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

Daniel Radcliffe To Host Gay Trailblazers Special, Honoring DOMA Champions Edie Winsor & Roberta Kaplan

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Daniel-RadcliffeThe US network Logo TV has announced that they will be hosting a special event called Trailblazers, set up to honour those who have helped the progress of LGBT people over the years.

The event on June 26th will be hosted by long-time gay-ally Daniel Radcliffe and comes almost exactly a year after the Supreme Court ruling that started to dismantle the Defense of Marriage Act (the law that banned federal acknowledgement of gay marriage), and 45 years after the Stonewall riots. Fittingly, the first Trailblazers event will honour Edie Winsor, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, and her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.

“Through their courage, Edie and Roberta redefined an institution to make it open to everybody,”  said Stephen Friedman, President of MTV and Logo. “Like the greatest civil rights pioneers, they secured a basic human freedom for all of us.”

Trailblazers will also include a performance by A Great Big World, along with special appearances by Jared Leto, Kylie Minogue, Ariana Grande, Rita Ora, Iggy Azalea, Tyler Glenn and Mary Lambert. Logo hopes this will be the first of what will become an annual event, allowing them to honour other important names in LGBT rights.

Alongside the starrier side of this initiative, Logo has also launched the ‘Hometown Trailblazers’, designed to pay tribute to local heroes who have made a difference in their community. Nominations for Hometown Trailblazers are being invited from the public, with a call for a picture or video, alongside an explanation of why the person is meaningful. You can find out more about that here.

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Daniel Radcliffe Decides You Shall Know Our Velocity, Based On Dave Eggers’ Novel

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daniel-radcliffe-750-slideDaniel Radcliffe has added to his busy film slate as Variety reports that it’s been announced at Cannes that he has signed on to star in You Shall Know Our Velocity.

Based on Dave Egger’s novel, the movie is about two longtime friends – the awkward Will (Daniel Radcliffe) and self-proclaimed ladies man Hand. The decide who take a two-week journey around the world to help those in need, by using a $32,000 insurance payoff from their friend’s fatal car accident.

Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) is set to direct from a screenplay by Wells Towers.Miguel Arteta was previously attached to direct, but he is no longer involved.

Shooting is scheduled to begin next spring. We’ll see plenty of Radcliffe before then though as he’s got Horns, What If and Frankenstein coming up.

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Daniel Radcliffe & Zoe Kazan Get A What If Poster

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What-If-posterIt’s taking a while to get some of Daniel Radcliffe’s indie efforts into cinemas. He shot a movie called The F Word back in autumn 2012, but we still haven’t seen it.

Now it’s been retitled What If, a poster has arrived and an August 1st, 2014 US release has been set. We’ve also been promised a trailer in a couple of weeks time.

Radcliffe plays Wallace, a young man who meets Chantry (Kazan) at a party where they hit it off. The problem is, Chantry has a long-term boyfriend, and the duo must navigate through a tenuous friendship (that’s the F word), while keeping their feelings at bay.

Take a look at the new poster above. (Oh, and this is the film where Radcliffe shot a naked beach scene, so hopefully we have that to look forward to).

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Kill Your Darlings (DVD)

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When reading the press surrounding Kill Your Darlings, you could have been forgiven for thinking it was a movie all about Harry Potter having bum sex. Half the questions Daniel Radcliffe and director John Krokidas were asked seemed to be about the sex scene. However that’s only a very small part of the movie, and while Radcliffe does indeed get bummed, it’s merely part of a montage rather than anything with a big fanfare.

The movie is actually about some of the Beat generation writers and their brethren before they became well known, following one of the infamous events that helped shape who they were. Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg, who would go on to be the openly gay man behind the wonderful Howl. He heads to Columbia University, where he immediately riles against the college’s old fashioned attitude to literature and poetry. [Read more…]

Daniel Radcliffe & Dane DeHaan May Be Up For College Republicans

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Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and director John Krokidas must have had a great time working together on Kill Your Darlings, as TheWrap reports they’re likely to be getting back together for College Republicans, which will follow US political heavyweights Karl Rove and Lee Atwater when they were at university.

Radcliffe’s people have apparently denied his involvement, although TheWrap is saying they’ve heard it from several sources. If it’s true Radcliffe would play Atwater, with DeHaan as Rove.

The project has been around for a few years, with the likes of Paul Dano and Shia LaBeouf eyeing the Karl Rove role, and Richard Linklater attached to direct. To some Karl Rove is a much revered figure while to many others he is the evil man behind the throne, who helped get George W. Bush elected and then steered his presidency, using plenty of dirty tricks against his enemies along the way. Many called him ‘Bush’s Brain’, while the President preferred to nickname him ‘Turd Blossom’.

Before Rove worked for Bush Jr., he was on the staff of both Nixon and Bush’s father’s administration, and before that he dropped out of university in order to work for the College Republican National Committee. That’s where the film comes, looking at how Rove hooked up with fellow political thinker Lee Atwater (who later worked for Reagan and Bush), and how their campaign to get Rove elected as chairman of the committee taught them a lot about dirty tricks.

The Black Listed script comes from Wes Jones

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Daniel Radcliffe Up For Brooklyn Bridge

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It’s been revealed that Daniel Radcliffe has lined up a new movie role, as he’s attached to star in Brooklyn Bridge, which Douglas McGrath (Emma, Infamous) is set to write and direct.

A press release reveals that the film is ‘Inspired by true events, the brilliant but inexperienced engineer Washington Roebling (Radcliffe) is left to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when his father passes away. Besieged by calamity, danger and doubt, Washington’s obsession threatens his health and to drive his family apart until he discovers he has an improbable ally… his charming and shrewd wife Emily.’

The movie is currently hoping to be financed independently, with Goldcrest Films taking on the job to finance, distribute and sell all international rights to the movie.

There’s no news on when it might shoot, but it could be an interesting role for Radcliffe.

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New UK Kill Your Darlings Posters With Daniel Radcliffe & Dane DeHaan

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Kill Your Darlings has had a limited release in the US, but it doesn’t reach UK cinemas until December 6th. Now the movie’s British distributor, The Works, has released a new poster for the movie, featuring Daniel Radcliffe & Dane DeHaan.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Set in the 1940’s during the early days of the literary revolution, KILL YOUR DARLINGS is a true crime thriller based on the previously untold story of a murder that implicated the men who went on to become the great poets of the Beat Generation; Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Based on actual events and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, KILL YOUR DARLINGS tells how these young men first meet at Columbia University in 1944. A story of friendship, obsession, jealousy and genius, their self-proclaimed brilliance is stained by the brutal murder of David Kammerer, which both consecrated and fractured their early fellowship.’

As you probably know by now, Radcliffe plays the gay Ginsberg, and there’s been much talk about the sex scene he gets involved with. Brits will be able to check it out in a few weeks time.

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Daniel Radcliffe Will Go For Gold As Olympic Medallist Sebastian Coe

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Daniel Radcliffe is getting his running shoes on as he’s signed up for Gold, where he’ll play legendary British runner, Sebastian Coe. The movie will reunite him with The Woman In Black director, James Watkins.

The movie has been in development for quite a while, as originally the hope was to get it in cinemas to coincide with the London Olympics. They’ve missed that date by a wide mark, but things are now moving ahead with Radcliffe as Coe, in a film that will look at the athlete’s rivalry with felloe middle-distance runner Steve Ovett.

The rivalry was at time cordial and sometimes fierce, and saw them fighting it out for Olympic medals, such as at the 1980 Moscow games, when Ovett beat Coe in his favoured 800m event, while Coe beat Ovett is the latter’s preferred 1,500m. In 1981 they also traded world records for the fastest mile ever three times in 10 days, with Coe as one point holding the 800m, 1,500m and mile records, while Ovett later took over the 1,500m and mile records.

Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and Will Davies (How to Train Your Dragon) wrote the script based on The Perfect Distance by Pat Butcher. Shooting it expected to start next April.

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New Kill Your Darlings Clip Has Daniel Radcliffe Reading Alan Ginsberg’s Poetry

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While there been a lot of talk about the fact Daniel Radcliffe is playing gay in Kill Your Darlings, there’s been less interest in the fact he’s playing one of the most renowned poets of the 20th Century, Alan Gisberg. While Kill Your Darlings is set before Ginsberg wrote seminal works such as Howl, a new clip show Alan reading some of his youthful verse to Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), with Radcliffe ensuring the whole thing is infused with a sense of young love.

Based on a true story, Kill Your Darlings charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. Dane DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe) to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).

During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – the gay Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers. You can watch the trailer here.

The film’s out in the US on October 16th, with the UK release recently shifted to December 6th. [Read more…]

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New Clip Of Daniel Radcliffe & Dane DeHaan In Kill Your Darlings Emerges

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After months of waiting, it’s not too long before we’ll all get to see Daniel Radcliffe as gay poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, with the US release set for October 16th and the UK release recently shifted to December 6th.

Now a new clip from the film has emerged (via Out), showing off the chemistry between Radcliffe and Dan DeHaan, who plays Lucien Carr’s the object of Radcliffe’s affection in the movie. Take a look above.

Based on a true story, Kill Your Darlings charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe) to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).

During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – the gay Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers. You can watch the trailer here. [Read more…]

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