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Star Trek: Into Darkness: Press Conference
Set on the bank of the river Thames, the cast and crew of Star Trek: Into Darkness gathered at the suitably futuristic looking, City Hall for some Trekkie Talk including Simon Pegg’s light fingers, Cumberbatch and iconic roles and Abrams on other space opera- Star Wars. All the names were in attendance at today’s press [...]
Ticket Stubs: 26-28 April 2013
As reported earlier this week, the big box-office news was of course the impressive figures accumulated for Shane Black’s Iron Man 3. The third instalment presents a more battered, beaten and mentally drained Tony Stark, whilst drained of the cock-sure attitude. This time, it happily gleaned an impressive £13m in its four day opening, averaging [...]
Out This Week: 3 May 2013
I’m So Excited, Gimme The Loot, The Eye Of The Storm, Dead Man Down, 21 and Over, all out this week This week we take to the air with Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, who returns to his comical roots for camp romp-fest, I’m So Excited, featuring Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz. When those on-board Peninsula [...]
Cannes Classic line-up revealed
The line up for the 10th edition of the Cannes Classic has been revealed. The section will include 20 feature length films and 3 documentaries. On the billing, we have Billy Wilder’s Fedora, Demy’s The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg and Resnais Hiroshima Mon Amour. The purpose of the section is to showcase films that the festival [...]
Beautiful Creatures: The Great Gatsby
With a starry cast by his side, Baz Luhrmann puts a ravishing new spin on The Great Gatsby. While a world away from Long Island where The Great Gatsby takes place, traversing the Russian Steppes on the Trans-Siberian Railway still feels like an appropriately romantic setting for falling in love again with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s [...]
Iron Man 3 Box Office Smash
Iron Man 3 topped the series takings for a box-office opening weekend when it earned just over £13million in the UK over four days, only just behind Joss Whedon’s The Avengers Assemble that grossed £15m. This makes it one of highest earning “stand-alone,” features from the Marvel franchise to date, taking nearly double that of [...]
Redford talks return of Sundance London
Yesterday at London’s O2 Arena, Robert Redford, the founder of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, gathered alongside the festival’s director John Cooper and senior director of AEG Europe, Alex Hill, to discuss the return of the film and music festival to our currently sunny shores. In its sophomore year the festival’s aim [...]
360 Seconds With: Mathieu Kassovitz
Last week saw the release of Mathieu Kassovitz’s Rebellion (L’ordre et la morale), a powerful drama that details the events of a uprising in New Caledonia in the 1980’s. Kassovitiz is both behind and in front of the camera and draws on real life events to construct this politically charged thriller that explores themes of [...]
360 Seconds With Iron Man 3 Director Shane Black
Tomorrow sees the release of Iron Man 3 starring Robert Downey Jr as the playboy billionaire Tony Stark, who uses his fabulous wealth (a la batman) to create hi-tech super-armoured-suits to protect the world. This is the fourth time we will have seen the iron-clad hero in action, if we include last year’s summer spectacle [...]
Ticket Stubs 19-21 April 2013
In its second week of release Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise, dominates at number one, taking £8millon to date, bolstered by additional IMAX sales. Tale of terror in the White House, Olympus Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler and Aaron Echkart, performed reasonably well with £2.2million. Come September it will be interesting to compare the [...]
