Filmstalker: October 2011 Archives

Machine Gun Preacher

There's been a lot of talk about Machine Gun Preacher and the potential of Gerard Butler's performance, I've been saying it too, everything lines up for a typical Hollywood slingshot for a nomination or two. There's the true story which is emotionally strong, someone fighting for what he believes against...

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Schwarzenegger hits comeback with Navy SEALs team

Arnold Schwarzenegger may have The Last Stand and The Expendables 2 lined up but he's not sitting around and he's definitely lining up for a big time return to action. To be honest I thought he might be pulling through an action film or two and a bigger cameo in...

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Ti West's The Innkeepers genuinely scares

The trailer for Ti West's latest film The Innkeepers really does manage to scare and capture the horror beats that are so often missed perfectly. With the deluge of completely non-scary horror films that reveal too much too often, this trailer is a refreshingly strong promise of what's to come....

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ParaNorman teaser suggests darker Coraline

ParaNorman does carry a similar feel to Coraline (Filmstalker review), and the writer and co-director Chris Butler was in fact on the art department of that film, as were much of the animation team. However while this might carry a similar look and feel to Coraline, the story is different,...

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New trailer for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

I'm confused about the different titles, according to some reports in the UK we'll hear it referred to as The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists and in the US it will be called The Pirates! Band of Misfits, whereas other reports are saying that the original title was Misfits...

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Stalked:The Sweeney; Bond 23; Travolta fights De Niro; Donaldson's Cities; Schweiger's The Guardian; Sheen and Coppola; Beetlejuice 2; Penn directing De Niro

Lewis, Atwell, Mackintosh join The Sweeney... Finney joins Bond... Travolta fights De Niro... Donaldson's Cities gains cast... Schweiger writing, producing, directing and leading The Guardian... Charlie Sheen stars in Coppola's next film... Beetlejuice 2 really happening?... Penn directing De Niro?......

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Apocalypse Now: Three Disc Blu-ray

How do you review Apocalypse Now? It's been reviewed, critiqued and analysed to bits, from students to film-makers and even by the man behind it all Francis Ford Coppola multiple times. You could say that the film is review proof as everything that could be said about the film has...

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Flame and Citron

I had this film on my watch list for a long time, it's one of those that you know you should watch but you never quite get round to. That was a bad decision, or lack of decision, for it stars Mads Mikklesen in a story based on fact about...

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Blockbuster losing fight for consumer?

Studios finally seem to be accepting that the online rental through download and streaming is a great way to beat piracy and move with the times (see this previous Filmstalker article), however today we're hearing that one studio is still fighting the consumer demand, and the rental service that is...

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New Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol trailer

There's a new scene packed trailer for Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol online, introduced by Brad Bird himself, and it looks damn good. We get a clear view of the set-up for the team and what they're up against, as well as some complex dynamics that are being teased within the...

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New Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within trailer

The new trailer for Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within is well worth highlighting as it shows something very clearly about the new film, it is not merely a continuation of the previous film. This trailer clearly shows that the scope and scale of the film has been increased and...

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Stalked: Damon; Affleck; Scorsese; Carnahan; The Snowman; Ils remake; Sherlock Holmes 3; The Lost Symbol; Branagh; Italian Shows

Damon and Affleck on FBI Mafia informant film... Scorsese directing Carnahan's version of Nesbo's The Snowman?... Ils (Them) remake gains director... Sherlock Holmes 3 gains writer... Director for The Lost Symbol... Branagh directing Swedish novel adaptation......

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Stalked: Asimov; Foundation; Reeves; Twilight Zone; Vaughn; Millar; Secret Service; Superior; Wachowski; Jupiter Ascending

Asimov's Foundation finds writer... Matt Reeves for Twilight Zone... Vaughn directing Millar's Secret Service or Superior... Wachowski's next is Jupiter Ascending......

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Stalked: Marie Curie; Top Gun II; Downey Jr.; Accidental Genius; Lone Ranger; Attack the Block

Marie Curie biographical film... Top Gun sequel gains writers... Downey's an Accidental Genius... Lone Ranger is a go... Attack the Block sequel?......

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Stalked: Stiller; Horror;Schwarzenegger; Last Stand;Downey Jr.; Perry Mason; Mortal Kombat; Paranormal Activity

Ben Stiller directing horror?... Schwarzenegger's Last Stand has huge cast... Downey Jr. as Perry Mason... Depp as Dr Seuss... Mortal Kombat reboot... Fourth Paranormal Activity......

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What will Mendes Bond be like?

There's been a bit of rumour about Bond 23, I mean when is there not rumour about a new film, particularly a Bond film that is supposed to be one of the money earners of the restructured MGM, and while I don't tend to like wild rumours, there's something interesting...

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Grace Kelly the film not about Kelly?

Grace Kelly's story is an incredible one, a leading Hollywood actress whose private life attracted a lot of attention before she married royalty in Monaco where died in a car accident aged 52. It sounds like a perfect story to be made into a film. However it seems that the...

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District 13 remake or American sequel?

When a foreign non-English language film does well American studios are all over it, especially when it does well in English language countries, for there's always an opportunity to make the same film in English and get an audience to see it and earn some money. Of course there's then...

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Spielberg talks Jurassic Park IV and Indiana Jones V

Most are all excited about the fact that Steven Spielberg has been commenting on the not so strong aspects of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Filmstalker Review), but for us that's not so breaking news, the part that has interested me in this story were the...

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The Dark Tower budget cuts and new ending

It looks like good news for everyone wanting to see The Dark Tower adapted to film - no, another studio hasn't picked up the film to get behind the adaptation, at least not yet - but it would appear that there have been budget cuts made on the production and...

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The Sweeney to start filming

It seems an age ago we started talking about the film adaptation of The Sweeney television series, and equally ages have passed since I posted those publicity shots of the two actors set to replace the fantastic pairing of John Thaw and Dennis Waterman from the original series. Now though...

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Lesbians cut from Without Men in Spain

I'm a little bit uncertain about what is exactly going on here with this story, but it appears that scenes starring Eva Longoria kissing another woman (and perhaps not much more considering the film we're talking about) have been edited out of the Spanish release of the film Without Men...

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Ben Affleck directing The Stand?

I saw this news last week but it's still standing out for me as a big story and well worth looking at, for the news is that Ben Affleck is being looked to as a director of The Stand, the adaptation of the Stephen King novel which so far we've...

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In the Land of Blood and Honey trailer

The trailer for In the Land of Blood and Honey has arrived, and for those of you who haven't been holding on to the news about what this means it's the trailer for the debut film from writer and director Angelina Jolie. What's more, if you didn't know the story,...

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Silenced aka The Crucible (Do-ga-ni) trailer

Here's an interesting film that is based on a true and harrowing story of a community who seems intent on hiding the horrible abuses that are happening at a local school for the disabled, and how one man tries to expose what is going on there in order to stop...

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Another Tyrannosaur trailer

Paddy Considine's film Tyrannosaur does look great, not just because he's written and directed the film, but because of the talent involved - Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan are the main characters in the film and featured in the trailer and they instantly add a weight to the...

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Laranas' The Road trailer

Since I watched Sigaw (Filmstalker review) I've been watching out for Yam Laranas, writer, director, cinematographer, producer, cameraman, and who knows what else, for that film was damn good and managed to genuinely unnerve and scare me. I haven't seen his next film Patient X yet but he's already onto...

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Hostel Part III trailer

I'm not that interested in a third Hostel film, I think we've seen all we're going to see from the series and all that's left now is to deliver more of the same with more gruesome and inventive ways of killing people, a bit like the Saw series. However there's...

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Assassin's Creed the film

Videogame adaptations have not been as bad as people think or say, in fact some of them have been damn good both in terms of their connection to the original game and in terms of being a good film. Of course there have been bad ones, but they've not all...

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Singer's Battlestar Galactica writer promises something new

Reading the article about the announcement of the writer for Bryan Singer's new Battlestar Galactica film you're aware of the wording of one of the comments he makes about the new film, a film that is being kept very secret at the moment. He says something that indicates which way...

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Black Gold (Or Noir) trailer feels epic

Jean-Jacques Annaud has directed the film Black Gold (Or Noir) in the Sahara, no closed studio sets and CG landscapes here, and he's pulled together a fantastic and diverse cast for the film, Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, Tahar Rahim and Corey Johnson. The film, written by Annaud and...

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The Three Musketeers opening five minutes

I can't cry foul too much at the opening five minutes of The Three Musketeers because there's no over use of 3D, the flying boats aren't in there yet, and it isn't overusing the Resident Evil fight scenes either. Oh, and if you're confused let me tell you that all...

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Warners says yes to Akira remake

Akira, the much talked about live-action remake of the cult anime has been given the go ahead by Warner Bros., which finally means the project can move forward and we can really start to hear some genuine news about the intent and casting on the film. Appian Way is still...

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First person Heroes type film Chronicle gains trailer

There's a mix of genres going on in the Max Landis written and Josh Trank directed film Chronicle, and while most places seem intent on us not seeing it, as the trailer is pulled from YouTube and certain worldwide music related sites don't let anyone outside of America see it,...

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Actress sues IMDb over Hollywood ageism

An actress, who is currently trying to remain anonymous, is suing IMDb for releasing her age online, stating that it's going to have a harmful effect on her career in Hollywood who are clearly ageist and so she would have to lie about how old she is to keep getting...

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Cannonball Run to gain General Motors as backer?

It was November 2011 when we first heard the rumour of a remake of the excellent The Cannonball Run, but nothing came of the story and it was a year later in November 2008 that we heard that it wasn't happening because of difficulties in getting hold of the rights....

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows second trailer

A new trailer has arrived for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the sequel to the original from director Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams and with added Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan and more. It's looking rather good and delivers strong,...

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Charlotte Rampling: The Look trailer

Directed by Angelina Maccarone, Charlotte Rampling: The Look is a kind of biographical film about the actress, but as the blurb and the trailer suggest there's more to it than that, it seems to take a rather philosophical look at life and Rampling's thoughts on the subject. The film does...

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Piranha 3DD teaser trailer

Oh dear me. Big breasts, older stars, and a gimmick stolen from another film make up the teaser trailer for Piranha 3DD which looks, as one might expect, cheap and ridiculous. I don't know what else there is to say about this. Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton have written the...

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Monahan reveals The Departed sequel core

William Monahan hasn't been approached to write the sequel for The Departed, but he has a damn good idea and is ready to forward with it. I guess the only problem is that no one is up for making it yet. Yet. I think though as this idea of Monahan's...

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Singer to restart Battlestar Galactica film?

Back when we first heard the idea that Bryan Singer was to bring Battlestar Galactica to the big screen I was excited, I think many science fiction fans were, but the project faltered along the way. First the events of 9/11 stopped production and in the downtime the remade television...

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Another two Transformers? Another two Fast and Furious? Statham?

I'm at odds with this rumour since I just heard another one about two more Fast and Furious films back to back with the possibility of Jason Statham getting on board, and that sounds strangely familiar for while the story is out that Hasbro are talking to Steven Spielberg and...

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New trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

A new trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn has arrived online and it does offer something more than the ones we've seen previously, more of the overall story, more of the other characters, and more of the 3D effects we're going to be seeing. This...

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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of my Father CIA Spymaster William Colby featurette

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of my Father CIA Spymaster William Colby is a hell of a title, which I think might just be reduced to something like The Man Nobody Knew. It tells the story of a man's search for the truth about his father, a man who...

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New London Boulevard U.S. trailer

Amazingly London Boulevard hasn't been released in the U.S. yet, so to mark the upcoming release in November there's a new trailer released and it's looking really strong. If you're in a country that's already seen this released and you're seeing the trailer without having seen the film, you're surely...

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The Devil Inside trailer, the usual possession horror?

I feel like singing INXS, however when you watch the trailer you might not. It's not a bad trailer, in fact it has more story than most possession films, but the scares just don't come through in it at all and while there is a little bit of dread of...

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YouTube start film rental in UK

It's interesting that I was just writing about how some cinemas are holding the studios to ransom over them moving to try out new models of distribution in order to maximise profits and curb piracy, and then just a few days later the story arrives that some big studios have...

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The Crow fails to fly again

What's happening to The Crow remake? It seems to be following in the tradition of the curse or conspiracy that some tend to believe is behind the film, or as I'd prefer to look at it, the production is having as many difficulties as a large percentage of films do....

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Shame trailer arouses

The trailer for Steve McQueen's upcoming film Shame does manage to stir the senses and arouse emotion, even if you aren't totally sure of the story it's telling, the actors and the feeling of events becoming bigger and darker around the characters is enough to swing you in the direction...

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This Means War trailer turns me around

I've gone through a rollercoaster of emotions on this trailer. Tom Hardy pulled me up; the other names kept me steady; the blurb plummeted me to the bottom; the opening raised me to the top; the mid section right back down again, and surprisingly, by the end, I was back...

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New Woman in Black trailer

This will be the second trailer for Woman in Black, the latest from the revived Hammer studio, another foray into old skool horror with a modern twist, and a remake of the 1989 television film which proved rather scary and found a place with horror fans who liked the more...

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Cinemas thwart Studio plans to modernise Hollywood

It's clear to many outside the industry of music and film that they need to move on with technology and the consumer. Rather than fighting, prosecuting, circling the wagons and protecting their old marketplace and revenue model, they should be finding ways to exploit the new marketplace. So it's surprising...

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Albert Nobbs trailer disguises Close performance

I'm really not sure how I should take the trailer for Albert Nobbs for it concentrates the attention on what for me is the wrong part of the story. I ended up thinking about the marriage and relationship between a woman pretending to be a man and a woman who...

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Act of Valor features real Navy Seals

The trailer for Act of Valor surprised me, mainly because I didn't realise it was happening but also because it looks so action packed and looks so Hollywood, except it's based on reality and features real life, in active duty, Navy SEALS. If you're like me you're trying to reconcile...

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RentaGhost back to life

Last we heard about the Hollywood remake of the British television series RentaGhost was that Russell Brand was involved and the production was off to try and find a writer to deliver something in the style of Beetlejuice and Gremlins. Now, some ten months later on from the original story,...

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New Sleeping Beauty unnerves

A new trailer for Sleeping Beauty has arrived and it not only shows more of Emily Browning, but it also delivers a very unnerving feeling to the story, one that builds as the trailer goes on. It's very cleverly put together to put the images and the voiceover at slight...

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Bond 23 title, baddie and end location

Bond 23 is really moving forward. We have news that the lead baddie has been cast, a few snippets of information about the ending, and a rumoured title. Out of all this we can gleam that the production is moving forward and we're definitely going to see a Sam Mendes...

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Suing Drive over a bad trailer?

You know on some levels I agree with Sarah Deming of Michigan, trailers can be very misrepresentative of films, and you could watch a trailer, decide to go and see the film, and when you come out you wonder what the connection was. Usually though it's because the trailer looked...

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Alan Turing the Hollywood film

Alan Turing, the man who is widely accepted as the "father" of computer science and who devised a series of techniques for breaking German ciphers including the bombe, a machine which could find the settings for the Enigma code machine, will receive another outing in film. He's already been referenced...

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Gens' The Divide trailer looks fantastic

For me this trailer beats the arrival of The Avengers trailer hands down. The Divide is directed by Xavier Gens and stars Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Lauren German, Michael Eklund, Rosanna Arquette, Ashton Holmes, Courtney B. Vance, Iván González, Jennifer Blanc and Abbey Thickson as a group locked...

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The Avengers trailer arrives

The Avengers trailer has arrived, a film starring some of the biggest superhero characters we've seen, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, and some that we haven't seen on their own yet, Hawkeye and Black Widow. We're missing a few names I think, but it is only the...

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Is John Carter set for downfall?

Director Andrew Stanton has been talking about how he would like to make John Carter into a trilogy, however there's going to be a stumbling block in the way, Disney, or rather their accounting department, because according to Stanton the only way we'll get to see another one is if...

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Polanski's Carnage gains new trailer

There's another trailer out for Roman Polanski's next film Carnage, and it looks fantastic. I love the comedy brought through these four characters and their normality, there are identifiable moments and dialogue throughout the trailer, and it looks like the kind of film that would really get me laughing. At...

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Loach's Oranges and Sunshine trailer

No it's not Ken Loach, although looking at the trailer and story you could probably see similarities, its Jim Loach, his son. Known for his television directing this marks his first feature and with Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson and David Wenham starring, he's off to a good start. The adaptation...

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Angels Crest trailer emotionally strong

The opening for the Angels Crest trailer did just the right thing for me, as I watched the first few shots I found myself wondering what it was doing and why we were being shown the main character wondering off. I thought the trailer had it wrong, but I had...

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Director wanted out of Dream House credits?

There are rumours that the director of Dream House, Jim Sheridan, was trying to remove his name from the credits of the recent film Dream House starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and Elias Koteas, and although he hasn't gone through with it, it would seem that there is...

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New Coriolanus trailer impresses

There's a new trailer for the Shakespearean adaptation from Ralph Fiennes which stars Gerard Butler, Brain Cox, Jessica Chastain, Vanessa Redgrave, James Nesbitt, and many actors to represent the story's move to Eastern Europe. It looks fantastic and promises a strong mix of action and acting as the Shakespearean story,...

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New Haywire trailer sells it

The new trailer for Haywire really does a great job of selling the film by delivering the big names in the cast, hints at some great action, and letting Gina Carano rule every scene she's in by really getting into the thick of the action. What I particularly like about...

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The Raven trailer online

The Raven starring John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and from director James McTeigue has arrived with an action packed trailer, I tell you things weren't that different back then and if they had fast cars they'd be racing around in them just as they are...

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Steve Jobs biographical film?

I don't think there's any surprise that there will be a film made about Steve Jobs, the iconic leader of Apple, and I don't think there's a real surprise that big studios would be after it, but would it be a surprise that Sony were the ones to make the...

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Goon trailer, fighting on the ice

The Goon trailer tells the story of the film which is about an ice hockey player hired purely for his fighting abilities, which I thought every team did, but then I have no knowledge of ice hockey nor any understanding why they would fight rather than play. That said the...

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The Silence (Das letzte Schweigen) International trailer

An international trailer for The Silence (Das letzte Schweigen) has arrived online, and I was excited to see it, but when I pressed play I was rather disappointed. Not by the film or what it promises, but by what the trailer delivered. The film does look good, with a few...

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Closed: Win an exclusive T-Shirt from the film Albatross

The British film Albatross is due in cinemas on the 14th of October and to celebrate the fact I've been given five t-shirts to give away, exclusively from the film itself and worn by one of the leads, Jessica Brown Findlay. The shirts are rather cheeky and funny and look...

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The Human Centipede 2 gets rated, causes fuss

The decision of the BBFC to deny The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) a certificate and their announcement that they couldn't see how it could gain one even with cuts gathered a fair bit of controversy, but their decision to release it after cuts were made and with lengthy discussions...

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Zorro, the reboot?

Why do we need another reboot of Zorro? Seriously, why? Oh, forgive me this isn't a remake this is an origin tale, and it won't be a remake because we've never seen the origin tale have we? Writers are on the case and Sony believes that there's something to be...

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Halo film by Spielberg and DreamWorks in 2012?

There's a great rumour that's just appeared online, and how I wish it would turn out to be true, and I'm sure most of the Halo fans out there wish it were going to be true as well. It goes like this; Halo is to be started next year by...

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Miss Bala trailer hits hard

The trailer for Miss Bala makes me realise what I was missing at the press screening I could have attended this week, if I didn't have a real job that is, for it carries a strong concept and what promises to be a hard hitting performance. This is the kind...

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Young Adult double trailers

Diablo Cody writing, Jason Reitman directing and Charlize Theron starring in the lead, and everyone talking about it, then the trailer should have me hugely excited for the film. Well I did feel a bit of a let down, but it does look quietly fun. There are two trailers out...

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Arthur Christmas trailer gives a warm feeling

I wasn't really that interested in watching or writing about the trailer for Arthur Christmas, but then as I watched it I was starting to feel a little smile grow, little mind you, and somewhere during the trailer I realised it was kind of fun. I'm not totally sold on...

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New Tower Heist trailer tries hard

The new trailer for Tower Heist is really doing a job of repositioning itself from the previous trailers, and not because of the joke about epilepsy being removed, although the aftermath of that is still in there, but because it's trying to bring out the action and heist elements much...

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Vaughn and Millar deliver Multiple Sclerosis superhero

Mark Millar's latest comic book series, Superior, is just about to release issue five and already it's been bought up to be made into a film by Matthew Vaughn, the man who delivered Kick-Ass. The comic has been getting a lot of positive reviews, and not just because the main...

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Resident Evil: Retribution - What's going on?

Recent news has baffled me on the return of Resident Evil to film. I didn't think it was going to be a surprise to hear that another one was in the works, and considering the topic of the film and what it delivered I've thought they've been getting better and...

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Mr. Ed the film, really?

So there's going to be a film version of Mr. Ed, you know the talking horse film, and I can't help but wonder why. After all surely it will only appeal to American audiences as Mr. Ed really didn't become a great big hit elsewhere, did it? The selling point...

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My Week with Marilyn trailer arrives

The trailer for My Week with Marilyn has arrived, and it shows Michelle Williams selling the performance physically, if not totally verbally, she's definitely close to the character. Alongside her she has Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Judi Dench, Toby Jones, Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper, Dougray Scott, Derek Jacobi,...

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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn new trailer

A new trailer has arrived for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, this is the International trailer that builds up a rather epic adventure story, which is no surprise considering that this is Steven Spielberg. I know people are thinking Indiana Jones in 3D cartoon style, but...

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Another Princess Diana biographical film

There's another Princess Diana biographical film in the works although this one does not intend to be a straight to television or DVD one that we've seen before as it intends to carry a larger budget, and uses a few people who actually were a little closer to her than...

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A new Battle of Britain film

When I heard there was going to be a new Battle of Britain film I wasn't sure, after all the epic Battle of Britain is a superb recreation of events and is one of the greatest war films there is out there, and with Hollywood's desire to retell history through...

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Another Happy Day trailer

Another Happy Day is one of those dysfunctional family dramas and so it didn't set me alight when I started watching it, but as it went on I was starting to get sold on it. The trailer makes it feel a bit more raw and hard hitting than ones we've...

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War Horse trailer arrives

A full trailer for the Steven Spielberg War Horse has arrived, and it looks gorgeously shot, wonderful lighting, bold strong colours, and some impressive first World War imagery, not to mention the amount of horse filled sequences. Then there's the Spielberg stirring music which can touch the heart on its...

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Stalked: The Shining II; Diablo Cody; Lamb of God; Justin Timberlake; Casablanca Records; Joseph Kosinski; Spinning Gold; Maria Callas; Alex Proyas; Paradise Lost; The Thing; Juan Carlos Fresnadillo; Highlander; 13: Game of Death; Ness/Capone

Stephen King is writing The Shining II... Diablo Cody's Lamb of God casting... Timberlake joins Casablanca Records... Kosinski's former Oblivion gains cast... Maria Callas biographical film... Proyas' Paradise Lost casting... The Thing prequel prequel... Highlander remake gains director... 13: Game of Death remake gains director... More realistic Ness/Capone film......

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Filmstalker's Films for October 2011

This month promises a bumper of films to talk about. I've not just selected the UK releases that I'd recommend, but there are a few in here that have caught my eye and made me wonder if I might go and see them, and a couple I'd just avoid like...

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The Twilight Zone by Nolan?

There are rumours that a number of big name directors are up for taking the lead on a new film version of The Twilight Zone, and by film version I mean that it won't be so episodic where we see different directors making different segments, but one director controlling the...

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The Lady rousing trailer release

There's a full trailer out for the film that will tell the dramatic story of the Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi who was put under house arrest for an obscene amount of time by the governing army after standing up for the rights of the people who were...

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October 31, 2011

Machine Gun Preacher

Schwarzenegger hits comeback with Navy SEALs team

Ti West's The Innkeepers genuinely scares

ParaNorman teaser suggests darker Coraline

New trailer for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

Stalked:The Sweeney; Bond 23; Travolta fights De Niro; Donaldson's Cities; Schweiger's The Guardian; Sheen and Coppola; Beetlejuice 2; Penn directing De Niro

October 29, 2011

Apocalypse Now: Three Disc Blu-ray

Flame and Citron

October 28, 2011

Blockbuster losing fight for consumer?

New Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol trailer

New Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within trailer

October 27, 2011

Stalked: Damon; Affleck; Scorsese; Carnahan; The Snowman; Ils remake; Sherlock Holmes 3; The Lost Symbol; Branagh; Italian Shows

Stalked: Asimov; Foundation; Reeves; Twilight Zone; Vaughn; Millar; Secret Service; Superior; Wachowski; Jupiter Ascending

Stalked: Marie Curie; Top Gun II; Downey Jr.; Accidental Genius; Lone Ranger; Attack the Block

Stalked: Stiller; Horror;Schwarzenegger; Last Stand;Downey Jr.; Perry Mason; Mortal Kombat; Paranormal Activity

What will Mendes Bond be like?

Grace Kelly the film not about Kelly?

District 13 remake or American sequel?

Spielberg talks Jurassic Park IV and Indiana Jones V

October 25, 2011

The Dark Tower budget cuts and new ending

The Sweeney to start filming

Lesbians cut from Without Men in Spain

October 24, 2011

Ben Affleck directing The Stand?

In the Land of Blood and Honey trailer

Silenced aka The Crucible (Do-ga-ni) trailer

Another Tyrannosaur trailer

Laranas' The Road trailer

Hostel Part III trailer

October 21, 2011

Assassin's Creed the film

Singer's Battlestar Galactica writer promises something new

Black Gold (Or Noir) trailer feels epic

The Three Musketeers opening five minutes

October 20, 2011

Warners says yes to Akira remake

First person Heroes type film Chronicle gains trailer

Actress sues IMDb over Hollywood ageism

October 19, 2011

Cannonball Run to gain General Motors as backer?

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows second trailer

Charlotte Rampling: The Look trailer

Piranha 3DD teaser trailer

Monahan reveals The Departed sequel core

Singer to restart Battlestar Galactica film?

Another two Transformers? Another two Fast and Furious? Statham?

New trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of my Father CIA Spymaster William Colby featurette

October 18, 2011

New London Boulevard U.S. trailer

The Devil Inside trailer, the usual possession horror?

October 17, 2011

YouTube start film rental in UK

The Crow fails to fly again

October 16, 2011

Shame trailer arouses

This Means War trailer turns me around

New Woman in Black trailer

October 13, 2011

Cinemas thwart Studio plans to modernise Hollywood

Albert Nobbs trailer disguises Close performance

Act of Valor features real Navy Seals

RentaGhost back to life

October 12, 2011

New Sleeping Beauty unnerves

Bond 23 title, baddie and end location

Suing Drive over a bad trailer?

Alan Turing the Hollywood film

October 11, 2011

Gens' The Divide trailer looks fantastic

The Avengers trailer arrives

Is John Carter set for downfall?

Polanski's Carnage gains new trailer

Loach's Oranges and Sunshine trailer

Angels Crest trailer emotionally strong