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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

True Blood’s Sam Trammell On For The Fault in Our Stars

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sam-trammellBack in March Shailene Woodley signed on for the female lead in The Fault in Our Stars, and since then she’s been joined by Ansel Elgort. Now, with filming set to begin imminently, True Blood star Sam Trammell and Laura Dern have joined the cast of Fox’s movie, according the TheWrap.

The film is based on Josh Green’s novel about Hazel Green Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), a teenager stricken with cancer who falls in love with Augustus (Ansel Elgort), a young man from her support group. Sam Trammell is set to play Hazel’s father in the drama, with Laura Dern as the girl’s mother. Nat Wolff co-stars as Augustus’ best friend, Isaac.

Josh Boone (Stuck in Love) is directing from a screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now). Filming will begin this month in Pittsburgh.

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Win The David Duchovny Thriller Phantom On DVD!

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phantom-embed-a-compTo celebrate the release of the suspenseful submarine thriller ‘Phantom’ – out on DVD and Blu-ray 19th August 2013 – we have a copy to give away on DVD to one lucky winner!

Starring Academy Award-nominee Ed Harris (Apollo 13; The Rock; The Abyss) and David Duchovny (X-Files; Californication), ‘Phantom’ sees a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles go missing in the Pacific during the height of the Cold War. On board, a battle-tested captain (Ed Harris) and a rogue KGB agent (David Duchovny) wage a life-and-death game of cat and mouse with a nuclear Armageddon hanging in the balance.

“The Hunt for Red October” meets “Crimson Tide” in this intense claustrophobic thriller about extraordinary men facing impossible choices!

If you’d like to try and win the copy of Phantom on DVD that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on August 27th 2013, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson Gets Shirtless (& Upside-Down) For Men’s Health

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson had to do a lot of working out for Kick-Ass 2 and then needed to keep that level of fitness up for the currently shooting Godzilla. It’s perhaps not surprising then that he wants to show off the fruits of his labours, stripping his shirt off and showing off his strength for Men’s Health.

Aaron also told the magazine about the fact he did have to hide his muscles for parts of the Kick-Ass 2. “Throughout the movie he’s still got to be a weedy kid from high school, so I couldn’t have anything too dramatic,” said Taylor-Johnson.

“It had to be a reveal at the end. We got around that by wearing a lot baggier clothes. I don’t think there was a particular shape. It was more like he ends up getting trained by Hit-Girl and by the end of it he’s like, ‘F**k it, if I’m going to be a superhero then I’d better start training like one’.”

The Kick-Ass 2 trailer showed we will get some pretty impressive Taylor-Johnson musculature in the film, even if we do have to wait for the end.

And is it just us or if you look at Aaron the right way up, is he making major sex face? See if you agree with us below. [Read more…]

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Rob Williams Is Out To Kill For His Latest Gay-Themed Film, & He Needs Your Help

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rob-williamsRob Williams has become a bit of a one-man gay-themed film industry, having made the likes of Three Day Weekend, Make The Yuletide Gay, Role/Play and The Men Next Door. Now he’s announced his seventh movie, which will be as LGBT-friendly as his earlier movies, as he’s planning a gay murder mystery, which is currently going by the title Out To Kill.

A press release from Williams company, Guest House Films (which he co-founded with Rodney Johnson in 2005), says, ‘Out To Kill is an intricate and witty “whodunit” murder mystery centered around a group of gay men living in a Florida loft complex. When one of their own is found dead in the building’s central courtyard, his neighbors enlist the help of Jim Noble, the resident private eye, to track down the killer. With its surprise ending and tropical location, the film offers a sexy, gay twist to the traditional murder mystery.’

The current plan is to start shooting in November in in Tampa, Florida. It’s a bit of a change for Guest House, who’ve made all the rest of their movies in Southern California.

“The people of Tampa and St. Petersburg have always been extremely supportive of our films, and have often offered to help if we ever decided to shoot a film in the area,” said Williams. “So I returned to Florida earlier this year, found some great locations, and then wrote the script with Tampa in mind.”

In order to help raise funds for Out To Kill, Guest House Films has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.  The campaign includes unique rewards such as the opportunity to name characters in the movie, pieces of original artwork that will be used in the film, and even a VIP Las Vegas experience with the Guest House Films founders. To learn more about the crowdfunding campaign, visit http://igg.me/at/outtokill/x/14878.

Take a look below for Williams Indiegogo video message. [Read more…]

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Vin Diesel Takes On Sci-fi Thriller Soldiers of the Sun

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riddick-vin-diesel-shirtlessA couple of years ago it seemed Vin Diesel’s star was on the wane, with his career going the Paul Walker route of people only wanting to see him in Fast & Furious movies. However he’s still busy working on other projects, with Riddick in the can and The Last Witch Hunter and Guardians Of The Galaxy in the works.

Now THR reports that Diesel is attached to star in and produce the sci-fi thriller Soldiers of the Sun. Universal Pictures is backing the film, with an eye to turning this into a major franchise. Arash Amel (Grace of Monaco, Erased) is on screenplay duty, for a film set in a post-apocalyptic landscape during a war with alien creatures known as Orcs. The tale centres on a group of soldiers on a tour of duty in Mexico, who search for a lost city of gold between battles.

No director is currently attached, and with Diesel having a packed schedule (he’s also got Fast & Furious 7 to shoot), he’s unlikely to be able to get round to it until next year at the earliest.

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Fading Gigolo Trailer – Woody Allen turns pimp in John Turturro’s film

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John Turturro made one of his very first movie appearances in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters. 28 years later they’ve swapped roles, with Turturro behind the camera and Woody making a rare acting appearance in a film he didn’t helm. Perhaps most surprisingly, in Fading Gigolo Allen plays a pimp.

The film also stars Sofia Vergara and Sharon Stone and is about two men (Allen and Turturro) who are growing old and need some cash, so they become gigolos. Allen begins to pimp out Turturro, but things go wrong when the folks in the Hasidic Jewish community where they live begin to suspect what’s going on and Turturro falls for a Jewish widow.

Stone plays a dermatologist who hires Tuturro, while Vergara will play a married woman who wishes to have a threesome with Stone and Turturro. The movie premiere’s at TIFF, and in anticipation of that, the first trailer has been release, which you can watch here.

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Adele, Elton John & David Beckham May Cameo In Matthew Vaughn’s Secret Service

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adele-oscars-2013It seems Matthew Vaughn is planning some unexpected cameos in his upcoming The Secret Service, with reports that Adele, David Beckham and Elton John possibly popping up opposite Colin Firth, Taron Egerton and Samuel L. Jackson.

There’s no news on what Elton and Beckham might be doing in the movie, but Adele is apparently going to be one of the film’s villains. “Adele is exactly what Matthew is looking for… He wants the highest-profile names in various fields to boost the film’s cause and turn it into a mega-money franchise,” a source said. It’s not her first acting gig, as she had a cameo in Ugly Betty, but this will be her first film role.

Perhaps she can add an acting Oscar to the one she won for the theme song to Skyfall.

Colin Firth is set to play a veteran MI6 spy who takes his nephew Gary (Taron Egerton) under his wing. He hopes that mentoring the young man in the ways of covert affairs will put him on the straight and narrow. Matthew Vaughn is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jane Goldman, which is adapted from the comic book series created by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons. Production is slated to begin sometime this autumn.

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New Pics Of A Shirtless Josh Brolin In Oldboy Released

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While some are still furious that Hollywood has dared remake Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy, it actually look pretty intriguing, and Spike Lee is definitely an interesting director to take the project on. We’ve already had a poster and trailer, and now some new images have been released, featuring Elizabeth Olsen and Josh Brolin being all shirtless and locked up.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘OLDBOY is a provocative, visceral thriller that follows the story of an advertising executive (Josh Brolin) who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment. Co-starring Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley, OLDBOY was directed by Spike Lee, from a script by Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, The Cell, Thor). The film was produced by Roy Lee, Doug Davison and Nathan Kahane.’

The film will hit cinemas this autumn.

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Darren Aronofsky May Take On Spy Drama Red Sparrow

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Darren-AronofskyDirector Darren Aronofsky is still putting the final touches on his biblical epic Noah, but he’s already looking towards his next project, as Deadline reports that he is circling Red Sparrow for 20th Century Fox.

He’s in early talks to develop and direct the adaptation of Jason Matthews’ novel, which is set in modern-day Russia. The story follows Dominika Egorova, a spy forced into becoming a ‘sparrow’, who is trained to seduce rival agents. Her first assignment is a CIA operative tasked with handling Russian intelligence, but they soon fall for one another, threatening both their careers and the identities of moles in both the American and Russian governments.

20th Century Fox bought the rights back in April, winning a bidding war that involved multiple studios. There’s no news on when it might shoot.

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First Official Pic Of Robert De Niro & Sylvester Stallone In Grudge Match

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Whoever had the idea of putting Sylvester ‘Rocky’ Stallone and Robert ‘Raging Bull’ De Niro in a boxing movie together was a pretty smart cookie, as it’s certain to drum up interest in the film. Now the first official image from the pic has been released, although sadly it’s Rocky and Jake La Motta in the ring.

The film is about two retired boxers (De Niro and Stallone) who step back into the ring to settle an old score. Jon Bernthal will play De Niro’s estranged son, who feels conflicted about training his father. Kevin Hart, Kim Basinger, and Alan Arkin have also signed on to star.

Peter Segal is directing, with a Christmas US release set, with the film reaching the UK on January 17th.

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Joel Edgerton Joins Christian Bale In Ridley Scott’s Exodus

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joel-edgertonChristian Bale has been attached to Exodus for a while now, but it seems he’s getting his first castmate as THR reports that Joel Edgerton is in talks to join Ridley Scott’s biblical epic.

The Zero Dark Thirty is set to will play Egyptian ruler Ramses. The story follows Moses (Christian Bale) who goes up against Ramses so that he can lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Promised land. As Moses grew up in the royal Egyptian court, he had a close relationship to Ramses, which went sour when he took up the cause of his people.

Ridley Scott is directing from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian, who reworked the original draft by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage. Filming is scheduled to begin this September, with shooting to take place in Spain, Morocco and England. Expect to hear plenty more cast members joining very soon.

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New Anchorman 2 Pics Show Off Ron Burgundy’s Early 80s Style

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After being in development for years, Anchorman 2 is now in the can and heading for a Christmas release. The likes of Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, and Christina Applegate are all reprising their Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy roles, with Adam McKay directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Ferrell.

The film takes place in the early 1980s, during the advent of the 24-hour news cycle. Needless to say, the Action 4 News team has trouble adapting to this news format. It also sees Ron heading off on a trip to New York.

Cameos from the likes of Harrison Ford, James Marsden, Kristen Wiig, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Vince Vaughn and loads more are also promised to show up.

Now a couple of new pics have been released from the movie via The Playlist, showing off Ron’s very retro big furry collar. Take a look above and below.

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