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Kick-Ass 2 International Trailer – More fun from the masked vigilantes

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


The recently released US trailer for Kick-Ass 2 concentrated on the manic action and masked vigilante insanity of the movie, but this new UK promo is a little quieter, with a bit more plot and a bigger emphasis on Hit Girl’s story in the film, where she has to deal with trying to be a normal teen, despite having been brought up an ass-kicking superhero.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Red Mist return for the follow-up to 2010’s irreverent global hit: Kick-Ass 2.  After Kick-Ass’ (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol.  When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)—reborn as The Mother F%&*^r—only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) can prevent their annihilation.

‘When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave.  With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world’s first superhero team with Mindy.  Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she’s forced to retire—leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own.  With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes.

‘Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets,  the world’s first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad.  But there’s only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all.’

It hits UK cinemas on July 19th, before it hits the US on August 16th.

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ACTORS: Chloe Moretz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse  DIRECTORS: Jeff Wadlow  FILMS: Kick-Ass 2  

White House Down Trailer – Plus Channing Tatum gets armed for a new poster

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


A few years ago Roland Emmerich said he was moving away from epic disaster movies, but his love of destroying iconic landmarks continues unabated, as this trailer for White House Down shows the Capitol Building getting it, amongst others.

The trailer seems deliberately timed to hit just as Olympus Has Fallen arrives in US cinemas, so that audiences can see that while they may both tell a similar story, this one’s going to be on a bigger scale.

Channing Tatum stars as a secret service agent who’s in the White House when a group of terrorists take over. He’s then tasked with guiding the President (Jamie Foxx) to safety. Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, Lance Reddick and Joey King also star.

The Roland Emmerich directed film hits US cinemas this June, but won’t reach the UK until September 6th. Take a look at the trailer above, while a new Tatum centred poster is below.

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ACTORS: Jamie Foxx, Channing Tatum  DIRECTORS: Roland Emmerich  FILMS: White House Down  

Manic New Red Band Pain And Gain Trailer Hits

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Michael Bay promised Pain & Gain would be something a little different from what we normally expect from him. However as this trailer shows, it’s still somewhat familiar, with bright, saturated colours and a love of slow-mo, as well as showing off women in skimpy outfits.

Indeed it rather harks back to Bad Boys, although without as many explosions (as the trailer shows, there are indeed things exploding, but seeing as most Bay movies are a two hour fireworks display, this is comparatively restrained).

The action comedy stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie, telling the true story of three personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. It hits US cinemas on April 26th, and the UK on May 3rd.

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ACTORS: Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Mark Wahlberg  DIRECTORS: Michael Bay  FILMS: Pain & Gain  

Jack Huston On For David O. Russell’s ABSCAM Movie

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jack-hustonFans of Boardwalk Empire will know Jack Huston as Richard Harrow, while others might recognise him from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse or Factory Girl. But now he’s got a new role, as Deadline reports he’s signed up for David O. Russell’s next movie, which is currently untitled but was previously known as American Bullshit.

The film is based on the true story of an FBI sting operation known as Abscam, which uncovered a vast network of corruption along the East Coast. The story centres on con artist Melvin Weinberg (Christian Bale) a criminal who is forced to work with an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to unravel what’s going on. Jennifer Lawrence is set to play Bale’s wife, while Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Louis C.K. are also set to star.

Unfortunately there’s no news on exactly who Huston will play in the movie. Shooting is set to kick off soon, with a Christmas US release already set.

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ACTORS: Jack Huston, Bradley Cooper  DIRECTORS: David O. Russell  FILMS: American Bullshit  

Jason Statham & Tom Hardy Rumoured For Escape From New York Remake Lead

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jason-statham-crankWe’d take this a speculative rumour at the moment, but The New York Daily News is reporting that with Joel Silver and Studio Canal recently revealing they’re teaming up for another crack at putting together a remake of Escape From New York, they’re looking at casting either Jason Statham or Tom Hardy in the lead role of Snake Plissken.

The paper’s source, who’s described as a Hollywood insider close to the film’s producers,  says the studio believes that Statham “has the physical attributes and screen presence to reprise Snake”, while Hardy’s turn in The Dark Knight Rises was impressive enough to get consideration. However it doesn’t sound like either actor has been approached, so they may not be interested. Either way, the remake is hoping to get its Plissken cast by the end of the summer.

There’s no director attached to the film yet – which is being planned as a trilogy that will take into account Snake’s origins – and it’s not clear when it might shoot.

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ACTORS: Jason Statham, Tom Hardy  FILMS: Escape From New York (2014)  

Russian Jaeger Cherno Alpha Pacific Rim Poster Released

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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Yesterday we posted a Pacific Rim poster featuring Japan’s jaeger (giant robot), Coyote Tango. Today it’s the turn of Russia, with its massive, bucket-headed jaeger, Cherno Alpha.

Guillermo Del Toro directs this sci-fi action-thriller, which is set 15 years after enormous kaiju monsters began attacking Earth from some sort of portal deep in the Pacific. This leads each major country to build their own gigantic robot known as a jaeger, to combat these nefarious beasts. In the new poster, Cherno Alpha is shown protecting the snowy Pacific edge of Russia.

Pacific Rim comes to theaters July 12th, 2013 and stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Diego Klattenhoff, Burn Gorman and Robert Kazinsky.

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DIRECTORS: Guillermo Del Toro  FILMS: Pacific Rim  

Independence Day Sequels Plot Details Revealed

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

will-smith-independence-dayIndependence Day 2 & 3 are sequel ideas that never die, with director Roland Emmerich and star Will Smith often hinting that they’re still in the works, but it’s only been recently that there’s seemed to be real impetus behind the idea – even though they’re still a fair way off – with the titles ID Forever Part One and ID Forever Part Two recently revealed.

Now Emmerich has given some info about the proposed plots of the sequels, which suggest they may be hoping to get Independence Day 2 in cinemas in three years time, exactly two decades after the first film. The filmmaker revealed to EW that the follow-up’s story is set 20 years after the first movie, centring on a distress call that was made by the first wave of aliens in Independence Day.

He says, “The humans knew that one day the aliens would come back. And they know that the only way you can really travel in space is through wormholes. So for the aliens, it could take two or three weeks, but for us that’s 20 or 25 years.”

Roland Emmerich wrote the screenplays for both ID Forever – Part 1 and ID Forever – Part 2, but now he’s handed them over to his White House Down writer, James Vanderbilt, to do a rewrite.

The director also said that the humans have embraced the alien technology in the years following the initial attack. “It’s a changed world. It’s like parallel history,” he says. “[Humans] have harnessed all this alien technology. We don’t know how to duplicate it because it’s organically-grown technology, but we know how to take an antigravity device and put it in a human airplane.”

Independence Day star Bill Pullman is on board for both movies, although Will Smith has not been confirmed quite yet. The filmmaker revealed this story will focus on a new generation of heroes, including the stepson of Will Smith’s character, played by Ross Bagley in the original. “It’s still some of the same characters, but also new younger characters; it’s a little bit like the sons take over. The first one ends on a little success, but only enough to give the humans hope. And then in the second one they free themselves again [from the aliens].”

A 3D version of the original Independence Day Is due in cinemas this summer, and if that’s a success, it’ll certainly give more impetus to the sequels.

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ACTORS: Will Smith, Bill Pullman  DIRECTORS: Roland Emmerich  FILMS: Independence Day, Independence Day: Resurgence, ID Forever Part Two  

Katherine Heigl & Patrick Wilson Head North of Hell

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

patrick-wilsonKatherine Heigl has mainly been busy being a new mom for the last year or so, but now she’s returning, and thankfully it’s not for yet another generic rom-com (at least it doesn’t look like it, but with Heigl you never know). Instead she’s joining Patrick Wilson in North of Hell for director Anthony Burns (Skateland), according to Deadline.

The movie is about Don Champagne (Wilson), who’s a successful businessman who seems to be living the good life. What most don’t know, however, is that behind the scenes his incredibly domineering wife (Heigl) viciously controls every aspect of his well-being.

Anthony Burns is directing from his own screenplay, which is based on an original story by Carlo Allen, Ted Elrick, and Tom Lavagnino. Shooting is scheduled to begin next month in Louisiana.

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ACTORS: Patrick Wilson, Katherine Heigl  

Tom Hiddleston Joins The Muppets…Again!

March 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tom Hiddleston at The Avengers LA PremiereThe Muppets…Again! may have been shooting for several weeks, but it’s never too late to add a cameo – indeed we’ve been promised quite a few in the movie. The latest to join is Tom Hiddleston, who according to the MuppetHenson blog, has landed a small role in the movie.

While Disney owns both The Muppets and Marvel, he’s not playing Loki in the film, although that would have been oddly awesome. According to Hiddleston’s online CV, he’s playing someone called The Great Escapo, who is presumably a magician, although we don’t know exactly how he’ll fit into the movie.

Here’s the film’s synopsis: ‘Disney’s ‘The Muppets …Again!’ takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theatres in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World’s Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit—and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais, creator of ‘Derek’ and the Golden Globe®- and Emmy®-winning series ‘The Office’ and ‘Extras’. The film stars Golden Globe-, Emmy- and SAG Award®-winning actress and writer Tina Fey (‘30 Rock’, ‘Mean Girls’, ‘Date Night’) as Nadya, a feisty prison guard, and Emmy Award winner Ty Burrell (TV’s ‘Modern Family’) as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon.’

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ACTORS: Tom Hiddleston, Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey  DIRECTORS: James Bobin  FILMS: Muppets Most Wanted  

Boys On Film 9: Youth In Trouble Trailer – More from the popular gay shorts series

March 26, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


We love ourselves a bit of Boys On Film here at BGPS (the gay short film DVD series, not anything more prurient – although actually…), which across its first eight instalments has brought us some of the best LGBT themed shorts from around the world.

Now the next one has been announced, which will arrive on UK DVD on April 29th, this time themed around Youth In Trouble. It’s an eclectic mix, including the winner of last Autumn’s Iris Prize winner, The Wilding.

Take a look at the trailer above and there’s some more info on each of the shorts below. Plus, you can read our reviews of the previous Boys On Film releases here.

Deep End
Dir. Bretten Hannam (Canada) 11mins
When Dane’s older brother comes out, Dane doesn’t react very well. But soon after he has to choose between siding with his homophobic classmates or fighting to support his brother.

Family Affair
Dir. Caru Alves de Souza (Brazil) 11mins
Rossi’s family are no different from anyone else’s but when he tries to fit in with his older brother’s group of friends, he finds the outcome more than surprising.

Together
Dir. James Cook (UK) 22mins
One month after moving in together David and Mark come home to find a key in the lock of their front door. They check the house and it all seems clear, until they slowly start to realise that they are not alone…

Easy Money
Dir. Carlos Montero (Spain) 15mins
When a handsome rent boy shows up at a mysterious client’s hotel room, the boy quickly learns that sex appears to be the last thing on his clients mind. Starring Spanish heartthrob Mario Casas.

The Wilding
Dir. Grant Scicluna (Australia) 16mins IRIS PRIZE WINNER Best Short Film 2012
Juvenile inmate Malcolm is in love with his cellmate Tye, but their relationship is confined within their cell. When Malcolm is offered a shot at parole, he finds himself torn between his rare chance for freedom and protecting the one he loves.

Colonial Gods
Dir. Dee Rees (UK) 29mins From the director of PARIAH
A complicated friendship between a Somali man and Nigerian man unfolds against the chaos of gentrification and displacement in the small immigrant community in Cardiff known as Tiger Bay.

This Is Not A Cowboy Film
Dir. Benjamin Parent (France) 12mins
Last night, Brokeback Mountain aired on TV. Vincent watched it and found himself emotionally compelled by the story. Whilst chatting with a classmate in the school toilets, he takes advantage of the break to describe the film as only an adolescent can.

Prora
Dir. Stephane Riethauser (Switzerland/Germany) 23mins
In this deserted former Nazi holiday camp and communist military complex, teenagers Jan and Matthieu embark on an adventure that could change everything. Whilst exploring their surroundings they confront their identities and ultimately put their friendship at risk.

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FILMS: Boys On Film 9: Youth In Trouble  
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