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The Current War Trailer – Benedict Cumberbatch’s Thomas Edison wants electrical supremacy!

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The Current War has been doing the round in Hollywood for over five years, but it’s only now that it’s gone in front of the camera. The first trailer for the film has now been release, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as the legendary Thomas Edison.

The movie takes place in the late-1880s and revolves around power titans Edison and George Westinghouse’s as they battle over who will control the supply of electricity in the US. Edison championed direct current (DC) for electric power distribution over Westinghouse’s alternating current (AC), which was backed by several European companies and Westinghouse Electric. It became an increasingly vicious public battle as each side tried to destroy confidence in the other.

Michael Shannon plays Westinghouse, with Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, Tuppence Middleton, and Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla. [Read more…]

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Early Man Trailer – Aardman’s Nick Park takes us back to stop motion caveman times

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Nick Park is the man who helped put Aardman on the map with his Oscar winning Wallace & Gromit Shorts, Creature Comforts (another Oscar winner) and Chicken Run. However, his painstaking stop motion approach means it takes a long time for him to finish a film. His last directorial effort was the Wallace & Gromit short A Matter Of Loaf & Death, back in 2008.

Now though, he’s returning with Early Man.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘EARLY MAN is the new prehistoric comedy adventure from four-time Academy Award-winning director Nick Park and AARDMAN, the creators of WALLACE AND GROMIT and SHAUN THE SHEEP. Shot in Aardman’s own distinctive style, the film will take audiences on an extraordinary journey into an exciting new world unleashing an unforgettable tribe of unique and funny new characters voiced by an all-star British cast.

‘Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures roamed the earth, EARLY MAN tells the story of courageous caveman hero Dug (EDDIE REDMAYNE) and his best friend Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth (TOM HIDDLESTON) and his Bronze Age City to save their home.’

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Armie Hammer Joins Ruth Bader Ginsberg Biopic, On The Basis Of Sex

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A few weeks ago it was revealed that Felicity Jones had signed on to play Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex, based on Daniel Stiepleman’s Black List script. Now she has some company, as Deadline reports Armie Hammer is also set to be part of the movie.

Ginsberg was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Clinton and became the second female justice after Sandra Day O’Connor. However, the movie is set to concentrate on an earlier moment in her life, when she and her husband Marty (Hammer), teamed ‘to bring the first landmark gender discrimination case before the Supreme Court’. While Ginsburg argued six cases before the Supreme Court between 1971 and 1976, the movie is likely to concentrate on the first one she wrote the brief for, Reed v. Reed, which extended the protections of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to women for the first time.

The movie is due to start shooting this month in Montreal, with Mimi Leder directing from a script by Daniel Stiepleman (who just so happens to be Ginsburg’s nephew).

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New The Snowman Trailer – Michael Fassbender is tracking a serial killer

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There have been a couple of good Scandinvian film adaptations of Jo Nesbo’s novels (Headhunters in particular), but now he’s going Hollywood, with a movie that will bring his most famous character, detective Harry Hole, to the screen. Michael Fassbender is taking on the role in The Snowman, which has just released its first trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Michael Fassbender (X-Men series), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Independence Day: Resurgence) and J.K. Simmons star in The Snowman, a terrifying thriller from director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), based on Jo Nesbø’s global bestseller.

‘When an elite crime squad’s lead detective (Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help of a brilliant recruit (Ferguson), the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall.’

The film is due out in the UK in October. Take a look at the trailer and first poster below. [Read more…]

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First Look At Rami Malek As Freddie Mercury In Bohemian Rhapsody

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It’s only in the last few days that we’ve learned who would be starring alongside Rami Malek in the planned biopic of the rock band Queen, titled Bohemian Rhapsody, and now we’ve got our first look at Malek as Freddie Mercury in the movie (click on the image above for a larger version). And it has to be said, the Mr. Robot star is a far better fit for the music legend than some said he might be.

The image debuted over at EW, who also confirm that ‘the Bryan Singer-directed film…chronicles Queen from 1970, when Mercury teamed with Brian May and Roger Taylor, until the band’s performance at Live Aid in 1985, six years before the singer died of complications from AIDS.’

That time frame is partly because of a desire to honour the music (the other members of Queen are involved in the film, and probably didn’t want it to become just about Freddie and his untimely death). Singer says, “It won’t just be the dark Freddie story, but that being said, that also will be honored. It’s about collaboration. It’s a celebration.” He also adds that it won’t be a “traditional biopic”.

As for the music, it will apparently be a blend of Malek’s own vocals and those of the real Mercury. The actors says, “We’re going to use Freddie as much as possible and use myself as much as possible. I’m in Abbey Road [Studios] right now if that should say anything to you. I’m not working on my acting.”

Bohemian Rhapsody, which also stars Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, Joe Mazello as John Deacon and Gwilym Lee as Brian May, is set for a Christmas 2018 release.

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Insidious: The Last Key Trailer – The fourth instalment in the horror franchise gets a new name

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After Insidious Chapters 2 and 3, the people behind the franchise have decided to ditch the chapters and call the fourth movies, Insidious: The Last Key. The new name was announced at the same time as the release of a trailer and a new poster, which you can take a look at below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The creative minds behind the hit Insidious trilogy return for INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY. In the horror, which welcomes back franchise standout Lin Shaye as Dr. Elise Rainier, the brilliant parapsychologist faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet: in her own family home.

‘The film is written by co-creator Leigh Whannell (Saw), who wrote the trilogy and directed Chapter 3; produced by Insidious regulars Jason Blum (The Purge series, Get Out), Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity) and co-creator James Wan (The Conjuring, Furious 7); and directed by series newcomer Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan).’

The film will be out in UK cinemas on January 12th. [Read more…]

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