Movies

After over 40 years since the original, Disney’s impending remake of YELLOW SUBMARINE from writer/director Robert Zemeckis (BACK TO THE FUTURE, A CHRISTMAS CAROL) has been cast.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, comedian Peter Serafinowicz will play Paul McCartney, with Robin Hood star Dean Lennox Kelly as John Lennon, Cary Elwes as George Harrison and...
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Twilight star Kristen Stewart and An Education’s Carey Mulligan have been nominated for this year’s Orange BAFTA Rising Star Award. Stewart’s Adventureland co-star Jesse Eisenberg, ex-Skins actor Nicholas Hoult and A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim complete the nominees for the prize. Some of the previous winners of the award include Eva Green, James McAvoy, Shia LaBeouf and...
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn could begin filming later this year, according to the movie’s producer. Producer Wyck Godgrey, in speaking to the Los Angeles Times, revealed that it still had not been determined whether the fourth installment in the vampire series will be divided into two movies, but that plans are to begin production...
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Movie bosses have ordered a series of re-shoots, so Josh Brolin is heading back to Jonah Hex, the upcoming blockbuster. Brolin plays disfigured bounty hunter Hex in the Western, a big screen adaptation of the popular comic books, along with Megan Fox and John Maklovich. According to the Hollywood Reporter, although shooting on the big budget...
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Eric Rohmer, French film maker died on Monday at the age of 89.  Relatives said he had been hospitalised a week ago but did not give further details of his condition. Rohmer’s films, widely distributed abroad, explored relationships and love affairs with understated performances and delicate attention to visual detail. He emerged in the 1960s as...
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Almost 20 years separate the 2008 release from the last Indy movie before it, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” and those 20 years do show. Still, Harrison Ford would be happy to do another Indy movie if there’s good reason. According to Larry Carroll, from MTV last week when interviewing Ford for this week’s...
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Marvel super-heroes have been box office gold these past few years – X-Men, Spider Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Thor – quite a line-up. Prior to the release of X-Men back in 2000, we would have to say that comic book hero movies were really bad, that’s not to say that there...
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Johnny Depp, Sandra Bullock and Hugh Laurie won the leading prizes at the People’s Choice Awards. Depp was named the Favourite Movie Actor and his Sweeney Todd co-star Sacha Baron Cohen honoured him with the Favourite Movie Actor of the Decade prize. Baron Cohen revealed the event organisers decided to give Depp the special award after...
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The Hurt Locker dominated the National Society of Film Critics ceremony on Sunday, landing three of the top awards.   “The Hurt Locker,” which takes place in 2004 (it was filmed mostly in Jordan), depicts men who risk their lives every day on the streets of Baghdad and in the desert beyond, and who are too...
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Avatar, the science fiction epic, has become the fastest movie ever to achieve $1bn (£625.6m) at the box office. Movie giant 20th Century Fox said the film had earned more than $350m (£218m) in the US and over $670m (£415m) in the rest of the world in 17 days. This 3D science fiction blockbuster was directed...
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