Ever since the cast for Gangster Squad started coming together – Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone – it appeared it could be something special. Now we’ve got the trailer and it suggests the film will be extremely cool. Here’s the synopsis: ‘Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and – if he has his way – every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart. Gangster Squad is a colorful retelling of events surrounding the LAPD’s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all time.’
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (Blu-ray)
Starring: Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Kelly Reilly, Robert Downey Jr.
Director: Guy Ritchie
Running Time: 129 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: May 14th, 2012
Director: Guy Ritchie
Running Time: 129 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: May 14th, 2012
All the way through 2010’s Sherlock Holmes, a shadowy figure lurked in the background who seemed to have a finger in every pie and used the mayhem Sherlock was involved with to his own ends. In A Game Of Shadows that figure steps forward, with Jared Harris as Professor James Moriarty, who is Sherlock’s intellectual equal, even if he uses his brains for very different ends.
A series of explosions is rocking Europe and threaten to destabilise the already tenuous peace between the nations, with war a very real possibility. As you’d expect, Sherlock is soon deep in this conspiracy and has very quickly worked out that Moriarty is involved. However it’s not enough to know who’s behind it, as there’s no tangible evidence. As a result Holmes must investigate and work out Moriarty’s end game in order to stop the villain. [Read more…]
Kyle Chandler Boards Scorsese’s Wolf Of Wall Street
With the shoot scheduled for this summer, Martin Scorsese is busy filling out the cast of The Wolf of Wall Street. He’s already got Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill onboard, and now Deadline reports that Kyle Chandler has signed on too.
The film is an adaptation of the Jordan Belfort memoir, which follows the multimillionaire stockbroker through his dramatic rise and fall on Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Belfort, who experiences a dramatic rise on Wall Street and gets lost in the drugs and excess of a hard partying lifestyle that comes hand in hand with all that money. His downfall is precipitous, as he spent 22 months in jail before straightening out his life.
Chandler will play FBI agent Coleman, who built the case against Jordan Belfort and took him down. Jonah Hill is playing Jordan Belfort’s close friend and business partner, who’s persuaded by Belfort to quit his job in the furniture business to jump into volatile world of stocks. The script was adapted by Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter.
Potter Producer David Heyman Taking Paddington Bear Big Screen
Harry Potter producer, David Heyman, is moving on to another much loved children’s character, leaving Hogwarts behind and teaming up with Studiocanal to bring Paddington Bear to the big screen for the first time.
The film will be a CGI/live action adaptation of Michael Bond’s best selling books, and designed as a modern take on Paddington, targeted at a wide family audience. A bit of a modern take is probably necessary, as while the Paddington tales are very charming, they’re a little bit staid for 21st Century cinema.
Since the first book’s publication, in 1958, the Paddington books have sold more than 35 million copies worldwide, in 40 different languages. Paddington was also recently named the UK’s most loved animated character.
The film, directed by Paul King (twice BAFTA nominated for Come Fly With Me and The Mighty Boosh), will tell the story of a curious young bear from deepest, darkeest Peru who finds his way to Paddington Station and is taken home by an English family. David Heyman commented, “Paddington Bear is a universally loved character, treasured for his optimism, his sense of fair play, and his perfect manners – and of course for his unintentional talent for comic chaos. Michael Bond’s books offer such wit and wonder, and I am so delighted at this chance to bring Paddington to the big screen.”
There’s no news on exactly when we might see the film in cinemas.
Logan Marshall-Green Playing Tennessee Williams In Lonely Hunter
Logan Marshall Green’s star is set to rise exponentially following the release of Prometheus next month, and in anticipation he’s already booking in new roles, with Deadline reporting that he’s set to play Tennessee Williams in Lonely Hunter.
The film isn’t all about Williams though (which is a shame, as he’s a fascinating figure, but a rather troubled and difficult one, which is probably why he hasn’t has a high profile biopic), instead concentrating on gothic novelist Carson McCullers (Jena Malone), whose circle included the likes of Williams, Truman Capote and Gypsy Rose Lee.
However it was gay playwright Williams who was her best friend and confidante. It’s not known how deeply the film will go into Williams story, who had a long, very difficult relationship to his sexuality, which was charted in his plays and ranged from acceptance to outright rejection.
Lonely Hunter hopes to shoot later this year.
Jaume Collet-Serra Is Going Non-Stop With Liam Neeson
Jaume Collet-Serra had a big success with Unknown, but has had difficulty sorting out a follow-up, with his plans for a live-action Akira put on hold not long before it was due to go into production. Now it appears he’s hoping for an easier ride by getting back into the Liam Neeson business, with Variety reporting that he’s attached to direct Non-Stop.
Jeff Wadlow was set to direct, but he’s since moved on, presumably because he’s now set to helm Kick-Ass 2. John Richardson and Chris Roach’s screenplay is set onboard an international flight and follows a weary air marshal (Liam Neeson), who has to spring into action to contain a threat while the plane is in the air.
It isn’t known when the film will start shooting.
Stephen Frears Frontrunner For Freddie Mercury Biopic
For quite a long time now Sacha Baron Cohen has been attached to star in a biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. The project is moving forward, with Variety reporting that Stephen Frears is the frontrunner to direct the film. He would seem good choice, having proven himself with biopics with The Queen, as well as showing his love of music in the likes of High Fidelity.
No deal is set yet and several other filmmakers are being considered, but at the moment Frears appears to have the inside track. The film would reunite Frears with The Queen screenwriter Peter Morgan, who’s been working on the script, with Stephen J. Revele and Christopher Wilkinson rewriting his drafts.
It’s previously been suggested that the film will deal with the star’s rise to fame, leading up to the classic performance at 1985’s Live Aid, and won’t cover his death from AIDS, which helped remove a lot of the stigma of the disease. It isn’t known how the film will deal with the singer’s sexuality, although presumably it will feature in the movie. The surviving members of Queen are all involved in the movie, ensuring the use of the band’s classic songs.
Roman Polanski Plans Political Thriller D
Roman Polanski’s criminal troubles seem to be on hold at the moment, and so he’s busy planning his next film, which Variety reports will be called D, and based on the Dreyfus affair ofthe late 19th Century. Robert Harris, who worked with Polanski on The Ghost, will write the script.
D is about a 1894 incident in which French Army Officer Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of passing along secrets to the German enemy. Dreyfus was one of the few Jewish officers in the French Army at the time, which added a whole new angle to a scandal that had him wrongfully imprisoned for 12 years.
While Polanski is Jewish himself and therefore has some personal connection to the story, there will undoubtedly be some who will wonder whether he’s looking at the imprisonment and persecution of Dreyfus as an allegory for his own legal troubles, which most recently saw him under house arrest in Switzerland, awaiting deportation to the US on underage sex and fugitive charges. He was eventually freed, although he’d still be locked up if he ever goes back to America.
There’s 10 Things I Hate About Life For Hayley Atwell
It’s 13 years since 10 Things I Hate About You was released in cinemas, so it would seem a bit late for a sequel, but nevertheless we’re getting one, as Variety reports that Captain America’s Hayley Atwell is set to star in a follow-up, 10 Thing I Hate About Life.
There’s not a huge amount of detail about the movie, other than that it will advance the situations from the original film and will be a rom-com about two people who meet when they’re trying to kill themselves. What that means is anyone’s guess, but director Gil Junger, who made the first film, will write and direct the sequel.
There’s no news on whether Atwell is taking over one of the roles from the first film, or if they’re trying to secure the likes of Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to return. The project has a rather odd genesis though, as Junger was inspired to write 10 Things I Hate About Life after discovering the body of a man who has killed himself at a scenic overlook. So it’s an unconventional impetus for a romantic comedy to say the least.
Pegg & Wright’s World’s End Aims For September Shoot
For a couple years now Edgar Write and Simon Pegg have been teasing fans with hints about a film called The World’s End. We knew they were writing it, but there’s been precious little firm news. However now that the script is complete, it’s been revealed things are moving forward, with a September shoot planned and a release tentatively set for spring 2013.
The film will conclude the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (also known as the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy), following Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz. Edgar Wright will once again direct Pegg and his longtime on-screen companion Nick Frost.
Here is the official synopsis, ’20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries.’
Once Edgar Wright is finished with The World’s End, he will move directly into The Night Stalker, a big screen adaptation of the cult TV series, which is set to star Johnny Depp as Kolchak, a Chicago newspaper reporter who stumbles into stories based in the Supernatural.
Paul Rudd & Amy Poehler Say They Came Together
After Role Models and Wanderlust, Actor Paul Rudd and writer/director David Wain are set to collaborate once again on the romantic comedy spoof, They Came Together, which also pulls in their Wet Hot American Summer cohort Amy Poehler, according to Variety.
The film is about Joel and Molly, two big city joes who fall in hate at first sight. He is a big time corporate manager who threatens to tear down her small knick-knack shop. Taking a page directly from You’ve Got Mail, the two begin an off-again, on-again romance that brings in all the classic staples of the rom-com genre.
Michael Showalter co-wrote the script with David Wain shortly after the duo finished work on Wet Hot American Summer back in 2001.
It was set to go into production around that time, but was shelved by Universal Pictures. Interest in the story arose again back in January, when Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler performed the screenplay live at the San Francisco Sketchfest. An actual set start date has not been announced, but the film will likely be ready for a 2013 release.
It Could Happen To You – Heartbreaking documentary about equality goes viral
It’s best not to say much about the 10-minutes documentary embedded above, other than to note that you might need more than a few tissues by the end of it. Made by Shane Bitney Crone about him and his boyfriend Tom, it’s a truly heartbreaking tale about the devastating consequences inequality can have.
It’s little surprise that in the three days since Shane released it on Youtube, its gone viral and been watched over 600,000 times. If this doesn’t make the case for equality and get you angry enough to act, nothing will, especially the day after North Carolina voters decided to enshrine in their constitution a provision against gay people being allowed to get married.
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