The HeyUGuys 2012 BAFTA Poster by Dave Williams

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We’re days away from the 65th annual BAFTA awards and to kick off our coverage of the event we’ve teamed up with the very talented Dave Williams, whose work we’ve posted before on the site, who has created this rather wonderful poster for us. We’ll be live at the awards on Sunday night to bring [...]

The Box-Office – War Horse Gallops To Victory For The Second Week In A Row

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Well it’s awards season again and thus this week’s top ten is an entirely polarising affair. We’ve got the great and the good of awards season doing well for themselves but it’s the shouty, awards hungry, For Your Consideration! failures that litter the outskirts of the chart that are the real news this week. But [...]

Brilliant New Set Of Protestor Posters For The Iron Lady Includes One Inspired By Banksy

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The BAFTA-nominated director Phyllida Lloyd’s return to work with her Mamma Mia! star, Meryl Streep, came to the UK cinemas last week with The Iron Lady, which has seen Streep nominated for the Best Actress award at the Golden Globes in the Drama category, the winners of which are announced this weekend. The US and [...]

The Iron Lady Review

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Phyllida Lloyd’s first experience directing Meryl Streep involved sun, song and a lot of frolicking along the sand. Three years on they have returned with a far quieter and more serious film, mapping the life of one of Britain’s most notorious political figures and only female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. A patchwork of politics and [...]

Go Behind the Scenes of The Iron Lady in this Fantastic Featurette

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I’ve just watched this brand new featurette for The Iron Lady and I’m now so eager to see the film when it’s released January 6th. It stars Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in this ‘work of fiction’ from scriptwriter Abi Moore that spans 40 years of the life of Thatcher’s rise from a greengrocer’s daughter [...]

New Trailer for The Iron Lady Released

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This latest trailer for The Iron Lady is close to doing the impossible and making me feel a little sorry for Maggie Thatcher, indeed this is due to the work of Meryl Streep who appears to have captured her quarry perfectly. Early word on Phyllida Lloyd’s film is that Streep is likely to be Oscar [...]

Win Tickets to the UK Premiere of The Iron Lady

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To celebrate the release of THE IRON LADY, in cinemas January 6th, we have teamed up with Pathé to offer you the chance to win tickets to the Premiere in London on Wednesday 4th January. THE IRON LADY tells the compelling story of Margaret Thatcher, a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and [...]

VisitEngland Give us a Great List of Upcoming Movies Shot on Location

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We here at HeyUGuys are very proud to be British. We love our movie heritage and are so pleased when big Hollywood studios decide that the UK is a place they want to shoot their movie. Some of the most iconic movies of all times have been shot here and looking at this list, the [...]

The Iron Lady UK Poster Arrives

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If the first full trailer for Phyllida Lloyd’s Margaret Thatcher biopic, The Iron Lady, hasn’t got you in a Tory-induced frenzy then let’s play host to the latest campaign hit – the new UK poster for the film. First indications are that Meryl Streep looks unsettlingly like her Royal Thatchness, though with slightly more ‘Come [...]

First Full Trailer for The Iron Lady

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Since the first images of Meryl Streep as Maggie Thatcher emerged The Iron Lady became a thoroughly intriguing prospect. Through the other pictures which surfaced, showing Jim Broadbent as husband Denis, and Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant and others taking their place in the Thatcher cabinet, one thing remained to be seen – would Streep [...]

New Pics from The Iron Lady: Meryl Streep, Richard E. Grant and Anthony Head Tory Up

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More images from the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady have emerged today showing off two of the star names in their Tory garb. We’ve already seen Meryl Streep’s uncanny Maggie impression and she has captured the chilling and composed calmness of the infamous Prime Minister and now we have our first look at Richard [...]

Fabulous First Poster for The Iron Lady Shows London City-Scape

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This poster is fabulous and it’s so nice to see someone go to a great deal of effort to create an amazing poster. Here’s the first poster for Meryl Streep’s new movie, The Iron Lady courtesy  of Yahoo. As you can see, in this poster, we get to see an awesome London cityscape explode out [...]

All Hail Maggie – Salutary New Image of Meryl Streep as Thatcher

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I actually don’t want to see any more of this film as Meryl Streep seems to have completed her Doomlord like transformation into the woMan of Steel herself and now Streep is Thatcher is Streep, Meryl becomes Maggie and spines across the country chill in hideous remembrance. The Iron Lady is the handy work of [...]

Ralph Fiennes Seeks Out The Invisible Woman

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Ralph Fiennes is set to direct his second feature film, The Invisible Woman, based on the 1990 book by Claire Tomalin of the same name, which looks at the relationship between author Charles Dickens and actress Ellen Ternan over the last thirteen years of his life, the Daily Mail report. Fiennes recently made his debut as [...]

Margaret Thatcher Biopic ‘The Iron Lady’ Gets a Teaser Trailer

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We’ve only seen images up to now of filming from The Iron Lady but not Pathe have released the first trailer for the movie on the BBC Breakfast. The movie is based on the life of Margaret Thatcher and takes it’s title from Thatcher’s nickname. The Iron Lady is directed by Phyllida Lloyd who also [...]

Ridley Scott’s Prometheus Begins Production at Pinewood Studios

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Exciting times ahead! The Pinewood Studios website is reporting (with a nod to their Twitter account) that production has begun on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus which confirms our earlier report stating the movie was shooting in the UK and not in Canada. This will be the fifth film of Scott’s to use the facility. He made [...]

More Meryl as Maggie With New Pics from The Iron Lady

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I’m still secretly hoping that this is all part of a live action sequel to Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant but with every new image released that dream is looking far more unlikely. Here’s another image from the production and it’s Maggie and Dennis in their iconic Blue salute and Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent’s [...]

Film4 and Focus Features Reteam With BAFTA Award-Winning Writer Abi Morgan for Suffragettes

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Film4 and Focus Features are set to reteam with BAFTA award-winning writer Abi Morgan (Brick Lane) on ensemble drama Suffragettes. Suffragettes will center on a group of militant British women who fight for the right to vote, and be in the vein of Nigel Cole’s comedy-drama Made in Dagenham. Sarah Gavron is attached to direct, [...]

First Look at Jim Broadbent on the Set of The Iron Lady

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Currently filming in London The Iron Lady, Phyllida Lloyd’s biopic of Maggie Thatcher, has afforded us a look at one of our favourite actors taking on the man behind the woman who drove the UK through the turbulent political landscape of the 80s. Jim Broadbent, who recently returned to work with Mike Leigh for Another [...]

More Set Pictures from Thatcher Biopic The Iron Lady

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More pictures from the set of Phyllida Lloyd’s film of the life of 80s political Bellatrix Margaret Thatcher, and so far we’ve seen Meryl Streep confuse decades of satirical drubbing by portraying her as more glamourous than history remembers. While Thatcher’s reign of power is where the film will undoubtedly set the majority of its [...]