Archives: 2010 September
Kodi Smit-McPhee Boards Paranorman
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
In an interview with ShockTillYouDrop to promote Let Me In, Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) dropped some hints about his next film: I’m doing an animated film next called Paranorman. I play a boy named Norman who can see ghosts and he saves the world from a zombie invasion. Paranorman is a stop-motion animation by writer/director Chris [...]
Spike TV’s SCREAM 2010 Awards to Premiere Exclusive Horror Footage
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
The channel devoted entirely to men, and possibly the greatest television channel to ever exist, is preparing to launch its 5th Annual SCREAM Awards. Spike TV will be taping and celebrating all things comic, horror, fantasy and Sci-Fi related as the genre awards ceremony get’s ready for its taping on October 16th and ultimate premiere [...]
Troll Hunter Trailer Goes Live – And It Looks Immense!
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
The first full-length trailer for Norwegian mockumentary Troll Hunter has arrived online, only days after Guillermo Del Toro set up his similarly titled Trollhunters at Dreamworks, and it’s a doozy. Unlike most American advertising campaigns (*cough* Cloverfield) the film-makers don’t appear particularly shy regarding their monsters. The trolls are glimpsed a number of times, and, as in [...]
Wes Anderson to Make New Feature Next Year?
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
Fans of indie hipster filmmaker Wes Anderson will be pleased to learn that following his first foray into animation (this year’s stop-motion delight Fantastic Mr. Fox), he has another film coming in 2011. The Playlist have reported Production Weekly dropped the news (via Twitter) that the Rushmore auteur is planning to shoot sometime next spring. [...]
Book Review: DC Comics 75th Anniversary Poster Book
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
Contained within the pages of this wonderful book are some of the most iconic and eccentric comic book covers from the past 75 years of DC comics, and seen in this context the wealth of imagination is truly stunning. Each cover has a critical and social commentary from Robert Schnakenberg and the first appearances of [...]
50(ish) of the Coolest Things from the Harry Potter Movies
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
So yesterday I found out that today is 50 days until the penultimate Harry Potter movie, which has the name, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. Daniel Radcliffe has just marked the occasion by announcing that there are 10 sets of premiere tickets to give away on the official Facebook page. Harry Potter [...]
More Captain America Photos!
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
It feels like we have been inundated lately with on-set snaps and videos of Captain America: The First Avenger, which is continuing to film in Liverpool and Manchester. We have had shots of Chris Evans looking pretty well built, videos of explosions and now a boatload of new snaps arrive, courtesy of both the Daily Mail [...]
Airplane Communal Watch & Tweetathon
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
This Saturday The Guardian is pulling out all the stops as not only are they giving away the DVD of the classic movie “Airplane” but they’re also trying to set up a synchronised liveblogging and tweeting (follow us here @HeyUGuysBlog) event to go with it. The theory is that we all start the movie at [...]
Meryl Streep, Rachel McAdams and Chris Pine Circling Alex Kurtzman’s Welcome to People
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
In August, it was reported that Alex Kurtzman, writer of Star Trek and Transformers, is set to make his directorial debut with family-orientated drama Welcome to People. The film centers on a twenty-something man who, after the death of his father, must deliver $150,000 in cash to an alcoholic sister he didn’t know he had [...]
Danny Boyle to Receive BFI Fellowship
September 30th, 2010, Comments Off
Following his Oscar success with Slumdog Millionaire it was assured that Danny Boyle’s next film would receive great attention and 127 Hours starring James Franco is highly anticipated and should make an excellent closing night film for the 54th London Film Festival this year. I can still remember sitting in a Southampton cinema as the [...]
