It looks like Juno and Young Adult director Jason Reitman might be getting serious with Labor Day, as the first image, which arrives via EW, show us Kate Winslet looking rather stressed and upset, while Josh Brolin gazes off into the distance (or at least into the wall).
Reitman says it’s a more straightforward work than his previous movie. ”There’s no cynicism in this movie. There’s no irony in this movie,” he says. “This one is dramatic, romantic, and has moments of being a thriller — all new things for me. It felt like making my first movie again.”
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Labor Day centers on 13-year-old Henry Wheeler, who struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele while confronting all the pangs of adolescence. On a back-to-school shopping trip, Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, a man both intimidating and clearly in need of help, who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.’
A Christmas Day US release is set, with the film coming to the UK in early 2014.
Kick-Ass 2 hits UK cinemas on August 14th (and the 16th in the US), and so ahead of that Universal has revealed a septet of character images, giving us an up-close look at Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Night Bitch, as well as villains The Motherf*ucker, Black Death, Genghis Carnage and Mother Russia.
With an imminent start date, director Michael Almereyda is having to pull the cast together fast for his new take on Shakspeare’s Cymbeline. In the last week or so Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Penn Badgley have signed on, and now they’ve been joined by Milla Jovovich.
It took over a decade to get the adaptation of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. from idea to shoot, but since Warner Bros. gave it the greenlight a couple of months ago it’s been moving fast towards an early September filming start date.
After a five year gap, we got two films from Tarsem Singh in less than a year with Immortals and Mirror Mirror. However since then he’s mainly been flirting around other project, although Selfless, starring Ryan Reynolds, should be in cinemas next year. Now he’s signed on for a new one, as 
A Good Day to Die Hard and Behind Enemy Lines director John Moore is heading back to the action thriller arena, as it’s been revealed that he’s signed up to helm The Englishman, working from a screenplay by William Wisher Jr. (Terminator 2: Judgment Day).
After the success of The Life Of Pi – a film many thought would never find an audience, but scored four Oscars and over $600 million at the worldwide box office – Ang Lee is in the enviable position of being able to make pretty much any movie he wants. Now it seems he decided what he wants to concentrate on, with 