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

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

Melissa Leo Will Take Prisoners Alongside Hugh Jackman

September 19, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s always worth adding Melissa Leo to the cast of a film, as she’s a remarkably adaptable actress who can morph into virtually any role asked of her and give a great performance (as proved by her Oscar win for The Fighter). Denis Villeneuve must agree, as Variety reports he’s signed her up for Prisoners, which will start shooting in Australia early next year.

She join Hugh Jackman in the movie, who plays a carpenter who learns that his young daughter and best friend have been kidnapped. When the police are no use, he decides to take the law into his own hands and get justice vigilante style. The only thing standing in his way is the detective who is working the case. Unfortunately there’s no info on who Leo will play.

The script, which has been in development for a couple of years, was written by Aaron Guzikowki, who also wrote the Mark Wahlberg action film Contraband. The current plan is to release Prisoners during the autumn of 2013.

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ACTORS: Melissa Leo, Hugh Jackman  DIRECTORS: Denis Villeneuve  FILMS: Prisoners  

Catching Fire May Get Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair, Plus More Hunger Games News

July 18, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

There’s been quite a bit of Hunger Games news in the last 24 hours, starting off with the news, via Variety, that casting for the coveted role of Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has come to an end, with Pirate 4 and Snow White & The Hunstman’s Sam Claflin chosen for the role.

Melissa Leo and Tony Shalhoub have also been mentioned as front runners to play fellow Hunger Games winners Mags and Beetee. Lionsgate hasn’t confirmed any of these, but they have said Amanda Plummer will play Wiress.

Back in May, it was rumoured that Armie Hammer, Taylor Kitsch, and Garrett Hedlund were the front runners for Finnick, although it seems now that Sam Claflin has won the role. Odair is the District 4 tribute who won the 65th Annual Hunger Games, and returns to the battlefield for the Quarter Quell, where past Hunger Games victors battle each other.

Mags was Finnick’s mentor when he first won The Hunger Games at the age of 14, one of the youngest winners in Panem history. She volunteers to join the Quarter Quell in the place of Finnick’s lover, Annie Cresta. Beetee is an inventor nicknamed Bolts by Johanna Mason (Jena Malone), due to his electrifying weapons. Wiress meanwhile is from District 3. She’s a smart but odd woman who has a hard time communicating her ideas to the other tributes.

Lionsgate is also looking ahead to who will direct the final two Hunger Games movies, based on Mockingjay, as Francis Lawrence, who is making Catching Fire, apparently won’t be back. There’s no news on who it might be, but Anne Thompson says “Summit’s Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger, producers Nina Jacobson and author Suzanne Collins are currently vetting the right directors” for the final two films.

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ACTORS: Sam Claflin, Tony Shalhoub, Melissa Leo, Amanda Plummer  FILMS: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire  

Olympus Has Fallen For Melissa Leo & Rick Yune

July 11, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The battle of the White House taken over by terrorists movies is heating up, with barely a day going by without news of a new actor being added to the cast of either Olympus Has Fall of White House Down. Both films essentially have the same story, with bad guys taking control of the White House and Secret Service agents needing to take it back.

Yesterday James Woods signed up for White House Down, and today it’s the turn of Olympus Has Fallen, with THR reporting that Melissa Leo and Rick Yune have joined the cast. The movie, directed by Antoine Fuqua goes into production this week, with Gerard Butler in the lead role.

Leo is in talks to play a tough secretary of Defense who cracks when tortured. Yune meanwhile will play the villain of the movie, a North Korean posing as a South Korean ministerial aide who is described as a sociopathic monster. Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Cole Hauser and Radha Mitchell also star.

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ACTORS: Rick Yune, Melissa Leo, Gerard Butler  DIRECTORS: Antoine Fuqua  FILMS: Olympus Has Fallen  

Why Stop Now Trailer – Jesse Eisenberg tries to buy drugs for Melissa Leo

July 4, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


The bittersweet story of Eli Smith (Jesse Eisenberg), a piano prodigy, and his mother Penny who despite her cheerful, loving disposition, struggles with drug addiction. On the day of his audition for a prestigious music program, Eli’s mother (Melissa Leo) plans to enter rehab, but a glitch in the system forces them to enlist the help of an unlikely ally, her drug dealer Sprinkles (Tracy Morgan). Circumstances conspire that turn them into a comical yet determined band of collaborators who are forced to deal with their internal demons over the course of the day.

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ACTORS: Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan  DIRECTORS: Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner  FILMS: Why Stop Now  

Melissa Leo & Til Schweiger Join Charlie Countryman

April 24, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

After several years of development difficulties, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is finally moving forward with Shia Labeouf in the lead role and Fredrik Bond directing. Now Variety reports that Melissa Leo and Til Schweiger have joined the cast.

Shia LaBeouf stars as the title character, who falls for a young woman (Evan Rachel Wood) under the control of a violent mob boss (Mads Mikkelsen). Melissa Leo will play Charlie’s late mother, whose spirit guides him through this ordeal. Til Schweiger is portraying Darko, a Serbian mobster who is sent to America to avoid a war crimes tribunal.

Fredrik Bond is directing from a screenplay by Matt Drake (Project X), with production scheduled to begin next month in Eastern Europe.

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ACTORS: Melissa Leo, Til Schweiger, Shia Labeouf  DIRECTORS: Fredrik Bond  FILMS: The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman  

Melissa Leo & More Join Sam Rockwell In A Single Shot

April 3, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

While Sam Rockwell spends most of his time in supporting roles, occassionally he gets to take on a meaty leading role. He’s got just such a part in A Single Shot, which recently started shooting and has now announced a rather rocking supporting cast, with Deadline reporting that William H. Macy, Jeffrey Wright, Joe Anderson, Jason Isaacs, Kelly Reilly, Ophelia Lovibond, and Melissa Leo are all onboard.

Based on Matthew F. Jones’s novel (who also wrote the screeplay), A Single Shot is the story of a dark and deadly game of cat and mouse, prompted by the tragic death of a young girl. Rockwell plays a wild-game poacher who makes a fatal mistake that leaves him with a suitcase full of blood money and hardened killers on his trail. As the hunter becomes the hunted, John Moon is forced to defend his family and fight for his life.

David M. Rosenthal is directing.

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ACTORS: Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Jeffrey Wright, Joe Anderson, Jason Isaacs, Kelly Reilly, Ophelia Lovibond, Melissa Leo  DIRECTORS: David M. Rosenthal  FILMS: A Single Shot  

Melissa Leo Enters Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion

March 24, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s taken a long time for Joseph Kosinski to get his follow-up to Tron: Legacy ready to shoot, but things have finally come together and filming recently began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. However it appears the cast isn’t quite complete, as Deadline reports that Oscar-winning actress Melissa Leo has just signed up.

The film is set on an Earth no longer inhabited by humans after the planet became too toxic to live on. Tom Cruise stars as a drone mechanic, one of the last men left on the planet, who discovers a woman (Andrea Riseborough) has crash landed on the surface. The man and woman go on a journey of discovery and learn they have not been told the truth about what happened on Earth.

It isn’t known what character Melissa Leo will play. Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau also star. It’ll be in cinemas in 2013.

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ACTORS: Melissa Leo, Tom Cruise  DIRECTORS: Joseph Kosinski  FILMS: Oblivion  

Red State (Blu-ray)

January 23, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, Kyle Gallner, Michael Parks, Melissa Leo
Director: Kevin Smith
Running Time: 88 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: January 23rd, 2012

From the moment Kevin Smith first mentioned Red State several years ago, it was clear it wasn’t going to be like any of his other movies. Although his claims it would be an incendiary movie that’s “so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight look like Strawberry Shortcake” turned out to be slightly hyperbolic, it’s certainly a new side to the director. It’s rare that making a violent horror/thriller movie can be said to show a director maturing, but this really is Kevin Smith on a different level to where he’s been before.

The director’s earlier movies have been a relatively easy ride, with fairly simple stories, plenty of jokes and a rather point and shoot filming style (that’s not to denigrate how much fun they are). [Read more…]

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