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When the line up for this year’s London Film Festival was announced earlier this month there was a sigh of relief as Michel Hazanavicius’s film was revealed to be part of the programme. The short clip that was played in the festival’s opening montage was for some, me included, the first glance of the film [...]
There is just one more day to go until we get to find out exactly why we never went back to the Moon with Gonzalo López-Gallego’s Apollo 18′s searing indictment on the socio-political consequences of NASA budget cutbacks. Or more likely it’ll be a lunar version of Paranormal Activity which is pretty much what is [...]
Moon based stalk/scare frenzy Apollo 18 has the intriguing premise of a secret lunar mission with unknown nasties attacking the astronauts, however despite a few well designed early teases the more we’ve seen of this film the more generic it’s looking. Secret ‘found’ footage gimmicks and conspiracy craziness swirl around this but it won’t be [...]
Coming on the heels of its success at the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival, The Weinstein Company have released the first official trailer and poster for The Artist. Written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist stars Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Malcolm McDowell and Missi Pyle. Hollywood 1927. George Valentin [...]
The Weinstein Company have unveiled the first official poster for My Week with Marilyn. Directed by Simon Curtis (Cranford), My Week with Marilyn stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Toby Jones, Derek Jacobi and Dougray Scott. Colin Clark (Redmayne), an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier’s, documents the tense interaction between [...]
A trailer for Hellraiser: Revelations has stumbled forth from the bowls of Hell and, well, I guess we all know what the devil’s been eating. Rather than a tease for the franchise’s planned reboot, Hellraiser: Revelations is instead a stop-gap to ensure that the rights don’t expire before The Weinstein Company can get that particular [...]
Here’s a few new TV spots for the rather eerie movie that is Apollo 18. It’s produced by Timur Bekmambetov who directed Angelina Jolie in Wanted and this movie is directed by Gonzalo López. It recently got picked by by the Weinstein company so we’re expecting it to be rather good. Officially, Apollo 17, launched [...]
To mark the release of The Company Men on DVD and Blu-ray NOW, Universal Pictures have given us five copies of the movie for you to win on DVD. When you fall from grace, you often fall hard. Academy Award®* winners Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and Kevin Costner star in this compelling [...]
Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) is in advanced talks to co-star in The Weinstein Company’s Django Unchained. Costner will star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception), Jamie Foxx (Horrible Bosses), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) and Samuel L. Jackson (Snakes on a Plane) in the drama-western written and directed by Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill). Django Unchained centers on a [...]
The Weinstein Company have released the theatrical trailer for I Don’t Know How She Does It, the feature film adaptation of Allison Pearson’s acclaimed comedy novel. Directed by Douglas McGrath (Infamous), I Don’t Know How She Does It stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer, Olivia Munn, Greg Kinnear, Seth Meyers, Christina Hendricks and Jessica Szohr. Hedge-fund manager, [...]
The Terminator franchise is in the hands of producer Megan Ellison, who’s Annapurna Films fought it out with Lionsgate in a deal which has Fast & Furious 5’s Justin Lin onboard to direct and Arnold Schwarzenegger back in the starring role. Ellison is the daughter of US business magnate Larry Ellison, and she’s decided to [...]
We can all rejoice with the news that Paul Thomas Anderson will begin production on his long-awaited, oft-delayed follow-up to There Will Be Blood next month. What’s more, it would now appear that The Weinstein Company has won the bidding battle for worldwide distribution rights to the picture. Formally entitled The Master, both Philip Seymour [...]
Here’s the very first eerie trailer for the Timur Bekmambetov produced, Gonzalo López directed movie, Apollo 18 which has recently been acquired by the Weinstein Company. Apollo 18 is a film about the real mission to space in the 1970′s that was cancelled by NASA. It will be shot hand-held camera style, depicting lost recordings [...]
The Weinstein Company have a forth instalment of their enormously popular horror franchise Scream on the way, so why not return to the spoof spin-off that has made them a another bucketload of cash too! For those out there who already bemoan the lack of originality in Tinseltown, and are less than excited at the [...]
The story of Facebook founder Mark Zukerberg’s ascension to the top (and the ensuing drama around his creation) has proved to be a big box office draw, and it also looks like The Social Network may be the recipient of a number of Oscars, come March time. Following that film’s success and the current thirst [...]
The Weinstein Company have acquired US distribution rights to Cogan’s Tale, an upcoming adaptation of the George V. Higgins novel of the same name. Set to be directed by Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford), Cogan’s Trade will star Brad Pitt (Moneyball), Casey Affleck (The Killer Inside Me), Sam [...]
Bright young thing Anne Hathaway (who has more than adequately made the leap from child actor to fully fledged movie star) has been taking to BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row about her plans for the Judy Garland biopic she’s involved with. Her name has been mentioned as far back as early 2009 in regards [...]
IGN have debuted the first teaser poster for Apollo 18, a new horror sci-fi film recently acquired by The Weinstein Company. Gonzalo López is directing from a script by Brian Miller. Acclaimed Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov is attached as executive producer. Apollo 18 is a film about the real mission to space in the 1970′s [...]
IMP have debuted a wistful new poster for The Weinstein Company’s Blue Valentine. Directed by Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine stars Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling, Mike Vogel, John Doman, Ben Shenkman and Faith Wladyka. Blue Valentine centers on a married couple, Dean and Cindy, and their relationship over a number of years by shifting between different [...]
The Weinstein Company have released a rather provocative poster for the currently NC-17 rated Blue Valentine. Blue Valentine was written and directed by filmmaker Derek Cianfrance and stars Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling as a couple trying to get their marriage back on track. Synopsis: The story of love found and love lost told using [...]
