Movie News, Movie Reviews & Movie Trailers
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
What went wrong with Star Trek 2 |
6 of the Best Tarantino Scenes |
Epic Cast Interviews |
Who Could Join Avengers 2? |
The Hangover Part 3 Review |
Neal H. Moritz, the producer behind the likes of I Am Legend, Prison Break,21 Jump Street, and all the Fast & Furious films, has announced that he and his production company, Original Films, are moving forward with a new take on the Sleeping Beauty tale that will re-imagine it as a comedy. The film will [...]
On face value, Australian author Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty is both a sordid and brave film-making debut that will literally divide opinion. It’s not the nudity that is the main issue for most, rather the treatment of the main character, Lucy, played by Sucker Punch’s Emily Browning that triggers deep feelings of revulsion. At the [...]
Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty has proved a divisive film in its run across the festival circuit and it finally comes to UK cinemas this weekend. Lisa spoke to the star of the film Emily Browning as well as the film’s director, you can find those interviews here and here, but our friends at Upbeat also [...]
Famed for her lead role as Baby Doll in Zack Snyder’s fantasy action adventure Sucker Punch about an institutionalised young girl who retreats into an alternative reality as a coping mechanism while planning to escape from a mental facility, Australian actress Emily Browning talks to us about her next controversial film, Sleeping Beauty. Officially selected [...]
Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty premiered at Cannes earlier in the year to largely a good reception, and the reviews that came out of the festival were certainly intriguing. The first trailer debuted back in April ahead of its Cannes debut, and gave us an idea of how dark this dark erotic drama would be. And [...]
Known as a novelist first and foremost, author and debut film-maker Julia Leigh wanted to ask the question, what would it be like to be a ‘sleeping beauty’, after reading two novellas by Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Officially selected at Cannes 2011, Leigh’s film, Sleeping Beauty, is a haunting portrait of Lucy (played [...]
If you missed the amazing trailer for Cannes 2011 competition entry, Sleeping Beauty, you really must have a watch here. The movie is directed by Julia Leigh and stars Emily Browning who we recently saw in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch alongside Rachael Blake, Michael Dorman, Mirrah Foulkes, Nathan Page, Hugh Keays-Byrne and Henry Nixon. Death-haunted, [...]
Emily Browning’s career transition from her charming and acerbic turn in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events through Zack Snyder’s Baby Doll in Sucker Punch will find its next touchstone with Julia Leigh’s dark sex drama Sleeping Beauty, a trailer for which has just appeared. It was back in February 2010 when we reported [...]
Academy Award-nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) is attached to Sleeping Beauty. Penned by Lindsay Devlin, the revisionist spec is being shopped around to various studios as we speak. Sleeping Beauty is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, enchantment and a handsome prince. Devlin’s version will be told from Sleeping Beauty’s point-of-view as she enters the [...]
It was reported at the start of the year that rumours were emerging that Disney and Tim Burton were proposing a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story, focusing on the evil queen Maleficent, and that the new project would get off the ground if Alice in Wonderland proved to be a hit. We all know [...]
Following her delightfully deadpan turn in her role as Violet in Brad Silberling’s big screen adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Emily Browning is looking to more mature climes, and if the news as reported The Playlist is anything to go by, she’ll have a very different type of role to play [...]
If this rumour has any pinch of truth about it then the movie gods are clearly smiling on us. AICN set alight the touchpaper when they posted the rumour that Tim Burton is developing another remake of a Disney classic following his work on the much anticipated Alice In Wonderland. This time Burton is lining [...]