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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)

New Blended Trailer – Adam Sandler teams up with Drew Barrymore once more

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Is Blended a good idea for a film, or did Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore just fancy having a holiday in Africa? We can now get a bit of a taste with a new trailer, which you can watch right here.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren (Barrymore) and Jim (Sandler) agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again.

‘But when they each sign up separately for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week. Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Gulfstream Pictures and Happy Madison Production, “Blended”, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and directed by “The Wedding Singer” director, Frank Coraci.’

The film is in UK cinemas May 23rd 2013. [Read more…]

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Richard Donner Suggests Goonies 2 Is Really Happening

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Ever since 1985, every year or two there’s been a rumour that a sequel to The Goonies might be in the works. It’s gotten to the point where most people assumed it will never happen, but then few people thought we’d get The Lost Boys 2 & 3 either (and even more wish we hadn’t).

However now director Richard Donner himself has confirmed that they’re working on The Goonies 2. After TMZ stopped him on the street, they asked if he’d return to the comic book genre he helped create with 1978’s Superman

He replies, “If you call The Goonies a comic book.” He then adds, “We’re doing a sequel.”

When asked if any of the original cast is going to return, he says, “Hopefully all of them.”

Several years ago a script for The Goonies 2 was developed, which followed a new group of kids, many of the children of the original Goonies. Over the years the likes of Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, and Martha Plimpton have expressed an interest in returning, but the film has never seemed all that close to actually happening.

While this isn’t exactly an official announcement, the fact it’s on Donner’s mind certainly suggests it’s something he’s actively working on. We’ll have to wait and see if this actually turns into anything.

Take a look at the TMZ vid below.

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Tom Hardy Is Going Musical With London Road, Alongside Olivia Colman

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When you look at Tom Hardy, few people think, ‘there’s a man who ought to be in musicals’, but he’s setting out to proved them wrong, as The Daily Mail reports that Hardy and Olivia Colman have signed up to star in the musical London Road for Broken director Rufus Norris (another person you wouldn’t necessarily think would be making a musical).

Although as those names suggest, this isn’t your usual musical.

The film will be adapted from the stage version, which is set in the Norfolk town of Ipswich during the time a serial killer murdered five women in the space of just a few weeks. Hardy will only have a small role, playing cab driver Mark,who has a single scene where he sings about the difficult passions he had as a teenager.

Hardy apparently loved the musical on stage and personally approached Norris to appear in the movie version.

The incredible Colman meanwhile is Julie, a Neighbourhood Watch organiser who comes up with the idea for ‘London Road In Bloom’, where they organise and put up hanging baskets full of plants, singing to provide a distraction from the darkness and fear that’s swept over the town. Linzi Hateley, who starred in London Role on stage, will reprise her role as a retired school teacher and Neighbourhood Watch secretary, Anita Dobson is set to play a line dancer.

Eloise Laurence, who starred alongside Tim Roth in Norris’ directorial debut, Broken, will be one of several young schoolgirls.

Rufus Norris is directing from a script he co-wrote with Moira Buffini and the play’s creators, Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork.

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Keanu Reeves Is Set To Knock Knock For Director Eli Roth

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keanu-reevesKeanu Reeves could do with a hit. He hasn’t had a bona fide success in a long time, and recently 47 Ronin turned into a costly failure, while his directorial debut, Man Of Tai Chi, barely made a dent in the box office.

He’ll be hoping for better by teaming up with Eli Roth for the psychological thriller Knock, Knock.

Deadline says the movie follows a happily married family man who is left alone for a long weekend. During this time he is visited by two beautiful women and as this is the movie, things quickly spiral out of control.

The women are set to be played by Lorenza Izzo, who also appears in Roth’s upcoming cannibal horror thriller, The Green Inferno, and Ana de Armas, who recently appeared in the Robert De Niro drama, Hands of Stone.

Also starring is and The Green Inferno alum, Ignacia Allamand, who will be Reeves’ wife, while Colleen Camp and Aaron Burns are also onboard.

It’s all come together very quickly, with Keanu Reeves signing up shortly after reading the script and then a rush into production with filming starting April 14th in Santiago, Chile.

Roth comments,”I had a window before I promote The Green Inferno, and I wanted to make a movie like Roman Polanski or Paul Verhoeven made when they were young, a classic psychosexual thriller that’s not a horror movie, but would have everyone on the edge of their seats. Getting Keanu Reeves is amazing, he’s a fine actor who is perfect for this. I feel I can have this movie ready for Toronto if I need to, and he’s catching a plane tomorrow and we’ll be fitting him for wardrobe right away.”

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Michelle Monaghan Signs Up To be Adam Sandler’s Love Interest In Pixels

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Michelle-MonaghanMichelle Monaghan has been having recent success with True Detective, but now she’s heading in a slightly different director as she has signed up to play the female lead in Pixels, according to THR, opposite Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage.

The movie is based on Patrick Jean’s 2010 short film, which sees New York City being transformed into and destroyed by 8-bit pixel classic videogames. This movie version is about aliens who confused a video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against their species. As a result they attack the Earth by staging versions of these games in real life on a massive scale.

Kevin James will be the US President, who turns to his childhood best friend (Sandler) to lead a team of gamers to stop this attack. Sandler is a former video game champion who now makes his living as a home theatre installer. Josh Gad is portraying a genius obsessed with conspiracy theories, while Peter Dinklage will play Adam Sandler’s brash rival.

Monaghan meanwhile is playing a weapons developer who’s the love interest of Adam Sandler’s character. Yes, once again in Hollywoodland a schlubby man has a ridiculously beautiful and significantly younger woman as their love interest.

Chris Columbus is directing from a script by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling. Negotiations are currently underway to include several classic videogames in the movie.

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Judy Greer Heads For Jurassic World

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Judy-GreerAfter years in development, numerous delays and many people thinking it would never happen, production is finally set to begin later this month on the fourth Jurassic Park film, Jurassic World.

Director Colin Trevorrow is still busy finishing off the casting though, as THR reports that the always worthwhile Judy Greer has signed up for the movie.

As Trevorrow is keeping plot and character details to himself, it isn’t known exactly show Greer will play, but she joins Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Jake Johnson and original Jurassic Park star B.D. Wong.

It’s believed this film will be set in a Jurassic Park that is up and running as a successful tourist attraction, just as John Hammond first envisioned. However I think it’s safe to say that the plot won’t involve everyone going for a visit and having a lovely time without any rampaging dinosaurs whatsoever.

Colin Trevorrow is directing from a script he co-wrote with Derek Connolly. It’s due in cinemas June 12th, 2015 release date.

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Ryan Reynolds & Helen Mirren Up For Nazi Art Tale Woman in Gold

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Ryan-ReynoldsRyan Reynolds is best known for comedy and action roles, but he’s actually had more dramatic parts than you might have realised. Now he’s got a part that will really test his acting chops as Deadline reports Reynolds has joined The Woman in Gold, alongside Helen Mirren and Daniel Bruhl.

Mirren will play Maria Altmann, a real-life Jewish WWII survivor who took action against the Austrian government to retrieve several Gustav Klimt paintings she believed had been looted from her family. The title refers to the most famous of those paintings.

Ryan Reynolds is set be her attorney, with Daniel Bruhl as the lawyer arguing the other side of the case.

My Week with Marilyn’s Simon Curtis is directing from a script by Alexi Kaye Campbell. Film is slated to begin this May.

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Roland Emmerich To Shoot His Birth Of Gay Rights Stonewall Movie This Spring

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roland-emmerich-slideLast year Independence Day and 2012 director Roland Emmerich announced he was stepping away from disaster epics to make something more personal – an independent film about the Stonewall riots.

However even with a director who’s had a lot of success, it’s a big difference between them saying they want to make a smaller project that’s personal to them and actually getting the backing and support to do it. But it seems in this case it’s all panned out, as on his Facebook page he’s announced Stonewall will shoot this spring.

He says, ‘I wanted you to be the first to know that I will begin shooting “STONEWALL” this Spring.

‘For those of you who aren’t aware, the legendary Stonewall Inn is the birthplace of the modern Gay Rights movement. I plan to keep you updated along the way with casting information and lots of pictures and behind-the-scenes videos.

‘Next up: Independence Day Forever!

‘Stonewall will be produced by Michael Fossat, Marc Frydman and Roland Emmerich. Executive Producers, Kirstin Winker and Adam Press. Line Producer, Carsten Lorenz. Written by Jon Robin Baitz. Cinematographer, Markus Förderer. You can read more about the Stonewall Riots here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots You can like the page here: Stonewall‘

There have been suggestion recently that it’s not a simple retelling of the 1969 riots, but that Jon Robin Bates’s script is a larger story of how modern gay rights activism emerged and how how that boiled over onto the streets at New York’s Stonewall Inn. He’s previously described it as being, “About these crazy kids in New York, and a country bumpkin who gets into their gang, and at the end they start this riot and change the world.”

He added at thetom, “I’ve got more and more involved in the Gay & Lesbian Centre in Los Angeles, and I learned that 40% of homeless kids are gay. So things haven’t changed very much. But I put this together and said, I should make a movie about that, so it starts with a kid who gets thrown out of his home and ends up on the streets of the village, and becomes friends with all these kids. In a weird way, it shows that it’s still something that happens today.

“I read a lot about it and was so surprised. It was the first time that gay people had shown the police that they should take them serious. And when the riot police came – this has always been fascinating for me – these kids formed a chorus line and sang ‘We are the village girls, we wear our hair in curls!’ It was such a cool thing.”

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The Expendables 3 Trailer – Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone & Arnold Schwarzenegger amongst the all-star roll call

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The Expendables are coming back for one last hurrah, and to prove this one may have the best cast yet a roll call trailer has been released.

It means viewers will be well aware this one brings together the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kellen Lutz, Ronda Roussey, Harrison Ford, Kelsey Grammer, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas and Mel Gibson.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In The Expendables 3, Barney (Sylvester Stallone), Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables – but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.’

It’ll be in cinemas this summer. [Read more…]

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Palo Alto Trailer – James Franco stars in a film adapted from his own book

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James Franco is well known as an actor, and in recent years he’s got a growing reputation as a director. However fewer people realise he’s also a published author. Now his 2010 book Palo Alto: Stories is getting a movie adaptation.

Franco’s book is a series tales loosely based on his own childhood, as well as suggestions people sent to him. That episodic narrative remains in the film, with the film tied together by Franco and Emma Roberts as a soccer coach and student embarking of a forbidden relationship.

It’s a bit of a Hollywood in-fest as along with Franco and Emma (nieve of Julia Roberts), it’s the film debut of Jack Kilmer (son of Val Kilmer, who also stars) and of writer/director Gia Coppola (who’s the granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola).

The film’s due out in the US in August. [Read more…]

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