February 2012
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New trailer for Pixar's Brave
Brave, the latest offering from Pixar, has released a new teaser trailer, in which Kelly Macdonald’s feisty princess Merida shows off her skills with a bow and arrow. The new trailer takes the shape of a single scene, rather than the usual hotpotch of dialogue and action, and focuses upon an archery contest to determine who will win Merida’s hand in marriage. Fed up with the saps and show-offs...
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American Pie: Reunion gets a new trailer
American Pie: Reunion has released a new theatrical trailer crammed full of new footage, as Jim, Finch, Stifler and co celebrate their high-school reunion in time-honoured style… by getting wasted and sleazing on girls. The new trailer introduces a few new plot points, including the arrival of the girl Jim used to babysit for. Naturally, she’s turning 18, and is going to test sex-starved Jim’s...
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New images for Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror has released a new batch of on-set images featuring what looks like the first clinch between Lily Collins’ Snow White and Armie Hammer’s dashing Prince Andrew. The image in question shows Snow White looking rather dishevelled as she swoons in the arms of the prince. Perhaps she’s just been doing a spot of brawling? She has been trained in combat, after all… Elsewhere, there’s a...
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Men In Black 3 gets a new poster
Men In Black 3 has released a new poster, and it finally gives us an opportunity to see all three of the film’s stars together in one place. Chances are this will be the only place you’ll see the three MIBs in one picture, given that both Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin are playing the same character, Agent K. It looks as though there’s been a fair bit of airbrushing here though, because Brolin...
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Scrat parodies The Artist in Ice Age featurette
Does Ice Age icon Scrat rival the silent-era greats? Apparently he does, according to this new featurette that parodies awards-magnet The Artist. The new featurette arrives just ahead of this weekend’s Oscars ceremony, with The Artist the hot favourite to sweep the board. Check out the video now:
Ice Age: Continental Drift opens in the UK on 6 July 2012. Fans can keep up-to-date with...
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Ryan Reynolds talks Safe House
Safe House is currently sitting at the top of the US box office, and it’s making its way to the UK soon. If you fancy watching a video interview with charming lead Ryan Reynolds, you’ve come to the right place. In the video below, Reynolds talks about working with the “living, breathing, walking masterclass in acting” that is Denzel Washington. Swedish director Daniel Espinosa also talks about the...
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New Avengers image released online
The Avengers arrives in UK cinemas in just a matter of months, and Marvel have whetted our appetites still further with the release of a shiny new image featuring three of the team preparing for action.
The new shot shows Captain America striding purposefully towards the camera, flanked by SHIELD operatives Hawkeye and Black Widow. Pretty badass, we think you’ll agree. It’s particularly nice...
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First poster arrives for Frankenweenie
Frankenweenie, the new stop-motion animation from Tim Burton, has received a first official poster and it’s every bit as charmingly gothic as we had hoped. The poster shows a tombstone bearing the moniker “Sparky”, but wait a minute… isn’t that Sparky the dog peeking out from behind it? Well yes it is, because the film will tell the story of a pet pooch brought back from the dead by a...
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First Skyfall videoblog lands online
Skyfall has received a new videoblog on 007.com, in which Sam Mendes gives an insight into what attracted him to the 23rd Bond film and the particular challenges that face a director on a film of this magnitude. Mendes comes across as a supremely affable chap, and there’s a palpable sense of excitement on his part during this brief but intriguing video-diary. Take a look at the new video, below…...
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Antonio Banderas to play Pablo Picasso
2011 was a year of variety for Antonio Banderas, from the creepy,The Skin I Live In to the Shrek spin-off, Puss In Boots, and it doesn’t look like work is going to slow down for the prolific Spanish actor. Alongside the persistent rumour that he’ll play Fidel Castro comes confirmation of his casting as the much celebrated artist Pablo Picasso in33 Dias [33 Days]. The biopic will...
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Orlando Bloom to star in adaptation of Zulu
Orlando Bloom has starred in a few duds since leaving the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise (The Three Musketeers anyone?), but he may have a promising new project in the form of Jerome Salle’s adaptation of Caryl Férey’s novel, Zulu. Not to be confused with the Michael Caine classic, Zulu is set in post-apartheid South Africa, the story revolves around the Cape Town police...
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Robert Downey Jr. would have played Lex Luthor in...
Back when Warner Bros were toing and froing over how best to bring Superman back to the big screen in the early noughties, there was a stage at which McG was poised to direct his take on the Man Of Steel.
The director recently gave an interview to The Playlist, in which he elaborates on his vision for the project, which apparently involved Robert Downey Jr. as Lex Luthor.
The Charlie’s...
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New poster for Eddie Murphy's A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words is the new film from Eddie Murphy. You might recall us putting the boot into the trailer at the end of last year. Well the first poster has arrived online, and it’s not exactly filling us with confidence. Boasting the kind of hotch-potch layout that suggests it was knocked together by the work experience kid, the new one-sheet shows Eddie in a variety of “humorous”...
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Watch three Safe House clips online
Safe House, the action thriller starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, has been performing strongly at the US box office, and you can get a taste of it by watching 3 new clips. Ryan Reynolds’ rookie CIA ‘housekeeper’ is based in South Africa, and his mundane role gets all shaken up with the arrival of wanted rogue agent, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington). An intense cat-and-mouse...
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Benjamin Walker talks Abraham Lincoln: Vampire...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter recently released a first teaser trailer and now star Benjamin Walker and Timur Bekmembatovhave fanned anticipation still further by dropping a few nuggets of info on what we can expect from the historical horror. “What’s great about it is we can re-examine Abraham Lincoln as a human being,” says Walker. “He’s an idol, we put him on a pedestal and see him as a a...
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Jim Caviezel joins The Tomb
The Tomb will see Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sly Stallone reunited on the big screen, but interestingly, the next piece of casting has not involved another musclebound beefcake, but character actor Jim Caviezel. The film is set in a maximum security jail, designed by Stallone’s wrongly-imprisoned architect. Using his knowledge of the building’s inner workings, Stallone sets about trying to...
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Two international posters for Piranha 3DD
Piranha 3DD has released a new pair of posters promoting the horror sequel’s schlocky wares, and they’ve got us ruing afresh that the film has been unable to negotiate a UK release. Whilst director John Gulager has reassured US audiences that the film will reach Stateside cinemas, the UK plan is for the film to be released direct to DVD. Now while the original was no masterpiece, it was a dopily...
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd WANDERLUST...
In the hilarious new comedy Wanderlust, over-extended and over-stressed Manhattanites George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) leave their over-priced micro-loft in the West Village and stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by very colorful, sexually adventurous characters. While the couple embraces a refreshingly different way of looking at things, they begin to question...
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New Bel Ami poster arrives online
Robert Pattinson fans rejoice: a brand new poster for Bel Ami has been revealed. The new one sheet definitely exudes a Dangerous Liaisons vibe, with R-Pattz doing his usual soulful sulk while flanked by a bevy of well-attired ladies. Check it out!
And as if that weren’t enough, images from the film’s world premiere in Berlin have also landed online. Pattinson attended the events with...
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I Am Legend sequel in development
When I Am Legend scooped £368 million at the box office, there was almost immediate talk of a sequel. The follow-up was initially rumoured as a prequel, detailing the fall of mankind, but the project never came to fruition. However, Warner Bros have breathed new life into the return of the plague-ridden thriller. I Am Legend, based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, saw Will Smith battle...
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Mark Millar confirms Kick-Ass 2 will shoot this...
Kick-Ass 2 has been in the pipeline ever since the first film revealed its cliffhanger ending, but only now have production details been officially confirmed, with Mark Millar telling The Daily Record that filming will begin in the summer. Millar is the man who penned the Kick-Ass comic books, and so is well placed to give an update on the film. “We shoot Kick-Ass 2 and American Jesus this...
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Writers Guild honors 'Midnight in Paris' and 'The...
Midnight in Paris and The Descendants, along with Showtime’s Homeland and ABC’s Modern Family, were among the big winners at the annual Writers Guild Awards, held Sunday at ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City. The WGA honors achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, and news, among for other forms.
The night’s big winners were:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Midnight in Paris, written...
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Steve McQueen talks Shame Oscar snub
Shame will be one of the most high-profile absentees as next weekend’s Oscar ceremony, having initially been touted for a host of nominations in high-profile categories. Director Steve McQueen has spoken out about the decision, and says it’s down to America’s awkwardness around the subject of sex. “In America they’re too scared of sex,” says McQueen. That’s why [Michael Fassbender]...
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Jane Levy and Bruce Campbell talk Evil Dead
Evil Dead recently gained a replacement for Lily Collins in the form of Jane Levy, and the star of US show Shameless has wasted little time before waxing lyrical about her love for the franchise. “I’m so excited,” she said. “I’m a big fan of the original. To me it’s the scariest movie, ever. But this one is really different. They’ve changed it a lot, but...
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New clip from The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man has released a new clip via viral websiteMark Of The Spider-Man, but rather than show the webslinger facing off against a bunch of crims, the footage has Peter Parker tangling with a pernickety doorman. It’s not the most action-packed of sequences, but it does at least give us a chance to see Andrew Garfield’s boyish charisma in full effect, as he struggles not to...
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'The Descendants' and 'The Artist' Rack Up More...
There’s just one week left before the Oscars and Hollywood is in full countdown mode, as some of the final industry awards of the year were handed out over the weekend, including the Cinema Audio Society Awards, the USC Libraries Scripter Award and the ACE Eddie Awards.
And once again, the big winners were “The Artist,” “The Descendants” and “Hugo,”...
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Chris Colfer Has Been 'Struck by Lightning'
Oh, that Chris Colfer. “Glee’s” breakout star has already proven himself to be an entertainment industry triple threat, earning fans not just for television but also for his music career and his theater work. He’s kind of a big deal. Now, though, he’s aiming to conquer the big screen as well — and judging by the new trailer for his upcoming film “Struck...
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Michael Fassbender's next film could be Irish...
Michael Fassbender, it’s fair to say, has had a pretty decent 12 months. After a strong 2011 (including his blockbuster breakout, X-Men: First Class), Fassbender’s 2012 has kicked off with tremendously varied style, with Haywire, Shame and A Dangerous Method all impressing. And that’s before Prometheus has even come out. And it doesn’t look like the actor is resting on his...
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New Avengers image featuring Thor and Agent...
The Avengers’ cinema release marches ever closer, and the promotional material just keeps on coming. The latest arrival is a new image featuring Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) looking concernedly at a computer monitor in the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters. Is it something sinister? Or are they just just browsing Black Widow’s Facebook page?
We’ll find out...
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The Hunger Games reveals three new motion posters
By Matt Maytum
Hunger Games fans can get ready to become a little more immersed into the world of Panem with the release of three new motion posters. In a neat marketing move, the posters show off products that you can buy in the imaginary future-world of Panem (or at least the affluent Capitol, we can’t see too many District 12 residents buying skyliner.) Featuring on the posters are...
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Oscilloscope Acquires Sexy Sundance Drama '28...
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired “28 Hotel Rooms,” the debut feature from writer/director Matt Ross (“American Horror Story”), starring Chris Messina (“Six Feet Under”) and Marin Ireland. The film played in this year’s Sundance NEXT section. The company plans to release it in theaters later this year, followed by VOD. Here’s the trailer: Full...
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Warner Bros Plans More ‘I Am Legend’ With Will...
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has closed deals with Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook Entertainment to produce another installment of I Am Legend, the 2007 hit film. The intention is for Will Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, who was the last man on Earth doing battle with a mutated mob in New York City after an apocalyptic man-made virus wiped out the population. A deal was made with...
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New poster for Lockout
When the new trailer for Lockout landed not so long ago, we were sold on the fact that it wore its B-movie credentials like a badge of honour, serving up a feast of OTT action against one of the hammiest voiceovers in recent memory. Happily, the film’s new poster appears to be adopting the same approach, taking its cues from the bargain-basement school of artwork in its ultra-macho aesthetic. “GUY...
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New featurette for The Pirates! Band Of Misfits
Sony has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette to promote upcoming swashbuckler The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, and it does a good job of showing just what a labour of love is involved in making a stop-motion feature. As illustrated by a helpful cue-card carrying monkey, a camera on a typical movie shoots around an hour of footage per day with only four minutes ending up in the final cut. Work...
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Naomie Harris talks Skyfall
Total Film recently spoke with new Bond recruit Naomie Harris about her role in the 23rd film in the superspy series, Skyfall. She’ll play Eve in the new movie, which arrives 50 years after 007’s first screen outing in Dr No. While details on Skyfall are being guarded more closely than MI6 secrets, Harris did divulge some information. On the training she’s been doing in preparation, she told...