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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)

Ice Age Heats Up The US Box Office

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Ice Age: Continental Drift has topped the US box office, nabbing $46 million on its opening weekend. That’s not as good as the third Ice Age movie, but about on par with the first two, suggesting it should continue to draw in the punters over the coming weeks.

However its not in the US that Ice Age plays big, as the franchise has always been far more popular internationally than in America. That pattern is continuing, as outside the US, the film has already taken $339 million, so Fox already has another hit on their hands.

Ice Age 4 was the only new film in the top 10, which was good news for The Amazing Spider-man, as it only dropped a relatively mild 45% from its opening weekend and passed the $200 million mark. It’ll have more competition next weekend when Dark Knight Rises hits cinemas, but the Spidey reboot is undoubtedly a hit.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend July 13th-15th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Ice Age: Continental Drift $46.0 $46.0
2 The Amazing Spider-man $35.0 $200.9
3 Ted $22.1 $158.9
4 Brave $10.6 $195.5
5 Magic Mike $9.0 $91.8
6 Savages $8.7 $31.4
7 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection $5.6 $55.6
8 Katy Perry: Part Of Me $3.7 $18.5
9 Moonrise Kingdom $3.6 $26.8
10 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted $3.5 $207.3
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Item 47 – Marvel One Shot Clip Released

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In the run up to The Avengers, Marvel released a couple of ‘One-Shot’ short films, which helped bring the superhero threads together in preparation for the big mash-up. Now they’ve made another slightly longer short, which follows on from The Avengers and seems like it could be part of a plan to build towards a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘S.H.I.E.L.D. recovered all but one… a Chitauri weapon, aka “ITEM 47.” After a young couple, Benny (Jesse Bradford) and Claire (Lizzy Caplan), stumble into finding the elusive weapon, they embark on a bank robbing spree. With S.H.I.E.L.D. agents (LOST’s Titus Welliver and AVENGERS’s Maximiliano Hernandez) hot on their trail, it’s only a matter of time before the couple have to pay for their crimes.’

Item 47 is available on Marvel Avengers Assemble Blu-ray, out 17th September in the UK. Watch a clip from the film below the poster.

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Man Of Steel Gets Broody In Comic-Con Poster

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It’s certainly been all go at Comic-Con, with all sorts of big superhero movie news emerging. Attendees at the San Diego event got to see the first proper footage from Zack Snyder’s new take on Superman, called Man Of Steel, with THR reporting that the scenes of Henry Cavill as the superhero were received so well they even moved one fan to tears.

Hopefully the footage will be released online soon, but for now we just have reports that suggest this Superman is grittier and more in line with the way Chris Nolan (who’s producing Man Of Steel) has presented his Batman trilogy.

During the film’s panel, Snyder suggested this really is a complete overhaul, saying, “We had to act as if no [previous] film has been made. When we approached it, we had to say ‘this is Superman for the first time’.”

He failed to confirm is General Zod was the villain, merely stating the filmmakers “have great respect for the canon and the mythology of Superman…it’s a mashing of stories.”

He also hedged on whether Man Of Steel would tie into a planned Justice League movie, saying “Let’s say this: We know that Superman is the jewel in the DC crown. We wanted to get this house in order. And then…who knows what’s possible?”

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Ant-Man Movie Is Confirmed & The Test Footage Gets Screened

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The long-gestating Ant-Man movie seemed to have been confirmed a few weeks ago when it was revealed director Edgar Wright had completed some test footage for the film. Now that teaser has screened at Comic-Con to a largely positive reaction, and Marvel has revealed the title treatment for the movie. There’s no news on when it might be released, although with Iron Man 2, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and Guardians Of The Galaxy already dated, Ant Man isn’t likely to arrive until the end of 2014 at the earliest (and Wright is making The World’s End first).

The footage isn’t online yet (and as it’s a rough proof of concept deal, it may not show up at all), but here’s a description for /Film: ‘The footage begins in a long, Matrix style hallway with two Matrix style agents. The camera moves down the hall, through a grate, and we see a tiny man standing behind the grate: Ant-Man. He jumps through and starts running at them. Of course, they don’t see him. He then pops up into real size, they start shooting, he gets small again, jumps, runs down the shaft of the gun, jumps up and punches the guy in the face, shaking the face in slow motion. With that guy done, Ant-Man gets big again, flips the other agent over….okay, honestly by this point I was kind of freaking out and it gets fuzzy. I do know that Ant-Man takes care of business, is about to jump through another grate when the elevator pings, and he gets on it.’

The tone is said to be different to other Marvel films, with the accent more on humour. That’s not surprising considering Wright co-wrote the script with Joe Cornish. It certainly sounds interesting and the character could certainly make for a fun, if slightly silly, film.

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Marvel Confirms Guardians Of The Galaxy For 2014

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Quite a while ago now, Marvel staked out an August 14th, 2014 release date for a mystery movie. Recently the speculation has been that this would be a Guardians Of The Galaxy film, although it’s only now at Comic-Con that Marvel has confirmed this, as well as the fact it’s going animated.

Like The Avengers, Guardians Of The Galaxy is a superhero team, largely made up of lesser known characters. In the movie they’ll journey to Earth to protect the planet from an upcoming attack by their enemies, another alien race known as the Bardoon. The superhero line-up will include Gamora, the adopted daughter of Thanos (the evil-doer glimpsed at the end of Avengers); Drax The Destroyer, an incredibly powerful alien whose sole purpose in life is to destroy Thanos; Groot, a super-smart living plant who can regenerate himself; Rocket Raccoon, the leader of the Guardians, who is a talking, bipedal space raccoon who is also an expert marksman; and Star-Lord, a former Earth astronaut called Peter Quill who becomes a super-powered galactic cop.

What’s not clear is if, despite being animated, Guardians will fit into the mythology built up in The Avengers etc., or if this will be completely separate. The fact Thanos is involved would suggest it is tied in, but quite how that will work is yet to be seen. The concept art above was released by Marvel to coincide with the Comic-Con announcement.

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Captain America & Thor Sequel Titles & Logos Revealed

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Marvel always goes big at Comic-Con and this year they certainly delivered, including revealing the titles for the sequels to Captain America and Thor, which will hit cinemas under the name Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World. Neither is exactly the most brilliant title we’ve ever heard, but they are suitably comic book-y.

The studio also released the title treatments for the films, which you can see above and below, as well as one for Iron Man 3. With that latter movie, Marvel also confirmed that Ben Kingsley will play the villainous Mandarin in the movie.

Thor: The Dark World hits cinemas November 8th, 2013, while Captain America: The Winter Soldier comes to theatres April 4th, 2014. Oh, and Iron Man 3 will be before both of those, on May 3rd, 2013.

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Jessica Biel Offered Viper Role In The Wolverine

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I always think Jessica Biel is an actress who’s actually better than the roles she gets suggests, and hopefully she’ll be able to get to prove that in The Wolverine, as director James Mangold has offered her the role of The Viper in The Wolverine. She would join a cast that also includes Will Yun Lee and Brian Tee, who will play villains The Silver Samurai and Noboru Mori.

The Viper has an intriguing past history with Wolverine. At one point she was an ally to Logan and yet also blackmailed him into marrying her. It isn’t known if The Viper will be a friend, foe or a bit of both to Hugh Jackman’s character. Indeed at the moment Biel hasn’t even accepted the role.

The Wolverine follows the title character to Japan, where he hopes to find out more information about who he really is. Production is scheduled to begin in August, with shooting to take place in both Australia and Japan. (Source: Twitch)

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Edgar Wright’s The World’s End Teaser Poster

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After years of teasing, the script is ready and Universal has given the greenlight to The World’s End, the movie that will reunite Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright. And to show it’s real (and as Comic-Con is on), a teaser poster has been revealed. The movie will start shooting in October.

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Daniel Radcliffe Gets The Horns

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Daniel Radcliffe has has signed up to star in the supernatural fantasy/thriller Horns, based on the best-selling novel by Joe Hill (son of Stephen King), with Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D, High Tension) directing, according to Variety.

Horns is a supernatural thriller driven by fantasy, mystery and romance, about Ig Perrish (Radcliffe), the number one suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend. Hungover from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his head and soon realises their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses – an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend’s tragedy and for exacting revenge on her killer.

Director Alexandre Aja says, “After reading Joe Hill’s cult book, I couldn’t resist temptation to dive into the devilish underworld and reinvent a universal myth. Horns is a wild ride of sin and crime, with a love story in its heart.”

Additional casting is now underway, with principal photography slated to begin this fall. Red Granite Pictures’ international sales arm (Red Granite International) will handle foreign sales for the film.

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