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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

GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

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

Jay Roach To Direct Matt Damon & Ben Affleck Baseball Wife Swap Drama

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jay-roachMatt Damon and Ben Affleck have been hoping to reteam for The Trade for over three years, but it’s only now that it finally looks like it’s coming together. Variety reports that Jay Roach has signed on to direct the Warner Bros.’ baseball sex scandal drama.

The film is based on a true story from the 1970s when sandal erupted after it was revealed that two New York Yankees pitchers, Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich, had decided to swap wives. Although it has started off as a few swinging one-offs, they eventually decided to make the switch permanent. While it was an equitable arrangement that pleased all parties, the public wasn’t quite as understanding. Fritz and Susanne remain a couple till this day, while Mike and Marilyn drifted apart.

Affleck is eyeing the role of Peterson with Damon as Kekich. Casey Affleck is also likely to star, and indeed he also wrote the latest draft of the script, taking over from David Mandel. Previously both Affleck and Damon have considered directing, but they’ve not handed the reins to Roach.

Jay Roach is best known for comedies such as The Campaign, Meet The Parents, and the Austin Powers films, but has had success with drama such as Game Change and Recount.

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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Trailer – Caesar and his simian chums are building a nation

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Things have certainly moved on for Caesar and his chums since Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, but their relationship with the surviving humans certainly isn’t that great.

Now we can take by far our best look yet at Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes with a full trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.’

It certainly looks pretty cool. [Read more…]

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Trailer – Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner & family have a sucky time

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After passing from studio to studio, Disney has finally adapted the extremely popular children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, for the big screen, with Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner starring.

And now the trailer is here!

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life-a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.

‘He soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn’t had one. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is directed by Independent Spirit Award winner Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, Cedar Rapids, Youth in Revolt) from a screenplay by Rob Lieber, is a 21 Laps/Jim Henson Company production.’

The film is due out in October. [Read more…]

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Rage Trailer – Nicolas Cage gets into pulp thriller mode

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Nicolas Cage loves movies with ridiculously generic titles – Trespass, Drive Angry, Stolen, Outcast – and now he’s got another one: Rage. And like the others, the trailer lets us know we’re in thriller territory.

In the film, ‘When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.’

So yes, it’s a incredibly generic plot too.

It just makes you wonder, does nobody offer Cage interesting, challenging roles anymore, or do they simply not pay enough? Oh well, let’s just hope Rage is fun.

In the US the film will be available On Demand on June 10th and in cinemas on July 11th. [Read more…]

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The Flintstones Are Getting A New Animated Movie

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flintstones-pic1There have been a few attempts to reboot The Flintstones in the last few years, most notably with Seth MacFarlane planning a new animated TV series version. However that never got past the pilot script stage.

Now though it’s been announced that Warner Bros. is teaming up with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions to bring The Flintstones back to the big screen with a new animated feature, according to THR.

Chris Henchy, another partner partners at Gary Sanchez who also wrote The Campaign, will come up with the script. Ferrell and McKay will be executive producers (it isn’t known if Ferrell will also voice a character in the film).

The originally Flintstones debuted in 1960 and ran for six seasons on the air. At the time it was the longest-running animated primetime series (The Simpsons has massively surpassed that now though). In 1994 it was taking live-action with a movie starring John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis and Rosie O’Donnell and the 2000 sequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.

It isn’t known when the new movie will be released. It isn’t clear either if it’ll be a hand-drawn film or fully CGI.

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Fault In Out Stars’ Nat Wolff Takes On The Stand

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nat-wolffNat Wolff is having a good year. The Stuck In Love actor stars in next month’s much buzzed about The Fault In Our Stars, and now THR reports he’s set to reteam with the director of both those movie for the planned film version of Stephen King’s The Stand.

Although impossible to boil down to a simple plot, The Stand’s over-arcing premise sees a plague known as Captain Trips wiping out pretty much everyone in the world. The survivors then begin sharing a dream of a strange, evil figure, and slowly come together to try and defeat the anti-Christ like Randall Flaggs. It’s basically good vs. evil told on a massive, apocalyptic scale. It was turned into a miniseries in 1994, but despite being much loved by many, the huge plot and ensemble narrative have defeated numerous attempts to take it to the big screen.

Josh Boone, who signed on to write and direct this adaptation in February, apparently wrote a part in the screenplay specifically for Wolff, so the helmer must really like working with the young actor. However, it isn’t known if he’s be playing a character from novel or id this is a brand new role created for the movie.

Boone comments, “He’s a wonderful improviser, he’s my secret weapon, my lucky rabbit’s foot. Two or three of the biggest laughs in my first movie, he improvised. He’s gonna be in every movie I make.”

Nat Wolff responded, “We just immediately bonded; it was just love at first sight. We started arguing about movies we disagreed on, and we have a shorthand together now. I don’t like somebody who just talks my ear off anyway, so I like that we have that relationship.”

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Liam Neeson Finds A Monster Calls With Felicity Jones

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liam-neesonLiam Neeson has grown a reputation for making hard man movies in the last few years, but there’s certainly a lot more to him than that. Now Screen Daily reports that he is set to star in Juan Antonio Bayona’s fantasy, A Monster Calls.

Felicity Jones has also signed up for the film

Patrick Ness has written the script based on his children’s fantasy novel which  follows thirteen-year-old Conor O’Malley. He has to deal with his mother’s sickness, school bullies and a yew tree in his backyard that turns into a monster and tells him strange stories. However the monster/trees’ stories give him the tools to come to terms with the truths of life.

Neeson will be the monster (or at least its voice). A October 2016 release has already been set.

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New A Million Ways To Die In The West Red Band Trailer – Liam Neeson has shadow sex with Seth MacFarlane

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When Seth MacFarlane called his new movie A Million Ways To Die In The West, this trailer suggests he wasn’t joking. Indeed on this evidence it’s difficult to see how anyone survived more than a few minutes back then.

It’s also just a juvenile and silly as you’d expect from the creator of Family Guy (and we don’t mean juvenile in a pejorative sense).

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Seth MacFarlane directs, produces, co-writes and plays the role of the cowardly sheep farmer Albert in A Million Ways to Die in the West. After Albert backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend leaves him for another man. When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw, arrives seeking revenge,the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test.

‘Starring alongside MacFarlane are Oscar® winner Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Silverman and Neil Patrick Harris. MacFarlane reunites many of the filmmakers behind Universal and MRC’s hit film Ted including Scott Stuber (Bluegrass Films) and Jason Clark who produce, and Wellesley Wild and Alec Sulkin who co-wrote the script.’

The films due out on May 30th. [Read more…]

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New 22 Jump Street Trailer – Don’t ask Channing Tatum to improvise!

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21 Jump Street was a far bigger success than anyone had expected, so that it’s not much of a surprise that a sequel is coming – unsurprisingly called 22 Jump Street. Now we’ve got a new trailer that suggests it could be a lot of fun.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership.

‘Now they don’t have to just crack the case – they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.’

The film’s due out in June. [Read more…]

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Rebel Wilson Up For Private Benjamin Remake

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rebel-wilsonIt’s not the first time we’ve heard the idea of remaking the 1980 hit comedy Private Benjamin, but this time it’s got a star, as Variety reports that Rebel Wilson has signed up for the movie.

The original starred Goldie Hawn as a ‘woman who joins the U.S. Army after her new husband, played by Albert Brooks, dies on their wedding night during sex.

‘Wilson will portray a redneck who enlists in the Marines to get out of a tough situation.’

The 1980s was a major hit at the time, cementing Hawn’s status on the a-list, and this could do the same for Wilson, especially as it would appear to be the perfect star vehicle for her.

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