Although it’s the type of film that could be either masterpiece or disaster, Clud Atlas is definitely an intriguing proposition. Based on Davit Mitchell’s book, it has three directors, leading two separate shooting units, telling six stories, all featuring the same actors, but who’ll be playing different genders and races in different stories.
It’s an ambitious and unusual movie, which apparently only got financed because Asian investors were intrigued by its idea of a single soul travelling through all the tales. Now some new concept art and an image from the movie have appeared online. They illustrate ‘An Orison of Sonmi~451′, which was the fifth story in the book, and is set in a corporate run Korea in 2144. The photo shows Bae Doona as the title character from the tale, but perhaps the most interesting image is the one above.
It’s a rendering of futuristic Seoul, but with the 19th Century sailing ship from Cloud Atlas’ first story in the foreground. It gives a hint as to how to tales – which stretch across 300 years – will be visually joined together. The movie, directed by Tom Twyker and the Wachoski siblings, should be in cinemas at the end of 2012. (Images via HanCinema)
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Gay Twilight fans might have got a little excited over the last couple of days, as a cover of US magazine People, dated Jan. 7th, has been doing the viral internet rounds. It appears to be for a special issue in which Lautner gives an interview in which, ‘Tired of rumors, the 19-year-old Twilight star opens up about his decision to finaly come out. ‘I’m more liberated, and happier than I’ve ever been.”
The Christmas US box office is slightly unusual, as while it was a holiday four-day weekend, rather than releasing movie on a Friday, many of the studios decided to either release their movie early or wait until Christmas itself, largely because they now Christmas Eve always tends to be an unsually weak day (whereas Saturday is normally the best day of the week). The result is that while some of these new films movies got off to decent starts, they couldn’t beat out previously released flicks.
Getting someone to direct Thor 2 has proven surprisingly tough, with both Brian Kirk (Game Of Thrones) and Patty Jenkins (Monster) signing up and then swiftly stepping aside due to creative differences with Marvel.
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis are getting into politics, in their new movie at least, and now they’ve got some extra help as 
Now that the Harry Potter films have come to an end, are we allowed to think Daniel Radcliffe’s a very sexy young man without feeling like perverts? To be honest it’s his own fault people all across the globe have been feeling awkward, because one minute he’s play a boy wizard on screen and the next he’s appearing naked in Equus. It does your head in, but we still reckon he deserves to be our final Advent Calendar guy!
