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

GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser (www.moviemuser.co.uk)

Big Eyes Trailer – Tim Burton takes on a 60s art tale with Amy Adams & Christoph Waltz

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big-eyes-pic1Tim Burton is most often thought of as a director of the fantastical, but he’s heading back to true tales of the relatively recent past with Big Eyes, and now we get our first look we a trailer.

The film follows Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), whose paintings of large-eyed children were massively popular in the 1950s and 1960s. However initially her husband Walter (Christoph Waltz) claimed to the world that he was behind the paintings.

After the two fell out, she revealred that she was the true artist behind all the big-eyed paintings, and that the rather pompous and self-obsessed Walter (who spoke about himself in the third person and compared himself to Rembrandt and El Greco) stole all the credit for her work.

This set off a long running dispute between the two which ended in court battles, and a rather dramatic moment in court where the judge asked both to do some painting. Walter refused to do so because of a pain in his arm, but Margaret quickly crafted one of her trademark paintings.

Terence Stamp, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter and Jason Schwartzman also star. The movie is heading for a Christmas US release. [Read more…]

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Matthew McConaughey Gets Wet In Another New Interstellar Poster

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Interstellar-IMAX-posterA couple of days ago a new poster for Interstellar debuted, and now another one has arrived promoting the IMAX release of Christopher Nolan’s film.

As with The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan has once again captured key sequences of Interstellar using IMAX cameras, helping to ensure these moments look particularly impressive in the massive screen format.

The film chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. As the poster shows, that involved going to a planet that’s completely covered in water.

The movie’s due out in November.

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David Ayer May Take On DC’s Supervillain Movie Suicide Squad

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david-ayerFans of Arrow were introduced to the Suicide Squad partway through Season 2, when the DC Comics property made an appearance in the show. Now Warner is moving forward with bringing them to a wider audience, with the news that David Ayer is the top pick to direct a Suicide Squad film, according to Variety.

It doesn’t appear a deal has been signed with the Fury and End Of Watch director yet, but it seems he’s interested.

Warner/DC has been thinking about a Suicide Squad film for quite a while, but had put it on the backburner as they pieced together plans for a large, interconnected superhero universe based around Justice League characters. However with the studio planning at least nine DC movies over the next few years, it appears it’s found space for the Squad to be one of those films.

The basic idea of the Suicide Sqaud is that they are captured supervillains who are given a chance to redeem themselves by taking on missions that may kill them all. There have been various incarnations of the squad, involving such characters as Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Bronze Tiger and Harley Quinn.

It appears Warner may also want to include some better known villains, as Variety suggests there may be room for the likes of The Joker and Lex Luthor. There will also be the opportunities for characters to appear in other DC movies.

Justin Marks is writing the script, although at the moment it’s not clear which of the nine announced DC/Warner movie release dates Suicide Squad is likely to slot into.

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Ang Lee To Direct Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

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Ang-LeeEver since Life Of Pi there have been various rumours and reports about what Ang Lee might direct next, but there’s been nothing that seemed particularly certain. However now it appears he’s found what he wants to do, as Deadline reports he’s signed up to helm Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on Ben Fountain’s novel.

Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) wrote the script, which ‘tells the funny and heartbreaking story of 19-year-old soldier Billy Lynn and his squad, who survive an Iraq battle that is captured by embedded news cameras, causing them to become celebrated as heroes. They are brought home by the US administration for a promotional tour that culminates at the halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game in Texas, before they are returned to the war. Almost the entire movie takes place during the game, with flashes away to other events.’

Ang Lee comments, “I am very excited to be going back to work and to be collaborating with my old friend Tom Rothman. The most important thing to me is storytelling and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a story that immediately gripped me. I look forward to starting the creative process with this extraordinary team of collaborators.”

It’s not clear when it will shoot.

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Angelina Jolie To Helm Elephant Poaching Movie Africa

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Angelina-JolieAngelina Jolie is certainly taking her directing career seriously. She’s already got Unbroken being released later this year, is currently on set helming By The Sea (which she also wrote) and now Deadline reports that she’s attached to direct Africa.

The movie will follow Richard Leakey, who’s perhaps best known internationally for his work as an paleoanthropologist, investigating and finding fossils from some of the earliest human ancestors. However the film is more interested in his work helping to rein in elephant and rhino poaching, which was threatening to ensure the animals’ extinction in only a few years.

Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Forrest Gump, The Insider) has come up with the script.

Jolie comments, “I’ve felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life, and was taken with Eric’s beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man’s footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him.”

There’s no info on when the movie might shoot.

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Benedict Cumberbatch Works On The Bombe In A New Imitation Game Poster

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imitation-game-posterThe 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.

You can watch the trailer here.

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Channing Tatum Will Be Struck by Genius In A New Movie

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Channing-TatumChanning Tatum may be gearing up to shoot Magic Mike XXL, but he’s also got an eye on future projects as THR reports that he’s attached himself to Struck By Genius at Sony, which he will produce and develop as a vehicle he hopes to star in.

The film is based on Jason Padgett’s memoir, which follows his story as ‘an extroverted partying college dropout [who] was jumped outside a karaoke bar, suffering a traumatic brain injury. During his recovery, he became a new person: a math whiz who saw geometric shapes around him. The book details his sudden savant syndrome, chronicling how he became a hermit, dealt with issues such as PTSD and chronic pain and eventually found some salvation via art.’

It’s certainly an intriguing story and would give Tatum an opportunity to show off his acting chops. Many expect him to get his first Oscar nomination for Foxcatcher early next year, and he may be eying another one for Struck By Genius.

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Liam Neeson Sought For Harlan Coben Adaptation Tell No One

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liam-neesonLiam Neeson has made a bit of a name for himself as cinema’s hard man, and therefore the news that Universal is after him to star in their adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One, according to Deadline.

The book is about a paediatrician who is out one night frolicking by a lake with his wife when she suddenly vanishes and he is severely beaten when he tries to find her. When she turns up murdered, he is the prime suspect. That’s until she’s declared a victim of a caught serial killer. Years later, bodies turn up in the same spot and the nightmare is repeated, the paediatrician again under suspicion. Right around that time, he’s given evidence that his wife isn’t dead at all.

Back in 2011 Ben Affleck was set to direct (long before he became attached to the somewhat similarly themed Gone Girl), with Universal picking up the rights following a successful French version by Guillaume Canet in 2006. Last we heard Gavin O’Connor had taken over as director, although he’s not mentioned in the Deadline report.

Chris Terrio (Argo) has come up with the screenplay, but Neeson’s involvement in contingent on more work being done on the script to make him happy.

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Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman & Co. Get A New Fury Poster

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fury-poster2It’s not too long now until the Second World War story Fury hits cinema screens in the UK on October 22nd. Ahead of that a new poster has arrived giving us a fresh look at Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Peña and their tank.

Here’s the film’s synopsis: ‘April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.’

David Ayer (End Of Watch) directs.

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No Matthew McConaughey In Magic Mike XXL, But Andie McDowell Is In

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Second unit filming started a few days ago on Magic Mike XXL, but even with the cameras starting to roll, it wasn’t clear which members of the original cast would return beyond Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello and probably Matt Bomer and Alex Pettyfer too.

However ThePlaylist has been talking to director Gregory Jacobs, who says one person who won’t be back is Matthew McConaughey, although no reason is given as to why.

Jacobs also says that the new film with be very different to the first one, adding, “What am I allowed to say? … It’s road trip movie and put it this way, it’s different enough that once you see it you’ll understand why we made a sequel. No one will be accusing us of making the same movie twice.”

The film does have a new cast member though, as Variety reports that Andie McDowell has signed up. Unfortunately though, as with the vague plot details Jacobs offered above, there’s no news on who she will play.

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