Having successfully stolen the lightening in last year’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, there’s been little movement on the Jackson front since.

Not that this has been particularly unexpected; although entertaining and likeable functional – it was directed by Christopher Columbus – it was no more entertaining or functional than the countless other Potter-lite adaptations that have flirted with cinema screens in the past few years, and none of them have made it to the difficult second movie. Until now, that is.

The LA Times are reporting that a sequel, based on Rick Riordan’s second book ”The Sea of Monsters” but likely taking elements from other books in the series is currently in the works, with Logan Lerman once again locked to star and Thor (well he was hardly going to find work as the God of Thunder, was he?) Freudenthal picking up the reins.

Centring on the mythical Golden Fleece, for which out heroes will be searching, The Sea of Monsters will return us to the first film’s world inhabited by demigods. Son of the Greek god Poseidon, Percy will embark on a new adventure in order to rescue a friend trapped at sea.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are on script duty while Lerman worries about “the age question” and his steadily maturing fan base, the rumoured 2012 release date looming suddenly near.

More details sure to follow.

Every young adult fantasy series, be it in the form of a book or film, will have a fight on its hands to be recognised. With Twilight and the Harry Potter phenomenons petering out the hunt is on for the next big thing and the movie adaptation of Percy Jackson tries very hard to emulate the success of its forebears.

Sadly Chris Columbus and his creative team fly a little too close to the Sun of Potter and Narnia and come out with their wings burnt by the comparison, but for younger fans with minds unclouded by thoughts of Tumnus and Hagrid Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief may prove enjoyable.

Dave put up his comprehensive review here, and I’ll add my take on the film in this review of the Blu-ray, but both Dave and I agree that Percy Jackson will appeal to fans of the fantasy genre, but that it will, like almost all young adult literary adaptations it will prove divisive for fans of the source material.

I’ve not read the books and so came to the film with a basic grasp of Greek mythology and a slightly prejudiced feeling that this one was too hanging on to the coattails of a certain Mr. Potter and any fantasy film with an eye on the young audience will have to carve out a strong identity to make an impression and PJATLT is almost in a sea of similar fare.

The CG is impressive, and on a visual level the film is treat, but I fear Percy and his pals arrived a little too late for this party and the script seems rushed, both in the sophistication and its execution. Several of the name stars do great work and the central trio are likeable if a little too eager to jump into the limelight.

What I love about these Blu-ray releases is that they bundle in a ton of featurettes and interviews with those behind the scenes as well as serve up the standard deleted scenes. You can see a list of these below, and while Percy Jackson won’t win any awards for originality it offers up a visual feast peppered with some fun moments but doesn’t have enough respect for its source material or its audience to sway the hearts of those already lost to other young adult fantasy franchises.

Percy Jackson & The Lighning Thief is out on Multi-pack, Blu-ray and DVD today.

DVD Special Features
Digital Copy

Blu-Ray Special Features
Deleted scenes
Secrets of the Gods featurette
Discover Your Powers quiz
Inside Camp Half-Blood featurette (which you can see here)
On Set with Brandon T. Jackson featurette
Meet the Demigods featurette
Composing for the Gods: A Conversation with Christophe Beck
BD Live extras

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is scheduled for release in the UK next Monday, 5th July and since we know how much readers of HeyUGuys like it, we’ve managed to get 3 copies of the DVD to give away from our friends at Twentieth Century Fox.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is based on the book by Rick Riordan and also stars Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan and Rosario Dawson. If you missed the exclusive clip from the DVD extras that we posted last week, you can watch it here. In fact, you’ll need to use that post to answer the question which to win the prize.

To be in with a chance of winning one of three copies of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, you need to become a fan of the HeyUGuys Facebook Page and the Official UK Percy Jackson Facebook Page and then answer the following question using the form below:

Which one of these Greek gods is related to Percy Jackson?

The small print:

• This competition is open to the UK only
• Only one entry per household will be counted
• The competition will close Tuesday 6th July at 23.59 GMT
• The winner will be picked at random from entries received

The usual T&Cs can be found here. Good Luck!

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED

Twentieth Century Fox have given us this special exclusive look at one of the new featurettes which will appear on the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Dvd & Blu ray when it’s released in the UK 5th July. The featurette is called Inside Camp Half Blood and features interviews with director, Chris Columbus and stars of the movie, Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson who talk about how they had to learn to sword fight against one another.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is based on the book by Rick Riordan and also stars Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan and Rosario Dawson.

Keep your eyes peeled for your chance to win Percy Jackson on DVD which will be up on HeyUGuys next week. If you’ve not already seen it, check out the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Foosball game here.

I’ve placed the new clip beneath these new character banners of the Gods who feature in the movie. Scroll down to view.

Zeus

Poseidon

Persephone

Medusa

Hades

Chiron

Athena

We’ve got a great competition for all you fans of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (or any of the Percy Jackson genere actually!). The guys over at Smart Pop Books have been on contact with us and offered us the chance for two lucky readers of HeyUGuys to win a copy of their book ‘Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series’. The book has been edited by Rick Riordan who is the author of the the Percy Jackson series.

The difference with this competition to our usual ones is that we’ve opened it to the entire globe! That’s right, it doesn’t matter where you are in the world, we want you to enter!

So, to be in with a chance of winning this great book, just answer the following question:

Which former James Bond plays Mr. Brunner / Chiron in the movie, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief?

Use the form below to enter.

The small print:.

• Only one entry per household will be counted.
• The competition will close Friday 12th March at 23.59 GMT.
• The winners will be picked at random from entries received.

The usual T&Cs can be found here.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is out now in cinemas around the world and you can follow all our coverage here.

Last week HeyUGuys were lucky enough to get invited along to the press conference for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I was there armed with my video camera and you can watch the entire press conference in full here. After the press conference, along with a group of my fellow bloggers and journalists, I was able to interview Kevin McKidd and Steve Coogan (here), Alex Daddario and Brandon T. Jackson (interview here) and Percy Jackson himself, Logan Lerman and director, Chris Columbus (below).

This interview is the third and final interviews. Check out the time codes below to skip to the relevant part of the interview that interested you most:

• How does it feel travelling around the world (00:00)
• Did they have a nice time on their touring day? (00:16)
• Chris talks Percy Jackson vs. Harry Potter – Was he trying to avoid a comparison? (00:54)
• How did Chris go through the transition between no CGI in movies to complete CGI and how did Logan find working on a green screen? (02:47)
• How did Chris feel about his cast and working with British actors (06:00)
• What was it like for Logan o work with these big names (07:17)
• Working as the younger version of someone (08:14)
• Has Logan be recognised yet? (08:37)
• Does Logan worry about girl adoration? (09:23)
• Is there a way to avoid teen adoration? (09:59)
• Talk with the creator of the Goonies about HeyUGuys.co.uk! – This was a surreal but super cool moment!!
• Working with child actors / actresses – why does Chris keep coming back to that genre? (11:16)
• Chris just thought The Goonies was ‘OK’ (12:41)
• Is Chris the expert of pushing kids movies to their riske limits? How does he get away with it? (13:07)
• Comparing Clash of the Titans with Percy Jackson (14:23)
• Did Chris compare notes with Louis Leterrier from Clash of the Titans?

[gplayer href="http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/audio/percy_jackson/logan_chris.mp3"] Interview with Logan lerman and Chris Columbus: [/gplayer]

Last week HeyUGuys were lucky enough to get invited along to the press conference for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I was there armed with my video camera and you can watch the entire press conference in full here. After the press conference, along with a group of my fellow bloggers and journalists, I was able to interview Kevin McKidd and Steve Coogan (interview here), Alex Andra Daddario and Brandon T. Jackson (below) and Logan Lerman and Chris Columbus (interview coming tomorrow).

All the interviews were audio recorded and I’ve placed the interviews below.

In the interview with Brandon and Alexandra, we talk about:

• What it was like when they saw the movie for the first time (00:00)
• Brandon tells us for his love in English tea
• How Alexandra got involved with the project and how she studied for the role
• How Brandon knew Alexandra would be cast in the role as Athena
• How Brandon got used to working and walking on tip-toes and how he had to wear blue tights (5:20)
• How can you make a film about Greek mythology in 2010? (7min)
• Did they have to learn about Greek Mythology for their roles? (7:53)
• The Lotus hotel scenes and the fun Brandon had making it and what got cut from the final release! (8:44)
• How they found working with Hollywood ‘mega stars’ (10:00)
• Brandon talks working on Tropic Thunder (11:16)
• Brandon’s working in comedy (11:35)
• What’s next? (12:30)
• Alexandra talks working on ‘All my Children’ and what she learnt (13:35)
• Did anyone get hurt during filming from all the swinging swords?! (14:52)
• Have you read the rest of the books? (15:20)
• Moving onto the poster that was next to the table! (15:24)
• Back to the books! (16:14)

You can follow Brandon T. Jackson on twitter here or HeyUGuys here.

[gplayer href="http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/audio/percy_jackson/alexandra_brandon.mp3"] Interview with Alexandra Daddario & Brandon T. Jackson: [/gplayer]

It’s only a few days away now that we get to see Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief hit the big screen. Our coverage for the movie that everyone seems very excited to see if vast and wide. We have the full UK press conference which you can watch in lovely high definition here which had most the stars of the movie there including Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McKidd and Steve Coogan alongside director Chris Columbus. We also have our review of the movie and every day this week we have new interviews with the cast of the movie going up. The interview with Kevin McKidd and Steve Coogan went live today which you can watch here. Tomorrow we have interviews with Alexandra Daddario and Bransdon T. Jackson going live so keep checking back.

And if all that still isn’t enough, we have this lovely new French trailer for the movie embedded below. Think of us as your one stop shop for all things Percy Jackson! You can see all our coverage here.

Percy Jackson is released this Friday, 12th February.

Last week HeyUGuys were lucky enough to get invited along to the press conference for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I was there armed with my video camera and you can watch the entire press conference in full here. After the press conference, along with a group of my fellow bloggers and journalists, I was able to interview Kevin McKidd and Steve Coogan (below), Alex Daddario and Brandon T. Jackson (interview coming tomorrow) and Logan Lerman and Chris Columbus (interview coming Thursday).

All the interviews were audio recorded and I’ve placed the interviews below.

• After finding out that Hell is in Hollywood, are Steve /  experiences Hellish or otherwise? (00:00)
• We discover Steve hasn’t read the books! (00:54)
• Did Kevin read them and his son tells him how much Poseidon is in them (1:05)
• Receiving a letter from Chris Columbus (01:22)
• Have Kevin’s kids seem the movie? (01:45)
• Who did Steve Coogan us as his inspiration for the rock star dress of Hades? (02:20)
• Was Hades always going to be a comedy character? (03:13)
• It was Rosario’s idea to kiss! (03:38)
• Does Steve get recognised in the US? (04:07)
• Does Kevin get recognised? (05:34)
• Is Rome the movie going to happen? (06:04)
• Will there be an Alan Partridge Movie? (07:25)
• How does Steve pick movies? Financial? (08:28)
• Contending with Clash of the Titans (09:35)
• Have Steve and Kevin worked together before? (10:19)
• Steve growing up as an actor (10.34)
• How did Kevin get into acting? (12:00)
• Did Steve always want to make people laugh? (13:26)
• What was the last impression he did (14:00)
• Are you playing Craig Murry? (15:45)

[gplayer href="http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/audio/percy_jackson/steve_kevin.mp3"] Interview with Steve Coogan and Kevin McKidd: [/gplayer]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series of five books written by Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is the first of the book and sets the scene for both us, the audience and for Percy himself. After the Harry Potter series, kids seem to be in need of another fix of something mysterious and wonderful and it seems that Percy Jackson is where it’s at. It’s not so big in the UK yet but after the release of the new movie with a mix of all star cast and semi-newcomers, will the films start a wave of Percy Jackson here in the UK? Hopefully my review of the film might help you decide!

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is directed by Chris Columbus. His name may not be one you’ve heard but if I tell you that he directed Mrs Doubtfire, Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you’ll no doubt have seen one or more of his movies. He’s also very well known for his writing. He wrote Gremlins, Young Sherlock Holmes and some movie that you might have heard of called The Goonies that inspired this very website. He really is a legend in cinema and when you see his name billed on a movie you go in expecting good things.

Here’s the brief synopsis to give you a bit more of an idea about what the movie is about:

Synopsis: Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the least of his challenges. It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poseidon, god of the sea, which means Percy is a demigod – half human, half god. At the same time, the powerful gods on Olympus are feuding, which could launch a war enveloping our entire planet.

I went into the screening of Percy Jackson not really knowing anything about it. I’d seen the trailers and read the synopsis and production notes but that didn’t really prepare me for what I was about to see. The movie opens with a gigantic Kevin McKidd (Poseidon) walking out of the sea with a huge trident tattooed on his arm. Poseidon soon comes to meet Zeus, his brother played by Sean Bean who tells him that someone has stolen his master lightening bolt, the source of all lightning across the world and lays down a gauntlet that if he doesn’t have it returned to him a war amongst the gods would begin. Zeus believes that Poseiden’s son, Percy Jackson has stolen it – the issue is that Percy doesn’t even know that he’s a demi god (half human, half god) but he has always felt different to all the other kids at school and had a love of spending time in water.

After a series of events, Percy finds out his heritage and meets characters Chiron (Pierce Brosnan) who he thought was just his school teacher but is in fact half-horse and realises that his best friend, Grover Underwood (Brandon T. Jackson) is actually a satyr! Now, what is a satyr I hear you ask. Well, if you think back to your early high school days, you probably studied this sort of thing. I’m pretty sure I did anyway and watching this movie, I started remembering all the mythological creates that I had learnt about 16 years ago. You don’t need to know anything about Greek mythology to watch this film but I guarantee, when you come out of it, you’ll want to find out more about it. The effects that are used in this movie to create these wonderful characters are simply wonderful and very clever although after interviewing Brandon T. Jackson last week, I found out that wearing blue tights to create the effect afterwards isn’t as fun as we might think it is!

Other creatures used in the movie include the Hydra (clip here), and Medusa, played by Uma Thurman who, as you’ll see in this image, has snakes in her hair, but, whatever you do don’t look into her eyes or you’ll turn to stone! I’m not sure I’ve ever seen product placement in a film like this with the iPhone. Credit to Apple / Chris Columbus there! The CGI used to create these snakes is absolutely fantastic with the multitude of snakes attached to her having their own personality yet still being in touch with and linked to Medusa’s thoughts and persona. Massive credit to the guys who created the special effects for this movie because they are simply brilliant. Full list of cast and crew on IMDb here.

The other main leads in the movie include Alexandra Daddario who plays Annabeth Chase, the best swordsman (woman) of all the demi-gods. She’s a little perturbed when Percy turns up as the new kid on the block but their friendship grows stronger throughout the movie as she, Percy and Grover all depart on a question find who stole the Lightning bolt so that they can return it to Zeus before the epic war erupts. From here, Percy and his friends embark on a mission to discover the true thief of the lightning bolt. The issue for them is that Hades (the devil and another Greek god played excellently by Steve Coogan with his assistant played by Rosario Dawson) is on the hunt for Percy as well as with the lightning bolt, he can overthrow his brother Zeus. Percy decides the best cause of action is to go and meet Hades in Hell and try and talk things through.

Chris Columbus is a genius of the child genre of movie as he’s able to tell a story that is both intense, adult enough for people like me to enjoy it but child-like enough that a 12 year old can come out of the cinema and ask their parents if they can go straight back in to watch it again. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is no exception. The story is clever and Columbus adds comedy to parts but also huge tension and draws you into the story. As I said earlier, the effects are amazing. Just watch this clip of the Hydra and you’ll see what I mean. Columbus saves the big cgi for one of the final scenes though and I won’t spoil it for you but the CGI is so well done.

The three main leads are very believable and if there were a sequel (which I’m sure there will be) I would go and see it. There is one scene in particular which i think the movie lost it’s focus on being a movie for kids. The cast end up in a hotel where basically they are drugged to keep them there with women surrounding Grover. I’m sure it was wonderful for him to film but is this the sort of message to be sending to kids? I’m probably being over the top and you can tell me once you’ve seen it what you thought.

All in all, Percy Jackson was a well made movie with so many Hollywood stars playing cameos, it was hard to keep up but all of them were so well cast and it was wonderful to see them in a movie where they could all have a lot of fun making. It’s also nice to know that if you want to be a Greek god, you have to be British! Roll on the sequel!

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is released this Friday 12th February.

Last week, almost all of the cast of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief descended on London to promote their new movie. Chris Columbus, the man who brought us Gremlins, Home Alone, Mrs Doubtfire, the first two Harry Potter movies and some film called The Goonies was with them and proved himself to be the legend that we all knew he was.

Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McKidd and Steve Coogan were all in attendance and all spent 40 minutes talking about the new movie and how they loved making it. Well you lucky Percy Jackson fans, we have a special treat for you as we filmed the entire event in lovely HD for you and you can watch the whole thing below.
Uma Thurman unfortunately wast able to be there but there wasn’t any more room round the table which must be why she wasn’t there!

After the press conference, I got to interview all the above names except for former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan and over the next three days, we’ll bring you audio interviews from each of them so keep coming back to HeyUGuys for your Percy Jackson cast fix.

So get comfy and enjoy the whole thing below and make sure you pass onto any other Percy Jackson fans out there. We know there are an awful lot of you!

With news breaking that Logan Lerman may be the new Spider-Man, it may detract us from remembering the movie that he’s currently travelling the globe to promote, that of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I was lucky enough to meet Logan, his director Chris Columbus and his fellow cast members, Alexandra Daddario Brandon, T. Jackson, Steve Coogan and Kevin McKidd earlier in the week at the press conference for the movie. All the footage and audio for those will be up next week but in the meantime, 20th Century Fox have released these super high resolution images that all look fantastic.

Synopsis: Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the least of his challenges. It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poseidon, god of the sea, which means Percy is a demigod – half human, half god. At the same time, the powerful gods on Olympus are feuding, which could launch a war enveloping our entire planet.

Check out these images below and click each of them to see the super hi res version. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is released next Friday, 12th February and keep your eyes peeled over the next week as we’ll be going Percy Jackson crazy.

In pressing the reboot button on their Spider-Man franchise Sony pulled the rug out from under the feet of those Spidey-fans drooling over rumours of John Malkovich as Vulture, and raised their ire with the decision to relocate the series to high school.

Grabbing Mark Webb to direct the film, and potentially all three of the planned trilogy, was a bold move and though fans of his (500) Days of Summer may wonder at what might have been if Webb was able to follow his own path, as long as he can resist the inevitable and considerable pressure from Sony to do the films their way, the new Spider-Man films that have everyone talking needs just one more thing – the perfect Peter Parker.

Zac Efron rumours aside the latest teen star to be thrown into the pot is none other than Percy Jackson himself, Logan Lerman. We spoke to Logan recently as part of our Percy Jackson coverage and he was an intelligent and likable guy (and a fan of The Goonies – so bonus points there), but Access Hollywood got the word that Logan is in talks with Sony to play Peter Parker.

There have been a few discussions, it’s definitely something I’m looking into…It’s one of my favorite characters ever and I’m a huge fan of the series…I’d love to have more conversations about it. I’m definitely very interested in it

Now this quote could be taken as Sony playing the field and there’s no telling exactly how many people they are ‘talking’ to, or, if you’re a cynic, you could read it as a mutually beneficial publicity stunt for both Percy Jackson and the Spider-Man series. Either way it raises the profile of both franchises, as Percy Jackson is looking to be huge when it is released, and, thanks to the relatively positive reaction to Lerman as Spidey, Sony’s controversial reboot may be winning back fans. Whether Lerman will have time, or the inclination to lead in two, potentially conflicting, kid-friendly franchises is a problem.

But hold on… Heat Vision have thrown a lasso around this story with this.

So, in talking to Columbia and Logan’s team there are denials all round, and the sensible option that Lerman is just one among a long list of potentials is posited.

One thing is for certain – every time Spider-Man is written and read it attracts a lot of attention, and this rumour and rebuttal back and forth will continue until the official press release is inked.

To celebrate the release of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief which is in cinemas 12th February we are giving away some great merchandise goodies!

Synopsis:  Trouble-prone teen Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out school – but that’s the least of his problems.  The gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life – and they’re not happy.  Zeus’ lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.  Now, Percy and his friends must embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true thief, save Percy’s family, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.

We have the chance for five lucky readers to win 1 of each of the following:

• A t-shirt
• A bag
• A pair of retractable headphones
• A pen
• A bouncy ball

The first 2 winner lucky winners will also receive the fantastic Nintendo DSTM Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief game which is also released on February 12^th!

To be in with a chance of winning this prize, all you need to do is tell us the answer to the following:

What was the name of the classic 1985 movie that Chris Columbus wrote which was set in Astoria, Oregan?

Send your answer to: percy@heyuguys.co.uk

Please include your address so that we can send you the goodies should you win.

All the usual T&Cs apply, and you can view those here.

The small print:

* This competition is open to the UK only.

* Only one entry per household will be counted.

* The competition will close Friday 12th February (Release Date) at 23.59 GMT.

* The winners will be picked at random from entries received.

Good Luck!

We’ve got a special treat for you early on this Friday morning. At 7:25AM GMT (9.30am Greece time), we have the live digital junket for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief live overlooking The Acropolis in Athens, Greece right here.

The main cast of the movie which includes Logan Lerman (“3:10 to Yuma”), Brandon T. Jackson (“Tropic Thunder”), Alexandra Daddario (“Bereavement”), and Jake Abel (“The Lovely Bones”) will all be beamed, live around the world from Athens and all you have to do to watch it is open your browser right here at HeyUGuys. Not only that but after the interviews, viewers will get the chance to see a brand new exclusive clip. After the conference, we’ll be updating this post with the video interviews and the exclusive clip so if 7.25am GMT is too early or late for you, you can check it all out later on when you wake up.

You can also interact with other people around the world using the chat feature which we have also embedded below. I was lucky enough to see the movie yesterday and my review will follow within the next couple of weeks. Percy Jackson is directed by Chris Columbus and is released 12th February in the UK. So, sit back, relax and enjoy the show live from Greece and make sure you tell your friends.

Next week and the following, we’re going to be going rather mad on Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Not only does it have one of the best 80s / 90s / 00s directors in Chris Columbus, it also has a steller cast whcih includes Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman and Ray Winstone. These new posters tie in nicely with the previous character posters that we gave you a few weeks ago.

Next week, HeyUGuys will be taking part in a live round-table interview with the cast who will be in Athens. The following week we’ll be face to face with them to discuss the movie in even more detail and, if all goes well, we’ll be brining you the video from the press conference here in London.

In the meantime, check out these new posters below and click them to enlarge. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is released 12th February.

Synopsis: Trouble-prone teen Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out school – but that’s the least of his problems.  The gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life – and they’re not happy.  Zeus’ lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.  Now, Percy and his friends must embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true thief, save Percy’s family, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief has gone poster crazy! Last week we had 6 characters posters and today, 3 more posters have been released and they look too good not to post! I found them over at Latino Review but I’ve embedded them below (click to enlarge). We’ll hopefully be attending some interview sessions and the press conference in the next couple of weeks so hopefully lots more Percy Goodness to come. The movie stars Joe Pantoliano, Kevin McKidd, Uma Thurman, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan and is directed by Chris Columbus.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is out 12th February.

Yesterday I posted a new TV spot for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and it looks like the promotion train continues today with six brand new character art posters supplied to us by Columbia Pictures via Empire and they look fantastic.

Empire make a point that the posters don’t actually reflect who each person is in the movie. E.g. Percy Jackson himself is named, ‘Son of Poseidon’ and Pierce Brosnan who plays Chiron, as ‘Guide Warrior’. When I was looking through these, I too thought it was odd that they hadn’t used the characters names as the logo for the movie is quite small in the bottom right hand corner for each image. But with the cast including Joe Pantoliano, Kevin McKidd, Uma Thurman, Sean Bean (a former bond villain) and a former Bond (!), maybe they think they don’t need to get the name of the movie out there as much?All that coupled with the fact that it’s directed by Chris Columbus, surely it’s going to be good and word of mouth will do the marketing for them? I guess time will tell.

Who knows, anyway, Percy Jackson is out 12th February. Check out the new images below.

Here’s a brand new TV spot for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. You might have seen this over the Christmas period but just incase this is a movie that you can’t wait to see, we thought we’d bring it to you on here too!

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is directed by Chris Columbus and has a rather impressive cast which includes Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Catherine Keener, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Melina Kanakaredes and Jake Abel. It’s scheduled for release 12th February.

Check out the new TV Spot below the synopsis.

Synopsis: Trouble-prone teen Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out school – but that’s the least of his problems.  The gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life – and they’re not happy.  Zeus’ lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.  Now, Percy and his friends must embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true thief, save Percy’s family, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.

Here’s a new poster and teaser trailer for Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightening Thief which is directed by Chris Columbus and has a great cast which includes will feature Sean Bean as Zeus, Kevin McKidd as Poseidon, and Steve Coogan as Hades, Uma Thurman as Medusa, Rosario Dawson as Persephone, and Melina Kanakardes as Athena.

The son of Poseidon travels the Earth with the hope of quelling a battle of the gods in this adaptation of the first book in Rick Riordan’s bestselling children’s series. Veteran filmmaker Chris Columbus (HOME ALONE, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCEROR’S STONE) directs from his own script with co-writer Craig Titley. 3:10 TO YUMA’s Logan Lerman toplines a godlike cast that includes Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, and Sean Bean.

It’s due out in the UK 12th February and out in the US on President’s Day (15th Feb) 2010.