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

Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone Joins The Dead Men

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Jackson Rathbone

While some actors have done well out of being in the Twilight franchise (Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Anna Kendrick), for many it hasn’t been quite the leap into the a-list it might have seemed like it was going to be. That’s true of Jackson Rathbone, whose role as Jasper Hale hasn’t really equated to major stardom.

The same is true of Diego Boneta, who may have thought the world would be at his feet after scoring the lead role in Rock Of Ages, but we haven’t heard much from him since. Now Rathbone and Boneta are teaming up for the thriller The Dead Men, according to THR.

The movie is about ‘an American running from his past who is brought into a group of young underground radicals called The Dead Men, only to discover a centuries-old spiritual battle.’

Sounds like it’ll be dealing with the supernatural then, but there’s no info on who Rathbone or Boneta will play. Kirk Sullivan, a longtime assistant to mega-producer Joel Silver, will be making his directorial debut with the film, with Andrew Poston on scripting duties.

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Universal Plans Timecop Reboot (But No JCVD This Time)

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timecop-poster1I’ve often thought the 1994 sci-fi action-thriller Timecop was a good idea given a mediocre treatment. Obviously Universal Pictures feels the same, as THR reports that the studio is seeking writers to craft a completely re-imagined movie based on the film’s concept.

Jean-Claude Van Damme starred in the original as a security company agent who regulates time travel. He tangles with a corrupt politician (Ron Silver) with ties to his past. As you might have expected, Jean-Claude Van Damme will not be a part of this new project.

Timecop is based on the Dark Horse Comics series created by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. The 1994 movie also spawned a short-lived Timecop TV series in 1997 and a 2003 straight-to-DVD sequel Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision. There’s no news on when the new film might shoot.

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Cate Blanchett & Mia Wasikowska On For Carol, With Todd Haynes Directing

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Cate-BlanchettTodd Haynes, director of I’m Not There, Velvet Golmine and Far From Heaven, has signed up to direct Carol, which has Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska attached to star, according to ScreenDaily.

News of the first surfaced last May, when John Carney (Once) was attached to direct. He has had to back out due to scheduling conflicts, with Haynes stepping into the breach. The movie is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novella The Price of Salt, which follows the relationship between two women in 1950s New York.

One is a young department store clerk (Wasikowska) who dreams of a better life, and the other is a woman (Blanchett) trapped in a loveless marriage. Playwright Phyllis Nagy wrote the screenplay adaptation.

It isn’t known when it might shoot.

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Naked As We Came Trailer – Winner of numerous LGBT film festival awards

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Naked As We Came has picked up several gongs on the film festival circuits, including Audience Award – Best feature at the Long Island LGTB Film Festival, Audience Favorite at the Cinema Diverse Film Festival,  Festival Favorite as QFest Philadelphia and Best Drama at Out In The Desert Film Festival. Now you can take a look at the trailer above.

After an unexpected phone call, Laura and her brother Elliot rush to their family’s country estate to find their mother, Lilly, gravely ill and living with a handsome young stranger named Ted. Estranged for some time, their mother’s condition sets Laura and Elliot on a path to realizing where their own lives have gone wrong. Lilly, on the other hand, has mellowed from the controlling woman she was and is hoping to pass on some wisdom to her children. Now her kids find themselves dealing with their own feelings of resentment and broken dreams while trying to figure out how Ted fits into their mother’s life. But Ted has a secret of his own.

Find out more at the film’s website. [Read more…]

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Man Of Steel Gets A New Trailer – The fate of our planet rests in Henry Cavill’s hands

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While early trailers for Man Of Steel were all moody and contemplative, thing have gotten ever more action-packed and explosive as we’ve neared the released, until we get to this new trailer, which is essentially 105 seconds of gargantuan special effects.

It looks pretty cool though.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth.  As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do.  But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

‘The film also stars four-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (“The Master”) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White.  Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (“Dances with Wolves”).

‘Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road”), and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue (upcoming “The Seventh Son”).  Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Ayelet Zurer (“Angels and Demons”), and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”).’

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New The Wolverine Trailer – Hugh Jackman gets haunted by Famke Janssen

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While director James Mangold has said The Wolverine is a stand-alone movie, this trailer certainly plays up the links both the X-Men movies (Logan being haunted by the death of Jean Grey) and Origins: Wolverine, while still ensuring this looks like something new.

It also gives up our first look at the rather fearsome Silver Samurai in action.

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he will face a host of unexpected and deadly opponents in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.

The Wolverine opens in cinemas on 25th July 2013.

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New The Lone Ranger Trailer – Armie Hammer & Johnny Depp saddle up

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Hollywood hasn’t had much luck with blockbusters westerns (The Wild Wild West pretty much killed off studio interest for the last decade), but Disney will be hoping for more from its $200+ million The Lone Ranger. And from the evidence of a new trailer that’s popped up over at Apple, the film is looking pretty good.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ “The Lone Ranger,” a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero  is brought to life through new eyes.  Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice—taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.’

It’s out July 3rd in the US and August 9th in the UK.

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A Field In England Trailer – Plus a new poster for Ben Wheatley’s unusual flick

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There’s been a lot of interest in A Field In England, the latest movie from Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley. Now we can get our first taste of the black and white film with a trailer and poster. It’s getting an unusual UK release, as it’ll be the first ever British film released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, on free TV (Film 4) and on VoD on Friday 5th July.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘England during the Civil War.

‘A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O’Neil and Cutler. O’Neil (Michael Smiley), an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.

‘Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

‘A Field in England stars Michael Smiley (Kill List), Peter Ferdinando (Tony), Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), Richard Glover (Sightseers) and Ryan Pope (Ideal).’ [Read more…]

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Fresh Byzantium Trailer – Saoirse Ronan And Gemma Arterton thirst for blood

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Byzantium definitely looks intriguing, even if it met a bit of a mixed response on its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival at the end of last year. However this new trailer look pretty good, with Neil Jordan going back to the world of bloodsuckers for the first time since Interview With The Vampire.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) is a precocious girl with a bent for storytelling. A natural introvert, her idea of a good time is to put pen to paper and reflect on her inner life. Her “sister” Clara (Gemma Arterton) is the complete opposite: extroverted and sexual, she struts around in stilettos and skin-tight garb, attracting hungry male gazes wherever she goes. Both carry secrets from deep in their shared past — all 200 years of it — which bubbles to the surface as Jordan wends his way through the twists and turns of the plot.

‘It turns out that Clara was involved in a passionate love affair during the Napoleonic Wars, while at the same time Eleanor was abandoned as a child. In the present, both seek to preserve their secret from their unsuspecting new companions. Eleanor falls for a sweet young waiter (Caleb Landry Jones), while Clara settles on a homey, unsuspecting man (Daniel Mays) who has just come into an inheritance: the Byzantium Hotel, which has seen better days. The fun begins as Eleanor and Clara shack up in the hotel, feeding off their victims while attempting to stay one step ahead of their pursuers, who are hot on the duo’s trail after Clara rather violently disposes of a particularly seedy pickup.’

The movie, which also stars Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley, and Tom Hollander, will be out in the UK on May 31st and the US on June 28th. [Read more…]

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New Posters For The Smurfs 2 & Mandela Biopic A Long Walk To Freedom

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New posters have popped up online for the Nelson Mandela biopic Long Walk To Freedom, as well as the very different (but I suspect higher grossing) The Smurfs 2. Or perhaps they won’t be so different and Smurfs 2 will be a searing indictment, of South African apartheid. But probably not.

Idris Elba plays Mandela in Long Walk To Freedom, which will chart Nelson’s life from his boyhood through his work as an anti-apartheid campaigner, onto his long imprisonment, until he finally became President of South Africa.

The Smurf 2 meanwhile is about little blue people, who do face oppression from Gargamel, but which isn’t quite the same as what Mandela had to deal with. The non-Smurfs in the pics below are Vexy (Christina Ricci) and Hackus (JB Smoove). They’re Naughties that are created by Gargamel. The plot involves the Smurfs ending up in Paris, and Smurfette getting kidnapped – although she may have the secret of how to turn the Naughties into real Smurfs.

The Smurfs 2 is out this summer, while Long Walk To Freedom is eyeing a Oscar-bait November release.

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Josh Hutcherson Is Going Ape In A New Psychological Thriller

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Josh-HutchersonThanks to The Hunger Games, Josh Hutcherson now has much more power to pick and choose the projects he’d like to work on, and it seems one that he fancies is the dark psychological drama Ape. It’ll be a bit of a departure for the actor, who has had some serious roles (The Kids Are All Right), but has generally steered clear of thriller territory.

TheWrap reports that newcomer Jon Johnston has come up with the script, while Miguel Sapochnik is set to direct. There aren’t too many details on the plot, other than that it’s about a young man who struggles with “mental illness, love and a deep-rooted family secret.”

Hutcherson describes it as, “A passion project for us and to see it get made would truly be a dream come true.” Hopefully that means this isn’t just another generic thriller. There’s no news on when it might shoot.

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Zac Efron Becomes A Narc In A New Crime Thriller

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Zac Efron is busy filling his development slate with new movies at the moment, and it seems he wants to try something a little darker than usual, as he’s signed up for the Fox crime drama Narc, according to THR.

The movie based on a true story and follows a promising college student who gets in massive trouble when he is caught with a bunch of cocaine that he was going to sell at a party. However, he makes a deal with the cops by agreeing to be an undercover informant.

Newcomer Garrett Meyer will writing the script, which is described as a “a college-set Donnie Brasco”. It doesn’t appear a director is set as yet.

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