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Juan Jose Campanella, the Argentine who won the foreign-language Oscar in 2009 for his film The Secret in Their Eyes, has decided to make his first animated feature. His film has been titled Metegol, or Foosball, and only has a budget of $9.75 million if you can believe that. The film “follows an underdog who, with the help of foosball figures [...]
Buoyed by the surprise success of their team in the World Cup and David Beckham’s state-side dominance (helping to gain further exposure of the beautiful game), it looks like Hollywood are making their own football (sorry, soccer) film starring another British ex-pat, Gerard Butler. The Los Angeles Times are reporting that Slide, originally conceived as [...]
I’ve scheduled this post to live at exactly 15.30 today to mark the beginning of the first game in the 2010 Fifa World Cup which sees South Africa play Mexico. For the next month, 32 teams from across the globe (including England) will compete in the single biggest tournament on planet Earth! Those clever people [...]
Apparently there’s some little football tournament starting tonight called the World Cup? Anyone know about it?! The Fifa World Cup sees 32 teams go head to head for probably the most recognised sporting trophy in the world. So, to get you in the mood, it was only right that today’s HeyUGuys Friday lunchtime quiz would [...]
I’m not very much looking forward to the new Sex and the City Movie but I think this poster is great. Here’s some awesome marketing from the guys in charge of the Sex and the City 2 campaign. As most of the planet knows, the Football World Cup begins on June 11th and football fever [...]
We’re going to see a lot more of this sort of marketing coming up from these gigantic companies who have access / sponsorship deals with some of the best personalities in the world of sport. The World Cup stars 11th June and you’ll see in the post after this one that the big movie companies [...]
Our roving reporter, Adam Farina has been off interviewing again and this time it’s director of The Firm, Nick Love. Love has previously brought us movies like The Football Factory and The Business, both of which did very well with DVD sales. The Firm is a remake of the Alan Clarke TV movie of the [...]
This evening I went along to a preview screening Nick Love’s latest movie, ‘The Firm’. A seemingly shy, reserved but proud Love stood there to introduce the film which he was obviously looking forward to us seeing. The Firm is a remake of the Alan Clarke TV movie of the same name which starred Gary [...]
