Marvel Announces The Avengers Twitter Q&A This Tuesday With Joss Whedon and More

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Have you ever had that burning desire to put your questions to Joss Whedon, creator of such iconic TV shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and of course the director and co-writer of Marvel’s upcoming The Avengers? Of course you have! And now could be your chance. Collider report that Marvel have [...]

Kermit the Frog to Takeover Disney UK Twitter

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Kermit the Frog is to take over the Disney UK Twitter feed this Thursday to celebrate the release of The Muppets on Feburary 10th and you get to the chance to ask him questions! All you need to do is tweet @DisneyMoviesUK with a question and add the hash tag #AskKermit and the most famous [...]

Cowboys & Aliens Full Length Trailer Unleashed Thursday

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Jon Favreau, being the modern and hip director he is, announced via Twitter that the FULL LENGTH Cowboys & Aliens trailer will premiere on American Idol Thursday night. As you recall from the teaser trailer, the title of this film is NOT the precursor to another Wayans brother’s spoof, but just as it states: A [...]

James Cameron Joins Twitter

In the same week that Twitter wasvalued at $4bn and just in time to promote his new movie, Sanctum, one of the best known directors on the planet, James Cameron has joined micro messaging service, twitter! With a tweet that read: “ryan seacrest told me I had to get on Twitter. So here I am. [...]

Top Twitter Trends for Film Offer a Pil(grim) Look at Mainstream Tastes

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In a sign of the times, Twitter has released a list of this year’s top ten trending subjects (Thanks to /Film for the heads up). There’s some interesting reveals here, alongside more predictable topics (Justin Bieber’s tragic  number one position in the People section speaks volumes about the largest demographic to use the site). The [...]

Burke & Hare Interview: Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis

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On Friday 29th October the John Landis directed Ealing dramedy Burke & Hare has its UK release.  You may read our review of the film here.  The slightly true story of Edinburgh’s most notorious killers has, in this case, been retold as a comedy of errors with a pair of romantic leads engaging in wrongness [...]

Airplane Communal Watch & Tweetathon

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This Saturday The Guardian is pulling out all the stops as not only are they giving away the DVD of the classic movie “Airplane” but they’re also trying to set up a synchronised liveblogging and tweeting (follow us here @HeyUGuysBlog) event to go with it. The theory is that we all start the movie at [...]

Sir Michael Caine Joins Twitter

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I don’t make a habit of telling you every time an actor joins twitter otherwise we’d spend an awful lot of time writing Twitter related posts. That said, in this instance, the news needs to be spread for the legend that is, Sir Michael Caine who today has joined the short messaging service that we [...]

Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Twitter Avatars Give Show Characters from Paul

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One of the movies that will make it’s appearance at Comic Con 2010 is that of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new movie, Paul. Paul is about two comic geeks who actually visit the conference in the movie. Jon put up some new images from Paul last week and today, Simon Pegg (@SimonPegg) and Nick [...]

HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project Wk11 – World Cinema

Naturally, the majority of the IMDb250 list is made up of North American films. It’s perfectly understandable, Hollywood is the movie capital of the world, and whilst Bollywood and Japan probably produce a comparable volume of movies, it is American cinema that is the most heavily financed, and most widely distributed. It’s perhaps surprising, especially considering [...]

Exclusive: Done in 60 Seconds Shortlist Party

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HeyUGuys are conflicted.  We exist because we love film and celebrate the artistry and endeavour of anyone who has the sack to commit pen to paper and scenes to celluloid but sometimes we despair of a world where originality has been overthrown by the banal, the safe and the (ick) reimagined.  As a rule we’d [...]

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World to be in 2D?

In a world where every movie in the world has to be released in 3d, Edgar Wright has just broken the news on his Twitter account that his new movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is to be released in 2d: Here said: “Breaking film news: In a groundbreaking release strategy, Scott Pilgrim Vs The [...]

The HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project

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The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie internet site on the web. The list has been much maligned, particularly recently. It is however based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s [...]

Tom Felton Plans To Follow A Potter Fan

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Ever sat there and wondered how you get a world famous film star to follow you on twitter? Wonder no more, as Tom Felton, aka Harry Potter’s nemesis, Draco Malfoy, has agreed to follow one Twitter user for a week. Felton’s decision to temporarily turn stalking on its head stems from his involvement with the [...]

Get More Out Of Film In 2010

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2009 was a big year for British film, and hopefully that will continue into 2010. There has never been a better time to immerse yourself in cinema, and there are many ways to get involved beyond just going to the cinema. If your new years resolution was to get more into movies, and you live [...]

Twitter Campaign to get Sam Rockwell an Oscar Nod

Sam Rockwell’s performance in Moon, the low-budget directorial debut of Duncan Jones, has received almost universal praise. Successfully portraying two versions of the same character with distinctly different personalities he has been nominated for a number of awards, and is likely to also receive a nod from BAFTA come January. Unfortunately, despite this, he is [...]