Reports over the last few days are that Muppets 2 is in full swing and will actually start shooting in January in the UK, for lovers of the first film which also includes myself should be pretty happy with the direction this second film will take. Not much information out about number 2 is out yet but this is what we do know. Bret McKenzie who wrote pretty much all of the songs for the first film ...
There’s Pac-Man, Paperboy, Sonic and there’s even a diet coke volcano, but most of all, there’s Ralph. Wreck It Ralph is the newest animated feature from Disney. The film has proven to be one of the most successful opening animated features from Disney topping the opening weekend box office in the United States. After viewing the trailer, I’m eager to be first in line and s...
The first Despicable Me was a surprising hit accumulating a Worldwide Box Office gross of over $543 million on just a smallish $69 million dollar budget! So obviously Universal wanted a sequal so Gru and his many minions are back once again to conquer and take over the world. Official Synopsis – Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s worldwide blockbuster, Despicable Me, d...
In true Sunday afternoon silver screen style, AccessReel hosted a weekend screening of the brand spanking new digital print of the 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia, an epic rumination on the flamboyant and controversial British military figure Thomas Edward Lawrence; a rather complex fellow who has been labeled as everything from a hero, to a charlatan to a sadist. Told in a series of flashb...
Underneath the avalanche of Star Wars related news that was this week, there has been another news item to get excited about. Maybe not quite the same level as the megatonne of a third Star Wars trilogy being announced along with the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, but this is still good to hear.Earlier in the week we reported that Matthew Vaughn has called it a day on the sequel to his previous film...
Housos Vs Authority hits cinemas on the 1st of November and with Franky hitting Perth for a press tour and hosting a couple of screenings at Reading Cinemas Belmont and Mandurah we had a chance to sit down with him for ten minutes to talk everything from Rockingham to threesomes. See Australia’s most famous bludgers on a journey from Sunnyvale to the very centre of Australia, Uluru. Franky, ...
It will be a day long remembered, the legacy of Star Wars has been secured, with the sale of Lucasfilm Ltd, including Skywalker Sound and Industrial, Light and Magic from George Lucas to Disney for approximately $4 billion made up of cash and stock holdings and the announcement of a new film, Episode VII, targeting a 2015 release date.The future of Star Wars has been a little uncertain in recent y...
Dredd 3D hit cinemas on the 25th of October and lucky for us we got to have a chat with the films Director Pete Travis. We talk to Pete about everything from getting involved in Dredd, the music of the film, casting Urban & Headey and even a possible Dredd Trilogy! The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One- a vas...
X-Men: The Last Stand had more than one director attached before Brett Ratner took on the role and delivered the final film. One of those previous directors was Matthew Vaughn who signed on in 2005, but subsequently left the film before filming began. Vaughn finally entered the X-Men franchise years later of course with X-Men: First Class, and it was looking as though he would stay with the franch...
The World Premiere just happened for the upcoming Bond film SKYFALL and we have all the highlights to so you guys. The Royal Albert Hall in London hosted the Royal World Premiere of the twenty-third 007 adventure on October 23 and was attended by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall; the film’s leading actors Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fienne...
First we had Ryan Gosling for The Notebook then we had Channing Tatum for Dear John and now we have Josh Duhamel in the heart-throb role for Nicholas Sparks love story ‘Safe Haven’. Duhamel stars opposite Julianne Hough who we recent saw in Rock of Ages and also the remake of the 80’s classic Footloose. SAFE HAVEN is an affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s ...
Despite previous comments that James Cameron was only going to direct Avatar related films from this point on, it looks like he is in fact going to go beyond the world of Pandora. Cameron is now set to direct a new film based on the book by Taylor Stevens called ‘The Informationist’. The book is about the character Vanessa Munroe, a gunrunner and mercenary turned information broker who...
