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We heard late last year that Matthew Vaughn has the film rights to Mark Millar’s upcoming comic, The Secret Service, which should see its first issue released sometime this year. Millar himself has been updating on Vaughn’s film adaptation, ComicBookMovie report, and talking about how Mark Hamill will have a pivotal role, but won’t be [...]
Mark Millar’s creator-owned comic label, Millarworld, has proved a veritable feast for studios, eager to produce their own Wanted or Kick-Ass. While Sony prepares War Heroes and 20th Century Fox chews on Nemesis, however, Matthew Vaughn is returning to the fold for seconds, having just purchased the rights to the comic book creator’s Superior (via [...]
Chloë Moretz made a real name for herself last year when Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book series, Kick-Ass, came out on the big screen. Since then, there’s been a lot of talk about the possibility of a sequel, and in a new interview Moretz has done with Movies.com, courtesy of Comic Book [...]
I enjoyed Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns but can see why it received a thorough critical kicking on its release, and now there’s a little more of Singer’s Supes to enjoy/hate. For all it did right, and I hold to the opinion that it did quite a lot of things right, it disappointed a lot of [...]
Yesterday marked the end of the 7th annual Glasgow Film Festival, a relatively recent addition to the country’s film tradition that is quickly becoming one of Britain’s most prestigious, a love letter to cinema of truly joyous proportions. Divided across fifteen venues, including the Glasgow Film Theatre, the Glasgow school of art and the city’s [...]
Aaron Johnson assures us that Kick-Ass 2 is on the way, we have had an idea of the plot and comic book scribe Mark Millar says the sequel has been greenlit. Then Lyndsy Fonseca goes and throws a spanner in the works by saying it is a way off being made yet. In the words of the [...]
The Matthew Vaughn directed movie, X-Men: First Class is currently filming up in Oxford and it may be a little early for a trailer but if this doesn’t whet your appetite, nothing will! HeyUGuys reader, Nick Acott sent us a link to this awesome fan-made trailer that his friend, Gary Scullion (Section33) made and it [...]
Aaron Johnson must get tired of promoting his movies in the wrong order. Kick-Ass, which was first shown to audiences at 2008′s Butt-Numb-A-Thon, wasn’t released until March 2010 – a year after the release of Nowhere Boy, which he filmed after Kick-Ass. Confused yet? While promoting Nowhere Boy recently, which is just reaching the United [...]
Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar is stepping behind the camera to helm a superhero film he describes as “X-Men meets Trainspotting”. I’m sold already! Miracle Park, currently being shot in Millar’s home country of Scotland, focuses on a group of animal rights activists who break into a low-level research laboratory to find a mile-long underground base [...]
In an interview with Empire Magazine, Mark Millar was probed on the direction he planned to take his Kick-Ass sequel. Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Walls debuted in CLiNT magazine earlier this month and, while the sequel has alledgedly been greenlit, production is still likely months away. While we already largely know what’s in store [...]
Having recently told MTV that production Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall was likely to be nine months away, Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar has now revealed that the sequel has in fact been greenlit. In an interview with BBC Radio Five Live, the comic-book writer explained: “The estimate is [Kick-Ass] will do 100 to 150 [...]
We here at HeyUGuys are big fans of Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, so when we were given the chance to use the costume actually worn by Aaron Johnson in the film we decided we had to make something special. A few weeks ago we took to the streets of London, with our Editor Dave Sztypuljak gamely [...]
To celebrate the release of Kick-Ass, out to own on Blu-ray & DVD from September 6th, we have teamed up with Universal to offer you the chance to win a copy of Matthew Vaughn’s amazing film on Blu-ray. The film was a hit with HeyUGuys, you can read our review here, and we have ten [...]
And so it continues… Living up to the promise at the foot of yesterday’s ‘Oliver Platt in X-Men: First Class‘ post, it seems we’re in for a ton of casting announcements regarding Matthew Vaughn’s film. Today, via XmenFilms.net we’ve learned that Morgan Lily, who was last seen in Roland Emmerich’s CG apocalypse-a-thon 2012, is confirmed [...]
The cast list for X-Men: First Class keeps on growing, we’ve had Jason Flemyng and Rose Byrne jump on board in the last 36 hours and now the name of Oliver Platt has been added to Matthew Vaughn’s film. Deadline named Platt and offered up The Man in Black as his character, stating only that [...]
Hot on the heels of Jason Flemyng’s announcement at Empire’s Movie-Con that he will be appearing in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class as Azazel, the father of Nightcrawler, THR are penciling in another name on the class register. Rose Byrne, recently seen in Get Him to the Greek and soon to be appearing in the [...]
Today we learnt that the rumoured film adaptation of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s Nemesis is to be directed by Tony Scott. The news was first leaked out by Bleeding Cool and then confirmed by Deadline. Following the success of the film version of Millar’s Kick-Ass, a film of Nemesis seemed inevitable but things appear [...]
With the DVD of Kick-Ass hitting the streets across the pond tomorrow The New York Post have given us a peek inside the extra features with a look at the crimson caped crusader – Red Mist. Christopher Mintz-Plasse did a great job in the film as the wayward rich kid who takes up the fight [...]
Movie Web recently managed to grab themselves a chat with Mark Millar, the creator of the graphic novel on which Matthew Vaughn’s hugely successful “Kick-Ass” was based. Along with discussing Millar’s collaboration with Vaughn on American Jesus and Vaughn’s upcoming X-Men prequel, First Class, they managed to glean a bunch of information about the story [...]
Needing little in the way of an introduction, and with an all-star cast including Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage (Gone In 60 Seconds, Face/Off), Mark Strong (Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad, Role Models), KICK-ASS is a relentlessly funny, jaw dropping action film, available to own on Blu-ray and DVD on 6 September. Packed [...]
