The makers of Nightcrawler have tried something a bit different with some of the first marketing for the movie, as rather than releasing a normal teaser trailer, they posted a Craigslist ad, linked to a video where Jake Gyllenhaal is a hard worker seeking employment.
It’s an interesting way of doing things, especially as the makers have deliberately been keeping quiet about the exact plot, other than that it centres on ‘a driven young man who discovers the nocturnal world of LA freelance crime journalism’.
Dan Gilroy wrote the script and makes his directorial debut with the movie, which is due out later this year.
And as you’ll see below, this is the film that saw the actor becoming scarily skinny. [Read more…]
Ethan Hawke has a decent success with Daybreakers. Now he’s reteaming with the directors of that movie, Michael and Peter Spierig, for the sci-fi movie, Predestination, based on Robert Heinlein’s 1958 short story, All You Zombies.
Comic Con kicks off in a couple of days, and to make sure we’re thinking about what Jurassic World is going to bring, director Colin Trevorrow has released the poster above on 
A couple of months ago Steven Spielberg set his next two movies – an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG and before that a currently untitled Cold War thriller that will reunite him with Tom Hanks. The latter movie is due to start shooting in September, so there’s not too much time for the director to fill out the rest of the cast.
For the past few months Guy Ritchie has been hard at work on the film version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which is due in cinemas this winter. However he’s also got a King Arthur movie percolating away, which already has a July 2016 release date set.
There are lots of LGBT film festivals all around the world, but the fact is that most of the time the ‘T’ in that acronym gets short shrift. While a few films of transgender interest will be shown, it often feels the festival is just paying lip service to trans* stories.
Back in February, the LGBT short film festival, The Iris Prize, announced the 
Although there’s a lot of talk about the homophobia LGBT people are exposed to from outside the community – and to a lesser extent individual, internalised homophobia – discrimination within LGBT groups is often ignored. Although there’s eye-rolling about things such as gay men’s seeming obsession with youth and large penises, the effects of such things are largely swept under the carpet.
LA’s main gay and lesbian film festival, Outfest, has come to an end for the year, but before it went out, it had awards for the best film, documentaries and shorts that screened at the during the event. The big winner was Drunktown’s Finest, which won the First US Dramatic Feature Audience Award and the US Dramatic Feature Film Grand Jury prize.
It’s been a case of co-ordination today, as the moment the BFI announced that The Imitation Game is set to open the 58th BFI London Film Festival, Studiocanal released the UK trailer and in the US The Weinstein Company unveiled theirs.
