A couple of these we’ve seen before but in the most part, here’s a rather nice new bunch of images from Emma Watson and Logan Lerman’s new movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower which is set to be released in the UK later in the year. The film is helmed by Director Stephen Chbosky and also stars Ezra Miller, Maw Whitman, Kate Walsh and Dylan McDermott. The film is based on the novel that Chbosky wrote in 2009.

A funny and touching adventure based on a best-selling novel that has sold over a million copies in the U.S. and has been published in 16 countries and 13 languages, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER is a modern classic about a shy, sensitive teenager caught between trying to live his life and escape it.

No news on a UK release date as yet but we’ll keep you posted.

Source: Collider

Three new images for writer and director Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower have been released this month, which emphasise the film’s romantic setting as Emma Watson and Logan Lerman lead in this young adult novel adaptation.

The story follows a shy, unpopular high-school freshman, Charlie (Lerman), who is coping with his mental issues while trying to find a place to belong. Through a series of letters to an anonymous person, he explores his awkward adolescence and is introduced to a world of drugs and sex by his senior friends Sam (Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller) in 1991 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The cast for this adaptation also includes Johnny Simmons, Melanie Lynskey, Mae Whitman, Nicholas Braun, Dylan McDermott and most excitingly, Paul Rudd.

The film will be written and directed by Chbosky, with Summit releasing the film sometime in 2012.

Here are the new images, thanks to IndieWire:

Paul W.S. Anderson’s adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel, The Three Musketeers, has been out in our cinemas for about a week now (you can catch up on all things Musketeers-related here), and has been out in other international markets for some time, and in spite of some mixed reviews, its gross box office totals currently stand at just shy of $50m., from an estimated $75m. budget.

It’s important to note, however, that the film is only just being released in the States today, where naturally it’s expected it will find its biggest audience. So it should make a fairly healthy return on its initial budget, I would think.

To coincide with the film’s release across the Atlantic, the film’s first five minutes have gone online over at Apple, via ComingSoon.net, to try and entice you to go and watch it. Of course, there’ll now be many here in the UK who’ve already seen the first five minutes and the next hundred and five, but for anyone who hasn’t and wants to, it’s now available for your viewing pleasure.

The film stars Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Milla Jovovich, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, and Juno Temple, and is out in both 2D and 3D, for you to choose which you prefer.

“The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (MacFadyen, Evans and Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richelieu (Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Jovovich).”

I’m still yet to see it, but would quite like to see Anderson’s take on the tale. I personally don’t want to see the first five minutes of any film before I go and watch it – I’d rather see it all in one go, myself. But I’m sure there are plenty out there who would disagree, so without further ado, here’s the video should you choose to watch it ahead of going to the cinema, to get a taste of what to expect. And if you’d like to see it in glorious HD, then you can head on over to Apple here.

All this week we’ve been putting up interviews with the cast and filmmakers from the latest version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers. The movie has been remade numerous times with the Oliver Reed​ version probably the most famous. This new version brings together a great group of actors which I had the privileged of chatting with last week before the World Premiere.

Today we get to chat with the man at the helm himself, Director Paul. W.S. Anderson who tells me about the costume that he wore before making the movie, the amazing costumes, working with the fabulous cast and shooting on amazing locations in Germany and how he thinks The Three Musketeers and costume drams are similar sci-fi movies.

Summit Entertainment have sent over the first two official images from their new movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower which is based on the book by Stephen Chbosky who also directs the movie and stars Logan Lerman (who we interviewed last week for The Three Musketeers here), Emma Watson, Nina Dobrev & Ezra Miller.

Based on Stephen Chbosky’s best selling novel that has sold over a million copies in the U.S., THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER is a modern classic and seminal book that has become that rare novel to define a generation and move people with it’s humorous and heartbreaking coming-of-age story.  The film features an incredible cast of rising stars including Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Nina Dobrev & Ezra Miller and is directed by author Stephen Chbosky.

Hopefully the release of these images means that a trailer for the movie is imminent but I guess we’ll have to wait and see. The movie is released in the US and hopefully the UK next year.

Click the images below to enlarge.

All this week we’ve been putting up interviews with the cast and filmmakers from the latest version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers. The movie has been remade numerous times with the Oliver Reed​ version probably the most famous. This new version brings together a great group of actors which I had the privileged of chatting with last week before the World Premiere.

In today’s interview, we get to chat with The Three Musketeers themselves, Luke Evans (Aramis), Matthew Macfadyen (Athos) & Ray Stevenson (Porthos). In the interview, we talk about what it was like learning to fight with real swords, what it was like working with James Corden who plays Planchet and of course I manage to get in the question about Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds!

The Three Musketeers is out in UK cinemas now. Keep your eyes peeled tomorrow for our final interview with Director, Paul W.S. Anderson and keep track of all our other interviews and coverage here.

All this week we’ve been putting up interviews with the cast and filmmakers from the latest version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers. The movie has been remade numerous times with the Oliver Reed version probably the most famous. This new version brings together a great group of actors which I had the privileged of chatting with last week before the World Premiere.

I enjoyed all of the interviews but my favourite by far was with Orlando Bloom. He’s been in so many movies and is a legend in my eyes. Often it’s difficult meeting actors as you see them on screen and can make the mistake of going in and being a bit too silly or a bit too serious and finding the balance is very hard in the 3-5 minutes that you have with them. In the case of Orlando, it was very easy from the start as soon as he welcomed me into the room.  He was very eager to find out what HeyUGuys was and ask question about me which was always a nice start! I’ve edited the video down so it’s all about the movie but he was so kind about HeyUGuys and chatting to him was an absolute pleasure.

I always had in mind to bring up Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds but you never know how well it’ll go down. With him it as a no brainer as soon as I walked in the room so have a watch of the interview below and keep your eyes peeled for the song towards the end. It was a personal life highlight and one I won’t forget in a hurry!

The Three Musketeers is released today, 12th October and our review is live here. You can also see our previous interviews and other Three Musketeers coverage here. Keep your eyes peeled tomorrow and Friday when our interviews with Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans and director, Paul W.S. Anderson will go live.

Author Alexandre Dumas’s classic novel The Three Musketeers has been done to death, time and time again. None so like this swashbuckling silliness that’s child-friendly and borrows heavily from Gulliver’s Travels and the success of the Pirates franchise.

Paul W.S. Anderson’s film centres on young hothead D’Artagnan (Lerman) – as well as lots of gadgets – who comes to Paris to become a Musketeer and encounters with his soon-to-be friends and fellow Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. The Musketeers unite to defeat a beautiful double agent, Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich), and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

There is no denying how inventive director Anderson and co have been here, as well as injected a lot of harmless fun into the story. The 2011 version has a lot less clashing of swords and far more amazing flying machines – Anderson admitted to his and the production team’s fascination with Germanic contraptions of centuries past at the London press conference. It’s still a shame, though, as the Musketeering quad of Macfadyen (Athos), Stevenson (Porthos), Lerman (D’Artagnan) and Evans (Aramis) makes for a fine group of hearty personalities with some comical banter that gets a little overshadowed by all the gadgets on show – all in order to keep the youngsters engaged, presumably.

It’s also very much a ‘Jovovich show’ – she’s married to Anderson who made her a star in Resident Evil. As the female villain of the piece, Jovovich fares better at being devilish than her male counterparts, but her Matrix slow-mo copycat moves and sporadic catwalk posing and TV make-up ad close-ups tire easily. Anderson appears to be steering Jovovich’s career in a different comedy direction – or getting his missus involved in films that they and their kids can sit down together and watch.

Typecast as a baddie since he burst onto the international scene as Col. Hans Landa in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Christoph Waltz does his best, bored villainous piece as the cunning Richelieu and is always a pleasure to watch. It’s the other dastardly men in this, Orlando Bloom as the cocky Duke of Buckingham and Mads Mikkelsen as the war-mongering Rochefort who are most disappointing. Bloom seems woefully ill equipped and miscast to play a conceited villain, while Bond baddie Mikkelsen’s is easily overlooked and pretty much forgotten. Basically, there is not enough theatrics from both to match the film’s goofy sentiment.

Talking of panto, Freddie Fox is a surprise tonic as young King Louis, making the part his own in a vulnerably eccentric manner, and portraying a younger monarch that is more fitting to the time period. His presence outshines that of Bloom’s, even when he doesn’t utter a word. It’s a credit to Fox’s talent and an exciting premise for like roles to come.

Fans of Pirates and Gulliver’s Travels may be tempted by this giddy adaptation, but those who hold the tales of the Musketeers dearly to heart may feel a little wanting.

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For all our coverage of The Three Musketeers including interviews with the cast, click here.

Last week,  I got to chat with many of the cast from brand new movie, The Three Musketeers which hits UK cinemas this tomorrow, 12th October. Yesterday, we put up the interview with Milla Jovavich and today all those fans of Logan Lerman get a treat as we speak to him and two of his co-stars about the movie.

Joining Logan who plays D’Argtagnan in the movie were Gabriella Wilde who plays Constance and Freddie Fox who plays King Louis. In the interview, we spoke about the amazing costume design, the sword fighting sequences and the similarities that there were for Logan in filming The Three Musketeers and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I’d met Logan at the junket for that movie and chatting with him is always a treat as he’s such a nice guy.

I also ask the trio if any of them watched Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds when they were growing up. Alas they didn’t but did give me a tip that Luke Evans did a great version of the song. Keep your eyes peeled for the rest of the week when the other interview hit for more on that!

This week sees the release of Paul W.S. Anderson’s energetic take on Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers and a few days ago Dave had the chance to sit down with the director and his cast to talk about this new version of the classic story.

While this is a world away from the zombie hijinks of the Resident Evil series Anderson has infused 17th Century France with some of the same coup-de-pied derrière he is known for and its no surprise that Milla Jovovich pops up in the formidable role of Milady de Winter and wields her sword with the best of them.

This is the first of our Three Musketeers video interviews, check back every day this week for more.

Here’s the video,

This evening, Ben and I headed to London’s Westfield Shopping Centre to attend the World Premiere of EOne’s new movie, The Three Musketeers. Many of the cast and filmmakers were present including Orlando Bloom, Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Freddie Fox, Gabriella Wilde, Milla Jovovich and her husband who also directs the movie, Paul W.S. Anderson. We also spoke to one of the writers of the movie,  Alex Litvak, one of the Producers, Jeremy Bolt and Evanna Lynch of Harry Potter fame who was attending the premiere as she was a fan of the movies. We got to chat with most of them about the film, why the got involved and what we can look forward to seeing when it hits the UK on October 12th.

As an aside, we asked Ray Stevenson about whether he’ll be appearing in any upcoming Marvel movies i.e. The Avengers. He steers us off into telling us about filming G.I. Joe 2 but ends saying ‘he is very hard to kill off’ with a semi nod and a wink so we’re wondering if that does indeed mean we’ll see him next summer.

I also spent today at the junket getting 1:1 interviews with all the above so hopefully if we didn’t get the answer you were looking for at the premiere, you’ll get it next week when the interviews go live. In the meantime, have a watch of the premiere footage and interviews below and scroll down to view my collection of photos which you can click to enlarge.

Everything we’ve seen so far for Paul W.S. Anderson’s anticipated adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been pretty damn brilliant, from the film’s first trailer at the start of the year to its character posters, and a fair bit more.

We’ve now got a fantastic new clip to share with you from the film, courtesy of IMDB, that shows its female lead, M’lady De Winter (Milla Jovovich) showing the musketeers how to get things done. And she looks awesome doing it, another great role for Jovovich, who is incidentally of course married to Anderson, the pair being long-time collaborators since 2002’s Resident Evil.

“Synopsis: The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.”

The film clearly has a terrific cast filling every role, and I can’t wait to see how it all turns out. Anderson’s a great director in my books, and it looks like he’s made an immense movie with this project. Its 12th October release date is rapidly approaching, so thankfully it’s not long to wait at all before we can see it. Without further ado, here’s the new clip, entitled, “What?” Enjoy.

We got the first trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s upcoming adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers, back in March this year, and it was utterly awesome, promising so much for the film.

Since then, we’ve seen plenty of great things from the film, including a full set of character banners and most recently a TV spot, that have only increased my desire to see it.

Now, courtesy of IMP Awards, we’ve got a great new poster for the film to share with you, ahead of its 12th October release here in the UK. Admittedly, it’s pretty similar in its design to this UK quad poster that we’ve already seen, but it is nonetheless immensely awesome and has some great additions to that quad poster too – most notably, the ridiculously cool flying gunships in the sky.

“Synopsis: The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.”

The cast is terrific, and Anderson is such a great director, so I can’t wait for this to come out. Just a few more weeks, and then we can all go and revel in its awesomeness. Until then, here’s the new poster to enjoy.

Every time we post something on Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D reinvention of Alexandre Dumas’ classic swords and moustaches masterpiece The Three Musketeers there is a small pang of sadness that Hollywood hasn’t yet seized on the obvious big screen adaptaion of Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, if only for the Moby reworking of the theme song.

Yet this serving of Resident Evil in Corsets is almost upon us and there’s a new TV spot and poster out which emboldeneds the view that Anderson and Co. are hoping for a Sherlock Holmes style reinvention of a literary classic.

Anderson’s trump card may lay in his cast, with Christoph Waltz looking likely to walk all over the rest of the mob* yet there’s one too many lingering shots of Milla Jovovich leaping through the air, engaging in some crazy swordplay for my liking.

Anyhoo, this may very well be the best adaptation of the tale ever, still – it’s no Dogtanian.

Here’s your trailer and poster, courtesy of IMPA.

*said mob includes Logan Lerman , Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelson, Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple with Orlando Bloom to give you an idea.

eOne have released the new UK trailer for their new movie, The Three Musketeers on their twitter feed. The poster is a variation of some of the other posters that we’ve seen over the marketing campaign. The Three Musketeers stars Logan Lerman , Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelson, Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple with Orlando Bloom and Christoph Waltz.

If you missed the trailer for it, you can check it out here.

The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman ) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas ’  story.  They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz ) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom ) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich ).  The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.

The Three Musketeers hits cinemas in 3d  12th October.

Click the image below to enlarge.

Given the aerial boat battles and Matrix style swordplay we’ve seen so far from Paul W. S. Anderson’s ‘adaptation’ of Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale of The Three Musketeers these new pictrues are a touch tame.

In fact I’d expected Mads Mikkelsen to be half robot and Logan Lerman to be conversing with a seven hundred foot Buddha while riding a metal unicorn but sadly it’s not to be. The Mikkelsen picture is admittedly a nice image with his Rochefort looking every bit as evil as the iteration played by Christopher Lee in the Richard Lester films.

Gabriella Wilde is the blonde in the corset standing in front of the Palace wind machine and the man Lerman is getting a hair cut – all of which points to a fun and frolicsome time (in 3D) for Anderson and his team to take the legend of the Musketeers and wrench it firmly from its housing in any kind of sanity. Christoph Waltz is pretty much the standout reason to see this one. It’ll either be brilliant fun or, well, not.

Clickable embiggenable pictures follow,

It’s a bold move certainly.

This poster, which I am reliably informed is the Korean version, for Paul W.S. Anderson’s BIG screen yahoo for the story of The Three Musketeers must have Alexandre Dumas spinning in his grave like a rotiserrie chicken in a hurricane.

You will notice almost immediately there are no musketeers on show here, meaning that it is essentially a poster for a different film, perhaps The Two Airships or A Couple of Floaters, but keen eyed fans of this film will notice that one of the more ambitious departures for Anderson’s adaptation of the classic story does indeed involve duelling airships, with 3D friendly cannon booms no doubt.

A more sober selection of posters and other T3M ‘goodies’ can be found here.

Now, here’s your poster for which we must thank IMPA,

Sadly, very sadly we were asked to remove it. It’s most sad because it clarifies that it was an official poster. Oh well.

Here's Dogtanian to compensate

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Following on from the banner that I put up over the weekend, eOne have released the full set of character banners from their new movie, The Three Musketeers. The Three Musketeers stars Logan Lerman , Milla Jovovich , Matthew Macfadyen , Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelson , Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple with Orlando Bloom and Christoph Waltz.

If you missed the trailer for it, you can check it out here.

The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman ) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas ’  story.  They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz ) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom ) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich ).  The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.

The Three Musketeers hits cinemas in 3d  12th October.

Source: CINE1 , Kino Gallery via ComingSoon & Scannian

If you missed it earlier, eOne have released a new trailer for the Paul W.S. Anderson movie, The Three Musketeers. Following on from that, we now have a new first character poster. The Three Musketeers stars Logan Lerman , Milla Jovovich , Matthew Macfadyen , Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelson , Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple with Orlando Bloom and Christoph Waltz .

If you missed the trailer for it, you can check it out here.

The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman ) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas ’  story.  They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz ) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom ) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich ).  The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.

The Three Musketeers hits cinemas in 3d  12th October.

Source: ComingSoon.net

Perhaps gaining a little ground a couple of big trailers due to hit in the next 24 hours Constantin Films have unleashed a new trailer for Paul W. S. Anderson’s 3D adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas tale The Three Musketeers, and it’s just as crazy as the first…

Given Anderson’s previous form there was little chance this was going to be a light, delicate detailing of French courtly rituals with a dash of intrigue and the occasional crossed swords, but this is more like The Matrix Renaissance. This is most definitely not your great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather’s Three Musketeers.

The Three Musketeers does have a great cast though, with Logan Lerman , Milla Jovovich , Matthew Macfadyen , Ray Stevenson, and  Luke Evans joined by Mads Mikkelson , Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple with Orlando Bloom and Christoph Waltz, who looks resplendent in his Cardinal’s outfit and not a bit like The Spanish Inquisition.

Synopsis before heading into the fray?

The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman ) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas ’  story.  They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz ) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom ) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich ).  The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.

Trailer time.