The first trailer and poster have arrived for Storage 24, which is bidding to be this year’s breakout Brit sci-fi flick. The film stars BAFTA award winner Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, 4.3.2.1) – who also wrote the movie – Antonia Campbell Hughes (Bright Star) Laura Haddock (The Inbetweeners Movie) and Colin O’Donoghue (The Rite), and is directed by Johannes Roberts (F, When Evil Calls). Here’s the synopsis: ‘London is in chaos. A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), accompanied by best friends Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock), are at Storage 24 dividing up their possessions after a recent break-up. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?’ The film hits cinemas June 29th.
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Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin have been signed up for Jason Reitman’s upcoming drama, Labor Day, for a while, and now Dawson Leary himself, aka James Van Der Beek, has joined them, according to 
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Last Vegas has been in the works for several years, and it sounds like fun, but it’s taking quite a while to get it to the screen, which has been partly due to Michael Douglas. He was in talks for the film three years ago but backed out when he was diagnosed with throat cancer in August 2010.
Pierre Morel scored a big hit with Taken, but while From Paris With Love wasn’t as big a success, the director is sticking with making big action movies set in France, as he has has signed on to direct Bastille Day, according to 
You’d have thought Hollywood would have run out of old TV shows to make movies out of, but there are a few left. One of those is The Rockford Files, which