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The beloved British comedy troupe Monty Python, well-known for their films and sketch shows from the late ’60s through to the early ’80s, are set to return once more to the big screen together for a new sci-fi farce, Absolutely Anything. The film will be a mixture of CGI and live-action, Variety report, with Terry [...]
This is a piece of very good news to end the week on. From Monday, the 23rd of January you can watch The Wholly Family, the latest film from cinematic legend Terry Gilliam via The Guardian who are always carrying out a Q&A with the director from 7pm on that day. You can choose to [...]
Hanna’s teen assassin Saoirse Ronan is a busy actress at the moment. The 17-year-old is headlining both the adaptation of Twilight novelist Stephenie Meyer’s The Host and Neil Jordan’s trip back to vampiredom, Byzantium. Variety is reporting that she’s also signed on to star in fantasy wartime drama, How I Live Now. She’ll play the [...]
We’re a fragile planet, and the imagined end of days has long kept storytellers busy with brainy apes, sentient computers, Emma Thompson’s cancer cure with vampiric side effects and Government sponsored culling of the populace just a few of the ways our planet will go to hell in a handbasket. While Bill & Ted will [...]
Here at HeyUGuys, we’re pretty big fans of Terry Gilliam, and one of the London Film Festival films we’re most excited about is his short, The Wholly Family. So when we saw him walking past us at the Coriolanus premiere, we had to grab him for a quick chat. HUG: As a feature director, what [...]
Sunday night in Lodon held the UK Premiere for brand new movie, George Harrison: Living in the Material World which is directed by the fabulous Martin Scorsese. It’s a biopic based on the life of Harrison who rose to fame after being in a band you may have heard of called The Beatles! Scorsese was [...]
We’ve had the trailer but here is the first clip from the brand new documentary directed by Martin Scorsese focusing on George Harrison which has the title, George Harrison: Living the Material World. The documentary focuses around Harrison who was in the band The Beatles and who died 29th November 2001. The 3 and a [...]
Having one of their number die in 1989 is clearly no obstacle when the Pythons decide to get the band back together, and it’s a Beatles ‘Free as a Bird’ style reunion as the remaining members of the comedy group are currently recording voices which will be cut together with Graham Chapman’s own voice recording [...]
Time Bandits, the 1981 fantasy from director Terry Gilliam, has been lined up against the remake wall and fingers are tightening on the triggers. Collider pointed us to this Variety article which details the plans a number of ex-Handmade Films executives have for Time Bandits and a TV series based around The Long Good Friday [...]
Following his recent peep behind the curtain of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Terry Gilliam has turned his talents to a short film with The Legend of Hallowdega as well as directing Arcade Fire at Madison Square Gardens. While the figure of Don Quixote looms on the horizon the director has just announced that one of [...]
Nike has been really upping their game in the promo/viral field of late. You may recall that the company recently managed to acquire the talents of cinematic big-hitters Alejandro González Iñárritu and Terry Gilliam to deliver incredible-looking, inventive, big-budget adverts. Now Texas-based DIY action auteur Robert Rodriquez has produced a five minute viral where he [...]
Terry Gilliam has agreed to act as a creative advisor on a new film by British digital animation specialist, Tim Ollive. 1884 will be set in the titular year, but with Europe at war, the sky filled with steam-powered flying cars and man having landed on the moon. Director Ollive collaborated with Gilliam on the [...]
Lots and lots for Gilliam fans to enjoy here, as we get closer to the release of his next film, or filmette as the promo material has it. Throwing a supernatural slant on the Talladega Superspeedway NASCAR races Gilliam brings David Arquette and Justin Kirk together for a short film that will premiere on Halloween [...]
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie 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 [...]
Having Terry Jones return to the big screen is always an excellent thing, and the good news that Phoenix Pictures are set on producing a script co-written by Jones and Gavin Scott is compounded by the notion that some of Jones’ Python alumni may be joining him. Oh, and Robin Williams is up for a [...]
It seems financing for Terry Gilliam’s long gestating Don Quixote film may have fallen through once again. Speaking at the Deauville American Film Festival on Saturday, Terry Gilliam was quoted by Variety as saying, “The financing collapsed about a month and a half ago [...] I shouldn’t be here. The plan was to be shooting [The Man Who [...]
Before I start this post with the words ‘This is a trailer for a Serbian film’, notice that I’m not capitalising the three words – this is a far cry from Srdjan Spasojevic’s taboo eviscerating horrorshow. Tears for Sale was directed by Uroš Stojanović in 2005 and hit the festivals a few years later, and [...]
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie 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 [...]
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie 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 [...]
This makes me angry, and I’m usually so easy going. Pajiba cooly announced to the world that Warner Bros and ‘Mr. Producer’ Joel Silver are developing a big screen version of Miguel Cervantes literary quagmire of a novel, Don Quixote, and they are doing so with words such as ‘swashbuckling’, ‘tentpole’ and ‘blockbuster’ firmly in [...]
