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Today sees the release of Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters, the Norwegian thriller based on the best-selling novel, and the first film adaptation for the popular Scandinavian author. The film is the latest in a line of recent Scandinavian exports to have reached the UK, and is already deemed the most successful Norwegian film ever made after [...]
So striking and unique was Swedish actress Noomi Rapace’s portrayal of 21st century anti-heroine Lisbeth Salander in the original 2009 film that director David Fincher and screenwriter Steven Zaillian already had their work cut out adapting author Stieg Larsson’s complex first book of his Millennium trilogy as an English-language film. The plot is so complex [...]
The cinematic treatment of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde has been varied. Fredric March’s benchmark portrayal of the character in 1931 remains the high water mark, though Spencer Tracy has tried his hand at it and the less said about 1995′s Dr Jekyll & Ms Hyde the better. The main point here is [...]
Director Matt Reeves will follow Let Me In with an adaptation of the short story which was the inspiration for the 1988 John Carpenter film They Live, the one starring Rowdy Roddy Piper who came to kick ass and chew bubblegum. Reeves, who has signed on to write and direct the film, will not remake [...]
Following on from remake Let Me In and the recent Hilary Swank chiller, The Resident, Hammer Films’ third latest cinematic offering, Wakewood, hits cinema screens tomorrow. After the death of their young daughter in the film’s opening scene, Patrick (Aidan Gillen) and Louise (Eva Birthistle) retreat to the countryside and set up shop in the [...]
To celebrate the release of vampire thriller Let Me In on DVD and Blu-ray on March 14th, we’ve got three copies of the film on DVD and Let Me In hoodies to give away! Synopsis: Chloe Grace Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a secretive 12-year old girl, who moves next door to [...]
Respected character actor Richard Jenkins (last seen offering creepy paternal support in US remake Let Me In) has joined the cast of Andrew Dominik’s crime thriller Cogan’s Trade. Variety are reporting that he’ll join Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell and a rumoured Casey Affleck (the stars of the director’s previous feature, The Assassination of Jesse James [...]
Black Swan, the forthcoming psychological ballet thriller from acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky, picked up an unprecedented twelve nominations at the annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The King’s Speech and True Grit follow closely with eleven nominations each, while The Social Network and Inception each accumulated nine. The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards will take place on [...]
The fifth annual Richard Attenborough Film Awards took place in London, UK last night and it was quite an occasion! The Social Network was named film of the year, with Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) picking up the awards for actor and actress of the year, [...]
It takes a brave soul to remake one of the most critically acclaimed and fiercely protected foreign language genre films of recent years and with Let Me In Matt Reeves has done something impressive and combined an emotionally engaging love story and properly grisly horror film which honours the original and stands very well on [...]
This week sees the release of Let Me In, the Matt Reeves directed adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel starring It-Girl Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee. It is the first major release from the rejuvenated Hammer, a name synonymous with cinematic horror. Fans of the much loved Tomas Alfredson adaptation of the novel may have [...]
Hammer Films’ new movie, Let Me In is released in UK cinemas this Friday, November 5th and to celebrate, they’ve given us some rather cool merchandise from the movie to give away! Let Me In is directed by Matt Reeves and is a remake of the awesome Swedish movie, Let the Right One In. The [...]
There has been a lot of positive feedback regarding Matt Reeves’ new film, Let Me In (you can read our review here), the remake of the 2008 film, Let the Right One In and with that comes some interesting commentary from the director himself. Yesterday, SlashFilm posted another part of their exclusive interview with Reeves [...]
In an interview with ShockTillYouDrop to promote Let Me In, Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) dropped some hints about his next film: I’m doing an animated film next called Paranorman. I play a boy named Norman who can see ghosts and he saves the world from a zombie invasion. Paranorman is a stop-motion animation by writer/director Chris [...]
A publicist has confirmed to TheWrap that Chloe Moretz is attached to Universal’s adaptation of the Dark Horse comic Emily the Strange. Universal recently snatched up the film rights to the comic-book character originally created by Rob Reger and his production company Cosmic Debris in 1993. Keith Goldberg will executive produce alongside Reger, with Dark Horse’s [...]
Overturning expectations and going some way to counter the default argument that all English Language remakes (particularly of films as good as Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In) are inherently bad, Matt Reeves’ Let Me In is gaining momentum ahead of its release next month. So, expect a few more of these TV spots [...]
Empire have revealed the official UK poster for Let Me In. An adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist acclaimed vampire novel, Let Me In centers on a bullied young boy (Smit-McPhee) as he befriends a young female vampire (Moretz) who lives in secrecy with her guardian (Jenkins). Let Me In is directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) [...]
IMPA has given the world two brand new posters for Let Me In. We’ve been posting loads for the movie recently and you can check out all our cpverage of trailers, clips, images and posters right here. Let Me In is directed by Matt Reeves and is a remake of the awesome Swedish movie, Let [...]
Empire have released a rather bloody awesome(!) new image from Let Me In. Let Me In is directed by Matt Reeves and is a remake of the awesome Swedish movie, Let the Right One in. The US version stars Chloe Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPheeElias Koteas, Richard Jenkins and is directed by Matt Reeves. It’s scheduled for [...]
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