Jack Huston will be his corrupt cop partner When Nicolas Cage tackles a law enforcement role, he either goes heroic or becomes completely unhinged. But for The Trust , which will see him co-starring with Boardwalk Empire’s Jack Huston , he’ll be veering more towards corrupt and greedy. The actors are aboard to appear in the new thriller, which finds them as dodgy cops on the look out for...
Except Daniel Bruhl & Mark Rylance are with her Among the many embryonic films jostling for buyers’ attention at the film market of this year’s Cannes festival, Vincent Perez’ new film Alone In Berlin is attracting plenty of interest thanks to a cast that now includes Emma Thompson, Daniel Bruhl and Mark Rylance . Good Bye Lenin ’s Achim von Borries has adapted Hans Fallada’s...
Timothy Spall's ship goes down Mike Leigh’s J.M.W. Turner biopic Mr. Turner promises to be a big old celebration of all that is good in English arts. If you like Mike Leigh and you’ve been known to frequent The Tate Gallery or The Royal Academy, the sight of Timothy Spall’s painter hitting the canvas is sure to be pure catnip when the film gets its release in October. It makes its...
Our Cannes guru asks what numbers Timothy Spall is painting by... Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner arrived in Cannes with a lot of fanfare, being one of two British films in the Competition and marking the director’s second foray into historical biography after 1999’s Topsy-Turvy (the fictional Vera Drake doesn’t count). For anyone who tuned in to Leigh’s films late in his career,...
Hold onto your tickets! Fast becoming an annual tradition, the anarchic V/H/S anthology franchise shows no signs of exhausting its tape collection. Hot on the heels of V/H/S 2 , which only hit DVD in the UK last autumn, here's the first trailer for the third instalment, V/H/S: Viral . Where the first two films shared the overseeing eyes of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, Viral 's is an entirely new...
With Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt As reported a couple of months ago, the team behind the excellent cancer dramedy 50/50 - stars Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and director Jonathan Levine - are reuniting for a still-untitled Christmas comedy. They now look set to be joined by Anthony Mackie , who's in advanced talks about signing up. Levine has written the script for the new film,...
Commanding the Enterprise's next voyage With J.J. Abrams off in that galaxy far, far away, Paramount wasn’t willing to put the Star Trek franchise into dry dock and wait for the producer/director to be available again to oversee the Enterprise. So for a while now, word has been spreading that Roberto Orci is after the big gig for the third film, and Variety brings news that he’s now hammering...
He'll star in the heist thriller After logging years in development hell, writer/director Christian Gudegast must be feeling fairly happy right now. He’s finally locked down a leading man for his heist thriller Den Of Thieves , with Gerard Butler set to star as a master criminal caught in a tricky situation . Gudegast will be relieved that he’s actually reached this stage, since he originally...
Harry Potter spin-off has a date Warner Bros. is clearly eager to keep the liquid cash flowing from the Harry Potter well, priming the pump by enticing the boy wizard’s creator J.K. Rowling to start adapting spin-off Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them as a potential new trilogy. We said back in March that no one would rush Rowling towards a release date, but the first film now has one anyway,...
Matt Damon still attached to star Like its protagonist, sci-fi thriller The Martian seemed adrift last month, still in possession of a star (Matt Damon), but detached from anyone to direct it after Drew Goddard cut the cord to go and work on Amazing Spider-Man spin-off Sinister Six and Netflix’s Daredevil. Fear not! The Mars-set film has found someone experienced with unearthly movies: Ridley...
'The first camp classic ever to open the festival' Prior to 2001 the opening-night film of the Cannes film festival wasn’t such a big deal, more of an aperitif – a dry one, made with cinematic creosote – before the dazzling main course of the first weekend. Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! , however, changed all that, bringing fun, glamour, Hollywood stars and lots of colour to...
Harry Potter spin-off has a date Warner Bros. is clearly eager to keep the liquid cash flowing from the Harry Potter well, priming the pump by enticing the boy wizard’s creator J.K. Rowling to start adapting spin-off Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them as a potential new trilogy. We said back in March that no one would rush Rowling towards a release date, but the first film now has one anyway,...
In talks to star for Derek Cianfrance Though we thought Blue Valentine / The Place Beyond The Pines director Derek Cianfrance might see novel adaptation The Light Between Oceans as a chance to reunite with Ryan Gosling, that hasn’t come to pass. Still, he won’t be too disappointed, because he’s snared Michael Fassbender to star instead . Based on M.L. Steadman’s bestselling...
Sienna Miller also aboard Ben Wheatley's latest With a certain actor known round these parts as T. Hiddy squatting in the lead for his J.G. Ballard adaptation High-Rise , director Ben Wheatley has been busy rounding up other cast members. He’s now picked Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller . The Sightseers director is set to kick off shooting this July in Belfast, adapting Ballard’s dystopian...
Homeland man joins Shakespeare comedy You might recall that last month, we brought you an exclusive new image from the Horrible Histories/Yonderland team’s big-screen shot at William Shakespeare’s unexplored early years, Bill . Fresh news arrives today, via Screen International, that Damian Lewis is part of the cast . Exactly whom the Homeland man is playing remains a closely guarded...
Update: it's moody, it's raining and it looks a lot like Affleck I shot this with my @Leica_Camera M Monochrom. #Batman #Batmobile #Gotham http://t.co/WPHKLxgBLM pic.twitter.com/p5DEf6fLzJ — ZackSnyder (@ZackSnyder) May 13, 2014 Yesterday, Zack Snyder promised us a better look at the Batmobile for Superman Vs. Batman (name TBC), but he's delivered a good bit more than that today, with our first...
Scarlett Johansson has the power(s) One promo for Luc Besson’s new action thriller, the Scarlett Johansson-focused Lucy , arrived last month . Here comes the new international trailer, which promises more footage of Johansson slowly turning into a sort of Bourne -meets -X-Me n heroine. Johansson plays the titular young woman living in a futuristic Asian city. Kidnapped one night, she’s...
And we're promised more tomorrow... Though shooting has been underway for a while now on the yet-to-be-titled, Batman-filled follow-up to Man Of Steel , Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. have been careful not to let too much slip. Now, though, it appears the wraps are coming off both figuratively and literally, as the director has teased a look at Superman Vs. Batman 's Batmobile in readiness for a likely...
With the new Batmobile, courtesy of director Zack Snyder I shot this with my @Leica_Camera M Monochrom. #Batman #Batmobile #Gotham http://t.co/WPHKLxgBLM pic.twitter.com/p5DEf6fLzJ — ZackSnyder (@ZackSnyder) May 13, 2014 Yesterday, Zack Snyder promised us a better look at the Batmobile for Superman Vs. Batman (name TBC), but he's delivered a good bit more than that today, with our first look...
Gwyneth Paltrow also aboard the remake Photos: Getty Images The Cannes Film Festival is upon us once again, and with it comes a host of companies all touting their wares like market traders hoping to make a sale. IM Global has a new ripe offering to chalk up on its board, landing Chiwetel Ejiofor and Gwyneth Paltrow for the remake of The Secret In Their Eyes . This one has been in development since...