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To mark the release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes on Blu-ray this Monday 12th December, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have given us three copies of the movie to give away to you lovely people on Blu-ray Triple Play. If that wasn’t enough, the winners will also receive a signed poster with [...]
We love posting some unofficial artwork here on HeyUGuys and these three creations from artist Lloyd Stas are too good to pass by. On his Flickr page (which we were pointed to by LFF and Quiet Earth) there’s a wonderful series of posters for Edgar Wright’s films, even one for his TV show Spaced and [...]
I didn’t really understand the shoehorning of the ‘Planet of the’ into the already titled Rise of the Apes but now I do – seeing that logo does evoke a strange nostalgic connetion to the original films. Though it’s a more of a mouthful to say the Rupert Wyatt directed prequel will benefit not only [...]
Easter is nearly upon us and the clever bunnies at Warner Brothers have just released Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 on DVD and Blu–ray knowing all too well that it will be high up on everybody’s ‘to watch’ list during the holidays. So a few weeks ago, whilst you were probably fantasizing [...]
Quite frankly this image could be for any movie and I was hoping that the first image from Rise of the Apes might give us a look at some form of ‘Ape-like’ being but no, the first image released for the new movie shows us one of the stars from it, James Franco at his [...]
Following on from the success of his debut this year, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, director/writer J Blakeson may be facing a fiery challenge on his next feature. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the British filmmaker is in negotiations to direct period drama Hell and Gone for Warner Bros. Scripted by The Dark Knight’s [...]
Following on from the news that Natalie Portman was being mentioned as a possible star for Ridley Scott’s prequel to the film which kick-started his own career (1979’s Alien), Bloody Disgusting have a couple of other names who have been added to the mix as potential leads. Anne Hathaway and James Franco (currently starring in [...]
A couple of amateur photographs have been taken on the set of the new Planet of the Ages reboot/re-imagining, Rise of the Apes. io9.com posted the images of an actor, decked out in a motion-capture suit and holding (in one photo) what looks like two sawn-off crouches, while hunched over in an ape-like pose. Will [...]
We have been bringing you plenty of news lately on plot details and casting announcements for the 20th Century Fox prequel to the 1968 science fiction classic, Planet of the Apes. In the original film, Charlton Heston played a US astronaut who crash lands on a strange planet populated by intelligent, speaking apes, where the [...]
Harry Potter is all finished filming and while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II are in post production, news has come from 20th Century Fox that the young baddie from the Potter, series Tom Felton has signed up to play Brian Cox’ son in [...]
Another member has been added to the cast of new Planet of the Apes movie, Rise of the Apes according to The Wrap who broke the casting news last night. Brian Cox who we’ve seen in Alexander, The Bourne Supremacy, Troy and numerous other movies has signed on as the main villain: Cox is in [...]
If ever there was perfect casting then it’s Andy Serkis for Caesar, the leader of the Ape uprising in 20th Century Fox’s prequel Rise of the Apes. Stepping back into his motion capture body suit Rise of the Apes will reunite Serkis with his WETA chums, who are responsible for rendering the ‘photo-realistic’ apes in [...]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Lithgow and Freida Pinto have been added to the cast for Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Apes, the prequel to the Planet of the Apes franchise which already boasts James Franco as its leading man. Preliminary plot details are slightly surprising, considering the ominous implications of the title. The narrative will [...]
20th Century Fox are hoping that their present day prequel to Planet of the Apes will rekindle the series after the Tim Burton Apes movie didn’t work out (though it is a far more interesting movie than people give it credit for), and Rise of the Apes has a star tonight in the form of [...]
The big news this week has revolved around JJ Abram’s next project, and the rumours and half truths surrounding it. Did he just direct the teaser, is he directing the full film? Is it a Cloverfield sequel or prequel? Right now we have as many questions as answers, but we do know that JJ Abrams [...]
There’s finally official confirmation that 20th Century Fox are moving ahead with their prequel to the Planet of the Apes series with Rise of the Apes, due in cinemas on the 24th of June 2011. The Escapist director Rupert Wyatt will take the reins of this one, and will direct the screenplay from Amanda Silver [...]
