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Beauty (Skoonheid) Trailer – Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes

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Winner of the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival 2011 and officially selected for 55th BFI London Film Festival, Oliver Hermanus’ provocative Beauty is due to be released in UK by Peccadillo Pictures on 20th April, but to prepare us, the trailer has now dropped.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Francois (Deon Lotz) lives a skillfully controlled, well managed life, in Bloemfontein, South Africa’s so-called ‘City of Roses’. He’s a devoted husband and father, but constantly battling with his repressed desires. However, when he meets Christian (Charlie Keegan), the engaging, handsome son of a long-lost friend, his obsessions become irrepressible and threaten to rip apart his long-maintained respectability.
‘BEAUTY contains powerful scenes that recall A Ma Soeur, Mysterious Skin and the cinema of Michael Haneke, the challenging the viewer with its unflinching exploration of social taboos in the conservative environment of contemporary South Africa that also have universal resonance.’
Hmmm, certainly sounds like one to look out for when it arrives in UK cinemas in April.
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Prometheus International Trailer

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The first trailer for Prometheus really played on it links to Alien (even if it’s still not clear exactly how the movie is linked to Alien, as all Ridley Scott will say is that it has ‘Alien DNA’), but this new teaser suggests it’ll be a movie on a somewhat grander scale than the claustrophobic sci-fi horror. It looks all kinds of cool, with grand vistas and a look like both feels like Alien, but which is also its own creation. The movie arrives in UK cinemas on June 1st.

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Wanderlust Red Band trailer

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It’s comedy time with Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, and a trailer where you can’t tell if this film will be fun or just excruciating! George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George’s awful brother in Atlanta.On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colourful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can’t buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them! Wanderlust hits UK cinemas March 2nd, 2012.

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Gay Director Terence Davies Sets Sights On Sunset Song

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There were 11 years between director Terence Davies’ The House Of Mirth and last year’sThe Deep Blue Sea, but it seems that despite saying he doesn’t actually like directing all that much, it won’t take him as long to get his next movie on screen.

Variety reports that he’s now bringing to fruition a long-cherished project called Sunset Song. Producer Bob Last announced at the Berlin Film Festival that the project has now moved to the casting stage, with a shoot planned for either later this year or early 2013 in Scotland and Sweden.

Davies must be pleased The Deep Blue Sea was so well received as he’s been trying to get Sunset Song made for over a decade, but didn’t get much traction until people had seen his Rachel Weitz starring flick. The planned movie is based on Lewis Grassic Gibson’s 1932 novel about farmer’s daughter, Chris Guthrie, who struggle against life filled with pain and family dysfunction. It’s certainly not a jolly tale, as it opens with Chris’ mother committing suicide and poisoning two of her other children.

Davies career is certainly an interesting one, with much of his directing career, such as The Terence Davies Trilogy and Distant Voices Still Live, often seeming like a direct response to his difficulty coming to terms with his sexuality (he still says he hates being gay) and his childhood. Sunset Song seems like another indirect response to the latter, but we’ll have to wait and see.

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Musical Valley Girl Remake Gets A Director

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After its bankruptcy issues, MGM could do with some hits. It’s hoping to get one with a musical remake of a 1980s movie that nobody remembers! Nope, I can’t see that working either, but I suppose if the tunes and attitude are good enough, it could work. The 80s flick that’s getting a do-over in Valley Girl, with Deadline reporting that Clay Weiner has no come onboard to direct.

Weiner’s name doesn’t exactly help to suggest this movie will end MGM’s money woes, as his only credit is the execrable Fred: The Movie, based on the Youtube character created by Lucas Cruikshank. However, despite being awful, the little heralded movie did get a sequel, so perhaps Weiner was doing something right after all. He got the Valley Girl job by self-funding a three-minute demo of his vision for the film, including choreographed dance numbers.

The original 1983 Valley Girl co-starred a young Nicolas Cage as Randy, a punk from the city who meets Julie, a girl from LA’s San Fernando Valley. As always in the world of movie, opposites attract, and the two try to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends. Now imagine that with songs! No, I can’t wait either.

Apparently MGM thinks it’s a great idea, as they’ve put the movie on the fast track.

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Sienna Miller Has A Case Of You With Brendan Fraser

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A few years ago Sienna Miller seemed on the way to becoming a big star, but she’s almost disappeared from major productions recently. Indeed her last big movie was G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. However Variety reports that she and Brendan Fraser have got a new gig in a movie co-scripted by Justin Long. Unfortunately for Miller, it’s only a supporting role.

Long also takes the lead role in A Case of You, which is currently shooting in New York. The movie is about a young man who creates an online dating profile full of lies to try and attract women. It works well and he starts seeing a woman (Evan Rachel Wood), but then he realises that in order not to appear a complete liar, he needs to maintain the fiction he created online.

It’s isn’t certain exactly who Miller and Fraser will play, but Busy Phillips and Peter Dinklage also star, with Life Happens director Kat Coiro helming.

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Ben Foster Plans His Directorial Debut

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It seems that at some point in every actor’s career, they want to have a go at directing. Just the other day it was revealed Joseph Gordon-Levitt was getting behind the camera, and now ScreenDaily reports that X-Men 3 and The Messenger’s Ben Foster is following suit.

There’s no news on the plot of the drama, but it could be ready to shoot this summer. Oren Moverman is on-board to produce, who worked with Foster on both The Messenger and Rampart.

Foster may have a tendency to go over the top occasionally as an actor (Alpha Dog being the prime example), but that’s largely because he’s always trying to push himself and explore new territory. It’s an attitude that should help him as a director, and hopefully Moverman’s presence will help keep him on track.

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Young Hottie Jamie Blackley Added To 300 Prequel

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He’s not exactly a household name yet, but 21-year-old Jamie Blackley scored a fairly high-profile role in London Boulevard and will be seen this summer in the big budget Snow White And The Huntsman. Now he’s booked another role that’ll almost certainly help out his fledgling film career, playing Calisto in 300: Battle Of Artemisia.

Calisto is a teen whose desire to become a heroic man/soldier like his father, leads the 16-year-old to become the leader of a small band of soldiers. He joins Sullivan Stapleton, who got a lead role in the movie last week.

300: Battle of Artemisia is based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, which is told from the point of view of Xerxes, the tyrannical ruler who was portrayed by Rodrigo Santoro in 300. The tale spans over hundreds of years as Xerxes tries to attain godhood, but mainly focuses on the Battle of Artemisia in 480 BC, where he went up against the brutish but brilliant Themistocles (the battle only took place in Artemisia as the rather corrupt Themistocles had accepted a bribe to keep his fleet in the city). This battle took place almost simultaneously to the one at Thermopylae, chronicled in 300. (Source: Deadline)

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Gael Garcia Bernal Eyed For Futuristic Zorro Reborn

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For a long time it’s felt that Gael Garcia Bernal was on the edge of becoming a really big star, but for one reason or another, it’s never quite happened. However he may now have his best chance yet to hit the a-list as Variety reports that he’s in talks to play the Spanish swordsman, Zorro, in Fox’s Zorro Reborn.

The idea behind the reboot is to take Zorro into a post-apocalyptic era. The story will not be set in California or Mexico, but a futuristic wasteland, with Bernal as a masked vigilante bent on revenge. The film was written by Glenn Gers with help from Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy.

The movie’s not the only Zorro flick around, as Sony (which made the Antonio Banderas Zorro movies) is developing an origin story about the Mexican American hero, based on Isabel Allende’s 2005 novel simply called Zorro.

Fox’s take is still in early development and is currently looking for a director. Bernal would seem to be a very good choice for the lead role, as he has the right mix of charm and bravado for the part.

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Simon Kinberg Hints First Class Sequel To Focus On Magneto

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Screenwriter Simon Kinberg is out promoting This Means War, which means journos have been able to ask him about his next job, scripting the sequel to X-Men: First Class. Kinberg has hinted that the mutant follow-up will focus on Magneto’s journey to being a villain.

He told MTV, “I’m a huge X-Men fan. I grew up loving the comic books and it was really exciting to be able to do the origin story of Xavier and Magneto, and getting those two actors, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, were really amazing. So being able to explore those characters with actors of that quality will be exciting a second time around, and doing some things unexpected with those characters, which is the plan.

“That’s what was so cool about the first one and what we want to continue. Magneto becomes the villain ultimately of the franchise but he’s a much more complicated character as a young man. He’s someone you sympathize with, you care about and you root for even though you might not necessarily agree with his methods, you understand his philosophy.

“The truth is ultimately that because Michael is such an interesting actor, he’ll never be full-on anything. He’ll have a villainous side and he’ll have a sympathetic human side you’ll be able to relate but you’ll also be afraid of him. He becomes Magneto, he says ‘Call me Magneto’ at the end of the first movie.”

It certainly sounds like it’s the metal-controlling mutant Kinberg is most interested in, which isn’t surprising, as while Professor X has his school and a relatively settled existence, there’s a whole world of possibilities for Magneto, who even in his Ian McKellen form was always one of the most interesting supervillains.

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