Danny Boyle’s Trance loses Fassbender, Firth and Johansson Being Eyed

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It was reported last month that ahead of his Olympic duties next year Danny Boyle had signed on to direct on heist-gone-up-the-swanny thriller Trance with recent X-Men alumni James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender taking up leading roles. The film is a remake of Joe Ahearne’s 2001 TV movie starring Neil Pearson, Susannah Harker and Philip [...]

Genius New Teaser Trailer for The Skin I Live In

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Pathé have released a brand new French teaser trailer for The Skin I Live In. Directed by Spanish visionary Pedro Almodóvar, The Skin I Live in stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Blanca Suárez and Fernando Cayo. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has [...]

Danny Boyle Enters a Trance

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Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave) has signed on to direct heist-thriller Trance. Boyle will reunite with his 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire producer Christian Colson, and are in talks with Fox Searchlight and Pathé for finance and distribution. The film is described as an art heist gone wrong, with the dark, sexy, hard-edged tone of previous Boyle films. It [...]

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In Gets Autumn UK Release Date

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20th Century Fox have announced that The Skin I Live In will be released in the UK on August 26, 2011. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, All About My Mother), The Skin I Live In stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Blanca Suárez and Fernando Cayo. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas), an eminent [...]

Guillermo Del Toro-Produced Pinocchio Film Ready To Roll

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Guillermo Del Toro’s 3D stop-motion animated adaptation of the Carlo Colodi fairy tale Pinocchio will begin production later this year. Gris Grimly will co-direct with Mark Gustafson, with The Jim Henson Company and Pathe funding the project. The adaptation, based on a 2002 illustrated version, was hatched by Del Toro and Matthew Robbins, and is [...]

Last Night UK Trailer

Pathé Films have finally unveiled the UK trailer for their forthcoming romance-drama Last Night. Directed by Massy Tadjedins, Last Night features performances from Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington, Guillaume Canet and Stephanie Romanov. Last Night follows a married couple Joanna Reed (Knightley) and Michael Reed (Worthington), apart for a night while the husband takes [...]

Princess Diana Projects In Development at Pathé and Renaissance Films

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Leave it to the Daily Express to report a story about Princess Diana. Last month we reported that a movie based on the Chilean mining disaster was going into production before the miners had even been saved. I, in a search for comparisons, enrolled the aid of 9/11 and Oliver Stone but was stopped short by [...]

Seven Go Subterranean in Somerset

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When I was asked to cover The Descent: Part 2 for its world premiere, I joked to my fiancé that the eventual junket would be in a cave.  Oh how we laughed.  Three months later I opened an email inviting me on The Descent: Part 2 junket – it was to take place in a [...]

Exclusive Clip from The Descent Part 2

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The Descent Part 2 has been described as ‘The Feel Sh*t Scared Film of the Decade‘ for a reason and when you see this clip you might start to understand why! Pathé / Warner Bros Pictures UK have been kind enough to give us an exclusive clip for their latest movie, The Descent Part 2 [...]