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After a series of setbacks that have delayed production, fans of the first X-Men spin-off, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, will be happy to know that the film’s sequel, The Wolverine, looks to be very much back on track. After director Darren Aronofsky exited the project, because proposed production in Japan would have separated him from his [...]
Everything about Tom Hooper’s upcoming film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s renowned novel, and the subsequent stage musical, Les Misérables, sounds perfect so far. Russell Crowe will be playing the male co-lead of Jean Valjean, with Hugh Jackman joining him as Inspector Javert, and Anne Hathaway will be bringing to life the female lead, Fantine. When [...]
Already pencilled in as an Oscar contender with a release at the end of next year, news surrounding Tom Hooper’s follow-up to The King’s Speech with Les Misérables has just been getting better and better. Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman will be taking the roles of the male co-leads Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert respectively, [...]
In the past year, director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) has seen himself become almost overnight a huge success, with The King’s Speech topping many critics’ and individuals’ Films of the Year lists last year, along with earning himself the Best Director award at the Oscars earlier this year. His next project, a film adaptation [...]
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) has made a huge name for himself both here and in the States with his Oscar-winning direction of The King’s Speech, which won four Oscars and earned a further eight nominations earlier this year. His follow-up film has been set as an adaptation of Les Misérables, based on the 19th [...]
Hugh Jackman jumps back on to our big screens tomorrow with plenty of metal, but no claws in sight, for his latest flick, Real Steel. Real Steel is inspired by a short story by Richard ‘I am Legend’ Matheson about a down and out boxer named Charlie Kenton, played in the film by Hugh Jackman. [...]
Real Steel hits UK cinemas tomorrow. It’s a great action movie with more robots than you can shake a stick at. We got to speak with it’s director, Shawn Levy at the Big Screen event back in August about the movie, how it came about and what we can expect from it. Shawn has previously [...]
Hugh Jackson has been talking up the planned sequel to 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine during his publicity tour for Real Steel. You may recall that Darren Aronofsky was originally at the helm for the continuing saga of the Adamantium-coated one with a script which was set in Japan for the majority of the action. Journeyman [...]
In case you’ve missed our coverage of Hugh Jackman’s latest film, Real Steel, you can click here to catch up on everything and get up to speed. And if you’re reading this before midnight on 17th October, then you can click here to enter our Real Steel competition which has a slightly amazing prize of [...]
To celebrate the release of Real Steel in cinemas 14th October, Apollo Cinemas and Dreamworks have given us this rather amazing prize to give away! One lucky HeyUGuys reader will win an XBOX 360 console with Kinect and Kinect Adventures. We’ll also give you a game Fight Night Champion and if that’s not enough, Apollo [...]
Jennifer Garner’s latest feature film, Butter, might have some people a little bemused and confused by having at its central premise the sculpting of butter – I’d never heard of it before, myself – but it sounds like it does in fact have some potential, and the first clip from the film has been released, [...]
Real Steel has been in our sights for quite some time now, with the first trailer launching way back in December last year, giving us an insight into what looks to be a really fun film. Since then, we’ve had two awesome posters that I rather love, and plenty more great stuff to boot, and [...]
@HeyUGUysLive was at the UK premiere of ‘Real Steel’ at the Empire Leicester Square last night. There was also some fella there called Hugh Jackman. HUGE Jackman!! ‘Real Steel’ is based on the short story penned by Richard ‘I am Legend’ Matheson and tells a tale set in 2020 of a ‘down-and-out’ boxer named Charlie [...]
The title of this clip says it all. Here is a nice new clip from Dreamworks’ new movie, Real Steel which hits UK cinemas 7th October. In the clip, we get to see two of the robots in the movie go heasd to head in a fight for their lives. Those two robots are Noisey [...]
Here’s a lovely new set of posters showing four of the robots that you get to meet in Dreamworks’ new movie, Real Steel which is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman, Kevin Durand, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Dakota Goyo and Hope Davis. These four robots all have some rather nice names and include Atom [...]
To celebrate the release of Real Steel on 14th October, Dreamworks have given us two pairs of tickets to the preview screening of the movie on September 19th in London at a West End Venue at 18.30pm (please note screening starts at this time, you must get there before this time should you win). Real [...]
Dreamworks have released this brand new poster for their new robot fighting movie starring Hugh Jackman called Real Steel. Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 7th October. A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the [...]
After all of the shenanigans over who would direct The Wolverine, 20th Century Fox’s sequel to the lacklustre and poorly-performing X-Men: Origins: Wolverine (you put that much punctuation in your title, you have only yourself to blame), all seemed settled for the go ahead for principal photography. Hugh Jackman would of course star as the [...]
I was lucky enough to get to see a very early screening of Real Steel a few weeks ago ahead of a great interview that I conducted with director, Shawn Levy at the Empire Big Screen weekend. I’m not allowed to tell you what I thought of it yet but while we wait for the [...]
If anyone can sell us on a big screen version of Robot Wars then it’s Dreamworks and Hugh Jackman. This new Japanese trailer for Real Steel unleashes a load of plot along with the obligatory CG robot fighting. What this trailer does better than the previous theatrical trailer is lay out the emotional centre of [...]
