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The I Give it a Year Premiere Report – Rose Byrne Waiting on X-Men and Merchant on Movie 43

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This evening, at the premiere of I Give it a Year, we found out that Rose Byrne is still waiting to hear whether she’s in the X-Men: First Class sequel, that Stephen Merchant agreed to take part in the forthcoming Movie 43 after being asked by the director if he “wanted to be on a [...]




Bryan Singer to Direct X-Men: Days of Future Past

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With just over a year and a half to go before X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to hit the big screen, there’s been a major change in seating positions on the project. Matthew Vaughn, who directed the fantastic original prequel, X-Men: First Class, has stepped aside from the director’s chair, and Deadline are [...]




Interview: Lenny Kravitz on The Hunger Games

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2012 is shaping up to be the year of the Games. Between the Olympics, a greatly anticipated second season of Game of Thrones and not to mention loud 3D promises from various blockbuster must-sees, The Hunger Games has some real opponents to contend with. Due to be thrown into the ring March 23rd, the first [...]




Contraband Review

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What do you get when production company Working Title teams up with the director of the gentle, understated Icelandic comedy 101 Reykjavík? The answer is (somewhat surprisingly) pulpy, action-drama remake, Contraband. Mark Wahlberg is Chris Farraday, a once world-class smuggler who has now gone legit and lives a peaceful existence with his wife Kate (Kate [...]




X-Men: First Class Sequel Will Focus on Michael Fassbender’s Magneto

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This week MTV got to talk to Simon Kinberg about writing and producing the untitled X-Men: First Class sequel. Again to be directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kinberg told MTV that the sequel will focus largely on the character of Magneto, who is again to be played by Shame‘s Michael Fassbender, and that it would be [...]




Deals Of The Day: Fantastic Blu-Ray Sale of 2011 Blockbusters Including X-Men: First Class And Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

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If you’re a fan of the Blu-Ray format, then you’re going to love this. And if you’re not, I thoroughly recommend converting now. It seems that Play.com are in the business of brightening up our Friday afternoon! They currently have a sale on a number of last year’s biggest blockbusters on Blu-Ray, headed up by [...]




If 2011 Were A Movie…

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In recent years we have seen Hollywood tap a variety of different resources in its ongoing search for new ideas. Stopping just short of sticking its hand down the side of the sofa and rummaging for loose inspiration, Tinseltown has instead chosen to adapt everything from the usual books, video games and television shows, to [...]




The Truffles 2011 – The HeyUGuys Movie Awards – Part 1

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Back for their third year we are proud to present the annual HeyUGuys movie awards – The Truffles. At the end of each year our wonderful team of writers like to round up the various movieland highs and lows into our own unique categories, to reward the diverse, the challenging and the downright lovely and [...]




X-Men First Class’ Jason Flemyng Talks To HeyUGuys

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With X-Men First Class finally available on Blu-Ray this week (check out our review here), we got a chance to talk to our favourite teleporting Devil-a-like, Jason Flemyng. Given how many films the man’s been in over a 20 year long career, the hardest part of interviewing him is staying on the subject at hand [...]




X-Men: First Class Blu-ray Review

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In a year awash with superhero movies a new X-Men film was in danger of being overlooked, or even avoided altogether given the toxic slap of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Origins Wolverine and yet here we are with me telling you that X-Men: First Class is tremendous fun and edges up to X2 [...]




Matthew Vaughn Considering Mark Millar Comic Book Properties

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There’s no doubt that the comic book world has been kind to Matthew Vaughn of late. After the double-whammy of Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class, he has yet to commit to his next project, though a couple of properties connected to Mark Millar (who wrote Kick-Ass) are believed to be under consideration. Firstly, there is [...]




Matthew Vaughn Returning To Millarworld for Superior?

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Mark Millar’s creator-owned comic label, Millarworld, has proved a veritable feast for studios, eager to produce their own Wanted or Kick-Ass. While Sony prepares War Heroes and 20th Century Fox chews on Nemesis, however, Matthew Vaughn is returning to the fold for seconds, having just purchased the rights to the comic book creator’s Superior (via [...]




I’d Buy That for a Dollar! Michael Fassbender Wanted for Robocop Reboot

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For anyone whose interests in a Robocop reboot were bolstered considerably by news that Elite Squad’s José Padilha had signed on to direct, this may make give you further faith in the idea of a new take on the property. Padilha (who is co-scripting) is interested in man of the moment Michael Fassbender to play [...]




New X-Men: First Class Deleted Scene Will Leave You Speechless

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With mere weeks to go until the really rather brilliant X-Men: First Class hits on Blu-ray and DVD, a new deleted scene from the movie has surfaced giving us an altogether different perspective on one particular moment from the film. In the sequence where Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender) attempt to [...]




Caleb Landry Jones Cast in Byzantium

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Caleb Landry Jones (No Country for Old Men) has landed the lead male role in Byzantium. Jones will star opposite Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) and Gemma Arterton (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) in Neil Jordan’s fantasy-thriller. Based on Moira Buffini’s acclaimed play, Byzantium centers on a mother and daughter vampire duo who form a deadly pact. Byzantium will shoot [...]




First Look Images: Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in Shame

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Here’s the very first look at the new Steve McQueen directed movie called Shame. The film has just been announced to be playing at the Toronto Film Festival later in the year and now courtesy of our friends at The Playlist, we have our first look images. These images show two of the main cast, [...]




Transformers: Dark of the Moon Review

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After a nifty opening which is comprised of both stock footage and newly-shot film (think JFK meets Apollo 13) revealing that the US moon landing was part of a covert mission to explore a marooned alien vessel from the Transformer’s home plant of Cybertron, we’re back in present day where the surviving Autobots have now [...]




Captain America Concept Art & On Set Stills

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So, a whole assortment of comic book characters are out of the blocks and the reviews and numbers are coming in. Critically speaking, Thor and X-Men: First Class seem to have fared best, with Green Lantern taking a bit of a pounding. Commercially, Thor has done pretty well ($430m+ so far), X-Men is closing in [...]




X-Men First Class Clip – Training Montage

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We’ve gone X-Men: First Class crazy over the past few months for the simple reason that we love it. You can see why by reading Adam’s review of the movie here. Twentieth Century Fox have sent over this brand new clip for the movie which is called Training Montage and does what it says on [...]




Further Prometheus Details Escape Into the Wild

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In the six months since the first solid details emerged from Ridley Scott’s rumoured Alien prequel we’ve had a number of updates, not least the gathering together of an excellent ensemble cast to bring Alienverse sci-fi epic Prometheus to the big screen. Slash Film have bought together some of the tidbits from around the internet [...]