The Imitation Game will kick off the London Film Festival on October 8th ahead of its UK release on November 14th. With the release fast approaching a new poster for the movie has arrived via Empire.
The image seems a bit mysterious unless you know a bit about the story it’s based on. It shows Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing standing in front of the bombe, the electromechanical machine he created to help decode the German Enigma codes during World War II (a different device to his famed first programmable computer, Colossus, which helped with the even more fiendish Lorenz cipher).
The film chronicles the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British Establishment.
Tragically in the 1950s Turing admitted to the police he was gay while reporting a robbery, believing they would protect him and catch those who’d stolen from him. Instead it was him who found himself in court. After he was convicted he was shunned by the establishment and despite his incredible mind he found himself pushed to the sidelines. He committed suicide (although some say it was an accident) not too long afterwards.
For decades now there have been rumours about John Travolta’s sexuality, but the star himself has said little about it. Most of the comments have come from lawyers working on his behalf, denying allegations in lawsuits have been launched against him.
There’s been a huge amount of talk about James Franco and his fascination with gay subjects. Is he gay? Is he in denial about it? Does he just wish he was gay? Is it all some sort contrarian wish to be seen as cool and edgy? So LGBT topics simply interest him?
Cheyenne Jackson was one of the first gay celebs to get married shortly after it was made legal in New York in 2011. Sadly two years later he became one of the first well-known figures to get a divorce from a same sex partner.
The biopic of gay mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing got a great boost to its Oscar chances over the weekend by picking up the Grolsch People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Xavier Dolan has been making waves in the art movie world for the last few years, with many expecting him to becoming a major force in filmmaking ever since he won a prize at Cannes for his directorial debut, I Killed My Mother, which he helmed when he was only 18-years-old.
After the success of The Normal Heart, HBO revealed they were reteaming with Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story) to develop a TV series with a strong lesbian-theme component, Open, which is described as “a multicharacter exploration of the complex, ever-evolving landscape of sexuality, monogamy and intimacy in relationships”.
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It was NBC that helped launch Zachary Quinto’s career into the stratosphere with Heroes, and now 
While we won’t get to see the new comedy Paternity Leave until 2015, our first look at the movie has slipped out with a making of… featurette, which gives us our first view of the gorgeous likes of Charlie David, Chris Salvatore, and Jacob York in the film, as well as director Matt Riddlehoover (Scenes From A Gay Marriage) hard at work on the set. Take a look at it below.