'Game Of Thrones' Prequel Show Casts Paddy Considine As King Viserys Targaryen
Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz) has joined HBO's Game of Thrones prequel cast as King Viserys Targaryen, one of Daenerys's ancestors.
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'Journeyman' Trailer: Paddy Considine's Boxing Film Is A Gut-Punching Drama
Paddy Considine writes, directs, and stars in the Journeyman trailer, a tense drama about a professional boxer who suffers a life-altering head injury.
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This Week In Trailers: Journeyman, The Final Year, The Godfathers Of Hardcore, 15: A Quinceañera Story, The Other Side Of Hope
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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'The Girl With All The Gifts' Trailer: Children Are Our Only Hope To Stop A Zombie Epidemic
Warner Bros. has just released The Girl with All the Gifts trailer, showing a promising zombie thriller based on the novel of the same name.
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'Miss You Already' Trailer: Toni Collette And Drew Barrymore Are Old Friends Facing A New Test
See Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore as best friends who face big life changes in the Miss You Already trailer.
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'Child 44' Trailer: Tom Hardy Chases A Killer In Soviet Russia
Watch the Child 44 trailer starring Tom Hardy as a Soviet police officer investigating a serial killer. Gary Oldman and Noomi Rapace also star.
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'Pride' Trailer: Miners And LGBT Activists Unite In Cannes Crowdpleaser
Watch the first Pride trailer from CBS Films. The fact-based crowdpleaser centers on the alliance between LGBT activists and miners in '80s Britain.
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Excellent 'The Double' Trailer Is Full Of Strange Anxious Comedy
Richard Ayoade's The Double trailer #2 really pushes the combination of comedy and an underlying sense of weird unease.
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'Honour' UK Trailer: Paddy Considine Is Hired To Finish Nasty Family Business
In Honour, Paddy Considine plays a man who kills for money, and who finds himself with a particularly unpleasant job. The title is related to honor killings, as the film is about a young Muslim woman, played by Aiysha Hart, whose boyfriend (Nikesh Patel) is so unacceptable to her family that they order her murder.…
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Early Buzz: Edgar Wright's 'The World's End' Is The Cornetto Trilogy's Tasty Finish
We Americans cheered when Edgar Wright's The World's End got bumped up from October to August, but our cousins across the pond are even luckier -- they'll get to see the film in just a few more days, on July 19. Thanks to that earlier UK date, the first reviews have already hit the web.…
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Edgar Wright's 'The World's End' Gets Six Pub-Themed Character Posters
If the world must end -- and film after film lately suggests it must -- there are worse ways to go than with a frosty pint and some good company. It's lucky for the gang at the center of Edgar Wright's The World's End, then, that they're already in the middle of an epic pub crawl…
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'The World's End' Trailer: Prepare To Get Annihilated
Here's the second trailer (well, the first US one) for Edgar Wright's new film The World's End. Five friends (played by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, and Eddie Marsan) reunite to complete the epic bar crawl they never manage to finish twenty years ago. But things are different, and it isn't just because…
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"Barmageddon Begins" In Two New Posters For 'The World's End;' Plus Edgar Wright Answers Twitter Questions
The second trailer for Edgar Wright's The World's End will hit the Web on Wednesday. In anticipation of that event, two new posters have been released. One is another UK banner and the second is our first US one-sheet. Each are similar in that they show Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and…
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'The World's End' International Teaser Trailer: A Sci-Fi Conclusion To The Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy
With Shaun of the Dead, writers Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg played within the zombie genre. In Hot Fuzz they tackled action films. Later this year, they will conclude their trilogy of genre-blending comedies with The World's End. It's a film that has been a topic of discussion for years. Now, finally, we have our first glimpse of…
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Sequel Bits: 'The Hobbit', 'The World's End', 'The Muppets... Again', 'The Hangover III', 'Anchorman 2'
Who wants to see the first trailer from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug? Well, too bad, because it's not coming for another few months. Also after the jump: Anchorman: The Legend Continues goes ice skating The sequel to Gareth Edwards' Monsters starts filming The Muppets... Again! adds two fine English actors See a new…
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First Official Look: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, And More In Edgar Wright's 'The World's End'
The predicted end of the world may have some folks in a panic, but for Hollywood filmmakers working on apocalypse-themed movies, it's proving to be a marketing boon. Yesterday, we got the first trailer for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's This is the End. Today, we have the first official look at Edgar Wright's The…
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Paddy Considine Reteams With Edgar Wright For 'The World's End'
Another familiar face will be joining Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for Edgar Wright's latest film, The World's End. Paddy Considine, who appeared in the trio's last film Hot Fuzz and is best known for roles in The Bourne Ultimatum and In America, has just been cast in the "sci-fi comedy" scheduled for release Spring…
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'The Artist' Nearly Sweeps BAFTAs With Seven Major Awards
Meryl Streep prevented the cast and crew of The Artist from a total sweep of the major categories at this year's British Academy Film Awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and commonly called the BAFTAs. Streep won Best Actress for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The…
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'Tyrannosaur' Trailer: See Peter Mullan's Searing Command Performance
Actor Paddy Considine's first feature as a director is Tyrannosaur, which features the always reliable, often impressive character actor Peter Mullan as a violent, self-destructive alcoholic who strikes up a friendship with Hannah (Olivia Colman, of Hot Fuzz), a Christian charity-shop worker. Considine adapted the feature from his previous short Dog Altogether, and has said…
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First Toronto Festival Announcements Include New Work From George Clooney, David Cronenberg And Francis Ford Coppola
If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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'Blitz' Trailer #3
So there's this action movie starring Jason Statham. Shocker, right? This particular one is called Blitz, and we've already seen a couple trailers to show off the British action thriller. It looks like it's going straight to DVD in the US, which is a bit strange given that Jason Statham action movies seem to earn…
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'Blitz' Red Band Trailer
Who's ready for their biannual Jason Statham-obliterates-everyone fix? Hopefully you're shouting, "Me, me, me!" because after The Mechanic, Blitz fills his quota for 2011. (Or at least it would, had he not turned out to be such an overachiever.) The premise is beautiful in its simplicity: A sociopathic cop is dispatched to take down a…
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Page 2: Steven Spielberg, Rango, Green Lantern, Battlestar Galactica, X-Men: First Class, Star Wars, The Hobbit, Transformers Twilight, Fight Club,
What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 32 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Paddy Considine Scores At Sundance With 'Tyrannosaur,' Will Next Direct 'The Leaning'
Paddy Considine is one of the best character actors out there. You've seen him in Hot Fuzz, Cinderella Man, Red Riding 1980, The Bourne Ultimatum, the films of Shane Meadows and more. Now he's made the jump to directing features and his debut film, Tyrannosaur, is getting great notes at Sundance. And while promoting that…
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International Movie Trailer: 'Blitz'
Lionsgate Pictures has released an international movie trailer for the new Jason Statham film, a London-set serial killer thriller titled Blitz. Blitz is adapted by Nathan Parker (who also scripted Moon) from Ken Bruen's novel of the same name and directed by Elliott Lester (Love is the Drug) . Statham plays Detective Sergeant Brant, a…
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Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur Gearing Up, Getting Cast
Back in 2007, Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Fuzz and Dead Man's Shoes actor Paddy Considine unveiled his directorial debut, the short film Dog Altogether (you can see a promo shot at the head of this post). Over the next eighteen months or so, the film went on to win a number of awards, including the BAFTA…
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Weekend Weirdness: Red Riding Trilogy Reviewed (Britain's Five-Hour Answer To Zodiac?); New Trailers For Each Film
It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, excluding The Spy Next Door and The Tooth Fairy, that offer proof. /Film’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review, or an interview. In this installment, new trailers and a…
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