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Total Film movie news, for the latest in film news. | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:11:44 GMT |
Jamie Bell is a Man On A Ledge
Jamie Bell and Anthony Mackie are both in talks to star alongside Sam Worthington in cop drama Man On A Ledge.
Directed by Asger Leth, whose sole previous credit is documentary Ghosts Of Cité Soleil, the plot follows a former NYPD officer (Worthington) who threatens to throw himself off the top of a building.
It’s based on a script by TV movie writer Pablo Fenjves, and Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is backing the production.
No word on which roles Bell and Mackie are in negotiation to play, though we imagine they might be new NYPD recruits.
Mackie has recently finished up work on sci-fis The Adjustment Bureau and Real Steel, while Bell will next be seen in Jane Eyre, and has been working on The Adventures Of Tintin.
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:54:23 GMT |
Unbreakable 2 becomes Night Chronicles film
Unbreakable 2 may never see the light of day according to M. Night Shyamalan – because he’s “cannibalised” ideas he had for the super sequel and used them in the next instalment of his Night Chronicles movies.
The first movie he’s produced under the banner The Night Chronicles, Devil, opens on 17 September. And while out on the publicity trail, Shyamalan revealed that he’ll be using a villain he originally dreamed up for Unbreakable 2 in one of the Chronicles movies instead.
“I cannibalised the idea for the sequel to Unbreakable for one of the Night Chronicles,” he says. “It was such a cool idea for a villain, and it was actually originally in the script for Unbreakable,... |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:44:38 GMT |
The Three Musketeers: first poster
The Three Musketeers 3D, the swashbuckling action reboot from director Paul WS Anderson, has been given its first official one sheet poster.
A simple, black-and-silver affair, it’s a sober-looking thing that focuses on the names involved – that’s Anderson, alongside a baffling decent cast that includes Mads Mikkelsen and Christoph Waltz (who they make sure to point out is an Oscar winner).
Still, the logo’s pretty nifty, with a sword crossing over two old musket firearms. Other than that, it doesn’t tell us much – but really, it’s only a poster, so we don’t expect it to.
Check it out below…
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:34:17 GMT |
Liam Neeson starring in The Grey
A-Team remake director Joe Carnahan has replaced the bad-ass action star lead in new movie The Grey with another familiar ass-whooper.
Previously, Carnahan was set to shoot The Grey movie with wise-cracking muscle-man Bradley Cooper. But with Cooper having departed for reasons unknown (we assume his schedule is straining at the seams), Carnahan has called on another A-list team-player in the form of Liam Neeson.
A survival thriller, The Grey follows a group of Alaskan pipeline workers whose plane falls out of the sky on their way home from a job. Adding to their problematic situation, a pack of wolves target them for dinner.
Carnahan, who is best known for his wild action flicks having also directed Smokin’ Aces, has described the flick as “very much a... |
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| | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:58:52 GMT |
Pirates 4: Blackbeard image online
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is still shooting over in the glorious surrounds of Hawaii (grumble, grumble), which means a few on-set photos have sprung up online.
Most interesting is our first glimpse of Brit bloke Ian McShane in full pirate regalia as legendary crook Blackbeard.
The actor was on set shooting a scene with Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz for the fourquel, and looks mighty impressive from what we can tell.
Check out the image below…
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens in cinemas on 20 May, 2011.
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| | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:52:01 GMT |
Angelina Jolie drifts off from Gravity
Angelina Jolie has officially turned down Alfonso Cuaron’s new sci-flick Gravity, which could see the film’s production spiralling into limbo.
The film, which is about a female astronaut who is literally lost in space when her satellite crashes, has been courting Jolie for its lead role. But after months of deliberation, she has finally passed on the project.
Warner Brothers are wasting no time looking for a replacement, though, and have already tested or approached a massive range of A-list actresses.
The full list reported by Deadline includes: Sandra Bullock, Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde, and Blake Lively.
Previous rumours had it that Scarlett Johansson had already “verbally agreed”... |
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| | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:51:47 GMT |
Kick-Ass 2 gets the greenlight?
Kick-Ass 2 could be wending its way to the screen quicker than expected, if new comments by comic scribbler Mark Millar are anything to go by.
While talking to BBC Radio Five Live, Millar announced that the film had officially been given the greenlight thanks to healthy DVD sales of Kick-Ass.
“The estimate is [Kick-Ass] will do 100 to 150 million on DVD based on the American sales,” he said. “So it’ll end up making a quarter of a billion on a 28 million investment.
“So It should be okay. So the sequel’s greenlit, we can go ahead and do the follow up now, you know. The first made so much compared to what it cost it would be crazy not to.”
If Millar’s calculations are correct, we’re over the moon. Of course, we’d like to reserve... |
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| | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:51:33 GMT |
James Cameron talks At The Mountains Of Madness
James Cameron may be raising hackles over at the Piranha 3D camp thanks to his criticisms of that movie’s use of 3D, but evidently he’s still a huge fan of Guillermo Del Toro.
During an interview with Wired, Cameron talked about Del Toro’s adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness – for which the Avatar director is serving as a 3D advisor – and likened it to Aliens in terms of scale.
“[It’s] going to be an epically scaled horror film and we haven’t seen anything like that in a really long time - I guess since Aliens,” he said.
The director also had nothing but praise for Del Toro, adding:
"The thing about Lovecraft is that he left a lot to the imagination…... |
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| | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:26:56 GMT |
Fright Night: First image
David Tennant’s re-interpretation of vamp-slaying showman Peter Vincent in the upcoming Fright Night remake has been revealed via a brand new banner for the film.
Gothed up to the nines, he almost looks like a new character from the latest Harry Potter flick – that bolt of mystical energy between his hands only adding to that feeling.
Clearly, the production has attempted a complete renovation of the '80s flick for this Vegas-set update, something screamingly obvious in the new-look Vincent. It's certainly a departure from Roddy McDowall's portrayal.
Is new better? The original still has a place in our hearts, but we’re intrigued to see what director Craig Gillespie... |
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| | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:24:49 GMT |
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Blackbeard image online
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is still shooting over in the glorious surrounds of Hawaii (grumble, grumble), which means a few on-set photos have sprung up online.
Most interesting is our first glimpse of Brit bloke Ian McShane in full pirate regalia as legendary crook Blackbeard.
The actor was on set shooting a scene with Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz for the fourquel, and looks mighty impressive from what we can tell.
Check out the image below…
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens in cinemas on 20 May, 2011.
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The special effect of Ray Harryhausen
In the sitting room of the West London home of Ray Harryhausen, the special-effects pioneer and stop-motion animation legend, there is a shelf that bristles with awards, including the lifetime-achievement Oscar that he was presented in 1991. There are exquisitely crafted bronze figures of some of the most iconic creatures (he prefers the more empathetic term “creature” to “monster”) from 20th-century cinema. And on the coffee table are two mugs of tea, a plate of ginger biscuits and Medusa, one of the stars of the original 1981 version of Clash of the Titans, which was recently remade as a 3-D, CGI extravaganza. “I haven’t seen it. It’s somebody else’s interpretation. They wanted me to get involved [in the remake] but I just couldn’t.” This didn’t stop the film-makers borrowing heavily from Harryhausen’s distinctive vision.
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| | Sun, 30 May 2010 00:01:00 GMT |
Carrie on cruising
After sitting through Sex and the City 2, all I can say is, bring back the squirting vagina. Fans of the television series will remember the outrageous episode in which Samantha was going through a lesbian phase and got a squirt as unexpected as a jet of water from a clown’s trick flower. That incident summed up the TV Sex and the City at its best: funny, frank and daring. It was a great gynaecological look at the loves and lives of the metropolitan modern girl. Look at it now. What a tame, bland, bloated and tedious thing it has become. It’s all middle-aged and overweight. (It lasts for 2½ hours!) It’s sad and saggy; when it tries to sparkle, you can see its dentures. There are stretchmarks around the lips from the strain of fake smiles.
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| | Sun, 30 May 2010 00:01:00 GMT |
A mission to entertain
It’s axiomatic that war is 90% boredom. When I was much younger, I couldn’t understand why my grandfather’s most potent memory of D-day was not landing on Sword Beach, but the boredom and uncertainty of the days building up to the great offensive. My book The Junior Officers’ Reading Club was born not under fire in the desert around Basra, but idly passing the time behind a tent in the sprawling Camp Shaibah, tanning on improvised loungers under the Iraqi sun. Even in the intense fighting in Afghanistan, most soldiers will spend long days in sapping routine in primitive, defensive patrol bases (PBs), simply trying to pass the time.
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| | Sun, 30 May 2010 00:01:00 GMT |
He’ll hit her – and think it feels like a kiss
Stanley Kubrick described it as “probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered”. That’s some commendation, not least from Kubrick, who had a propensity for challenging material, and whose films — Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining — featured some deliciously warped individuals. The novel was Jim Thompson’s 1952 pulp-fiction classic The Killer Inside Me. Kubrick had employed Thompson as a writer on his crime drama The Killing and his anti-war film Paths of Glory, in the 1950s, but, perhaps surprisingly, didn’t go on to make a screen version of The Killer Inside Me himself. Not even he, though, would have brought Thompson’s novel to the screen with more visceral, gut-wrenching punch — punch being the operative word — than Michael Winterbottom.
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| | Sat, 29 May 2010 13:19:16 GMT |
The happiness of Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood leads the way out on to the roof terrace of her office-cum-HQ close to the Barbican in London and, to her relief, sees that a table has been set. “I’m afraid food is going to have to be involved,” she says, her right hand tracing the curve of her belly. “If I go somewhere and there’s nothing to eat I turn into a complete and panicking wreck.”
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| | Sat, 29 May 2010 00:01:00 GMT |
Mathew Horne shares his music and comedy choices
After a dizzyingly busy 2009 — when he and his Gavin & Stacey co-star James Corden became so ubiquitous (films, sketch shows, hosting award bashes) that it started to count against them — Mathew Horne is taking it easy. He had to after collapsing on stage during a performance of Entertaining Mr Sloane in the West End. “There was definitely a sense of my body saying, ‘That’s it, no more, you’re going to stop right now!’ ” Horne, 31, says. “I wasn’t going to slow down otherwise.” Recently he played the Culture Club drummer Jon Moss in the well-received TV biopic on Boy George, Worried about the Boy, and is judging a short film competition. “I’ve decided to choose more unique, standalone projects. I’ve been afforded the luxury of being able to be a bit more picky.” Is there the nagging feeling that he will always be remembered as Gavin? “It’s going to be very difficult for anybody to be released from a definitive role like that. So it’s important for me to mix it up now. But I’m not saying... |
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| | Sat, 29 May 2010 00:01:00 GMT |
Emma Roberts: what aunt Julia taught me
Emma Roberts is not a fan of nudity. Not her own, anyway. “I would show my back and my butt on camera, but I would never go topless,” says the 19-year-old actress, tween icon and Hollywood heiress (her aunt is Julia Roberts, her father Eric Roberts). “Going topless is so tasteless, and I prefer to leave all that stuff to people’s imagination,” she pronounces wisely, from a secluded restaurant booth in an even more secluded West End hotel. She is kohl-eyed, with dirty blonde and bedraggled hair, and sports a gold Marc Jacobs safety-pin earring, a graffiti-style sleeveless Tibi top and the mock dishevelled mien of a “sk8ter-girl” supermodel. She is tiny. Kylie tiny. And though she has the frame of a sparrow, she has the handshake of a builder.
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| | Fri, 28 May 2010 00:01:00 GMT |
Battle of the boxset: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Laura Silverman Like the principle of drinking at parties, mixing your shows is a no-no unless you’re Larry David or a youngish Woody Allen. Here, the onscreen Larry creates a Seinfeld reunion to get back with his fictional ex-wife Cheryl. I missed the Nineties sitcom but even I gathered that the interplay between levels of fictional reality was multi-storied genius.
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Latest news and features from guardian.co.uk, the world's leading liberal voice | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:23:14 GMT |
Just don't call em chick flicks …
The Runaways proves that films which appeal to a female audience aren't always the preserve of the baldly commercial
This time next week the aroma of 1975 will be hanging in the air like a pair of mouldering Converse trainers. Its source will be |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:37:45 GMT |
Connery: you're no quitter
Now 80, the former Bond star has vowed never to act again. He should reconsider and find one last great role to erase the memory of a decade of duds
It's hard not to feel a bit conned when an actor retires. That might be because acting doesn't seem like a real job. Putting on fancy clothes and pretending to be wittier and more athletic than you really are, in exchange for piles of cash and widespread adulation, doesn't seem like the sort of thing a normal person could... |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:54:39 GMT |
Somewhere: daddy direst
Sofia Coppola returns to the daddy-daughter theme but audiences are likely to be left bemused or exasperated
Like Monet returning to his lilies, though with perhaps diminishing effect, filmmaker Sofia Coppola has returned to the daddy-daughter theme and to the world of flat, blank, affectless movie actors in flat, blank, affectless hotel rooms.
Weirdly, the movie looks like an acidly satirical comedy about LA celebrity but with all the acidly satirical comedy removed, so that all that is left... |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:10:51 GMT |
Who's judging whom in Venice?
The Italian press is giving Quentin Tarantino a hard time with 'conflict-of-interest' questions and the Lido looks like a construction site, but nothing can dampen the festival spirit
This year's Venice film festival has begun on rather a disconcerting note: the colossal construction project on the Lido, building a new addition to the Palazzo Del Cinema, is far from complete – to the dismay... |
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| | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:00:13 GMT |
'I used to be a raving lunatic'
Ray Winstone plays troubled hardmen with such conviction, it's easy to believe he's not acting. He talks about his violent past, happy-go-lucky nature and love of westerns
According to an old Fleet Street adage, it is a bad idea to interview your heroes. As I don't have very many, however, the situation seldom arises. But the warning began to make sense while I was getting ready to meet Ray Winstone, for it's hard not to be at least a bit in love with him. So if he turned out to be a twit,... |
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| | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:00:14 GMT |
How wrestling is taking over the movies
Wrestling stars are muscling their way into cinema multiplexes – but can WWE really beat Hollywood on its own mat?
Brace yourself, adjust the volume controls and get ready, in a very real sense, to rumble – because the wrestlers are coming. The good news, at least, is that they're not here to grapple or drop-kick, but instead... |
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:06:28 GMT |
Splintered | Film review
A young woman tormented by nightmares about being frightened and abused as a child drags along three reluctant, disagreeable chums to investigate a cannibalistic creature on the loose in North Wales. They come across an abandoned but not deserted orphanage in the woods and mayhem ensues. After hanging around for a couple of years this indifferent horror flick is getting a brief cinematic release before going to DVD where, if anywhere, it belongs. It's the final film of the British independent producer Clive Parsons, the ex-barrister and co-author of a bestselling schools Latin vocabulary... |
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:06:28 GMT |
The Switch | Film review
This sentimental comedy has an attractive performance from Jason Bateman as a New York equity analyst (one of two leading men this week with such a job), the kindly, long-time best friend of TV producer Jennifer Aniston, who announces to his disappointment that she's about to inseminate herself. At what the invitations call her "pregnancy party" he gets very drunk, replaces her donor's sperm with his own and becomes the top seed before blacking out. Seven years later he meets her cute son, his physical and... |
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:06:27 GMT |
The Last Exorcism | Film review
Eli Roth has succeeded Sam Raimi as America's gore maestro with such low-budget horror movies as Cabin Fever and the two Hostel pictures and has also become a cult celebrity through his appearances in Inglourious Basterds and Piranha 3D. For his latest production Roth has turned to that rather overworked form, the mock or faux documentary as employed in The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity. It purports quite convincingly to be about the Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), a fundamentalist... |
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Film reviews and news from the Evening Standard and London cinema listings with times. | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:22:37 GMT |
Perestroika proclaims artistry
Perestroika is described as a poetic essay and, though too long, has an atmosphere that proclaims artistry
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:03:27 GMT |
Gangs of Essex in Bonded By Blood
The Essex Boys was inevitably going to be made into yet another British gangster movie. Bonded By Blood sealed the deal |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:59:16 GMT |
Soulboy has a nostalgic side
Shimmy Marcus?s film cuts in archival footage of Wigan Casino which enlivens a predictable coming-of-age story in Soulboy |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:56:31 GMT |
No Impact Man gives things up
When New Yorker Colin Beavan decided to reduce his carbon footprint he had to give up his car and eat only organic food grown locally. No Impact Man follows his journey
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:27:26 GMT |
Shrieks in Why Did I Get Married Too?
Tyler Perry?s latest domestic drama Why Did I Get Married Too? presents us with four black American males in crisis with their wives |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:48:54 GMT |
Dinner for Schmucks is truly awful
Dinner for Schmucks is a truly terrible comedy has Paul Rudd invited to a dinner by his bosses at which the dumbest guest will be the attraction
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Amanda Nevill is fighting for British film
Today the film-going experience has to be fabulous, says BFI director Amanda Nevill ? which is why she?s on a crusade to make up the £50m public funding lost for a new national film centre in London |
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