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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)

First Look At Shailene Woodley In Young Adult Adaptation Divergent

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divergent-ew1Summit Entertainment is hoping that Divergent will be the new young adult movie sensation when it’s released early next year. They and parent company Lionsgate know from Twilight and Hunger Games that part of ensuring that happens is starting the hype early, so even though filming only just started in Chicago, the first photo has already arrived giving us a look at Shailene Woodley as Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior.

Neil Burger is directing the adaptation of Veronica Roth’s best-selling novel, which takes place in a dystopian future made up of five factions that are based on different personality types. As they come of age, everyone must join the faction they fit into, but certain people are ‘divergents’, showing traits from more than one group. Tris uncovers that these people are seen as dangerous and the government wants to get rid of them.

The image, from EW, shows Tris taking the place of a fellow Dauntless initiate, as she stands still while knives are being thrown directly at her face.

Woodley commented about the movie and her cast mates, “It’s a good group. We’re hanging out on weekends, celebrating birthdays. Everyone just wants to get to know one another. It’s rare to get a big group together and not have any conflicts. It’s really kind of amazing.”

The film will be out March 2014.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Channing Tatum Eyed For Guys and Dolls Remake

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I can imagine there’ll be a lot of people out there intrigued by the idea of a musical starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum. It could happen, as Deadline reports that they are being eyed to star in a remake of the 1955 musical classic, Guys and Dolls.

20th Century Fox recently finalised a deal for the movie rights to the musical and are now trying to put the right elements together. No official offers have been made to the actors yet, but both parties are said to be interested in signing on.

The 1955 version starred Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. It’s about Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), a gambler trying to set up his own craps game, who bets his friend Sky Masterson (Frank Sinatra) that he can convince the wholesome missionary Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) to come to Havana, Cuba with him. The musical is based on the short stories of Damon Runyon.

There is no writer or director attached to the remake at this time. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum showed off their singing and dancing skills at the 85th Annual Academy Awards back in February, so they seem like good choices.

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Zack Snyder Confirms He’s The Top Choice For Justice League

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zack-snyderWith Christopher Nolan ruling himself out of directing Warner Bros’ planned Justice League movie, the studio is reportedly looking at Zack Snyder to direct their superhero ensemble. The news comes from the Watchmen and Sucker Punch helmer himself, in an interview with Empire Magazine.

He says, “Warner Bros.’ long-term view has been revised to embrace this new vision, just as The Dark Knight films resisted the commodification of Marvel. Whether we get a Justice League, they say, depends on Man of Steel. If we do, they say, Zack Snyder will be asked to direct.”

It confirms what director Ruben Fleischer said when he was asked about rumours he was on the short list of candidates to direct Justice League last year. Ruben said, “Well that’s something that Zack Snyder is going to wind up doing.”

Justice League has been rumoured for years, and while the success of The Avengers gave the idea a big breath of life, it’s still far from sure we’ll ever get to see the movie. Man Of Steel will probably have to be a huge hit to make it a reality.

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Armie Hammer Joins Tom Cruise In The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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Armie Hammer

Armie Hammer

Armie Hammer’s star continues to rise, with The Lone Ranger in cinemas this summer, and now the news, via Deadline, that he has joined the cast of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. alongside Tom Cruise, which Guy Ritchie is set to direct.

The original Man from U.N.C.L.E. ran from 1964 to 1968, starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum as two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.), who do battle with the evil organisation Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity (T.H.R.U.S.H.). Armie Hammer will play a version of McCallum’s Illya Kuryakin, with Tom Cruise playing Vaughn’s Napoleon Solo.

Guy Ritchie is directing from a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns, which had been in development for several years. At one point, Steven Soderbergh was set to direct, with George Clooney attached to star, but they both dropped out when George Clooney had to have surgery on his neck. It isn’t clear when the Cruise starring version will shoot.

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The Bling Ring Trailer – Emma Watson robs Paris Hilton’s house!

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Emma Watson spent years playing a goody-two-shoes in Harry Potter, but she’s certainly letting her hair down in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring. The film is set to premiere next month at Cannes, but before then a trailer has been released, giving us a look at Watson as a high-end thief.

The drama is based on the true story of six teenagers, known as The Bling Ring, who broke into the homes of Hollywood celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and The Hills’ Audrina Patridge, making off with over $3 million in stolen goods from October 2008 to August 2009.

Emma Watson, Leslie Mann and Paris Hilton (as herself) all star, while Kirsten Dunst and Gavin Rossdale have cameos. There’s also a bunch of newcomers, including Georgia Rock, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang, and Claire Pfister. [Read more…]

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New Posters For Star Trek Into Darkness, Rush & Red 2

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star-trek-into-darkness-character-poster1A fair few new posters have popped up online in the last 24 hours, so we’ve decided to pull them all together so that you can take a look at them here.

First up is a new set of character posters for Star Trek Into Darkness, giving us a look at Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and co., ahead of the movies launch in the UK on May 9th and May 17th in the US.

Also offering a couple of character posters is Red 2, with Bruce Willis and John Malkovich looking very orange. The sequel sees the former CIA operatives back in action, and arrives in cinemas in July.

Finally the first poster for Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl has arrived, and charts the rivalry between F1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda in the 1970s. The Ron Howard directed film is out later this year.

Click on the pics below for larger versions.

 

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Vacation Reboot Shoot Gets Delayed Over Creative Differences

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National-Lampoons-VacationIt took a long time to get from the initial idea of bringing the Vacation series of films back to the big screen to the movie actually preparing to shoot this summer. However now a spanner has been thrown in the works, as THR reports that New Line Cinema is delaying production, so that the movie will no longer start filming in Atlanta this July.

It’s unclear how long the delay will be, as while one source indicates the delay may only be a couple of months long, another suggests that the start of principal photography may be pushed until late this year. That may be problematic though, as The Incredible Burt Wonderstone writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein are making their directorial debut from their own screenplay. However Daley is better known as Sweets in Bones, and if the shoot in pushed to the autumn his acting commitments will clash with his directing plans.

Sources claim that creative differences are to blame for the delay, with some involved wanting to make this a broader PG-13 movie, while others want an R-rated comedy, like the original Vacation.

Ed Helms and Christina Applegate are attached to star as Rusty Griswold and his wife, with Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo also set to cameo as Clark Griswold and Ellen Grisworld.

Hopefully the problems will get sorted out and we’ll finally get to see the movie.

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Gus Van Sant & Alex Pettyfer Shoot Fifty Shades of Grey Test Scene

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Alex Pettyfer in Magic Mike

Alex Pettyfer in Magic Mike

Ever since Universal snapped up the rights to Fifty Shades Of Grey, with plans to make a steamy movie version, there’s been a lot of interest in who would star and direct. Now gay Good Will Hunting and Promised Land helmer Gus Van Sant is making a bid for the directing job, as The Wrap reports that he’s shot a test scene with Alex Pettyfer playing Christian Grey.

The scene is apparently the one where naive college student Anastasia Steele loses her virginity to the kinky Grey.

Of course, shooting a test scene and getting the job are different things, and there’s no guarantee either Van Sant or Pettyfer will be involved in the final movie, but it certainly gives Universal a strong option. The scene was apparently completely unsolicited, but shows the director and actor’s interest.

There are still hurdles for the adaptation, not least translating the BDSM heavy ‘mommy porn’ tome into something that US cinemas will accept (particularly difficult as if it gets an adults-only NC-17 rating, many theatres won’t book it, and some newspapers won’t even accept ads). Kelly Marcel is currently writing the script.

However, as Brett Easton Ellis ignited controversy for saying Matt Bomer was ‘too gay’ to play Christian Grey last year, we’ll have to wait and see if he thinks Gus Van Sant is too gay to direct.

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Chloe Moretz To Play A Young Inegnue In Sils Maria

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chloe-moretzChloe Moretz is certainly one of the most in-demand teens on the planet, and manages to do a good mix of Hollywood fare and interesting indie project. Now she’s got a new one, as she in negotiations to join the cast of Sils Maria for director Olivier Assayas (Carlos), according to Deadline.

Juliette Binoche is already cast as an ageing actress who becomes obsessed with a younger star called JoAnn (Moretz), after JoAnn lands a role made famous by the older performer years ago. Mia Wasikowska is also set to star in an unknown role.

It isn’t clear when the movie might shoot. Chloe Moretz will next be seen in Kick-Ass 2 as Hit-Girl, and as the title character in the horror remake Carrie.

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Aussie Filmmaker Patrick Hughes Set To Direct The Expendables 3

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Patrick-HughesOver the last few days Sylvester Stallone has been releasing tweets suggesting he’s found the director of The Expendables 3, such as saying, ‘Found an EXCITING director… Things sometimes happen for a Reason….Okay?’

Eventually Sylvester confirmed that Australian filmmaker Patrick Hughes will direct The Expendables 3. One of the helmer’s main qualifications seems to be his ability to put an action movie together cheaply and quickly, with Stallone saying of Hughes’ Red Hill, ‘Great Movie!!500,000 budget 20 day shoot, Amazing – ROCKY was 850,000 and 25 days , Good OMEN!!!’

Red Hill was Hughes’ first feature, so it’s a big jump up for him to take on Expendables 3.

Aside from Sylvester Stallone, who is returning as Barney Ross, no other actor has been confirmed for the sequel. Wesley Snipes and Jackie Chan have been mentioned as possible new additions, but nothing is set in stone yet. Dolph Lundgren revealed in January that production may begin as early as this autumn.

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