After starring opposite each other in the brilliant and successful Wedding Crashers back in 2005, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are set to reunite for what sounds like a very promising comedy, Interns.

Shawn Levy (Real Steel) will be taking the helm for this, having worked with Vaughn producing his upcoming Neighborhood Watch, with the script coming from Vaughn himself, Vulture report via Collider.

“Vaughn and Wilson will play forty-ish company guys who both get laid off in a downsizing. Convinced they’ve gone about managing their careers entirely wrong, they resolve to become interns at a Google-like dotcom and start anew. Suddenly, the two old chums are competing against wily, fresh-faced 22 year olds for advancement.”

Pretty perfect, right? I have a lot of love for Wedding Crashers, and a lot of love for both Wilson and Vaughn just generally, so I can’t wait to see them back on screen together. You can already picture this being another big success. Wedding Crashers turned a $40m. budget into north of $280m. at the box office, so here’s to hoping Interns will be a huge success as well.

We heard last summer that Vaughn was set to star alongside Jason Bateman next in The Insane Laws, and Levy was set to go behind the camera next for a Frankenstein adaptation, but it seems that both projects have had trouble with their budgets, and now Fox are said to have quickly picked up Interns for Vaughn, Wilson, and Levy to make together.

As much as I’d love to see Vaughn and Bateman together, I’m definitely content to know that Bateman will be working on Arrested Development whilst Vaughn will be returning alongside Wilson with Levy’s direction for Interns, at least for the time being. Fox will no doubt want to move ahead quickly with this, and with all three of the current talent attached having fairly light schedules at the moment, we can hopefully look forward to hearing more about the project soon.

Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to star in The Way, Way Back, which will be directed by The Descendants team, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Playlist have reported.

The project, which has taken years to get off the ground, tells the story of a teenage boy who over the course of summer forms a friendship that gives him the strength to stand up to his bullying stepfather and reconnect with his mother.

The film will be directed by Faxon and Rash with Mandate Pictures, Paul Young and Shawn Levy all producing.

Young brought the script by Faxon and Rash to Shawn Levy, then titled The Way Back, all the way back in 2007. He immediately took a shine to it, committed to direct and Fox Searchlight gave it a greenlight.

Unfortunately there were many complications along the way, including the WGA strike of 2007, Mandate Pictures scooping it up and Tom Bezucha (The Family Stone) becoming attached for a short while in 2009.

Now, two years later, the project is in the hands of producer Kevin Walsh, with a new title of The Way, Way Back, and things finally seem to be on a roll with Jake Gyllenhaal in talks for the lead role.

It’s a good job that Faxon and Rash know how to be patient, with The Descendants only making it to the big screen this year after beginning in 2006.

Developments are happening though, so we will tell you more when we see any more sign of movement.

I recently revisited The Cannonball Run, for the first time since my teens. It has not aged well. I had remembered greatly enjoying its excitement, fast cars, squealing tyres and a self-mocking Roger Moore, but that all seemed to have mysteriously evaporated, leaving me with a bland and lifeless film.

It could therefore be argued that this makes it all the more ripe and fitting for a reboot – an older film, not nearly as good as anyone remembered and not an inviolable treasure, held sacredly in cinema goers hearts. News of a remake is therefore initially welcomed, though eventually feared on examining the small print, for the plan seems to be for US car-giant General Motors to stump up a load of the budget in return for some utterly obvious product placement. For those who don’t remember the original, or its not-too-bad sequel, lots of cars and their drivers head across the US in a coast to coast race for a big money (and kudos heavy) prize. Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Jackie Chan, Dom DeLouise and Peter Fonda all took part, though there seems to be some legitimate concern that a film about speeding across the US might land the film-makers in trouble with more litigious types, all of which may result in the film being shot in Germany, where there are a number of relatively speed limit-free autobahns.

Shawn Levy (Night At The Museum, Real Steel) had expressed some interest in the project, wishing to work with Ben Stiller, however Guy Ritchie has apparently emerged as the front-runner, perhaps with the successful blending of comedy and action he has achieved for Sherlock Holmes proving to be a significant factor. Although GM are over 1/3 owned by the US and Canadian governments, they would be looking to get themselves a high-profile showcase for their new models in return for the cash they will invest in the production budget.

Morgan Spurlock will no doubt be choking on his Big Mac as he hears about this, but what can you say? It is, if nothing else, a sign of the times.

Source: Vulture.

With all kinds of fairy tale adaptations currently in the works – the Snow White projects coming next year being the next two we’ll be seeing – word now comes that Fox have picked up a script for a Pinocchio prequel, titled The Three Misfortunes Of Geppetto, for Shawn Levy (Real Steel, Night at the Museum) to direct, Deadline report.

Levy’s latest film, Real Steel, which came out here in the UK over the weekend, has been doing pretty well for itself, topping the US box office twice in a row, and essentially earning back its $110m. in its first week of release across the world.

In this prequel, written by relative newcomer Michael Vukadinovich,

“Geppetto endures a life of misfortune, war and adventure all to be with Julia Moon, his true love.”

I hadn’t realised it myself, but a quick glance at Wikipedia tells me that the Pinocchio character dates back as early as 1883. Naturally, I’m not at all a Pinocchio/Geppetto expert, so this is all just conjecture. But in consideration of what war Geppetto might endure, assuming that the original children’s novel is set at the same time it was written, and looking at this list of wars Italy was involved in, I’d imagine that the war this prequel will see will be either the Third Italian War of Independence (1866), or the Capture of Rome (1870).

Like I said, though, that’s 100% conjecture on my part, using Wikipedia as my source of historical information, so take that with a healthy dose of salt. It’s of course also based on the assumption, which may not be shown to be true, that the story won’t be a modern-day re-telling. I’m just interested to find out what war the film will be looking at, and when it will be set.

Either way, the project does sound like it has some promise. Levy’s found some pretty strong successes with family films over the years, with Real Steel being the most recent example in a list that also includes Night at the Museum and Cheaper By The Dozen. So I’d say that there’s a pretty good chance that he’d be able to direct this story to success too. It’s still early days yet, so no news on casting, but I have to admit, I’m interested to hear more about it, like who is to play Geppetto. More news as we get it.

Hugh Jackman jumps back on to our big screens tomorrow with plenty of metal, but no claws in sight, for his latest flick, Real Steel.

Real Steel is inspired by a short story by Richard ‘I am Legend’ Matheson about a down and out boxer named Charlie Kenton, played in the film by Hugh Jackman. The tale is set in the not too distant future where Kenton has had to face up to the reality that robot boxing matches are the new mega draw and not man-to-man matches. He’s a bit of a rogue who has hit a sleazy down patch and the relationship with estranged son (Dakota Goyo) is also at a low point.

As the story progresses we find out that after the pair discover a discarded sparring robot called ‘Atom’, train it up to dish out some effective metal crunching techniques, and in one scene to actually dance, that their relationship is set to improve tremendously. The whole premise of this trifecta relationship being that if there is one thing that father and son can do well together, it is work together on something to win. In this case a giant, arse-kicking robot that has a very similar personality to a loveable Ivan Drago.

Should you see it? Yes. It’s fun, but a bit mindless. Jackman is great to watch as ever and its broad appeal will connect to a lot of different tastes and ages. But that’s where it also has its rough edges, as it’s basically nothing new and actually quite formulaic. It’s also 127 minutes long, and gets a bit predictive in its cadences, especially as the film nears its end.

The film means well, and does pack some nicely placed emotional punches, but for the film connoisseurs it may be a choice for a DVD night in then a box office evening out. For everyone else who likes to dig into a good ol’ actiony, fun, sci-fi flick at the picture house – Ding-Ding!

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Real Steel hits UK cinemas tomorrow. It’s a great action movie with more robots than you can shake a stick at. We got to speak with it’s director, Shawn Levy at the Big Screen event back in August about the movie, how it came about and what we can expect from it.

Shawn has previously directed Cheaper by the Dozen and Night at the Museum, and Real Steel was a very different movie to shoot that either of the films. In this interview we also get to hear how he learn to use motion capture and what it was like working with legends Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis who Produced the film.

Real Steel is out tomorrow, 14th October.

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HeyUGuys: Can you tell us about how the fight sequences were filmed?

Shawn Levy: All the suits were motion capture, actual boxers. We would then take the raw motion capture data and we would put it through the system, harden the movements and then render it out. Sometimes we would make CG tweaks but 95% of the boxing was motion captured real fighters.

HeyUGuys: So was the movie shot on location or was it all done in a studio?

Shawn: It’s called mo-cap SimulCam B and it’s an offshoot of thee way Cameron did on Avatar. We captured the fights six months before we shot it. The system, then converted every fighter into their robot avatar. Then six months later, I went to Detroit and I would do a shot for instance of Hugh Jackman in the ring. The system then plugs in the fight action from the matching perspective if where I put my live action camera, and that’s what’s called SimulCam B so when I was watching my monitor and operation my camera, I was already seeing Hugh, Noisey Boy and Midas in the frame. That’s why operating is so dynamic as you’re not guessing. You’re operating the fight in your eyepiece.

HeyUGuys: How did you find that as a Director when never using it before?

Shawn: This was an intense learning curve, much like going from Night at the Museum from Cheaper By the Dozen from no effects to many digital effects, and then on this one, from some visual effects to next generation visual effects but after a few weeks, I had it dialled in.

HeyUGuys: You must have a great team of people around you who are able to help with this transition?

Shawn: I have a guy in particular and you can safely say he’s the best First Assistant Director in the world,  his name is Josh McGlaglin. He did Titanic, Avatar, Night at the Museum, Castaway. And when I took on this project, I said to him ‘Zulu’ cos that’s his nickname, I said ‘Zulu, you have to teach me everything!’ and he did. It’s like being in high school or college where you’re sitting in class and you’re completely lost. You’re so lost that you don’t even understand the words that people are using. For me I was so determined not to let it beat me and I then I figured it out.

HeyUGuys: What year is the film set?

Shawn: It’s mentioned on in passing twice. It’s set in 2020. If I had to do it again, I’d have set it a little further in the future but as you’ve seen in the movie, I wanted a world where it looked like our own in which a new sport had evolved. We used the word retro-forward a lot and you’ll notice in the movie that it has a very retro Americano look but it’s got these futuristic touches. Like Charlie Kenton’s truck for instance. The cab of that truck is 50 years old. We bought this truck which is a vintage item, sheared it off behind the steering wheel and we build a futuristic body. It’s got those weird glass panels and we custom built that at great expense but it’s why the movie has a unique design look.

HeyUGuys: What was it like for you getting names like Steve Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis on board for the project?

Shawn: Best ever! When I went to meet with Steven in New York, I haven’t been nervous like that in ten years! But it’s a good nervous! Really, deep down you hope that when you make these movies, you hope that the success of them will earn you the privilege of diversity; that’s at least how I’ve always approached my career. To have that happen, to get a call from such a lofty mentor, to do a movie so completely unlike anything I’ve done, it’s really what I’ve been working for.

Bob isn’t in LA as much but he came in and consulted with me on the robot designs and the truth is, if you’re doing a creature design movie, and you’re two advisors are Zemeckis and Spielberg, it’s pretty amazing company.

HeyUGuys: Did you have visions inside your head of what the robots would look like and the screens that controlled them?

Shawn: The consoles in the corners of the league fights are called the fight deck. They were super cool and super expensive!

HeyUGuys: So were they real consoles which you digitised afterwards?

Shawn: Yes, with double joysticks and keypads and interactive screens. The design of it, some of the ideas were mine, some of them were Tom Myers the designer, we designed 19 robots. But I wanted everyone of them to have their own pallet, their own style of fighting, their own look. And Tom Meyer oversaw an amazing team of illustrators and gave them that visual diversity. But the real triumph in my opinion is Atom’s design is so simple and evocative and I’m really happy with how he turned out because he’s the third lead in the movie.

HeyUGuys: In the background of the film, there were loads of 3D cameras – does that mean you think 3D will be the standard? Also adverts for Virgin Galactic and Xbox 720, how did you go about getting permission to put in all these futuristic brands?

Shawn: Getting the permission of the brands was a nightmare, but really worth it. I think 3D will be much more interwoven into the fabric of our media yes so that#s why I did that. When I went to the Aldo fight in Vegas, a big title fight, I was amazed at how there is music, constant music. And it’s why we have an amazing soundtrack. I screened the movie for Crystal Method, for Timberland, for the Beasties. These venues likes soccer venues are wall to wall adverts so we approached dozens and dozens of adverts. In many cases we asked them not only for the chance to use their logo but also to help them design a future logo.

HeyUGuys: What can we expect from the sequel?

Shawn: When we started screaming the movie, we started seeing the overwhelmingly  response to the movie so Dreamworks asked us John Gatins and I to develop a second movie. We took a while, we took three of four months before we had a take that we thought was worth doing. The next one will explore more of the rivalry between the underworld and the league and we’ll also explore what happens to Zeus and Tak Mashido but it’s a pretty cool next iteration of the story.

HeyUGuys:  Can we expect Real Steel 2 to be in 3D, especially with Spielberg behind it?

Shawn: It could be. Steven certainly in support of 3D but on this movie, he very much thought that 2D was the way to go to keep the focus on the characters. We’ll see how we feel and we’ll also learn about our franchise if it becomes a franchise with the way that people react to the first movie.

In case you’ve missed our coverage of Hugh Jackman’s latest film, Real Steel, you can click here to catch up on everything and get up to speed.

And if you’re reading this before midnight on 17th October, then you can click here to enter our Real Steel competition which has a slightly amazing prize of an Xbox 360 with Kinect and Kinect Adventures, and tickets to go see the film to boot!

Opening in IMAX theatres ahead of its wide release in the States earlier this week, the first 100 people at the 12:01am first screening at participating theatres were lucky enough to be given an awesome limited edition poster for the film, absolutely free, Collider report. Definitely a nice little bonus for making the effort to go late at night to the film’s opening.

The film sees Jackman taking the lead with Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) on directing duties, and Evangeline Lilly (TV’s Lost), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Dakota Goyo (Thor), and Kevin Durand (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) all co-star from a script written by John Gatins (Coach Carter).

“A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.”

Real Steel will be released here in the UK on 14th October, and is certainly something to look forward to if you’re a fan of action and ridiculously cool special effects. There’s already been talk of a sequel if the film does well at the box office, so we may well have more Steel to look forward to in years to come. Without further ado, here’s the fantastic IMAX-exclusive poster for the film, followed by two close-ups of the top and bottom halves.

To celebrate the release of Real Steel in cinemas 14th October, Apollo Cinemas and Dreamworks have given us this rather amazing prize to give away! One lucky HeyUGuys reader will win an XBOX 360 console with Kinect and Kinect Adventures. We’ll also give you a game Fight Night Champion and if that’s not enough, Apollo have given us a pair of tickets to see Real Steel at the closest Apollo cinema to your home.

Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 14th October.

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

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Real Steel has been in our sights for quite some time now, with the first trailer launching way back in December last year, giving us an insight into what looks to be a really fun film.

Since then, we’ve had two awesome posters that I rather love, and plenty more great stuff to boot, and you can catch up on it all here if you’re coming late to the party.

A brand new clip from the film has been released by the nice guys over at ComingSoon.net, and it shows Hugh Jackman, in the leading role, training what will be his championship boxing contender. And if case you haven’t guessed it already from the title, that boxer is a robot. And that robot looks pretty damn sweet.

“Real Steel stars Jackman as a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.”

The film is directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum), with a screenplay written by John Gatins, who co-wrote the terrific Coach Carter. If you’ve seen that film, you’ll know that Gatins is capable of some incredibly inspirational writing, and judging by the music in this clip, which is so awesome, we can expect to see more of the same in Real Steel.

A further six new clips have also been released for the film over at Collider, giving us a look at some of the spectacular effects the film has to offer with the robots going at each other with a vengeance.

Along with Jackman in the lead and Goyo playing his son, the film also stars Evangeline Lilly (TV’s Lost), Kevin Durand (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), and Hope Davis (About Schmidt). With its release date being 14th October, it’s really only a matter of weeks until we get to see the whole thing unfold on the big screen, and I’m definitely looking forward to seeing how it all plays out.

Until then, here are the great new clips to enjoy. First the inspirational training clip, and then the others embedded all in one. The second video actually has the inspirational clip within it, but it’s just so good I wanted to post it separately. If you’re currently in need of some inspiration, this has the music to lift your spirits.

@HeyUGUysLive was at the UK premiere of ‘Real Steel’ at the Empire Leicester Square last night. There was also some fella there called Hugh Jackman.

HUGE Jackman!!

‘Real Steel’ is based on the short story penned by Richard ‘I am Legend’ Matheson and tells a tale set in 2020 of a ‘down-and-out’ boxer named Charlie Kenton (Jackman) who trains up a fighting robot so Kenton can reclaim his name and former glory. In 2020 Robot fighting is essentially the biggest sport  since Ultimate Fighting. On the journey Kenton learns new things about life, love and happiness – cue the heart wrenching, gutsy power ballads.

The attending crowd were treated to a scale model of ‘Atom’, one of the 8-foot robots featured in ‘Real Steel’, and a comedic performance by another one of Real Steel’s robot fighters – ‘Titan’. Through the medium of dance, sound-effects, sound-bites and some water sprayed from it’s robot eye sockets, ‘Titan’ entertained admirably until the stars showed.

We caught up with HJ and the film’s director Shawn Levy who talked to us about how the movie was unique, especially since we have seen another gigantic robot flick on our screens not too long ago.

“Yeah, its definitely not Transformers!” said Avery. “What we wanted to do was honour the short story and give the robot characters an identifiably human side to allow the audience to see them more then just hunks of metal. We also wanted to make the movie fun, but at the same time, it’s hopefully a tear jerker too.”

It would appear that Real Steel holds ‘More Then Meets The Eye’. Talking about things that hold ‘more then meets the eye’, Hugh Jackman cruised in to a roaring crowd oozing more sex appeal then Prince Charming riding a horse called Charisma into the land of Suave.

Working the crowd with more personal professionalism, kindness and time management then has been seen in a while at these kind of shenanigans, we asked him how he feels about another potential blockbuster – Wolverine 2:

“It’s on the cards, I am helping the writing team get it together so it’s ready and good to go for next year. I am looking forward to it!.”

It’s a pleasure meeting Hugh as he comes across as genuinely grateful for all his success, fortune and respect that he has earned in the industry – we asked “Why?”

“I am genuinely appreciative of everyone coming out tonight, and all the support from people who watch my movies. I suppose I can say that ‘hand-on-heart’ because I started acting late in life and got life experience before being rushed headfirst into success through X-Men and all the other wonderful projects I’ve done since, including Real Steel.”

We shake hands and look each other deep in the eye.

I say “Congratulations”.

He says “Thank you so very much”.

Awesome.

I step back to allow others to field their questions and whims. As I turn to pick up my bag and move along, I overhear Hugh make a bellowing proclamation:

“Australia for the Rugby World Cup!”

Oh, Hugh. You were doing so well.

When inside the cinemas, Jackman gave the following introduction which was recorded by Paris Davis before joining his mum and other family members who were all the audience:

“Hello everyone, thank you so much for coming to the London premiere of Reel Steal or as I like to call it the Jackman family screening. There are at least 30 that I know of here and there may be other relatives that I don’t know. But seriously thank you so much- I know people say Hollywood movies and underdog stories that happen on the screen but couldn’t happen in real life but let’s face it, the canaries are in the premiership league-anything can happen!! Enjoy Real Steel.”

Real Steel hits cinemas on the 14th October. Keep your eyes peeled for our interview with director Shawn Levy nearer the release date.

Check out the images below from the premiere and click here to see the rest of our coverage.

The title of this clip says it all. Here is a nice new clip from Dreamworks’ new movie, Real Steel which hits UK cinemas 7th October. In the clip, we get to see two of the robots in the movie go heasd to head in a fight for their lives. Those two robots are Noisey Boy & Midas! Scroll down now to check out the clip and go and see Real Steel, it’s rather good!

Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman​, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackieand Kevin Durand.

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo​​ ) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

We also have the chance for you to win tickets to a preview screening of the movie. Click here to enter.

To celebrate the release of Real Steel on 14th October, Dreamworks have given us two pairs of tickets to the preview screening of the movie on September 19th in London at a West End Venue at 18.30pm (please note screening starts at this time, you must get there before this time should you win).

Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman​, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackieand Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 7th October.

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo​) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

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Dreamworks have released this brand new poster for their new robot fighting movie starring Hugh Jackman called Real Steel. Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman​, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 7th October.

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo​) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

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I was lucky enough to get to see a very early screening of Real Steel a few weeks ago ahead of a great interview that I conducted with director, Shawn Levy at the Empire Big Screen weekend. I’m not allowed to tell you what I thought of it yet but while we wait for the release of the movie on 14th October, Dreamworks have released this new featurette for the movie which gives you a little idea of what you can expect.

It gives you a little look at how they were able to make the robots look so life like as you’ll see in the featurette using forming boxing professional and general boxing legend, Sugar Ray Leonard as their advisor. The movie has a great cast which includes Kevin Durand, Evangeline Lilly, Hugh Jackman, Anthony Mackie, Dakota Goyo and Hope Davis. I’ll stop writing now to give you a chance to watch the featurette but keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks and months for much more from Real Steel.

Click here to view the rest of our coverage from Real Steel including posters and trailers.

If anyone can sell us on a big screen version of Robot Wars then it’s Dreamworks and Hugh Jackman.

This new Japanese trailer for Real Steel unleashes a load of plot along with the obligatory CG robot fighting. What this trailer does better than the previous theatrical trailer is lay out the emotional centre of the film, something which is essential if the film is to be seen as anything more than Rocky VII: Heavy Metal.

Shawn Levy is directing this one with Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand standing up alongside Mr Jackman and while it seems like a difficult film to sell this trailer is a good way to start.

Here’s the trailer. Face the screen and click below,

The bleeding cool Bleeding Cool boys get the thank yous for this.

Dreamworks have just sent over the first new international UK poster for their new movie, Reel Steel. If you missed the trailer for it a month or so ago, you can check it out here. This new poster follows the US version which was released a couple of weeks ago and although I like it a lot, I like this one more!

Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 7th October.

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

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Love this new poster for Real Steel. We got to the see the theatrical trailer for the new Hugh Jackman movie a few weeks ago and the more I see from it, the more I can’t wait to see it! If you know nothing about it, you should most definitely check out the trailer.

Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 7th October.

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championshipcontender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

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To coincide with the release of the full theatrical trailer for Real Steel, Dreamworks have sent over five new images from the movie which stars Hugh Jackman.

Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and also stars Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 7th October.

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

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Yesterday before the Pirates of the Caribbean screening, Disney chose to show us the full theatrical version of the trailer for Real Steel which they are distributing for Dreamworks. Bottom line, it looks absolutely awesome!!

Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie and Kevin Durand. It’ll be with us in the UK 7th October.

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, “Real Steel” stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championshipcontender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

Now, in all it’s glory, here is the new theatrical full length trailer!

DreamWorks appears to be very confident in the outcome of director Shawn Levy’s sci-fi drama Real Steel, as they have already begun gearing up for the sequel after internal screenings garnered strong feedback, according to Deadline.

For those of you not yet familiar with the film supposedly so good, it’s worth a sequel before the public even judges for themselves, Real Steel follows Charlie Kenton (played by Hugh Jackman) in the near-future as he is forced to leave his boxing champion-past behind once giant robots are made to replace human fighters in the ring. He takes on a role as a small-time promoter, and with his son in tow, joins forces with a discarded robot he hopes can contend for the championship.

The film is based on the short story Steel by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the AMAZING What Dreams May Come, in addition to I Am Legend. I have to admit, DreamWorks’ confidence has taken my intrigue and pumped it up a notch with this news, and now I can’t wait to see what they’ve got in their corner. If you haven’t gotten a chance yet, check out the trailer for Real Steel below, coming to theaters everywhere October 7th.