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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)

Louis C.K. Joins Bradley Cooper & Christian Bale In David O. Russell’s Next

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louis-ckComedian and star of the comedy/drama Louise, Louis C.K., is in talks to star in the currently untitled next project from director David O. Russell, according to THR. The movie was formerly known as American Bullsh*t.

The film, which is based on a true story, is about Melvin Weinberg (Christian Bale), a con artist who was forced to work with the F.B.I. to uncover a vast conspiracy that stretched from Atlantic City to Washington D.C. Louis C.K. will portray an FBI agent. Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper, and Amy Adams also star.

David O. Russell is directing from a screenplay by Eric Singer (The International). The current plan is to shoot the movie soon, with a late 2013 release date being eyed.

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Jurassic Park IV Gets A Release Date – June 13th 2014

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jurassic-park-3d-poster-slideEver since the release of Jurassic Park III in 2001, there’s been talk of a Part IV. Over the years the likelihood of more rampaging dinos has risen and sunk, with much of the problem stemming from finding a worthwhile story. However it seems there’s been a breakthrough, as Universal Pictures has set a June 13th, 2014 release date and confirmed that it will be shot in 3D.

Steven Spielberg won’t direct this one, but he is producing. He’s been keen on getting the franchise up and running again, pushing it harder ever since 2010 when he met with Thor screenwriter Mark Protosevich to brainstorm ideas for the movie.

Then last June Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) were hired to write the screenplay. No story details have been released, but it’s fair to assume there’ll be dinosaurs and people running from them.

To help prepare us, Universal will release the original Jurassic Park post-converted into 3D on April 5th. (Source: Deadline)

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New 42 Featurette Online – Fresh look at Harrison Ford in the baseball biopic

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You might have expected that a biopic of the first black player in professional baseball would be released to vie for the Oscars, but instead Warner Bros is planning to release 42 in April in the US (with no UK date currently set).

Now a new featurette has shown up giving us a new look at the movie, including Harrison Ford’s rather extreme makeup, which makes his difficult to recognise.

42 tells the true story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s colour barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie stars Harrison Ford as the innovative Dodger’s general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman (The Express) as Robinson, the heroic African American who was the first man to break the colour line in the big leagues.

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ABC May Take On Star Wars Live Action TV Series

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star-wars-phantom-menace-3d-poster3Ever since the Star Wars prequel trilogy came to an end there’s been talk of a live action TV series set between the two trilogies. George Lucas worked on it for years, and it’s even been said there are over 100 scripts completed for the show.

However the problem has always been cost. While the fact Lucas owned effects masters ILM meant they could do it cheaper than virtually anyone else, the cost of putting a galaxy far, far away was still too much. However now the Disney has bought Lucasfilm, things may finally get going on the show.

Disney also owns US TV network ABC, which is the channel developing the Marvel S.H.I.E.L.D series, and it appears they’re already thinking about whether they can also bring Star Wars to television. “It’s definitely going to be part of the conversation,” ABC president Paul Lee tells EW. “We’d love to do something with Lucasfilm, although we’re not sure what yet.”

As that statement suggests, it’s very early on yet and no official talks have taken place, so it’s a long way from Star Wars actually coming to TV – and if it does, there’s no guarantee it’d be the same series Lucas was working on.

Lee adds, “It’s going to be very much up to Lucasfilm how they want to play it. We got to a very special point with Marvel, where we’re in the Marvel universe and very relevantly so. We’re not doing The Avengers, but SHIELD is part of The Avengers.” He hopes some sort of similar arrangement can be worked out for Star Wars.

Don’t expect this to happen anytime soon, but it’s good to hear a live action Star Wars TV show is still in the mix.

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More Hunger Games: Catching Fire Pics Online, Including First Look At Philip Seymour Hoffman

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hunger-games-catching-fire-ew-pic2A couple of days ago our very first look at The Hunger Games: Catching Fire arrived, with an EW cover and a look at Sam Claflin’s Finnick Odair getting close to Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen. Now EW has released a quartet of fresh pics from the film, including our first look at Philip Seymour Hoffman as gamesmaker Plutarch Heavensbee.

There’s also Donald Sutherland as the oily President Snow, a shot of Willow Shields and Paula Malconson as Katniss’ sister and mother, as well as director Francis Lawrence chatting to Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth on the set.

The film sees events in Panem escalate as it’s revealed the next Hunger Games will be different to normal and see previous champions thrown back into the arena – meaning Katniss and Peeta are going to be fighting for their lives again. All the while dissent is growing in the districts against the control of the Capitol. The film hits cinemas November 22nd.

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Chris Nolan Rewriting Interstellar To Merge A New Concept

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Christopher-NolanYesterday it was revealed the Christopher Nolan’s next project is likely to be Interstellar, based on a script by his brother, Jonathan. Now a few more details have emerged, although as this is a Nolan movie, don’t expect full disclosure.

In a report about some of the biggest directors in Hollywood, Deadline talks about the fact that back in 2006 this was a Steven Spielberg project, but now that Nolan is taking over, things are changing slightly. The site says, ‘Chris Nolan is writing a script that merges an original idea of his with the script that Jonah wrote. It will retain the title Interstellar, and the ambition for the project is a film that will depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding.’

Unfortunately there’s no news on what the new ideas are but as we reporting yesterday, the original script was spawned from the ideas of theoretical physicist, gravitational physicist and astrophysicist Kip Thorne, with the story involving time travel, alternate dimensions and travelling through wormholes.

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New Pics: Wolverine, Iron Man 3 & Man Of Steel

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wolverine-ew-pic1Entertainment Weekly is having a bit of a summer preview in its print issue, so Filmthrasher has kindly scanned in some of the new image from some of this year’s biggest upcoming movies, including Iron Man 3, The Wolverine and Man Of Steel.

The Wolverine pic shows off the mutant in Japan, and he’s looking angry, although there’s not too much more we can tell from the pic than that. In the Iron Man 3 image we’re presuming Pepper Potts is just hugging Tony in his suit, and its not some sort of bizarre role play sex scene. The Man Of Steel pic meanwhile expands of the recent poster, with Superman for some reason in hadncuffs.

All three movies hit cinemas between May and July.

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Meet The Big Ones In Jack The Giant Slayer Posters – Fee, Fye, Foe, Fumm and, err, Fallon

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Many a child has wondered why the giant in Jack And The Beanstalk says something as random as Fee Fye Foe Fumm, but now Bryan Singer has the answer, as apparently those are the name of the enormous creatures in his revisionist take on the fairytale, Jack The Giant Slayer.

Now Warner Bros has released character posters for the giant, who are indeed called Fee, Fye, Foe, Fumm and Fallon. We’re not sure how Fallon got involved, or why he got missed out of the rhyme, but I’m sure we’ll find out when the movie is released on March 22nd.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jack the Giant Slayer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult) into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.’ Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor star.

Click below for larger versions of the five posters.

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Aaron Johnson Offered The Lead In Godzilla

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In the last couple of weeks there’s been much talk about the fact Godzilla is gearing up to shoot this spring, but so far the movie has no cast. It appears they’re planning the remedy that, as Deadline reports that Aaron Johnson has been offered the lead in the movie.

Apparently the young Brit wants to do it, but nothing will be set in stone until a more final script is available. Earlier this week The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont signed up to rewrite the screenplay, so no deal will be signed until Frank has done his work. David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight Rises), Max Borenstein (The Seventh Son), and Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) have previously worked on the screenplay.

There’s also a legal battle brewing over producer credit and compensation. Ealier this week Warner and Legendary Pictures dropped Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison from the film. Apparently expecting a legal battle that could delay production, Warner has pre-emptively sued the men, saying the trio didn’t do enough work on the movie to deserve the money they’d earn if they’d got a producing credit. Instead they want to pay them just $25,0000.

It’s expected Lee, Lin and Davison will fight back, as they were involved early on in securing the rights and introducing the first screenwriter. They’re likely to say that while their plot ideas weren’t used, there’d be no movie at all without the groundwork they laid down. We’ll have to see how the legal battle pans out.

Godzilla comes to cinemas May 16th, 2014.

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Live by Night Next For Ben Affleck, While He Drops Out Of Focus

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ben-affleck1While his acting career may have been on the skids, Ben Affleck has become one of the hottest directors in Hollywood thanks to the likes of Argo and The Town. He’s had several films on the go as his potential next project, but he’s now confirmed that Live by Night, which he signed up for last October, will be his next project. He’s also dropped out of the film Focus.

Affleck told MTV, “Basically I’m doing a movie called Live by Night and I’m trying to meet this schedule in order to do it, in order to meet the back end so that I can have it released at the right time, and I just hadn’t gotten enough writing done and it became clear that if I took that job and was in Buenos Aires for three months [to do Focus], I was going to miss the deadline. I had to choose between getting the movie out when I want to or doing this one, so reluctantly I chose the [former]. But I love those guys, I love Kristen (Stewart), I was really excited to work with her, I think the movie is going to be fabulous, and I’m sure they’ll find a great guy for it.”

Focus, written by Crazy Stupid Love directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, is about a con man who takes a young thief (Kristen Stewart) under his wing, although he falls for her and the relationship crumbles. Years later, they meet up again and begin to complicate each others lives even further.

Live by Night meanwhile reunites Ben Affleck with author Dennis Lehane. Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, was adapted from the Boston novelist’s book. This new movie centres on the son of a police chief who takes to a life of crime.

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