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The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Six-Minute Trailer – Out longest look yet at the Ben Stiller movie

December 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

20th Century Fox has high hopes for The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, which some even suggesting it may make an awards run after its Christmas release. To get us excited they’re released a lengthy new six-minute trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Ben Stiller directs and stars in THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, James Thurber’s classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.’

You’ll be able to catch it in cinemas on December 26th. [Read more…]

Zach Galifianakis Is Going On A Heist With Owen Wilson

December 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

zach-galifianakis For a while Owen Wilson and Jim Carrey had been planning to team up for Loomis Fargo, but now the film has lost its title and one of the stars, as Carrey has been forced out due to scheduling problems. However his replacement is already being lined up as TheWrap says Zach Galifianakis is close to signing on.

Loosely based on a true story, the movie follows an armoured truck driver (Galifianakis) who is convinced to help participate in a $17 million robbery, but his partners are quick to turn on him once the job is done and leave him stranded in Mexico while they go off to live the high life. Then it’s time to settle the score.

Jared Hess is set to direct the action comedy, working from a script originated by Emily Spivey and more recently re-written by Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer. Hopefully it’ll also get a new title soon.

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ACTORS: Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Jim Carrey DIRECTORS: Jared Hess

Sacha Baron Cohen Turns British Spy With Now You See Me Director Louis Leterrier

December 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Sacha Baron Cohen may not be play Freddie Mercury anymore, but he’s still busy putting projects together, with the news that Now You See Me and Incredible Hulk helmer Lous Letterier has signed up to helm his spy spoof, Grimsby, according to Variety.

The first we heard of the movie was in August 2012, although things have moved forward considerably since then. Baron Cohen and Phil Johnston wrote the script, which is about ‘a British black ops agent who is forced to go on the run with his long-lost brother, who is a northern English soccer hooligan.’

Now the Mercury biopic is gone, Cohen is hoping to shoot Grimsby as soon as he can. although there’s no news on exactly when it’ll film.

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ACTORS: Sacha Baron Cohen DIRECTORS: Louis Leterrier

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Full Synopsis, Poster & Trailer Teases Arrive

December 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

While The Amazing Spider-man 2 is one of next summer’s biggest movies, Sony hasn’t confirmed too much about the plot, leaving everyone to piece bits and pieces together. However now a full synopsis has arrived, along with a great triptych poster above.

This comes ahead of a trailer on Thursday, and to tease those Sony has releases a couple of teases you can see below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘We’ve always known that Spider-Man’s most important battle has been within himself: the struggle between the ordinary obligations of Peter Parker and the extraordinary responsibilities of Spider-Man. But in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker finds that a greater conflict lies ahead.

‘It’s great to be Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield). For Peter Parker, there’s no feeling quite like swinging between skyscrapers, embracing being the hero, and spending time with Gwen (Emma Stone). But being Spider-Man comes at a price: only Spider-Man can protect his fellow New Yorkers from the formidable villains that threaten the city. With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront a foe far more powerful than he. And as his old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, Peter comes to realize that all of his enemies have one thing in common: OsCorp.’

Take a look at the trailer teases below.

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ACTORS: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx DIRECTORS: Marc Webb FILMS: The Amazing Spider-man 2

Kit Harington & Keifer Sutherland Erupt In Three New Pics From Pompeii

December 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

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Early next year Pompeii will be getting destroyed once more, in 3D on cinema screens thanks to Paul WS Anderson’s movie. Now three new images have arrived, via USA Today, featuring an ashy Kit Harington and Emily Browning, as well and a very Roman Keifer Sutherland.

The movie is set days before the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It centres on former slave Milo (Harington), who must race to save his true love Flavia (Emily Browning). Jessica Lucas is playing a slave who is a confidante to Flavia. Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje also star.

Sutherland comments, “It’s been a long time since I did a movie this big in scope. There are amazing computer effects, but only a third of the set was green screen. The rest was huge props, big sets, elaborate costumes, which I love.”

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ACTORS: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Keifer Sutherland DIRECTORS: Paul W.S. Anderson FILMS: Pompeii

All Is Lost’s J.C. Chandor Plans Vince Lombardi Sports Biopic

December 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jc-chandor All Is Lost filmmaker J.C. Chandor to write and direct an biopic about NFL coaching legend Vince Lombardi, according to Deadline. Legendary Pictures is behind the film, who will be hoping they can match of success of their recent Jackie Robinson movie, 42.

Lombardi led the Green Bay Packers to five NFL Championships and the first two Super Bowl titles, but before then, he served as offensive line coach for the New York Giants. After Giants defensive line coach Tom Landry was hired as the Dallas Cowboys head coach, he got the Packers to hire him as their head coach, at a time when the team’s owners were considering folding the team altogether.

Under his leadership, he turned the then-losing team into one of the most successful franchises in NFL history.

Legendary has a rights package in place for the film, which includes a deal with the coach’s estate, the David Marannis book, When Pride Still Mattered, and a Broadway play that was adapted from the book. It’s not known when it will shoot.

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DIRECTORS: J.C. Chandor

Noah International Trailer – Fresh look at the Russell Crowe, Douglas Booth & Logan Lerman film

December 2, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago we had the first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, now a new international one has arrived, showing off some fresh footage from the big biblical, and rather unusual looking movie.

Here’s the brief official synopsis: ‘Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe stars as Noah, a man chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.’

Emma Watson, Jennifer Connolly, Ray Winstone and Anthony Hopkins co-star. And who knew Noah had such hot sons, with Logan Lerman and Douglas Booth as Shem and Ham. Darren Aronofsky’s film is due out March 28th 2014. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth, Russell Crowe DIRECTORS: Darren Aronofsky FILMS: Noah

Is Christoph Waltz Eyed Being For Pirates of the Caribbean 5?

December 2, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has taken far longer to put together than originally planned, but it seems it’s now moving forward once more, and if the Daily Mail is to be believed, they’re starting to pull together the cast who’ll join Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.

Keith Richards will apparently return as the Jack’s father, the pirate Captain Teague. He seems to be getting an expanded role, teaming up with Jack to battle Captain Brand in a search for a mythical trident. Django Unchained’s Christoph Waltz is reportedly being eyed to take on the villainous Brand.

Teague is said to hold valuable information about the trident, while the ghost of Captain Brand wants to use the weapon on Jack to exact revenge, believing that Sparrow is responsible for turning his brother Eric to a life of piracy, which ultimately ended in his death.

Jack will apparently get a love interest in the form of Barbosa’s daughter Carina Smyth, who is believed to be a witch but is actually just am accomplished astronomer. Geoffrey Rush will also be back as Barbossa.

None of this has been confirmed by Disney at this stage.

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ACTORS: Johnny Depp, Christoph Waltz FILMS: Pirates Of The Caribbean 5

Catching Fire Tops The US Box Office Again, With Frozen Also Doing Well

December 2, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It was always going to be a race between Catching Fire and Frozen for the Thanksgiving US box office top spot. In the end it was The Hunger Games sequel that pulled ahead with $74 million over the actual weekend and $110 million over the five day weekend. It means that in less than two weeks it’s already grazing nearly $300 million.

Frozen still did good business though, taken $93 million since it expanded its screen count from a single screen to 3,700 last Monday. That’s a Thanksgiving holiday record for an animated movie, ahead of Toy Story 2’s $80 million opening. With its wintry theme and good word of mouth, it should continue to do well in the run up to Christmas.

Much of the rest of the top 10 was made up of either new films of those making their first appearance in the top 10 after expanding their screen count. The Jason Statham flick Homefront took fifth spot $6.9 million of its opening, while The Book Thief jumped from 16th to 7th spot with $4.8 million. Black Nativity opened at eight $3.8 million, which is likely to be seen as a disappointment compared to many other recent films with a primarily African American cast. Finally the Judi Dench/Steve Coogan movie Philomena jumped from 27th to 9th spot with $3.7 million.

Take a look below for the US box office top to for the weekend of November 29th-December 1st 2013.

Rank	Title	Weekend Gross (millions)	Total Gross to date (millions)
1	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	$74.5	$296.5
2	Frozen	$66.7	$93.3
3	Thor: The Dark World	$11.1	$186.7
4	The Best Man Holiday	$8.4	$63.4
5	Homefront	$6.9	$9.7
6	Delivery Man	$6.9	$19.4
7	The Book Thief	$4.8	$7.8
8	Black Nativity	$3.8	$5.0
9	Philomena	$3.7	$4.7
10	Last Vegas	$2.7	$58.7

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Paul Walker Dies In A Car Crash Aged 40

December 1, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Hollywood has been left in shock with the news that Fast & Furious star Paul Walker has died, aged 40, in a car crash in Southern California. Walker was the passenger in a car which apparently hit a pole and then burst into flames. The driver was also killed.

Born in Southern California, Walker was been on screen since he was a toddler (first appearing in a Pampers commercial) and started finding adult fame in the likes Pleasantville and Varsity Blues, but it was with The Fast & The Furious franchise that he found true stardom. He appeared in all the movies barring the third one.

Walker was shooting the seventh in the Fast & Furious series at the time of his death. He was on a Thanksgiving break but was due to return to the shoot soon.

An official statement of Walker’s Facebook page reads, ‘It is with a truly heavy heart that we must confirm that Paul Walker passed away today in a tragic car accident while attending a charity event for his organization Reach Out WorldWide. He was a passenger in a friend’s car, in which both lost their lives. We appreciate your patience as we too are stunned and saddened beyond belief by this news. Thank you for keeping his family and friends in your prayers during this very difficult time. We will do our best to keep you apprised on where to send condolences. – #TeamPW’

His Fast & Furious co-stars took to Twitter to express their grief, with Vin Diesel saying, ‘Brother I will miss you very much. I am absolutely speechless. Heaven has gained a new Angel. Rest in Peace.’ Dwayne Johnson added, All my strength, love & faith to the Walker family during this heartbreaking time. We find our strength.. in his light. Love you brother.’

Universal Pictures also reacted with a statement, saying, ‘All of us at Universal are heartbroken. Paul was truly one of the most beloved and respected members of our studio family for 14 years, and this loss is devastating to us, to everyone involved with the Fast and Furious films, and to countless fans. We send our deepest and most sincere condolences to Paul’s family.’

He is survived by a 14-year-old daughter.

Paul Walker – September 12th 1973-November 30th 2013 – RIP

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