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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)

Jon Favreau Joins Wolf of Wall Street

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Jon Favreau may be a much in-demand director but he hasn’t given up acting, and now Deadline reports that he has signed on for a role in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

Favreau will play a securities lawyer, although no further character details are known. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jordan Belfort, a Long Island stock broker who made millions selling phony stocks in the 1980s. The story is adapted from Belfort’s memoir, which chronicles his rise and fall, including his bouts of substance abuse. Jonah Hill, Kyle Chandler, Jean Dujardin, Margot Robbie, Jon Bernthal, and Rob Reiner also star.

Martin Scorsese is directing from an adapted screenplay by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire). Production is scheduled to begin next month in New York City.

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Watch A Six-Minute Anna Karenina Clip

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Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina sounds quite unusual, with the director starting a new six-minute clip by saying the entire thing was shot inside a theatre, with the sets built inside, to allow actors to move from one place to another fluidly. It’s a unique way of doing things, which is probably why they’re trying to drum up interest with this clip.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Keira Knightley stars as Anna Karenina in Joe Wright’s version of Tolstoy’s epic love story. Adapted by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love), Jude Law plays Anna’s husband Aleksei Karenin and Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy) stars as Count Vronsky. Rounding out the cast are Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire), Matthew Macfadyen (Pride & Prejudice), Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Alicia Vikander (The Seventh Son), two-time Academy Award nominee Emily Watson, Olivia Williams (Hanna), and Ruth Wilson (Luther).

‘The story unfolds in its original late-19th-century Russia high-society setting and powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, from the passion between adulterers to the bond between a mother and her children. As Anna questions her happiness, change comes to her family, friends, and community.

‘Anna Karenina marks Wright’s fourth film with Working Title, following the award-winning box office successes Pride & Prejudice and Atonement and The Soloist. The film is produced by Working Title co-chairmen Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and reunites them with Paul Webster, all three of whom produced Wright’s first two films Pride & Prejudice and Atonement.’

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First Poster For Dreamworks Animation’s Me And My Shadow

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While Dreamworks Animation’s movie often feel a bit uninventive compared to Pixar, they’re trying something new with Me And My Shadow, a mix of hand-drawn and CG animation that’s due out Spring 2014.

Now the first poster for the film has been released over on Facebook. There’s also a quote from DreamWorks Animation Chief Creative Officer Bill Damaschke, who says, “Me and My Shadow, which is out in spring of 2014, is a combination of CG and traditional hand drawn animation. There is a reason to tell the story in that fashion. It’s about what would happen if your shadow, that has been following you around and basically just follows what you do your whole life, just stood up and took over. The shadows will be animated hand drawn, and the other characters will be CG animated. There is a reason to do it [hand drawn animation] that felt creatively interesting.”

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The Dark Knight Rises At The US Box Office

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This weekend’s box office numbers were understandably delayed out of respect for the victims of last week’s Colorado shooting. However now they’ve been released, with The Dark Knight Rises taking a massive $160 million, the third biggest opening weekend ever after The Avengers and Deathly Hallows Part 2, and the biggest ever for a 2D release.

Many suspect the film’s gross was slightly supressed due to the shooting, as most had expected it to take between $170 and $180 million. Even so, most people refused to be put off by the horrific acts just outside Denver.

The Dark Knight Rises was the only new release in the top 10, with most of the other movies slipping down a place. Some suspect it was family films more than Batman that were affected by the massacre, with parents keeping children out of the multiplxes. Ice Age 4 dropped far more than expected, 56% off from last weekend.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of July 20th-22nd.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 The Dark Knight Rises $160.8 $160.8
2 Ice Age: Continental Drift $20.4 $88.8
3 The Amazing Spider-man $10.8 $228.6
4 Ted $10.0 $180.4
5 Brave $6.0 $208.7
6 Magic Mike $4.2 $101.9
7 Savages $3.3 $40.0
8 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection $2.2 $60.2
9 Moonrise Kingdom $1.8 $36.0
10 To Rome With Love $1.4 $11.1
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Russell Crowe Directing Bill Hicks Biopic

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Back in 2008, Russell Crowe attached himself to play Bill Hicks in a biopic of the iconic comedian. Little has been heard about the project since, but now The Telegraph reports that Crowe is out as star, but he’s planning to make the movie his directorial debut.

Mark Staufer, a long-time friend of Crowe’s, wrote the script. He tells the Telegraph “Bill Hicks’ life is tragically short, but spectacularly interesting… The screenplay has gone through a number of drafts and we’ll go into production early next year.”

The plan is now to find someone for the lead, with Staufer commenting, “It is a huge role for someone, made all the more special, or downright scary, by the fact the director is an Oscar-winning actor like Russell.”

Bill Hicks was born in 1961, launching his career as a stand-up comedian at the age of 16. He toured all across the United States and the UK throughout the 1980s and 1990s, developing his brand of dark, edgy humor. He died at the age of 32 in 1994 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Sam Worthington In Talks To Join Arnie In Ten

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Two terminators could be getting together in Ten as Sam Worthington is in early talks to join Arnold Schwarzenegger in the thriller Ten. Variety says The Avatar star plans on accepting the offer, if his representatives can work out the financial details.

News of the project first served back in May, when Arnold Schwarzenegger signed up. The movie is about a corrupt team of DEA agents who pull off an elaborate heist that is made to look like a routine drug raid. After hiding the millions in cash they stole, the unit believes their secret is safe, until the team members are assassinated, one by one. No specific character details are known for Sam Worthington’s role.

David Ayer (End of Watch) is set to direct from a screenplay by Skip Woods (A Good Day to Die Hard, The A-Team).

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Despicable Me Minions Getting Their Own Movie

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Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment had a big hit with Despicable Me, grossing $540 worldwide from a $69 million production budget. Despicable Me 2 is already set for next year, and now they’re planning to go further, as a spin-off based about Gru’s Minions is in the works. The aim is to get it ready for a 2014 release date.

Pierre Coffin (Despicable Me) will direct alongside co-director Kyle Balda (Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax), with Brian Lynch (Hop, Puss in Boots) providing the screenplay. Pierre Coffin and his Despicable Me co-director Chris Renaud will provide the voices for the Minions as well. There’s little known about the story, except that the lovable yellow creatures will interact with humans. Certain currently unknown Despicable Me characters will also be back, along with a host of new roles.

The Minions have already proven popular, getting their own animated shorts and are also featured in the Universal Studios Orlando theme park ride, Despicable Me Minion Mayhem. (Source: Deadline)

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Jeremy Renner Circling WikiLeaks Project

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Last year, DreamWorks acquired two books about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, with plans for a biopic about the controversial ‘journalist’. However with Assange’s story shifting all the time, it’s taken a while to be able to move forward, however now Deadline reports actor Jeremy Renner and director Bill Condon are circling the movie.

Nothing has been signed yet, although DreamWorks has met with both the actor and director. Jeremy Renner is reportedly ‘looking hard’ at portraying Julian Assange. DreamWorks is also looking for a screenwriter to adapt the books Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website by former WikiLeaks employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, by David Leigh and Luke Harding, reporters for The Guardian.

Julian Assange, who launched the WikiLeaks website in 2006, is still facing prosecution in Sweden on charges of sexual assault, and US charges of leaking classified documents. He’s currently in the uK awaiting extradition, and seeking asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy.

Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures is also developing its own Untitled Julian Assange/Wikileaks Project, based on a New York Times Magazine article by Bill Keller. Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) is writing the adapted screenplay for that one.

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Edgar Wright Directing Collider, With JJ Abrams Producing

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Here’s a bit of a dream team – J.J. Abrams producing, Edgar Wright co-writing and directing, and Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend) writing a new sci-fi project currently called Collider for Paramount Pictures, according to Deadline.

As this is a JJ Abrams project, no story details were given, although it’s possible this sci-fi project could have something to do with a particle collider. We reported last month that J.J. Abrams picked up the Oren Uziel screenplay God Particle. That story centres on a physics experiment with a particle accelerator that inexplicably causes the Earth to disappear. It isn’t known if these projects are related or not, although as this one is supposedly based on an idea by Wright, probably not.

This trio of filmmakers already have quite a lot on their plate at the moment. Mark Protosevich wrote the screenplays for Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake, and the Mass Effect video game adaptation. Edgar Wright will direct The World’s End before moving on to Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man. J.J. Abrams is currently in post-production on Star Trek 2, set for release next May. So don’t expect Collider anytime soon.

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The Wedding Video Trailer – Robert Webb goes mockumentary

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Raif (Rufus Hound), a shambolic oaf with a unique sense of humour, is asked to be his brother Tim’s (Robert Webb) best man when he marries Saskia (Lucy Punch). To Raif’s surprise, he finds his once-bohemian brother is marrying into Cheshire’s most socially aspirant family. Saskia’s grandmother, Patricia (Miriam Margolyes) would give Hyacinth Bucket a run for her money and mum Alex (Harriet Walter) has successfully married into life in the ‘Cheshire Set’ – the English ‘Beverley Hills’. Raif’s present to the happy couple will be a video of their wedding. His film is our film – the final edited version with music, live action, interviews – the works. Amidst the chaos of planning their big day and fending off unwanted help the couple begins to wonder ‘whose wedding is it anyway?’ Nigel Cole (Made in Dagenham, Calendar Girls) directs, with a release date set for August 17th.

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