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Ahead of next week’s publication of Lord Smith’s review on the state and future of the British film industry David Cameron visited Pinewood Studios today to deliver a speech setting out his thoughts on the aims of the industry. The choice of Pinewood was well made. The studio, which is already two projects into its [...]
It’s an unusal beauty parade but the latest image to wing its way from Bag End is the perfect way to complement the many seperate images we’ve seen of the dwarves from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit films. With the third of Jackson’s video blogs from the set pushing all the right buttons the momentum for [...]
After giving us a second look at the production of The Hobbit less than two weeks ago, Peter Jackson’s now released the third instalment of the video diary from the two-part film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There And Back Again. Just like the first two, Jackson has released this third video [...]
Last week we managed to tap into our dormant mutant powers and attend the press conference for X-Men: First Class to hear firsthand experiences of the production from key members of the cast and co-scribe Jane Goldman. Our review of the film is here and you can check it out right now as it is [...]
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 [...]
Jennifer Lawrence is the latest star to officially sign on to star in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. Lawrence will play the character of Mystique in the prequel according to the report to THR. Lawrence joins James McAvoy, Aaron Johnson, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender, Alice Eve, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till and Kevin Bacon in [...]
Tonight’s X-Men: First Class rumour comes courtesy of Deadline, whose scant news is that Kevin Bacon is talking to all the right people about playing the villain of Matthew Vaughn’s film. There were three posts devoted to the casting of this film yesterday, all X-Men in the making, so the villain angle this news pertains [...]
So we have three X-Men: First Classmates signed up in one day – Aaron Johnson as Cyclops, Nicholas Hoult as Beast and now there’s confirmation of a Latino Review rumour that was going around concerning the character of Banshee. Variety have the confirmation that Caleb Landry Jones will play the character of Sean Cassidy and [...]
Very interesting news breaking right now regarding Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class and, yes, it’s another casting decision. There have been a ton of names orbiting this project ever since James McAvoy was signed up to play the youthful Charles Xavier. He has been followed by Aaron Johnson, Alice Eve, the always wonderful Michael Fassbender [...]
The list of incoming mutant set to attend X-Men: First Class seemingly grows every day. Not twelve hours ago news was posted that Alice Eve was the latest recruit to Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men film, she’ll be stepping into the role of Emma Frost, and now there’s another name rumoured to be involved. The character of [...]
To begin at the beginning then. Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, who previously impressed with Stardust and Kick-Ass, took over as Headmaster and Headmistress of Marvel’s next step into the mutantverse as director and writer of X-Men: First Class. They cast James McAvoy as the young Charles Xavier. This was a good move, and the [...]
Previously discussed was the tug-of-war between Sony and Fox for the services of one of our favourite actors, Michael Fassbender, for their Spider-Man and X-Men: First Class films respectively. Anyone who has watched Fassbender in his British films such as Fish Tank and the outstanding Hunger will know exactly why he is being courted and [...]
It’s worth mentioning in the first instance that only James McAvoy has been confirmed as appearing in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, and the resultant slew of rumours are just that, and unnamed sources will be cited until official word comes from Vaughn and Fox as to the full line up of Mutant High. So, [...]
Following the Michael Fassbender/Magneto rumour which has been going around there’s another name emerging from the internet ether regarding Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class – that of British actress Rosamund Pike. Fans of the comic book series will know instinctively which part Pike would be perfect for – and according to Forces of Geek, Pike [...]
Jonathan Ross pretty much confirmed on his radio show yesterday that X Men: First Class will be shooting at Pinewood this summer. Now there is a small chance he might have been talking about another project but all the signs point to the new X Men film shooting at Pinewood this summer. The film is set [...]
The drive-in movie is an American institution, but it’s never really caught on in the UK. Consequently generations of Britons have been taunted by images of our American cousins enjoying films from the comfort of their own cars, while the closest we’ve been able to come to an approximation of the experience involves ram-raiding the [...]
