Starring: Jesse Metzger, Brontez Purnell, Ben Jasper, Keith McDonald, Jorge Rodolfo
Running Time: 71 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: June 28th 2013
Running Time: 71 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: June 28th 2013
I Want Your Love (Cinema/VoD)
Celebs React To US Supreme Court Gay Rights Rulings With Twitter Happiness
With the US Supreme Court striking down the Defense Of Marriage Act and refusing to hear Prop 8, a lot of gay and LGBT-friendly celebrities were very happy yesterday. We already reported that it caused Kristen Bell to propose to Dax Shepard on Twitter. However there were plenty of others expressed their happiness on Twitter. Here’s a selection of their tweets.
Thank u2 #SCOTUS! This bday gift far surpasses the Hungry Hippos game I got when I was 7 years old. It truly is the best day ever. #Love4All
– Sean Hayes (@TheSeanHayes)
a great day to be gay! so much gratitude to all the people who fought so hard for this historic milestone. equality forever.
– Zachary Quinto (@ZacharyQuinto)
Prop 8 was dismissed?!? Huzzah! Christmas comes six months early this year! (Less one day…)
– Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH)
It’s a supremely wonderful day for equality. Prop 8 is over, and so is DOMA. Congratulations everyone. And I mean everyone.
– Ellen Degeneres (who married in the four-month window when gay marriage was previously legal in California) (@TheEllenShow)
Today is a good day. A great day. A historic day. So proud of our country. #love&equalityforall
— Debra Messing (@DebraMessing)
DOMA’s ruling is historic and a thrilling milestone in our American history. #SCOTUS. #HappyGayPride. #LoveIsLoveIsLove
— Cheyenne Jackson (@cheyennejackson)
A good day for equality indeed! Now come on California…don’t embarrass me.
— Alison Brie (@alisonbrie)
First Wendy, now DOMA gets the boot! Sometimes things are really great.
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham)
‘Any straight person complaining about the Supreme Court striking down DOMA should be forced to hire a heterosexual wedding planner.’
– Joan River (@Joan_Rivers)
Roland Emmerich Promises Gay Character For Independence Day 2
Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 and Godzilla hasn’t generally run around screaming about his sexuality at the top of his lungs. However he is gay, and indeed has said in recent years he’s been getting more involved in LGBT causes, such as the Gay & Lesbian Centre in Los Angeles.
Now he’s suggesting that he wants to bring a gay character into Independence Day 2, the planned sequel to his 1996 hit movie. Talking to the Huffington Post, he was asked if he would consider including gay rights in the storyline of one of his films.
He said, “Actually in the next Independence Day there is a gay character.” However when pressed for more info, he declined to comment. It’s safe to say though that the gay character won’t be the lead, as Hollywood is still rather afraid of that in its big budget movies.
It’s not the only gay theme Emmerich is thinking of bringing into one of his films, as he’s also planning a movie about the Stonewall riots, but that’s unlikely to come until after Independence Day 2, which is due out in 2015.
Dax Shepard And Kristen Bell Celebrate The End Of DOMA With Twitter Proposal
There was a lot to cheer yesterday when the US Supreme Court struck down key parts of DOMA (the Defense Of Marriage Act), meaning that the United States Federal Goverment could no longer deny benefits to same sex couple who were legally married. They also refused to hear a case involving Prop 8, the ordinance that banned equal marriage in California, meaning that same sex weddings are likely to begin there again soon.
One couple who were celebrating were Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, who’ve long been staunch supporters of gay marriage and vowed not to marry themselves until that right was also extended to gay couples.
After the rulings, Bell tweeted, ‘.@daxshepard1 will you marry me? Xo #marriageequality #loveislove’
While gay marriage still isn’t legal throughout the US, Bell obviously feels the SCOTUS decisions are strong enough that she can now marry Shepard with a clear conscience, especially now that the way has been cleared for gay people in California to marry.
Indeed, many now see equal marriage as somewhat of an inevitability throughout the US. There are still numerous obstacles to that, not least that while 13 states allow same sex marriage, there are more than that which specifically proscribe it, often within their individual constitutions. That’s not a complete block, as some states that once had bans (such as Connecticut) now allow same sex marriage, while others that specifically ban same sex marriage are on the road to overturning that, by retaining a ban on the word marriage but providing unions with rights similar to marriage.
Even Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who has long been the Court’s most unpleasant hater of all things gay has said he thinks equal marriage in the US is now inevitably, no matter how much he personally dislikes that.
And with Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell now likely to marry, will Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie now follow suit? They previously said they were waiting for equal marriage but that was getting more difficult to hold to. Perhaps now they’ll decide the time is right.
Thanks For Sharing Trailer – Mark Ruffalo & Gwyneth Paltrow deal with sex addiction
If you thought we’d dealt with sex addiction on screen with Choke and Shame, you were wrong, as it’s now getting a slightly comic treatment from The Kids Are All Right director Stuart Blumberg.
Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Gad, Tim Robbins, Joely Richardson, Carol Caine, Patrick Fugit and Alecia Moore (aka Pink) star in the movie, which is about group of characters who are all suffering from sex addiction. Meeting regularly for support sessions, each of them struggles with their own personal demons as it effects their personal lives, including their families, friends, and significant others.
The film debuted at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, but it won’t arrive in US cinemas until September 20th. No UK date is currently set.
Cameron Diaz To Be Annie’s Miss Hannigan After Sandra Bullock Steps Away
Cameron Diaz is set to be giving people a hard knock life as THR reports that she’s closed a deal to play evil orphanage owner Miss Hannigan in Sony’s updated version of Annie. Recently it was reported that Sandra Bullock was in talks for the role, but ultimately a deal couldn’t be struck and so Diaz has stepped in.
Of course, Miss Hannigan is the unpleasant, scheming woman who runs the orphanage that Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) lives in before being taken in by Daddy Warbucks (Jamie Foxx). Carol Burnett played Miss Hannigan in the 1982 films version of Annie.
Will Smith and Jay-Z are producing the movie and have been working behind the screen to update the music. Will Gluck is set to direct the movie from a screenplay that he is currently rewriting. Emma Thompson wrote the original draft, which was rewritten by Aline Brosh McKenna.
Keira Knightley To Produce & Star In The Other Typist
Keira Knightley is turning producer, as THR reports that she’s planning to produce and star in an adaptation of Suzanne Rindell’s novel The Other Typist, with Fox Searchlight set to back to the movie.
The book is about ‘Rose, a lonely and isolated typist in a police precinct who strikes up a friendship with a beautiful and mysterious co-worker who introduces her to the glamorous and forbidden underworld of 1920s New York.’
It’s still early days though, as no one has been set to write the script, and it doesn’t appear a director has signed up yet either. This will be Knightley’s first attempt to produce, so hopefully it’ll go well for her.
Joe Anderson Joins Dwayne Johnson In Hercules
British actor Joe Anderson is one of those people many have expected to break into the big time, but despite roles in Across The Universe, The Grey, The Crazies and Breaking Dawn Part 2, it hasn’t ever fully happened for him. However now he’s got another high profile role, as Variety reports that he’s joined the cast of Brett Ratner’s Hercules.
The film is based on the Radical Publishing graphic novel that takes a different approach to the Greek god, taking out many of the supernatural elements. Instead of being the son of Zeus, Hercules is a fierce mortal who is feared by many. When he leads his group of mercenaries on their latest mission, the job turns out to be much more complicated that previously imagined.
Dwayne Johnson is set for the title roles, with the likes of Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Aksel Hennie, Tobias Santelmann, Rebecca Ferguson and Ingrid Bolso Berdal also set to star. Anderson will play a marathon runner who sneaks around and brings news of enemy movements to Hercules and his crew.
Filming has already started in Budapest, with a July 25th 2014 release set. Before then we’ll be able to see Anderson starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Horns.
David Hasselhoff & Ray Liotta To Play Themselves In Stretch
Just yesterday we reported that James Badge Dale had joined the likes of Patrick Wilson, Chris Pine, Brooklyn Decker and Ed Helms in Joe Carnahan’s Stretch. Now the cast has expanded some more, with TheWrap reporting that Ray Liotta and David Hasselhoff have signed on to play versions of themselves in the flick, with Shane Toub also set to appear.
The film is about a downtrodden man (Patrick Wilson) who becomes the limo driver for an eccentric billionaire (Chris Pine). What he doesn’t know is that his boss is about to make his life a living hell. As the limo drives around, what the driver doesn’t know is that the billionaire is trying to sell a list of his criminal associates to the highest bidder, which means there are some very dangerous people looking for the car. Ed Helms will be the man’s limo driver colleague.
There’s no info on exactly how Liotta and Hasselhoff will fit into the film. It’s due to start shooting at the end of the month.
Vin Diesel Taking A Meeting At Marvel, But What For?
Normally early negotiations for films are hidden away from public sight and we only get to hear about them when people are close to signing on the dotted line. However Vin Diesel is a man who like to share, so he’d let us know, via Facebook that, “Marvel has requested a meeting… no idea what for… haha, you probably know better than me…”
It’s pretty much begging for speculation as to what role they want him for. Marvel Phase Two movies Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2 have not gone into production yet, neither has the only confirmed Marvel Phase Three movie, Ant-Man, so theoretically it could be one of them.
Other projects in development include Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and, much further down the line, The Avengers 3. Inevitably much of the speculation has Diesel as the African chief of the Panther Tribe of the advanced nation of Wakanda, T’Chall, aka Black Panther. However at this stage it’s purely speculation.
Pacific Rim – At The Edge Trailer – Loads more action from the massive monster movie
It’s not long until Pacific Rim hits cinemas on July 12th. Now Warner Bros has released a new, action-packed trailer, featuring more monster action and giant robots than we’ve seen before.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, and starring Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi and Ron Perlman, comes the sci-fi action adventure, Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ PACIFIC RIM.
‘When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that took millions of lives and consumed humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots. But in the face of the relentless Kaiju, even the Jaegers prove defenseless.
‘On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes – a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) – who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.’ [Read more…]
Milk Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black Shares Why The Equal Marriage Fight Is So Personal For Him
Dustin Lance Black won an Oscar for writing Milk, but in the last couple of years he’s become almost as well known as an activist, fighting against Prop. 8, which sought to ban gay marriage in California.
He helped to co-found the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) in order to challenge Proposition 8 in federal court, and he even wrote 8, a play showing what happened when the Californian courts struck Prop 8 down.
As the US awaits the Supreme Court decision as to whether they’ll allow that Californian court’s decision to stand, which is expected to come today, Black has been writing on Huffington Post about why the fight is so personal for him.
He sees it as a fight for his brother, who came out to him during the making of Milk, and who tragically died on cancer. Black writes, ‘My big brother is with me still in this fight. I know it. And regardless of the decision tomorrow, I know that together we will soon be equal in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states. Because this is personal. I know we as a people will not stop fighting until we live in a nation where we no longer leave a single one of our brothers or sisters behind, no matter whom they love or what state they call home.
‘For so many of us, for so many reasons and for so long now, tomorrow is, was and has always been about family… those we’ve loved, those we’ve lost, those we were born to, the families we’ve built and the families we still dream of building.
‘And for me, tomorrow is about my big brother.’
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