'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.
Read MorePaddy Considine (Hot Fuzz) has joined HBO's Game of Thrones prequel cast as King Viserys Targaryen, one of Daenerys's ancestors.
Read MorePaddy Considine writes, directs, and stars in the Journeyman trailer, a tense drama about a professional boxer who suffers a life-altering head injury.
Read MoreTrailers 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…
Read MoreWarner Bros. has just released The Girl with All the Gifts trailer, showing a promising zombie thriller based on the novel of the same name.
Read MoreSee Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore as best friends who face big life changes in the Miss You Already trailer.
Read MoreWatch the Child 44 trailer starring Tom Hardy as a Soviet police officer investigating a serial killer. Gary Oldman and Noomi Rapace also star.
Read MoreWatch the first Pride trailer from CBS Films. The fact-based crowdpleaser centers on the alliance between LGBT activists and miners in '80s Britain.
Read MoreRichard Ayoade's The Double trailer #2 really pushes the combination of comedy and an underlying sense of weird unease.
Read MoreIn 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.…
Read MoreWe 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.…
Read MoreIf 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…
Read MoreHere'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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreWith 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…
Read MoreWho 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreAnother 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…
Read MoreMeryl 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…
Read MoreActor 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…
Read MoreIf 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…
Read MoreSo 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…
Read MoreWho'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…
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read MorePaddy 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…
Read MoreLionsgate 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…
Read MoreBack 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…
Read MoreIt’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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