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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

Javier Bardem May Head To Neverland As The Villain In Pan

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javier-bardemWith several Peter Pan based prequels in the works at various studios, it seems Warner Bros. is trying to move fast on its film, Pan, in order to get to cinemas first. Just a few days ago, Hanna director Joe Wright signed onto helm Pan. That’s now followed by the news that Javier Bardem is in talks to play the lead villain, according to Deadline.

The movie will be an origin story for Peter Pan, based on J.M. Barrie’s classic tale. Flipper remake writer Jason Fuchs is currently drafting the screenplay.

Javier Bardem will not play the iconic Captain Hook, but instead will personify Blackbeard. The story revolves around orphan boy Peter, who is taken for the first time to the magical world of Neverland, where he joins the natives, leading them in a rebellion against a group of evil pirates.

There’s no news on when it might shoot.

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Chatting With How To Survive A Plague Director David France

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The excellent AIDS documentary How To Survive A Plague is out in UK cinemas now. We caught up with director David France to talk about the film and how it got made.

It’s a great movie, giving an excellent over view of the emergence of AIDS and the groups that sprang up in the gay community to fight back against official complacency and antipathy, as well as the fact potentially helpful drugs were being held up before they became available to those with HIV and AIDS.

You can read our review here, but make sure you take a look at what the director has to say above. [Read more…]

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First Proper Trailer For HBO’s Gay-Themed Series Looking Arrives, Starring Jonathan Groff

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A few days ago a very brief teaser to HBO’s series about a groups of gay friends living in San Francisco, Looking Arrived, but it was essentially just a logo with pictures behind. Now it’s been followed by a proper trailer, which may only be 30 seconds long but gives us the first real footage from the show, featuring the likes of Jonathan Groff and Russell Tovey.

The show is said to be a mix of Tales From The City and Girls, following mainly gay men in San Francisco. Groff plays Patrick, who’s professionally very successful as a video game developer, but his personal life is a bit of a disaster area. Frankie Alvarez is Patrick’s best friend, Augustin, whose ego and feisty politics make it difficult for him to settle down with a boyfriend.

Looking is set to begin airing in the US on January 19th, 2014, and should spread to other parts of the globe soon afterwards. [Read more…]

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New Cuban Fury Trailer & Poster – Nick Frost gets his dance on with Rashida Jones

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Nick Frost has mainly be seen in co-starring roles and alongside Simon Pegg, but now he’s taking centre stage for the comedy Cuban Fury, where he gets to show off his dancing skills. Now a new poster and trailer for the movie has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Beneath Bruce Garrett’s shabby, overweight exterior, the passionate beating heart of a salsa king lays dormant. Only one woman can reignite his Latin fire. Spotlight hits, sweat drips, heels click – Nick Frost IS Cuban Fury! From the team that brought you Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and Paul, Cuban Fury is the hilarious, feel-good and must-see comedy this Valentine’s Day. The film’s cast includes an ensemble of great British comedy talent including Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd, Rashida Jones, Olivia Colman, Ian McShane and Kayvan Novak.’

The movie is due out in the UK on Valentine’s Day 2014. [Read more…]

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Kevin Smith Takes Us Behind-The-Scenes Of Tusk With Haley Joel Osment & Genesis Rodriguez

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Kevin Smith was only supposed to be making one more movie as a director – Clerks III – but while he’s waiting for the funding to get sorted out, he’s making the horror movie Tusk. Now he’s tweeted the first behind the scenes pic from the movie, showing Smith alongside stars Haley Joel Osment and Genesis Rodriguez.

Smith has previously said of the film, “It’s about a guy who turns another guy into a f**ing human walrus. As weird as it is in my head when I talk about it, they finally sent me the costume designs by Robert Kurtzman, and I was like, ‘Holy s**t, it’s a monster movie, I had no idea.’ I thought I was making a kind of sister thriller to Red State. As soon as I saw the designs, I go, ‘Of course this is a monster movie and he’s Dr. Frankenstein.”

Justin Long will be the human walrus, with Osment as his long lost friend Teddy, who teams up with his girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) to try to find him. Michael Parks also stars.

It’ll be out next year.

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Shawn Levy & Will Smith Up For The City That Sailed

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will-smithFor a while now Will Smith has been circling an adaptation of The City That Sailed. Now he’s firmed up his commitment to the movie, and director Shawn Levy (Night At The Museum, The Internship) has come onboard, according to Deadline.

The rather unusual adventure movie is about ‘a father and daughter on the island of Manhattan as it breaks loose and sails across the Atlantic Ocean’. Luckily this isn’t an OTT disaster film, as the city breaks off after the daughter finds magic candles that makes wishes come true. One of those wishes goes wrong when the city breaks away from the rest of the US and heads off across the ocean.

Audrey Wells is writing the script. There’s no news on when it might shoot, but it won’t be for a while as Levy has to make Night At The Museum 3 first.

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J.J. Abrams Is Getting Advice From R2-D2 In The First Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars VII Pic

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If you’re going to create a new Star Wars movie, it’s a good idea to go to a veteran for advice. JJ Abrams has been in close contact with George Lucas, but it seems he’s decided it would be even better to go to someone from a galaxy far, far away.

He’s tweeted the first behind-the-scenes shot from the film, showing the writer/director alongside everyone’s favourite chirping droid, R2-D2. Off to the right is Lucasfilm head honcho Kathleen Kennedy. Abrams also included the message, ‘Hi from the workshop! #StarWarsVII’.

Star Wars: Episode VII is set for release December 18th, 2015, with Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher all set to return.

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Lee Pace To Star Alongside Ben Foster In Lance Armstrong Biopic

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Lee Pace

Stephen Frears is already shooting his planned (but currently untitled) biopic of Lance Armstrong, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time to fit in some new cast members. TheWrap reports that Lee Pace has signed up for the film, although there’s no news on exactly who he will play.

John Hodge (Trance, Trainspotting) wrote the screenplay, which covers the cyclist’s career from his testicular cancer comeback to winning seven Tour De France championships, through to his eventual admission that he used performance enhancing drugs during his record-breaking run.

It’s not the only Armstrong movie in the works. The main rival project comes from Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions. That one has Bradley Cooper attached to star and is based on Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by New York Times sports journalist Juliet Macur. Warner Bros. is also developing a Lance Armstrong biopic, securing the life rights of Tyler Hamilton, one of Lance Armstrong’s teammates on the United States Postal Service cycling team, and one of the first to testify under oath that his teammate was doping. Jay Roach is attached to direct that movie from a script by Scott Z. Burns.

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Little Yellow People Are Panicking In A New Poster For The LEGO Movie

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The Lego Movie is coming on February 14th, and over the past couple of weeks Warner Bros. has been releasing various character posters for the movie, and to finish it off comes a full poster, showing the brick people running away from some sort of danger – it’s dangerous to be an inch tall, apparently!

Here’s the sysnopsis: ‘The LEGO Movie follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. Emmet (Chris Pratt) is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which he is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.’

The movie’s out on February 14th. You can see the main poster above and the character posters below.

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Noah Trailer – Russell Crowe, Douglas Booth & Logan Lerman are gonna need a bigger boat

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Yesterday we had the first poster for Noah, and now it’s time for the trailer, which starts off looking a bit weird, before it gets a whole lot more epic with giant boats, loads of CGI animals and a massive, is slightly backwards flood (where the water comes up from the ground rather than falling from the sky).

Here’s the brief official synopsis: ‘Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe stars as Noah, a man chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.’

Emma Watson, Jennifer Connolly, Ray Winstone and Anthony Hopkins co-star. And who knew Noah had such hot sons, with Logan Lerman and Douglas Booth as Shem and Ham? Darren Aronofsky’s film is due out March 28th 2014. [Read more…]

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Mission: Impossible 5 Set For Christmas Day 2015 Release

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mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-posterIt’s been suggest Tom Cruise is keen to get Mission: Impossible 5 out as soon as possible, with some suggestions we might even get it before the end of 2014. However Paramount Pictures has now announced we’ll be making a little longer, as they’ve dated it for December 25th, 2015, according to TheWrap.

At the moment the only other movie set for that date is Warner Bros.’ Live by Night, Ben Affleck’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel. However, it’s still going to have a battle for action fans, as it’s coming just a week after the highly-anticipated Star Wars: Episode VII. Warcraft and Kung Fu Panda 3 will also be out not long before it as well.

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, which earned more than $700 million worldwide after it opened just a few days before Christmas in 2011. Tom Cruise is producing and returning as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) is directing from a script by Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3). Production is set to start next February in London.

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Chris Pratt In Talks To Replace Josh Brolin In Jurassic World

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A few weeks ago it appeared Josh Brolin was going to take the lead in Jurassic World, the latest instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise. However it now seems he’s stepped away as Chris Pratt is in early talks to join the movie, according to TheWrap.

The talks between Universal and Pratt are in the very early stages, and the actor would have to iron out any possible scheduling conflicts between the movie and his sitcom, Parks and Recreation (assuming it is renewed for another season). It’d be a boon for the actor, whose star is set to rise massively next summer with Guardians Of The Galaxy. This would ensure he has another huge movie lined up for June 2015.

The movie is also courting Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi, The Amazing Spider-Man) for a supporting role, although no details were given for that character either. Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Robinson and Ty Simpkins are also onboard, although Idris Elba has also bee rumoured.

Colin Trevorrow is directing from a script he co-wrote with his Safety Not Guaranteed co-scribe, Derek Connolly.

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