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Rise of the Planet of the Apes Blu-ray Review

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With Rise of the Planet of the Apes there was a risk that Fox were returning to a tainted well once too often, with the series still in the doldrums following the much-derided Tim Burton adaptation of the original story ten years ago. Yet the studio’s faith in British director Rupert Wyatt proves well placed, [...]




Making A Monkey – How The Team At Weta Turned Andy Serkis Into An Ape

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As Rise of the Planet of the Apes throws a banana at The Smurfs Movie to claim the number one spot at the box office on its opening weekend, we bring you a conversation with director Rupert Wyatt, and visual effects supervisor Dan Lemmon where they discuss how they managed to capture Andy Serkis’ on [...]




Andy Serkis Asks You a Question From Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Know the Answer?

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Here at HeyUGuys, Andy Serkis has kicked off a Rise of the Planet of the Apes question and answer challenge, which will test your intelligence, your wit and your use of the comments section! The answer to the first question will be revealed tomorrow on the official UK Rise of the Planet of the Apes [...]




Two Clever Posters for Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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Love the marketing for this one! I’m not sure who has made them but someone clever has thought up these new posters for Rise of the Planet of the Apes which hits UK cinemas NOW! You can see Jon’s glowing review of the movie here and all our coverage of the film which is rather [...]




New Featurette from Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Casting the Apes

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Here’s another new featurette from Twentieth Century Fox’s new movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and this time we get to find out about how they cast the apes. This featurette coincides very nicely with the WETA interviews which I put up recently. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by [...]




International Poster for Rise of the Planet of the Apes Goes Pearl Harbour!

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In a bid to make Planet of the Apes look like a Michael Bay movie, the  Indian marketing department at Twentieth Century Fox have decided to give us lots of head-shots, helicopters and destruction! What’s not to like! Doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the UK and US marketing campaigns though does it! [...]




Win a Rise of the Planet of the Apes T-shirt

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We loved Rise of the Planet of the Apes . A surprising amount in fact – we called it the ‘surprise hit of the summer’ and we meant every one of those words. It’s out on the 11th of August and we have various other competitions running for this film but none quite like this… [...]




MUST WATCH – A Fantastic WETA Featurette for Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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Over the past few years, we’ve seen effects house, WETA do some simply amazing things inside a computer to create some of the mos astonishing visually amazing movies ever. They have been responsible for effects in movies including King Kong, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and most recently, some movie that you may have [...]




Rise of the Planet of the Apes Review

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We are firmly in blockbuster season, and in a time when the common wisdom has it that you are encouraged to switch off your brain to enjoy what’s on offer there comes a film about the power of intelligence. Fox were asking a lot of Rupert Wyatt, the British director who found himself in charge [...]




Win Merchandise from Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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To celebrate the release of their new movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes on 11th August, Twentieth Century Fox have given us four sets of goodie bags to give away. Each bag contains a pen, keychain, Blackberry Case, metallic notepad, t shirt and a watch and then one extra goodie bag winning the [...]




The Damned, Dirty Rise of the Planet of the Apes Comic-Con Tease

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There are only a few weeks left to prepare for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Fox have debuted another trailer for the film out at San Diego for Comic-Con. If I’m honest this clip stretches the definition of the word ‘tease’ and actually gives away an entire plot line revealing how [...]




Rise of the Planet of the Apes Gets Clip #3

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Here’s the third clip from Twentieth Century Fox’s summer movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. There’s quite a few new bits of footage in there so check them out below. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto of Slumdog [...]




The Second Clip from Planet of the Apes Shows The Apes Rising

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As August’s release date for Rise of the Planet of the Apes draws ever closer, we are getting more and more in the way of publicity material and so far, all of it is pretty strong. This time, we have a clip introduced by Andy Serkis, once again on ape perf-cap duties as Caesar. We [...]




The First Clip from Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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Here’s the first (4 minute long!) clip from the new Twentieth Century Fox movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes which is introduced by the fabulous Andy Sirkis who plays Caesar in the movie. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, [...]




Three New TV Spots Land for Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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It’s now less than a month until Twentieth Century Fox release their new big summer movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. We’re very much looking forward to it and so are many of you. If you’ve missed all our previous coverage, you can check it all out here. Today we’ve been sent a [...]




New Poster: Face of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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New poster time for Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes and it’s all about Caesar as this new image puts the Andy Serkis/Weta creation front and centre. They’ve done a great job with the trailers and teasing TV spots for this film and while this poster won’t win any design awards it [...]




The Rise of the Planet of the Apes is Getting Closer, Here’s a New Trailer to Prove it

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Each new trailer for Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes convinces me that this will be the surprise hit of the summer, and when it was announced that a prequel was being made to Planet of the Apes there was a fair amount of trepidation, due in no small part to the [...]




More Gorgeous Concept Art for Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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There has already been some amazing concept art released for Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes and today Twentieth Century Fox have given us new images from the production. Some of the scenes depicted below have been glimsped in the recent trailers, and it’s great to get a further look at the [...]




See more of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes with Two New TV Spots

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We’re getting closer to those pesky apes rising up and to my mind the TV spots and trailers have done their job well, hinting at a emotional engaging story behind all of the simian hitting. These two new TV spots have a little new footage to them, giving us a look at the early section [...]




Intelligence Test: Another Research Video from Rise of the Planet of the Apes Director

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I was going to title this post Chimps Vs. Humans but stopped because it sounded too much like there was another film jumping on the bandwagon of pitching creatures against each other. Although Fox could have called this film Apes Vs. Humans and no-one would have batted so much as an eyelid, instead they wisely [...]