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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)

What Maisie Knew Trailer – Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan & Alexander Skarsgard have custody issues

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The issues surrounding children getting caught up in the relationship dramas of divorced parents it something film has conspicuously steered clear of (with notable exception such as Kramer Vs. Kramer), largely because it’s such a difficult and emotive issue. However What Maisie Knew – a modern adaptation of a Henry James story – tackles this head on.

It looks at a seven-year-old, caught up in the drama between her aging rock star mother (Julianne Moore) and art dealer dad (Steven Coogan) after their divorce. However the film doesn’t just delve into children and their parents, but also what happens when new people (Alexander Skargard, Joanna Vanderham) come into those parents’ lives and the difficulty of working out what their role is.

It looks like it could be a really good movie, which may well be going for Oscars, as it’s due for release this coming autumn. [Read more…]

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Frances Ha Trailer – Greta Gerwig reteams with Noah Baumbach

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Greta Gerwig is keeping to her indie roots, reteaming with her Greenberg director Noah Baumbach for what looks like an unusual, quirky, black & white comedy drama. It’s difficult to tell exactly what the film is about from the trailer, but it does look like it could be an interesting one (and Baumbach is nearly always an worthwhile voice).

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she’s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has, but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness. FRANCES HA is a modern comic fable in which Noah Baumbach explores New York, friendship, class, ambition, failure, and redemption.’

The film is due out May 17th in the US, although no UK date is set yet. [Read more…]

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Rapturepalooza Red Band Trailer – Anna Kendrick has to deal with the Anti-Christ

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Those who take the idea of the biblical Rapture seriously – a rather extreme take on the end of the world – probably won’t like Rapturepalooza, but for everyone else it looks a lot of fun.

In the movie, The Rapture has happened, taking the righteous to heaven and leaving everyone else to deal with the end of time, when the Anti-Christ emerges, plagues descend and everything goes to hell in a handbasket. However as this film shows, life goes on (at least as much as it can).

Anna Kendrick, John Francis Daley and Rob Corddry play those left behind, who have to deal with a very strange world and the son of Satan, in the form of Craig Robinson.

Paul Middlemitch’s film is due out later this year.

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More Hunger Games: Catching Fire Fashion Portraits Featuring Katniss, Cinna & Haymitch

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Yesterday we posted two Hunger Games: Catching Fire fashion portraits featuring Caesar Flickman and Effie Trinket. Now three more have debuted, giving us a look at Cinna (Lenny Kravitz), Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) and Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence).

You can take a look at them above and below.

Here’s the synopsis for the film: Catching Fire begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a “Victor’s Tour” of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) – a competition that could change Panem forever.

The film’s due out November 22nd.

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Christina Hendricks Up For A Book Of Common Prayer Adaptation

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Christina-HendricksChristina Hendricks has gained a lot of fans thanks to Mad Men, but she’s yet to make much of a dent in the movie world, even though she has popped up in Drive and Struck By Lightning. Now she’s got a new movie role, as Variety reports that she’s signed on for director Campbell Scott’s adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1977 novel A Book of Common Prayer.

Joyce McKee and Rachel LeMin wrote the screenplay, which is about Charlotte Douglas (Hendricks), an American woman whose life is torn apart when her daughter runs away with a group of terrorist radicals. She heads for a Central American country that’s on the brink of revolution, as she believes that this is the place where she and her daughter will reunite. In the novel, the narrative is told from the point of view of an American expatriate anthropologist, who attempts to apply her analytical point of view into understanding Charlotte’s journey.

This isn’t Hendrick’s only upcoming film role, as she’s due to reunite with Drive co-star Ryan Gosling on his directorial debut, How to Catch a Monster.

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Emma Stone, Michael Keaton & Zach Galifianakis Find Birdman

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emma-stoneA couple of months ago director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu revealed he was going in a slightly different direction with Birdman. He made his name with heavy dramas such as Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel and Biutiful, but Birdman in a comedy.

Now he’s started filling out the cast, and has got some great names involved. THR reports that Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis have all signed up for the movie. The film is about a once-famous actor (Keaton) who’s almost completely identified with playing an iconic superhero (a neat meta-note for the former Batman).

He’s now keen for people to see him in a different light by lining up a comeback in a Broadway play. The plot takes place entirely at one location over the span of three days, as he tries to juggle his comeback attempt with his family life, which takes a toll on his sanity.

Emma Stone will play his daughter, a young woman fresh out of rehab who works as her dad’s assistant. Watts meanwhile will be an actress in the play, while Galifianakis will play the production’s conniving producer.

Shooting will start early next month (which suggests Stone will be finished on Amazing Spider-man 2 by then).

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Will Poulter Offered Lead In Maze Runner Adaptation

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will-poulterThose in the US may recognise Will Poulter from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but us Brits may well have seen him in the likes of Son Of Ranbow, Wild Bill and even TV’s School Of Comedy.

Now 21-years-old, he’s long shown a lot of promise, which may be coming to fruition, as we’ll see him later this year opposite Jennifer Aniston in We’re The Millers, and now Deadline reports that he’s circling the lead in the planned adaptation of James Dashner’s young adult novel, The Maze Runner.

The Maze Runner is the first book in James Dashner’s sci-fi trilogy. The story follows a boy named Thomas who wakes up in a strange place called the Glade with no memory aside from his first name. The Glade is an enclosed structure populated by other boys, and is surrounded by tall, stone walls that protect them from monsters called Grievers that live in the Maze, which surrounds them.

Every day, some of the kids, known as Runners, venture into the labyrinth trying to map the ever-changing pattern of walls in an attempt to find an exit. As soon as Thomas arrives, unusual things begin to happen and the others grow suspicious of him. The Maze seems familiar to Thomas, but he’s unable to make sense of the place despite his extraordinary abilities as a Runner. When the first girl arrives in the Glade, she brings a message that she will be the last one to ever arrive in the Glade, as the end is near.

The book has been compared to The Hunger Games and Divergent, so there are big hopes for the film version, and if it succeeds it could certainly give Poulter’s career a big bump – assuming he signs on, of course.

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Jon Stewart Taking A Break From Daily Show To Direct Rosewater

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jon-stewartJon Stewart has become much loved (and hated in some circles) for The Daily Show, but doing that doesn’t give him much time for anything else. He has taken small acting roles in the likes of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and Death To Smoochy, but in order to make his feature directorial debut he’ll be taking an 12-week break from The Daily Show this summer (with John Oliver filling in for him).

Deadline reports that Stewart is set to write and direct Rosewater, based on the 2011 book ‘Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival’ by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy. The book is about Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari’s four-month stint in a Tehran, Iran prison. He was accused of plotting against the government.

After the ordeal, Maziar Bahari appeared on The Daily Show to promote the book. This led to Stewart and Bahari became friends, and the host starting to think about turning the book into a movie. He’s commented, “I am a television person who is accustomed to having a thought at 10 a.m. and having it out there at 6:30 p.m. and moving on, so this is a little scary, yes. But one of the reasons we are in this business is to challenge ourselves, and I really connected to Maziar’s story. It’s a personal story but one with universal appeal about what it means to be free.”

Shooting is scheduled to begin in June.

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Easy A Director Will Gluck Takes On Agatha Christie Disappearance Adventure

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will-gluckThere’s long been a lot of interest in what happened to Agatha Christie when she went missing in 1926. Now Will Gluck is going to try and tell us the answer, as Deadline reports that he’s signed up to helm Will Gluck (Easy A, Friends with Benefits) to direct Agatha for Paramount Pictures, based on Allison Schroeder’s spec screenplay.

As nobody really knows what happened to Christie during those 11 days, the film speculates about the events. Christie went missing in December 1926, sparking a massive manhunt for the beloved author, before she was found at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Yorkshire, England, registered as Mrs. Teresa Neele from Cape Town, South Africa.

The author never explained her unusual disappearance (it’s believed to have been caused by problems in her marriage). However the script turns the events into an action-adventure, which is described as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Romancing the Stone.

There’s no new on when it might shoot, although it may be a while, as Gluck recently signed on to write and direct Sony’s planned Annie remake.

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New Iron Man 3 Trailer Arrives – A bit of a darker tone for Tony Stark

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It’s not long at all until Iron Man 3 hits UK cinemas on April 25th and the US on May 3rd, so it’s time to kick the hype up a gear with an ace new trailer. It suggests a more serious tone than the first two films, with Tony Stark dropping his jokey, cocksure attitude as The Mandaring emerges and threatens to rip his life apart.

Luckily though he’s going to spice things up with a whole team of iron people!

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Marvel’s “Iron Man 3” pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

‘Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley, “Iron Man 3” is directed by Shane Black from a screenplay by Drew Pearce and Shane Black and is based on Marvel’s iconic Super Hero Iron Man, who first appeared on the pages of “Tales of Suspense” (#39) in 1963 and had his solo comic book debut with “The Invincible Iron Man” (#1) in May of 1968.’ [Read more…]

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