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The Channel 4 News Team are back... and this time they're all going to be playing witches. OK, maybe not.
After the release of the first official poster for Sam Mendes’ latest James Bond film, Skyfall, earlier this week, we know have the first official teaser trailer.
The Reptile (1966) was made back-to-back with The Plague of the Zombies by a straitened Hammer Films in a mid-Sixties efficiency drive which turned out to have unexpectedly inspired results. The two movies share the same director (John Gilling,) several cast members (most noticeably Hobbit-like Michael Ripper and the dreamy Jacqueline Pearce,) the same sets (odd corners of Bray Studios standing in for Cornwall,) and even replicate certain themes (in both cases, the menace is an exotically foreign intrusion into a parochial English setting.) The Plague of the Zombies is perhaps the closest Hammer came to a masterpiece. The Reptile isn't quite is the same league, but is still one of the studio's more memorable offerings.
It has now been confirmed that Kick Ass 2 will begin shooting in September. A second instalment based on the Mark Millar comics will hopefully be hitting screens In 2013 with Jeff Wadlow (Never Back Down) on directorial duties and Matthew Vaughan, director of the original movies, signed on as producer.
Hot off the mammoth success of The Avengers movie, more and more details begin to emerge regarding the cast, plot and set locations for director Shane Black's Iron Man 3.
According to a recent press release, Alcon Entertainment’s much-anticipated sequel to Blade Runner will reunite Ridley Scott with original scribe Hampton Fancher.
Prometheus has one hell of an identity crisis. Is it a prequel to Alien? A brand new science fiction epic with vague echoes of Ridley Scott's classic? Another story set in the same universe with a slight bit of connective tissue? It doesn't help that Sir Ridley himself has refused to confirm anything, just kind of vaguely stating that it started it out as a quasi-Alien prequel before branching out to becoming something bigger and less finite. However, Marc Streitenfeld's music score to the film has just been released digitally and it contains a few clues to what Prometheus really is and also perhaps if it'll be any good.
In this impressively assured and slow-burningly creepy debut from writer-director Mike Flanagan, loyal, stolidly suburban Tricia (Courtney Bell) is trying to summon the courage to declare her long-missing husband Daniel “dead in absentia.” Come to help her pick up the pieces of her life is her younger sister Carrie (Kate Parker,) herself a one-time runaway, now a born again Christian.
Based on Tony Briggs' smash-hit Australian musical of the same name, feel-good comedy/drama The Sapphires is one to look out for - based on the overwhelmingly positive crowd reaction following a midnight showing at this years Cannes Film Festival. The film - starring Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids), Deborah Mailman (The Secret Life of Us) and Australian pop sensation Jessica Mauboy - received a ten-minute long standing ovation from a delighted audience of critics, movie-goers and industry professionals.
