blood sucking CEO but apart from them the rest of the cast were quite insignificant as characters and were just fodder for everyone else. The Spierig Brothers, who directed, competently make the film work with a superb visual look and use ideas that work well with the characters and the concept.

The Good: The story was brilliant, The Vampires are dam cool putting the Twilight versions to shame and the mutated Feral Vampires, that were seriously underused, were a formidable enemy to both humans and Vampires that will probably be explored more in a possible sequel but should have been more of an enemy force in this film instead of Charles Bromley’s business minded villainy.
The armour of the Vampire troops that enable day walking for Vampires was nice and of course the blood and gore was very realistically done with an experiement on a volunteer vampire of the effects of being injected with the artificial blood was a real pleaser as too was a main characters death in a lift at the end that was brutally pleasing.

The Bad: The plot went a bit crazy towards the end, Isabel Lucas was just used as eye candy in a pointless story arc, Cheesy dialogue, slowly paced at times and a desperate attempt to set up a sequel.

Day Breakers is well worth a watch for a new, interesting and smart Vampire story that I really liked and completely forgive it’s flaws.

Day Breakers is out now.

Although it’s yet another vampire movie, Daybreakers which stars Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas and Willem Dafoe has got me intrigued as it seems to approach the whole ‘vampire’ thing from a completely different angle. If you’ve not seen it, head over to our previous post to view the trailer.

This new poster has been released to promote the movie which is directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig and is out 6th January. Click the poster to enlarge.

Synopsis: “Daybreakers” synopsis: Edward Dalton is a researcher in the year 2017, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires
must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

Here’s the second trailer for Daybreakers which is directed by brothers Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig and stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo, Isabel Lucas and Sam Neill. There’s not UK release date as yet but we’ll keep you posted.

Synopsis: Lionsgate take vampires in a new direction with the futuristic sci-fi thriller, DAYBREAKERS. The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world’s population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species ““ forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction. It’s all up to Edward Dalton, a vampire researcher who refuses to feed on human blood, to perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans. But time and hope are running out ““ until Ed meets Audrey, a human survivor who leads him to a startling medical breakthrough. Armed with knowledge that both humans and vampires will kill for, Ed must battle his own kind in a deadly struggle that will decide the fate of the human race.

In amongst all the Twilight Mania that is going on you’d be forgiven for missing another vampire centric movie in the mix, but this one looks like it’ll be worth your attention.

Ethan Hawke and Sam Neill take the lead in Daybreakers, which was completed a while ago and will finally see a release in January 2010 and Empire have the new poster, which you can see below.

While the fang clad undead may not be the most original theme in these days of True Blood and Twilight, Daybreakers has an interesting take. The world has suffered a plague which has turned everyone into a vampire, and the crux is that the blood is running out.

There’s an allegory about mankind’s pillaging of the Earth’s natural resources tucked in there for sure, and we’ll be able to see for ourselves when the film opens early next year.

Here’s the poster (click to enlarge) for Daybreakers that MTV released today. The trailer came out back in June but I don’t think we’ve posted it previously and it looks pretty cool so I thought I’d get it up here!It’s a vampire movie but don’t let that put you off as it looks like a completely new storyline that we’ve not seen the likes of before.

The movie is directed by brothers Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig and stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo, Isabel Lucas and Sam Neill.There’s not UK release date as yet but we’ll keep you posted.

Synopsis: Lionsgate take vampires in a new direction with the futuristic sci-fi thriller, DAYBREAKERS. The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world’s population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species ““ forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction. It’s all up to Edward Dalton, a vampire researcher who refuses to feed on human blood, to perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans. But time and hope are running out ““ until Ed meets Audrey, a human survivor who leads him to a startling medical breakthrough. Armed with knowledge that both humans and vampires will kill for, Ed must battle his own kind in a deadly struggle that will decide the fate of the human race.