Film in 2011 – Top Ten Released and Unreleased

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There were many delights to be found in UK cinemas in 2011 both in wide release and at the wide variety of festivals that still thrive here. I watched a great many films in 2011 and there were a large number that impressed me and below are some of my favourites. I have divided the [...]

Drive’s Oscar Isaac Cast as the Lead in Coen Brothers’ Musical Period Drama

Oscar Isaac

Deadline are reporting that the Coen Brothers have chosen a lead actor for their next production, which looks at the lives of a couple of singers during the early folk music scene in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 60’s (not the most mainstream of topics, but after the success of True Grit, they can [...]

Win True Grit on DVD + Official Soundtrack

True Grit DVD Boxset

To celebrate the release of True Grit on DVD & Blu-ray June 13th, Paramount Home Entertainment have given us five copies of the movie to give away on DVD as well as the official soundtrack and the paperback book to accompany the film. You can pre-order your copy of the film here or scroll down [...]

The Terminator Franchise Finds Yet Another Home

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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 [...]

Hailee Steinfeld Attached to Sleeping Beauty Spec

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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 [...]

Josh Brolin Develops a ‘Hunch’ for Next Project

Here’s some news which may take a particularly large leap of imagination for some to fathom. Josh Brolin is developing a new version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Warner Bros. which he intends to both produce and star in. Husband and wife team, Kieran and Michele Mulroney (they penned the upcoming Sherlock Holmes [...]

2011 Oscar Predictions

Internal industry politics and sentiment are always a decisive factor in the Oscar beauty contest, and must always be accounted for (despite the assertions by many that Mickey Rourke would win for The Wrestler a few years ago, I was certain he wouldn’t as he pissed a lot of people off in the early years of [...]

Hailee Steinfeld Joins Forgotten

Hailee Steinfeld

Hailee Steinfeld has been cast in romantic-thriller Forgotten, an adaptation of based Cat Patrick’s novel of the same name. Steinfeld, who made her acting debut in the Academy Award-nominated True Grit, will play the lead female role. London Lane’s memory is erased at 4:33 every night. The following morning, all she can remember are events from [...]

HeyUGuys Red Carpet Photos from the 2011 BAFTA Awards

Bonnie

HeyUGuys were proud to be invited to the red carpet at the 2011 BAFTA Awards by Orange tonight in London’s Covent Garden tonight to see some great films celebrated and to take a moment to appreciate the wealth of talent making the films honoured tonight. The King’s Speech lived up to the high expectations it [...]

The 2011 BAFTA Awards Updated LIVE

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The awards have begun – scroll down for all the updates. The 64th British Academy Film Awards sponsored by Orange are getting underway in London tonight and we’ll be updating you live from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden which plays host to the awards, as well as bringing you photos of the red [...]

The Art of BAFTA – Amazing Artwork for This Year’s Best Film Nominees

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We’re currently at the BAFTA awards in London and while we’re waiting for the red carpet to busy itself with nominees and the flashstorm of the paparazzi I wanted to show you these lovely works of art which are part of the BAFTA brochure for this year’s ceremony. The five Best Film nominees are all [...]

Interview with Jeff Bridges for True Grit

True Grit hit  UK cinemas yesterday and here we have an interview with the legend himself, Jeff Bridges! On Friday, we placed the interview with Hailee Steinfeld which you can see here. Both interviews are conducted by our fabulous friends at Upbeat. True Grit stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld [...]

Interview with Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit

Hailee Steinfeld

True Grit hits UK cinemas today and we’re rather excited about it! So excited in fact that we have an interview with both Hailee Steinfeld & Jeff Bridges from the movie. I’ve placed the Hailee Steinfeld interview below and the Jeff Bridges one should hit tomorrow at some point. Both interviews are conducted by our [...]

London Critics’ Circle Film Awards 2011 – The Winners

The Critics Circle Awards

Tonight saw the fall of the 31st Critics’ Circle Film Awards, which was held for the first time at London’s BFI Southbank. Our full report will be online later today with all the red carpet gossip and winner’s reactions. Want to see Danny Boyle advertising Moët, hear about Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series, or find [...]

Coen Brothers Horror Film On The Way?

File this under S for Speculation for now, but the good folks over at Empire today received the potential scoop that Joel and Ethan Coen may have plans to make a “full-on horror film.” It’s an intriguing prospect, but with the Coens is anything ever that (Blood) simple? Let’s weigh up the evidence. Empire’s article [...]

Jeff Bridges to Bust Some Ghosts in The Seventh Son

Playing paternal figures in Tron Legacy and True Grit must have proved to be a positive working experience for Jeff Bridges – he has now signed up for a similar role in The Seventh Son. Taken from the first novel in The Wardstone Chronicles (Published in the United States as The Last Apprentice) The Seventh [...]

True Grit Review

If I’m being honest here, I’ll start this by saying that I went into True Grit with absolutely no bias to the original film.  Full Disclosure: I’ve never read the book, I’ve never seen the original film, and really, I’m not a fan of the Coen Bros. films.  I know, that last part can be [...]

Exclusive Featurette: A Look at Carter Burwell’s Score in True Grit

Carter Burwell

I’ve the past couple of days, there have been quite a few different featurette’s released on other movie sites for True Grit. You can see the costume featurette on Clothes on Film here, the featurette looking at the cinematography here, a look at the story here on Sky and now Paramount have chosen us to [...]

A Look at the Cinematography from True Grit

We’ve not had True Grit hit the cinema yet but from what we’re hearing about the movie, it’s going to be rather a good one to look out for (our review hits next week). With the Oscars just around the corner, all the studios are doing their best to promote their movies from all the [...]

Win a Pair of Tickets to see an Early Screening of True Grit

WE HAVE A PAIR OF TICKETS TO GIVEAWAY TO CELEBRATE A WEEK OF FREE BAFTA NOMINATED FILM SCREENINGS FOR ALL ORANGE CUSTOMERS Based on the novel by Charles Portis, True Grit, tells the story of fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), whose father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), [...]