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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)

Billy Bob Thornton Joins Downey Jr & Duvall In The Judge

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billy-bob-thorntonThe cast of The Judge is fast coming together. For a long time it was just Robert Downey Jr. attached, while they tried to get Jack Nicholson to star alongside him. However with Jack passing on the film, in the last few days they’ve added Robert Duvall, Vincent D’Onofrio and now Variety reports that Billy Bob Thornton is in talks to sign on for the film.

The Judge is about a lawyer (Downey Jr.) who reluctantly returns to his hometown after being away for decades, in order to attend his mother’s funeral. When he arrives, he discovers that his estranged and elderly judge father (Duvall) is suspected of killing her. He has to work to prove his dad’s innocence, which allows the two of them to bond in a way they never have before.

If he does sign on, Thornton will play the prosecutor brought in to try Duvall’s character. D’Onofrio is set for the role of Downey Jr’s older brother, who like his father has also been estranged from his sibling.

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Kate Beckinsale Up For Brad Anderson’s Eliza Graves

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Kate-BeckinsaleBrad Anderson will be celebrating today after his movie The Call, significantly exceeded expectations at the US box office. He’s already planning his next movie, as THR reports that Kate Beckinsale is in talks to take the lead in Anderson’s Eliza Graves.

The screenplay is based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and follows a Med School student trapped in a mental institution that has been overtaken by its inmates. Some of the patients are now pretending to be doctors, but it’s not clear who. Kate Beckinsale will play the title character, an inmate who has an affair with a Harvard grad.

Joe Gangemi (Wind Chill) wrote the script, with production set to begin June 21st in Bulgaria.

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Oz Stays Top Of The US Box Office, While Burt Wonderstone Bombs

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Oz The Great And Powerful has stayed top of the US box office, adding another $42.2 million. Disney will be pleased as while major movies often drop more than 50% of their take in their second weekend, Oz eased off by just 46%.

Most box office watchers had expected The Incredible Burt Wonderstone to take the number two spot, but the film bombed ending up in third spot with just $10.3 million, which is one of the worst debuts for either Steve Carell or Jim Carrey. Many are suggesting the marketing failed to get the idea of the movie across, but as it doesn’t look like the audiences that did turn up enjoyed it a lot, it’s unlikely to have a long life at the box office.

However The Call, starring Halle Berry – which most people didn’t have much hope for – significantly exceeded expectations by taking $17 million over the weekend. It’s one of the best starts ever for a Halle Berry starrer (outside ensemble franchises like X-Men).

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of March 15th-17th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross
(millions)		 Total Gross to
date (millions)
1 Oz The Great And Powerful $42.2 $145.0
2 The Call $17.1 $17.1
3 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone $10.3 $10.3
4 Jack The Giant Slayer $6.2 $53.9
5 Identity Thief $4.5 $123.7
6 Snitch $3.5 $37.2
7 21 And Over $2.6 $21.8
8 Silver Linings Playbook $2.5 $124.6
9 Safe Haven $2.4 $66.9
10 Escape From Planet Earth $2.3 $52.1
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Six Great Kick-Ass 2 Character Posters Debut

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After the trailer for Kick-Ass 2 debuted the other day, now come six character posters for the movie, giving as a look at Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) and Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), along with fellow masked heroes and villains, The Mother F–ker (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), Night Bitch (Lindy Booth), Mother Russia (Olga Kurkulina), and Black Death (Daniel Kaluuya).

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Red Mist return for the follow-up to 2010’s irreverent global hit: Kick-Ass 2. After Kick-Ass’ (Aaron Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)-reborn as The Mother F%&*^r – only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz) can prevent their annihilation.

‘When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave. With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world’s first superhero team with Mindy. Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she’s forced to retire – leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes.

‘Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world’s first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad. But there’s only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all.’

Kick-Ass 2 arrives in cinemas in the UK on July 19th before making its US debut on August 16th. Click on the pics bellow for larger versions.

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Greg Kinnear & Josh Lawson Join Anchorman 2

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greg-kinnearWith shooting finally kicking off on Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, the cast continues to grow, with Greg Kinnear and Josh Lawson joining the ensemble as production continues in Atlanta.

Deadline reports on the casting news, but unfortunately they don’t have any info on the character either actor will play.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy sees the return of Will Ferrell (Ron Burgundy), Paul Rudd (Brian Fantana), Steve Carell (Brick Tamland), David Koechner (Champ Kind), and Christina Applegate (Veronica Corningstone) with new characters played by the likes of Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Dylan Baker, Meagan Good, and Harrison Ford.

The movie is set in the late 1970s, with the Action 4 News team having adapt to the ever-changing landscape of broadcast news after the advent of the 24-hour news cycle. We also known it involves a trip to New York.

Adam McKay is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Will Ferrell.

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Daniel Cudmore Returns As Colossus For X-Men: Days of Future Past

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daniel-cudmoreThe casting news for X-Men: Days Of Future Past is coming thick and fast ahead of the start of shooting next month. Bryan Singer has now released a photo on Twitter of the casting wall (which you can see below), which reveals that original X-Men trilogy star Daniel Cudmore is returning as Colossus in X-Men: Days of Future Past, along with new actors Bingbing Fan and BooBoo Stewart.

Bingbing Fan is set to play Blink, a mutant with the power of teleportation, however it isn’t known who BooBoo Stewart is playing. The photo suggests there are six roles left to be cast, although it’s not clear what parts these are, or whether they’re new cast members or those returning from previous X-Men movies.

We do know that Azazel won’t be back, as Jason Flemyng has revealed he isn’t reprising his role from X-Men: First Class.

Bryan Singer is directing from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg, based on a 1980s comic book arc by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. In the comics, the mutants are being hunted and locked up in internment camps by Sentinels in an alternate future, after an important Senator is murdered by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The film is due to hit cinemas July 18th, 2014.

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Theo James Gets Male Lead in Divergent, With Aaron Eckhart & More Circling

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Theo-JamesVarious people have been cast in Divergent, but Summit has been difficulty finding the male lead. Actors such as Alex Pettyfer and Lucas Till have auditioned and the company has looked at people of various ages, but now they’ve finally gone for a actor who’s not too well known at the moment, but whose star is certainly on the rise – Theo James.

The 26-year-old has been seen in the TV series Bedlam, and in the films The Inbetweeners Movie and Underworld: Awakening, but its his lead role in the new CBS TV drama Golden Boy that’s really got people interested in him.

Based on Veronica Roth’s novel, Divergent is a adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities, Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.

James will play Four, a man with a mysterious past, who is  Tris’ intense yet charismatic instructor and one of the leaders of the Dauntless faction.

Variety adds that Miles Teller, Ray Stevenson and Aaron Eckhart are also circling roles in the movie (Teller seems set as he’s mentioned he’ll be in the movie on Twitter), but there’s no news on exactly who they might play

Neil Burger (Limitless) will direct from a script by Vanessa Taylor. It commences principal photography this April in Chicago, with a March 21st, 2014 release set.

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Christian Bale Circling Moses Role In Exodus

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christian-baleChristian Bale must be keen on getting biblical, as while he was once attached to play Noah for Darren Aronofsky but had to drop out, Deadline reports that he’s now circling the role of Moses in Ridley Scott’s Exodus.

The film is one of two separate Moses based movies doing the rounds in Hollywood, with two separate projects brewing at both 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. At the moment Fox’s Exodus is picking up more steam, although talks with Christian Bale are still in the early stages.

The studio wants to get the project off the ground quickly, with Ridley Scott directing from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian, who rewrote the original script by Bill Collage and Adam Cooper. No story details have been released, although the title suggests it will focus on the Israelites being led out of Egypt by Moses.

Warner Bros.’ Gods and Kings is having a few more problems though, as director Steven Spielberg has decided to part ways with the Biblical project. The studio has reached out to Ang Lee (Life of Pi) to take his place, but no deals have been reached yet. The script by Stuart Hazeldine and Michael Green has been described as a Braveheart-esque rendition of Moses’ story.

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The Alan Partridge Movie Teaser Trailer – Steve Coogan’s creation is going big screen

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It was revealed a few weeks ago that a long-planned Alan Partridge movie was finally shooting. Now it’s been confirmed it will be called The Alan Partridge Movie, the first still is here (which you can see above), and you can watch a brand new teaser for the movie below!

Steve Coogan will be joined in the film by the likes of Sean Pertwee, Colm Meaney, Anna Maxwell Martin, Monica Dolan and Dustin Demri-Burns. They team up with Partridge veterans Felicity Montagu, Tim Key, Simon Greenall, Phil Cornwell, Nigel Lindsay and Darren Boyd, who’ll all be back for more madness.

Not too much has been revealed about the plot, other than that it will follow Alan trying to resurrect his flagging media career. Coogan, Neil and Rob Gibbons, Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci wrote the film, with Declan Lowney directing. It’s currently due out in the UK on August 13th.

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Tom Hooper May Take On Sacha Baron Cohen’s Freddie Mercury Biopic

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tom-hooperSacha Baron Cohen may have only had a small role in Les Miserables, but director Tom Hooper must have liked working with him, as Deadline reports that they may reunite for a biopic of Freddie Mercury. Baron Cohen’s been attached to the movie for quite a long time, but the film has had a bit of revolving door of directors.

Hooper hasn’t officially signed on to direct yet, but he is apparently seriously considering it.

Peter Morgan’s script will deal with the star’s rise to fame, leading up to the classic performance at 1985’s Live Aid, and won’t cover his death from AIDS, which helped remove a lot of the stigma of the disease. It’s not known either how frank it will be about his sexuality (although you’d have to presume it won’t sweep it under the carpet) The surviving members of Queen are all involved in the movie, ensuring the use of the band’s classic songs.

Queen themselves are involved in the film having licensed their most famous tracks, including Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are The Champions, We Will Rock you and Another One Bites The Dust for the movie. We’ll have to see whether Hooper does end up making the film.

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