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Emma Stone, Andy Samberg, And More In Great Parody Trailer For 30 Rock

Kenji Lloyd — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:00:03 +0000

With a slew of Emmy Award and Golden Globe wins and nominations to its name over the past few years, 30 Rock has become one of the most popular comedies on TV, with a cast led by Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and Tracy Morgan, and featuring more cameos than you can shake a fist at, including Will Arnett, Julianne Moore, Matt Damon, James Franco, Michael Sheen, Elizabeth Banks, and so many more.

The show’s sixth season kicked off in the States earlier this month, and NBC have put up a brilliant episode highlight for last night’s episode, via The Playlist, in which the brilliant Emma Stone, Andy Samberg, and Nick Cannon cameo. If you’re a fan of the show here in the UK but haven’t seen any of the new episodes, then you may want to look away now, but the 50-second spot really doesn’t give anything away, it’s just a lot of fun.

Lightly poking fun at Garry Marshall’s recent star-studded films, Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve, we see Stone, Samberg (nicely credited as ‘Andrew Samberg’), Cannon, and Jane Krakowski (who plays Jenna Maroney on the show) starring in a trailer Martin Luther King Day that Jenna’s playing to the rest of the 30 Rock characters. Naturally, it’s a lot of fun, as you can expect from the show.

I’m still yet to see the fifth season, which comes out on DVD here on 12^th March, but am already looking forward to seeing this scene in the full episode in the sixth season. Here’s the great new clip to enjoy. Got MLK? Brilliant.

Exclusive Interview – Writer Tamzin Rafn Talks Albatross

Jamie Neish — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:00:26 +0000

Premiering at the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival in June to – mostly – rapturous applause, Albatross is a coming-of-age comedy-drama centring on verbose, would-be writer Emilia’s incendiary effect on a struggling author, Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), and his respective family, including wife Joa (Julia Ormond) and daughter Beth (Felicity Jones.

Last week, HeyUGuys had the opportunity to speak to the films riotous writer Tamzin Rafn about Albatross’ inspiration, the trials and tribulations letting her script be made into a film, how she felt about Niall MacCormick as a director, her neglected yet brilliantly titled rom-com and her plans for the future.

Here is said interview in its full, unabridged glory.

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HeyUGuys: Firstly, what was your inspiration behind Albatross?

Tamzin Rafn: Albatross wasn’t my first screenplay. My first ever screenplay was a rom-com called Audrey Disorderly – a great title given the disorderly mess of the writing in it – and it told me that I loved the process. That script instantly, but incredibly fortuitously, got me an agent and was optioned by a small producer and, buoyed by instant success, I wrote a second comedy which I gave my husband to read whilst I popped off to the cinema. He read it and, rightly, said I didn’t know how to write humans. It was so awful that we decided that it should never see the light of day and we ceremoniously burnt it on the BBQ. The lesson, an age old one, was to write what you know and it turns out I don’t really know many funny fat lawyers with self-esteem issues which caused the fire in the first place.

What I did know about though was naughty girls in seaside towns. I knew that because I’d been one and I always loved movies about people who misbehaved. Plus, not long before, whilst I was writing the BBQ debacle script, Juno had come out and there was a ton of press about Diablo Cody, this stripper who had just put down her bra and picked up her pen, and I found that quite inspiring. Not the stripper part – that never really floated my boat – but the other bit was quite exciting. So I sat down and I thought about everything I loved in movies. That list ran to: naughty girls, seaside towns, writers and scandalous behaviour. I then watched every movie that fitted that for me – The Wonder Boys, The Squid And The Whale, Wish You Were Here, The Door In The Floor, Thirteen.

And there we have it. Da-da… Albatross.

What made you want to write a script in the first place? It must be an incredibly daunting and lonely experience. Was it always your aim in life?

Are you kidding me? Who doesn’t want to work in film? And I’m not a director. And I may be a hammy show-off but apparently I’m a dreadful actress (I think I’m good though. That helps).

I love writing but I’m not a solitary person. This is why I still have a day job as well. I would literally start gnawing off my own arm if I was left on my own for more than a week – I crave company in the bathroom. Plus I’m a terrible magpie. Where else am I going to get stories from? My husband is a director and he often works weekends and we work well together so we are happy, as long as there is wine and buddies at the end of it, to spend the weekend writing.

I obviously aim to write forever. It’s a lovely thing, writing. You don’t need anyone else to do it, you can do it at any age and you get so much pleasure from it.

My ultimate aim is obviously to move to Hollywood, get incredibly white straight teeth and a minuscule waistline and throw out handbags like used coke cans. But I think my sensibility is quite British and I would really hope that films like The Inbetweeners are putting more money back into the British film industry and allowing us to make more movies here of the types we want to make.

Obviously there are pre-conceived ideas and conventions behind the coming-of-age genre. For me, Albatross marked a defiance of those boundaries and represented a new direction. Was it always intentional to push the boundaries and try something new rather than succumbing to generic ideals?

Although this is very definitely a coming-of-age tale, I didn’t really pop it in a box in that way at any stage – until it came out and that sounded good. I think I was trying to write a cuckoo-in-the-nest comedy movie (and the original incarnation of the script was very much that) and I just happened to choose a coming-of-age character to do so.

I was a nightmare at 17. I was a nightmare at 14, 15, 16 and 18 too. I chose 17 so that some things were legal and some things were still banned. When my mum saw the film in Edinburgh, there were a group of my friends up there with me. She turned to them and said, “If you think Emilia was bad, Tamzin was worse”. So pushing the boundaries came as a result of that being an actuality in my teens. It just so turns out that being a nightmare comes naturally to me. And writing Emilia was like writing a version of myself but adding characteristics to make it filmic and that meant giving her some tragedy and heart to explain her behaviour. My behaviour was unexplained. My own upbringing was pretty idyllic and my rebellion came from a much more selfish place so, basically, I was simply a cow - but the end result is that it has helped create this film.

I’m not sure that answers that question. It turns out I can waffle in text just as much as I can waffle in conversation. Whodathunkit?

Do the themes of loneliness, rejection and adapting yourself to fit that run through the film mimic your life in any way? Did you write from certain experiences?

Those themes resonate more in the fact that they’re fears. They tap into things I feared at 17, and probably still do fear. Still needy.

As I said before, the film explores a variety of themes and ideas. Was it important for you to layer your film, so that it can be unravelled and seen through many different eyes in a variety of ways?

It’s always important to hold information back. The audience only know what they’re given. It’s a powerful position to be in.

It was important to me that you didn’t instantly know that Emilia lived with her grandparents. I really wanted that little bits about her to just drip out. I withheld that she’d been expelled from school too – not particularly because it lead anywhere but more so that people would keep reading in the hope that it would. It’s so easy to put down a boring script so I was throwing anything at it to keep people reading. A friend of mine who I asked to read it when it was still a work in progress said to me, “Very good. I got to page 78”. I immediately raced home to see what the lull was on page 78 and why she got bored enough to put it down and never go back to it. (Actually, I never worked it out. I’ve decided my friend is not a very good reader instead)

The other thing was that Audrey Disorderly, my first script, followed one character. Audrey was in every scene and I couldn’t work out (as a novice) whether that was normal, whether I’d ever seen a movie where, unless you were with the protagonist you couldn’t witness the action (obviously happens a lot but I was learning). So Albatross was also an exercise in multi-protagonist narratives. It’s quite refreshing to write yourself into a cul-de-sac and think, “Oops, skip to Joa being mean then” to get yourself out of a situation.

How was your relationship with the director [Niall MacCormick]? Did he approach you about directing your screenplay, or was it all done through your publicist?

The script of Albatross was optioned, about three weeks after my agent sent it out, by Marc Samuelson and CinemaNX. This is unheard of, by the way. More than that, it was filming within a year of that. This is almost unprecedented. I realize I am very lucky.

They sent the draft out to directors, met a heap of people without me, whittled it down and then I met some of them. I obviously had my favourites and Niall was among them so I was really glad when they offered it to him and he said yes. It was a Sunday night I think and, as he lives in Croatia, he was on a plane over on Monday morning. I was beyond excited on that day.

I’m not going to lie though. Working with a director, any director, is hard. When you’re writing, you’re your own boss. No one tells you what to think or what to feel or what to put on screen. All directors have their own story they want to tell and, it’s often reflective of yours, but has its own characteristics. Straight off, Niall wanted to cut a character – Beth’s brother Griffin who Emilia slept with when he came home from University and who made her realize how old Jonathan was. Griffin then rejected her as a silly little girl and devastated her. Cutting him was huge. Griffin was the entire reason that Emilia and Jonathan had a tempestuous end and the whole reason that Joa discovered the affair. However, what interested Niall was the friendship between Beth and Emilia and, whilst that was always very strong and central in the script, it wasn’t the reason that Emilia didn’t want to be with Jonathan anymore. It took some thinking. It took some arguments and it took a lot of collaboration. We love each other again now. You both want the same end result – A great film. What happens in the middle is the process.

Did you work closely with him/have any say when it came to the final cut?

I did have then, and still have now, a full time job. I took a couple of weeks off to spend with Niall getting the script right but everything else was done on evenings and weekend. There was a lot to cut and there was a lot to change. The worst thing is losing stuff you love but what I actually found even more difficult is that great swathes of stuff gets cut in the edit too. I estimate from the shooting script, nearly 20 pages aren’t on screen anymore because it was just too long. The stuff that gets cut is the stuff you love – comedy mostly – because it doesn’t drive the plot forward and that’s gutting but necessary.

I went to Isle of Man, where the film was set, for a couple of days one weekend (I saw the P Party being filmed) but I did any changes that needed doing during the shoot very early in the morning before work or very late at night when I got in.

Adrian, the producer, kept me in touch with what was going on, mainly if something exciting was happening or somebody was being made to do something awful (run into the sea in the Isle of Man in November, anyone?)

I only saw one rough cut before the final film. I had my comments, as everyone does, but it’s someone else’s job by this point and, once you get this far, the film is everyone’s baby. I was very supportive with what they had because I was so excited – even if in those early cuts you could see that Jessica was amazing and that Sebastian is really hot and that Niall had captured what I felt. It’s the weirdest feeling. It stops being your life and it becomes a movie.

How do you feel about the finished film? Do you feel Niall translated your words onto screen in a way that satisfies you?

I LOVE THE FONT MY NAME IS IN AT THE BEGINNING.

I think it’s a good film but obviously I’m nervous about ‘people’. Who knows what ‘people’ think? Someone on the internet has already called my script ‘execrable’ (which my friends have turned into ‘excrement’ for comedy value). Someone else took a whole paragraph to annihilate me personally. It’s going to happen because it’s not for everyone. I just hope that the someone it is for loves it like I loved Wish You Were Here as a teenager.

Edinburgh Film Festival was a revelation in getting in touch with the audience, I did three Q&A’s and it was so brilliant and enlightening and interesting to see what people connect to or want to know. AND when I got back, my agent passed on a message from David Leland (writer/director of Wish You Were Here) thanking me for referencing his film and wishing me luck with Albatross. And then I DIED WITH JOY.

Did you have any say when it came to casting? Are you pleased with the way Felicity Jones and Jessica Brown Findlay inhabited these characters you’d conceived and mapped out?

I could not be happier with the casting. Both Felicity and Jessica are the embodiment of the characters but also bring something else to it that you can’t write. But then I love Sebastian, who I hadn’t originally written as a German, and Julia who is so perfect for Joa. And most of all, I love Peter Vaughan because he makes everyone cry, which does my writing more of a service than it deserves, by just being heart-breaking in his performance. I was kept abreast of the casting process but it’s not my choice – it’s not my money at stake and good casting is all important. They knew what they were doing and I’m so grateful.

Is there anything you particularly liked about it the experience as a whole, or anything you wish you’d done differently?

No, you can’t go backwards. I think the fact that I was such a teenage mess has helped me now so I don’t like to have regrets. Well, one or two, but probably not repeatable here.

Who in the film industry do you admire?

In no particular order: Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, Nora Ephron, Alexander Payne, Billy Wilder, David Sedaris, Chelsea Handler, Neil La Bute, Mike White, Todd Solondz, Paul Thomas Anderson, Neil Simon, Truman Capote.

Can you name some of your favourite films. Did they have any influence on Albatross?

The list includes: The Apartment, Jaws, Wish You Were Here, When Harry Met Sally, Sunset Boulevard, White Christmas, The Wizard Of Oz.

This list is never-ending. I think Sunset Boulevard and When Harry Met Sally vie for my wish to have written them most of all. Inspiring in different ways but both enviably brilliant. Lord, may I one day have the guts to write a monkey funeral as a throwaway plot point. Or the words Baby Fish Mouth.

Do you have any projects currently in the works?

I’m currently writing a biopic of Shirley Bassey, based on the book Miss Shirley Bassey by John Williams, for director Marc Evans and Rainy Day films (they made The Edge Of Love and Marc’s film Patagonia). I’m starting her at 14 and probably finishing around 22. I love Shirley Bassey and her life as a young girl bears a lot of resemblances to Emilia in a funny way. I can see why they chose me. That and my gushy pitch probably sealed the deal for me.

I have a couple of original ideas on the back burner too but I can’t take too much on seeing as I have a job too. I have to be sensible, particularly if someone is paying you to write. I’m not very good at being sensible so it takes some effort just to maintain one thing.

Finally, for those who might not know much about Albatross, could you sum the film up in a snappy sentence for us?

Ambition is in the eye of the beholder.

Thank you very much for your time, Tamzin.

Albatross hits U.K. cinemas on October 14. Click here to read my review.

Megamind Video Interview – Will Ferrell

David Sztypuljak — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:00:50 +0000

Today sees the release of Dreamworks’ new animation, Megamind. We’ve only heard good things about it and you can read our review of the movie here. We also got to chat with one of the founders of Dreamworks, Jeffrey Katzenberg who talked to us about the movie & 3D Cinema and about his Studio.

Megamind stars Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Ben Stiller, J.K. Simmons and is directed by Tom Mcgrath. Our friend James Kleinmann got to speak to the star himself, Will Ferrell about his character playing the title role of Megamind in the movie. If you missed it earlier, check out James’ interview with the Director and then head down to your local cinema (if you’re not snowed in) to watch the movie!

Megamind Video Interview: Director Tom McGrath

David Sztypuljak — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:30:03 +0000

Megamind stars Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Ben Stiller, J.K. Simmons and is directed by Tom Mcgrath who our friend James Kleinmann got to interview for the movie.

I’ve placed the interview below and keep your eyes peeled later on this afternoon for an interview by the star of the movie, Will Ferrell.

Megamind Review

Adam Lowes — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:00:19 +0000

Coming six years after Pixar’s tale of those domesticated defenders of good, The Incredibles, DreamWorks Animation pulls on the spandex and attaches the long flowing cape to deliver a superhero spoof with a difference in the form of Megamind.

The twist in the tale here is the story focuses instead on the devious villain, and not the bright-shining, incorruptible hero. Voiced by Will Ferrell (pleasantly restrained), Megamind is an evil genius with a skin tone which would make the Na’vi proud and a bulb-shaped head to cope with his huge, overstimulated brain. He is forever battling for control of Metro City from it’s lantern-jawed defender, Metro Man (Brad Pitt doing Brad Pitt), a muscle-bound do-gooders cut from the same heroic cloth as Superman.

After accidentally disposing of the city’s hero in a cleverly staged trap early on in proceeding, Megamind soon begins to lament the lack of action and competition when he finds himself in the position of ruler. Hitting on the idea of creating another superhero to fill the gap left by Metro Man, he finds himself falling for the Lois Lane-like reporter Roxanne Ritchi (30 Rock’s Tina Fey) who he initially used as bait in trapping Metro Man. Could she be the key to him giving up his evil ways and opting instead for a life as a defender of good, and not a destroyer of it?

No prizes for those who have already guessed the outcome, but there is much pleasure to be had from the film before the conflicted villain finally makes his Megamind up. DreamWorks have upped their game of late, producing a number of slick, well-crafted pieces of family entertainment which more than stand up to the likes of Woody and Buzz, and Megamind is no exception. The plot flies along at a breakneck pace, although never sacrificing astutely-observed character moments or development in the process. Like the Shrek series before it, the film contains the usual fun visual pop culture references which cater for an older, knowing crowd (there’s an amusing Donkey Kong gag for eagle-eyed viewers who grew up in that gaming era) and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the film also contains a number of humorous homages to the Man of Steel himself.

In a beautifully-constructed flashback prologue, we see Megamind as a baby (aided by his loving parents) escaping the destruction of his home planet (à la Krypton), only for the well-known myth to be hilariously turned on it’s head when Megamind’s pod ends up crash landing in a concrete prison yard and not in some corn field near Smallville. From there, he’s brought up and educated by the kind of criminals his parents initially envisioned him ridding the world of.

The nods to Superman don’t end there either. Megamind’s construction of a new superhero, achieved by using DNA left over from Metro Man, strongly echoes the plot for the much-maligned forth entry into the Christopher Reeves series of films. Megamind also disguises himself as a mentor for his new creation, whose image and voice bears more than a passing resemblance to Marlon Brando’s character in the first Superman movie, complete with his silver Mr Whippy-style quiff.

It’s also a handsomely animated tale, although its budget is clearly much bigger to that of Despicable Me’s – the recent 3D feature from Fox, and a film which Megamind will no doubt be compared against. Despite both having a central premise which hinges on the transformation of a bad guy who just needs a little love in his heart for him to see the error of his ways, like Antz and A Bug’s Life before them, the two films manage to be thoroughly entertaining in their own right, regardless of the similarities.

Alongside the likes of Ferrell and Fey, strong voice support also comes in the form of Judd Apatow regular Jonah Hill, who plays Ritchi’s infatuated cameraman and eventual subject of Megamind’s superhero replacement. Hill manages to make his character even creepier to that of his recent role in indie comedy Cyrus, and his transformation from puny, overweight wannabe love interest to powerful super being who still can’t get the girl, is genuinely unpleasant and presents something a little more disturbing behind the obvious bad guy boo-hiss theatrics.

Already this year there have been a number of CG-animated films which have resonated deeply with the popcorn crowd as well as appeasing those hard-to-please critics. Megamind is a welcome addition to that list and will hopefully be a continuation in quality for DreamWorks. Although it’s too early to tell if the film will have the longevity of some of its animated predecessors, it’s a welcomed slice of superior Hollywood entertainment and engaging enough for a mainstream adult audience, tired of being let-down by all the below-par live-action product on offer out there.

Another New Megamind Poster Arrives!

Dave Roper — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:01:22 +0000

With less than a month until it reaches our screens, the publicity machine for Megamind is really starting to crank into high gear. You can see all of the clips, trailers, posters and concept art here.

Today, courtesy of IMP Awards, we have another poster, this time featuring a baby with a gun and a mutant/alien fish thing that in almost any other context would be at best in bad taste and at worst legally actionable.

Not long to wait now. Have you had enough, or are you thirsty for more?

New Megamind Concept Art

David Sztypuljak — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:00:38 +0000

Dreamworks Animation (via the official Megamind Facebook page) have released a couple of rather nice bits of concept art to accompany the movie which comes out in the UK Friday 3rd December. This art shows, the villain / goodie (watch the trailer to find out more) played by Will Ferrell and Metro Man voiced by Bratt Pitt.

The movie’s voice cast also includes Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath.

Synopsis: Megamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known… and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way — Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as “Metro Man,” until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world’s biggest “mind” actually be the one to save the day?

You can click the images below to enlarge.

Watch the First Five Minutes of Megamind (From Anywhere)

David Sztypuljak — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:16:36 +0000

So it would seem that the US get to see the first five minutes of Megamind but nowhere else! No fair I hear you cry. We agree! So we have scoured the internet to come across some fan-dangled website called YouTube which has the first 5 minutes of footage recorded from when Nikelodeon first aired it.

The movie has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath.

Megamind is released in the UK 3rd December and in the US 5th November.

Watch below and enjoy before it’s probably removed from this lovely YouTube!

Two New International Posters for Megamind

Dave Roper — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:34 +0000

We seem to have had an almost absurd volume of posters for the upcoming Megamind. We’ve kept you up to speed with it all (see here) and although this flies in the face of our “Final Megamind Poster” post of a few weeks ago, here are two more international posters for your viewing pleasure.

This film looks like a genuine treat and will hit US screens in early November, landing in the UK a few weeks later, in early December.

Thanks to IMP Awards for the posters which you can click to enlarge.

French Poster for Megamind

David Sztypuljak — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:00:38 +0000

Ecranlarge (via IMPA) have released a brand new french poster for Megamind. The movie has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath.

We got to release some new posters for the movie a few weeks ago which you can see here. The first two posters feature Megamind (Will Ferrell) and Minion (David Cross) here, the third here showing off Brad Pitt’s character, Metro Man, the fourth is Tina Fey as roving reporter Roxanne and the final poster which shows Jonah Hill as Tighten.

Megamind is released in the UK 3rd December and in the US 5th November.

Final Megamind Poster Released

Jon Lyus — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:30:31 +0000

So, after all the other posters have had their day in the sun Dreamworks Animation have tweeted the final Megamind poster to the world.

The film features a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath.

Before enjoying the one why not kill a minute or two by reading the synopsis?

From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda.” “Megamind” is the most brilliant supervillain the world has ever known. And the least successful.

Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as “Metro Man,” an invincible hero until the day Megamind actually kills him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, Megamind has no purpose. A supervillain without a superhero.

He realizes that achieving his life’s ambition is the worst thing that ever happened to him. Megamind decides that the only way out of his rut is to create a new hero opponent called “Titan”, who promises to be bigger, better and stronger than Metro Man ever was. Pretty quickly Titan starts to think it’s much more fun to be a villain than a good guy . Except Titan doesn’t just want to rule the world, he wants to destroy it. Now, Megamind must decide: can he defeat his own diabolical creation? Can the world’s smartest man make the smart decision for once? Can the evil genius become the unlikely hero of his own story?

Finished? Right then. Poster time.

Four New Megamind Posters

Jamie Neish — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:22:38 +0000

Dreamworks Animation have unveiled four new UK posters for their upcoming animated film Megamind.

Directed by Tom McGrath, Megamind features an impressive voice-cast, including Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey and David Cross.

Megamind centers on a super-villian (Ferrell) who, after killing his good-guy nemesis, Metro Man (Pitt), becomes bored since there is no one left to fight. He creates a new foe, Titan (Hill), who, instead of using his powers for good, sets out to destroy the world, positioning Megamind to save the day for the first time in his life.

Check out the new posters below, courtesy of Den of Geek:

Megamind will be released nationwide on December 3.

An Awesome Third Trailer Released for Megamind

David Sztypuljak — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:30:57 +0000

All this week, we’ve had the UK’s very first look at a collection of character posters for Dreamwork’s new movie, Megamind. The movie has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath.

You can see the first two posters which feature Megamind (Will Ferrell) and Minion (David Cross) here, the third here showing off Brad Pitt’s character, Metro Man, the fourth is Tina Fey as roving reporter Roxanne and today we brought you the final poster which shows Jonah Hill as Tighten.

This new trailer has been released on Apple and ties all the posters together nicely as we get to see a little more from all the main characters. This trailer is absolutely awesome. Showing us a little more about the plot and what we can expect. Can’t wait to see it now!

Megamind is released in the UK 3rd December and in the US 5th November.

UK Exclusive: Brand New Character Posters for Megamind Part 4 – Tighten

David Sztypuljak — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:00:02 +0000

This week we have some exciting new character posters to show you. The chaps at Dreamworks have been kind enough to give us one brand new and exclusive poster every day this week to show you off their new movie, Megamind. You can see the first two posters which feature Megamind (Will Ferrell) and Minion (David Cross) here, the third here showing off Brad Pitt’s character, Metro Man, the fourth is Tina Fey as roving reporter Roxanne and today we bring you the final poster in the set which shows Jonah Hill as Tighten. As you can see, he has a rather exctiting costume!

Megamind has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and it’s directed by Tom McGrath. We’ll be bringing you another poster tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled!

Synopsis: From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda.” The brilliant and diabolical super-villain Megamind has been attempting to conquer Earth for over 20 years but, each time, he’s been thwarted by his arch nemesis, the caped superhero Metro Man. But all that changes one day when Megamind accidentally kills Metro Man in the throes of one of his evil plans. Suddenly finding himself without a foe to overcome, the despondent evil genius decides that the only way out of his rut is to create a new super rival. He’s a bigger, better and stronger opponent than Metro Man ever was. But when the former good guy begins to wage his own war aimed at destroying the world, Megamind must decide: Can he defeat his own (now) diabolical creation? Can the world’s smartest man make the smart decision for once? Can the Evil Genius switch sides and become the Hero of his own story?

Please note: These posters show the US release date and Megamind will be released in the UK 3rd December.

Click the poster below to enlarge or scroll down to see the previous posters.

UK Exclusive: Brand New Character Posters for Megamind Part 3 – Roxanne

David Sztypuljak — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:00:30 +0000

This week we have some exciting new character posters to show you. The chaps at Dreamworks have been kind enough to give us one brand new and exclusive poster every day this week to show you off their new movie, Megamind. You can see the first two posters which feature Megamind (Will Ferrell) and Minion (David Cross) here, the third here showing off Brad Pitt’s character, Metro Man and and this evening we get to see Tina Fey’s character, roving reporter Roxanne!

Megamind has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and it’s directed by Tom McGrath. We’ll be bringing you another poster tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled!

Synopsis: From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda.” The brilliant and diabolical super-villain Megamind has been attempting to conquer Earth for over 20 years but, each time, he’s been thwarted by his arch nemesis, the caped superhero Metro Man. But all that changes one day when Megamind accidentally kills Metro Man in the throes of one of his evil plans. Suddenly finding himself without a foe to overcome, the despondent evil genius decides that the only way out of his rut is to create a new super rival. He’s a bigger, better and stronger opponent than Metro Man ever was. But when the former good guy begins to wage his own war aimed at destroying the world, Megamind must decide: Can he defeat his own (now) diabolical creation? Can the world’s smartest man make the smart decision for once? Can the Evil Genius switch sides and become the Hero of his own story?

Please note: These posters show the US release date and Megamind will be released in the UK 3rd December.

Click the poster below to enlarge.

UK Exclusive: Brand New Character Posters for Megamind Part 2 – Metro Man

David Sztypuljak — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:59 +0000

This week we have some exciting new character posters to show you. The chaps at Dreamworks have been kind enough to give us one brand new and exclusive poster every day this week to show you off their new movie, Megamind. You can see the first two posters which feature Megamind (Will Ferrell) and Minion (David Cross) here and his evening we get to see a little more of Metro Man (Brad Pitt) with his rather suave smile!

Megamind has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and it’s directed by Tom McGrath. We’ll be bringing you another poster tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled!

Synopsis: From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda.” The brilliant and diabolical super-villain Megamind has been attempting to conquer Earth for over 20 years but, each time, he’s been thwarted by his arch nemesis, the caped superhero Metro Man. But all that changes one day when Megamind accidentally kills Metro Man in the throes of one of his evil plans. Suddenly finding himself without a foe to overcome, the despondent evil genius decides that the only way out of his rut is to create a new super rival. He’s a bigger, better and stronger opponent than Metro Man ever was. But when the former good guy begins to wage his own war aimed at destroying the world, Megamind must decide: Can he defeat his own (now) diabolical creation? Can the world’s smartest man make the smart decision for once? Can the Evil Genius switch sides and become the Hero of his own story?

Please note: These posters show the US release date and Megamind will be released in the UK 3rd December.

Click the poster below to enlarge.

UK Exclusive: Brand New Character Posters for Megamind

David Sztypuljak — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:00:27 +0000

This week we have some exciting new character posters to show you. The chaps at Dreamworks have been kind enough to give us one brand new and exclusive poster (or in this post, two!) every day this week to show you off their new movie, Megamind.

Megamind has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and it’s directed by Tom McGrath. These two new posters which I’ve embedded below are your treat for this morning and we’ll be bringing you another later on today so keep your eyes peeled!

Synopsis: From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda.” The brilliant and diabolical super-villain Megamind has been attempting to conquer Earth for over 20 years but, each time, he’s been thwarted by his arch nemesis, the caped superhero Metro Man. But all that changes one day when Megamind accidentally kills Metro Man in the throes of one of his evil plans. Suddenly finding himself without a foe to overcome, the despondent evil genius decides that the only way out of his rut is to create a new super rival. He’s a bigger, better and stronger opponent than Metro Man ever was. But when the former good guy begins to wage his own war aimed at destroying the world, Megamind must decide: Can he defeat his own (now) diabolical creation? Can the world’s smartest man make the smart decision for once? Can the Evil Genius switch sides and become the Hero of his own story?

Please note: These posters show the US release date and Megamind will be released in the UK 3rd December.

Click the posters below to enlarge.

New Image from Megamind

David Sztypuljak — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:00:19 +0000

MTV have gifted the world with 28 new images for movies that are coming up over the next few months. In a series of posts over the next few hours, I’m going to be putting up the image(s) and giving you a low-down on the cast, the synopsis and the release date (if there is one). If you want to see all the other posts in this series, click here.

Here we have a brand new image from Megamind which is the new animated comedy from Dreamworks. It features a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath.

Synopsis: From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda.” “Megamind” is the most brilliant supervillain the world has ever known. And the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as “Metro Man,” an invincible hero until the day Megamind actually kills him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, Megamind has no purpose. A supervillain without a superhero. He realizes that achieving his life’s ambition is the worst thing that ever happened to him. Megamind decides that the only way out of his rut is to create a new hero opponent called “Titan”, who promises to be bigger, better and stronger than Metro Man ever was. Pretty quickly Titan starts to think it’s much more fun to be a villain than a good guy . Except Titan doesn’t just want to rule the world, he wants to destroy it. Now, Megamind must decide: can he defeat his own diabolical creation? Can the world’s smartest man make the smart decision for once? Can the evil genius become the unlikely hero of his own story?

It’s scheduled for release in the UK 3rd December.

Comic-Con Megamind Footage Emerges

Jon Lyus — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:14 +0000

While Comic-Con continues its incessant outpouring of news and rumour squashing announcements there’s plenty of fun to be had and the Dreamworks people decided to show off four minutes of Megamind, their latest animation due out in the US on the 5th of November.

Following the tradition of all huge animated blockbusters there’s a fairly outstanding cast lending their larynxes to Tom McGrath’s movie, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and the maniacal Megamind himself, Will Ferrell.

Here’s the trailer for the film which debuted last month and embedded below is the four minutes from San Diego.

Yahoo had this one out of the gate.

Stanley Tucci to direct Meryl Streep and Tina Fey in Mommy & Me

Jamie Neish — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:00:26 +0000

According to the Los Angeles Times, Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia!) and Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) may be teaming up again on a project tentatively titled Mommy & Me.

It’ll be the third time Streep and Tucci have collaborated following The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia.

Mommy & Me, if it happens, will be directed by Stanley Tucci, with Meryl Streep in the lead role, and none other than Tina Fey (Baby Mama) co-starring. We’re assuming that Tucci will also step in front of the camera, as he has done in his previous films as director, which began with Big Night in 1996.

Sony Pictures are currently the frontrunner to pick up the rights, with Stanley Tucci’s company Olive Productions set to produce

Sounds very promising indeed.

Reported by Jamie Neish