Filmstalker: December 2011 Archives

Happy Hogmanay and 2012 to you all

Happy Hogmanay to you all! Today is the last day of 2011, and I might just try and skip out and see a film before it does end, perhaps The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, maybe Margaret, maybe even Sherlock Holmes which I haven't seen yet, who knows. Of course...

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Kill List

Kill List has received some very positive comments from critics and done well at the British Independent Film Awards with a good few nominations and a win for Best Supporting Actor for Michael Smiley. It's a British thriller and horror that I feel is going with the wave of current...

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Stalker's Top Ten 2011: Mark Buckley's Learnings

Filmstalker's Stalker's Top Lists for 2011 kick off with Mark Buckley, regular on the Filmstalker Audiocast, the site and the Stalker's Top Lists. He's always coming up with funny and innovative lists and this year is no different. For 2011 Mark has learned a lot from cinema, and some of...

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Filmstalker's Films of 2011

2011 is almost over and it's been a good year for films although I didn't get to see, or write up, all the films I wanted to as my life has been busy this year and meant I've had the least amount of time I've ever had to look after...

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Shame

Shame has received some great reviews and critical comments already and you just have to look at some of the trailers to see the style oozing through the screen. Since it comes from Director Steve McQueen who co-wrote it with Abi Morgan, and stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in...

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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

I am a big fan of the Mission: Impossible series, and who isn't a fan of the excellent first film in the franchise? For many though the series started slipping straight after this first film and a move to more action and less thriller meant the films have become more...

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Merry Xmas from Filmstalker

Whether you celebrate this time of year or not and whatever reasons you do celebrate it for, can I just wish you and your dearest all the happiness and joy of the season, of health, happiness and fun, and if you are celebrating with family and/or friends tomorrow I do...

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Prometheus trailer analysed

So the trailer for Ridley Scott's Prometheus has arrived, and even despite the two leaked trailers and plenty of screen shots I'm still totally captivated by it and amazed how much of it looks like and connects with Alien, especially for it not being an Alien prequel. The trailer looks...

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Prometheus teasers examined

While we're waiting for the full trailer for Ridley Scott's Prometheus to arrive later today, I've been grabbing some screenshots from the countdown teasers to have a look at them and see if there's anything to glean from them, and there is. The teaser has a couple of shots that...

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Fast and Furious Six and Seven? Really?

Vin Diesel is a terrible one for talking up a film before it's released, and he's at his old tricks again talking about the next instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise and saying that there was just so much in the idea for the sixth film that they've had...

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This Must be the Place trailer

For a film that boasts a story about an aging rock star who discovers his father was in a concentration camp and spent the rest of his life searching for the Nazi war criminal who tormented and tortured his father and murdered many others, and who now takes up the...

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Game Change teaser trailer arrives

I always like how film and television makes politicians seem so cunning, and the trailer for Game Change does just that, with Ed Harris playing John McCain asking for his staff to find him a woman to compete against the game changing arrival of Barack Obama. Then, there she is,...

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Update: Prometheus teaser trailers and new bootleg

There's a big countdown to tomorrow because the Promestheus trailer is being released on the world, and while we've seen a very grainy and horrible version there's a new bootlegged version out there to tease us some more, and it's much better quality. However if you don't want to go...

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey trailer

I really like the new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, it does two things well, it shows us a clear path of new characters and story while retaining the feel and style that we loved so much with Lord of the Rings, as well as the crossover of...

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The Bourne Rift, is it the end for Bourne?

What is said with Bourne stays with Bourne. That's how it has seemed regarding the breakup of the Bourne franchise anyway, and what we thought was really happening was just another production break-up as talent went their separate ways and no one could agree to letting Paul Greengrass have his...

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The Dark Knight Rises official trailer

The trailer for The Dark Knight Rises arrived in full high definition glory and I do find it a little flat compared to what I was expecting and what had come before. I do hope that this film is going to be as strong as the previous. It does promise...

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Wrath of the Titans trailer, more in 3D

With Clash of the Titans doing so well it's surprising that the studio went forward with another Titans film, but then it is in 3D so everything will be alright, as long as they throw more things at the screen it'll be much better. Well it looks like they might...

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The Dark Knight Rises trailer isn't the Prologue footage

The Dark Knight Rises trailer has been seen before Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and has been recorded and released online, and the first thing that I realised is that this is not the Prologue footage that so many, including myself, were shown the other week, this is a proper...

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen trailer looks good

Lasse Hallström directs a Simon Beaufoy screenplay from the Paul Torday novel about, well, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The story is just that, a Sheik wants to start the sport of Salmon fishing in the Yemen and a Scottish fisheries expert is hired by a consultant to look into...

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300 Prequel casts and reveals story

I have to admit that I was wondering if the prequel to 300 (Filmstalker review) would ever really happen. There has been a lot of talk about it since the original was released and did so well, but since then there's not been a great deal of movement. There have...

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Oldboy cast changes and grows

Spike Lee has been busy with his remake of Oldboy, and it looks like this one isn't going to end up falling by the wayside. We heard that Josh Brolin was playing the protagonist of the story and that Colin Firth was being offered the leading role, but it would...

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Ridley Scott refutes Prometheus Alien talk

It's been unclear which way that Prometheus is going to go, we've heard the official word and the comments from the film-makers and stars that this may be an Alien prequel but there's no Aliens as we remember in it, and that this was more of a stand-alone story, but...

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Another Act of Valor trailer hits hard

What's surprising about this new trailer for Act of Valor is that it doesn't concentrate on the fact that it features real life Navy SEAL soldiers in the film, nor that it recreates real situations that soldiers have faced, not even that the film features some of the state of...

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Beneath the Darkness sees bad guy Quaid

I like Dennis Quaid in films but he's not often playing the bad guy, in Beneath the Darkness he's doing just that, he's playing a really bad guy and a creepy one to boot. He's a man who is obsessed with his dead wife, so obsessed he keeps her around...

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Filmstalker Film Club Xmas 2011

It's Xmas again, boy has it come around fast, and so perhaps for the final time I've pulled the Filmstalker Film Club together to talk about the best Xmas films and it's producing plenty of disagreements between the three of us, let's see if you agree, or more likely you...

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Filmstalker Film Club Round 8

We're back with the eighth round of the Filmstalker Film Club and it may be based around an old story, but the final choice of film is very relevant and caused a good deal of discussion that is sure to cause some people quite an upset. The reason? Well we...

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Filmstalker Reader's Top Tens of 2011: Call for submissions

How fast has this year gone? Really fast is the answer. I can't believe we're here already, festive time is around the corner and the end of 2011 won't be far behind, then it's another year of fun, laughter and tears, some of which will be had in the cinema....

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Jack the Giant Killer trailer arrives

The trailer for Bryan Singer's version of Jack the Giant Killer has just been released and it looks big, bold and perfect for IMAX. It's the old story with a few cinematic twists and Bryan Singer's unique take to make it much more epic and as it would turn out,...

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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance trailer looks much better

How much better does Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance look than the original Ghost Rider? Well you can see for yourself with the release of the new trailer, and I'd say this sequel from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor of Crank (Filmstalker review) fame is back and hitting hard. Oh,...

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69th Golden Globe Award Nominations

The Golden Globe award nominations are in, these are the 69th (giggle away) and are labelled as the 2012 awards, which I can never understand as the awards are for the films in 2011, never mind let's move on. The nominations are here, and you should really see them read...

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Argento's Dracula 3D is a comedy

Dario Argento has been working on his Dracula film in 3D, a film that has attracted Rutger Hauer, Asia Argento and Thomas Kretschmann to the film, and it's no small wonder for Dario Argento has a classic reputation. However having seen the promo trailer for his Dracula 3D I have...

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Sources hype up Thor 2 trouble

As always the invisible "sources" are hyping up potential trouble on the production of a film without really any comments from actual people behind them, isn't this the kind of thing that the Levenson enquiry in Britain is looking into? Well they're out there, and if you believed them you'd...

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The Dark Knight Rises Prologue teaser at IMAX

I was lucky enough to get tickets to see the six minute preview of The Dark Knight Rises in IMAX and even though I live an hour's drive from the cinema and the preview is hitting IMAX screens before Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol which I'm also going to see, I...

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Lockout changes name, gains new trailer

The name change for Lockout adds even more confusion to the Guy Pearce starring action film co-written by Luc Besson, James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, directed by Mather and St. Leger, and starring Pearce, Peter Stormare, Maggie Grace, Lennie James, Vincent Regan and Jacky Ido. Mainly the confusion is...

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The Expendables II teaser arrives

Just in time for Christmas there's a present for all the fans of The Expendables out there, and that does include me even if I think the film itself was sub-par, it's the line-up of stars that did all the hard work and attracted so many people to the film,...

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[REC] 3: Génesis trailer online

Anew trailer has appeared for [REC] 3: Génesis, which won't surprise you to know is the third in the [REC] series of films which have been proving rather popular and with the second film managed to do much more than a conventional sequel. More than that it managed to do...

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Rock of Ages trailer

I haven't seen the musical, I wasn't that interested in the idea of a film version of the Rock of Ages stage show, but now I've seen this trailer I am totally sold and I'll be buying tickets from day one. Okay the soundtrack had something to do with that,...

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The Dictator trailer arrives

Oh dear. The teaser trailer for The Dictator is hugely disappointing and one which raised nothing audible from me at all, either positive or negative. Personally I thought it was rubbish and just filled with more of the Borat rubbish that is being churned out for the talented Sacha Baron...

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The Black List 2011 delivers the most liked scripts

The Black List, in case you didn't know, is a list that circulates Hollywood of the most liked unsigned scripts. Those are scripts that are sent around Hollywood executives and their assistants to read and judge whether they are worthy of being passed up the chain and purchased to be...

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Perfect Sense theatrical trailer

I like the idea of the story behind Perfect Sense, well when I say like I think it's a terrible thing that could happen and wouldn't wish it at all on anyone, but the story is an intriguing one and makes you wonder what would you do and what would...

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer features Rock and Willis

The trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation has arrived, and while the preview of the trailer yesterday sold us the ending, one reason I didn't write anything about it, the new trailer looks kind of fun actually, and I might just be tempted by this. However I did think that Channing...

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New UK ParaNorman trailer is full of screams

The new trailer for ParaNorman looks rather good, frantically paced, plenty of comedy, and lots and lots of screaming. ParaNorman is a stop-motion comedy horror featuring a boy who can see ghosts. He's quite content with that but then one day the whole town starts seeing them as they come...

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Men in Black III teaser trailer online

The trailer for Men in Black III has appeared online, where did that come from all of a sudden? Plus it's the official one, not even a bootleg so I am confused. There had been reports of troubles on set, although they did sound like the troubles that so many...

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The Evil Dead remake isn't really The Evil Dead

According to reports the remake of Evil Dead is taking a slightly different direction to the original Evil Dead and there are two key ingredients missing from the remake. However it may not actually be a bad thing for the film and it might turn out to be the best...

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The Flowers of War trailer

Christian Bale is escaping Batman as we speak and his latest film is The Flowers of War, a film about a Westerner who saves a group of women from a terrible fate during the Japanese invasion of Nanking. What's particularly surprising about this film is that it's a Chinese film,...

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New Battleship trailer looks and sounds like Transformers

There's a new trailer for Battleship, the Peter Berg film that is based on the board game Battleship, yes the game from Hasbro who have been taking all their games to Hollywood. Unsurprisingly it looks nothing like Battleship, but it does look a hell of a lot like Transformers and...

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The Thing

The Thing is not a remake of The Thing, which itself is not a remake of The Thing from Outer Space, it is instead a prequel of The Thing, which is an adaptation of the original story "Who Goes There?" which The Thing from Outer Space also adapted and is...

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The Wicker Tree new darker trailer

The Wicker Tree, the Robin Hardy directed film companion to The Wicker Man is online with more footage than the previous trailers I've seen so far. Hardy has written and directed this film from his book which he wrote as a companion story to the original The Wicker Man which...

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. gains new team

Guy Ritchie and Lionel Wigram are in negotiations to work on the new The Man From U.N.C.L.E. film. Now I'm not sure if this means that Ritchie would be directing the film, although there's a damn good chance of that, but Wigram is his new production partner and after the...

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American Psycho remake

This news hit me hard today, I couldn't believe it but it would seem that Lionsgate are steaming ahead with a remake of American Psycho and it could well be with a director who is making his feature film debut. Add to that the film is being pitched as a...

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Star confirms Top Gun Sequel

Tom Cruise has confirmed he's in the Top Gun sequel, or rather he confirmed that he's in talks with the director Tony Scott to bring the film to life, but there's a big if in there and it's still a huge gap to a sequel getting made. Of course it...

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New The Iron Lady trailer

A new trailer has arrived for The Iron Lady, the film about the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, her rise to power and her time through some of the highs and lows of Britain and its politics. While there has been some negative commentary about the film portraying the woman...

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Wish You Were Here trailer

I haven't heard a thing about this film, until seeing this trailer, and what caught my eye and prompted me to press play was the appearance of Joel Edgerton whom I have started to gain more and more respect for after seeing him in a number of strong dramatic roles,...

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The Three Stooges has a trailer

Ouch. Okay, I have to admit I did laugh at a few moments of the trailer for The Three Stooges, and it's definitely worth pointing out I am not a fan of the original team and have never even watched a full film of theirs, so perhaps I'm not the...

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Addiction Incorporated trailer intrigues

Now here's a powerful film that is the real life story of The Insider, a scientist who had been working for a large tobacco company on making cigarettes more addictive but less harmful, and in the process he proved that nicotine was addictive, something the companies themselves denied. He took...

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The Five-Year Engagement trailer

I kind of liked the trailer for The Five-Year Engagement, although I have to say that's entirely down to Emily Blunt who gives a natural and cheeky performance, but for others there's also Jason Segel starring in this film from Nicholas Stoller which seems to be about a coupled who...

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The Raven's International trailer

A new trailer for The Raven has arrived, and it's cut faster and has more bite than the first. This is the film from directed James McTeigue and writers Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare that sees Edgar Allan Poe tracing down a serial killer during the final days of his...

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The Grey theatrical trailer

I think this is the trailer for The Grey that I saw in the cinema this weekend passed, and I remember watching it and being thankful that there was more to it than the wolves which we'd seen previously, something that I thought made the film feel a little fanciful....

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Thor 2 loses director

It doesn't really matter that Patty Jenkins, the director for Thor 2 is female, what is important is that she has left the production of Thor 2, or more importantly that she left because of creative differences. Interestingly though the rumour is that she'll end up working on a superhero...

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Jolie in Besson science fiction film?

Angelina Jolie was due to star in the film Gravity for Alfonso Cuarón, however that never worked out and she moved onto other projects, but she may return to the genre for Luc Besson according to reports, although it will be more dramatic thriller than science fiction film. It does...

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Bay will direct Transformers 4 for Pain and Gain

It would seem that the director doth protest too much, for after all the denials and the comments about being done with the Transformer series it could well be that Michael Bay is set to return to direct the fourth film. However, let's not be too hard on the man,...

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The Darkest Hour theatrical trailer

This isn't quite the trailer that I just saw in the cinema last weekend, but it is close. I suspect this isn't the European theatrical trailer rather the American one as this concentrates on action and heavy, fast cutting. What? I'm just saying the facts! The one I've seen in...

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Dr. Seuss' The Lorax trailer isn't that bad

I wasn't that sold on the idea for another Dr. Seuss adaptation, after all the ones to date haven't exactly made a big impact, but the trailer for Dr. Seuss' The Lorax has revealed that maybe, just maybe, the film won't be as bad as I thought. Or to be...

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24 film loses director gains new script

It seems the idea of a 24 film, which is false advertising if you ask me, took a tumble and a step forward at the same time this week. On one hand the director attached to the project left but on the other a new script has arrived and the...

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo eight minute trailer

A full eight minutes worth of a trailer usually means a couple of things, too many reveals and not enough of a trailer, just a collection of sequences from a film or complete opening scenes, and while the latter isn't always that bad, it's not really a trailer. However for...

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Lockout trailer, Pearce's Escape from somewhere?

I'm not going to bring out the usual "Luc Besson's", because this film Lockout is from James Mather and Stephen St. Leger who together wrote and directed a short film called Prey Alone. Here they are writers alongside Luc Besson, and directors in their own right with Besson Executive Producing....

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The Cabin in the Woods trailer surprises

Directed by Drew Goddard and written by Josh Whedon, well that lined me up for a surprise from the opening moments because it looked more stock than a stock cube. Group of young people off for a holiday, remote location, immediately mention no GPS, seemingly abandoned petrol station with a...

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This Means War trailer

I've already seen one trailer for this film starring Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon, and while it did look fun I wasn't expecting a great deal from it. However the second trailer does come back delivering the same feeling and a little bit more. Two friends who are...

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close trailer arrives

There are two things that strike me about the trailer for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, one is that it got to me so very easily and had a lump in my throat in the second half, and the other that it has such a dramatic and real life set-up...

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Doctor Who film not happening?

Steven Moffat is the man behind Doctor Who at the BBC at the moment, of course there are many other people there who make the series happen, but he's the one that the American industry would call the showrunner and we would call Executive Producer, series writer and general big...

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2011 British Independent Film Award winners announced

The 2011 British Independent Film Award winners were announced last night and not only do I have the list of winners for you but there are also a few interviews with some of the big winners themselves. There's a great selection of films in the BIFA list of winners this...

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European Film Awards winners 2011

The European Film Awards were also announced at the weekend, revealing a few wins for Britain and a The King's Speech in particular. There are some great films from across all of Europe here, and if you haven't seen any of them this is a good list with which to...

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Prometheus trailer leak anger, but why?

I'm trying to marry up some of the issues here and work out just why the 20th Century Fox Chairman Tom Rothman is so upset that the trailer for the film Prometheus leaked. Sure he's annoyed that it was leaked because they had security there, someone betrayed them (perhaps) and...

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Margaret quashed by studio?

I must admit that I haven't been reading much about the film Margaret, and it's only since I saw it would be hitting British screens this December that this article caught my eye, and I have to comment on how good an article it is and how much it makes...

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Filmstalker's Films for December 2011

Wow, it's the end of the year already, well it's the start of the final month, and that means awards season is just around the corner and the next two months are going to be pretty poor on television and in the cinema. Wait though, what's that you say Filmstalker?...

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John Carter trailer

The feature trailer for the John Carter film from Andrew Stanton has arrived and it looks suitably dramatic and cram packed with aliens, spaceships, huge battle sequences and CG. What's more it actually looks pretty good, even if I am having slight twinges of memories of other epic space films,...

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Akira plot revealed

The plot for the new Akira has been revealed online, perhaps. There's not an official confirmation but the story is out that this is the latest synopsis for the new adaptation of Akira, and as synopsis' go it's pretty faithful to the original. You have to bear in mind that...

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New Catch .44 trailer

There's a better flow to the new Catch .44 trailer which is a bit clearer about the story set-up, but even then it's still a little complex to get through in the trailer and it doesn't quite do it. Mind you with Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Malin Akerman, Brad Dourif,...

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Stalked: Boneshaker adaptation; Harlan Ellison stops suing In Time; The Nutcracker; Scarface writer; Martin Amis adaptation; Tom Hanks as Berlin Ambassador

Boneshaker adaptation.... Ellison stops suing In Time... Shankman directing The Nutcracker... New Scarface gains writer... Amis' London Fields gains adaptation... Hanks In the Garden of Beasts......

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Stalked: Bridget Jones III; Les Misérables; Mad Max Trilogy; Ouija restarts; Daniel Radcliffe as Ginsberg; Narco Sub; Angelina Jolie's Afghanistan film

Bridget Jones' Diary III gains director... Les Misérables cast expands... Three new Mad Max films?... Oujia is alive... Radcliffe as Ginsberg... Tony Scott's Narco Sub... Jolie plans Afghanistan film......

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December 31, 2011

Happy Hogmanay and 2012 to you all

December 30, 2011

Kill List

Stalker's Top Ten 2011: Mark Buckley's Learnings

December 29, 2011

Filmstalker's Films of 2011

December 27, 2011

Shame

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

December 24, 2011

Merry Xmas from Filmstalker

December 23, 2011

Prometheus trailer analysed

December 22, 2011

Prometheus teasers examined

Fast and Furious Six and Seven? Really?

This Must be the Place trailer

Game Change teaser trailer arrives

December 21, 2011

Update: Prometheus teaser trailers and new bootleg

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey trailer

December 20, 2011

The Bourne Rift, is it the end for Bourne?

The Dark Knight Rises official trailer

Wrath of the Titans trailer, more in 3D

December 19, 2011

The Dark Knight Rises trailer isn't the Prologue footage

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen trailer looks good

300 Prequel casts and reveals story

Oldboy cast changes and grows

Ridley Scott refutes Prometheus Alien talk

Another Act of Valor trailer hits hard

Beneath the Darkness sees bad guy Quaid

December 18, 2011

Filmstalker Film Club Xmas 2011

Filmstalker Film Club Round 8

December 17, 2011

Filmstalker Reader's Top Tens of 2011: Call for submissions

December 16, 2011

Jack the Giant Killer trailer arrives

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance trailer looks much better

69th Golden Globe Award Nominations

Argento's Dracula 3D is a comedy

December 15, 2011

Sources hype up Thor 2 trouble

The Dark Knight Rises Prologue teaser at IMAX

Lockout changes name, gains new trailer

The Expendables II teaser arrives

[REC] 3: Génesis trailer online

Rock of Ages trailer

The Dictator trailer arrives

December 13, 2011

The Black List 2011 delivers the most liked scripts

Perfect Sense theatrical trailer

G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer features Rock and Willis

New UK ParaNorman trailer is full of screams

December 12, 2011

Men in Black III teaser trailer online

The Evil Dead remake isn't really The Evil Dead

The Flowers of War trailer

New Battleship trailer looks and sounds like Transformers

December 9, 2011

The Thing

The Wicker Tree new darker trailer

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. gains new team

American Psycho remake

Star confirms Top Gun Sequel

December 8, 2011

New The Iron Lady trailer

Wish You Were Here trailer

The Three Stooges has a trailer

Addiction Incorporated trailer intrigues

The Five-Year Engagement trailer

The Raven's International trailer

The Grey theatrical trailer

December 7, 2011

Thor 2 loses director

Jolie in Besson science fiction film?

Bay will direct Transformers 4 for Pain and Gain