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

Michael Fassbender Confirmed For Ridley Scott’s The Counselor

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Ridley Scott normally spends month, sometimes years, developing movies, but in the last few weeks The Counselor has come out of nowhere, nabbed Ridley as a director and will start shooting May 1st. There’s a good reason things have come together fast, as that’s because it’s the first script by acclaimed writer Cormac McCarthy.

A couple of weeks ago it was reported Michael Fassbender was circling the movie, and now Deadline reports the actor has been confirmed for the film, which will reunite him with Ridley following this summer’s Prometheus.

Insiders have said The Counselor is “No Country For Old Men on steroids,” about a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation.

Now Scott is moving on to finding his very evil bad guy, who Deadline compares to No Country’s Javier Bardem. Names such as Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper and Brad Pitt are being bandied about, but there’s nothing certain.

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Thelma & Louise (Blu-ray)

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21 years after the release of Thelma & Louise, it’s rather sad that women’s position in film, both in front of and behind the camera, hasn’t changed all that much. When it first appeared in cinemas, the film was treated like it was going to be a new dawn for women in the movies, but little has changed.

In fact, other than the great movie itself, Thelma & Louise’s most lasting legacy is Brad Pitt, who might never have hit the big time if he hadn’t gotten the chance to be unfeasibly hot and sexy in this (he very nearly didn’t, as William Baldwin initially landed the role, but dropped out after he was cast in Backdraft). Thank God he did get the role, as few people have ever been so breathtakingly sexy in what is actually a very small role. [Read more…]

Brad Pitt Says He May Break Marriage Equality Pledge

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In a show of gay-straight solidarity, several years ago Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie pledged they wouldn’t get married until that right is extended to all couples, irrespective of gender. While the two have so far kept to that, Pitt says it’s getting increasingly difficult to stick to as their children grow up.

The a-list star told THR, “We’d actually like to, and it seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren’t going to do it till everyone can. But I don’t think we’ll be able to hold out.

“It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment.”

Pitt refused to be drawn too much on the comment, and so far there’s no sign he and Jolie are actually going to marry, but he did add, “I’m not going to go any further. But to be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.”

Pitt & Jolie aren’t the only Hollywood stars to have made a similar commitment, as Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend have also said they won’t get hitched until there is marriage equality in the US (despite the fact neither of them is American).

Pitt is a staunch ally of gay rights causes though and has spoken out for same-sex marriage on several occasions. When New York made it legal last year, he issued a statement saying, “It is encouraging that New York has joined the movement to grant equal marriage rights to its citizens,’ Pitt said. ‘But it is each American’s Constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage.”

While Brad and Angelina’s show of solidarity is great, there probably won’t be too many people who’d begrudge them getting married. After all, it’s because it’s such a significant show of individual commitment that marriage equality has become a touchstone of the equal rights movement.

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Brad Pitt Reminisces About Being Hit On By Guys

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Brad Pitt c.1989 – Who wouldn’t hit on him?

The news that gay men quite like Brad Pitt isn’t, well, news, but it turns out the attraction is a long-standing one, going back to before he was famous. While on stage at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards accepting their Best Actor prize on Tuesday, he told the audience a little story about his first time in the Big Apple.

Back in 1989 he was in the city auditioning for a soap opera, but at the time he was a bit of a midwest hayseed and didn’t know how the big city worked. While wandering down the predominantly gay Christopher Street (site of the famed Stonewall Inn), all he kept thinking was, ‘My God, there’s a lot of guys in New York. But they’re so nice!’

Pitt has since become a staunch supporter of gay rights, having once said he and Angelina Jolie won’t marry until same-sex couples have the same rights. When New York gave gay couples the right to marry, the actor said ‘It is encouraging that New York has joined the movement to grant equal marriage rights to its citizens,’ he said in a statement. ‘But it is each American’s Constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage.’

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World War Z Set To Become A Trilogy

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Next Christmas it’s going to be all about the zombies, with Brad Pitt taking on a big budget brood of the undead in World War Z. The film is currently in post-production, but it seems Paramount and director Marc Foster are already keen to turn the adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel into a trilogy.

The LA Times says, ‘For Pitt, the big sci-fi thriller also represents his strongest bid to have a big film franchise of his own, which might be viewed as the missing piece of his career jigsaw puzzle. Forster and Paramount Pictures each view World War Z as a trilogy that would have the grounded, gun-metal realism of, say, Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne series tethered to the unsettling end-times vibe of AMC’s The Walking Dead.’

This is the first we’ve heard about World War Z being expanded into a franchise, and it isn’t known how far ahead plans are for parts two and three, or if it’s just something loosely planned that they’ll look properly at if the first film becomes a hit. In the film, Brad Pitt stars as a United Nations employee who travels the world, interviewing survivors of a worldwide zombie infestation. It’ll be in cinemas in December 21st.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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See Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain & More Take On Cinematic Villains

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Every year around awards season, the New York Times uses its muscle to get a bunch of top actors to dress up and pose for unsual pictures, all related to a different theme. This year’s theme is ‘Touch Of Evil’ and it sees everyone from Brad Pitt to George Clooney taking part, dressed up as some of cinema’s greatest villainous archetypes.

We’ve gathered together some of the images below, but you can get a better look over at the NYTimes site, along with videos of the stars, which sadly aren’t embeddable. It’s incredible how they get all these people to take part, and it makes for some great shots.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Brad Pitt On For 12 Years A Slave

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Steve McQueen’s Shame is causing a bit of a fuss in the US at the moment, as it’s just been given the rarely used adult rating NC-17 (meaning nobody under 17 can watch the film). Normally if that happens – which is nearly always due to sexual content – the distributor decides to release it without a rating, but apparently Fox Searchlight is embracing the rating in the hope it can change attitudes to it (currently it’s treated as if the film must be pornographic, many cinemas won’t even think about screening it and some newspapers won’t ever take ads for NC-17 rated movies).

However while Shame if proving controversial despite much praise on the festival circuit, McQueen is busy putting his follow-up together, 12 Years A Slave. Now Screen Daily reports that the film is getting an a-list star in the form of Brad Pitt, who’ll join Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejifor.

There’s no news on who Pitt will play. Indeed the only role we do now is Ejiofor’s who’ll be Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in the mid-19th Century who was kidnapped in Washington and sold into slavery. He was rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1853. The movie, which is based on a true story, could be fascinating, especially as McQueen is proving one of the most interesting directors around.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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