It didn’t bode well when the release date for the Wachowskis Jupiter Ascending was moved back from summer 2014 to February 2015, but there’s no doubt the trailers look cool – rather weird, but cool.
Now another one has arrived, giving us our best look yet at the scope of the sci-fi saga – as well as Channing Tatum and his pointy ears.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis star in “Jupiter Ascending,” an original science fiction epic adventure from filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix).
‘Jupiter Jones (Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.’ [Read more…]
A couple of weeks ago the first rather unusual pictures emerged from Stretch, a movie that looks rather intriguing and had stars such as Patrick Wilson, Chris Pine, Jessica Alba, Ed Helms, Brooklyn Decker, James Badge Dale, David Hasselhoff, Ray Liotta, and Shaun Toub.
The first trailer has arrived for Michael Mann’s first film since 2009’s Public Enemies, the rather dully titled Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth.
It’s less than two weeks until the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game kicks off the BFI London Film Festival, and it’s not long after that that it will arrive in UK cinemas on November 14th.
Girls creator Lena Dunham has long set out her LGBT-ally credentials, including saying she won’t marry her boyfriend until same-sex marriage is legal across the US. Now she’s putting her name and her production company behind a documentary called Three Suits, about a New York tailors that specialises in serving the LGBTQ community.
Ouija has been on quite a journey to the screen. It’s been around five years since the idea was first mooted, and in that’s time it’s been planned as a full-on gore-fest, a mega-budget tentpole release and a family friendly adventure film, but it’s finally becomes creep-fest that’s more aimed towards teens and with a relatively modest budget.
The marketing for Interstellar has certainly kicked up a gear in the last few weeks with new 
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are rare for having huge success in both the live-action and animation arenas. It’s allowed them to have an incredible year where The Lego Movie grossed $468 million worldwide, while 22 Jump Street made $324 million.
A few months ago Daniel Radcliffe said words to the effect that you must be doing something if people are speculating about your sexuality. However I doubt even he would have thought he’d be included on a list where the Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) decided to ‘name and shame’ him on a homophobic list of gay people.
Matthew Vaughn has had great success taking properties with plenty of potential but which aren’t necessarily that well known to the masses – such as Stardust and Kick-Ass – and he’ll be hoping to do the same with Kingsman: The Secret Service, which like Kick-Ass is based on a comic by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.