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Jack The Giant Slayer Banner Posters Arrive – Do you prefer the giants or humans?

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It’s only a couple of months until Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer hits cinemas on March 22nd, and so Warner had decided to try and keep us interested by releasing two banners posters – one featuring the giants and the other the humans. We have to say Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci and Eleanor Tomlinson all look rather dashing, while the giants won’t be winning any beauty awards.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom and its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend… and gets the chance to become a legend himself.’

Take a look at the banners above and below.

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New Upstream Color Trailer – Take a new look at Shane Carruth’s mysterious new film

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Shane Carruth made a big splash in indie circles with 2004’s Primer, but it’s only now that we’re getting his second movie, and a new trailer has been released to give us a look at the film. Carruth has been keeping the plot of the movie is a bit mysterious, and this new trailer raises as many questions as it answers.

We do know a little about the movie as the short synopsis says: ‘A young woman (Amy Seimetz) is abducted and seemingly brainwashed via an organic material harvested from a specific flower. She later meets a man (Carruth) and after the two fall for each other, they come to realize he may also have been subjected to the same process.’

The film will premiere at Sundance after which the director plans to eschew the traditional distribution route, releasing it himself and taking it around the country, before it hits screens in LA in April and then heads to VOD soon after. There’s no news yet on when we might get to see it in the UK.

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Emma Stone In Talks For Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak

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emma-stoneIt seems Guillermo Del Toro is keen to ensure there isn’t another five year gap between directing projects as there has been between Hellboy II and Pacific Rim, as while the latter of those movie doesn’t reach cinemas until July, he’s already casting for his recently announced movie, Crimson Peak.

Variety reports that Emma Stone is in negotiations to star and that the script, which was originally penned by del Toro and Matthew Robins, is undergoing a rewrite by the director and British writer Lucinda Coxon. When it was first announced, Del Toro described the movie as “A very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story. It will allow me to play with the conventions of the genre I know and love, and at the same time subvert the old rules.” He has also compared it to Robert Wise’s The Haunting.

Del Toro is getting Stone lined up early, as currently the film isn’t due to shoot February 2014.

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MGM Hopes For Hot Tub Time Machine Sequel

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hot-tub-time-machine-posterNormally Hollywood likes to get sequels up and going as soon as possible, but it’s taken MGM a while to decide they want another trip into the world of Hot Tub Time Machine. However THR reports that the studio is now making deals to try and make a follow-up a reality.

At the moment John Cusack isn’t involved (although that could change), but Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke have all been in talks with the studio. Indeed Corddry may also take on scripting duties, alongside Steve Pink, the director of the last film (who is also in talks to return).

At the moment no deals have been signed, and THR suggests things could fall apart as it’s fairly early in the process, although if it all comes together MGM is likely to put the movie on the fast-track. There’s no news on the plot for the sequel and whether it would see the guys going back to the 80s again, or if this one would be set in a different era.

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Dane Dehaan Goes Metallica Through the Never

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dane-dehaan2Picturehouse was founded in 2005 in the US as a full-service independent film marketing and distribution company. However after having less success than hoped it pretty much shut down, but now it’s reopening its doors and has announced that his first new release will be Metallica Through the Never, a feature film starring members of the iconic rock band and Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, The Amazing Spider-Man 2).

DeHaan plays a young band crew member who is sent out on an urgent mission while the band is playing a rousing live set in front of a sold-out crowd and unexpectedly finds his world turned completely upside down. The film, written and directed by Nimród Antal (Kontroll, Predators), is due in US theaters August 9.

One of the bestselling rock acts of all time, Metallica has sold over 105 million albums worldwide. Metallica drummer and founding member Lars Ulrich also had this to say, “Metallica’s way of doing things is to jump into unexplored creative endeavors with no safety net whatsoever. Putting this movie together for the last couple of years has been a pretty wild ride, and we’ve definitely done our share of flying without a net! Bringing Bob and Jeanne and the new Picturehouse team in at this point provides us with a much needed level of security for the distribution of the film. Their spirit of independence and desire to work outside the box is something we can relate to in every way, and this makes them both a welcome addition and a natural fit in the Metallica family.”

The plan is to release Picturehouse films to Netflix exclusively in the United States shortly after their theatrical release. Picturehouse has also secured a first look relationship with Warner Bros. Pictures International for films to which it has international distribution rights, so it may be through them we get to see the movie in the UK.

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Timur Bekmambetov Teams With Michael Bay For Heatseekers

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timur-bekmambetovDirector Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter wasn’t quite the money-spinner some had hoped, but it wasn’t dreadful, and now he’s looking to the future, as THR reports that the Russian helmer has signed on to make Heatseekers for Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes.

News of the movie first surfaced back in April 2010, when Platinum Dunes acquired the spec screenplay by George Mahaffey. F. Scott Frazier has now signed on to rewrite the script. The plot is about an ex-military pilot who takes to the skies to do battle with a group of aerial renegades. Previous reports suggest the hero has to infiltrate the group and bring them down from inside – so sort of The Fast And The Furious or Point Break, but with airplanes.

Michael Bay will produce with his Platinum Dunes partners Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller. Chris Morgan, best known as the screenwriter behind Wanted and Fast Five, is also producing. It isn’t known when the movie might shoot.

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Whoopi Goldberg To be Honoured By HRC For LGBT Activism

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Whoopi-GoldbergThe Human Rights Campaign, the US’s largest LGBT, civil rights organisation has announced that Whoopi Goldberg will receive the 2013 HRC Ally for Equality Award at the annual Greater New York Gala dinner on February 2, 2012 at the Waldorf Astoria.

The Ally for Equality award is given to allies outside the LGBT community who stand up on behalf of equality. An outspoken advocate for equality worldwide, Whoopi has never been afraid to stand up and support LGBT people, campaigns and causes. She has publicly called marriage equality a ‘no-brainer,’ and has made the case for equality in her role on ABC’s daytime show, The View.

She’s been speaking up on LGBT causes for a long time, as even back in 1987 she spoke at the March on Washington for gay rights, saying “Mr. Reagan, did you explain…that sometimes ignorant people act in such a way [toward people with AIDS] that it is frightening.… How long is it going to take before people get smart…educated people? We’re not talking about illiterate people. We’re talking about senators and congressmen and the fucking president.”

HRC President Chad Griffin commented, “We are proud to honor Whoopi Goldberg with the Ally for Equality Award for her commitment to the LGBT community through her public support of marriage equality, including taking part in our successful New Yorkers for Marriage Equality video campaign in 2011. Whoopi is always willing to stand up for our community and is a longtime friend of HRC.”

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Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch ‘Shocked’ By Claim In New Documentary That He’s Gay

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ed-kochThe 88-year-old former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, has said he’s ‘shocked’ at a claim in a new documentary, Neil Barsky’s Koch, that he is gay.

Gay rights activist Ethan Geto makes the claim while talking about the fact Koch was mayor during the early days of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s (he served between 1978 and 1989). Geto says, “So many people, particularly in the gay community, thought Koch was gay and that because he was a closeted gay man he wouldn’t do anything on AIDS. It would have been so incredibly invaluable for a popular mayor of New York to declare he was gay.”

The New York Post reached out to Koch for comment about the comments, who responded “I was shocked, frankly. Why would he do that?” He claimed to be particularly surprised as he’d previously thought of Geto as a friend.

It’s not the first time questions about Koch’s sexuality have been raised, as even back during his run for office in 1977, anonymous posters appeared bearing the slogan, “Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo.”

Normal Heart playwright Larry Kramer has also previously taken Koch to task for his stance during the AIDS crisis and said he was gay, writing in NYMag, “I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick. I was introduced to Koch at a party in 1982, specifically to talk about what was happening. And the minute he knew what I wanted to talk about, I was pulled away by police. He was a closeted gay man, and he did not want in any way to be associated with this.”

Koch has always refused to be drawn on his sexuality, using the rather nebulous excuse that it would ‘legitimise the question’.

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Titanic & Alias Star Victor Garber Confirms That He’s Gay

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victor-garberAs with Jodie Foster’s speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday, we’ve got another, yes-we-kind-of-knew-that-already coming out today – this time Victor Garber. A veteran of Broadway, Canadian born Garber has become an increasingly familiar face on TV and film over the years in the likes of Titanic, Tuck Everlasting and Legally Blonde, while Alias fans will recognise him as Jennifer Garner’s spy father. He’s recently been seen in Argo and is heading back to TV for the series Deception.

It was while promoting that show that he was interviewed by Greg in Hollywood blogger Greg Hernandez, who approached him about some info on Wikipedia, which said Garber’s partner is a man called Rainer Andreesen. When Anderson asked, “I wondered if that’s something public, that you’ve confirmed.”

Greg wrote, “He seemed surprised by the question but said: ‘I don’t really talk about it but everybody knows.’ Garber then added: ‘He’s going to be out here with me for the SAG Awards.’”

It’s not the first time the info has come out (hence why it’s on Wikipedia) as it has been mentioned in some previous articles, but it is the first time Garber has specifically addressed it.

Hopefully Andreesen will be able to see his partner pick up an gong when he attends the SAG Award, as Victor in nominated for Best Ensemble as part of the Argo cast.

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Kid Cudi & More Join Aaron Paul In Need For Speed

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kid-cudiDreamworks Need For Speed is gearing up, with Aaron Paul and Dominic West set for the male leads and Imogen Poots taking on the main female role. Now director Scott Waugh is busy filling out the rest of the cast, with Deadline reporting that Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek and Harrison Gilbertson signing up.

The movie is about an underground race car driver (Aaron Paul) who owns a shop that modifies sports cars for racing. He is framed for the murder of his best friend, who died during a race, and upon his release from prison he seeks revenge. Dominic Cooper will play a former NASCAR driver who now owns a high-end shop that rebuilds race cars, while Poots is an exotic car dealer who works with both Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper’s characters.

The Deadline report says Mescudi plays the Aaron Paul’s best friend, although it gives no details on who Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek and Harrison Gilbertson will be.

Kid Cudi is best known for his music, and has contributed to the soundtracks for DreamWorks’ Fright Night and The Hunger Games. He’s also acted in HBO’s How To Make It In America and the indie Two Night Stand.

A US release on February 7th 2014 is already set.

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