Lionsgate Acquires All is Lost

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Lionsgate have acquired the US distribution rights to FilmNation’s All is Lost at the European Film Market in Berlin. Set to be directed by J.C. Chandor (Margin Call), All is Lost is the exhilarating journey of one man’s fight to survive after being lost at see. Robert Redford (Lions for Lambs) is attached to play the lead [...]

Do International Film Festivals Need More Recognition?

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While you may have heard of the more prestigious film festivals such as Cannes and BFI London Film Festival it is with the launch of Sundance London next year, Charlie Derry investigates into whether lesser known festivals are in need of more recognition, and how organisers plan to deal with this competition. There are many [...]

Moneyball Review

Moneyball

At first glance, Moneyball will ignite interest among Brad Pitt fans. On second glance, it will turn some away because of its baseball subject matter. Sports films are an acquired taste and will never fully convert those who are not into the sport in question. Therefore, as one of the latter, Moneyball is a real [...]

The Conspirator – DVD Review

The Conspirator

On 14th April 1865, John Wilkes Booth walked up behind Abraham Lincoln in his box at Ford’s Theatre and shot him. As this film’s tagline testifies however, although one man shot Lincoln, more than one man killed him. Booth and his accomplices were pursued and for the most part found and arrested, though Booth himself [...]

Exclusive Clip from The Conspirator

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Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination drama The Conspirator is out on DVD and Blu-ray on the 24th of October and we’ve been given a clip from the film to share with you. Redford has assembled an excellent cast for the film, which had a decent, if a little short lived, theatrical release earlier in the year [...]

Win The Conspirator on DVD

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To mark the release of The Conspirator on DVD and Blu-ray 24th October, Universal Studios have given us five copies of the movie to give away on DVD. The ovie stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkinson, Justin Long, Danny Huston, Evan Rachel Wood and is directed by Robert Redford. Esteemed British actor [...]

Must See Videos: Home-Movies of Hollywood in the Summer of 1965

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The internet is a wonderful thing, and every day something new appears which proves this to be so. Recently World of Wonder  (via Boy Culture) happened upon a recent batch of videos uploaded to YouTube that are unlikely to have been seen by many in the forty six years since they were shot in and [...]

Robert Redford & Shia LaBeouf Team For “The Company You Keep”

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The Beef has insisted that he is done with box-office dominating, female-body ogling, critic-proof franchise Transformers and so, as all actors must, he will be considering where next? Apparently, he is to team up with Robert Redford, who will do his usual multi-hyphenate job as producer-director-star of “The Company You Keep”, working from the Lem [...]

Robert Redford’s The Conspirator Has a New Poster

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Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination drama The Conspirator is now out in the UK, although without a huge amount of fanfare so let’s get everyone in the mood with a new poster, shall we? We’ve seen a few images and had ourselves a trailer and anything with James McAvoy will stir a certain section of the [...]

Robert Redford Embarking On A Walk In The Woods?

Robert Redford

Although not the focus of the article – the actual subject of which pales into insignificance – The LA Times have reported that Robert Redford may soon join Nick Nolte for a Walk in the Woods. Redford has been involved in the project for some time – having been tying to set it up since [...]

Sundance London Film Festival Here Next Year!

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Could The Sundance Institute be on the way to becoming a global brand? It’s being reported that founder Robert Redford is planning on bringing over his famed Sundance Film Festival (first launched in 1978) to the UK, and that he will team up with AEG Europe to stage Sundance London – a four-day event that [...]

First Official Trailer For The Conspirator

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Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions, via Yahoo! Movies, have released the first official trailer for political thriller The Conspirator. Directed by Robert Redford, The Conspirator stars Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Alexis Bledel, Johnny Simmons, Toby Kebbell, Kevin Kline and Danny Huston. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one [...]

Line-up for Toronto International Film Fest 2010

Running from September 9th to 19th, Toronto’s annual film festival appears to have assembled an interesting mix of both studio and independent features in their programme this year. Now in its 34 year, the festival will show The Town, Ben Affleck’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2007 debut Gone Baby Gone as part of the Gala [...]

HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 6

The Sting

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, [...]

Top 5 Valentine Date Movies: The Stay-In Choices.

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While cinema listings for the UK this weekend include some outstanding prospects to aid romance by tugging at your heart strings (Nowhere Boy, The Road, Avatar, Precious) and some that you may choose to avoid, if you decide to stay in and cuddle on the sofa HeyUGuys has some suggestions that will lift the spirit [...]

First Photos from McAvoy’s The Conspirator

Evan Rachel Wood in The Conspirator

The Playlist have debuted the first couple of images from James McAvoy’s new movie, The Conspirator which I’ve placed below (click to enlarge). The Scottish actor has hit the big time at the box office bringing us some awesome films including Atonement, The Last King of Scotland and Wanted with Angelina Jolie. Wanted was so [...]