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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)

Martin Scorsese Set To Finally Make Silence

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martin-scorseseAfter every Scorsese movie, fans start wondering what he’ll make next, and for the last few years in between each film rumours have surfaced that he was finally planning to shoot Silence, which he’s been attached to for over two decades.

Now Deadline reports that he’s finally planning to actually make the movie, based on Shusaku Endo’s controversial 1967 novel. The book is about two 17th century Jesuit priests who face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity, and discover that believers have been forced undergrounds and are being tortured. The book’s title refers to God’s silence during these troubling times.

Deadline’s report seems to confirm that Scorsese has officially left Snowman behind, with Universal recently said to be looking elsewhere for a director.

Financing is apparently now set for Silence and a shoot is planned for July 2014. Before then we’ll get Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street, which is out at the end of the year, and reunites the director with Leo DiCaprio.

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Will Smith Attached To American Can & The Accountant

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will-smithZwiWe’ve only had one new Will Smith movie in the last five years (Men In Black 3), but with the upcoming release of After Earth it seems he’s getting back in front of the camera properly, as just yesterday we reported he’s signed up to star in the drama Focus, and now Deadline reports he’s eyeing a couple of other movies too.

Smith is now attached to the drama American Can, which is currently hoping to get Ed Zwick to direct. The film is based on a true story and would see Smith as John Keller, a Gulf War veteran who, during Hurricane Katrina, helped gather 244 survivors in New Orleans’ American Can building, saving their lives in the process. Sony Pictures is backing the project, working from a script written by Adetoro Makinde and John Lee Hancock. At the moment it looks like it’s bee Smith next movie after Focus.

The actor may also star in The Accountant, a thriller that would have him play a a government accountant who doubles as an assassin. It’s the second time Smith has flirted with the movie, as he was previously looking into it when Mel Gibson was attached to direct.

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Jason Sudeikis & Rose Byrne Join Romantic Comedy Tumbledown

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jason-sudeikisIt’s been revealed that Jason Sudeikis and Rose Byrne have signed up to star in Tumbledown, a romantic comedy that Sean Mewshaw will direct from an original screenplay by Desiree Van Til. according to Variety.

In the film, a young widow (Byrne) falls for a brash New York writer (Sudeikis) who barrels into her rural Maine town to investigate the death of her husband, a folk-music hero.

Mewshaw and Van Til are making their feature directing and screenwriting debuts with the movie, which will go before the cameras this October in Vancouver, B.C. Their previous collaboration, the short film, Last Night, based on a James Salter story, starred Frances McDormand and premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

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Chris Hemsworth Brings The Hotness In First Thor: The Dark World Poster

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Chris Hemsworth had a lot of competition in The Avengers for who was the hottest superhero, but the first poster for Thor: The Dark World shows he’s going to be looking real good when he goes it alone once more.

It’s a great first look at the movie, although it does suggest Thor’s going to be having some weather related problems.

The film arrives in cinemas this November, and sees Thor once more having to show off his power when Asgard comes under threat from the Dark Elves, with Maliketh (Christopher Eccleston) and Algrim/Kurse (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) causing the trouble. Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins and Tom Hiddleston also star. (Poster via ScreenCrush)

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Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes Trailer – Jessica Biel and Kaya Scodelario star in the Sundance flick

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Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes got decent notices when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Now the first trailer for the movie has been released for the movie, which stars Jessica Biel, Frances O’Connor and Kaya Scodelario.

In the movie, a troubled girl (Scodelario) becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbor (Biel), who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother. In offering to baby-sit Linda’s newborn, Emanuel unwittingly enters a fragile, fictional world, of which she becomes the gatekeeper.

The film will screen at Sundance London on April 26th. [Read more…]

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Second The Internship Trailer Debuts – Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn get Googled

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A new trailer for The Internship has arrived, giving us a look at this summer’s Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn comedy. It still feels like it’s going to be a two-hour ad for Google though.

In the movie, Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship – yes, you guessed it, at Google – along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation’s most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

Shawn Levy (Real Steel) directs, with a June 7th US release set, and the movie coming to the UK on July 4th.

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Two New Only God Forgives Trailers – Ryan Gosling reunites with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn

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Two new trailers for the Ryan Gosling flick Only God Forgives have arrived, selling the tension and violence of the film, which reunites the actor with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn.

The movie reunites Gosling with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and follow Julian (Gosling), who lives in exile in Bangkok where he runs a Thai boxing club as a front for his family’s drugs smuggling operation. When Julian’s brother Billy is killed, their mother, Jenna (Kristen Scott Thomas), arrives in the city. She wants revenge and forces Julian to find the killer. Julian’s contacts in the criminal underworld lead him directly to The Angel of Vengeance, a retired police officer who knows everything and who is both Judge and Punisher. Jenna demands that Julian kill The Angel of Vengeance, an act that will cost him dearly.

The film’s due out this summer.

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One Direction: This Is Us Poster Debuts – The 1D boys are coming to cinemas this summer

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one-direction-this-is-us-posterThere’s no doubt that One Direction are popular all over the world, but we’ll have to wait and see whether that translates into big box office for a 3D concert movie/documentary about them, This Is Us. Now a poster for the film has arrived, which features pictures of the lads, with a background made up of hundreds of images of their devoted fans.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been flooding the official site and submitting photos since February in the hopes that their snapshot will be featured in the movie poster.  The tribute poster also, apparently, “comes to life” when fans use their smart phones to scan the Zapcode on the poster unlocking an augmented reality experience and exclusive video content of the band.  The Zappar app is free and available for download in the App Store or Google Play.

A digital version of the poster, which will include even more fan photos within the mosaic, will launch online in early May at http://www.1dthisisus-movie.com/. Participants will be able to locate and share their photo across multiple social networks.  The movie is directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), and will hit cinemas in the UK on August 29th and in the U.S. on Friday, August 30th.

One Direction – Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson – were discovered by Simon Cowell on the UK’s The X Factor in 2010. The band quickly gained a following to become one of the competition’s all-time most popular acts, finishing in the final three and garnering a gigantic and loyal fanbase along the way. In March 2012, One Direction’s debut album, “Up All Night,” made U.S. history, as it was the first time a UK group’s debut album entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at No. 1. The band has sold over 29 million records worldwide. In November 2012, One Direction released their sophomore album, “Take Me Home,” which includes the No. 1 single, “Live While We’re Young,” and are currently on a sold-out world tour.

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Raffey Cassidy Takes Young Lead Opposite George Clooney In Tomorrowland

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raffey-cassidyBrad Bird’s Tomorrowland is coming together, with George Clooney and Hugh Laurie already set to star, and now THR has revealed another lead role, which has gone to young Raffey Cassidy, who was seen last years as the young Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman.

The previously rumoured plot description suggested the film is about a teenage girl, a genius middle-aged man and a pre-pubescent girl robot who attempt to get to and unravel what happened to Tomorrowland, which exists in an alternative dimension, in order to save Earth.

THR confirms that Cassidy will play ‘a young girl robot who has been around for decades. Also a key factor: she knows several fighting styles. She has a previous relationship with Clooney’s character, a bitter inventor.’

Hugh Laurie is set to play the villain, who seemingly once threw Clooney’s character out of Tomorrowland. There’s still a lot of secrecy around the project, so expect it to remain fairly mysterious for a while yet.

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Mike Gets Stuck (To The Wall) In A New Monsters University Poster

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Disney/Pixar has released a new UK poster for Monsters University, suggest poor Mike isn’t going to be having a good time in the movie, where he’s subject to the pranks of his fellow fraternity brothers, including future best friend Sulley.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Ever since college-bound Mike Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal) was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarer—and he knows better than anyone that the best scarers come from Monsters University (MU). But during his first semester at MU, Mike’s plans are derailed when he crosses paths with hotshot James P. Sullivan, “Sulley” (voice of John Goodman), a natural-born Scarer.  The pair’s out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the University’s elite Scare Program. To make matters worse, they realize they will have to work together, along with an odd bunch of misfit monsters, if they ever hope to make things right.

‘Screaming with laughter and oozing with heart, Disney•Pixar’s “Monsters University” is directed by Dan Scanlon (“Cars,” “Mater and the Ghostlight,” “Tracy”), produced by Kori Rae (“Up,” “The Incredibles,” “Monsters, Inc.”) and features music from future Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame–inductee and award winning composer Randy Newman (“Monsters, Inc.,” “Toy Story 3”). The film opens in UK. cinemas on July 12, 2013, and will be shown in Disney Digital 3D™ in select cinemas.’

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