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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

Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper & Emma Stone Cuddle Up In Bed For Vanity Fair

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vanity-fair-hollywood-2013-coverIt’s time to Vanity Fair’s 19th Hollywood Portfolio, where they get the great and the good of Hollywood to turn up and pose. Being included has become an increasingly important status symbol in recent years, meaning that 75 stars have allowed famed gay photographer Bruce Weber to snap them for the magazine.

You can see the cute cover, featuring Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper & Emma Stone above, and we’ve got a selection of the other images, which were featured on the Vanity Fair website, below. This year’s portfolio is subtitled, “Bruce Weber’s Adventures in Hollywood,” an ode to the city’s warmer side.

And from the evidence above and below, it’s gonna look good.

Click on the pics below to enlarge.

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Olivia Wilde & Hailee Steinfeld Join The Keeping Room

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Neither Olivia Wilde (Tron: Legacy, house), or Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), have quite lived up to their promise yet, but now they’re teaming up for a new movie called The Keeping Room, which is set to be directed by Daniel Barber. Nicole Beharie (Shame, 42) is also set to star, according to THR.

The film, written by Julia Hart, tells the story of three Southern women – two sisters and one African American slave – who are left without men in the dying days of the Civil War. They are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a band of soldiers who have broken off from the fast approaching Union Army.

Daniel Barber commented, “I am thrilled to be working with these three fantastic actors, and very excited to be directing this great script.”

Principal photography is scheduled to begin in March in North Carolina.

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Kim Basinger Up For Paul Haggis’ Third Person

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It’s difficult to know whether Kim Basinger’s rather sporadic film appearances over the last few year are more to do with choice or simply because not that many people have roles for her. She was last seen in 2010’s Charlie St. Cloud, but has now signed up for a part in Crash writer/director Paul Haggis’ new drama, Third Person.

The movie is about three couples living in New York, Rome, and Paris. THR reports that the actress will portray the wife of Liam Neeson’s character, a writer in Paris. Back in April Olivia Wilde signed up to play Neeson’s girlfriend, which suggests the plot will revolve around some extramarital shenanigans.

Mila Kunis and James Franco are playing an estranged New York couple, while Casey Affleck and Moran Atias will be a new couple taking a road trip through Italy. Each couple and city represent the beginning, middle, and end of a relationship.

Paul Haggis will direct from his own screenplay, with shooting starting on October 17th in Rome.

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Butter Trailer – Jennifer Garner dedicates herself to carving butter

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Butter got a mixed reception during its festival run late last year, but it’s certainly got a good cast, including Jennifer Garner, Ty Burrell, Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde and Alicia Silverstone. When her husband is unceremoniously asked to step down after taking first prize for fifteen years as the master Butter Carver at the Iowa State Fair, the limelight-seeking, ultra-competitive Laura Pickler (Garner) takes on a 12-year-old, African-American butter sculpting prodigy in a butter carving contest of epic proportions. Not UK release is currently set.

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Deadfall Trailer – First look at Eric Bana & Olivia Wilde’s snowy new thriller

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Eric Bana likes being a tortured soul, and it appears that’s going to continue in his new movie, Deadfall. In the film, siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. When a car accident leaves their wheel man and a state trooper dead, they split up and make a run for the Canadian border in the worst of circumstances – a near whiteout blizzard. While Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem in his wake, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay (Charlie Hunnam), en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, June (Sissy Spacek) and retired sheriff Chet (Kris Kristofferson). It’s there the siblings are reunited in a terse and thrilling showdown that pushes the bonds of family to the limit.

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Owen Wilson & More Go Squirrels To The Nuts

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Although Squirrel To The Nuts is a pretty rubbish title for a film, as it’s going to be produced by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, and directed by peter Bogdanovich, you’ve got to hope there’ll be something worthwhile about this upcoming comedy. And with them involved it’s almost guaranteed to be quirky.

It’s also pulling together a pretty good cast, as Variety reports that Owen Wilson, Brie Larson and Olivia Wilde are all onboard, with Jason Schwartzman sniffing around a role too. Bogdanovich’s script is about a prostitute turned Broadway actor (Larson) who sees her two worlds collide. Wilson will be a big-name Broadway director who like to hire Larson both professionally and personally, despite the fact that he’s married to the star of his latest play. Wilde, meanwhile, will a therapist whose own mother is in rehab. There’s no news on who Schwartzman might play.

Bogdanovich is currently trying to get the money together for the film, with an autumn shoot planned.

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The Words Trailer – Bradley Cooper steals someone’s life for a book

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The Words premiered at Sundance, but it’s only now we’re getting the first trailer, ahead on a release this autumn. The romantic drama follows writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There’s only one catch – he didn’t write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man’s work, and for placing ambition and success above life’s most fundamental three words.

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Liam Neeson & Olivia Wilde In The Third Person

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Hollywood’s love of older man-younger woman relationships continues apace with the news 59-year-old Liam Neeson and 28-year-old Olivia Wilde will be dating in Paul Haggis’ film Third Person. Vulture reports they’ve both signed on for the movie.

Haggis also having a little to say about the story, confirming that “It’s about three story lines, three love stories, three relationships in three different cities that combine in a very odd way: New York, Paris, Rome.”

News of the movie first emerged in a report in the New York Post last week, which said that the film revolves around a nightlife reporter. However the director says that aspect is only a small part of the story. “I wanted one of them to have a job in New York. So after writing the script, I thought, ‘Oh, party reporting, that would be great.’ But literally, it’s just that. The character is not based on anyone, or anything like that. Imagine, the Post not having the correct information!”

Olivia Wilde will be playing the aforementioned journalist, with Liam Neeson as her boyfriend. The director wants to begin shooting in August, although it isn’t certain how firm that start date is. It’s only yesterday that it was revealed Neeson had signed on for the thriller Non-Stop, but it isn’t known whether that ot Third Person will shoot first.

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People Like Us Trailer

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Alex Kurtzman made his name co-writing and producing the likes of the Transformers movies, Star Trek and Cowboys & Aliens, but for his directorial he’s going to something a tad smaller and more personal, but still with a high-powered cast including Chris Pine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Olivia Wilde and Elizabeth Banks. Inspired by true events, Chris Pine plays Sam, a twenty-something, fast-talking salesman, whose latest deal collapses on the day he learns that his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home, where he must put his father’s estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. In the course of fulfilling his father’s last wishes, Sam uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down: He has a 30-year-old sister, Frankie, whom he never knew about (Elizabeth Banks). As their relationship develops, Sam is forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about this family – and re-examine his own life choices in the process. A US release is set for June, but no UK release has been announced yet.

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Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis Get Relanxious

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Olivia Wilde seems to be in a ridiculous amount of movies, even if few of them have found much box office success (Cowboys Vs. Aliens, In Time etc.). Now she’s got another one, as Deadline says Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, Brie Larson, and Fred Armisen have joined the cast of Relanxious.

The story centres on Barrett (Wilde), a woman riddled with anxiety, who meets and falls for the agoraphobic George (Jason Sudeikis). Because of both their phobias, Barrett and George spend most of their time speaking on the phone, until they finally decide to conquer their fears and be with one another. Brie Larson will play Barrett’s sister, and Fred Armisen will play George’s friend, the only person he has contact with from the outside world.

Christopher Storer will make his directorial debut with Relanxious, working from his own screenplay. Shooting is scheduled for this summer in Chicago.

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