We got our first look at Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson in Ten Year, written and directed by Jamie Linden (Dear John, We Are Marshall), back in July, and it was a nice shot of the pair with what looks to be a wall of invisible tension mounting between them.

The first clip from the film has now surfaced over at The Playlist, ahead of its Toronto International Film Festival world premiere on Monday.

I must confess that I’m yet to see any of Linden’s previous films, so I’m not sure exactly what to expect from him, though the McG-directed We Are Marshall is one that I can imagine I’d really enjoy but am yet to get around to watching.

Ten Year sees him making his directorial debut, and he’s put together a really great cast, mixing some of the people he’s worked with on the last two films he’s written and produced as well as bringing in a number of great new faces too. From Dear John, we get Channing Tatum and Scott Porter, and from We Are Marshall, we get Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara, and Brian Geraghty. And new to the mix, we get Rosario Dawson, Justin Long, Ron Livingstone, Lucy Hale, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Chris Pratt, Oscar Isaac, and Aaron Yoo. A pretty decent ensemble cast.

“Inspired by his own high school reunion, Jamie Linden’s TEN YEAR is a generational ensemble dramedy that focuses on a group of friends as they return home on the night of their high school reunion leading them all to ponder what their own lives have become and perhaps what might have been.  The film’s ensemble includes: Lynn Collins, Rosario Dawson, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Brian Geraghty, Ari Graynor, Oscar Isaac, Ron Livingston, Justin Long, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara, Max Minghella, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Porter, Chris Pratt, Channing Tatum, and Aaron Yoo.”

This first clip sees Channing Tatum, who makes his producing feature debut with this film, with his friends eyeing his ex-girlfriend (Dawson) from afar, just before they all head into the reunion. Judging by the first picture and this first clip, there’s clearly some connection that still exists between the pair, and it has me intrigued to see what it is. No release date yet for the UK, but it’s coming out on 30^th December this year in the States, so hopefully we’ll be getting it early in the new year. Without further ado, here’s the first clip from the film.

For the last decade or so, comedian Adam Sandler has built up a solid business empire with his production company, Happy Madison. Sandler’s own vehicles under that banner have been pretty much critic proof, and for the most part, (inexplicable, many would agree) have continued to bring in incredibly healthy box office takings with relative ease.

Zookeeper, the latest from that assembly line, falls into the more kiddie-orientated strand like 2008’s Bedtime Stories and it star’s Sandler regular Kevin James (also credited as co-writer here) as lovable, yet schlubbish zookeeper and all-round thoroughly caring chap, Griffin. The film opens with his disastrous marriage proposal to vacuous hottie, Stephanie (Leslie Bibb) and he’s left by himself on a beach with a mariachi band he’s hired to celebrate his big moment. Depressed and convinced the reason behind his (now) ex-girlfriend’s reluctance to tie the knot is his less-than-sexy job, he’s on the verge of quitting until one magical night, the animals he looks after reveal that they can actually talk. Working together, the zoo inhabitants intervene and cook up a plan to turn Griffin into a romantic hero and win back his lost love.

The most troubling aspect of the film which continually crops up is this – what kind of psychopath willingly accepts talking animals in such a casual manner and then, almost immediately following this revelation, agrees to be schooled in the way of cool by them!?!? With yet another figure from Sandler’s inner circle onboard as director (Frank Coraci) and boasting the filmmaker behind 2007’s brain-meltingly awful midlife crisis-cum-comic road movie, Wild Hogs, as one of the producers, this was hardly destined to be a future children’s classic, but at least they could have mined a couple of decent gags from it. Alas, that is not the case here, and when the animals out-act the human, you know you’re in big trouble.

The subtle use of real footage and CGI and to help bring the animals to life is actually pretty good, and the voice casting (for the most part) is fairly successful. Unsurprisingly, Sandler crops up playing a gobby and vulgar monkey, and resorts to using that familiar, over-the-top camp Hispanic-sounding accent (and manages to gain the film’s only real laugh), and both Sylvester Stallone as the hopelessly misogynous Joe the lion and Cher as his harassed lioness wife work well together. It’s a mild understatement to say that another star of yesteryear (Nick Nolte) fares less well. He plays the sullen and reclusive Gorilla, Bernie, who Griffin manages to coax out of his shell, and (prepare yourselves) sneaks out for a night of partying at TGI Fridays. What follows is a thoroughly painful montage of the two of them making complete fools of themselves, boozing it up and ogling the waitresses and female customers. All the while, James is performing against an actor in the kind of monkey suit that wouldn’t pass muster in an end-of-pier pantomime. Regardless of the demographic targeted here, modern cinema doesn’t get much more nightmarish than this. Adding to the wince-inducing awfulness, Nolte even starts talking with a horrendous Valspeak inflection as the night progresses. It’s the kind of performance which makes you wonder how long it will be before this once respected actor turns up in yet another police mugshot, looking like the most dishevelled human in the face of the earth. Depressing.

The animal scenes play out alongside a weirdly farcical emotional tug-of-war between Griffin and his ex, and even the zoo’s cool and level-headed vet (Rosario Dawson – sigh) agrees to help the tubby one on his quest, before realising she may have feelings for him (hey, it’s a fantasy film). None of this is amusing in the slightest and things get progressively duller and laboured until the wholly predictable (yet bizarrely action-packed) finale.

Throw in James doing his now customary fat man violently falling over routine and another small yet underwhelming and thoroughly annoying turn by Ken Jeung, and what you have is a tired, formulaic and charm-free entry into the Sandler catalogue, which is hardly an anomaly given the other material in there. Kids will even struggle here, and the sometimes engaging Dr. Doolittle-esque magical conceit of talking animals is not enough to redeem proceedings.

*½~~~ (1.5/5)

Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson are in negotiations to fill the other lead spots, alongside James McAvoy, in Danny Boyle’s follow-up to this year’s fantastic 127 Hours, Deadline report.

Boyle will be directing the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, so production on Trance will start this autumn in London until he switches projects in January, and then he’ll return to the film once the Olympics are over with an eye to release in March 2013.

The script for Trance has been penned by Joe Ahearne, nominated for a BAFTA for his work directing Doctor Who, and past frequent Boyle collaborator, John Hodge, who has worked with Boyle writing Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, and The Beach. The pair haven’t worked on a project together in over a decade, so it will be great to see them back together on Trance, which is thought will have the same feel as Boyle’s earlier films, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

According to Deadline,

“McAvoy’s in talks to play the inside man in an art heist that goes wrong. He runs afoul of an accomplice (Cassel), and Dawson will play a woman who develops an unusual relationship with both men”

Dawson was last seen here in Unstoppable opposite Denzel Washington and Chris Pine in a role she was brilliant playing, and will next be seen in Zookeeper, opposite Kevin James, and Ten Year, opposite Channing Tatum and Kate Mara. Cassel was last seen here in Black Swan, which he did fantastically, and will next be seen in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method alongside Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, and Keira Knightley.

Boyle is a director who has had tremendous success with his films to date, and there’s no reason to expect that Trance will be any different. Always working on a modest budget, he nevertheless manages to make a little money go a very long way, and his projects are definitely something to look forward to. The cast for Trance is shaping up nicely, and March 2013 is a month we should all pencil into our diaries.

The images keep on coming with one from Ten Year, a movie from Director, Jamie Linden and starring Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long, Kate Mara as the main cast. It’s set to debut at the Toronto Film Festival who have given us this new image here showing Tatum and Dawson.

A group of high school friends meet again at their high school reunion and discover that the passing of time changes some things–and others not at all.

Not sure what I think of the title. Maybe when I see the film it’ll make a bit more sense.

Source: TIFF

Sony Pictures’ new movie, Zookeeper hits UK cinemas 29th July and have sent over this exclusive featurette from the movie which stars Kevin James. The movie sees the Zoo come to life ansd includes a voice cast Cher, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone and the movie is directed by Frank Corac.

In Zookeeper, the animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes (Kevin James). Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship – animal style. The film also stars Rosario Dawson and Leslie Bibb and features the voices of Cher, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, and Sylvester Stallone.

Love this new featurette which gives us an insight into how James’ side-kick works. We get to hear from animatronics experts and stunt performers who explain how the suit operates and how the lip-sync works.

When Stella Artois invited us along to the  64th International Cannes Film Festival, I was obviously rather excited but had I known all of the amazing things that I’d get to do and see while  I was there, I think ‘excited’ would be somewhat of an understatement. We were invited as part of the Jacques d’Azur short film where Stella have created a fictional character to become the ‘King of Cannes’. Jacques is famous for being the man that all woman want to be with and who all men want to be. Throughout the process which has now been going on for a few months, they have picked a member of the public through an audition process to become Jacques and the movie which has now been filmed will be premiering at Cannes this coming weekend.

To coincide with the project, Stella constructed Jacques d’Azur’s house on the beach opposite the Carlton Hotel which was the base for our stay in the beautiful French Riviera. I had no idea what to expect when we arrived at the resort. I’d seen photos obviously of the famous Palais red carpet steps and the Carlton Hotel which was always the centrepiece for advertising but seeing it in person was a whole different matter. Arriving at the hotel surrounded by top of the range Mercede, Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Maybach, Lamborghini etc etc etc was rather surreal but something that we’d soon get used to as pretty much every car which drove past was on of the above apart from the official Renault’s employed for the event which were some new type of electric model.

Pretty much as soon as we arrived, we were given a Stella (of course!) and a rather fancy buffet lunch and it wasnt long before we noticed that our table was overlooking another occupied by Rob Lowe. This would be the beginning of our celebrity spotting for the next few days. It wasn’t long before we had to get ready to head off to our first premiere which was French movie, Polisse (in competition) which deals with the rather difficult subject looking at the French Child Protection Unit. Craig is currently writing his review as I type so you’ll be able to check that out in due course.

Before heading off to the premiere, we were invited back down to Jacques house on the beach dressed in our finest before heading off and also to be told that a certain a-lister would be coming down to get a perfectly poured Stella! That a-lister has the name Robert De Niro! We were told not to take any photos of the legendary actor but I completely flouted that rule and took this rather rubbish photo from 10 feet away but at least it proves I have been in the same room as the man! What a legend!

Unfortunately we were a little too late to walk the red carpet before the premiere but going into the Palais was spectacular. The cinema is simply amazing with state of the art sound and the screen is a monster. Looking up the stats, it only holds 820 people but I think that’s because the seats in there are pretty much the biggest and most comfortable I’ve ever sat in at a cinema! Seats are always very important to me! Gotta be comfy! That evening, we then went back to Chez Jacques for the the Little White Lies party where loads of UK people were hanging out and it was great to meet new people and get to know some of those that I’ve met before even better. It’s all about the networking!

The following day I think the main topic of the day was food. I don’t think an hour went past where we didn’t get to eat some spectacular meal! I love the branded puddings! Following an amazing breakfast, Craig and I went along to our second screening for an Israeli movie called, Hearat Shulayim which is also in competition to win the Palme d’Or. It tells the story of an Israeli scholar who has spent 30 years studying the Talmud who’s life isn’t going quite to plan while his son who is in the same line of work is doing rather better and the rivalry between them. Again, Craig will be providing a review of this one for your viewing pleasure. I found it rather intriguing and did enjoy it although found it a little slow in places. He’ll go into far more depth than that (hopefully!).

The highlight of the weekend however probably has to fall to the Saturday night when we attended the Kanye West private party hosted by Red Granite Pictures on the Stella beach location. Along with the members of our party, those in attendance included Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, John Hamm, Bradley Cooper, Fisher Stevens and Rosario Dawson. You may have already read my post on the evening but if not, you can find out much more about it here along with watching the video of the moment when Jamie Foxx jumped on stage to perform Gold Digger with Kanye West! It was rather awesome and is an evening I will never forget!

I always say on these press trips that although the experience is wonderful, the best part for me is meeting new people who love what they do as much as I do. I was really only there for one full day but in that time I met so many amazing people. I just thought I’d give them a big-up here so that you can get following them on twitter if you’re not already. Lu (Whos Jack Magazine), Laura (Whos Jack Magazine) Michael (Asylum) Ann, Ed (freelance photographer), Ed (MSN Movies), Lucy (MSN Celeb), Sarah (MovieFone). They’re all top chaps so make sure you check out their publications and follow them on twitter. You can see the entire motley crew in this photo here.

Our trip to Cannes was fantastic but far too short and we’re already planning next year so that we can be there for the entire two week period as being back in the UK and watching all the tweets from Cannes is far too difficult! Thanks to much to Stella Artois for sending us over and keep your eyes peeled on HeyUGuys for more from Jaques d’Azur over the next few days and when the movie premieres at the festival on Saturday.

Follow all our Cannes coverage here.

This evening was one that will most likely stay in my memory until the day I die. Being in Cannes at all is a privilege and I can’t thank Stella Artois (and Chez Jacques!) enough for sending us over but this evening’s party, to promote Red Granite Picture (who have recently been reported to have attached Leonardo DiCaprio to Wolf) was simply fantastic!

We heard that Kayne West would be performing at the Carlton Hotel performance tent down on the beach but what I didn’t realise was the talent that would turn up to see the gig. As we arrived, we were greeted by multitudes of women lining the red capret making us feel rather intimated! Fans galore were lining the barriers doing their best to get into this event but this was the hottest ticket in town and only 250 people were allowed in.

We were there for around half an hour when the first actress turned up, in the form of Elaine Hendrix. Rumours then circulated the venue that Jamie Foxx would be turning up along with Leonardo DiCaprio. We brushed off the news as rumours until 10 minutes later, both of the Hollywood A-Listers entered the building! Rather amusingly Craig asked the question “Is Jamie Foxx here” literally as Foxx was brushing past his shoulder, to which I replied, “yes, he’s touching you now!”

We were treated to a warm up performance from Pharrell Williams before the man himself, Kanye West took to the stage but not before some security guards were asking us if we’d seen Kanye anywhere?! I guess they found him in the end as it wasn’t too long before the man famous for highly memorable live performances took to the stage.

Watching the gig was amazing in itself. Kanye has some PR issues in his personal life but as a live performer, the guy was incredible. I was hoping that he’d perform my favourite song, Gold Digger and it wasn’t too long before the choooon turned up. What I didn’t expect however was the song to be stopped half way through and for Jamie Foxx to join Kanye for an impromptu duet. I’ve embedded the video of the performance below which might literally blow your mind!!

The night got even more surreal when I saw Leonardo DiCaprio standing on a sofa so that he could get a better vantage point to see Kanye’s performance, and then further still as I noticed Rosario Dawson standing right in front of me having the time of her life at what could be one of the best gigs that we’ll ever go to! On the way out, I managed to get a photo with the talented actress – not too sure her security man was too impressed though!

On the way out, Craig got to meet Fisher Stevens rounding off an absolutely amazing night! We’ve just got home to find out that Eric Schmidt (the former CEO of Google) was also at the gig along with the who’s who at Cannes and it was a privilege for us to be there.

Bring on Cannes 2012. If Kanye is performing again, I want to be there!

Photos courtesy of the literally amazing Craig Skinner!

Kate Beckinsale has been offered the role of Lori in Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall remake.

If she accepts, she will star opposite Colin Farrell (In Bruges) and Bryan Cranston (Drive) in the sci-fi adventure film.

Total Recall involves nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai, with Douglas Quaid (Farrell) a factory worker in the latter who begins to believe he is a spy, although he doesn’t know for which side.

Deadline are also reporting that Eva Mendes and Rosario Dawson are the hot contenders to land the other female role: freedom fighter Melina.

Len Wiseman will direct the remake, which is expected to hit cinemas on August 12, 2012.

Beckinsale will next be seen in Underworld 4: New Dawn.

Denzel Washington’s new movie, Unstoppable is released today in UK cinemas. We’ve been fortunate enough to meet him and interview him for the movie and you can check out the interview here. Our review is also up and can be seen here. And if that’s not enough, we have a competition for you to win merchandise from the movie here!

Unstoppable is directed by Tony Scott and marks his  fifth collaboration with Washington. The movie also stars Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson and we think you’ll rather like it!

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, “Unstoppable” is an adrenaline rush fueled by director Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances.  A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train – effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area.

Unstoppable is the latest movie to reunite Tony Scott and Denzel Washington in what turns out to be their fifth movie together. The previous outings including Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Deja Vu and more recently, The Taking of Pelham 123 and as you might notice, they all have a similar formula – action! I’m a big fan of both Tony Scott and Denzel Washington so when I got the chance to see this movie, I was very much looking forward to seeing it.

Unstoppable is based on a true story about a runaway train which is unmanned and under power thundering through the towns across Ohio with hazardous chemicals on board and a train load of kids heading straight for it. With the train smashing through everything in it’s path, two men (Chris Pine and Denzel Washington) decide to take it upon themselves to try and stop it be devising an ambitious plan that if successful, could stop the train in it’s tracks – quite literally! This goes against all their orders from the men in suits back at head office,  more interested in saving money and saving face than saving lives. Denzel and Chris do have one allie however in the form of Rosario Dawson who plays Connie, and is in charge of mission control back at the train depot. She’s able to help them with the details on where the train is at any given moment and is really well cast in the movie.

Let’s face it, watching a train pootle along a track at speed for 90 minutes is never going to be that exciting but when Tony Scott adds the multitudes of helicopters, loads of police cars, children on another train in imminent danger and a horse on the track, it’s always going to make it that little bit more interesting! He even manages to get an explosion in there in true Tony Scott style! By using loads of close up shots of the characters and the train, it really feels like the train is out of control and you do actually begin to care about what happens to the people involved (can you see I’m still thinking about my Skyline review!). I was never overwhelmed by the chemistry between Pine and Washington and Pine’s back story was a little lame. It basically focuses around a messy court case around the access to his daughter and ends in a rather silly fashion where they all live happily ever after by the time the credits roll! I guess it is a film and it had to have this backstory for you to want Pine’s character of Will to suceed.

Overall though, I’m pleased to report I did very much enjoy this movie. I always think of myself as a very mainstream kind of movie goer. I love all that over hyped over done action genre and Unstoppable is exactly that! Denzel is back on form, running over trains and the sound was excellent, especially in the Fox screening room where the floor shakes when the train comes roaring at you head on!

If you’re a fan of all things Denzel Washington and Tony Scott, then this one is yet another to add to the collection and I’d definitely buy it on DVD when it’s released next year.

Unstoppable is released in UK cinemas next Wednesday, 24th November and if you haven’t already entered, click here to win merchandise from the movie.

Denzel Washington re-teams with director, Tony Scott for new movie, Unstoppable which hits UK cinemas next Wednesday, 24th November. To celebrate, Twentieth Century Fox have been kind enough to give us some merchandise for you, our lovely readers.

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, “Unstoppable” is an adrenaline rush fueled by director Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances.  A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train – effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area.

Unstoppable also stars Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson and we have five sets of Unstoppable promotional packs to give away, which includes a  keychain, a beanie, and a t-shirt.

To be in with a chance of winning this great prize, all you need to do is answer the following question using the form below.

What’s the name of Denzel Washington’s character in Unstoppable?

The small print:

• This competition is open to the UK only.
• Only one entry per household will be counted.
• The competition will close on Friday the 26th November 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

Collider recently interviewed Rosario Dawson, ostensibly about her role in Tony Scott’s Unstoppable, but also about a number of other seemingly unrelated subjects.

In the course of the interview, Dawson declared herself to be a Trekkie (I thought the term was now “Trekker” but maybe I’m just being a nerd) and said that she wanted to be in the upcoming Star Trek sequel.

She said she is discreetly petitioning JJ Abrams and would be happy to play a Klingon or anything else that is going. She even threw in a Klingon phrase, which shows a certain level of commitment.

Interestingly, other Hollywood stars with closet Trek-love have managed to squeeze themselves into the films before. Christian Slater popped up in Star Trek VI and director Bryan Singer had a brief cameo in Star Trek: Nemesis, so maybe Dawson will be able to shoe-horn herself in.

You can catch the rest of the video below, including an interesting tale of Christopher Walken’s red-carpet wardrobe.

Tony Scott’s new action packed movie, Unstoppable hits UK cinemas 24th November and to get us ready, Twentieth Century Fox have sent us this brand new TV spot for the movie.

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, “Unstoppable” is an adrenaline rush fueled by director Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances.  A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train – effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area.

Unstoppable stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Jessy Schram, Kevin Dunn and Ethan Suplee.

Inspired by actual events, “Unstoppable”  (released in cinemas 24th November) is an adrenaline rush fuelled by director Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances.  A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington®) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train – effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper – and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area. 

Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox and Show Film First, the preview screenings will be taking place at the following locations, on Monday 15th November:

CINEWORLD:  :  Aberdeen, Ashford, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol,  Cheltenham, Chichester, Crawley, Didsbury, Glasgow Renfrew, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Wandsworth, West India Quay, Wolverhampton and Yeovil.

Just visit https://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/206980 to claim your free tickets – subject to availability

Be sure to tell us what you think on Twitter by using the hash tag #unstoppable. Random Tweets will be selected daily between 7th – 18th November to win Unstoppable prizes!

• Cast: Denzel Washington®, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson
• Director: Tony Scott
• Official Website: www.unstoppablemovie.co.uk
• Facebook http://tinyurl.com/UKunstoppableFB

Just visit https://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/206980 to claim your free tickets – subject to availability

TM & © 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved

This nice new look behind the scenes of Tony Scott’s latest film, Unstoppable, has everything you’d expect from the man himself: cigars and cinematic hyperbole of the explosive kind.

Chris Pine joins Scott regular Denzel Washington on this story of a runaway train and this clip has cast and crew talking about a particularly large action scene. It’s worth watching, if for nothing else you get to see Tony Scott playing with his toys and setting up two dozen cameras to capture the action.

Clip Ahoy!

Ripe Maze Enigma gave this to the world. Gawd bless them.

Twentieth Century Fox have sent us a couple of new clips from Tony Scott’s new movie, Unstoppable which will be hitting UK cinemas on November 24th. The movie sees a runaway train smashing though various objects across America while Denzel Washington and co-star, Chris Pine do their best to figure out a way of stopping it before the train, (the size of the Chrysler Building) finds and end to it’s path.

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, “Unstoppable” is an adrenaline rush fueled by director Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances.  A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train – effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area.

Clip One – Losing Breaks

Clips Two – Going After Train

Lately we’ve been treated to posters, pics and trailers aplenty for director Tony Scott’s latest collaboration with Denzel Washington, Unstoppable.

In case you’ve missed our earlier posts, Unstoppable is about a new train engineer, played by Chris Pine (James Kirk in the Star Trek reboot) who is being mentored by Denzel Washington in order to take over from him. Alas transitioning jobs is never smooth and in this case matters are significantly complicated by a runaway train, loaded with thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals, which is headed for a small town. Washington and Pine must find a way of stopping the Unstoppable before catastrophe strikes.

Those fine folk over at Yahoo! have grabbed a new short feature which shows some footage from the film and a couple of talking head shots of Washington, Pine and Rosario Dawson, talking about their characters and their overall arcs in the film.

I’m not going to lie, I am hugely looking forward to this film. There is very little CGI, no sign of any 3D and with very few exceptions, Tony Scott and Denzel Washington tend to combine to sensational effect. Enjoy the clip below and let us know if you’re excited about this one as well.

A few days ago we got sent a new UK poster for Tony Scott’s Unstoppable and now IMPA have released a German version. Fox are obviously loving those images of Chris Pine and Denzel Washington as they seem to be using the same images on every poster they bring out.

In this one, we see the slogan Ausser Kontrolle which if you say it really fast, you get ‘Out of Control’ which google translator tells me is exactly what it means!

Unstoppable stars Denzel Washington, Rosario Dawson, Chris Pine and is released in the UK 26th November.

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, “Unstoppable” is an adrenaline rush fueled by director Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances.  A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train – effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area.

Twentieth Century Fox have just sent us a brand new International (UK) poster for their new movie, Unstoppable. It stars Denzel Washington, Rosario Dawson, Chris Pine and is directed by the legend that is, Tony Scott.

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, “Unstoppable” is an adrenaline rush fueled by director Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances.  A veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris Pine) race the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train – effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — and prevent disaster in a heavily populated area.

They’ve also alerted us that the release date for the movie has changed to 26th November.

Check out the new poster below and you can click it to enlarge. It features a few extra features on top of this one that we posted last month.

MTV have gifted the world with 28 new images for movies that are coming up over the next few months. In a series of posts over the next few hours, I’m going to be putting up the image(s) and giving you a low-down on the cast, the synopsis and the release date (if there is one). If you want to see all the other posts in this series, click here.

The latest movie to see director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington reunite is called Unstoppable and also stars Jessy Schram, Rosario Dawson, Chris Pine, Kevin Dunn. In this new image we get to see a rather concerned looking Chris Pine presumably working out how best he can stop a runaway train!

Synopsis:  Unstoppable, a 20th Century Fox drama about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. Pits an engineer and his conductor in a race against time. They’re chasing the runaway train in a separate locomotive and need to bring it under control before it derails on a curve and causes a toxic spill that will decimate a town.

Unstoppable is scheduled for release 12th November.