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‘Pulp’ Reality as Clip Pulls in the Viewers on YouTube

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The creative approach in drumming up interest in no-budget Brit comic book comedy, Pulp, continues to yield positive results. Having recently chatted to co-director Adam Hamdy about the number of imaginative ways both himself, fellow director Shaun Magher and the production team managed to make their film a reality has taken another step, and their [...]




YouTube Announces Short Film Competition: Your Film Festival

YouTube

In what is quite possibly one of the most interesting pieces of news I’ve heard recently, YouTube have announced that they will be launching a film festival next month, entitled Your Film Festival, that will start off online and then send ten finalists to this year’s Venice Film Festival, which will run from 31st August [...]




The Xbox 360 Experiment – More than games?

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In partnership with Microsoft we are looking at the Xbox 360 console to see if it is, as promised, more than games. You can read my introductory post here for context. Last night I had the chance to try out my new system properly for an annual festive tradition as we sat down to watch [...]




Is Xbox 360 the Future of TV?

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The seventh generation of gaming consoles is perhaps the most fertile ground for the oft-promised home entertainment revolution to flourish. In the last couple of years the systems have been upated with more functionality and integration into everyday life than ever before, boasting not only cutting edge graphics and huge first day sales figures for [...]




Life in a Day: An Interview with Kevin Macdonald

Life in a Day

In Life in a Day, Oscar(r) winning director Kevin Macdonald has crafted, in collaboration with YouTube, Ridley Scott and a world wide pool of contributors numbering in the thousands, a portrait of one day (July 24th, 2010 to be precise) in the life of planet Earth. I spoke with Kevin last week about the influences [...]




HeyUGuys A-Z of Cinema (F-J)

Fat City

Here at HeyUGuys, we aim to provide you with an all-encompassing look into the world of film. Whether you’re a fully-fledged cineaste, or just possess a casual interest, there’s something for anyone with our alternative A-Z of cinema, which starts today and runs through the week. If you’ve ever wondered just what it is an [...]




Is This The Most Bonkers Fight/Chase Sequence Ever?

Fight Sequence

This seemed too good, too much fun to pass up. Empireonline tweeted a link this week to a YouTube clip uploaded by TeztigoArt, which we have embedded below. Words cannot do it justice. It is, I suppose, a fight and chase sequence, but it involves robots in ways I had not imagined and contains some [...]




Never Say Never Poster for All Those Who Have the ‘Bieber Fever’

Never Say Never poster

Here’s the first poster for upcoming 3D feature Never Say Never, which has been posted by Yahoo. For those of you who are expecting a Casino Royale-style prequel to Sean Connery’s 1983 unofficial Bond outing, Never Say Never Again, you better think again. This is a Paramount documentary which tells the “inspiring true story” of [...]




The Minions from Despicable Me Take Over YouTube

Despicable Me YouTube Takeover

Well this has made my afternoon! I just got an email from the people who can make things happen at Universal Studios – the design team. They told me that something funny seemed to be happening on YouTube and that Despicable Me has taken over?! Intrigued, I clicked the link (click the Minion image to [...]




Friday Fun: 50 Movies, 1 Awesome Trailer

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While perusing around YouTube I came across this trailer by a guy called “vadoskincheg”.  It’s three minutes of pure awesomeness.  He created a mash up of 50 movies and cut it together to make a one trailer.  Using clips from all sorts of different films like Sherlock Holmes, Terminator Salvation, New Moon, The Day the [...]




YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal

Panic Attack

This is the stuff of legend, and as a million hungry directors pile onto Youtube it marks another step towards the internet, and Youtube in particular, becoming the place for your showreel to be discovered. Uruguayan Fede Alvarez uploaded his short film Ataque de Pánico to the video sharing website and so far it has had [...]