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Cate Blanchett Finds Carol
21 minutes ago
Though he’s produced a few projects in the time since he made 2007’s I’m Not There, we haven’t seen a film directed by Todd Haynes for a while now. But according to Screen Daily, he’s back with Carol, and he’s bringing Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska with him.Empire Videblogisode regular Stephen Woolley is producing the new film, which adapts Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price Of Salt.Carol will chart a relationship between two women in 1950s New York – a girl in her 20s slogging through a job in a department store (Wasikowska) and a wife trapped in a loveless, unfulfilling, but wealthy marriage (Blanchett).Phyllis Nagy is at work writing the script, which has producer Elizabeth Karlsen excited. “Todd is without a doubt one of the most talented directors working today," she says in a statement. "His attachment to direct this script and »
New Trailer Online For The World's End
3 hours ago
Most pub crawls have a sticky ending, one way or another. Some finish with fisticuffs, many with vomit, others with a mere killer hangover. But The World's End promises to take things to a whole new level with an apocalyptic outcome to the reunion of five old friends. You can see some of what we're in for in the new trailer below.The film sees Simon Pegg as something of a failure in life, who sees a chance to recreate his teenage glory days by reuniting his old friends to complete the pub crawl they once abandoned. Only it turns out that their home town has changed in the years since they left: now it's crawling with what look very much like alien invaders. Uh. Oh.The World's End stars Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Martin Freeman and Paddy Considine with Pegg as the central quintet of drinkers; Rosamund Pike plays »
Cannes 2013: All Is Lost Initial Reaction
4 hours ago
Put on your best Trailer Man voice. For it's time to forget what you thought you knew about J.C. Chandor. We may have had him pigeonholed, after the excellent Margin Call, as a guy who could handle ensemble casts, wordy scripts and urban settings. But with the excellent All Is Lost, which debuted today at the Cannes Film Festival in an out of competition slot, he's forcibly removed himself from that pigeonhole.Both films, in a way, feature men grappling with forces they can't possibly begin to understand, and both are good, but there the comparison ends. All Is Lost is a stunning achievement, a complete 180-degree shift from Margin Call, tracking a lone sailor (Robert Redford) as his solo pleasure cruise turns into a desperate fight for survival. Apart from an opening voiceover, and an odd line here and there, there are no words. Every part of the battle »
Gael Garcia Bernal Joins Evita
6 hours ago
According to Variety, Gael Garcia Bernal and Twilight's Mia Maestro have signed up for Argentine filmmaker Pablo Aguero's so-far unchristened period piece about the aftermath of Eva Peron's death. The project is currently going by the name 'Evita' but should pick up a new title before Antonio Banderas's singing coach gets involved.Bernal will follow his turn this year's excellent Chilean political drama No with a skip across the border. He's rumoured to be playing naval officer Emilio Eduardo Massera, which, if true, offers a rare bad-guy role and an interesting counterpoint to his anti-fascist turn in No. Massera was a key member of the Argentinian junta that followed Eva Peron and was responsible for thousands of disappearances and deaths during the 1970s and '80s.The story will track the fate of Peron's embalmed corpse, unburied for 25 years, against the backdrop of that bloody period in the nation's history. »
Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives Initial Reaction
8 hours ago
Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives arrived at the festival with a lot of expectations: reteaming the director with actor Ryan Gosling, many assumed it would be a sequel of sorts to their 2010 hit Drive. Unfortunately, many of those looking forward to the movie aren't exactly keen followers of the Danish auteur and were disappointed by this lurid, atmospheric drama. For those familiar with Refn's more experimental work – 2003's Fear X and 2009's Valhalla Rising in particular – this may well turn out to be one of his most distinctive works. Set in Bangkok, the film stars Ryan Gosling (in a role originally to be played by Luke Evans) as Julian, a British-American ex-pat now living in Bangkok, where he manages a boxing club. The club is a front for a drug-smuggling ring, dealing in heroin and cocaine, and is overseen by Julian's older brother Billy (Tom Burke). We don't »
Action-Packed New Man Of Steel Trailer
9 hours ago
After several moody, tonally Terrence Malick-style teases for Man Of Steel, and then that impressive, grandiose effort more recently, things kick up a notch further on the action stakes with this combat-laden new trailer. There’s a greater chance for big moments (fights, not plot) to be spoiled, so take care, but otherwise… enjoy. Launched with another message from Michael “I Will Find Him!” Shannon’s General Zod as he demands that we Earthlings tell him where Kal-El is hiding, it then segues into a blistering barrage of action scenes as Superman (Henry Cavill) faces off against Zod and, in particular in this one, Antje Traue’s Faora, who delivers a chilling threat to our hero: “For every human you save, we will kill a million more…” So if you were wondering whether Zod and Faora would be basically decent types, there’s your answer. Those two (and the »
Cannes 2013: Transporter 4-6 Announced
9 hours ago
It's a long five years since Jason Statham last fastened his seatbelt for a Transporter movie. In the meantime, Stath has gone on to bigger things in the Expendables and others, and The Transporter has continued quietly without him, as a TV series with Chris Vance. More movies are finally on the way though, with Luc Besson's EuropaCorp just striking a deal at Cannes for another three instalments.Before you get too excited, there's no mention at all yet that Statham will be returning to his signature role of Frank Martin, the driver who never changes the deal and never opens the package. Statham played the role in three films (four if you include his cameo in Collateral) and sad as it feels to say it, we'd kind of be surprised to see him return: it would feel like a step backwards for a man recently confirmed to be »
New Pacific Rim Featurette Washes Up
17 hours ago
You might have thought that Pacific Rim’s publicity barrage would end with the big, main, supposedly final trailer that arrived recently. Oh, such innocence. Instead, now we’re being brought a behind-the-scenes featurette that explains how the giant robots stomping through the movie are controlled. Take a gander… Turns out the nifty neural connection between the two pilots – two because the mental load of controlling one of the behemoth ‘bots proved too much for a single brain in early tests – is called 'Drift Space', where the two controllers’ minds and memories blend and weave.So, as actors Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi and other cast members explain (along with writer/director Guillermo del Toro), the link is an intimate, powerful one where no secret is left undiscovered and no corner of the brain unexposed. Which means that piloting teams have to be on very good terms and trust each other implicitly. »
Leonardo DiCaprio Hires Dennis Lehane For Travis McGee
17 hours ago
Figuring that an injection of new writing talent might help the project work itself free of development hell, 20th Century Fox has turned to Dennis Lehane, someone with just a little bit of crime writing experience for Travis McGee, which Leonardo DiCaprio is interested in.The planned film, based on John D. McDonald’s book Deep Blue Good-By, features the McGee character, a Floridian sleuth who moonlights as a treasure hunter. He’s featured in 21 novels, and Fox rightly figures that they could be franchise material if the first – simply being called Travis McGee at this point, in a Jack Reacher-style – works.Trouble is, it’s been lingering on the slow burn development stove for years now, with Robert Schwentke, Oliver Stone and Paul Greengrass considering directing and Mark Boal and David James Kelly among those having taken a whack at the script.So now Lehane – whose novels have »
Zac Efron Turns Narc
17 hours ago
Zac Efron dabbling in cocaine and caught by the cops? No, not the latest celebrity scandal splashed across the pages of the gossip mags. It’s actually the plot of a possible future project Efron’s now attached to, as he may star in Narc.Lest you think it’s a remake of Joe Carnahan’s excellent, gritty cop thriller, this Narc is actually a true-crime tale that plays more like Donnie Brasco: The College Years.Assuming he ends up playing the lead (because “attached” doesn’t always mean “actually starring”), Efron would be an all-American college star, beloved by his peers, president of his fraternity and the captain of the lacrosse team. When police bust him with cocaine he was planning to distribute at a party, it looks like his future’s in ruins.Then the authorities offer him a deal: he won’t be arrested if he goes undercover as an informant. »
Cannes 2013: Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom Poster
17 hours ago
It's a brave man who portrays a real-life figure who has already been played on screen by Morgan Freeman, but Idris Elba has no shortage of guts. After all, he's also the one aiming to cancel the apocalypse. He’s starring as Nelson Mandela in Long Walk To Freedom and after the Weinstein Company's reveal in Cannes the first poster is now online. We don’t think any massive Kaiju make an appearance in this one, unless there’s something from his history that Nelson Mandela has really done well to hide. Instead the film, which takes its title from the main man’s 1994 autobiography, charts Mandela's childhood in a rural village, though his activist days and many years spent in prison, right up to his inauguration as democratically elected president of South Africa. So it’s definitely taking a different angle to Freeman and Clint Eastwood’s Invictus. »
Cannes 2013 In Photos: Blood Ties Premiere
18 hours ago
A triple-bill of Cannes photo galleries today, kicking off with Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties crew as they walked up the red carpet for their official Croisette premiere. Regard, then, Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard and Zoe Saldana, as well as non-Blood Ties alumni Alec Baldwin, Hilaria Thomas and Milla Jovovich. Then there's Steven Soderbergh's final-honest-he-means-itmovie, Behind The Candelabra, which stars Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover, Scott Thorson. Alas, neither actor wore anything as glamourous as their characters do in the movie whilst posing for the assembled press, but as it's Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, we'll let them off this time. {Cannes 2013: Behind The Candelabra Photocall}Keanu Reeves' directorial debut, Man Of Tai Chi, sees The Man Who Knows Kung Fu kunging some fu all over Hong Kong, reuniting with his Matrix martial arts master Tiger Chen to deliver a Chinese-American action spectacular. »
Cannes 2013: Videblogisode #3 - Justin Timberlake, Marion Cotillard
18 hours ago
The third videblogisode from Cannes 2013 boasts four interviewees and one heck of a Bit Where It's Damo. Our chats with Clive Owen and Marion Cotillard are in honour of Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties, while Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan enjoyed some quality Empire time after we'd seen - and very much enjoyed - the Coens' latest, Inside Llewyn Davis. brightcove.createExperiences();For more videblogisodery - yes, that's a word we just made up - be sure to head to our Cannes 2013 microsite, where you can also find all of our initial reaction reviews, news pieces, picture galleries and more. »
Cannes 2013: Michael B. Jordan On Human Torch Casting Rumours
18 hours ago
Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler's moving tale of the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant in the Bay Area in 2009 - has been one of the hits of the Cannes Film Festival thus far, with Michael B. Jordan's lead turn a particular standout.We spoke to Jordan - so good in both The Wire and Chronicle, of course - and his Fruitvale Station co-star Melonie Diaz for an upcoming videblogisode, and they were on great form. You'll see the full interview on Friday. But we couldn't resist asking Mr. Jordan about the strong rumours that he's about to reteam with his Chronicle director, Josh Trank, on Fox's reboot of The Fantastic Four, where he would play Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch.While Jordan's answer isn't a 100%, nailed-on, signed-on-the-line-that-is-dotted yes, his reaction to the question - the first time anyone had asked him about Fantastic Four on camera - is priceless. »
Steven Spielberg Producing Halo TV Series
22 hours ago
In the midst of the pomp and ceremony heralding the launch of the new Xbox One gaming console, Microsoft today dropped one nugget that will be of particular interest to fans of games, TV and Steven Spielberg: the company announced that the director will produce a new series based on the Halo games for Xbox Live.Few details for the series were announced beyond Spielberg’s presence and the collaboration with games makers 343 Industries. But however it comes to life, it’ll likely focus on the central character Master Chief and his battles against the evil Covenant.Of course, this is hardly the first time someone has tried to turn the game into another format: there is already the live-action web series Halo: Forward Unto Dawn, which saw cadets from Unsc's Corbulo Academy of Military Science, dealing with various crises (see the first chunk below).The game also »
Latest Lone Ranger Trailer Rides In
21 May 2013 10:22 AM, PDT
For a moment at the beginning of this latest trailer, we thought we might actually get a look at the new Johnny Depp / Gore Verbinski / Jerry Bruckheimer collaboration without the trains that have dominated every other teaser and promo for The Lone Ranger. But they rattle along soon enough… Check out the latest footage for the movie over at Apple.Of course, when Team Ranger has funnelled so much effort into beautiful steam locomotives and designed a series of impressive set pieces around them, it’s natural that they’d want to show them off like a child with a brand new Hornby kit. And a lot of the running around / riding horses on / swinging through speeding carriages is fun.Armie Hammer stars as John Reid, a freshly graduated lawyer who agrees to tag along with brother Dan (James Badge Dale) as part of a posse. When the rest of the party is gunned down, »
Two New Posters For The World's End Crash Online
21 May 2013 8:54 AM, PDT
The posters for Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's The World's End have gone from showing a list of pub names to a single pub sign to the very same pub sign with a hole blown through it to these: explosion-filled, pint-raising, stool-wielding disasterpieces. This is a good thing.The plot of the final part of the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy from Simon Pegg (writes, stars), Nick Frost (stars) and Edgar Wright (writes, directs) finds five childhood friends reuniting after 20 years because one of them – Pegg's 40 year-old Gary King, who refuses to grow up – is trying to drag his less-than-enthusiastic mates (Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan and Martin Freeman) on a recreation of an epic 12-venue pub crawl in their home town, which culminated at a boozer called The World’s End. That's apt, because this time it seems that the world may actually be ending.With so many great names on board, »
New Poster For The Deep
21 May 2013 8:05 AM, PDT
You know what's terribly en vogue at the moment? Man-lost-at-sea movies. We'd put it all down to Life Of Pi, except that none so far have copied Ang Lee and added a tiger. But one of those lined up is The Deep, the new film from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur that's based on a hellish true story. And here's the UK poster.Cast your mind back, if you're old enough, to a cold March night in 1984. A small fishing boat went down in the Icelandic seas with its crew of six, but one of them miraculously survived, clinging to a piece of debris. Six hours later he washed ashore, so there's a hapy ending! Wait, not quite. It says here that he washed ashore on a deadly lava field.So it's out of the freezing cold Arctic ocean and into the fire. Ólafur Darri Ólafsson plays the lone protagonist pitted »
Brand New Wolverine Trailer Arrives Online
21 May 2013 7:48 AM, PDT
James Mangold's take on the critically-acclaimed run of Marvel comics known as The Wolverine has been blessed with another trailer. This one's got lots more Jean Grey, a gag involving super sharp katanas, a lady with a snake tongue where her human one should be and a smidge more footage of that Silver Samurai who people keep talking about. Much of what's shown has already seen in the first full-length teaser - for a trailer breakdown, head this way - and the more recent Cinema Con video, but you get to see longer sections of certain scenes here, which allows for a better taste of what to expect from the whole film.Accompanying this new trailer is a new poster, which shows Svetlana Khodchenkova's Viper in the Japanese ink-style that The Wolverine's marketing team have been experimenting with throughout. Have a look at all four watercolour wonders »
New-Look Dial M For Murder 3D Poster
21 May 2013 7:21 AM, PDT
If you're wondering what inspired Baz Luhrmann's use of 3D in his theatrical and tricksy Great Gatsby, look no further. Luhrmann saw Dial M For Murder "many years ago" and noted Hitchcock's use of 3D to crank up the human drama of "actors standing in a room doing an eight-page scene". The original 3D game-changer is back on the big screen in July and has a new stereoscopic poster to let everyone know. Note how the tagline isn't "Hitchcock phones it in!" here.It may not be quite as exalted as Vertigo and Psycho, but with its nasty brand of double-dealing and Hitch's sure sense of the macabre, Dial M endures as one of the best of his straight-up thrillers. Like Rope, with its one-room set-up, it's adapted from a stage play - also by its screenwriter Frederick Knott - and it afforded the Master the opportunity to experiment with a new filmmaking format. »
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