Tag Archive | "cinema"

Twilight New Moon behind the scenes footage

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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With the next Twilight movie, New Moon, about to hit cinemas very soon (not soon enough for some very eager fans, I know!), here’s a video of some behind the scenes footage via Collider.com to whet your appetite:

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Tron Legacy to get Imax release

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Imax announces that Disney’s Tron sequel, Tron: Legacy, will be released simultaneously in Imax along with the general 3D release on December 2010; that will look pretty mind-blowing, I’d bet (via the Hollywood Reporter)

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Night of the Living Dead remake

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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The seemingly endless cycle of remaking classic films rolls on; this time the film being pillaged by modern film-makers is George Romero’s landmark Night of the Living Dead, originally shot in black and white on a shoestring budget in the late 60s and mixing solid, contemporary horror (right in modern society, not in some remote [...]

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Sylvain White talks Ronin movie

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub talks to director Sylvain White about adapting Frank Miller’s Ronin over on Collider.com; it seems Sylvain wouldn’t want to slavishly copy the original graphic novel but adapt it to the film medium while drawing on the style and flavour of the comic, staying truer to the feel of the book rather than [...]

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Guy Ritchie to direct Lobo movie

Friday, September 4, 2009

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Variety reports that former ‘Mr Madonna’ Guy Ritchie, currently working on the Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law-starring Sherlock Holmes movie (which is creating quite a buzz in movie circles) will be directing a film based on DC Comics’ Lobo for his next flick. The alien bounty hunter, created by Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer, was originally [...]

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Tamara Drewe heading for the big screen

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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The BBC reports that the award-winning graphic novel Tamara Drewe is heading to the big screen. The tale of relationships, jealousies, loves and lust in a small English village sparked by the arrival of a vivacious young woman – the eponymous Tamara – was the creation of Posy Simmonds, one of the most interesting female [...]

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Scotland’s most Wanted: Mark Millar kicks ass at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Over the holiday weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival once again, this time to see top Scottish comics scribe Mark Millar on what I think was his first appearance at this venerable literary bash. I bumped into Mark outside the Writer’s Yurt just before the event was about to [...]

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Avatar 3-D trailer at the Glasgow IMAX

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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The Glasgow Science Centre folks tell us they are showing the fifteen minute 3-D trailer for James Cameron’s much-anticipated, highly secretive (let’s hope the finished work equals the hype!) return to feature films, the science fiction movie Avatar on August 23rd. They’re also offering one lucky soul a chance to win a pair of tickets [...]

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Who watches the Watchmen on the wall?

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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Artist Chu will be installing a piece of Watchmen inspired street art in the skatepark in London’s Southbank to mark the DVD release of Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel; Chu’s website has some preparatory sketches you can check out (as well as some other very cool street art). [...]

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UFO movie?

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Blockbuster Buzz picks up on news of yet another old show being rebooted, this time one of the wonderful Gerry Anderson’s early live action series, UFO, which is heading fora possible big screen outing, with legendary Hollywood figure Robert Evans producing and effects wiz Matthew Gratzner down for directing duties. I’ve always found UFO interesting [...]

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Den of Geek talks to Dave Gibbons

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Over on Den of Geek Michael Leader talks to the Dave Gibbons about the Watchmen movie as it comes out on DVD and how the addition of the Black Freighter and the ability to stop and re-watch scenes on disc adds to the sense of the film (I must confess I’m not convinced on that [...]

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Geek Syndicate interviews Duncan Jones

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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The Geek Syndicate boys interview writer/director Duncan Jones (the artist formerly known as Zowie Bowie) about his debut feature, the British indy science fiction movie Moon, starring Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey. I was lucky enough to catch the film a few weeks back at the Edinburgh Film Festival (reviewed here) and [...]

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Scarlett is the Black Widow!

Monday, July 20, 2009

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A glimpse of Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow in Iron Man 2; Scarlett in that costume, I simply don’t trust myself to comment… (from the cover of Entertainment Weekly, via Slashfilm)

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Natalie Portman joins Thor cast

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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V For Vendetta star Natalie Portman has been announced as the female lead for the upcoming Thor movie, which will be directed by heavyweight thespian-director Kenneth Branagh. Portman will play Jane Foster, a character who featured heavily in earlier Thor comics as the nurse assistant to Thor’s alter-ego Doctor Donald Blake and was more recently [...]

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GI Joe – making the grade

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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With the big screen outing for GI Joe heading our way soon the PR machine is beginning to crank up online and Jenny at Rubber Republic points us to this new quiz game, Make the Grade, which they’ve just put up, where readers get to test their knowledge of what’s true or false about the [...]

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