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Duplicity Trailer Is Here
Clive Owen and Julia Roberts indulge in corporate spying
BY James White Nov 26th 2008 // 9:09AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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The trailer for Duplicity, the new drama from Michael Clayton writer-director Tony Gilroy, has gone online.
The plot finds a pair of former spies (Julia Roberts as an ex-CIA operative and Clive Owen as a one-time MI6 agent) who strike up a relationship and hatch a plan to swindle corporations for millions.
To do so, they both get jobs as security consultants for a pair of companies engaged in a tight products race. The big question is, can they trust each other?
Samuel L Jackson Up For The Fallen
A tale of Boston firemen
BY James White Nov 26th 2008 // 1:01AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Samuel L Jackson is teaming up with writer-director Brian Goodman to try to make fire-fighter drama The Fallen.
Actor-turned-director Goodman, who is winning rave reviews for his Boston-set crime pic What Doesn’t Kill You, has been busy working on the script for the film, which follows the lives of a group of Boston firemen and deal with one of them becoming hooked on painkillers after an injury.
Internet Star Trek Trailer Online
See new footage inside!
BY James White Nov 26th 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
A new version of the recently released Star Trek trailer is now online.
If you’re sick of watching the new Star Trek trailer after several hundred views, we have some good news.
True, it’s only three seconds’ worth of good news, but it’s a little extra footage added. Here it is:
Animated Terminator Salvation Poster Online
Bye bye, Los Angeles…
BY James White Nov 26th 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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The team behind Terminator Salvation has shoved up a new poster for the film on to the Internet.
But this is not your ordinary one sheet, oh no. This is something a little different.
This sucker moves.
You can see the full effect over at the official and we recommend checking it out by clicking the image below.
Judgement Day Arrives
Watch part of LA slowly succumbs to Judgement Day (think explosions) and disintegrate, revealing the iconic visage of a Terminator.
Jason Statham would "slap Bond around"
Bond and Bourne no match for Transporter
BY Sam Ashurst Nov 25th 2008 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Jason Statham is Britain's hardest action export, so it's about time someone asked him how his Transporter character would fare against Britain's biggest action export. Surprise surprise, he reckons he'd win.
Click the gallery to your right to see some reasons we agree with him.
"Oh, he’d slap old Bond around a couple of times, wouldn’t he?” says Statham of Transporter 3's Frank Martin.
Watch The New Battlestar Galactica Promo Here
The series finale is coming up fast
BY James White Nov 25th 2008 // 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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A teaser trailer for the last half of Battlestar Galactica Season 4 has arrived online and you can watch it below.
We love Battlestar, and we know many of you do too. So while we’re thrilled to see new footage from the show, it’s a bittersweet watch as it means this really is the end.
Well, unless you count the webisodes and shorts that will surround the final episodes.
Paul Schrader Writing Bollywood Action Epic
Taxi Driver scribe working on Extreme City
BY James White Nov 25th 2008 // 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
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Taxi Driver writer and Auto Focus director Paul Schrader is leaving for Mumbai to write Bollywood action film Extreme City.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Schrader is finally so sick of Hollywood that he’s decided to take his writing talents elsewhere.
"I've been getting indie movies made for 20 years," he says. "But I take a good look around and what I see is a barren, barren place - in terms of the financial community, in terms of audiences, in terms of distribution.
Rear Window Writer Dies
John Michael Hayes RIP
BY James White Nov 25th 2008 // 9:09AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Sad news to relate this morning as John Michael Hayes, the writer who worked on classic films such as Rear Window and Peyton Place, has died aged 89.
The screenwriter, who also worked with Alfred Hitchcock on To Catch A Thief and The Trouble With Harry, continued writing up until 1994, with Iron Will.
Born in Massachusetts, Hayes started his writing career on newspapers and radio and cracked Hollywood with a job on Lucille Ball’s radio show M Favourite Husband
Universal
The radio work led to a contract with Universal in the 1950s.
Universal Planning Serge Gainsbourg Pic
The life of the iconic French warbler
BY James White Nov 25th 2008 // 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie News
Universal has decided to launch a French-language arm, and the company’s first release will be a film based on the life of Je t’aime singer Serge Gainsbourg.
Variety reports that Eric Elmosnino will play Gainsbourg, who was known not only for his singing but for his string of famous, beautiful lovers, including Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin.
Sexy French model Laetitia Casta has signed on as Bardot, while Anna Mouglalis will play fellow singer Juliette Greco, who worked with Gainsbourg several times in his career.
Vera Farmiga joins Up In The Air
Co-starring with Clooney in Jason Reitman’s latest
BY James White Nov 24th 2008 // 17:17PM FILED UNDER: Movie News
The Departed’s Vera Farmiga has joined the cast of Jason Reitman’s new film, Up In The Air, agreeing to co-star alongside George Clooney.
Variety reports that Farmiga will play a businesswoman who meets up strikes up a relationship with Clooney forged from meetings in airports and hotels around the US.
Why the patchwork romance? Air’s plot, adapted by the Juno director from Walter Kirn’s novel sees Clooney’s human resources exec doggedly pursuing his millionth frequent flyer mile, only to have his life fall apart around him.
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