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

A Third Avatar Sequel Is Announced With New Films Coming 2016, 2017 and 2018

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Avatar-posterJust yesterday we reported that James Cameron has hired Josh Friedman to help with the script for Avatar 2. Now we know why he’s keen to get a hand, as while we knew he was working on Avatar 2 & 3, Variety reports that it was revealed today that Avatar 4 is also being planned.

It’s not just Friedman who’s been hired to help with the screenplay though, as Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planets of the Apes), and Shane Salerno (Savages) have also been signed to collaborate with Cameron on the screenplays for Avatar 2, 3, 4.

While a 2015 release for Avatar 2 had been bandied about, for a long time that’s seemed optimistic. Now it’d been revealed that part 2 will hit cinemas December 2016, with the other two coming December 2017 and 2018.

Filming on the live-action and motion-capture parts of the film will start early next year, with all the movies being shot at once (so that’s a hell of a lot of screenplay to cover, explaining why so many writers are needed).

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Harry Potter Helmer David Yates May Take On Scarface Reboot

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David-YatesThanks to Harry Potter, David Yates has become one of the most in-demand directors in Hollywood. However after making four Hogwarts movies in as many years, we haven’t had a movie from him since. He’s signed up for a lot of things, such as a new take on Tarzan, but nothing’s worked out.

Now Deadline reports that Yates in in final talks with Universal Pictures to direct the remake of Scarface that has been in development since September 2011.

Little is known about this fresh take on the story, although it will apparently be set in the modern day and follow the quest to attain the American Dream. David Ayer signed on to write the script in November 2011, which has since been rewritten by Paul Attanasio. Little has been heard about the movie cine them, but Universal has apparently been developing the script with a number of other writers since then.

An insider is quoted as saying,”Universal has been through a couple of drafts and now is very high on the current draft. The first stop is the director. This is before any conversations on talent or timing.”

Both the original 1932 Scarface, starring Paul Muni, and the 1983 Scarface remake starring Al Pacino, are considered classics, so the studio has big shoes to fill for this second remake.

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Chris Hemsworth Strikes A Heroic Post In An Ace New Thor: The Dark World Poster

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I’m not sure whether Natalie Portman will be that impressed by her rather subservient Princess Leia pose on this new poster for Thor: The Dark World, but it’s still a rather cool image. It brings together Portman, Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston and more, letting us know that this film will be exploring Asgard far more than Earth.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World” continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself.  In the aftermath of Marvel’s “Thor” and “Marvel’s The Avengers,” Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos…but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.’

The film’s due out October 30th,  2013.

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Dustin Lance Black Developing Semi-Autobiographical TV Miniseries

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dustin-lance-blackDustin Lance Black won an Oscar for Milk and more recently has become almost as famous for his work fighting for gay rights, particularly working for gay marriage in California. It’s also been noted in many places that he was born into a strict Mormon family, which isn’t always the easiest place to grow up gay.

Now THR reports that he’s working on an eight-hour semi-autobiographical scripted miniseries about the gay rights movement for the ABC TV network in the US. It will apparently be ‘based on and told from Black’s background and experiences as a gay-rights activist’. It currently appears that it will also take into account his Mormon background – a religion he fought against, while also acknowledging its good points. Unfortunately though there are no specifics about the story.

As well as Milk, Black also wrote the likes of Pedro and J. Edgar. He made his directorial debut with Virginia and worked on the TV series Big Love.

Black’s project isn’t the only gay-themed miniseries in development at ABC, as in March it was revealed that the network has teamed up with David France to put together a television version of his documentary, How To Survive A Plague. The doc chronicled the struggle against AIDS in the 1980s, and the emergence of militant groups to fight against it, such as militant activists like ACT-UP and TAG. The TV version will follow a group of young people, many of them HIV positive, in that world.

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Bradley Manning Movie Already Being Planned By Alex Gibney

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Bradley-ManningBradley Manning may only have been found partially guilty yesterday, but as Variety reports, Hollywood is already looking at making a movie about the gay former soldier.

Last year Oscar-winning documaker Alex Gibney and producer Marc Shmuger, the filmmakers behind acclaimed doc, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, optioned the rights to Denver Nicks’ book Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History. Now that the verdict is in, they’re looking for a writer to turn it into a feature film.

Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of secret documents to Wikileaks, was found guilty of 20 charges, including espionage and theft, but acquitted of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge. He could still face a sentence of over 100 years though.

Gibney commented, “I hope that Judge Lind will be lenient in her sentence, taking into consideration Manning’s intent, his willingness to take responsibility for his actions, and the outrageously abusive treatment he has received at the hands of the Obama Administration.”

It’s been alleged that while awaiting court martial, Manning was kept completely isolated from other people and at time deprived of clothing (supposedly as he was seen as a suicide risk), although after international outrage his imprisonment conditions improved. He’s also faced accusations that his desire to reveal what he saw as crimes being perpetrated by the US was the result of gender dysphoria, based on a letter he sent to a gender counsellor where he expressed that he felt female (although no one’s done a good job of saying why one is linked to the other).

Hopefully the film will also look at the problems he faced as a gay soldier before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed, and the isolation he faced in the army, trying to open about who he was even before he was allowed to.

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Matt Dallas & Friends Are Raising Money For Thunder Road Film

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Actor Matt Dallas may have come out of the closet, but that doesn’t mean he’s now only interested in stereotypically gay role. Nope, there are no hairdressers or florists in his near future. Instead he’s teamed up with his friends, Charlie Bewley and Steven Grayhm, to come up with the script for Thunder Road, which looks at life after war.

Now they’ve launched a KickStarter, hoping to raise a gargantuan $750,000 to get the movie made.

The film follows, ‘the story of returning U.S. soldier SGT. CALVIN COLE (played by Steven) whom we meet in present day Detroit as a troubled veteran who suffers from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) from multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Initially resistant to the VA system COLE must find a way to assimilate back into civilian life before he ends up dead or in prison.

‘Through his rekindled friendship with his estranged childhood friend PFC. DARRYL SPARKS (played by Matt) who he served on the “buddy system” with and his newly formed relationship with a doctor at the VA Medical Center, COLE finds redemption and salvation through sharing his captivating experience as a combat infantryman. The film also explores the psychological repercussions of war and seeks answers to the growing epidemic of PTSD and tbi in returning soldiers.

‘Thunder Road also shows the allied forces involvement in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom as we intertwine COLE’s story with CPT. CHARLES RHODES (played by Charlie), a Sandhurst educated Captain of the British Army who we learn has crossed paths with COLE and SPARKS during their service in the middle east.’

Steven first began writing the script back in 2003, but it’s only after he starred alongside Dallas on Wyatt Earp’s Revenge that they all started working together to make it a reality.

It sounds like an interesting film, so to find out more or pledge some money, head over to Kickstarter. [Read more…]

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Lone Survivor Trailer – Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch & Taylor Kitsch are under fire in Afghanistan

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Lone Survivor looks like it might be an interesting one and Universal obviously agree, as they slotted it in for a prime Oscar push, with a limited US release around Christmas before it goes wide next January. Now we get our first look at the Peter Berg movie, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Taylor Kitsch, Eric Bana, Emile Hirsch and Alexander Ludwig.

The movie is based on a failed 2005 mission, Operation Red Wing, which tasked four members of SEAL Team 10 (Wahlberg, Hirsch, Foster, Kitsch) to kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. However they were quickly compromised and came under attack. As the title suggests, it didn’t go well.

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Trailer – Johnny Knoxville puts on some craggy make-up

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Many were surprised a couple of weeks ago when it was announced a new Jackass movie was on the way, especially as it had already been shot and far enough down the line that Paramount slotted it into an October 25th release date (which has been vacated when they decided to delay Paranormal Activity 5).

Now the trailer for the movie has arrived, showing us that this is slightly different to previous movie. Johnny Knoxville puts of his Irving Zisman old-man make-up for movie, which will be partly improvised and partially scripted. As the trailer shows though, it’s still crammed with Jackass-style madness.

Here’s the synopsis: ’86 year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companions, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.” This October, the signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera.

‘Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places and situations that give new meaning to the term childrearing. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens.

‘Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy.’ [Read more…]

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James Cameron Hires Josh Friedman To Help With The Avatar 2 Script

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James Cameron has been working on Avatar 2 & 3 ever since the first film hit it big, but it’s only fairly recently he got properly busy on the script (he’d spent most of the time getting the technical side ready). Now he’s decided to draft in a little help, as The Wrap reports that he’s hired Josh Friedman to help polish the screenplay for the second movie.

Friedman has a history of following on from Cameron’s work, as he created TV’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (a show it was though Cameron wasn’t too thrilled about when it started airing).

Nobody has confirmed the story yet, but it’s not a surprising development as it’s known Cameron brought in help on the first film, and with Fox still pushing for a later 2015 release for Avatar 2, they need to get the screenplay ready as soon as possible, as filming will have to begin relatively quickly.

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Leather Trailer – A gay couple’s relationship get complicated by an old friend

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Breaking Glass Pictures are planning a December 2013 DVD release for the gay-themed flick Leather, and in anticipation they’ve released a trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Leather is the contemporary story of a young man, Birch, who lives in the Catskill Mountains. He stays in a small cottage in a remote region with Walter, an older man and mentor who has an estranged gay son, Andrew. Birch and Walter have a friendship that involves carpentry, fishing, hunting and making items from leather. After his father dies, Andrew returns to his childhood home with his boyfriend from the city, Kyle, to assess Walter’s estate. A forgotten friend from Andrew’s boyhood, Birch captivates Andrew and Kyle, bringing back old feelings and complicating their relationship.’

Take a look at the trailer above. [Read more…]

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Extended Elysium Trailer – Fresh look at the Matt Damon sci-fi

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A new, longer trailer for Elysium has arrived, which gives us a great feel for the look and plot of Neill Blomkamps’s movie. It certainly look pretty cool, with great visuals and an interesting idea behind it.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max (Matt Damon) is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that if successful will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.’

Neill Blomkamp’s film hits US cinemas on August 9th and the UK on August 26th. [Read more…]

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American Hustle Trailer – Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale hit the 1970s

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Yesterday the first images from David O. Russell’s American Hustle arrived, and now that’s been followed up with the trailer for the movie, which features Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Amy Adams, and debuted on Good Morning America.

The movie is based on a true story and follows Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), a con artist who, along with his lover and accomplice Sydney (Amy Adams), are forced by an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to help with his ABSCAM conspiracy case in the 1970s. That ended with a US Senator and five Congressmen were convicted on corruption charges.

The film is out at Christmas. [Read more…]

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