Stars from the summer’s most hotly anticipated film celebrated imagination at the New York premiere of The Avengers’. Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Cobie Smulders and Tom Hiddleston reflected on their experience of making the film and bringing the comic book series to the big screen. Bombay Sapphire announces the launch of their Imagination Series Filmmakers Competition at Tribeca Film Festival this week, hosting the exclusive after-parties of Emily Blunt’s Your Sister’s Sister’, Chris Rock’s 2 Days In New York’ and the closing premiere, summer blockbuster The Avengers’.
To celebrate filmmakers around the world, Bombay Sapphire, in association with Tribeca Film Festival, is offering budding filmmakers the chance to make their own short film, using their imagination to interpret Oscar-winner Geoffrey Fletcher’s short film script. From the 26th of April, budding filmmakers can view the script at www.imaginationseries.com and can submit their interpretation of the Geoffrey’s script on this site from the 8th of May 2012. A global judging panel, including Geoffrey Fletcher and industry leaders put together by the Tribeca Film Festival, will select five winners from a shortlist of entries who will then go on to produce and direct their own individual films and view these at a star-studded international premiere early 2013.
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After Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, we didn’t hear a huge amount from director Stephan Elliot, partly because he nearly died in a skiing accident. However he returned a couple of years ago with the British period comedy, Easy Virtue. Now he’s helmed a full-on Anglo-Australian production with A Few Best Man. When David (Xavier Samuel) journeys to Australia to marry the love of his life, Mia, he invites his three best mates Graham (Kevin Bishop), Luke (Tim Draxl) and Tom (Kris Marshall) to travel with him. Having barely met his bride-to-be, they arent too impressed at the thought of losing their best friend to married life on the other side of the world but resolve to give him a send-off to remember. After a final carnage-filled stag night the big day arrives and the trio of ill-prepared best men end up giving a whole new meaning to the phrase for better or worse as a chaos-filled wedding, complete with a deranged drug dealer, a cross-dressed sheep, a coked-up mother-in-law (Olivia Newton John) and possibly the most disastrous speech of all time, threaten to derail the marriage before its even begun! The movie hits UK cinemas August 31st.
Quite frankly, the moment they called their ship the Prometheus they should have known they were in trouble. After all, in Greek mythology Prometheus ended up have his liver being eaten by an eagle for all eternity while he was chained to a rock, in punishment for stealing fire from the gods. However, while they should have probably picked a better name, the movie looks awesome, and now a new three-minute international trailer have arrived, which premiered last night on UK TV and is now available online. There’s loads of new footage, including plenty of intriguing links as to how it will be linked to Alien. It’s undoubtedly exciting, and we only have a few weeks to wait, as the film is due in cinemas June 1st.
April 30th, 2012 is the day Universal is celebrating its centenary. Throughout the year it’s continuing the fiesta by releasing restored version of movies like Jaws on Blu-ray, as well as showing off its brand new 100th Anniversary logo in all its new release. However Universal has had quite a few logos over the years, all based around looking at earth from space. Take a look below for a short tour of Universal’s logo as we congratulate the studio on its landmark birthday!
Hick is certainly not your usual teenage road trip flick. Chloe Moretz plays 13-year-old Nebraska girl Luli, who has been dealt a rough hand. Her mother and father spend their evenings getting obnoxiously plastered at the local watering hole, then go at it like a pair of trashy, drunk teenagers. Certain she’s destined for a more glamorous life, Luli packs her things – including her new birthday gift, a Smith & Wesson .45 – and hitches a ride to Vegas. Dressed like a girl twice her age, she’s immediately picked up by a wannabe cowboy named Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), who walks with a limp and acts a little too crazy for comfort. The two fail to hit it off and Luli is ejected from the car. Luckily, she soon meets Glenda (Blake Lively), a grifter who acts as Luli’s big sister – albeit one who offers her drugs and uses her as an accessory to a robbery. Just as things seem to be going moderately well for Luli, Eddie makes an unwelcome return and becomes increasingly difficult to evade. Luli’s life on the road takes more than few calamitous detours, but her flippant attitude and feisty demeanor prevent the dark moments from veering into gratuitously grim territory. No UK release is currently set.
I have to admit I wasn’t a big fan of Borat or Bruno, but The Dictator looks like it could be a lot of silly fun, but with a bit of a serious point to it. Now the opening scene of the movie has popped up online, which gives you a hint about what the movie is all about. The Dictator, which bizarrely enough is partially based on a book by Saddam Hussein, sees Sacha Baron Cohen as General Aladeen of Wadiya, and tells ‘The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed’. It’s due out May 18th, 2012!
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