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Dream On Trailer – Take a look at the upcoming gay-themed Brit flick

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Almost exactly a year ago we featured the preview trailer for a new, British LGBT-themed movie called Dream On. Now the film has secured UK distribution, with TLA Releasing due to bring the movie to shop shelves on June 10th.

Now a new trailer has been released, which certainly suggests it’s a movie filled with humour or drama.

Here’s the official synopsis: ‘Dream On is a feature film written and directed by Lloyd Eyre-Morgan based on the sell-out play of the same title. Polar opposite teenagers Paul and George meet and fall in love on a campsite Iin Wales during the summer of ’88. They make a pact to return the following summer and run away together, but when only Paul shows up, he vows to find his young lover and sets off with the campsite owner’s daughter in tow and his overbearing mother not far behind… If they think running away is going to be easy, they’d better dream on.’

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Finding Nemo Clip – Reunite with Nemo & Gill to celebrate the 3D release

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Finding Nemo hits UK cinemas in 3D for the first time on March 29th, and to celebrate Disney has provided us with a clip to refresh our memories of the exceedingly charming movie. It features Nemo and Gill (Willem Dafoe) discussing methods of escape.

On the 3D version, director Andrew Stanton commented, “Watching the first few scenes from ‘Finding Nemo’ in 3D was like I’d never seen a 3D movie before. It took my breath away. It felt like I was more underwater. It makes the scary moments scarier. It makes the beautiful moments more beautiful. It really drops you deeper into the story. It just amplifies everything.”

With its ocean setting, it’s certainly the sort of movie 3D seems to be made for. Watch the clip below. [Read more…]

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Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb & Christian Madsen Join Divergent

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New-Divergent-CastSummit Entertainment is hoping to get Divergent into production fairly soon, but they’ve bot a lot of roles to fill before then. Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Zoë Kravitz, Ansel Englert and Maggie Q are already cast, and now it’s been announced they’ve been joined by Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb and Christian Madsen.

The futuristic action adventure, based on author Veronica Roth’s best seller, will be directed by Neil Burger from a script by Vanessa Taylor and commences principal photography this April in Chicago. The film is set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities. Tris Prior (Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes, who was recently seen in Great Expectations, will play Will, an intelligent, Euridite-born trainee who befriends Tris during their training.

Ben Lamb will play Edward, one of the better-performing trainees in Tris’ faction, which makes him a target amongst his peers. Finally, Christian Madsen (son of Michael) will play Al, a timid Candid-born trainee who has a hard time adjusting to his training and develops a crush on Tris. Madsen appeared in the film In Time and Gia Coppola’s upcoming drama Palo Alto.

Summit will release the film theatrically in North America on Friday, March 21st, 2014. Neil burger directs.

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Charlize Theron To Star In And Produce New Crime Thriller

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charlize-theronCharlize Theron seems to be adding an awful lot of movies to her development slate at the moment, and now she’s got another, as THR says she has signed on to star in and produce a currently untitled crime thriller for Paramount Pictures.

The Killing writer Dan Nowak wrote the screenplay, which is about a corrupt group of vigilantes. The story has been compared to The Departed and last year’s hit End of Watch. No details have been revealed about Theron’s character.

This project is the latest in a string of projects Charlize Theron has set up as both an actress and producer. She is starring in and producing Gone Girl for director David Fincher, and we reported last week that she is attached as an actress and producer on the Skydance Productions comedy Ladies Night, among others.

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UFC’s Georges St. Pierre Joining Captain America 2 As Batroc The Leper?

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Georges-St-PierreIt looks like Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier may be adding current UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre to its cast, as Latino Review says he’s in talks to play Georges Batroc, a.k.a. Batroc the Leaper.

Assuming he can act, St. Pierre should be a good fit for the role, as the character is a French kickboxing champion. Batroc made his debut in a 1966 issue of Marvel’s Tales of Suspense. While he has primarily done battle with Captain America in the comic books, he has also fought against Iron Fist, The Punisher, Deadpool, Hawkeye, and Gambit.

While Batroc does not have any superpowers, he is an expert martial artist, specializing in the French kickboxing style known as savate. His leg muscles are extremely over-developed, which allows him to leap greater distances than most humans. He also served in the French Foreign Legion, and speaks both English and French fluently. It isn’t known how this character will fit into the sequel’s story line.

Anthony Russo and Joe Russo are directing from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Shooting it due to start later this year.

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Posters Arrive For Roland Emmerich’s White House Down

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With Olympus Has Fallen doing well at US cinemas, the makers of rival terrorists-taking-over-the-White-House movie, White House Down, want to make sure people know about their movie too. Two posters for the film have been released, with the promise a trailer is imminent.

Both posters show Washington before the chaos descends, with Channing Tatum 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 cinemas this June.

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Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard and Noel Fisher To Play Ninja Turtles

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turtles-castWith shooting set to start next month, director Jonathan Liebesman is busy casting his Ninja Turtles. A couple of days ago it was revealed Alan Ritchson (Aquaman on Smallville) will play Raphael, and now he’s got his Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Donatello, with Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard and Noel Fisher taking the roles, according to Deadline.

Pete Ploszek only has two credits to his name with bit parts on Showtime’s Shameless and NBC’s Parks and Recreation, so this is a bit of a step up for him, even if audiences won’t get to see him, as the Turtles will be rendered using motion capture CGI. He’s playing Leonardo, the blue masked katana expert of the group. He is the oldest turtle, and considered the leader.

Jeremy Howard will Donatello, the scientist and smartest of the turtles, who wears a purple mask and is a master of the bo staff. Howard played Sketchy on Breaking Bad and has a lot of one-off TV credits to his name.

Noel Fisher is probably the most recognisable of the bunch, popping up in various TV shows, including a recurring role Shameless, a major role in Hatfields & McCoys, and a supporting part in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. He’ll be Michelangelo, the orange-masked master of the nunchaku. He is the most free-spirited of the turtles, and serves as the comic relief.

The only human character cast so far is Megan Fox, who it’s assumed will be playing TV reporter April O’Neil.

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Chris & Liam’s Bro Luke Hemsworth To Make Film Debut In The Reckoning

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Luke-HemsworthLuke Hemsworth may be the older brother of Chris and Liam, but he hasn’t seen the international success of his younger siblings. However he’ll be hoping to remedy that by making his first feature acting debut in The Reckoning, according to Variety.

The movie is about two detectives (Luke Hemsworth and Jonathan LaPaglia) who are looking for a couple of runaways who have shot video footage of a murder. Jonathan LaPaglia is the younger brother of actor Anthony LaPaglia, so it really is a movie for the siblings of famous Aussies.

John V. Soto is directing from his own original screenplay. Production is scheduled to begin April 29 in Perth, Australia. Luke Hemsworth has previously starred in Australian TV shows such as Neighbours. Who knows, perhaps in a few years he’ll be headed for Hollywood too.

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New Pacific Rim Poster Shows Off The Coyote Tango Jaeger

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A Pacific Rim isn’t based on a book, toy or previous movie, Warner Bros. is working hard to try and sell the concept to audiences. Now they’ve released a new poster highlighting the Japanese Jaeger (giant robot) known as Coyote Tango.

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 postr, Coyote Tango is show trying to defend his war-torn city.

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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GLAAD Alters Title To Include Trans Inclusive Focus

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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation – GLAAD – was set up in the 1980s at a time when AIDS saw an unprecedented number of attacks on the same-sex community. Over the years it’s also advocated on behalf of transgender people, but the title hasn’t reflected that – instead just keeping gay and lesbian in the name.

Now the organisation has decided to do something about that, keeping the name GLAAD, but deciding it will no longer be an acronym, instead being simply known as ‘GLAAD, the LGBT media advocacy organisation’.

The shift was announced on Sunday on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, with the group saying it will both help reflect the organisation’s commitment to the trans community and LGBT allies, as well as the diversity of the LGBT community.

Actor and GLAAD spokesperson Wilson Cruz commented, “It is a natural progression that reflects the work GLAAD’s staff is already leading. We respect and honor the full name that the organization was founded with, but GLAAD’s work has expanded beyond fighting defamation to changing the culture. Our commitment to marriage equality, employment nondiscrimination, and other LGBT issues is stronger than ever, and now our name reflects our work on transgender issues as well as our work with allies.”

Take a look at the discussion on the Melissa Harris-Perry show above.

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