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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Playing It Cool Trailer – Chris Evans tries to conquer Michelle Monaghan’s heart

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playing-it-cool-trailer-picPreviously called A Many Splintered Thing but now given the more mainstream friendly title Playing It Cool, sees Chris Evans stepping away from shields and S.H.I.E.L.Ds, and heading into quirkily romantic mode.

It’s not just him though as the film has a great cast including Michelle Monaghan, Aubrey Plaza, Topher Grace, Luke Wilson, Ioan Gruffudd, Giovanni Ribisi, Ashley Tisdale, Philip Baker Hall, Giovanni Ribisi and Martin Starr. There’s also Anthony Mackie, so at least he’s got a little bit of Captain America familiarity around him.

Chris Evans is set to star as a man who meets an engaged woman (Michelle Monaghan), just as he is becoming disillusioned with the prospect of love. He starts a platonic relationship with the woman, in hopes of trying to win her over, despite her relationship.

Justin Reardon directs but unfortunately it’s still not clear when we’ll see the film, even though it was shot back in 2012. [Read more…]

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Lizzy Caplan Up For Seth Rogen & Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Xmas Movie

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lizzy-caplanBack in February it was announced a 50/50 reunion was in the offing, with Seth Rogen & Joseph Gordon-Levitt re-teaming with director Jonathan Levine for a Christmassy comedy.

Since then Anthony Mackie has also signed up to star, and now Variety reports Masters Of Sex star Lizzy Caplan will also appear in the film.

The movie follow three childhood best friends who reunite in New York City for their annual tradition of going out on Christmas Eve. Rogen, Gordon-Levitt and Mackie will be those friends, with Caplan signing on to be Joseph’s love interest.

Filming starts next week in New York, with the presumption that it will hit cinemas Christmas 2015.

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Anthony Mackie’s Falcon Gets A Captain America: The Winter Soldier Poster

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A few days ago we got Captain America character posters featuring Steve Roger, Black Widow, Nick Fury and Robert Redford’s Alexander Pierce. Now it’s time for Anthony Mackie’s Falcon to get his own poster. And he’s certainly looking cool.

Sam Wilson, aka Falcon is an ex-military paratrooper who works with veterans in Washington, D.C. Secretly trained by the military in aerial combat using a specially designed wing pack, Falcon becomes an indispensable ally when he teams up with Captain America and Black Widow to run a danger-filled race to halt an impending threat in its tracks.

Here’s the film’s synopsis: ‘After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is produced by Kevin Feige, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp and Hayley Atwell, with Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.’

It’s out in the UK on March 26th, 2014 and a week later in the US.

You can take a look at all five character posters below. [Read more…]

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Jennifer Connelly & Anthony Mackie Find Shelter In Paul Bettany’s Directorial Debut

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Jennifer-ConnellyPaul Bettany is turning director with the indie flick Shelter and now he’s started putting the cast together. He’s started close to home as Variety reports that he’s cast his wife, Jennifer Connelly, in the movie, and also former co-star Anthony Mackie.

Unfortunately it’s not known what they’ll be doing in the film, as the plot of the movie is being kept under wraps. Bettany also wrote the script.

Daniel Wagner of BiFrost Pictures is financing and producing, with the current plan being to shoot the movie later this year. The film will be looking for distribution at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.

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Manic New Red Band Pain And Gain Trailer Hits

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Michael Bay promised Pain & Gain would be something a little different from what we normally expect from him. However as this trailer shows, it’s still somewhat familiar, with bright, saturated colours and a love of slow-mo, as well as showing off women in skimpy outfits.

Indeed it rather harks back to Bad Boys, although without as many explosions (as the trailer shows, there are indeed things exploding, but seeing as most Bay movies are a two hour fireworks display, this is comparatively restrained).

The action comedy stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie, telling the true story of three personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. It hits US cinemas on April 26th, and the UK on May 3rd.

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Anthony Mackie & Topher Grace Join A Many Splintered Thing

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At the beginning of last month, Chris Evans signed up for Justin Reardon’s comedy A Many Splintered Thing, and now he’s got some company as Variety reports that Topher Grave, Anthony Mackie, Aubrey Plaza, Giovanni Ribisi, and Philip Baker Hall are all in talks to join.

Chris Evans is set to star as a man who meets an engaged woman (Michelle Monaghan), just as he is becoming disillusioned with the prospect of love. He starts a platonic relationship with the woman, in hopes of trying to win her over, despite her relationship status. No details have been given for the new cast members, except for Topher Grace, who will be Evans’ best friend.

Commercials director Justin Reardon will direct from a screenplay by Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair, which landed on the 2011 Black List. Shooting is scheduled to begin later this month.

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Adds Anthony Mackie As Falcon

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If you need some solid support in a movie, Anthony Mackie is the go to guy at the moment, having popped up in films such as Adjustment Bureau, Real Steel, Man On A Ledge and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now THR reports Mackie is in talks to play Sam Wilson, a.k.a. The Falcon, in the newly fully titled Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Falcon was first introduced in 1969 and is one of the first African-American superheroes (Marvel’s Black Panther debuted before Falcon, although he hailed from the fictional African country of Wakanda). The character’s power comes from a suit that gives him super strength and allows him to fly, along with the telepathic ability to communicate with birds. It’ll be interesting to see if this is an attempt to ignite interest in Falcon, so that Marvel can add him to their movie pantheon with his own films.

The new title also hints that Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes will be brought back to life as The Winter Soldier, with some reports suggesting Stan is already onboard.

Joe and Anthony Russo are directing from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Shooting will commence after production wraps on Thor: The Dark World later this year.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Cinema)

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It turns out Abraham Lincoln wasn’t just a lawyer who became the President of the United States and led the winning side in the Civil War – he actually did it all to battle the undead. Well, at least that’s what happens in this version of history.

As a child, Abe watches as a vampire sucks the life from his mother, an event which shapes his entire life, so that once he’s grown (into the form of Benjamin Walker), he wants nothing more than to kill the man responsible. After an attempt to shoot the vamp goes wrong – he’s not using the sort of ammunition that can kill bloodsuckers – he’s saved by Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper). Turns out Sturgess makes it his mission to destroy bad vampires, and trains Lincoln up to take on the undead. [Read more…]

Anthony Mackie Joins Affleck & Timberlake In Runner, Runner

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Ever since The Hurt Locker, Anthony Mackie seems to have been poised on the edge of becoming a big name without quite making it. Now he has a new project he’ll hope will further his climb up the star tree, as Variety reports he’s joined the cast of Runner, Runner.

The thriller already has Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake onboard, and is set in the world of illegal online gambling. Timberlake will play a Princeton student who is cheated out of his tuition money playing online poker. Hoping to reclaim his money, he flies to Costa Rica to get his cash back from the site’s owner (Ben Affleck), but ends up becoming the corrupt CEO’s right hand man. Mackie will be an FBI agent who has spent years trying to take the site owner down as comes to see Timberlake’s character as the key to the investigation.

The script is from Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who have a bit of a speciality in writing about the gambling world, as they wrote the screenplay for Rounders, and created the short-lived TV series Tilt.

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Anthony Mackie In Talks For Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain

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It’s almost like a support group for people coming off movies about large fighting robots, as Real Steel star Anthony Mackie is now in talks to join Transformers director Michael Bay’s new movie, Pain & Gain, which Bay plans to shoot fairly soon, before going back to the world of bots for Transformers 4.

Pain and Gain is based on a series of articles from the Miami New Times, and sees Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg as two Sun Gym employees who kidnap a business man, torture him, and leave him for dead, only to fail and have the man come back seeking revenge. According to Variety, Mackie is in talks to play Adrian Doorbal, a big-hearted bodybuilder who trains with Daniel Lugo (Wahlberg). However, he gets frustrated by the lack of results from his hard work and soon gets caught up in Lugo’s plot.

Described as a mix of Pulp Fiction and Fargo it’s something very different for Michael Bay, and indeed he may eve be making to try and prove his naysayers wrong. It’ll begin shooting early this spring.

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