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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

Robert de Niro & Rachel Weisz Join Robert Pattinson In Idol’s Eye

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Robert-De-NiroIt’s been announced that Robert Pattinson has some company in the thriller Idol’s eyes, as Deadline reports that Robert de Niro has signed on, while Variety adds that Rachel Weisz will star too.

Olivier Assayas will direct the movie, which will start shooting in October. Idol’s Eye is ‘is based on a 2007 Playboy article called Boosting The Big Tuna by Hillel Levin. It follows a group of thieves who rob a man who turns out to be Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo. ‘  It has been described as a sophisticated, heist action/thriller.

It’s not clear who the actors will play.

Assayas is best known for Carlos The Jackal and had the English-language drama Clouds of Sils Maria playing in competition in Cannes this year.

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New The Rover Trailer – Robert Pattinson & Guy Pearce go post-apocalyptic

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Things aren’t going well in Australia in The Rover, as the country has suffered a massive financial crisis that sent many heading for desert mines in the hope of finding their fortune.

Guy Pearce stars as Eric, a drifter living outside normal society. When his car is stolen by a gang of thugs, he enlists the help of Reynolds (Robert Pattinson), a gang member who was abandoned during the chaos.

Now a new trailer for the movie has arrived.

Director David Michod previously commented, “It’s like a new gold rush. Where people from all corners of the world have come out to the desert to scrape out an existence. Petty criminals and miscreants and hustlers. The basic story is really quite elemental. You’ve got a really dark, dangerous, murderous person in Guy’s character, and in Rob’s character you have a quite troubled and damaged, but beautiful and naïve, soul.”

The movie should hit cinemas later this year. [Read more…]

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Maps To The Stars Trailer – David Cronenberg takes on a twisted Hollywood tale with Robert Pattinson & Julianne Moore

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David Cronenberg is back and this time he’s taking on Hollywood with Maps To The Stars. He’s gathered a great cast to do it, including Robert Pattinson, Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Mia Wasikowska, Sarah Gadon, Olivia Williams and Carrie Fisher.

Now the first trailer has arrived, which you can watch right here.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Led by the loathsome yet funny and touching child-star Benjie, we witness the convoluted world of shallow, selfish celebrities and their minions, all of whom are about to be manipulated and destroyed by the young woman who literally represents the fruit of their twisted machinations, Agatha, Benjie’s tormented, apparently psychotic sister. As much as it is a sharp, comic look at a vacant and corrupt world, MAPS TO THE STARS is also a haunting ghost story.’

It should be in cinemas later this year. [Read more…]

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Joel Edgerton Gets Life With Robert Pattinson & Dane DeHaan

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joel-edgertonThe first image from the movie Life was released a few days ago, so you’d have thought the cast would be complete by now, but it turns out at they’ve found room for one more, as Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan have been joined by Joel Edgerton, according to Variety.

The film is based on the true story of freelance photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson), who back in the 9150s was commissioned by Life Magazine to photograph up and coming movie star James Dean (DeHaan). They took journey from Los Angeles to New York, with the film following their burgeoning friendship along the way.

Edgerton is set to play Magnum Photography editor John Morris, who brokered the deal with Life Magazine for the photos. Ben Kingsley and Alessandra Mastronardi also star.

Anton Corbijn is directing from a screenplay by Luke Davies (Candy). The movie is already shooting and it’s likely to be in cinemas next year.

You can take a look at the first pic from the film below.

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First Look At Dane DeHaan As James Dean & Robert Pattinson As Dennis Stock In Life

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When Dane DeHaan was cast as James Dean in Life, it seemed like a good fit, as the actor has more than a whiff of the 50s icon about him. Now we get our first look at him in the role, via EW, opposite Robert Pattinson as Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock.

The first pics features Dean and Stock traveling from the train station to Dean’s childhood home in Indiana.

The movie is a biopic about Dean and the friendship he formed with Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson). Stock was an up-and-coming photographer who took a gig in the early 1950s with the Magnum agency to shoot an emerging actor called James Dean.

The two men soon connected, with their friendship being charted through the iconic photos taken over the course of their friendship, which included a road trip from Los Angeles to New York and Indiana. This trip occurred just before Dean became a star. A few months later, he died in a fatal car accident.

It’s not known if the film will suggest Dean was bisexual (as many believe he was).

Anton Corbijn is directing the movie from a script by Luke Davies. The director comments ‘Rob has an intensity that I think Dennis would have. When I see Rob, I see an inner turmoil that is great for the role. And Dane is really interesting. He has a beautiful face, but it’s a hard face to grasp. It’s hard to see how Dane reads sometimes, and the same thing goes for James Dean.’

It’s currently unclear when we’ll get to see the movie.

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The Rover Teaser Trailer – Robert Pattinson & Guy Pearce are going post-apocalyptic in Australia

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In The Rover, Australia has suffered a massive financial crisis that sent many heading for desert mines in the hope of finding their fortune. Guy Pearce stars as Eric, a drifter living outside normal society. When his car is stolen by a gang of thugs, he enlists the help of Reynolds (Robert Pattinson), a gang member who was abandoned during the chaos.

It’s all a little post-apocalyptic, as this teaser trailer shows.

Director David Michod previously commented, “It’s like a new gold rush. Where people from all corners of the world have come out to the desert to scrape out an existence. Petty criminals and miscreants and hustlers. The basic story is really quite elemental. You’ve got a really dark, dangerous, murderous person in Guy’s character, and in Rob’s character you have a quite troubled and damaged, but beautiful and naïve, soul.”

We’re not sure about Pattinson as a gangster thug, but perhaps he’ll surprise us. The movie should hit cinemas later this year. [Read more…]

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Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche & Tim Roth Up For Brady Corbet’s Childhood of a Leader

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robert-pattinson-diorBrady Corbet is best known for appearing in the likes of Mysterious Skin, Melancholia, Funny Games and Martha Marcy May Marlene. For a 25-year-old he’s had a lot of indie movie experience and he’s going to be putting that into practice as he’s now turning feature director with The Childhood of a Leader.

He’s lined up a great cast for the movie, as Variety reports that Juliette Binoche and Tim Roth will topline the film, with Robert Pattinson also set to star.

Corbet also co-wrote the script with Mona Fastvold. Unfortunately though there’s not much info on the plot, other than that it ‘focuses on the childhood of a post-World War I leader’. The movie is tentatively set to shoot next May in Europe.

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Robert Pattinson Joins The Lost City of Z, Alongside Benedict Cumberbatch

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robert-pattinson-diorRobert Pattinson has gone more for some unusual movies outside the Twilight franchise, such as Cosmopolis and Remember Me. He’s currently got another film with Cronenberg in the works now (Map To The Stars) and one with Werner Herzog (Queen of the Desert). Now he’s planning to add The Lost City of Z, starring alongside Benedict Cumberbatch.

The film will be directed by James Gray, based on David Grann’s book about doomed Amazon explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett (Cumberbatch). Screen Daily’s print issue (via TheWrap) says that Pattinson is now on board. There’s no news on who he will play. Some are suggesting he’ll be Fawcett’s son, who also went on expeditions with him, although he seems a little close in age to Cumberbatch for that.

Here’s a few more details about the book: ‘In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world’s largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions helped inspire Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization—which he dubbed “Z”—existed. Then he and his expedition vanished.’

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Dane DeHaan Will Be James Dean In Life, With Robert Pattinson As His Friend

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dane-dehaan2Plenty of actors have played James Dean on screen over the years, and if you were going to pick which of Chronicle’s Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson was most likely to take on the legend, you might have thought the latter. However while both have signed up for the movie Life, it’s DeHaan who’ll be the Rebel Without A Cause star, according to ScreenDaily.

The movie is a biopic about Dean and the friendship he formed with Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson). Stock was an up-and-coming photographer who took a gig in the early 1950s with the Magnum agency to shoot an emerging actor called James Dean.

The two men soon connected, with their friendship being charted through the iconic photos taken over the course of their friendship, which included a road trip from Los Angeles to New York and Indiana. This trip occurred just before Dean became a star. A few months later, he died in a fatal car accident.

Anton Corbijn is directing the movie from a script by Luke Davies.

It’s not known if the film will suggest Dean was bisexual (as many believe he was), although with DeHaan’s next film getting homoerotic with Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings, the young actor probably wouldn’t be against going period gay again.

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Robert Pattinson Says He Pleasured Himself For Real In Little Ashes

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Sometimes with Robert Pattinson it’s difficult to work out whether he’s being serious or if he’s just a little bored and seeing what he can get away with. So despite this coming from his own lips, we wouldn’t take it as 100% true – although we might have to rewatch Little Ashes to see whether we think his latest revelationship.

Back in 2008 he starred in the gay-themed movie, where he played a young version of the painter Salvador Dali. That included a scene of him masturbating, and now he’s saying that while you’d have expected him to just pretend, he did it for real.

He says, “[Faking it] just doesn’t work. So I pleasured myself in front of the camera. My orgasm is recorded for eternity.”

The film depicts a much rumoured relationship between the poet Federico Garcia Lorca (Beltran) and Dali when they were young men finding their feet as artists. Needless to say, they don’t go off into the sunset together.

Pattinson says of another scene with Beltran, “We were all hanging out by the pool, trying to loosen up. I was nervously clinging to the edge — and before I could turn around, the Spaniard was already naked. He happily swam towards me… And I didn’t have a clue how to react.”

It sounds like it was an interesting set to be on. Now we just need another angle on the scene where R-Patz pleasures himself.

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