Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, its Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday Ill be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes well be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that wont make it to the US for a good while yet, and from time to time youll read about films that will never make it to the US at all.
Coming up after the break are images from Chris Morris' terrorism comedy Four Lions, reviews of Southern Softies and The Sarah Connor Chronicles, details on a gorgeous sounding Suspiria Blu-ray and a whole lot more.
Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch has already released the soundtrack album to his debut film God Help the Girl, despite not ...
/Film UK - Southern Softies, The Mighty Boosh, Tim Burton and More
Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, its Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday Ill be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes well be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that wont make it to the US for a good while yet, and from time to time youll read about films that will never make it to the US at all.
Coming up after the break are some Southern Softies, the true value of Kate Winslet, a couple of Nick Frost things, Coen Bros. and The White Ribbon competitions and an awful lot more.
According to a Jarvis Cocker interview with Quietus, the European DVDs of The Fantastic Mr. Fox could feature an alternative audio track on which ...
/Film UK - Sherlock Holmes, Sasha Grey, Bunny & the Bull, Wild Things Art and More
Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, its Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday GMT, of course Ill be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the film comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes well be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that wont make it to the US for a good while yet, and from time to time youll read about films that will never make it to the US at all.
Coming up after the break are a record breaking attempt from Mission: Impossible, Grant Morrison teaming up with Stephen Fry, your first chance to see The Princess and the Frog in the UK, Steve Martin playing banjo and an awful lot more.
This Saturday night, Pinewood Studios are hoping to set a world ...
/Film UK: HG Wells, The Coens, Johnny Depp, New Toy Story 2 Trailer and More
Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, its Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday morning GMT, of course Ill be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the film comings and goings here in UK. Sometimes well be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that wont make it to the States US for a good while yet, and from time to time youll read about films that will never make it to the US at all.
Coming up after the break are The Coens, The Horseman, a new HG Wells adaptation, Johnny Depp playing guitar and an awful lot more.
Those krazy Koen Coen Bros. have been in town promoting A Serious Man which screened this week at the LFF and hits UK screens on November 20th. I ...
Soderbergh Talks About His Action/Spy Film Knockout, Compares It to Point Blank
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:56 AM | From /Film
You might have read about Steven Soderbergh making an action thriller with MMA fighter Gina Carano and been interested, but perhaps not actually excited. That's about where I was, though the involvement of his screenwriter from The Limey, Lem Dobbs, was definitely a point in the movie's favor. But with Soderbergh describing the movie as a combination of old-school Bond and John Boorman's standard-setting weirdo action thriller Point Blank, my interest in Knockout just shot up to stratospheric levels.
Learning that Soderbergh and Dobbs were going all Point Blank on this one shouldn't come as a big surprise. Soderbergh is a big enough fan of Point Blank that he appeared on the commentary track on the film's US DVD release, and he acknowledges that he borrowed from the movie left and right for The Limey. (The commentaries on both Point Blank and especially The Limey are essential listening; the latter is ...
About two years ago, Paramount Vantage started production on a thriller titled CARRIERS about a viral pandemic and starring a young actor named Chris Pine. Vantage, the indie studio of Paramount, hoped the film would be a hit like 28 DAYS LATER was for Fox Searchlight. But the film had its problems, which were only worsened when Paramount decided to do away with Vantage entirely. But now Chris Pine is the star of...
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Vantage Point Director Pete Travis To Update Shakespeares Macbeth
Modernizing Shakespeare is so hot for 09. A few weeks ago we learned that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke is tackling an update of the Bards Hamlet starring Emile Hirsch. Now The Hollywood Reporter brings news of a modern-day makeover of Macbeth titled Come Like Shadows. Little has been revealed about the plot or contemporary alterations [...]
Vantage Point Director Pete Travis to Update Shakespeares Macbeth
Modernizing Shakespeare is so hot for 09. A few weeks ago we learned that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke is tackling an update of the Bards Hamlet starring Emile Hirsch. Now The Hollywood Reporter brings news of a modern-day makeover of Macbeth titled Come Like Shadows. Little has been revealed about the plot or contemporary alterations [...]
Sigourney Weaver to star in "You Again." Actress in talks for "Paul"
Sigourney Weaver will star in Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' You Again as well as being in-talks for "Paul" from Universal Pictures and Working Title.
In the Greg Mottola-directed comedy Paul," Weaver's role is being kept under wraps. The story follows two science fiction fans played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who encounter an escaped alien near Area 51 and undertake helping it escape.
In "You Again," she joins Kristen Bell in the Andy Fickman-helmed film. Bell plays a woman who comes home for her brother's wedding and sees to her horror that he's actually marrying her high school nemesis. Weaver is in as the bride's stinking-rich aunt.
"Paul" would shoot first.
Weaver was last in Universal's animated family adventure "The Tale of Despereaux" as well as "Wall-E," "Baby Mama" and "Vantage Point."
"Endgame" - Sundance Film Festival gallery!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 6:58 PM | From MovieJungle
Check out new images from "Endgame," currently at the Sundance Film Festival and starring William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong, Derek Jacobi and Timothy West.
Pete Travis ("Vantage Point") helms the drama from the writing by Paula Milne.
Focuses on the secret talks between Afrikaans members of South Africas government and ANC exiles wo worked together to secure the release of Nelson Mandela and end Apartheid in South Africa.
About two years ago, Paramount Vantage started production on a thriller titled CARRIERS about a viral pandemic and starring a young actor named Chris Pine. Vantage, the indie studio of Paramount, hoped the film would be a hit like 28 DAYS LATER was for Fox Searchlight. But the film had its problems, which were only worsened when Paramount decided to do away with Vantage entirely. But now Chris Pine is the star of...
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