After the wonderful Midnight In Paris last year, it’s fingers crossed that Woody Allen can continue his winning streak while simultaneously continuing his European tour, this time heading to Italy for To Rome With Love. The trailer doesn’t exactly make the plot clear, although it will follow a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into. Woody stars alongside Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, Alex Baldwin and Roberto Benigni. No UK release is currently set, but it’ll be out later this year.
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The Sweeney Teaser Trailer
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It took a while to get a film version of the classic 70s TV show, The Sweeney, off the ground, but now it’s on it’s way, with Ray Winstone and Ben ‘Plan B’ Drew (who I must admit having a tiny bit of a crush on) taking on the roles made famous by John Thaw and Dennis Waterman. While the 70s show was known for being a gritty take on the cop drama, it seems the film will be adding a whole new level of grit, with Winstone’s Jack Regan a hardened, take no prisoners cop, working alongside Drew’s newbie officer. It’ll be in cinemas in September.
18 New Prometheus Pictures To Pour Over
When Empire debuted their Prometheus cover and article, a load of grainy new images were scanned in. Now proper versions of them have shown up online, which we can now taken a proper look at and sees what clues we can glean. You can see them all above and below.
The film’s out June 1st, and sees Ridley Scott returning to the world of Alien, but set decades before, looking at the search for humanity’s origins among they stars, which may also lead to the origins of the viscious creatures that later stalk Ellen Ripley.
Listen To Danny Elfman’s Score For Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows is just a few weeks away, but if you’re interested in Danny Elfman’s score for the film, you’ll be extremely pleased to hear that not only is it now available, but you can listen to it online over at Warner Bros.’ Water Tower Music. While the ability to listen to the whole thing in one go seems a tad temperamental, even if you have trouble to that you can listen to 90 second cuts of individual tracks to give you a taste of the movie.
CLICK HERE to have a listen. Dark Shadows is released May 11th.
Liam Neeson Is Going Non-Stop In An Air Bound Thriller
Liam Neeson’s characters never seem to have a good time. They’re constantly having to track down kidnapped relatives, seek revenge, survive in the wilderness or take down all manner of threats. Things aren’t going to get more cheery for him in Non-Stop, which Variety reports Neeson has just signed up for.
Jeff Wadlow will direct from John Richardson and Chris Roach’s screenplay, which is set onboard an international flight and follows a weary air marshal (Liam Neeson) who has to spring into action to contain a threat while the plane is in the air.
Joel Silver is producing for Dark Castle Entertainment, and we’ll have to hope that’s a good omen, as the last time Liam Neeson, Warner Bros., and Dark Castle teamed up we got the entertaining thriller Unknown. It’s not certain when the film will start shooting.
Abigail Breslin Joins Vincenzo Natali’s ‘Reverse Ghost Story’ Haunter
Abigail Breslin is one of the few child actors who it’s easy to see working through that awkward teenage stage and still being a star as a grown up. Variety reports that The 15-year-old has now signed on to star in Haunter, a supernatural thriller from Splice director Vincenzo Natali.
The project is described as a ‘reverse ghost story,’ focusing on Lisa (Abigail Breslin), a teenage girl who was murdered along with the rest of her family in 1986. However, their spirits never left the house and Lisa realises she must reach out to the young girl now living there in order to prevent her from suffering the same mysterious death.
Natali is directing from a screenplay by Matthew Brian King, with filming set to being later this month in Toronto.
Jorma Taccone Enters The Great Unknown
Jorma Taccone got his first break writing for Saturday Night Live before becoming a director with the SNL movie, MacGruber. Although that film flopped, Taccone’s now ready for his follow-up, as THR reports he’s signed on to helms the comic book adaptation, The Great Unknown.
The project is based on Duncan Rouleau’s comics, which centre on a slacker who becomes convinced that all of his great ideas are somehow being pilfered from his mind. Even though he can’t convince his friends and family that his thoughts are being stolen, he goes on a quest to find the idea thieves.
Taccone will direct The Great Unknown from an adapted screenplay by Michael Starrbury, although it isn’t known when it might shoot.
Dominic Cooper Is A Dead Man Down
Dominic Cooper could do with some success, as while he signed up for a lot of movies (quite a few of which he ends up dropping out of), he hasn’t had a massive amount of post-Mamma Mia success. He’ll be hoping that Dead Man Down is a hit, as Variety reports that director Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) has cast him in the movie.
Last November Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace attached themselved to star in this action-thriller about a woman (Rapace) who enlists the help of a criminal (Farrell) to get revenge on those who murdered her family. Dominic Cooper will play Darcy, Farrell’s partner in crime on the street.
Niels Arden Oplev will direct from a screenplay by J.H. Wyman, with shooting st to begin later this month.
New Rock Of Ages Trailer
Rock Of Ages is one of those movies that could either be inspired genius or absolutely awful and from this trailer it’s tough to tell which. Coming across as a rather camp, tongue in cheek spoof on the 80s, filled with the music of Def Leppard, Bon Jovi and more, it’s certainly an unusual beast. Now a new full trailer has arrived, which largely seems to be about making us wait to hear whether Tom Cruise can sing (and when he does, it appears the autotune has been working overtime). The film tells the story of a small town girl called Sherrie and city boy called Drew, who meet on the Sunset Strip while pursuing their Hollywood dreams, all mixed in with the fortunes of a club and the rock star Stacee Jaxx (Cruise). The film, from gay director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) is set for release on June 15th.
Baraka Follow-up Samsara Arrives This September
If you’ve never seen Baraka, you’re really missing a treat as it’s a truly incredible and insanely beautiful film.It’s essentially visual poetry taking us around the world, showing us various cultures and events. It’s also, incidentally, one of the best Blu-ray around if you want too see just how good HD images can be.
However Baraka was released in 1992 and we’ve had to wait 20 years for director Ron Fricke’s next movie, Samsara. Arrow Films has now announced a September 7th UK & Ireland cinema release for the film, which should be exciting news for far more people than it probably is.
Filmed over a four-year period in twenty-five countries across five continents, Samsara uses stunning Panavision Super 70 cinematography to take us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. Like Baraka, Samsara dispenses with dialogue and descriptive text, encouraging our own interpretations, inspired by breathtaking images that infuse the ancient with the modern, all set against a mesmerising musical score featuring the work of Lisa Gerrard, Michael Stearns and Marcello De Francisci. If you’ve ever seen the more famous Koyaanisqatsi, which Fricke was the cinematographer on, you’ll pretty much know what to expect.
Arrow are also planning to ensure Samsara is the best experience possible on the big screen, with the digital version scanned from the 70mm film at 8k, with plans to mainly project it on 4k screens, which have around four times the number of pixels as the average digital screen (which is 2k).
I’ve written before about how Baraka is ‘the most wonderful movie that most people would never consider watching’, and Samsara is likely to be an equally tough sell, but believe me, this really is something we should be getting excited about.
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