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Another image of Johnny Depp in Tim Burton‘s retelling of the 1966-1971 classic gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows, has been released this week. No trailer yet, but Depp looks better and better each image we see, so for most that’s already enough to look forward to on its own. Dark Shadows follows Barnabas Collins (Depp), [...]
Warner Bros. has shared a new photograph of Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer this week, showing the undead couple in Tim Burton’s retelling of the 1966-1971 classic gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows. The film follows Barnabas Collins (Depp), a wealthy playboy who is transformed into a vampire and buried by a jilted lover, Angelique (Eva [...]
Though the prequel/sequel to 2006’s 300 hasn’t yet found its male lead, with Joel Edgerton ultimately passing on the role after talk of his involvement, it looks like 300: Battle of Artemisia, previously titled Xerxes, is getting close to casting its female lead, with Eva Green entering negotiations for the role of Artemisia. With the [...]
A very different end of the world is imagined in David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense, one far removed from the meteor storms and solar burps. Instead it is a slow burning apocalypse for us this time with the gradual diminishing of sensory perception on the cards and in the film, which was out here in the [...]
We got our first photos from the set of Tim Burton’s next film, Dark Shadows, last month and they gave us a brief glimpse at Johnny Depp’s return to the gothic world of Burton’s mind as Barnabas Collins, an eighteenth century man-turned-vampire dug up in 1972. The first official photos from the film have now [...]
Dark Shadows will see Johnny Depp joining up with director Tim Burton for the 784th time in their careers, collaborating once again for a project with dark, gothic tones. Dark Shadows was a cult TV show that ran in the latter half of the 1960′s, containing such genre staples as vampires, zombies, witches, werewolves and [...]
Director David Mackenzie (Young Adam, Spread) has two very different love story films coming out in the next month, the festival-set You Instead and the pandemic-apocalyptic Perfect Sense. A brilliant new trailer for the latter has now arrived, courtesy of Empire, and it gives us a lovely look at the budding romance between Ewan McGregor’s Michael, a [...]
Arrow Films have released the official U.K. quad for Perfect Sense. Directed by David Mackenzie (Hallam Foe), Perfect Sense stars Ewan McGregor (Beginners), Eva Green (Casino Royale), Connie Nielsen (One Hour Photo), Ewen Bremner (Black Hawk Down), Stephen Dillane (The Hours) and Denis Lawson (Local Hero). A chef (McGregor) and a scientist (Green) fall in love [...]
Essentially, Perfect Sense is a romantic love story set against an apocalyptic backdrop. It tells of how a chef, Michael (Ewan McGregor), and a scientist, Susan (Eva Green), fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. Kim Fupz Aakeson’s cunningly written screenplay imagines a world in which the inhabitants slowly [...]
The official programme for the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival was announced earlier today, featuring a wide variety of exciting films from around the world. The programme not only represents how the Edinburgh International Film Festival will continue to be a cutting-edge platform for UK film, but also how it plans to adapt itself in light [...]
The 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed the first titles from this year’s British section of the programme, including several world premieres. Nine British and Irish films were announced in the press release ahead of the full programme launch later this month, and represent how the Edinburgh International Film Festival will continue to be [...]
Chloë Moretz, by far one of my favourite child actresses of all time, has been in talks to join Tim Burton’s upcoming remake of the 1960s TV soap opera, Dark Shadows. Moretz’s dramatic rise to fame came, of course, with last year’s Kick-Ass, in which she superbly played Hit Girl / Mindy Macready, daughter of [...]
Sundance breakout star Brit Marling (Political Disasters) has been cast in Arbitrage, Movieline has revealed. Marling, who replaces Eva Green (Casino Royale), will star opposite Susan Sarandon (The Lovely Bones) and Richard Gere (Pretty Woman) in the financial drama. A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error [...]
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Chéri) are in talks to join the cast of Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. Carter and Pfeiffer, both of whom have worked with Burton before, are in line to play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and Dr. Julia Hoffman respectively. Based on the esteemed TV series, Dark Shadows is [...]
Eva Green (Casino Royale) has landed the lead female role of Angelique in Dark Shadows, Warner Bros. Pictures’ adaptation of the 1960′s supernatural TV show. Green will star opposite Johnny Depp (Rango), who was cast as Barnabas Collins last year. Jackie Earle Haley (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Bella Heathcoate (Now) are also in talks to [...]
Moments after we posted the full synopsis and a brand new image for David MacKenzie’s forthcoming film, Perfect Sense, we are contacted by the excellent Sweet on Sigma Films who have just bagged the first look at the poster for the film. Ewan McGregor and Eva Green lead the film, which is playing on the [...]
Premiering at Sundance on the 24th of January David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense has flown a little under our radar here, but the release of a new image and complete synopsis has changed all that. Reuniting Trainspotting alum Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner, Perfect Sense also stars Eva Green, Stephen Dillane, Denis Lawson and Connie Nielsen, [...]
The United States have a TV channel called Starz, who bought them Party Down, the TV series version of Crash and are the ones bringing the new series of Torchwood to the small screen. They also have a forthcoming show based on Arthurian legend which has a pretty impressive cast including Eva Green and Joseph [...]
Susan Sarandon, Al Pacino and Eva Green are attached to star in drama film Arbritage. Written and directed by Nicholas Jarecki, Arbritage will focus on a hedge-fund magnate (Pacino) who struggles to complete the sale of his trading business to a big bank before the level of his fraud is exposed. Sarandon will play Pacino’s [...]
Eva Green (Cracks), Lea Seydoux (Inglourious Basterds) and Gerard Depardieu (In the Beginning) have been cast in Farewell, My Queen, an adaptation of Chantal Thomas’ novel of the same name. Farewell, My Queen will be directed by Benoit Jacquot (Deep In The Woods) and will see Green as Marie Antoinette, while Seydoux will play a reader to her [...]
