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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (DVD)

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Harry Potter has undoubtedly been one of the greatest phenomenons in movie history. It’s managed eight films without a dud, grossed more cash than any other franchise in history, and perhaps most impressively has kept nearly all the same actors throughout its run. It’s been a part of many people’s lives for a full decade, especially those who’ve grown up alongside Harry and co. Indeed, when I saw Deathly Hallows Part 2 in the cinemas I was sat behind a university-aged young man who announced as the end credits began to roll, “Well, that’s my childhood over.” [Read more…]

Tom Cruise Set For All You Need Is Kill

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A few weeks ago we reported that Tom Cruise was sniffing around the sci-fi action project, All You Need Is Kill (which appeared to have changed its name to We Are Mortals back then, but now seems to be back to the original), after Doug Liman had come onboard to direct. Now Variety reports that Cruise has formally agreed to star in the movie.

Based on a Japanese graphic novel, the story is Groundhog Day meets Halo. A soldier in a war against aliens finds himself reliving his last day over and over after being killed. Through the training and battles he experiences in these time loops, he becomes a better soldier. So it’s kind of like a video game turned into a movie, but more literally than most.

The original script called for a younger actor, but it’s not being rewritten to better fit Cruise. It also means he’ll likely be making back-to-back sci-fi pics, as Joseph Kasinski’s Horizons is likely to shoot next March, with Kill coming directly after that. Cruise was initially a little worried about this, but Liman managed to convince him the role were completely different.

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Great New Cabin In The Wood Poster Emerges

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The Joss Whedon written and produced Cabin In The Woods hasn’t had much luck. Shot over two years ago, it got trapped in the debacle that surrounded MGM’s bankruptcy (along with the likes of the Red Dawn remake) and so has taken a ridiculously long time to get to cinemas. However now Lionsgate has taken over distribution and an April 13th, 2012 release has been set.

AICN has debuted a superb new poster for the movie, which you can see about.

The film stars Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth (it was shot pre-Thor, which should give you some idea how long it’s been waiting to emerge from the MGM mire), Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. As the title suggests it sees a group of young people heading to an isolated cabin, but things don’t go too well for them once they get there.

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Nikki Reed & Stephen Lang Join Pawn

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A couple of days ago it was revealed that Michael Chiklis and Forest Whitaker were set to star in an indie thriller called Pawn. Now the cast has got a whole lot bigger, with a few interesting names added to the mix. THR reports that Nikki Reed, Sean Faris, Stephen Lang, Marton Csokas, Jessica Szohr and Jonathan Bennett have all joined the movie.

Hopefully Lang has been given a role that isn’t the same grumpy character he’s played in everything from Avatar and Conan to TV’s Terra Nova, but we wouldn’t bet on it.

David A. Armstrong will direct a screenplay from Jay Anthony White, which centres on an ex-con who gets caught up in a hostage situation gone terribly awry, where he has to fend off the local police, FBI agents, and the mob.

Michael Chiklis will also make his feature producing debut with the film. Shooting starts soon.

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Hailee Steinfeld In Talks For Ender’s Game

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Just about every halfway popular young adult fantasy or sci-fi book gets pick up Hollywood nowadays, in the hope it’ll become the next Twilight. However the vast majority disappear into the development pile, never to be heard of again.

One that does look like it’s going ahead is Ender’s Game, which already has Asa Butterfield signed for the lead role, is looking at the likes of Harrison Ford and now Variety reports that True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld is in talks to join the movie. 

The film opens 70 years after a horrific alien war. Butterfield will play the title character, a gifted young gamer skilled in strategy and logistics who’s recruited by the government to help battle an insect-like alien race. Steinfeld would play Petra Arkanian, the only girl in Salamander Army, who quickly becomes Ender’s ally and trusted right hand.

Gavin Hood will be directing the film from a script he wrote, which is adapted from Orson Scott Card’s award-winning novel.

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Warner Pick Up Grahame-Smith’s Unholy Night

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Hollywood seems to love every idea Seth Grahame-Smith comes up with, and his latest novel, Unholy Night, is no exception, as Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to the book.

The story puts an action-adventure spin on the Three Wisemen of the Nativity, and re-imagines them as thieves on the run who end up helping Mary and Jesus to flee Egypt. Along the way, they meet people such as Pontius Pilate and John The Baptist and, this being Seth Grahame-Smith, battle magical Biblical creatures. The book’s due out next April.

Seth Grahame-Smith will adapt the screenplay from his own book. While an adaptation of Grahame-Smith Pride & Prejudice & Zombies is still having development issues, Araham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will be in cinemas next year, he wrote the script for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows and he has several other projects set up at various studios, so he’s certainly popular.

Warner apparently paid over $2 million for the rights to Unholy Night, so they obviously think it has a lot of potential.

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BGPS’s Advent Calendar Of Buff Blokes: Day 1 – Aaron Milo

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It’s the first of December, Christmas is coming, and that means Advent Calendars! Sadly, we can’t hand you little chocolates through the internet, but we can gratuitously present you with some hot pics of some buff blokes!

To start off with we’ve got Aaron Milo, the unbelievably hot guy from the recently released gay comedy, Eating Out: Drama Camp. The pic above is from the movie (read our Eating Out: Drama Camp review here), but click below to enlarge a few more images of this hotter than hot actor, courtesy of his official website and Facebook page. Let’s hope we get to see a lot more of the 27-year-old in the future (he’ll definitely be in the next Eating Out movie at least!). [Read more…]

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Eating Out: Drama Camp (DVD)

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A few years ago, the idea that a gay film series could prove so popular that it would have reached a fourth entry, with a fifth on the way, would have seemed impossible, but Q. Allan Brocka’s Eating Out has. While the first film in 2004 was a rather sweet rom com, things have increasingly headed in the direction of farce ever since, particularly since the third entry, which featured a mostly new cast and a more gross-out attitude (only Rebekah Kochan as the very loud Tiffani has appeared in all the Eating Out movies, although her role in Drama Camp is tiny). [Read more…]

Wrong Teaser Trailer – The director of Rubber returns

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One of the unexpected treats of last year’s Sundance, which went on to become a bit of a cult sensation, was Rubber, a movie about a killer car tyre! Now Rubber’s director, Quentin Dupieux, is returning to Sundance with his follow-up, Wrong, and an odd little teaser for the film has just hit. It’s a bit difficult to tell exactly what the movie is about, but apparently it involves is a man searching for his lost dog, who encounters a pneumatic pizza-delivery girl, a jogging neighbour and a “mysterious righter of wrongs”. It’s weird but like Rubber, could be fun. No release date is currently set.

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Akira Synopsis Reveals A Few Changes

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During the long period that the live action version of Akira has been in development, it’s become increasingly unclear exactly what direction the Hollywood version was taking and what changes there’d be compared to the manga and anime versions.

However now a casting call has emerged, via Geek Tyrant, which includes a plot synopsis that tells us a lot more about the Jaume Collet-Serra directed movie. Here it is: ‘Kaneda is a bar owner in Neo-Manhattan who is stunned when his brother, Tetsuo, is abducted by government agents led by The Colonel.

‘Desperate to get his brother back, Kaneda agrees to join with Ky Reed and her underground movement who are intent on revealing to the world what truly happened to New York City thirty years ago when it was destroyed. Kaneda believes their theories to be ludicrous but after finding his brother again, is shocked when he displays telekinetic powers.

‘Ky believes Tetsuo is headed to release a young boy, Akira, who has taken control of Tetsuo’s mind. Kaneda clashes with The Colonel’s troops on his way to stop Tetsuo from releasing Akira but arrives too late. Akira soon emerges from his prison courtesy of Tetsuo as Kaneda races in to save his brother before Akira once again destroys Manhattan island, as he did thirty years ago.’

It’s largely similar to the original, although Kaneda is now a bar owner rather than teen biker, and he and Tetsuo are brothers rathers than friends. Garett Hedlund will play Kaneda, while the casting call lists Kristen Stewart as Ky, Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Miyako, and Ken Watanabe as The Colonel, although these haven’t bee 100% confirmed. Shooting is expected to start early in the new year.

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Adam Shankman Plans Nutcracker Movie

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Sometimes a movie bombing hideously can be a good thing – if you want to make your own movie out of the same story, at least. This time last year The Nutcracker In 3D was released, which normally would have made it difficult for anyone else to get a Nutcracker project off the ground for a few years.

However, as the 2010 movie bombed spectacularly and got some of the most vicious reviews imaginable, it’s already been forgotten enough that Adam Shankman can step forward with his own take on the Nutcracker.

Deadline reports that Hairspray director Shankman is teaming up with New Line Cinema to produce a new adaptation of the holiday classic. Despite Shankman’s background as a choreographer, the film will be based on the original 1815 story, ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’ by E.T.A. Hoffmann, as opposed to Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet. The story follows the adventures of a young girl and her magical wooden toy soldier who comes to life and does battle with the Mouse King.

Darren Lemke, who most recently wrote Jack the Giant Killer, is adapting the screenplay. New Line is setting up the holiday fantasy as a tent pole holiday film for 2013.

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New Trailer For The Sitter – Jonah Hill has kid problems

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While there’s a limited amount of amusement that can be gleaned from kids swearing, The Sitter still looks like it could be a lot of fun. In the film Jonah Hill plays Noah, who’s been suspended from college and gets coaxed into babysitting the kids next door. As always with this sort of flick, he is completely unprepared for the wild night ahead of him. So if you like swearing kids, or indeed swearing at kids, then take a look at the new trailer for The Sitter. It’s due for UK release on January 27th, 2012.

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