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Stories By Brendon Connelly
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If all goes according to his plan, Wanted, Kick-Ass and American Jesus creator Mark Millar will be directing his first movie this summer. He's got a considerable back catalogue of comics work that it could have been based on, much of which is in fact creator owned so he'd only have to negotiate with himself for…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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Disney are reported to have at least 20 stage shows in development at the moment, though it seems unlikely that they'll all see opening night. Of those that do, a number will not be Broadway productions, instead touring or being licensed to regional theatre companies. It's only the select few that will see The Great…
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Posted online as a showreel piece for the actor Federico Dordei, YouTube is currently hosting a clip reel from the ill-fated US attempt to remake Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright's sitcom Spaced. You can see it embedded below the break in all of its... er... glory. In case you don't recall, the creators…
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From day one David Slade seemed like an odd choice to direct a film in the Twilight franchise - and not least because of his controversial comments damning the first installment. With Eclipse, however, it seemed maybe like Summit were going for a slightly harder-edged feel by choosing him, and it even gave some undecided…
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Stephen Lang's reward for acing his portrayal of the villainous Colonel Quaritch in Avatar could be another showcase role as the colourful bad guy. There's said to be a deal on the table right now that would see Lang taking the part of Khalar Singh in Marcus Nispel's Conan reboot. Here's how Singh was described…
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On a recent trips around Disney's themeparks, WDWNet reporter Banks Lee rattled off a rather interesting series of snapshots. The ones taken around The Magic of Animation reveal not only a couple of new Toy Story 3 poster designs but a whole wealth of concept art, storyboard images and even a few full CG-renderings. I've…
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We've not even had the tiniest glimpse of Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians aka The Guardians of Ga'Hoole yet, and the film is only six months from release. This weekend, though, the computer generated warriors owl will be arriving in a big way as their trailer heads out to cinemas. It's quite exciting to…
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Editor's Note: Disney has released a new photo from the upcoming movie trailer (above, click to enlarge), which will be attached to Alice in Wonderland in theaters on Friday, and will debut online probably sometime next week. The mousemaniacs at Blue Sky Disney have filed a report on the studio's apparent plans for Tron, Tron…
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Out and about to promote She's Out of My League, Jay Baruchel has been commenting on the various other projects he has coming down the pike. Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse is still in the works, it sounds, though there's no new news; the hockey drama Goon, which Baruchel has co-written with Evan Goldberg…
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In devising the soundtrack for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright has chosen specific bands and artists to sub for the fictional musicians of the comic strip. Pilgrim's band Sex Bob-omb have had their tunes supplied by Beck, Broken Social Scene will be providing the noise of Crash and the Boys and Metric were…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every week I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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Updated: The actual footage is now viewable in a video embedded after the break, at the bottom of the post. The upcoming The Princess and the Frog Blu-ray from Disney is going to feature the first teaser footage for their upcoming toon Tangled, formerly Rapunzel. Interestingly, the teaser itself features no title at all, which…
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Though their recently deceased TV series Dollhouse was not the ratings hit it perhaps should have been, definitely when you consider the heights it ultimately reached in creative terms, the signs are good for an imminent upcoming collaboration between geek god Joss Whedon and his buttock-whupper muse Eliza Dushku. Dushku was stopped last night on…
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Update: Killer Films has contacted us and issued the following statement "Christine Vachon of Killer Films is not producing The Lucky One. To the best of my knowledge neither Daniel Radcliffe or Lily Rabe is attached to star in the project." The original story follows: I think we now know what Daniel Radcliffe is going…
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Everwood and Eli Stone writer Greg Berlanti has been named as the front running contender to direct Warner Bros. long awaited The Flash movie. It seems they've been keen to hand him one of their heroes for a while now, as he was signed to direct Green Lantern for a while before Martin Campbell came…
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The quick-turnaround required to get another Paranormal Activity into cinemas this Halloween, and possibly kill the Saw franchise once and for all, will mean that Paramount will have to get production up and running very soon indeed. You probably recall that Saw almuni Kevin Greutert was given the helm before a little contractual black magic…
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There's been a few little bits of interesting Mark Romanek business hit the web in recent days and I think a quick round up is in order. Firstly, Mark Salisbury wrote a piece for Time Out on The Wolfman, giving some clues as to why Romanek left the project and how the picture changed when…
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The rather tremendous Matthew Goode, maybe best known round here as Zack Snyder's Ozymandias, has let slip that he auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Here's how The Telegraph reported matters: But just before we met, he’d auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s two-part film of The Hobbit.…
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Kevin Smith has exclusively told NHL.com that Seann William Scott will be taking the lead role in his Ice Hockey picture, Hit Somebody. Here's an exact quote: Seann William Scott, who worked with Smith on Cop Out, will play Buddy, the title character in Hit Somebody. The script, based on a Warren Zevon song with…
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Tonight saw the 2010 awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts take place at London's Royal Opera House. The BBC have broadcast the ceremony since, both in the UK and on their BBC America channel though - rather appallingly - this broadcast was purposefully scheduled to not take place live but after…
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A new YouTube video gives us the first online look at moving footage from Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, and what we see is simply stunning. The film has premiered this week at the Berlin Film Festival to some wonderfully positive reviews, the most encouraging of which come from those who had doubts about Chomet's previous…
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Regular Green Lantern comics scribe Geoff Johns has today tweeted about his trip to "Green Lantern town a.k.a. New Orleans!!". According to his first tweet "Ryan IS Hal. And Mark Strong is going to be a brilliant Sinestro" and according to his second, "Kilowog, the Guardians, Oa...all breathtaking. The age of Green Lantern is upon…
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Coming out of the European Film Market is our first piece of Attack the Block sales art - sampled above but revealed in its entirety and complete with tagline below the break - and an expanded synopsis for Joe Cornish's film, "this year's Shaun of the Dead". There's really not much spoiled by the new…
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Aaron Guzikawski's hot-sale script Prisoners has certainly been around the block a few times, and in public too. The latest status report comes from Deadline Hollywood Daily who have Leonardo Di Caprio in the frame to take a lead role. They note that Leo is rather selective about which directors he works with, so his…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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Harry Potter publisher Barry Cunningham proudly declared that he had found the next world-shaking smash when he signed up authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams and published their book The Highfield Mole, renaming it Tunnels. It doesn't seem that he was quite right - there's three Tunnels books so far with a fourth to come soon and…