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

Blue Jasmine Trailer – First look at Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen’s latest

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As is the way with Woody Allen movies, we’ve heard little about the plot of Blue Jasmine, meaning that trailer is our first proper chance to see what the movie is all about.

The only earlier info was that it follows ‘the final stages of an acute crisis and a life of a fashionable New York housewife (Cate Blanchett)’. The actress’ character, Jasmine, is used to wealth and privilege, thanks to her husband (Alec Baldwin). However, when everything falls apart and Jasmine starts to have a nervous breakdown, she moves to San Francisco where she can stay with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins).

Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg also star. It hits US cinemas on July 26th, with a September 20th UK date seblue-jasmine-poster1t. [Read more…]

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The Frozen Ground Trailer – Nicolas Cage & Vanessa Hudgens hunt John Cusack

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Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and Vanessa Hudgens team up for the thriller The Frozen Ground, which looks both chilly and moody in this trailer.

The film follows Alaskan State Trooper Jack Halcombe (Cage), who sets out to end the murderous rampage of Robert Hansen (Cusack), a serial killer who has gone unnoticed for 13 years. As the bodies of street girls start to pile up in Anchorage, fear strikes a chord with the public. Risking his life, Halcombe goes on a personal manhunt to find the killer before the next body surfaces. When a seventeen year old escapee (Hudgens) reveals key information about the case, Halcombe is finally on the trail of the killer. But will he catch him in time to save the next victim?

It’s due out in the US on August 26th and should reach the UK later this year. [Read more…]

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Dustin Hoffman & Judi Dench Up For Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot

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judi-denchYou might expect a Roald Dahl adaptation to be looking for young faces, but Esio Trot is slightly different, and so the first names attached to a movie version are Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench, according to Showbiz 411.

Irish director Dearbhla Walsh is behind this one, taking on Dahl’s sweet but slight tale (which will presumably be expanded for the screen. It follows Mr. Hoppy, a bashful older gent who falls is in love with Ms Silver, the woman who lives underneath him. She has a tiny pet tortoise that she wishes would grow larger, and so Mr. Hoppy comes up with a scheme to help.

It’s the sort of quirky tale that could make for an entertaining movie, and it will be interesting to see if they make this as a children’s film or try for something a little more grown-up.

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Vince Vaughn Gets Term Life With Director Peter Billingsley

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Vince-VaughnVince Vaughn’s passion project The Internship may have disappointed on its US opening, but the actor is pushing ahead, signing up to star in Life Term, based on A.J. Lieberman’s graphic novel, according to The Wrap.

It will follow ‘Nick Barrow, who specializes in planning heists and tricks before selling them off to the highest bidder. When one of his heists goes bad, everyone involved wants him dead, from mob bosses to contract killers and corrupt cops’.

What The Wrap doesn’t mention is that the hook in the graphic novel is that Barrow takes out a life insurance policy, so he can leave money for his daughter if he does die, but it won’t pay out for 21 days, meaning he has to stay alive at least that long.

The movie will reteam Vaughn with Couples Retreat director Peter Billingsley. An early 2014 shoot is tentatively planned.

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Teaser Poster Arrives

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Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) will be back on December 13th when The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hits cinemas.

Now the first poster for the movie has emerged, with Bilbo standing in front of the entrance to the mountain that contains untold amounts of gold, and also the dragon Smaug. Unsurprisingly, this beast is going to cause a lot of trouble for The Hobbit and the band of dwarves he’s travelling with.

We’ve also been promised that the first trailer for the movie will arrive on Tuesday, so look out for that!

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Mel Gibson May Be The Expendables 3 Villain

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Mel-gibsonSylvester Stallone is busy pulling together the cast of The Expendables 3. Just last week it was revealed that Nicolas Cage, Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes and Milla Jovovich are in talks to star. Now Showbiz 411 reports Mel Gibson is likely to play the villain in The Expendables 3, although nothing has been confirmed.

Back in April, Stallone suggested that he wanted Mel Gibson to direct the action sequel, but that job actually went to Aussie director Patrick Hughes (Red Hill). Sylvester Stallone also wrote the screenplay for The Expendables 3, but no story details revealed just yet, so we don’t know what Gibson’s villainous character might be up to.

An August 15, 2014 release date has already been set.

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The Purge Tops The US Box Office, With The Internship Disappointing

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the-purge-posterBox office watchers had been expecting The Internship to disappoint at the box office due to soft tracking, but few had thought The Purge would do as well as it did. While there were already rumbling it might have a chance of topping the box office, in the end it not only took the number one spot but did so with style, taking $36 million.

That’s particularly impressive considering it only cost $3 million to make. It’s also a record for an original R-rated movie, overtaking last year’s The Devil Inside.

In the end The Internship could only make it to the number 4 slot, taking $18.1 million. That’s actually ahead on some people’s expectations, but still a disappointment for a $60 million movie that many had expected to hit it big, especially with the Wedding Crashers reteaming of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

This weekend also saw Fast & Furious 6 and Star Trek Into Darkness pass the $200 million mark, while The Hangover Part III passed $100 million.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of June 7th-9th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 The Purge $36.3 $36.3
2 Fast & Furious 6 $19.7 $202.9
3 Now You See Me $19.5 $61.3
4 The Internship $18.1 $18.1
5 Epic $12.1 $84.1
6 Star Trek Into Darkness $11.7 $200.1
7 After Earth $11.2 $46.5
8 The Hangover Part III $7.3 $102.3
9 Iron Man 3 $5.7 $394.3
10 The Great Gatsby $4.2 $136.1
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Dream On (DVD)

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Set in the 1980s, Paul (Bradley Cross) is a 16-year-old, shy, Rochdale lad who heads with his mum on holiday to a camp site in Wales. There he meets Londoner George (Joe Gosling), who’s far brasher than Paul and also unafraid to skirt the law, such as shoplifting and drinking. They strike up a friendship, which by the end of the holiday has developed into something more.

The lads agree to meet at the camp the following year, at which time they plan to run away together to Australia. Paul spends the next 12 months saving and waiting for the day he’ll be reunited with George, but will his boyfriend turn up? [Read more…]

Men To Kiss (Männer zum Knutschen) (DVD)

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Men To Kiss is a bit of an odd movie. It’s entertaining even while a lot of it is complete nonsense, and it’s fun even when it’s difficult not to feel the wrong thing is happening.

Ernst (Frank Christian Marx) and Tobi (Udo Lutz) are a couple who may be ready to take the next step in their relationship. However Ernst is starting to feel out of place, as he doesn’t know many people in Berlin, so his only friends are Tobi’s. He’s therefore pleased to see his old mate Uta (Alexandra Starnitzky), even if she is rather pretentious, biting and rude to those she sees as being beneath her – which is pretty much everybody. [Read more…]

Gay Rapper Animated Series Chozen Picked Up By US TV Channel FXX

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Chozen-preview-picThe new US TV channel FXX has decided to make its very first animated series, and it’s going a bit LGBT to do it. It’s been announced that they’ve ordered a show called Chozen, about a gay rapper.

The comedy comes from the creative teams behind Eastbound & Down and Archer, and follows ‘a gay white rapper fresh out of prison with a new message and new skills, which he will use in his quest for redemption and domination’.

The voice cast will include Grant Dekernion, Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live), Hannibal Buress (Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell), Michael Pena (Gangster Squad), Nick Swardson (Parks and Recreation), Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down), Kathryn Hahn (Anchorman), and Method Man (The Sitter).

Grant Dekernion will also serve as writer and executive producer, and he will also be writing and rapping the songs. Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green from Rough House Pictures (Eastbound & Down) are Executive Producers. Adam Reed and Matt Thompson of Floyd County Productions (Archer) are Executive Producers and their company will animate the series.

FXX is a spin-off of the popular channel FX, which will be geared towards a young adult audience. It’s due to launch in the States on September 2nd, 2013.

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Gay-Interest Indies Kill Your Darlings & Dallas Buyers Club Get US Release Dates

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kill-your-darlings-daniel-radcliffe-dane-dehaanTwo of the biggest gay interest movies of the year, the Daniel Radcliffe starred Kill Your Darlings and Matthew McConaughey’s Dallas Buyers Club, has just been given their US cinema release dates.

Sony Pictures Classics has set Kill Your Darlings for a limited theatrical run starting on October 18th, with plans to roll it out nationally after that. Focus Features meanwhile has given Dallas Buyers Club a prime Oscar slot, with a release planned for December 6th.

Kill Your Darlings charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. Chronicle star DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Huston).

During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – the gay Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers.

Dallas Buyers Club sees McConaughey as real-life Texas electrician Ron Woodroof, an ordinary man who found himself in a life-or-death battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies. In 1986, Ron was blindsided by being diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live.

With the US still internally divided over how to combat the virus and restricting medications, Ron grabbed hold of non-toxic alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Seeking to avoid government sanctions against selling non-approved medicines and supplements, he established a “buyers club,” which fellow HIV-positive people could join for access to his supplies.

Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto (as a cross-dressing gay man), Steve Zahn, Dallas Robert and Griffin Dunne also star.

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Roland Emmerich Plans Sci-Fi Drama Emergence

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roland-emmerichWhite House Down director Roland Emmerich already has a bit of history with alien invasions thanks to Independence Day, and now he’s returning to the genre by acquiring a pitch for a sci-fi project entitled Emergence, which he will direct.

The pitch comes from writer Nic Kelman, which Deadline reporting that it offers, “A new take on an alien invasion story containing hot-button science elements.” Unfortunately there’s no details on exactly what makes this invasion different. Kelman should be good at adding the science though, as he has a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT, and a Masters of Fine Arts from Brown University.

There’s no studio attached as yet, and it isn’t known if this will be Emmerich’s next movie. He’s also developing Singularity at Sony, and is attached to direct Asteroids, The Zone, Foundation, and the Independence Day sequels ID Forever – Part 1 and ID Forever – Part 2.

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