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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

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GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

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First Expendables 2 Poster Emerges

November 21, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment


It’s a poster that pretty much speaks for itself, and just assures us that shit loads of top action people are going to be in The Expendables 2 (or Ex2 as the poster would like us to call it). It’s definitely going for the style of a late-80s/early-90s movie, which is exactly what people are hoping the film will be. The Expendable 2 hits cinemas next sumer and stars Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Liam Hemsworth, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Image via JoBlo)

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ACTORS: Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger  DIRECTORS: Simon West  FILMS: The Expendables 2  

Michel Pitt & Paul Dano Testing For Akira

November 21, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

It seems that after a hell of a lot of behind-the-scenes issues, Warner’s live-action version of Akira is finally going to go into production. However before that they need to sort out a cast, which is proving surprisingly tricky. After much machinations over who would play the main role of Kaneda, they finally settled on Garett Hedlund, and now it appears they’re hard at work looking for Kaneda’s friend, Tetsuo.

According to THR, a whole host of actors are testing for the role, including Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire), Paul Dano (Cowboys & Aliens, There Will Be Blood), Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro), D.J. Cotrona (Detroit 1-8-7, G.I.Joe 2: Retaliation), Logan Marshal Green (Devil, Prometheus), Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla, Control), Richard Madden (Game of Thrones), and Rami Malek (The Pacific, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2).

The film sees Kaneda trying to rescue Tetsuo from dangerous government experiments that are attempting to harness Tetsuo’s latent powers. However those telekinetic powers are also capable of unleashing the powerful being known as Akira.

It’s an interesting list of actors they’re testing and rather diverse, so doesn’t really give us much of a hint as to the direction they’re heading with the movie, other than that as all those actors are in their late 20s, Tetsuo is going to be older than the teen of the original manga and anime. A decision on who to hire should be made soon, with shooting starting on the Jaume Collet-Serra directed movie early in the new year.

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ACTORS: Michael Pitt, Paul Dano, Alden Ehrenreich, Toby Kebbell, Richard Madden, Rami Marek  DIRECTORS: Jaume Collet-Serra  FILMS: Akira (2013)  

Kit Harington Signs On For Arthur & Lancelot

November 21, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

Warner is going in an interesting direction with their upcoming take on the Arthurian legends, Arthur & Lancelot, as rather than going for star names, they’re filling the cast with relatively obscure up and comers. Joel Kinnaman, from the TV show The Killing, signed on to be Lancelot a couple of weeks ago and they’ve now cast Game of Thrones’ star Kit Harington as King Arthur, according to THR.

If you’ve never heard on either of them, it wouldn’t be too surprising, but they are both talented.

A few scheduling issues with his work on Game Of Thrones need to be worked out on Harington’s side, but once those issues are resolved, filming should begin in early 2012. The movie is being directed by David Dobkin, who is best known for his comedies, such as The Change-Up and Wedding Crashers. However the Arthurian film will be a change of pace, as while plot details for Arthur & Lancelot have yet to be divulged, it will be a serious, action heavy adventure.

Warner has already set a release date of 15th, 2013 for Arthur & Lancelot.

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ACTORS: Joel Kinnaman, Kit Harington  DIRECTORS: David Dobkin  FILMS: Arthur & Lancelot  

Scarlett Johansson Making Directorial Debut

November 21, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

It seems every actor at some point wants to turn director, and now it’s Scarlett Johansson’s turn. According to Variety, she’s set to make her directorial debut with Summer’s Crossing, an adaptation of Truman Capote’s novella.

Tristine Skyler hard at work adapting the book, which Capote wrote in the 1940s. The book was lost for more than 50 years before being discovered and published in 2006. The story centres on an 18-year-old girl who runs away from her wealthy, elitist family to discover her own path in life.

The Truman Capote Literary Trust’s Alan Schwartz is producing, so he must trust that Johansson can do the tale justice, despite her lack of experience. Perhaps he likes her 2009 short, These Vagabond Shoes, which she filmed for the anthology, New York I Love You, but ended up getting cut (officially because the producer of that film felt her movie would stick out as it was the only blakc and white one and the only one that didn’t feature an interpersonal relationship).

It isn’t known when production will begin on Summer’s Crossing.

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ACTORS: Scarlett Johansson  DIRECTORS: Scarlett Johansson  FILMS: Summer's Crossing  

Dwayne Johnson Will Be A Monster Hunter

November 21, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

Actor Dwayne Johnson has joined the cast of The Monster Hunter’s Survival Guide, according to Deadline, adding to the actor’s already hectic schedule. The project is based John Paul Russ’ graphic novel series, which gives readers comprehensive instructions on how to track down and slay various monsters.

Johnson has com onbaord early though, as it doesn’t seem that a writer is attached to adapt the project quite yet. That’s probably a good thing as Johnson has plenty enough to keep him busy. He’s currently filming G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation, where he portrays Roadblock. After that, the actor will move on to Snitch, Ric Roman Waugh’s drama about a father (Dwayne Johnson) who agrees to go undercover in prison to try and bust a drug kingpin to help his incarcerated son get a lighter sentence.

He’s also got more Fast & Furious in the pipeline, along with several other films.

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ACTORS: Dwayne Johnson  FILMS: The Monster Hunter's Survival Guide  

Soderbergh Ditches Man From UNCLE

November 21, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

Steven Soderbergh is a man who doesn’t like to compromise his vision, and as his vision often involves idiosycratic or unusual approaches to subjects, that often leads to him butting heads with studios. For quite a while now he’s been attached to a big screen version of The Man From UNCLE at Warner Bros, the studio where he made the Ocean’s movies, but now he’s bailed on the movie.

However recently he’s been having a bit of casting trouble. George Clooney had to drop out as he’s having surgery and since then casting has been extremely problematic. Soderbergh wanted Michael Fassbender and Joel Kinnaman, but Warner didn’t. The studio then managed to irritate the director by working out deals with both those actors for other movies.

Various names, like Bradley Cooper, Joel Edgerton and Channing Tatum have been mooted, but it’s not known how close any of them really were to landing roles. Others, such as Johnny Depp and Matt Damon, were interested but couldn’t do the film due to scheduling issues. It appears finidng someone who was free and who was acceptable to both sides became virtually impossible if they were going to keep to the idea of shooting early next year.

Then Warner offered a budget of only $60 million, which Soderbergh felt simply wasn’t enough to do justice to the world of UNCLE, especially as the studio wants the film to be the beginning of a franchise. And so Soderbergh bailed.

Don’t worry though, the director has plenty to keep him busy, with Haywire out in January and the Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra to prepare for.

What this means for Man From UNCLE isn’t clear, so we’ll have to wait and see whether Warner tries to find another director or just gives up on the long-gestating project.

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DIRECTORS: Steven Soderbergh  

Breaking Dawn Scores Huge Opening Weekend

November 21, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

The question this weekend wasn’t whether Twilight: Breaking Dawn would have a good opening, it was just how big it would be. That question has now been answered with the latest in the series taking $139 million in its first three days in the US, and $283.5 million around the world. It’s the fifth biggest North American opening in history, but didn’t quite take the franchise record, which is still held by New Moon’s $142.8 million. It also scored the third biggest opening day gross ever, after the final Harry Potter and New Moon, taking $72 million in America on Friday.

The weekend’s other big opener didn’t have quite as much to cheer about, as Happy Feet Two landed with a rather tepid $22 million, about half what the first movie took when it opened. Warner knew they may face some competition for young females fromTwilight, but perhaps underestimated quite how much, as they’d predicted a $30 million plus opening.

However one other movie did outperform expectations – indeed going by per-theatre average, it outdid Breaking Dawn – and that’s George Clooney’s new movie The Descendants. The Hawaii set movie, directed by Sideways helmer Alexander Payne, took $1.2 million from only 27 screens. That’s a very impressive $42,000 per theatre, suggesting the film will do very well as it explands over the next few weeks.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of November 18th-20th, 2011.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 $139.5 $139.5
2 Happy Feet Two $22.0 $22.0
3 Immortals $12.2 $52.9
4 Jack And Jill £12 $41.0
5 Puss In Boots $10.7 $122.3
6 Tower Heist $7.0 $53.4
7 J. Edgar $5.9 $20.6
8 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas $2.9 $28.3
9 In Time $1.6 $33.4
10 The Descendants $1.2 $1.3

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FILMS: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Happy Feet Two, Immortals, Jack And Jill, Puss In Boots, J. Edgar, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, In Time, The Descendants  

Ice Age: Continental Drift Teaser – Scrat’s Continental Crack Up 2

November 18, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Although I personally find Scrat from Ice Age one of the most annoying things in the world, I know a lot of people like him. Now a second Scrat short, made as a teaser for next year’s Ice Age: Continental Drift has shown up online. In the new Ice Age movie, Scrat’s nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he’s been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences – a continental cataclysm that triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid. In the wake of these upheavals, Sid reunites with his cantankerous Granny, and the herd encounters a ragtag menagerie of seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home.

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ACTORS: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo  DIRECTORS: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier  FILMS: Ice Age: Continental Drift  

Don’t Go In The Woods Trailer

November 18, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Actor Vincent D’Onofrio makes his debut as a director with this genre horror tale of kids out in the woods. The explores love, greed and ruthlessness in a twisted musical/horror hybrid, telling the story of a young band who heads to the woods to get away from their everyday lives in order to focus on writing new songs. Hoping to walk away from the trip with new tunes that will score them their big break, they instead find themselves in the middle of a nightmare beyond comprehension. No UK release date is currently set but click below for the trailer.

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DIRECTORS: Vincent D'Onofrio  FILMS: Don't Go In The Wood  

David Oyelowo Joins Lincoln

November 18, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

Steven Spielberg’s biopic of Lincoln already has an incredibly impressive cast, and now it’s added another talented name to the ranks, British actor David Oyelowo. He joins Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Lee Pace, David Strathairn, Jackie Early Haley and loads more illustrious names.

However all those people previously cast were noticeably white, and seeing as the film will focus on the last few years of Abraham Lincoln’s life, when he was engaged in an enormous civil war largely over the issue of ending slavery, you’d think they might find some space for some black faces.

Now Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and The Help star Oyelowo has come onboard, according to Deadline. However it doesn’t sound like he’s going to have a particularly big role, as he’ll be playing cavalryman (we can already see the scene of Lincoln being inspired to carry on the fight by Oyelowo’s black cavalryman, going off to war to help his enslaved brothers).

Oyelowo is already currently filming the Tom Cruise flick One Shot, so he’s pretty busy at the moment, but has managed to slot in Spielberg’s film, shooting both roles concurrently. Lincoln will be in cinemas at the end of 2012.

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ACTORS: David Oyelowo, Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Lee Pace, David Strathairn  DIRECTORS: Steven Spielberg  FILMS: Lincoln  
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