Rod Lurie’s remake of Straw Dogs is out in UK cinemas today and to rivet you to your seat with astonishment we’ve got a competition to win a Sony Bloggie Camcorder and an exclusive behind the scenes look at the film.

L.A. screenwriter David Sumner (Marsden) relocates with his wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

We’re giving you the chance to win a Straw Dogs poster (see below) and a Sony ‘Bloggie’ camcorder (find out more about the Sony camcorder here) by answering the question  which follows the exclusive featurette below.

What 2006 superhero film did Straw Dogs actors James Marsden and Kate Bosworth star in together?

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Here’s a rather nice behind the scenes collection of footage shot by the guys over at Making Of. The footage doesn’t really show us anything ground-breaking from the movie but shows what it’s like to shoot a movie on set with both the cast and crew doing what they do!

Straw Dogs which is directed by Rod Lurie and stars James Marsden, Rhys Coiro, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods and Walton Goggins.

Straw Dogs (2011) is a remake of the 1971 movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George and is set to hit UK cinemas 28th October. If you missed the first trailer for the movie, you can check it out here.

L.A. screenwriter David Sumner (Marsden) relocates with his wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

Until we see Rod Lurie’s updating of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs it is perhps unfair to hurl it towards the Pointless Remake bin and yet it is a brave move with the 1971 film still as powerful and complex ever.

Perhaps sensing the relatively simple and timeless horror of the story Screen Gems are serving up another slice of Straw Dog pie with Kate Bosworth and James Marsden terrorised by Alexander Skarsgård and his (un)merry band of men.

The trailer didn’t surprise, though with this casting I half expect this all to be a front for Bryan Singer’s secret Superman 3 remake with Skarsgård under the control of a pissed off Brandon Routh with darkened Superman costume and five o’clock shadow. That is my hope.

Here’s what Mr. Synopsis says,

L.A. screenwriter David Sumner (Marsden) relocates with his wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

Straw Dogs will invade or cinemas in the UK on the 28th of October.

Here is the gallery of posters coming to a strategically placed bus stop near you.

Clap your hands say Thanks IMPA.

Screen Gems have released a nice new poster for their new movie, Straw Dogs which is directed by Rod Lurie and stars James Marsden, Rhys Coiro, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods and Walton Goggins.

Straw Dogs (2011) is a remake of the 1971 movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George and is set to hit UK cinemas 28th October. If you missed the first trailer for the movie, you can check it out here.

L.A. screenwriter David Sumner (Marsden) relocates with his wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

The new poster is below and I’ve also placed the 1971 version below too. Love the way they’ve used continuity. Hoping for good things with this one.

Screen Gems have released the first teaser trailer for upcoming thriller Straw Dogs, a remake, a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 film.

Written and directed by Rod Lurie (The Contender), Straw Dogs stars Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns), James Marsden (The Box), Alexander Skarsgård (Melancholia), Dominic Purcell (The Killer Elite) and James Woods (Casino).

L.A. screenwriter David Sumner (Marsden) relocates with his wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

Straw Dogs will be released in the UK on October 28th.

Legion is releasedon DVD and Blu Ray today and stars Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton,  Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Durand, Jon Tenney, Willa Holland, Kate Walsh and is directed by Scott Stewart.

The basic premise of the movie is that God (although never mentioned by name) isn’t happy with his people and decides to start all over again, much like the Bible story, Noah and the Ark. The difference here is that rather than sending a giant flood to wipe out the earth, God uses….. Us! Sound a bit odd. Well, it sort of is!

While God prepares his army of angels to come and possess us all, one angel, Michael (Bettany) stands up against the Lord and Creator. Michael is on a mission to save a baby which is currently in the womb of Charlie played by Adrianne Palicki. If the baby lives, humanity has a chance, if he/she doesn’t, it’s the end of the world as we know it. Along with Bettany, it’s down to a human with the stupidest name of all time, Jeep Hanson (Lucas Black) to try to defend the love of his life who couldn’t care less if he was attracted to her or not.

Legion is a very confused movie with a rather large cast and no real idea of where it’s going. The fact that a rogue angel stands up to God to defy his will is crazy will no doubt annoy any Christian who watched it.

Some redeeming qualities include the sound design which was just fantastic and the special effects but I’m afraid neither save this movie from the tripe that it turned out to be. I’m rather sad it was so bad because from the trailers, it has potential to be something great and I think if the screenplay had been better, we’d have seen a great movie. However it was full of so many absurdities and cliched lines that it’s probably destined to go to the bottom of the bargain bin at your local service/gas station.

If Terminator was merged with Dawn of the Dead with a splash of Childsplay and Men in Black thrown in for good measure, you’d get some way to explaining Legion’s storyline.

Legion is released on DVD and Blu ray – Monday, 9th August and you can purchase it here.

Go Behind the Scenes of Legion

Special Features:

• Designing Paradise Falls: Discover the creative process behind designing the apocalyptic vision of Paradise Falls.
• Blueprint of a Scene: An immersive, in-depth breakdown of a key battle sequence against the possessed.
• movieIQ+sync and BD-Live connect you to real-time information on the cast, music, trivia and more while watching the movie!
• BD Exclusive: Bringing Angels To Earth: Picture-in-Picture
• Creating the Apocalypse – Behind the Physical Effects
• Humanity’s Last Line of Defense – The Cast and Characters
• From Pixels to Picture – A Look at the Visual Effects

Some movies look great on paper but are either let down by the transition to the big screen. Let me sow that seed of information as you read on.

Legion is the new action thriller from Sony Pictures. It stars Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton,  Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Durand, Jon Tenney, Willa Holland, Kate Walsh and is directed by Scott Stewart.

The basic premise of the movie is that God (although never mentioned by name) isn’t happy with his people and decides to start all over again, much like the Bible story, Noah and the Ark. The difference here is that rather than sending a giant flood to wipe out the earth, God uses….. Us! Sound a bit odd. Well, it sort of is!

While God prepares his army of angels to come and possess us all, one angel, Michael (Bettany) stands up against the Lord and Creator. Michael is on a mission to save a baby which is currently in the womb of Charlie played by Adrianne Palicki. If the baby lives, humanity has a chance, if he/she doesn’t, it’s the end of the world as we know it. Along with Bettany, it’s down to a human with the stupidest name of all time, Jeep Hanson (Lucas Black) to try to defend the love of his life who couldn’t care less if he was attracted to her or not.

Legion is a very confused movie with a rather large cast and no real idea of where it’s going. The fact that a rogue angel stands up to God to defy his will is crazy and goes against everything The Bible has taught Christians since it was written. Some of the dialogue between characters us just laughable and in fact, if you had a camera on the lady sitting next to me, you’d think Legion was indeed full of laugh out loud jokes. She really was in hysterics at how terrible this film was. She was not alone with groans, yawns and people leaving the screening well before it finished as they couldn’t take anymore! I held strong to the end for you the HeyUGuys readers!

Some redeeming qualities include the sound design which was just fantastic and the special effects but I’m afraid neither save this movie from the tripe that it turned out to be. I’m rather sad it was so bad because from the trailers, it has potential to be something great and I think if the screenplay had been better, we’d have seen a great movie. However it was full of so many absurdities and cliched lines that it was destined to go to the bottom of the bargain bin at your local service/gas station.

If Terminator was merged with Dawn of the Dead with a splash of Childsplay and Men in Black thrown in for good measure, you’d get some way to explaining Legion’s storyline. It’s redeeming feature is that it only cost an estimated $26m to make an according to wikipedia, has already made double that in takings in the US so I guess it’s not to be sniffed at. The effects and cast that was used in the movie was actually quite respectable with a budget so low (and yes, i know $26m is still an awful lot of money).

Legion is released in cinemas this Friday. I really look forward to some of you seeing it so you can tell me if I’m wrong but please make sure you go on Orange Wednesday so you’re not paying full price to watch it!

Here’s some awesome new images from Legion which we can expect to see on our screens 5th March. I can’t wait to see this movie. It looks like the perfect blend of action and Paul Bettany looking like he’s rather angry!

Legion also stars Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton, Willa Holland and is directed by Scott Stewart.

These new images come from Hollywood.com and look awesome. Check them out below (click to enlarge). You can see the red band trailer than we’ve posted previously here to get a bit more info on what the film is about.

JoBlo.com have posted six new awesome character poster for Legion. Click the above image to view all the posters in their montage form when you’ll notice that combined, they form a quote which is from Matthew 13:49 which states: ‘So it will be at the end of the age the angels will come forth to take out the wicked and throw them into the furnace of fire’. I’ve put the new posters below which you can click to enlarge.

Legion stars Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton and Willa Holland. Here’s the plot written by someone on IMDb:

After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world, a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defense when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.

We can expect to see Legion, directed by Scott Stewart on our screens in the UK 5th March 2010. You can view the red band trailer which looks awesome here.

As intense trailers go, this one is probably up there in the top 5 I’ve ever seen!

Legion stars Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S Dutton and Willa Holland. Here’s the plot written by someone on IMDb:

After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world, a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defense when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.

It really does look excellent, even if it does look and have the feel of Terminator with angels! Watch the trailer after the jump…