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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)

Jon Favreau To Star In Identity Thief

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In the last few years, Iron Man and its sequel have made Jon Favreau one of the top directors in Hollywood. However he still make occasional trips in front of the camera, such as Couples Retreat and as one of the aliens in John Carter. Now he’s in talks for another acting role, this time in the Universal Pictures comedy Identity Thief.

The movie is about a man (Jason Bateman) whose life is turned upside down when his identity is stolen by a woman (Melissa McCarthy). Variety reports that if the deal goes through, Favreau will play Jason Bateman’s boss. Amanda Peet is also attached to star.

Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) is directing from a screenplay by Steve Conrad (The Weather Man), with Craig Mazin (The Hangover Part II) providing the most recent rewrite. Shooting is schedule to begin in the new few weeks.

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Hunger Games Helmer Gary Ross To Direct Houdini Biopic

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The Hunger Games director Gary Ross recently backed out of making the sequel, Catching Fire, with one of the stated reasons being that there was another, more lucrative movie he was interested in. Now we know what that film probably is, as THR reports that the director has entered negotiations to direct The Secret Life of Houdini.

There hasn’t been much info on this project since February 2011, when screenwriter Noah Oppenheim signed on to adapt the biography the boon, The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman. The book is partly a traditional biopic of Harry Houdini’s exploits as a world-famous magician, but also alleges he was working as a British spy at the same time. The studio is looking to launch a franchise behind this adaptation, by creating a character they see as a hybrid of Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones.

Interestingly Francis Lawrence, who stepped in to direct Catching Fire, is also attached to director a Houdini, although his is at Sony while Ross’ is at Summit.

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Pierce Brosnan Faces The Coup

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Getting caught up in a violent coup would be quite an intense thing to have to deal with, but it would good if you had James Bond there to help you. A few days ago it was revealed that Owen Wilson was attached to a film called The Coup, and now THR reports he’s got some company in the form of Pierce Brosnan.

The Coup is a thriller about an American family, headed by Owen Wilson, who move to Southeast Asia and finds themselves embroiled in a violent coup where rebels mercilessly attack the city. According to producer Steve Alexander, “Having Pierce step into the role of a mysterious and ultimately heroic government operative is the perfect compliment to Owen’s everyman dilemma. We’re thrilled to have him on board.”

If he’s a government operative, does that mean he’ll be playing on his status as an ex-007? John Erick Dowdle (Devil, Quarantine) will direct from a script he co-wrote with his brother Drew. Filming will begin in October in Southeast Asia.

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Michelle Rodriguez Returns For Machete Kills & Fast & The Furious 6

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Actress Michelle Rodriguez is certainly going to be keeping fit this summer in sequels, as she’s signed deals to star in the high-octane madness of both The Fast and the Furious 6 and Machete Kills, according to Variety.

The actress made a cameo appearance as Letty during the end-credit scene in Fast Five, and she returns as a main cast member in this new installment. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Dwayne Johnson are also confirmed for this sequel. Haywire star Gina Carano is also in talks to join the cast.

Michelle will also reprise her role as Luz from Machete in director Robert Rodriguez’s sequel. Danny Trejo is back as the title character, and we reported last week that Mel Gibson is in talks to portray the villain. Rodriguez start shooting Machete Kills later this month in Austin, Texas, and will move right to The Fast and the Furious 6, which begins production in Europe next month.

Both movies are set for release next summer.

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Sharlto Copley On For Open Grave & Confirmed As Oldboy Villain

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For someone who had no intention of being an actor at the time of District 9, Sharlto Copley has built quite a career for himself. A couple weeks ago we reported that he was in talks to play the villain in Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy.

He’s now been confirmed to play that role and according to Deadline has also finalised a deal to star in Open Grave for director Gonzalo López-Gallego (Apollo 18).

In Oldboy, Copley will play the villainous Adrian Pryce, a billionaire who releases Joe Douchett (Josh Brolin) after keeping him in captivity for several years, and then has to deal with the man’s revenge. Elizabeth Olsen also stars as a case worker who helps Joe figure out his past.

Open Grave has been in development since 2006, with Gonzalo López-Gallego directing from a screenplay by Chris Borey and Eddie Borey. The movie centres on a man who wakes up surrounded by dead bodies and has no idea how he got there. He starts to have bizarre, murderous flashbacks, and begins to think the he is the killer.

It isn’t known when production will begin on either of these projects.

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Elijah Wood Signs On For Grand Piano

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Elijah Wood has had difficulty fully capitalising on the success he had with Lord Of The Rings, but he’s still around and has now signed on to star in the upcoming indie action-thriller Grand Piano for director Eugenio Mira.

The rather OTT plot centres on a concert pianist (Wood) who returns after a five-year break from performing. However, when he sits down at the piano, he sees a menacing note on his sheet music. He must give the performance of a lifetime or else a mysterious madman will kill him and his wife! The project was described as Speed at a piano.

Production will begin later this summer at Ciudad de la Luz Studios in Alicante, Spain, with another week of shooting scheduled to take place in Chicago. (Source: THR)

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Chariots Of Fire Director Helming Midnight Sun

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Hugh Hudson hasn’t made a fiction feature since 2000 with I Dreamed Of Africa, but with a re-release due for Chariots Of Fire and lots of interest in that movie due to the London Olympics, he’s decided it’s time to come out of semi-retirement for Midnight Sun.

The film is a family adventure film described as being in the vein of Free Willy and Dolphin Tale, set amongst the ice fields of Northern Canada. The hero is a young boy, Luke, who defies the dangerous elements of nature to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother. Luke is aided by Muktuk, a half Inuit and half Canadian, who knows the terrain where polar bears live like the back of his hand. But they are soon separated on the floating ice of the high Arctic, and Luke and the cub are left to protect themselves from bear attacks, giant icebergs, and vicious windstorms.

BAFTA and Emmy award-winning cinematographer Doug Allan will lens the wildlife and natural elements of the picture, with production design by Andrew Sanders (Chariots of Fire, The Last Temptation of Christ). The film will start shooting in November 2012, with locations in the Canadian Arctic and Manitoba.

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Tom Cruise Attached To Van Helsing Remake

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Universal Pictures has signed a two-year first-look production deal with Mission: Impossible III, Transformers & Star Trek writing/producing teams in the entertainment industry, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and their K/O Paper Products banner.

The duo will kick off their new relationship with Universal by reimagining titles from the studio’s library including The Mummy and Van Helsing, with Tom Cruise already attached to the latter. There’s very little info on what direction they’re planning to take either The Mummy of Van Helsing, although it’s likely to be a grittier take than the most recent version.

“We’re thrilled to call Universal Pictures our home,” said Kurtzman and Orci. “They really understand the importance of building a strong creative team and giving our shared projects their full support. We’re proud to start making movies that will live as part of Universal’s enduring legacy.”

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A Few Best Men Trailer – Kevin Bishop & Kris Marshall hang out with Olivia Newton John!

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After Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, we didn’t hear a huge amount from director Stephan Elliot, partly because he nearly died in a skiing accident. However he returned a couple of years ago with the British period comedy, Easy Virtue. Now he’s helmed a full-on Anglo-Australian production with A Few Best Man. When David (Xavier Samuel) journeys to Australia to marry the love of his life, Mia, he invites his three best mates – Graham (Kevin Bishop), Luke (Tim Draxl) and Tom (Kris Marshall) – to travel with him. Having barely met his bride-to-be, they aren’t too impressed at the thought of losing their best friend to married life on the other side of the world but resolve to give him a send-off to remember. After a final carnage-filled stag night the big day arrives and the trio of ill-prepared best men end up giving a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘for better or worse’ as a chaos-filled wedding, complete with a deranged drug dealer, a cross-dressed sheep, a coked-up mother-in-law (Olivia Newton John) and possibly the most disastrous speech of all time, threaten to derail the marriage before it’s even begun! The movie hits UK cinemas August 31st.

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Great New Snow White & The Huntsman Poster

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Snow White & the Huntsman hits cinemas in exactly a month on June 1st, and it’s looking like it’ll be a bit of a gothic, action, fairytale treat. Now a great new poster has debuted, which you can see above, featuring Charlize Theron’s evil queen all mixed up with a raven. It’s a good hint that this will be a very interesting film visually, which was also in evidence in the trailers.

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