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Top 10: Superhero Fight Scenes

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Every superhero needs a good villain, and over the years we’ve seen many a memorable brawl on the silver screen. To celebrate the release of The Dark Knight Rises on DVD and Blu-Ray this week, we’ve racked our brains to narrow down the top 10 superhero movie fight scenes to date. Here goes nothing… 10 [...]




Six of the Best: Graphic Novel Adaptations

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When adapting a popular graphic novel for the big screen the director and his team face any number of challenges. Perhaps the most difficult of all is keeping the legion of source material fanboys happy, a feat which often boarders on the impossible. While an entirely faithful adaptation is simply not always possible due to [...]




Jackie Earle Haley Cast in Spielberg’s Lincoln

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Steven Spielberg has added another quality name to his already esteemed line-up of actors in his forthcoming biopic of Abraham Lincoln by casting Watchmen’s Jackie Earle Haley. Deadline brings news that the Little Children star will play another villain of sorts in the form of Alexander Stephens, an opposer of Lincoln’s slavery reform agenda. He’ll [...]




The Indestructible Alex Pettyfer Has Two Roles in the Pipeline

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Alex Pettyfer’s recent dismissive and derogatory comments about the town which keeps him in employment appear not to have had a negative effect on his career. The I Am Number Four star with not one, but two high-profile projects in the works. First up is the lead in Steven Soderbergh’s (thought he was retiring?) comedy [...]




Hammer Horror The Resident Has a New Poster

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I’m hoping you’ll have all tuned in to see Sir Christopher Lee receive the BAFTA Fellowship on Sunday night and it was an award well deserved, not least because the man’s body of work spans eight decades and he continues to work, returning to the studio where he made his name for Hammer’s The Resident. [...]




New International Trailer for The Resident

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Hammer Films have just sent us this brand new international trailer for their new movie, The Resident. It stars Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby, Amelia), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, The Losers) and Hammer veteran Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars). It’s set for release in the UK 11th March 2011. Synopsis:  Every [...]




Morning Glory Review

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Harrison Ford puts down his whip and exchanges it for a mic and a serious bad attitude to star alongside Sherlock Holmes squeeze Rachel McAdams and Diane Keaton (no stranger to this genre) for newsroom comedy Morning Glory. McAdams is a young, spirited TV producer Becky Fuller, who we first witness being let go from [...]




Poster for The Resident Finds a Home Online

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Following on from their brand relaunch with the US remake of Let the Right One In, here’s a poster (courtesy of IMP Awards) for another film from the newly restored Hammer studios. The Resident stars Hillary Swank as a young doctor who finds herself becoming the object of her new landlord’s (played by Watchmen’s Jeffrey [...]




Malin Akerman Replaces Lindsay Lohan In Lovelace Biopic

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It was reported by various sources over the weekend that Lindsay Lohan had been dropped from upcoming biopic Inferno. Deadline have now confirmed this story, while revealing that Malin Akerman (Watchmen) has been hired to replace Lohan as porn actress Linda Lovelace. Inferno will be directed by Matthew Wilder (Your Name Is Here) and is loosely [...]




Rumour Alert – Patrick Wilson to play Superman?

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He’s already played a superhero (well, costumed crime fighter) once, as Nite Owl in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. He has also racked up impressive work in Little Children and Hard Candy, before hitting more mainstream work with The Switch, The A-Team and the forthcoming Morning Glory. Now, Movieweb say he might be in the running for [...]




Mickey Rourke Needs a “Courier”

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Mickey Rourke continues his current career resurgence with a role in action thriller The Courier (as reported by The Wrap). The Wrestler star joins the Watchmen’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Inglourious Basterd Til Schweiger in the story of a tough courier (Morgan) who finds himself having to avoid being picked off by corrupt federal agents, [...]




Confirmed List of Directors Vying for Superman Reboot

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an exciting piece of news from Deadline that the husband and wife producing team of Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas have begun meeting with possible directors to take on the new Superman adaptation. The names being mentioned are our very own Tony Scott, Matt Reeves [...]




Lloyd Levin Inherits Mage

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Lloyd Levin, who produced Watchmen and the Hellboy movies, has acquired the rights to Matt Wagner’s comic book, Mage. Centring on Kevin Matchstick, an alienated young man who discovers he has superhuman abilities, the story sees him gain a magic baseball bat (I double checked) and use it to defeat the nefarious plans of an [...]




Watchmen Sequel In The Works?

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It looks like Watchmen may be getting a prequel – and a few spin offs. According to Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool DC are planning to release a series of comics set in Alan Moore’s Watchmen universe. As it stands, the plans include at least one prequel, and a series of on-going spin off comics. [...]




Last Minute Christmas Present Recommendations!

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Ho Ho Ho! It’s that time of the year for giving and receiving and if your having trouble finding the perfect gift for your loved one then i will hopefully mention something that will help fill that stocking in time for 25th December. I’m going to run down my top Blu-Ray films, Top DVD’s, Top [...]




Are Movie Review Ratings Outdated?

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Last week i wrote an article questioning why movies with low average review ratings, like New Moon, break box office records regardless. It got me thinking about the whole concept of rating a movie, and whether ‘marks out of ten’ was really still a useful film criticism tool. Here at HUG, like many modern movie [...]




Anarchy from the UK: Top 5 UK Comic Strip Movies I’d Like to See

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British comics have not been well served in their Hollywood adaptations. Transatlantic transitions from page to screen result in either being too faithful, as Zack Synder’s Watchmen arguably was, or too loose with the essence of the source material, resulting in a genre bound snooze fest – Judge Dredd please stand up (and don’t remove [...]




Watchmen – River Thames Promotion Review

Yesterday I was all excited because I saw something which I thought would be truly amazing. That was the post entitled: Watchmen Event in London not to be Missed! I’ve just got home from said event and I’m afraid I lied to you HeyUGuys readers. It could well have been missed…. but it’s not all [...]