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  The figures are in! Tony Stark and his most impressive Mark 42 hit US screens this weekend to great success, outstripping even Harry Potter to score the second highest opening of all time. As posted on AccessReel last week, Iron Man 3 topped The Avengers  in foreign markets, achieving record-breaking international opening figures. Yet the release of Iron Man 3 on US screens has caused ...

In the lead up to the release of THE EVIL DEAD remake this Thursday. With all things horror, I have put together a top 5 of films that have scared me the most. The films in my top 5 may not be listed as the scariest films on IMDB or in JB HiFi’s lists, but they had truly freaked me out and left me filled with curiosity after the first time I watched them. I admit, I haven’t watched eve...

  Tony Stark fast talks his way on to US screens today (is it wrong to feel so smug that we got the film before America…?). IRON MAN III earned over $300 million in it’s first nine days, beating even THE AVENGERS. Having already seen IRON MAN III twice (and, in about two hours, it’ll be three times), I was stunned to discover that the film is only just about to hit it&rsquo...

‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ is being released next week in Australia, with the US having to wait until 17th May. The promotional rounds are well underway helping to push the new film directed by JJ Abrams, and while there’s plenty of Star Trek talk, inevitably Abrams is having to contend with a number of Star Wars questions about the upcoming Episode VII.Without any sense of forma...

As far as trailers for movies go the latest released for PACIFIC RIM is on track to be the best one we will see all year! The trailer is rather impressive, I got excited when the first one was released especially the quote ‘Today we cancel the apocolypse’ but wow you really can’t get much better then this. Director Guillermo del Toro said about this extended trailer ‘This w...

The Great Gatsby is quickly coming towards its May 30 Australian release and with premiere screenings also coming up soon at Cannes Film Festival and in the states the first clips are starting to hit the internet. The Great Gatsby is directed by Baz Luhrmann who brought us such films as ‘Moulin Rouge’ and ‘Romeo & Juliet’ which also starred Leonardo DiCaprio, the first ...

  After the success of the cute romantic comedy THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK earlier this year, it seems Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are attached at the hip when it comes to landing roles in upcoming Hollywood features.    The pair started their working relationship on THE SILVER LINIGS PLAYBOOK which saw them land lead roles as husband and wife in SERENA (to be released lat...

We AccessReelians are pretty tough (or at least we like to think so) but even the toughest of cookies has a crumbling point. So what flicks have got the better of us and our tear ducts? First off are my choices: My first big cinema cry was RUNNING FREE; A movie about a boy and his ferret that go on an adventure only to end up in an avalanche. This poor ferret is lying in the snow and a montage beg...

Iron Man 3 has just recently opened in Australia and will be coming out on screens in the United States on May 3rd, naturally being the film that rounds the series out as a trilogy it, leaves the question of any further films being planned.It seems that Iron Man 3 marks the end of both Robert Downey Jr’s and Gwyneth Paltrow’s current contractual obligations to the Marvel cinematic univ...