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

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GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

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

Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg Reuniting For Daddy’s Home

June 6, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

other-guys-slideMark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell had a big success with The Other Guys, and while there’s been talk of a sequel it’s never come off. However it seems they want to work together as they are is in talks to reunite for the Paramount comedy Daddy’s Home, according to Deadline.

Last year Ferrell was due to star opposite Vince Vaughn in the film, with Etan Cohen set to direct. However that never came together and so Mark Wahlberg has stepped in. The film is about a mild-mannered radio executive played by Ferrell, who wants to be the best stepfather he can be to his wife’s children. However, this gets complicated when their deadbeat biological father (Wahlberg) returns and forces Ferrell to fight for the kids’ affection.

Sean Anders and John Morris are in talks to direct from a screenplay by Brian Burns, Chris Henchy, Adam McKay and Etan Cohen. It’s not clear when it will go into production.

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ACTORS: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg  

Bill Condon Directing Live-Action Beauty & The Beast For Disney

June 6, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

beauty-and-the-beast-1991The successful opening of Maleficent must have given Disney confidence that their plan to make live-action movies based on classic fairy tales is a good idea. They already have Cinderella coming next year, Alice In Wonderland 2 will go into production this summer, The Jungle Book is in development and now it’s been revealed they’ve developing Beauty & The Beast, with Dreamgirls and Twilight: breaking Dawn helmer Bill Condon directing.

Variety broke the news, adding that Evan Spiliotopoulos (Ouija, Hercules) is writing the screenplay. There have been no specific story details released, so it’s not known if it will stick close to the House Of Mouse’s 1991 animated classic, or whether it will follow Maleficent’s trick of showing a different side of the story.

It’s not clear either if this version will bring any of the Oscar winning songs across to live action. However Condon has plenty of musical experience, such as directing Dreamgirls and writing the screenplay for Chicago, so it’s possible.

The animated version one of the few animated movies to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, grossed over $375 million worldwide and spawned a massively successful stage version. It therefore has plenty of precedent for success.

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DIRECTORS: Bill Condon  FILMS: Beauty and the Beast (2017)  

Love, Rosie Trailer – Sam Claflin & Lily Collins negotiate boy-girl friendship

June 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The first trailer for Love, Rosie has been released, giving us a look at Sam Claflin and Lily Collins in the upcoming romance.

Based on the novel Where Rainbows End from PS, I Love You author Cecelia Ahern, LOVE, ROSIE will star Sam Claflin, Lily Collins, Suki Waterhouse, Tamsin Egerton, Christian Cooke, Jaime Winstone & Art Parkinson and is scheduled to arrive in cinemas 24th October 2014.

LOVE, ROSIE centres on Rosie and her best friend Alex who take a leap of faith, both on life and on each other, when they decide to go to the US together to attend university. But fate has other plans for Rosie. Over the next 12 years their lives change dramatically but the connection remains.

The film is due in UK cinemas this October. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Sam Claflin, Lily Collins, Suki Waterhouse, Tamsin Egerton, Christian Cooke, Jamie Winstone  FILMS: Love Rosie  

The Giver Trailer – Meryl Streep wants control over Brenton Thwaites & Alexander Skarsgard

June 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Jeff Bridges must be a happy man. After trying to get an adaptation of Lois Lowry’s The Giver on the big screen for over two decades he’s finally managed it and it will be on the big screen in August (which will hopefully make him mind less that the other young adult movie he’s made, Seventh Son, has been pushed back to the graveyard of February).

The new trailer gives us a better look at Meryl Streep’s rather creepy character (not least because of her hair), as well as showing us that Brenton Thwaites will be learning secrets about his world  – and Alexander Skarsgard – that literally let him see things in colour.

The Giver centers on Jonas (Thwaites), who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. The film is based on Lois Lowry’s beloved young adult novel of the same name, which was the winner the 1994 Newbury Medal and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

Jonas’ new position sees him cut off from everyone he knows and he is mentored by the former Receiver of Memories, known as The Giver (Bridges). The great cast also includes Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift.

The Giver - Brenton Thwaites
The Giver – Brenton Thwaites
The Giver - Meryl Streep
The Giver – Meryl Streep
The Giver - Jeff Bridges
The Giver – Jeff Bridges
The Giver - Alexander Skarsgard
The Giver – Alexander Skarsgard
The Giver - Katie Holmes
The Giver – Katie Holmes
The Giver - Odeya Rush
The Giver – Odeya Rush
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ACTORS: Brenton Thwaites, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Alexander Skarsgard  DIRECTORS: Phillip Noyce  FILMS: The Giver  

Carey Mulligan & Helena Bonham Carter Want Votes For Women In The First Pic From Suffragette

June 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

suffragette-pic1While most people know the Suffragettes fought the right to allow women to vote, not many people know that much about how they went about that (beyond someone jumping in front of the King’s horse). The film Suffragette hopes to help fill in the gaps in our knowledge.

Now Collider has posted the first picture from the movie featuring Carey Mulligan & Helena Bonham Carter on the streets fighting for women’s rights.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘SUFFRAGETTE is a thrilling drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. MAUD was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller, it is also heart-breaking and inspirational.’

Brendan Gleeson, Anne Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, Meryl Streep also star. An awards season release in expected, with the movie already set for UK cinemas on January 16th 2015.

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ACTORS: Helena Bonham Carter, Carey Mulligan  FILMS: Suffragette  

Josh Trank Will Take On A Stand Alone Star Wars Movie

June 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

josh-trankLucasfilm and Disney are busy people. They’ve just started production of Star Wars: Episode VII, a couple of weeks ago Gareth Edwards signed up to direct one of and stand alone Star Wars movies that being planned, and now Chronicle’s Josh Trank has been announced for another.

As with Edwards’ movie, there’s no news on which character Trank’s film will centre on, although it’s believed films about Boba Fett, a young Han Solo and possibly Yoda are being developed.

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy commented, “We’re thrilled to welcome Josh Trank into the family. He is such an incredible talent and has a great imagination and sense of innovation. That makes him perfectly suited to Star Wars, and for this new slate of movies that reach beyond the core characters and storylines of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace through Star Wars: Episode IX.”

Trank meanwhile has this to say, “The magic of the Star Wars Universe defined my entire childhood. The opportunity to expand on that experience for future generations is the most incredible dream of all time.

So far Chronicle is Trank’s only feature-length movie, but he is currently busy making The Fantastic Four reboot, which is due out next year. That suggests that his Star Wars film will come after Gareth Edwards’, possibly being released in 2018.

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DIRECTORS: Josh Trank  FILMS: Star Wars 2018  

Naomi Watts Joins Divergent Sequels, Insurgent and Allegiant

June 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Naomi-WattsNaomi Watts hasn’t made many big mainstream movies since 2005’s King Kong, and when she has – such as the thriller Dream House – they haven’t done that well. It’s a smart move they to join the Divergent sequels, which are almost guaranteed to be a success when they’re released.

According to THR she’ll appear in Insurgent, Allegiant: Part 1 and Allegiant: Part 2 as Factionless leader Evelyn. Insurgent began production in Atlanta last week, so she’ll be stepping into the role very soon.

Insurgent will apparently shoot until Septmenber, as which point Watts will move on to Sea of Trees, where she’ll co-star with Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe.

Shailene Woodley and Theo James are both back for Insurgent as Tris and Four. Their character are now on the run from the power-hungry Jeanine (Kate Winslet), attempting to unlock the mysteries of the past that could alter the future of their universe.

Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Mekhi Phifer and Octavia Spencer also star. Robert Schwentke is directing from a screenplay by Brian Duffield and Akiva Goldsman.

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ACTORS: Naomi Watts, Shailene Woodley, Theo James  DIRECTORS: Robert Schwentke  FILMS: Insurgent, Allegiant, Divergent  

Tom Hardy May Reunite With Leonardo DiCaprio For The Revenant

June 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

tom-hardyIt appears Tom Hardy may have been missing his old Inception chum Leonardo DiCaprio, as TheWrap reports that he’s in talks to co-star opposite Leo in The Revenant.

DiCaprio has had the film on the backburner for several years but is now hoping to make it his next movie.

The Revenant is based on Michael Punke’s novel, The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge. DiCaprio will play Hugh Glass, a 19th century fur trapper who is mauled by a grizzly bear, left for dead and then robbed. When he survives against all odds, he sets out on a treacherous journey to exact revenge on his betrayers.

It’s not clear who Hardy might be, although it’s speculated he’ll be the main villain, a role Sean Penn was once attached to.

Alejandro González Iñárritu is set to direct the movie from a script he co-wrote with Mark L. Smith,

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ACTORS: Tom Hardy, Leonardo DiCaprio  DIRECTORS: Alejandro Gonazalez Inarritu  FILMS: The Revenant  

Will Smith May Get A Concussion In A Ridley Scott Produced NFL Concussion Drama

June 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

will-smithLast week Will Smith left the sci-fi movie Brilliance, but now he’s found something else he might want to appear in, as Variety reports he’s in talks to star in a currently untitled drama about the problem of concussions in American Football’s NFL. for producer Ridley Scott, which examines the NFL’s concussion issues.

Assuming he signs on, Smith will play Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic neuropathologist who, in 2002, was the first doctor to discover chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the brain of a professional football player. The movie, based on the 2009 GQ article Game Brain by Jeanne Marie Laskas, is described as a whistleblower tale in the same vein as The Insider, which explores the traumatic price that athletes pay, along with the political, corporate and cultural interests that drive professional sports.

The NFL has been criticised for attacking those who’ve tried to raise the issue, while ignoring the growing evidence of the problem athletes face after they leave the sport due to brain injuries they’ve sustained.

Ridley Scott signed on to direct last Novermber, but now he will just produce. Instead Peter Landesman (Parkland) is set to both direct and write the script, based on the 2009 GQ article Game Brain by Jeanne Marie Laskas.

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ACTORS: Will Smith  DIRECTORS: Ridley Scott, Peter Landesman  

Tim Roth Joins The Martin Luther King Jr. Biopic Selma

June 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

tim-rothAfter numerous delays due to a lack of funding, the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, Selma, is finally moving forward. Tim Roth has now signed on to join the growing cast, according to Deadline, playing Alabama governor George Wallace.

The film focuses on the three marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965. The first march planned to go from Selma to the State Capital, Montgomery, but was stopped after only six blocks by police and state troopers after Governor Wallace decided it was a threat to public safety (Wallace hated anything pro-desegregation and was one of the most powerful, vitriolic and visible forces against the civil rights movement). Protesters were them clubbed, gassed and whipped, with the TV footage of the violence shocking the US and galvanising support for civil rights.

A second, symbolic march took place two days later, led by Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo), which only went as far as the bridge where the previous protesters were stopped, because a court injuction prevented them going all the way to Montgomery. A week later the injuction was lifted and a third march set out, this time making it all the way to the state capital.

It was these marches and the public horror at the beatings of demonstrators that spurred Congress to start drafting laws that ended up with the Voting Rights Act, which for the first time explicitly gave African-Americans the right to vote.

Tom Wilkinson. Carmen Ejogo, Andre Holland, Omar J. Dorsey, Tessa Thompson and Colman Domingo are also set to star.

While Lee Daniels was previously set to direct, he left after being unable to get it off the ground. Ava DuVernay is now helming directing from a script she co-wrote with Paul Webb. The likes of Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey will produce.

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ACTORS: Tim Roth, David Oyelowo  FILMS: Selma  
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