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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)

Alex Pettyfer Joins Kristen Stewart in Cali

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Following his success getting his kit off in Magic Mike, young British star Alex Pettyfer is now in final negotiations to appear in Cali alongside Kristen Stewart, which Nick Cassavetes is set to direct.

The movie is about a San Fernando Valley couple, Chris and Mya (Pettyfer and Stewart), who decide to fake Mya’s death by making a snuff film, before skipping town with loads of cash. Years later, Mya must return home to save her younger sister.

Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, Alpha Dog) is directing from a screenplay by Michael Diliberti (30 Minutes or Less, Stop Loss). Kristen Stewart is also making her producing debut on the project. Production is scheduled to begin later this summer, by which time hopefully Stewart will be able to concentrate on the film rather than apologising for cheating on Robert Pattinson. (Source: Variety)

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Paul Giamatti & Jason Schwartzman Join Saving Mr. Banks

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Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, and Ruth Wilson have joined Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks for director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side), bolstering a cast that already includes Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks.

The movie is about Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), who was courted for 14 years by Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) for the screen rights to her beloved novel, before she reluctantly agreed. After she didn’t approve of the 1964 classic’s animated sequences, she refused to sell another book to the studio.

Paul Giamatti is playing Ralph, P.L. Travers’ chauffeur when she spends time in Los Angeles. Jason Schwartzman will be Richard Sherman, the songwriter who wrote a number of tunes for Disney classics such as Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Ruth Wilson is the author’s mother in flashback scenes, along with Colin Farrell as P.L. Travers’ father, who inspired the Poppins character of Mr, Banks. (Source: Variety)

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Vince Vaughn Finds The Risk Agent

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Vince Vaughn has snapped up the rights to Ridley Pearson’s new novel The Risk Agent for an adaptation which he plans to star in and produce. Michael Lerner has been hired to adapt the screenplay, according to Deadline.

The story is set in Shanghai, China and sees a Chinese National, working for an American construction company, get kidnapped in broad daylight. The plot follows Grace Chu, a forensic accountant, and John Knox, a combat operative, hired by Rutherford Risk to recover the hostage. It isn’t known what role Vince Vaughn will play at this time, but presumably he’ll play Knox.

The novel was published last month in the US, and will be the first in a series of books, so this could potentially be a franchise.

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Adam Sandler To Produce Bad Toys II

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Adam Sandler has signed on to develop and produce a feature-length adaptation of Bad Toys II, a popular short film that uses a combination of live-action and CGI animation. You can take a look at the six-minute short below, which is a little bit Robot Chicken and a little bit Adam & Joe Show.

French animators Daniel Brunet and Nicolas Douste directed the short as an homage to Michael Bay’s Bad Boys II. The story starts out with a car chase using toys on a living room floor that keeps escalating with explosions and car crashes. This big-screen version for Columbia Pictures will centree on a grown man whose childhood imagination comes to life again while playing with his son’s toys. The man’s play becomes an homage to big-budget action spectacles.

Daniel Brunet and Nicolas Douste will executive produce this new adaptation. No screenwriter or director has been hired yet. (Source: THR)

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Life Of Pi Trailer – Take a look at Ang Lee’s gorgeous new film

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If you’ve been to see a 3D movie in the past few weeks, you may have caught some great flying fish footage from Ang Lee’s upcoming Life Of Pi. While that’s not online yet, the first proper trailer has arrived, suggesting that while this is going to be an unusual film, it’s going to look utterly amazing. The film is based on Yan Martel’s Booker Prize winning book about Pi Patel (played by newcomer Suraj Sharma) who, after a shipwreck, shares a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, an injured zebra, and an orangutan (although we’ve only seen a tiger in the footage seen so far). The potential Oscar-bait movie is currently due out December 21st.

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The Oranges Trailer – Hugh Laurie falls for the daughter of a family friend

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It’s over two years since they filmed The Oranges, but its only now a trailer has arrived, ahead of a US release this autumn (with a UK debut hopefully coming soon afterwards). The movie sees Hugh Laurie as a middle-aged man who falls for the daughter (Leighton Meester) of a family friend, with the May to December romance causing all sorts of problems.

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Ric Roman Waugh Taking On Deepwater Horizon

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While the news was filled in 2010 with reports about the devastating impact of the oil gushing from under the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, you could have been forgiven for forgetting that the reason the oil was erupting from the ocean floor was because of an explosion that left 11 men dead and 17 more injured.

Last year Summit revealed they were working on a movie about the disaster, and now Deadline say that former stuntman Ric Roman Waugh (In The Shadows, Felon) is in talks to direct the film, which will look into the rig’s terrible end. The movie will be based on The New York Times article Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hour, by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul, which charts exactly what went wrong, including the bravery of the crew in the minutes leading up to the disaster, as well as the attempts of 100 others to stay alive.

It isn’t clear when the movie might shoot, but hopefuly all involved will have their tasteful hats on when making this, as the disaster is still a fresh one.

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Tyler Labine & Lucy Punch Up For Someone Marry Barry

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It’s been announced that principal photography has begun on Someone Marry Barry, a raucous comedy written and directed by Academy Award-nominee Rob Pearlstein. Tyler Labine, Damon Wayans Jr., Lucy Punch, Hayes MacArthur, Thomas Middleditch, Frankie Shaw and Amanda Lund are all set to star.

Someone Marry Barry follows three friends who plot to get rid of their socially inappropriate friend Barry by finding him a wife. But when Barry finally meets a woman, she turns out to be just like him, and now the guys have to deal with not one but two ‘Barrys’. Through their tribulations with this uncensored duo, the guys learn some truths about the nature of friendship and love.

“The funniest, most outrageous characters are often relegated to the role of sidekick,” says Pearlstein. “We’re bringing those characters front and center and giving them their own love story. But the movie is also a love story between the friends, and at its heart, it’s about how friendship endures against all odds.”

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Liev Schreiber Joins The Butler As Lyndon B. Johnson

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There are going to be an awful lot of US Presidents in The Butler, as it’s about a man who served eight of them working in the White House. The likes of John Cusack (Richard Nixon), Alan Rickman (Ronald Reagan), James Marsden (JFK), and Robin Williams (Dwight D Eisenhower) are already onboard, and now they’ve been joined by Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, according to Deadline.

The movie is a biopic about longtime White House butler, Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker), began his White House employment in 1952, under President Harry S. Truman, and retired in 1986, during President Ronald Reagan’s second term in office. In that time the African American rose through the ranks and was there as the Civil Rights struggle played out in the halls of power.

Jane Fonda, Minka Kelly, David Oyelowo, Oprah Winfrey Melissa Leo, Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Redgrave, Cuba Gooding Jr, Elijah Kelly, Jesse Williams, Mariah Carey and more are also set to star. Lee Daniels will direct from a script by Danny Strong.

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Peter Jackson Deep In Talks For Third Hobbit Film

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As The Hobbit is a shorter book than any of the three parts of Lord Of The Rings, many wondered if there was enough plot for two films, but at Comic-Con, Peter Jackson suggested he was thinking as actually making it into three. Now THR reports that the director is in “accelerated” talks with the studio about making a third movie.

The filmmaker has said that he shot an abundance of material that he would not be able to fit into either of the planned movies, which sparked speculation that a third movie may be in the works. Warner Bros. is now reportedly on board with the proposal, if they can make it for the right price, since new deals will have to be negotiated with cast members. At any rate, a decision must be made very soon, according to an unidentified source close to the production, “If we’re going to do it, we have to make a decision soon. It’s strongly driven by the filmmakers’ desire to tell more of the story.”

If a third movie is given the green light, shooting will likely take place for a couple of months in New Zealand, sometime next summer. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is slated for release on December 14th, with The Hobbit: There and Back Again arriving in cinemas December 13th, 2013. The proposed third movie would likely debut during December of 2014, if it comes to fruition.

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