Next month former Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens is getting covered in CGI as the Beast in Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, but those hoping to actually be able to see his face a bit more will have to wait for The Ticket. In that movie he’s into parable territory as a blind man who regains his sight, but instead becomes blind to what was really good about his life.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘After James (Dan Stevens), a blind man, inexplicably regains his vision, he becomes possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. However, his new improvements-a nicer home, a higher paying job, tailored suits, luxury car-leave little room for the people who were part of his old, simpler life: his plain wife (Malin Åkerman) and close friend Bob (Oliver Platt). As his relationships buckle under the strain of his snowballing ambition, it becomes uncertain if James can ever return from darkness.’
The movie will be out in the US in April, although no UK date is currently set. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]
It’s not a good day when you end up a in wasteland inhabited by bloodthirsty cannibals. However, in The Bad Batch there’s an area of Texas that’s no longer Texas, as it’s been abandoned by the United States and they’re having nothing to do with anyone who enters it – and that’s at least partly due to the cannibals.
Director Lee Daniels and Oprah Winfrey has a very successful collaboration with The Butler, which scored Winfrey a BAFTA nomination, and found plenty of commercial success. Now it looks like they may be getting back together, for a remake of Terms Of Endearment.
Do you know one of the reasons the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs manage to attract so many star names? It’s because of when they’re held. The Golden Globes come just a few days before AMPAS members have to submit who they think should be nominated for the Oscars, and the BAFTAs come just before the deadline for them to say who they think should win.
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Paris Is Burning may have become increasingly controversial in recent years, but it’s certainly a seminal LGBT-themed documentary, a ignited an interest in the ballroom world. Now Kiki is heading back into that world for a fresh look at where things are in the 21st Century.
A Fantastic Woman – which features a transgender lead character – may be one of the foreign-language films making waves this year. At least Sony Pictures Classics will be hoping so, as just before its in competition debut at the Berlin FIlm Festival, the distribution company has announced they’ve acquired the rights to the movie in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
Jacques Audiard won the Palm d’Or at Canned for his last movie, Dheepan, about a former Sri Lankan freedom fighter finding life difficult as an asylum seeker in France. However, he’s planning something rather different for his next film, the noir western, The Sister Brothers.
Some filming has already begun of Disney’s planned Star Wars movie based on what Han Solo was up to before the events of A New Hope, but it’s still adding to its cast. 
A few weeks ago there was a lot of surprise when it was announced that after months of developing the movie, Ben Affleck was stepping down from the director’s chair of The Batman. That was followed by rumours that Warner Bros. didn’t like the script, Affleck may have been looking for a way out of playing Batman completely, and the film may never happen.
It’s action comedy time with Keeping Up With The Joneses, which arrives on Digital HD, VOD and DVD on February 13th 2017. From Director Greg Mottola (Superbad, Paul, Adventureland) Keeping Up With The Joneses packs an all-star cast including Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover Trilogy, Birdman) Isla Fisher (Now You See Me, Grimbsy), Jon Hamm (Mad Men, The Town) and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman, Fast & Furious).
Season 1 of the “wildly entertaining” (TV Guide) Cinemax® series Quarry, loosely based on the novels of Max Allan Collins set in and around Memphis, is set to make its home entertainment debut on February 13, 2017. Starring Logan Marshall-Green as Mac Conway, this “impressively flawless” (Washington Post) series follows two soldiers’ return home from a second tour of duty in Vietnam.