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While director James Mangold has said The Wolverine is a stand-alone movie, this trailer certainly plays up the links both the X-Men movies (Logan being haunted by the death of Jean Grey) and Origins: Wolverine, while still ensuring this looks like something new.

It also gives up our first look at the rather fearsome Silver Samurai in action.

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he will face a host of unexpected and deadly opponents in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.

The Wolverine opens in cinemas on 25th July 2013.

Hollywood hasn’t had much luck with blockbusters westerns (The Wild Wild West pretty much killed off studio interest for the last decade), but Disney will be hoping for more from its $200+ million The Lone Ranger. And from the evidence of a new trailer that’s popped up over at Apple, the film is looking pretty good.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ “The Lone Ranger,” a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero  is brought to life through new eyes.  Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice—taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.’

It’s out July 3rd in the US and August 9th in the UK.

There’s been a lot of interest in A Field In England, the latest movie from Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley. Now we can get our first taste of the black and white film with a trailer and poster. It’s getting an unusual UK release, as it’ll be the first ever British film released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, on free TV (Film 4) and on VoD on Friday 5th July.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘England during the Civil War.

‘A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O’Neil and Cutler. O’Neil (Michael Smiley), an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.

‘Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

‘A Field in England stars Michael Smiley (Kill List), Peter Ferdinando (Tony), Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), Richard Glover (Sightseers) and Ryan Pope (Ideal).’ [Read more...]

Byzantium definitely looks intriguing, even if it met a bit of a mixed response on its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival at the end of last year. However this new trailer look pretty good, with Neil Jordan going back to the world of bloodsuckers for the first time since Interview With The Vampire.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) is a precocious girl with a bent for storytelling. A natural introvert, her idea of a good time is to put pen to paper and reflect on her inner life. Her “sister” Clara (Gemma Arterton) is the complete opposite: extroverted and sexual, she struts around in stilettos and skin-tight garb, attracting hungry male gazes wherever she goes. Both carry secrets from deep in their shared past — all 200 years of it — which bubbles to the surface as Jordan wends his way through the twists and turns of the plot.

‘It turns out that Clara was involved in a passionate love affair during the Napoleonic Wars, while at the same time Eleanor was abandoned as a child. In the present, both seek to preserve their secret from their unsuspecting new companions. Eleanor falls for a sweet young waiter (Caleb Landry Jones), while Clara settles on a homey, unsuspecting man (Daniel Mays) who has just come into an inheritance: the Byzantium Hotel, which has seen better days. The fun begins as Eleanor and Clara shack up in the hotel, feeding off their victims while attempting to stay one step ahead of their pursuers, who are hot on the duo’s trail after Clara rather violently disposes of a particularly seedy pickup.’

The movie, which also stars Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley, and Tom Hollander, will be out in the UK on May 31st and the US on June 28th. [Read more...]

For years an Anchorman sequel was rumoured and talked about, but most people gave up hoping of ever seeing it. However now it’s in production and a teaser has been released to prove it really is coming. There’s no footage from the actual movie, but it does see Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), Champ Kind (David Koechner), and Brick Tamland (Steve Carell) lining up to reintroduce themselves.

The film itself look at how the advent of the 24-hour news cycle in the early 80s affect the old-fashioned Burgundy.

It’s shooting now for a Christmas release.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet certainly likes to take his time getting him movies right, as since Delicatessen in 1991 he’s averaged one movies every four years, but that has included delights such as The City Of Lost Children, Ameli and Micmacs.

Now he’s returning with The Young and Prodigious Spivet, which is both his first 3D film and his first movie set in the US. Based on the book The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen, the film is about ‘A 12-year-old cartography enthusiast in an eccentric family, who travels across country hidden on board a freight train after being invited to the Smithsonian Institute.’

The movie stars Helena Bonham Carter, Kathy Bates, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie. No release date it currently set, but it should be in cinemas later this year.