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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)

Charlie Hunnam, Christoph Waltz & Cate Blanchett Up For Triple Nine

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charlie-hunnam-shirtless-pacific-rim2Charlie Hunnam may be killing monsters in Pacific Rim in cinemas at the moment, but now he’s planning to turn police officer as TheWrap reports that he’s set to star in Triple Nine for director John Hillcoat (The Road). Christoph Waltz and Cate Blanchett are also in talks for the movie

Triple Nine is a reference to police code, indicating that an officer needs immediate assistance. The film ‘follows a group of thieves who plan to kill a young LAPD cop to divert the police away from a daring heist they’re perpetrating across town. Hunnam will play the targeted officer, while Waltz is in talks to play Hunnam’s uncle, a fellow cop investigating the criminals. Blanchett would play the juicy role of a notorious mobster’s Lady Macbeth-esque wife who’s really pulling the strings behind the heist.’

The film has been a long time coming, with the likes if Shia Labeouf, Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges circling previous incarnations (although the film has apparently changed significantly since then).

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First Look At The X-Men: Days Of Future Past’s Robotic Sentinels

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The future isn’t going to be good for mutants – at least it won’t the if ones from the past can’t stop the rise of the sentinels! X-Men: Days Of Future Past revolves around that concept, showing us a near-future where all the mutants have been rounded up and put in concentration camps, with robots known as Sentinels controlling the ‘mutant threat’.

Now we’ve got our first look at those Sentinels thanks to images that have emerged of a robotic head that’s on display at Comic-Con, as well as some propaganda posters from Trask Industries, the company that builds the bots.

The film will see the X-Men of the past having to stop the events that make the Sentinels a reality. That sees them running up against Peter Dinklage’s Bolivar Trask, who runs Trask Industries.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past is currently in production and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Hugh Jackman. It’ll be out May 2013.

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Britt Robertson Confirmed To Star Opposite George Clooney In Disney’s Tomorrowland

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britt-robertsonAfter the failure of John Carter and The Lone Ranger, you might think Disney would be shying away from projects that aren’t either animated, sequels or made by Marvel. However they’ve been putting together Tomorrowland, and recently it was rumoured they were eyeing Britt Robertson or Naomi Scott for the female lead role.

Now it’s been confirmed that Under The Dome and Secret Circle star Robertson has won the role and signed onto the movie. Disney released a brief casting announcement saying she’s going to be in the film, along with the info that, ‘In the film, a high school girl with an unconventional understanding of technology is launched on a journey to reclaim her future.’

Previous details have suggested that her character approaches a cranky inventor named Frank (George Clooney) to unravel the mystery behind Tomorrowland, a world that exists in a parallel dimension to ours. Hugh Laurie has been cast as the villain, with Raffey Cassidy playing a child robot who joins Casey and Frank on their journey.

Brad Bird is directing Tomorrowland from a screenplay by Damon Lindelof and Jeff Jensen. A December 12, 2014 release date has already been set.

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Rose Byrne In Talks To Join Jamie Foxx In Annie

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Rose-ByrneAfter a fairly long development process, the revamped movie version of the musical Annie is now coming together. Quvenzhané Wallis is already attached to star as the titular orphan, with Cameron Diaz as the horrible Miss Hannigan, and Jamie Foxx as Daddy Warbucks.

Now they may be joined by Rose Byrne, as Variety reports that she’s in early talks to play Grace, Warbucks’ assistant. Ann Reinking played the role in John Huston’s 1982 film version.

It’ll certainly be interesting to see what they do with the music in this version, as Will Smith and Jay-Z have been working behind the scene to update the score, although it’s not known yet quite how contemporary the tunes will become and whether we’ll get a hip-hop version of Tomorrow.

The plot remains the same though, with orphan Annie having a hard-luck life in the foul orphanage run by Miss Hannigan. She’s then taken in by the filthy rich Daddy Warbucks, who initially doesn’t really want her, but soon falls for the plucky youngster’s charms.

Will Gluck is directing from a screenplay he is currently rewriting, which was originally written by Aline Brosh McKenna and Emma Thompson. Annie is currently set for release December 25th, 2014

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First Look At Christoph Waltz & Co. In Terry Gilliam’s Zero Theorem

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Comic-Con has now officially kicked off, with the first day including the screening of some footage from Terry Gilliam’s upcoming movie, The Zero Theorem. While you had to be in San Diego to see that (although there’s a chance it’ll pop up online), the first two official images from the film have also been released, via Empire.

Zero Theorem is about an eccentric and reclusive computer genius (Christoph Waltz), who is plagued with existential angst while working on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the purpose of existence, or­ the lack thereof,­ once and for all. However, it is only once he experiences the power of love and desire that he is able to understand his very reason for being.

The story, by Pat Rushin, was partially inspired by Gilliam’s own Brazil, so it’s very apt Terry has taken the project on.

Ben Whishaw, Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, David Thewlis, Mélanie Thierry, Lucas Hedges and Sanjeev Bhaskar co-star. No UK or US release date is currently set.

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New Rush Trailer – More F1 action with Chris Hemsworth & Daniel Bruhl

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There haven’t been that many movies about F1, partly because it’s not that popular in the US and so the rather myopic people in Hollywood don’t see it as a good box office bet.  They’ll make Nascar movies, despite the fact 90% of the world’s population knows nothing about that, but generally ignore the biggest motorsport competition in the world.

However Rush is bucking that trend, with Ron Howard directing and Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl set to star. Now we can get a fresh look at the film with a new trailer.

Set in the 1970s, Hemsworth plays James Hunt with Bruhl as Niki Lauda. Hunt was a dashing playboy with a wild social life, whose exploits off the track filled more column inches than what he did while racing. Lauda meanwhile was a quieter figure, but still an amazing and driven racer. Their rivalry became legendary.

Olivia Wilde, Natalie Dormer and Alexandra Maria Lara also star, with the film set for release in September. [Read more…]

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Jamie Foxx Is Blue In Amazing Spider-Man 2 Electro Promo Teaser

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The run up to Comic-Con continues apace with a new video giving us our first look at footage of Jamie Foxx as the villainous Electro in The Amazing Spider-man 2, letting us know that ‘Electro Arrives’ in the convention’s Hall H on Friday.

Here’s the film’s synopsis: ‘In ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2,’ for Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can’t come quickly enough.

‘Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Jamie Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.’

It’s due out May 2nd 2014. [Read more…]

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The Girl Who Played With Fire Gets A New Screenwriter

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girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-pic1Before David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was released, the plan had been to make movies from Stieg Larsson’s other Millennium Trilogy novels as quickly as possible. However when it didn’t become a big hit, Sony slightly put the breaks on a sequel, hiring Steven Zaillian to write a script for The Girl Who Played With Fire, but with no rush to go into production.

Many has assumed that with little heard about the film for months, all hope had been lost of ever seeing the movie. But now ThePlaylist reports that Andrew Kevin Walker has been hired to rewrite Zaillian’s script. Walker is best known for writing Seven, and also worked with David Fincher on his now-dead take on 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

Walker has apparently been working quietly on the project and is now nearly done with his draft. Of course, that doesn’t mean Sony is immediately going to give the movie the greenlight, especially as David Fincher is now busy putting together Gone Girl, while Daniel Craig is on Broadway from October to January, and will also be shooting the next Bond movie next year, which means it’ll be a few years before we see a Dragon Tattoo sequel if it does happen.

It still looks like The Girl Who Played With Fire is a long way from becoming a reality, but it’s certainly the best news we’ve had on the project for a long time.

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Rodrigo Santoro Gets A 300: Rise Of An Empire Xerxes Poster

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One of the few members of the original 300 cast to return for the follow-up, 300: Rise Of An Empire, is Rodrigo Santoro, who will once more play the nefarious Xerxes. In the run-up to the film’s appearance at Comic-Con, a poster featuring the villainous god-man has been released, which you can see above.

Rise Of An Empire sees Sullivan Stapleton as Themistokles, who tries to unite all of Greece in battle against the massive Persian army lead by Xerxes and the cunning Artemisia (Eva Green). As the poster suggest, Xerxes wants Athens to burn.

Noam Murro directs the movie, which was recently delayed from an August release to March 2014.

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Ben Whishaw & Frank Dillane Up For In The Heart Of The Sea

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ben-whishawRon Howard is pulling together a pretty good cast for In The Heart Of The Sea, his planned movie based on the story that inspired Moby Dick. Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson are already onboard, and now TheWrap reports that Ben Whishaw and Frank Dillane are also likely to sign up.

Charles Leavitt wrote the script, adapted from Nathanial Philbrick’s non-fiction book of the same name. The story revolves around a Nantucket whaling ship that was destroyed by a sperm whale in 1820. Only eight crew members were rescued alive, after being lost at sea for 90 days – by which point they’d turned to cannibalism. Benjamin Walker will play first-time Captain, Pollard, with Hemsworth as his first mate, Owen Chase, and Murphy as the second mate.

Whishaw is in talks to play Herman Melville, who it appears will be part of a framing device, where Brendan Gleeson plays one of the aging survivors of the whaling disaster, who tells Herman what happened to them.

Dillane, who’s best known for play the young Voldemort in Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince, is set to play Coffin, an insubordinate crew member who’s also the cousin of Walker’s George Pollard.

The hope is to shoot the movie this September in order to fit the film into Hemsworth’s busy schedule.

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