• Paddington

    Filming Begins On 'Paddington' Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman And Hugh Bonneville

    By Germain Lussier September 13th, 2013

    Another incredibly popular children's book series is getting the big screen treatment. This time it's Paddington, which is about a small bear who travels to London and gets taken in by a kind family. Based on the popular series written by Michael Bond, Oscar-winner Colin Firth will provide the voice of the Paddington bear, Oscar-winner…

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  • Filth

    'Filth' Trailer: James McAvoy Is A Deranged Pervert

    By Angie Han June 7th, 2013

    We've still got a few years to go before Danny Boyle gets around to that Trainspotting sequel, but in the meantime Jon S. Baird's Filth should tide us over nicely. Also adapted from an Irvine Welsh novel, the dark comedy stars James McAvoy as bad cop Bruce Robertson. And I mean bad: Bruce is corrupt,…

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  • Laremy's 'Cloud Atlas' Review: Tom Tykwer And The Wachowskis Bring Another Massive Thinker To The Big Screen [TIFF 2012]

    By Laremy Legel September 9th, 2012

    The themes of Cloud Atlas are legion, and the 160 minutes the film spans are epic. Six or seven plots are considered, depending how you define your storylines, and the time period ranges from 1849 to somewhere 400 years into the distant future. What I’m getting at here is the grandness of the scope, the giantess of the spectacle,…

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  • 'Cloud Atlas' Theatrical Trailer

    By Angie Han September 6th, 2012

    Anyone who's really eager to see the Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer's Cloud Atlas has likely already pored over that six-minute trailer released over the summer, but for the rest of the moviegoing public there's now a more traditional two-minute theatrical version. Whichever camp you fall into, the new cut is worth checking…

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  • Early Buzz: 'Cloud Atlas' Test Screening Reactions

    By Angie Han August 13th, 2012

    The same breathtaking ambition that makes Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer's David Mitchell adaptation Cloud Atlas so intriguing also gives it the potential to flop, hard. Weaving together six interlocking stories that cut across time, space, and genre is difficult enough to do within the confines of a novel, to say nothing of…

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  • Jim Broadbent, Imogen Poots Join Irvine Welsh Adaptation 'Filth'

    By Russ Fischer January 19th, 2012

    When last we checked in with the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Filth, which is being directed by Jon S. Baird, the days were still long and warm. That August update revealed that the film about an evil Edinburgh cop would feature James McAvoy, Jamie Bell and Alan Cumming in the key roles. The…

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  • 'The Iron Lady' UK Trailer: Meryl Streep Will Overcome

    By Russ Fischer November 15th, 2011

    Here's the full UK trailer for The Iron Lady, in which Meryl Streep plays a strangely attractive version of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. There's a lot of fire in Streep's performance that will will likely overwhelm any complaints about a lack of authenticity. This trailer is a little bit The King's Speech, and…

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  • 'Arthur Christmas' US And UK Theatrical Trailers

    By Russ Fischer October 5th, 2011

    We've seen a couple teaser trailers for the Aardman Animation holiday film Arthur Christmas, and now, two full-length trailers are out. The UK trailer still shows a lot of the elements we've seen before -- the North Pole as a high-tech gift processing center; Santa's sleigh as UFO; and the geeky younger member of Santa's…

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  • Casting Bits: Michael Williams In 'The Suspect;' Rodrigo Santoro In 'The Last Stand;' David Duchovny In 'Phantom;' James D'Arcy In 'Cloud Atlas'

    By Russ Fischer September 29th, 2011

    The Wire's Michael K. Williams (who, like John Goodman, just guest-appeared on Community) was in the running for the title role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, and though he lost the part to Jamie Foxx, he may still end up in the film, in a part written just for him. Hopefully another new job won't…

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  • Casting Bits: Stephen Moyer In 'The Barrens;' Josh Gad In 'Thanks For Sharing;' Massive Voice Cast For 'Postman Pat'

    By Russ Fischer September 19th, 2011

    One of the weirder American monster legends is that which concerns the Jersey Devil, which originates in the 18th century, but became one of the breakout American pop-culture monsters thanks to reported sightings in the early 1900s. Now Stephen Moyer from True Blood will star in a new film exploiting the legend: The Barrens. He'll…

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  • Hugh Grant Joins The Cast Of The Tykwer/Wachowski-Directed 'Cloud Atlas'

    By Russ Fischer September 13th, 2011

    This isn't the sort of movie that we normally see Hugh Grant agree to make. The guy is drawn to romcoms of various stripes, with the last vaguely edgy movie he made possibly being the '96 thriller Extreme Measures. So it's a big surprise -- and not an unpleasant one -- to see Grant booking…

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  • Ben Whishaw Says "Everybody's Swapping Race And Gender" In 'Cloud Atlas'

    By Russ Fischer September 1st, 2011

    My interest in the Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski adaptation of David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas just grew even more. We've reported on the film a fair few times, and it continues to sound wild. The book is an odd beast, with six stories, each presented in halves and nested within one another,…

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  • Jim Sturgess Joins The Cast Of 'Cloud Atlas'

    By Russ Fischer August 26th, 2011

    The latest addition to Cloud Atlas is Jim Sturgess, who is currently muddling through the film One Day opposite Anne Hathaway. The film is based on a David Mitchell novel, which is divided into six centuries-spanning tales that embody various genres from nautical adventure to sci-fi and post-apocalyptic rebirth, is quite a piece of work,…

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