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New Anchorman 2 Trailer Strolls In
3 hours ago
We were incredibly excited when the first teaser for Anchorman: The Legend Continues arrived a while ago (see it at the bottom of the page). Now here’s the trailer and, by Odin’s raven, we’re… exactly as excited. Yes, there is literally no footage from the film itself to be seen here (despite the filming having been in progress for a couple of months already), but let’s face it: when you’ve got Ron Burgundy and the rest of the Channel 4 News Team striding up and talking nonsense, who needs footage? Plus, aren’t you sick of comedy (and other) trailers that give away every good joke or fun action beat?It’s a long time until December, so we’re sure there will be the suitably pun-filled trailers for the film wandering along soon enough (hopefully without spoiling too much), but for now, just wallow »
Cannes 2013: Film 4 Upcoming Slate Reaction
11 hours ago
Film4’s contribution to British cinema over the past few decades has been virtually unparalleled – and, judging by the slate we saw previewed today here in Cannes, that’s not about to change in a hurry. At a lunch at Film4's Cannes HQ (sadly, not a building in the shape of a giant four – they’re slipping up), Film4’s Tessa Ross, who won a Bafta earlier in the year, cued up a showreel that contained brief glimpses at around a dozen forthcoming Film4 titles. The future is bright. Here’s a film-by-film rundown. Starred UpThe latest movie from David Mackenzie (Young Adam, Spread) looks like, with its no-holds-barred depiction of the British prison system, a modern update of Scum. But there’s a wrinkle here, too, as Jack O’Connell’s Eric, bristling with anger and rage against the machine, meets his match inside… and that match just happens to be his father. »
Cannes 2013: Jackie Chan On Expendables 3
17 May 2013 7:48 AM, PDT
Jackie Chan is in Cannes this year, once again tempting us to ask "How are you enjoying this year's Channes Film Festival?" but resisting on the basis that it's not very funny. Instead, we bombarded him with questions about his upcoming project Skiptrace, as well as the Police Story reboot Police Story 2013 and, of course, Expendables 3."[The Expendables team] did contact me, but right now I have not read the script yet," says Chan. "I’d love to work with Stallone, but until I get back next week and meet Stallone and his manager, see the script… that’s when he’ll tell me what happens.""I’d most like to have a fight scene with Stallone. Though I’d like to team up with him against the bad guy. There are so many action stars involved, it must be so difficult being the director. How do you share out every scene? 'I want to do something special, »
New Trailer For Blood Online
17 May 2013 4:49 AM, PDT
Amid all the Cannes madness, here's a more homegrown effort for you: the new trailer for Blood, a thriller starring Paul Bettany and Stephen Grahams as Joe and Chrissie Fairburn, cops and brothers investigating the murder of a young girl. But the problem here isn't just finding out who was responsible, but covering up what happened next. For more on that, watch the trailer below. brightcove.createExperiences();As you can see, the film also stars Brian Cox as the brothers' father, a police legend who's just beginning his descent into dementia. The brothers are under pressure to live up to their father's reputation - which may lead to recklessness. Mark Strong plays fellow policeman Robert, who's soon putting pressure on the brothers as he investigates a related crime.Bill Gallagher, of TV series Blackout and Conviction, wrote the script, and Nick Murphy, who directed Rebecca Hall chiller The Awakening called the shots here. »
Empire Podcast #61: Gatsby Vs. Fast & Furious 6
17 May 2013 4:00 AM, PDT
The Great Gatsby goes head to head with Fast & Furious 6 in this week's special Cannes-based Empire Podcast, with Vin Diesel and The Rock narrowly overtaking Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan at The Valley Of Ashes to win three stars to Jay-g's two.Discover more about the world's biggest film festival by listening to one of the world's top five Damos - that's Damon Wise, our own Cannes expert - talking about this year's line-up and the news so far. Then be sure to check out Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton discussing that Gatsby chap everyone's banging out about. Warning: contains mention of Satan's Alley.That's all not forgetting Pop Pop himself, Jeffrey Tambor, who enjoys speaking in an English accent as he ruminates upon the return of Arrested Development to Netflix on May 26. It's all here, and it's all very much downloadable, via iTunes, our RSS feed or SoundCloud below. »
Cannes 2013: The Congress First Reaction
16 May 2013 6:06 PM, PDT
Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir premiered in Cannes in 2008 and was the people's choice for the coveted Palme D'Or, which Sean Penn's jury gave to Laurent Cantet's The Class instead. Folman was vindicated with an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and the fact that we haven't heard from him in five years has nothing to do with him resting on his laurels. His follow-up, The Congress, a semi-animated fantasy begun some five years ago, opened Directors' Fortnight at this year's Cannes today, and it's easy to see why it was so time-consuming.The film begins with a telling credit – “Robin Wright At” – before the title appears: The Congress. We cut straight to Wright, playing herself, being lectured by her agent, Al (Harvey Keitel). Al tells her that she is being made the offer of a lifetime, a job so important it will also be her last. »
Cannes 2013: First Reaction To The Past
16 May 2013 6:01 PM, PDT
Friday morning saw the first heavyweight contender for the Palme d'Or unveiled, with Asghar Farhadi's follow-up to A Separation playing to a packed house in the Lumiere Theatre. Continuing that film's themes, The Past is another story of divorce, this time in a French setting, as the Tehran-based Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to the suburbs of Paris to sign the end of his marriage to Marie (Bérénice Bejo). At 130 minutes, it was certainly a long haul, but the film received an overwhelmingly positive reception and immediately became a frontrunner for awards glory. Slightly reminiscent of Guillaume Canet's Little White Lies (a similarity that would have been more obvious had not original star Marion Cotillard dropped out), The Past is an elegantly scripted family drama that plays out almost like a Nordic noir, uncovering details and secrets that hinge on Marie's somewhat chaotic love life. As Ahmad finds out, »
Cannes 2013: The Bling Ring First Reaction
16 May 2013 5:57 PM, PDT
The Bling Ring had already had a smattering of clandestine screenings before its Cannes premiere last night, in the presence of its cast and director, and the advance word was lukewarm on Sofia Coppola's latest. Though low-key (as ever), it is, however, deceptively smart, and possibly one of Coppola's most complete and intelligent films, perfectly capturing the bizarre madness of modern pop culture. Nominally starring Emma Watson, it's actually an ensemble piece that features some superb performances by virtual unknowns (notably Katie Chan and Israel Broussard) and, with its shimmering cinematography, makes great use of digital video to tell a very American story. Based on a Vanity Fair story about a group of wayward teenagers, it begins with Rebecca (Chang) and Marc (Broussard) becoming friends when the latter is transferred to a new school in La. Marc slots into Rebecca's social group, which includes Emma Watson's Nicki and Claire Julien's Chloe, »
Cannes 2013: Fruitvale Station First Reaction
16 May 2013 5:50 PM, PDT
Fruitvale Station arrived in Cannes last night fresh from its triumph at the Sundance film festival in January, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, taking the now-annual slot previously given to the likes of Precious and Beasts Of The Southern Wild. However, although it is extraordinarily well made for a debut feature and boasts a career-making performance from Chronicle's Michael B Jordan, Ryan Coogler's film doesn't quite have the same breakout potential of those other two. Both Coogler and his leading man will certainly get deserved festival attention for the rest of 2013, but it's hard to see Fruitvale Station as a commercial proposition outside of the Us.Based on a true story, the film begins with cameraphone footage of police arresting and intimidating a group of African-Americans in Oakland, California. Tensions escalate, a shot is fired, and we backtrack through 24 hours in the life of the victim, a »
Justin Lin On Fast & Furious 6's Credit Sting
16 May 2013 5:09 PM, PDT
As part of the Fast & Furious 6 junket, Empire was lucky enough to speak to the director of the past four Fast & Furious movies, Justin Lin and we asked him about the thing that is on everyone's mind after watching the sixth installment of the franchise: where did the idea of (spoilers follow, highlight to reveal) Jason Statham being the big bad come from?Below is the spoiler-filled response, which touches on everything from whether Lin will direct Mission: Impossible 5 - just imagine that for a second - to how he feels now that his grand masterplan of dovetailing four movies together has finally come to pass.The Jason Statham details start at 2.00, so if you'd rather jump to that, go ahead - but not before you've read this news story from a couple of months back which reveals how The Stath's sting was spoiled by certain script-stealers before the movie had even been finished. »
Exclusive: Luke Evans On The Crow Reboot
16 May 2013 5:09 PM, PDT
Luke Evans is now set to star in the upcoming remake of The Crow. Bradley Cooper was once attached, Tom Hiddleston was rumoured, even James McAvoy was considered, but it's official: Evans will don Draven's corpse paint. Speaking to Evans at the Fast & Furious 6 junket recently, Empire asked him about it, and here's what he had to say. brightcove.createExperiences();Though he doesn't reveal too much about the angle the reboot will take - that's a question for director F. Javier Gutierrez - it's interesting to see how positive and confident Evans is about challenging the first adaptation from way back in 1994, brought to us by director Alex Proyas and star Brandon Lee. This new Crow was kickstarted by Stephen Norrington in 2009, with the Blade director planning to shoot his own screenplay, which would have taken place in Detroit and the American Southwest. Nick Cave wrote a draft in 2010, before »
Why Man Of Steel Wasn't Called Superman
16 May 2013 5:07 PM, PDT
It's not that unusual for interviews on the Empire Podcast to include news stories that jump out of the podcast and onto the internet at large. Ryan Reynolds (on both the Justice League movie and the Deadpool script), Iron Man 3's Drew Pearce and Shane Black (on Pepper Potts sex scenes and more). Now writer / producer / director David S. Goyer is talking about why Man Of Steel has that title in the first place.The interview in question went live two weeks ago, in Podcast #59, which also included the delightful Rian Johnson talking about directing or writing a Doctor Who project, but instead of fanfaring the news snippet we thought we'd leave it in there as a kind-of-sorta present for regular listeners. Now time has passed, here's a transcript of what Mr. Goyer said for anyone who's allergic to podcasting and/or doesn't have headphones they can use in the office. »
Cannes 2013: Scarlett Johansson Makes Summer Crossing
16 May 2013 5:02 PM, PDT
First mooted at least two years ago, Scarlett Johansson's long-held ambition to bring Truman Capote's Summer Crossing to the screen has finally come to fruition. Production company Aldamisa Entertainment has announced at Cannes that they've signed up to shepherd the project, which will be Johansson's debut as a director. Whether she'll also appear in front of the camera isn't yet clear.Summer Crossing was Truman Capote's first novel, written in the late 1940s. It involves a middle-class New York teenager left home alone for a sweltering summer in 1945 while her parents are in France. Free to do what she wants any old time, she starts an affair with a Jewish parking attendent, which leads to marriage. But the class divide proves a tough one to navigate, and there's tragedy on the road ahead.Capote claimed to have destroyed the book in a fit of ruthless self-editing sometime in the early '50s, »
Cannes 2013: Videblogisode #1 - Welcome To Cannes
16 May 2013 5:01 PM, PDT
After a break last year, Empire's videblogisodes - also known as video diaries to the uninitiated - are back, back, back, helmed by our very own Chris Hewitt. Join us for your first dose of Cannes madness, where Leonardo DiCaprio and Baz Luhrmann talk about The Great Gatsby and a mysterious stranger makes his presence felt... brightcove.createExperiences();If you want to keep up to date with everything that's going on here on the Croisette, be sure to regularly check up on further updates over on our Cannes 2013 microsite. »
Gyllenhaal Could Head Into The Woods
16 May 2013 5:01 PM, PDT
Update: The news is still of cast members being "near to deals" rather than actually signed on, but latest to circle Into The Woods is Emily Blunt. The role she's eyeing in the Disney/Sondheim fairytale musical is the Baker's Wife, who gets cursed by the Wicked Witch (likely to be Mery Streep). As Blunt arrives, her potential screen husband possibly departs however. Reports that James Corden was on board to play the Baker were apparently premature. In fairness, with the greatest of respect to Corden, he and Blunt don't make an obvious couple. Those negotiations, presumably, are still ongoing...We can almost hear the overture starting. Yes, with Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep now on board and Jerry Bruckheimer pulling the producer’s puppeteer strings, director Rob Marshall is gathering his likely cast for new movie musical project Into The Woods. The latest potential recruits? Jake Gyllenhaal and Chris Pine. »
Final Pacific Rim Trailer Crashes In
16 May 2013 12:17 PM, PDT
If the previous promos haven’t offered up enough footage of robots throwing down with monsters, then this latest, likely final trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim should offer enough to sate even the most eager appetite for destruction.The trailers before this have set the scene and now we get it all in one place: how the massive creatures known as Kaiju emerged from a portal joining their dimension with our own Pacific Ocean and came roaring out to destroy population centres such as San Francisco and Manila to break the spirit of the human race.Humanity responded by pouring its resources into crafting huge, two-crew (three, in the case of China) robot craft that could counter the new threat. Not, of course, without causing incredible amounts of property damage. The insurance rates in Rim’s universe must be through the roof…What we really take away »
Full Nymphomaniac Cast Shot
16 May 2013 12:15 PM, PDT
Though it could be the sleaziest photoshoot for BBC drama ever, the picture lurking below is actually the first full cast shot of Lars von Trier’s new controversy-baiter Nymphomaniac. He might not be maddening the Cannes officials this year with his outspoken presence, but that doesn’t stop Von Trier from grabbing headlines and eyeballs with his work.Chronicling the erotic journey of self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) from birth until the age of 50, the movie will jump around in time and cover a variety of characters. If you peer at the larger version of the picure (you can see it enlarged further on the film’s site) you’ll see von Trier with a camera (and tape over his mouth - probably wise), Stacy Martin, Shia Labeouf, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Udo Kier, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Willem Dafoe, Stellan Skarsgard, Mia Goth, Christian Slater, Gainsbourg, Nicolas Bros and Connie Nielsen. »
Michelle Yeoh Set For Crouching Tiger II
16 May 2013 12:14 PM, PDT
When the Crouching Tiger sequel was formally confirmed back in January, we lamented the fact that Ang Lee wouldn’t be coming back to direct. Now, however, there are two chunks of good news to report. Legendary action director and choreographer Yuen Wo Ping is on to make what is now called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II – The Green Destiny, and Michelle Yeoh is back to star.Yeoh, who was a big part of the 2000 original, will return as Shu Lien, with Donnie Yen signing on as Silent Wolf.Green Destiny is adapted from Silver Vase, Iron Knight, the fifth book in Wang Du Lu’s Crane-Iron Pentalogy (the first Crouching Tiger film was taken from the fourth). John Fusco's adaptation focuses even more on Shu Lien.“This introduces a new generation of star-crossed lovers, and a new series of antagonists in a battle of good and evil,” Fusco »
Gerard Butler Flocks To The Raven
16 May 2013 12:13 PM, PDT
As we pointed out when Liam Hemsworth was rumoured as star, no, The Raven is not a remake of the Edgar Allen Poe wannabe period thriller that starred John Cusack. It’s actually based on Ricardo de Montreuil’s ambitious, conspiracy-minded dystopian sci-fi thriller short (see below) and it looks like Gerard Butler is up to take the lead instead.Universal nabbed the rights to make the short into a movie back in 2010 with support from Mark Wahlberg’s production company. Assuming he signs on the dotted line, Butler will be a man who possesses remarkable powers that is hunted by the government and the military, who consider him both a threat and a possible new weapon.De Montreuil is set to direct based on a script that has seen work from Justin Marks and, more recently de Montreuil himself, working with original short scribe Antonio Perez.Butler last saw action in Olympus Has Fallen, »
Terry Gilliam Will Be In Jupiter Ascending
16 May 2013 12:12 PM, PDT
He may be best known as the anarchic animator, writer and director responsible for such movies as Monty Python And The Holy Grail, The Fisher King, Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, but Terry Gilliam is not above gracing the screen with his acting presence when the moment (and, more usually, friends) call for it. He’s hit Facebook to announce that he’ll be part of the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending.Gilliam offered no details on what he might be doing in the film, beyond remarking that he’ll be in a “small but vital part”.Jupiter Ascending finds the Wachowskis back in big-scale sci-fi territory, set in a universe where humans are near the bottom of the evolutionary ladder. But destitute young woman Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) is destined for something greater – and that brings an assassin hired by the Queen of the Universe, none too happy that her reign is under threat. »
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