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With Rise of the Planet of the Apes there was a risk that Fox were returning to a tainted well once too often, with the series still in the doldrums following the much-derided Tim Burton adaptation of the original story ten years ago. Yet the studio’s faith in British director Rupert Wyatt proves well placed, [...]
To mark the release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes on Blu-ray this Monday 12th December, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have given us three copies of the movie to give away to you lovely people on Blu-ray Triple Play. If that wasn’t enough, the winners will also receive a signed poster with [...]
We got the first trailer for Jean-Jacques Annaud’s upcoming film, Black Gold, last month and it gave us a pretty brilliant look at what we can expect from it. In short, great things. The film opened the Doha Tribeca Film Festival last month, and in conjunction with Cinémoi, you can read our review of the [...]
Having spent his childhood training at the instruction of Zeus (Luke Evans – in the guise of John Hurt so that he doesn’t break his own law forbidding divine interference), Theseus (Henry Cavill) finds himself thrust into battle when the King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) destroys his village and kills his mother in search of the legendary Epirus Bow. Joining forces with the [...]
Director Tarsem Singh’s upcoming film, Immortals, is getting closer and closer to its anticipated 11th November (11/11/11) release date, and it’s definitely a film I’m really looking forward to. For one thing, I’m interested to see what Henry Cavill is like as a leading man ahead of his turn as Superman for Zack Snyder in [...]
If you’re familiar with Tarsem Singh’s next film, Immortals, you’ll know that it’s something to look forward to this year. We got the first trailer for the film back in April, and it was pretty awesome. Most recently, we’ve had another fantastic new trailer, and plenty of excellent stuff in between. Those nice folks over [...]
As Rise of the Planet of the Apes throws a banana at The Smurfs Movie to claim the number one spot at the box office on its opening weekend, we bring you a conversation with director Rupert Wyatt, and visual effects supervisor Dan Lemmon where they discuss how they managed to capture Andy Serkis’ on [...]
Here at HeyUGuys, Andy Serkis has kicked off a Rise of the Planet of the Apes question and answer challenge, which will test your intelligence, your wit and your use of the comments section! The answer to the first question will be revealed tomorrow on the official UK Rise of the Planet of the Apes [...]
The TIFF website have released the first look images from Freida Pinto’s new movie, Trishna which is directed by Michael Winterbottom and also stars Riz Ahmed who we saw recently in the fantastic Four Lions. Self-effacing British auteur Michael Winterbottom sets his unique spin on Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles against a contemporary Indian backdrop. [...]
Love the marketing for this one! I’m not sure who has made them but someone clever has thought up these new posters for Rise of the Planet of the Apes which hits UK cinemas NOW! You can see Jon’s glowing review of the movie here and all our coverage of the film which is rather [...]
Here’s another new featurette from Twentieth Century Fox’s new movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and this time we get to find out about how they cast the apes. This featurette coincides very nicely with the WETA interviews which I put up recently. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by [...]
In a bid to make Planet of the Apes look like a Michael Bay movie, the Indian marketing department at Twentieth Century Fox have decided to give us lots of head-shots, helicopters and destruction! What’s not to like! Doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the UK and US marketing campaigns though does it! [...]
We loved Rise of the Planet of the Apes . A surprising amount in fact – we called it the ‘surprise hit of the summer’ and we meant every one of those words. It’s out on the 11th of August and we have various other competitions running for this film but none quite like this… [...]
Over the past few years, we’ve seen effects house, WETA do some simply amazing things inside a computer to create some of the mos astonishing visually amazing movies ever. They have been responsible for effects in movies including King Kong, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and most recently, some movie that you may have [...]
We are firmly in blockbuster season, and in a time when the common wisdom has it that you are encouraged to switch off your brain to enjoy what’s on offer there comes a film about the power of intelligence. Fox were asking a lot of Rupert Wyatt, the British director who found himself in charge [...]
To celebrate the release of their new movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes on 11th August, Twentieth Century Fox have given us four sets of goodie bags to give away. Each bag contains a pen, keychain, Blackberry Case, metallic notepad, t shirt and a watch and then one extra goodie bag winning the [...]
There are only a few weeks left to prepare for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Fox have debuted another trailer for the film out at San Diego for Comic-Con. If I’m honest this clip stretches the definition of the word ‘tease’ and actually gives away an entire plot line revealing how [...]
Relativity Media have released a couple of new images for their new movie, Immortals which is showing this weekend during Comic-Con which is currently taking place in San Diego. The movie stars Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz, Henry Cavill, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff and is directed by Tarsem Singh. It’s released in [...]
As I type this, the Immortals panel is currently taking place in San Diego at Comic Con. To coincide with this, Relativity Media have released this new poster for the movie, which is showing this weekend. The movie stars Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz, Henry Cavill, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff and is [...]
Here’s the third clip from Twentieth Century Fox’s summer movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. There’s quite a few new bits of footage in there so check them out below. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto of Slumdog [...]
