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New Plush Trailer – Cam Gigandet & Xavier Samuel get psychological

September 10, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Catherine Hardwicke stepped away from directing any of the sequels to Twilight, and now she’s taking taking things into psychological thriller territory with Plush. She’s also taken Twilight Saga stars Cam Gigandet and Xavier Samuel along for the ride.

The film stars Emily Browning as Hayley, lead singer of the rock band Plush. She is married to Carter (Cam Gigandet), with whom she has twins. However, tragedy strikes when her bandmate and brother, Jack (Thomas Dekker), dies of an overdose. His replacement, Enzo (Xavier Samuel), ends up being a great songwriting partner for Hayley. The duo soon take things further and begin sleeping with one another, but Enzo goes way over the line and becomes obsessed with Hayley, hiding some deep dark secrets that may have something to do with her brother.

Thomas Dekker and Frances Fisher also star in the movie, which is out in the US this week (but there’s no UK date as yet). [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Cam Gigandet, Emily Browning, Xavier Samuel, Thomas Dekker DIRECTORS: Catherine Hardwicke FILMS: Plush

First Horns Clip Arrives – Daniel Radcliffe faces down a gun

September 10, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Horns is a rather intriguing movie, with Daniel Radcliffe getting even more grown up than ever, and even sporting the titular forehead attachments. The film is premièring at TIFF and to coincide with that, the first clip for the film has arrived, which sees Radcliffe dealing with an armed David Morse.

Based on the best-selling novel by Joe Hill (son of Stephen King) and directed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) from a screenplay by Keith Bunin (In Treatment), Horns is a supernatural thriller that follows Ig Perrish (Radcliffe), the number one suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin (Juno Temple).

Hungover from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realises their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses – an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend’s tragedy and for exacting revenge on her killer. It’ll hit cinemas next year.

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe, David Morse DIRECTORS: Alexandre Aja FILMS: Horns

Tim Roth & Gemma Arterton Find The Keys To The Street, From A Christopher Nolan Script

September 10, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tim-Roth For the last decade or so Christopher Nolan has gone from unknown to one of the most powerful directors on the planet, but it should always be remembered that he’s had a hand in the script for all his movies (often working alongside his brother, Jonah).

Now he’s written something for someone else to helm, alongside co-writer Michael Stokes. The Keys To The Street is based on a Ruth Rendell novel, with Variety reporting that Gemma Arterton and Tim Roth are set to star.

The Amazon plot description of the novel says, ‘For the snobbish, upper-crust that live around London’s Regent’s Park, the homeless are an eye-sore and a nuisance. Only Mary Jargo (Arterton), a meek, sensitive young woman who has recently moved into the neighborhood to house-sit shows compassion. She often shares food and conversation with the unfortunates, particularly Effie, Dill, Roman, and Pharaoh. When someone starts murdering members of Regent’s homeless community and lancing them on the spiked fencing that encloses the park, only Mary seems to notice or care. Through her quest to discover the murderer, she embarks on a journey to overcome what she perceives to be her own insecurities and passivity.’

Roth will play Mary’s psychotic ex-boyfriend, with Max Irons also on-board as a man that Mary has an affair with

Knowing Nolan, he’ll have made the material his own, even if he’s handed the helming reigns to Czech director Julius Sevcik, who plans to shoot the movie early next year.

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ACTORS: Gemma Arterton, Tim Roth, Max Irons DIRECTORS: Christopher Nolan

Ant-Man Now Coming Summer 2015, Just A Couple Of Months After Avengers 2

September 10, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Marvel has decided that Summer is the best time for new superheroes, as they’ve announced that the first Phase Three movie, Ant-Man, has move from a November 6th, 2015 release to July 31st, 2015. This means it will hit cinemas just a couple of months after The Avengers: Age of Ultron arrives on May 1st, 2015.

As of now, Ant-Man’s only box office competitor on that date is Fox’s adaptation Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, directed by Tim Burton. There are no specific plot details known about Ant-Man, although it will presumably cover the origin of Hank Pym’s transformation into the title character, so can change from normal size to tiny.

Edgar Wright is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joe Cornish (Attack the Block). He’s promised a different kind of Marvel movie, and while he’s said it will standalone, the move in release date will have many wondering if it’s more closely tied to Avengers 2 than it’s so far been revealed.

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DIRECTORS: Edgar Wright FILMS: Ant Man

Another Biopic Of Homoerotic Artist Tom Of Finland Is Announced

September 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tom-of-Finland-bio-cover Back in April, a preview trailer for a Tom Of Finland biopic, called TOM, was released, which directors Vesa Kuosmanen & Henri Huttunen made to drum up interest in the film they are planning to shoot next year. Now they have some competition, as Variety reports that another Finnish helmer, Dome Karukoski, is also planning a movie about the homoerotic artist.

Karukoski is currently promoting his latest movie, Heart of a Lion, which just premiered at TIFF, and has used the opportunity to announce his next movie. The Tom Of Finland movie will mark his English-language debut, and unlike the rival movie, this will be an authorised biopic, as a deal has been done with the artist’s estate.

Born Touko Laaksonen, the illustrator’s stylised images of hunky men with massive bulges, often wearing leather and/or uniforms, became iconic in the gay community. His popularity was initially helped by the fact that while many countries in the 1950s and 1960s saw photographs of naked and near-naked men as pornography, drawn pictures were classed as art and so Tom Of Finland’s images became extremely popular.

His stature has grown over the years to the point where the likes of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hold his images.

And to ensure a film will be worth watching, leather and fetish weren’t just things he drew, they were something he was drawn to. He even gained controversy over his belief that Nazi uniforms were sexy (although he didn’t like the Nazis themselves).

Producer Aleksi Bardy commented, “It’s impossible to overstate the impact Tom’s work has had on the image and self-image of gay men all over the world. He created the archetypes that now form an integral part of the iconography of popular culture, both gay and straight.”

Casting will start early next year, and it’ll certainly be interesting to see who takes on the lead role (and also whether the Finnish-language TOM still gets made)

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DIRECTORS: Dome Karukoski

James Franco Says “I Wish I Was Gay” While Talking About The Jokes At His Roast

September 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

james-franco A couple of weeks ago James Franco got roasted, which involved lots of his friends and colleagues standing up to make fun of him, and as many noted, there were are awful lot of gay jokes, which veered from the intelligent (particularly Aziz Ansari’s riff on why everyone else was doing gay jokes) to those that bordered on homophobia.

Now Franco has been addressing the slight controversy that erupted, telling The Daily Beast “There’s two sides to what happened in the Roast. If that’s what they were going to make fun of me for, I was like, ‘Great! Bring on the gay jokes!’ because these aren’t insults at all. I don’t even care if people think I’m gay, so it was like, ‘Awesome!’ I mean, I wish I was…I wish I was gay.”

“Why?,” asked the Beast

“I mean … we don’t have to go into it. But as far as that larger phenomenon that you’re talking about that happens to other actors, part of it is that movies are a place where people can project things and identify with characters, and it’s the same thing with actors outside of their roles—and it’s been that way since Hollywood was around. That’s why there’s a lot of conjecture. That’s been one of my things, too. My relationship with my public image over the past four or five years has just become weirder and weirder, because I look at it and it’s me, and it’s not me, so if other people want to use that for their own purposes or needs, I’m fine with it.”

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ACTORS: James Franco

Wentworth Miller Talks About His Suicide Attempts While Struggling With His Sexuality

September 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Wentworth-Miller Statistics show that young gay people are disproportionately likely to attempt suicide. Now actor Wentworth Miller has been talking about his personal experience of trying to take his life as he struggled with being in the closet.

He opened up at the Human Rights Campaign dinner in Seattle on Saturday, just a few weeks after he publicly came out.

“The first time I tried to kill myself I was 15,” he said. “I waited until my family went away for the weekend and I was alone in the house and I swallowed a bottle of pills. I don’t remember what happened over the next couple of days, but I’m pretty sure come Monday morning I was on the bus back to school pretending everything was fine.”

He adds, “Growing up I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test and there was a thousand ways to fail. A thousand ways to portray yourself to not live up to someone else’s standards of what was accepted.”

He also touched on why he didn’t come out earlier – and even categorically denied he was gay a few years ago – as he was worried it would affect his career. “I had multiple opportunities to speak my truth, which was that I was gay,” he said. “But I chose not to. I was out in private, to family and friends … but professionally, publicly, I was not.”

You can take a look at video of Miller’s speech below.

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ACTORS: Wentworth Miller

All Is Bright Trailer – Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd reunite after prison to sell Christmas trees

September 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd are looking less than glamorous as ex-cons in All Is Bright, which has recently released its first trailer. It’s not your usual Christmas movie either.

Rudd and Giamatti are two French Canadian ex-cons who reunite after one of the is released from prison and travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Christmas trees. Easygoing charmer Rene (Rudd) clashes with misanthropic ex-con Dennis (Giamatti), whose wife Rene just stole.

Sally Hawkins also stars, with Junebug’s Phil Morrison directing. It’ll be out in October in the US. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd FILMS: All Is Bright

Jeremy Irvine Up For The Intense The Reach Alongside Michael Douglas

September 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Jeremy Irvine

Jeremy Irvine is one of the those actors who it feels could have a real, lengthy film career. Following the likes of War Horse, Great Expectations and Now Is Good, he’s signed up to star alongside Michael Douglas in The Reach according to THR.

It will certainly be a challenge for both actors, as they’re essentially only people in the film for the majority of the running time. It’s about a hunting enthusiast (played by Douglas) who hires a guide (Irvine) ‘for a trek through the desert. The two start off on the wrong foot and things only get worse when the hunter kills a prospector. The hunter then becomes a merciless torturer to the guide and puts him through painful mental and physical tests in the middle of the sweltering desert.’

Sounds like fun!

Jean-Baptiste Leonetti is directing the thriller, which is based on a 1972 Robb White novel called Deathwatch. Stephen Susco wrote the scipt. The movie will begin shooting in New Mexico at the end of this month.

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ACTORS: Jeremy Irvine, Michael Douglas

Bruce Willis Will Be The Prince In A New Action Thriller

September 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Bruce Willis was recently dropped from The Expendables 3 after they wouldn’t pay his asking fee and he reportedly said that he’s bored with action films. However it seems the maker of The Prince has met his price, as Deadline reports that he’s signed up for the action-thriller.

The movie is about, ‘A retired Las Vegas mob enforcer is forced to return to the city and face his former enemies when his teenage daughter goes missing. Willis plays a man who has waited years for the enforcer to return, and a confrontation is inevitable.’

Sarik Andreasyan (American Heist) is set to direct from a script by Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore. The movie will start shooting in October in new Orleans.

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ACTORS: Bruce Willis