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We’re big fans of Bond, James Bond here at HeyUGuys and the announcement at CES2012 this evening from MGM and 20th Century Fox is a welcome one indeed. The entire collection of Bond films are heading to Blu-ray with a special Bond50 collection. All twenty-two films are being given a HD polish, with nine films [...]
A glimpse into the creative process of those big, effects-heavy Hollywood blockbusters always offers a fun and fascinating prospect, and that’s precisely what happened when one of the industry big-hitters, Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Farrar, recently took the stage to chat about his experiences working on Transformers: Dark of the Moon. An employee of [...]
We’ve traveled with Indy through Peru, Cairo, Nepal, Shanghai and India. After finding the Ark and surviving the Temple of Doom, it was time for his Last Crusade (until the next one). ***** It is 1938 and Indiana Jones finally retrieves the Cross of Francisco De Coronado, which he had first come across in a [...]
The BBC Archive has given us an early Christmas present and ransacked its digital corridors and come up with a wonderful retrospective of the iconic secret agent James Bond at the BBC. Available from today this fascinating collection of programmes and pictures charts the emergence of a classic literary and cinematic figure, from discussions with [...]
Here’s the first poster for upcoming 3D feature Never Say Never, which has been posted by Yahoo. For those of you who are expecting a Casino Royale-style prequel to Sean Connery’s 1983 unofficial Bond outing, Never Say Never Again, you better think again. This is a Paramount documentary which tells the “inspiring true story” of [...]
We brought you news a couple of days back that Mark Wahlberg was being mentioned as a possible lead for the reboot of the 1994 gothic comic book revenge tale, The Crow. Now news has come through from Comingsoon.net that director Stephen Norrington is no longer attached to the project, and his departure is being [...]
I was having a discussion with a friend of mine recently about actors and how some of them have the greatest voices ever. Certain actors could probably stop traffic with their booming baritones or instantly silence crying babies with their soothing speech. It’s a true superhero power. This then led to discussion on how I [...]
Many Happy Returns to the original (and best?!) James Bond to grace the big screen, Sean Connery. Born on this day in working-class Edinburgh family, Connery flirted with many careers (including milkman, a stint in the Royal Navy, a lorry driver and even a male model for the Edinburgh College of Art) before fame came [...]
Our friends at Upbeat are the chaps tasked with creating the official end of day video montages for the Edinburgh International Film Festival which is wonderful for us as they’ve just given us the entire first week of daily round up videos to share with you, our lovely readers. In the videos, you get to [...]
The Edinburgh Film Festival kicked off yesterday and our friends from Upbeat were there to capture the whole thing on camera. Sean Connery, Jason Isaacs, Ben Miller, Sir Patrick Stewart and Ugly Betty herself, America Ferrera all made an appearance and they also got to chat with the director of new animation, The Illutionist which [...]
Ever wanted to own your own 1964 Aston Martin DB5? You see them very rarely in England but every time you do, it’s a thing of beauty! I’ve wanted one every since I saw a man get shot through the roof of the car in Goldfinger. Every boy over the last 50 years has owned [...]
Sad news today that Joseph Wiseman who played the first James Bond villain opposite Sean Connery in Dr. No has died ages 91. Wiseman played the character Dr. Julius No in the 1962 film. The LA Times have reported that Wiseman’s health had recently been deteriorating and that he died at his home in Manhattan. [...]
