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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)

Twilight Breaking Dawn 2 Tops US Box Office Again, With Killing Them Softly Bombing

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The post Thanksgiving box office is traditionally dominated by holdovers and that’s certainly true this year, with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 topping the US chart again, taking another $17 million to hit $255 million in America so far. It also hit a franchise record internationally over the weekend, taking $447 million outside the US, ahead of Breaking Dawn Part 1’s total of $430.9 million.

New releases didn’t do very well at all, with Brad Pitt’s latest, Killing The Softly, only placing seventh on the chart with $7 million, way below what the distributors had hoped. Even worse, it’s getting terrible notices from audiences, suggesting it will quickly disappear with trace.

The only other new entry is the horror flick The Collection, which took $3.4 million to place 10th on the chart.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of November 30th-December 2nd.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 $17.4 $255
2 Skyfall $17 $246
3 Rise Of The Guardians $13.5 $48.9
4 Lincoln $13.5 $83.7
5 Life Of Pi $12 $48.4
6 Wreck-It Ralph $7 $158
7 Killing The Softly $7 $7
8 Red Dawn $6.5 $31.3
9 Flight $4.5 $81.5
10 The Collection $3.4 $3.4
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First Pics Of Jeff Bridges & Julianne Moore In Seventh Son Debut

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It’s not due out until October 2013, but the first images from The Seventh Son have already arrived via USA Today, featuring Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore. The film is based on Joseph Delany’s novel The Spook’s Apprentice, but gets a bit name change for the film version.

Barnes plays Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, who becomes the apprentice to master wizard ‘Spook’ Gregory (Jeff Bridges). Their characters must team up to do battle with an evil witch (Julianne Moore) who escapes and rounds up a group of evil-doers to plan an all-out assault.

Alicia Vikander plays a young witch who Tom falls for, while Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) is also onboard as one of Gregory’s apprentices. In the book, Tom is a teen, which seems to be changing, as at 31-year-old, Barnes can’t pass for that young anymore. Sergey Bodrov directs.

It’s a film that’s been in the works for a long time, so hopefully the final results will be worth it.

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Star Trek Into Darkness Teaser Poster Online

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We’ve been promised the first Star Trek Into Darkness trailer will premiere alongside The Hobbit, but before then the teaser poster has arrived (Click on it for a larger version). The synopsis that showed up last week promised the villain would be a ‘one man weapon of mass destruction’, and this poster certainly backs that up, showing Benedict Cumberbatch standing in some fiery wreckage, presumably after causing some sort of massive explosion.

However we don’t know what the explosion might be, as this is JJ Abrams, and so there’s still major secrecy going on. It’s not a particularly Star Trek-y image either, suggesting they may be trying to lure in new fans with this one.

Here’s the synopsis again, in case you missed it last week: ‘In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek Into Darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

‘With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.’

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Listen To Howard Shore’s Full Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Score

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It’s less than two weeks now until we’ll all be able to go to the cinema and see whether Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be a triumphant return to Middle Earth (the buzz is certainly good).

So to prepare, do you fancy listening to the score of the movie? A couple of weeks ago Rolling Stone had Neill Finn’s song, The Song of the Lonely Mountain, which will play over the end credits, and now they’ve got the full score, which you can listen to by clicking here.

It certainly sounds like Howard Shore has been channelling the same muse he used to such amazing effect on the first films. Indeed the Lord Of The Rings scores have been an astonishing success in their own right, played in concert around the world with full orchestras.

Although you do have to imagine what we’ll see when the movie is playing, its still works exceedingly well in isolation.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits cinemas on December 13th.

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Two Monsters University Posters Land – Mike & Sulley are back!

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While some people are still grumbling about the idea of Pixar making sequels, it worked extremely well with Toy Story 2 &3, and to be honest there’s no reason we shouldn’t expect Monsters University to be another delighful trip into the world Mike & Sulley.

It’s also been good news that it’ll be a prequel, ensuring Pixar isn’t just covering old ground with a plot that’s the same as the first movie. Now two preview posters for the film have arrived, via ComingSoon, with the international one above and that US poster below. They’re both good, although I’d say the international one is the best of the two.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. “Monsters University” unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.

‘Screaming with laughter and fun, “Monsters University” is directed by Dan Scanlon (“Cars,” “Mater and the Ghostlight,” “Tracy”) and produced by Kori Rae (“Up,” “The Incredibles,” “Monsters, Inc.”). The film opens in UK cinemas summer, 2013, and will be shown in Disney Digital 3D™ in select theaters.’

The film is currently due for UK release on July 12th, 2013, with a 3D version of Monster’s Inc. arriving January 18th.

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Robert Zemeckis Says Roger Rabbit Sequel Is Ready, But Needs Greenlight

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It’s been 24 years since Who Framed Roger Rabbit became a box office sensation, and ever since then there have been rumours of a sequel, which have been kept alive over the years by director Robert Zemeckis. Now he’s been talking about it again, saying the film is ready, and that “I’m happy with the script, it’s very good!”

It still needs the greenlight from Disney, who for unknown reasons have been holding back on giving the film the go ahead (even though it would seem a pretty good bet). Of course it’s now almost impossible that Bob Hoskins would return as Eddie Valiant, as he’s now retired due to health issue, but it could happen with a new cast.

In an interview with MTV, Zemeckis also said, “If I were to do the sequel, it would be done just like the first one. It would look the same way, but we would present it in 3-D in its release. I would do all of the animation hand-drawn; 2-D, but using 3-D tools. It wouldn’t be like Pixar 3-D. It wouldn’t look like that… this would again be another period movie.”

It would be fascinating to see how that worked, although they probably got a lot of clues from the first film, which was one of the first to make extensive use of computers, particularly to bring a dimensionality to the cartoon characters so they looked like they really existed in the live-action world and weren’t simply drawn on top.

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David Fincher Rumoured For Star Wars: Episode VII, Jon Favreau Too

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It’s difficult to know with this one how much truth there is in it, but in the melee of rumour that have erupted ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm and announced Star Wars: Episode VII, a new name has emerged as a potential director – David Fincher.

Jon Favreau has also thrown his hat into the ring, with the director saying he’s “panting after this job.”

With the Fincher news it’s difficult to tell whether he’s really interested or if it’s just because he has a history with the franchise. One of his first jobs, when he was just 20, was as an assistant camera man on Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.

Jon Favreau is a well known Star Wars fan, and even guest starred in a voice role on the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

At the moment, all we know for certain is that Michael Arndt is writing the screenplay, and that Disney plans to release this highly-anticipated sequel in 2015. Fincher would be a great choice, but it would be something very different than what he’s made before, while Favreau could also handle such a massive task after the success of Iron Man. (Source: Deadline)

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Seth MacFarlane Says Family Guy Movie Is ‘Just A Matter Of When’

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There are a lot of Family Guy fans out there who’d love a movie featuring Quahog’s Griffin clan, especially after seeing with Ted that Seth MacFarlane’s particular brand of humour works perfectly on film.

Now MacFarlane has been talking about a Family Guy film and said during a visit to UCLA that “it’s just a matter of when.” However fitting it into the schedule while they’ve got 20-odd half-hour episodes to produce each year is tough – as Seth pointed out, it’s why it took The Simpsons 20 years to get to the big screen.

There is a plan is place though, with MacFarlane saying, “We do know what the Family Guy movie will be. The Simpsons movie, I thought, was hilarious, but the one criticism I would have is that it’s a story they probably could’ve done on TV. There could’ve been an episode that had that plotline. That’s the challenge with animation. You pretty much can do any story you want, so what is the reason for the movie? We finally hit on the answer to that question, and it will be something that would be impossible to do on TV.”

That suggests it’s either a story that’s too big to tell on TV (although that would seem unlikely, considering they’ve done the entire Star Wars original trilogy Family Guy-style for television), or deal with subjects that are too rude or controversial for the networks. That would seem far more likely, seeing as Fox has refused to air two episodes of the show that were made – one dealing with abortion and the other that could possibly have been offensive to Jews (although it wasn’t, at all).

So we’re just gonna have to wait and hopefully it’ll come sooner rather than later.

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JJ Abrams Produced God Particle Gets Director Julius Onah

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It’s several months since JJ Abrams signed up to produce God Particle, but now things have moved forward with Variety reporting that filmmaker Julius Onah has been set to direct the movie for Paramount Insurge, based on Oren Uziel’s (The Kitchen Sink) screenplay.

The film is about a team of American astronauts onboard a space station who are left stranded when the Earth vanishes into thin air following an accident involving a Hadron particle accelerator. While they try to work out what the hell to do, they discover a European spacecraft on their radar.

The project will mark the first major movie for Julius Onah, who’s created a bit of buzz for his short films such as Big Man and The Girl Is In Trouble. J.J. Abrams will produce through his Bad Robot Productions company. The project will be shot on a budget between $5 million and $10 million. It’s not clear when it might shoot.

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Chandler Riggs & Joel Courtney Join Stephen King’s Mercy

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The Stephen King adaptation Mercy has decided to mine young stars from other popular entertainment, casting The Walking Dead’s 13-year-old Chandler Riggs and 16-year-old Super 8 star Joel Courtney in the lead roles, according to THR.

The film is about two brothers (Riggs and Courtney) who go with their mother (Frances O’Connor) to take care of their grandmother. However, the boys soon discover that their grandma is actually an evil witch who uses black magic. The project is based on Stephen King’s short story, Gramma, first published in 1984.

The Haunting in Connecticut filmmaker Peter Cornwell has signed up to direct, working from an adapted screenplay by Matt Greenberg. Jason Blum, Mary Viola, and McG are producing this relatively low budget project. It’s not known when it might shoot.

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