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New Lincoln International Trailer – Take a look at Spielberg’s film in all its glory

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During its US preview screenings, Spielberg’s Lincoln has been getting pretty good reviews, and while we in the UK have to wait until January 25th, 2013 to see it, a new trailer has arrived giving us a look at the film’s scope and intricate production design. Personally we reckon it’ll be worth watching just for Tommy Le Jones’ lovely wig.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

‘Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook and Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln” is produced by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner, based in part on the book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox film, in association with Participant Media, releases in UK cinemas on January 25th, 2013.’

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Ben Whishaw In Talks For Spielberg’s Robopocalypse

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Ben Whishaw, who will soon be seen in Cloud Atlas and Skyfall this autumn, is circling another major major, as he’s in talks for a bigr role in Robopocalypse for DreamWorks and director Steven Spielberg, according to Variety.

An official offer has yet to go out to the actor, although DreamWorks has had him at the top of their list to play a computer hacker named Lurker. Chris Hemsworth is up for the male lead, while Anne Hathaway has been approached to take on the female lead.

Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard is writing the adapted screenplay based on Daniel H. Wilson’s novel. The story is set in the aftermath of a robot uprising, exploring the fate of the human race now that the machines have taken over.

Here’s the novel’s synopsis from Amazon, ‘Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. This is the oral history of that conflict, told by an international cast of survivors who experienced this long and bloody confrontation with the machines. Brilliantly conceived and amazingly detailed, Robopocalypse is an action-packed epic with chilling implications about the real technology that surrounds us.’

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Anne Hathaway In Talks To Join Chris Hemsworth In Robopocalypse

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Now Lincoln is nearing release, Spiellberg is starting to gear up development on his next movie, Robopocalypse. A few weeks ago it was revealed he hoped to sign Chris Hemsworth for the movie, now it appears the Aussie actor in definitely onboard, and THR says Anne Hathaway is in talks to play the female lead in the film.

There’s also a Dreamworks press release about the movie, which is mainly about Tom Rothman signing on as a producer. Rothman is the longtime head of 20th Century Fox film (he’s been with the company for 18 years), who resigned from his position a few days ago. Now he’s turning producer, with Robopocalypse one of his first project.

The current plan is for the movie to begin principal photography in early 2013, with a release date alreadys et of April 25th, 2014 day and date worldwide. Exploring the fate of the human race following a robot uprising, Robopocalypse has been adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard (Cloverfield), based on the novel of the same name by Daniel H. Wilson.

Spielberg commented on Rothman coming onbaord, “When someone like Tom is a free agent, you snatch him up fast. He has proven himself to be a necessity of this industry. At Fox he had already been an enthusiastic partner on ‘Robopocalypse,’ and it is to our advantage that he would come produce this film with me. Tom has been a wonderful friend and colleague over the years and DreamWorks is incredibly lucky to have him on board.”

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Lincoln Trailer – Daniel Day Lewis gets Presidential in Spielberg’s film

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It’s taken a long time to get a trailer for Spielberg’s Lincoln, but now it’s here, showing the director in full on soft-tint epic historical mode. It all looks very worthy and Oscar-bait, but we’ll have to wait and see if Spielberg can get over his tendency to get slightly boring when he goes back beyond the Second World War. The movie concentrates on the last years of Lincoln’s life, when with the Civil War raging, many believed the only way to end conflict and save the union was to rescind the Emancipation Proclamation (which freed slaves and was relatively flimsy legally, as it was a Presidential order that had never been backed by the Congress, Senate or courts). However Abraham pressed forward trying to find support for a Constitutional Amendment, which would ensure black people could not be enslaved in the US ever again.

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First Tease For Spielberg’s Lincoln Arrives

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The full trailer for Lincoln will hit the net on Thursday, but before then we get a tease and an epic tone in this brief look at the movie. Daniel Day Lewis certainly look very Lincoln-y as we hear a few lines from the Gettysberg address. The movie concentrates of the final years of Lincoln’s life, around the time of the Civil War and his efforts to ensure that once the conflict ended, slaves would remain free. The films currently due for UK release on January 25th.

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First Poster For Spielberg’s Lincoln Debuts

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The first poster has popped up online for Spielberg’s biopic Lincoln, which stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the famed president.

The movie is going to ignore Lincoln’s vampire fighting exploits and concentrate on the non-supernatural, focussing on the time around the Civil War. Spielberg was recently quoted as saying, “Our movie is really about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition… [The film begins with] Lincoln’s realization that the Emancipation Proclamation, the thing he is most known for, was simply a war powers act that would easily be struck down by any number of lawyers after the cessation of hostilities after the Civil War. He needed to abolish slavery by constitutional measure — and that’s where we start.”

Now a poster has arrived, a trailer can’t be far behind, so expect to see that soon. Lincoln is due to hit the UK on January 25th, 2013.

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First Pic Of Daniel Day Lewis In Lincoln

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Nope that’s not a colour photo of Abraham Lincoln himself, it’s Daniel Day-Lewis as the famed president in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming biopic. The movie is going to ignore Lincoln’s vampire fighting exploits and simply concentrate on the non-supernatural, focussing on the time around the Civil War. As well as premiering the image, EW has a quote from Spielberg saying, “Our movie is really about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition… [The film begins with] Lincoln’s realization that the Emancipation Proclamation, the thing he is most known for, was simply a war powers act that would easily be struck down by any number of lawyers after the cessation of hostilities after the Civil War. He needed to abolish slavery by constitutional measure — and that’s where we start.”

Lincoln is due to hit the UK on January 25th, 2013.

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Chris Hemsworth Wanted For Spielberg’s Robopocalypse

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With Lincoln set to reach theatres at the end of the year, Spielberg is starting to think harder about his next movie, Robopocalyse, and according to Deadline, he’s decided that he wants Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, to star.

It appears the director has met with the actor in secret, although it isn’t clear whether Hemsworth has said yes or if it’s merely preliminary talks. What is known is that no official offer has yet been made. The film itself is based on Daniel H. Wilson’s epic novel about the human race’s attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising.

A release date of April 25th, 2014 has already been set for Robopocalyse, so Spielberg is going to have to get casting and ramping up pre-production soon, so there’s time to shoot and complete the massive special effects. The movie is an important one for Spielberg, as Dreamworks is currently backed by Indian company Reliance Entertainment, who are very keen that Steven makes big budget, mass market spectacles, especially after Dreamworks’ recent movies have had variable success at the box office.

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New Writers Hired To Script Jurassic Park 4

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Although Jurassic Park III was, well, rubbish, making another of the popular dinosaur movies seems a bit of a no-brainer, but despite JP4 having been in the works for aeons, it’s now 11 years since we’ve had a Jurassic Park movie.

However things are slowly moving forwards, with it being revealed last year that Steven Spielberg was working with Thor screenwriter Mark Protosevich to go over ideas for another installment in the franchise.

While Protosevich came up with various plans, now Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has hired Rise of the Planet of the Apes writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver to pen the actual screenplay for Jurassic Park 4. Raffa and Silver worked on the script for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, suggesting they may be a goood match for the dinosaur movies.

Spielberg isn’t planning to direct the JP4, but at the moment it isn’t known who might helm. And if you’re hankering for some Jurassic Park in cinemas, the first movie is being re-released in 3D on July 19th, 2013.

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Jurassic Park Getting A Summer 2013 3D Re-release

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The only film I’ve thought might really be worth trying to give a 3D conversion to is Jurassic Park, as when watching it you almost get the sense it’s crying out for the dinos to come through the screen.

Whether it will work or not is less certain as the 3D conversions we’ve had so far have certainly been a mixed bunch, but Universal obviously thinks it’s worth a try, as they’ve announced a summer 2013 3D re-release for the movie.

Variety reports that the studio has set a July 19th, 2013 US release date for Jurassic Park 3D, which suggests they reckon there’ll be a big audience for the film as they’re dating it at the height of summer, when kids out of school and there’s a lot of competition for box office dollars.

If the re-release is successful, it may also give momentum to the long-gestating plans for Jurassic Park 4.

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