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Danny Boyle’s eagerly anticipated Sunshine, which has been pushed back several times, has launched a new website and a new trailer to go with it. It has been gathering favourable early reviews which we have reported on before. The trailer shows a snippet from an Empire review which says:
“…a knuckle gnawingly tense, glorious action thriller. 4 stars.”
The film opens April 5 in the UK.
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John Simm has revealed that his young son pressured him to accept a role in Doctor Who.
Simm, who will play politician Mr Saxon in the new series told The Times newspaper how his five-year-old’s fandom persuaded him to become involved ‘He’s Doctor Who mad. He’s got the lunch-box, the dolls, the screwdriver. As the dad of a small boy, you kind of have a moral duty to be a baddie on Doctor Who if you can, don’t you?‘
Simm also explained that Executive Producers Julia Gardner and Russell T. Davies went so far as to travel on midnight trains up to Manchester to the set of Life on Mars to ask him to accept. Simm first came to attention in the BBC1 Jimmy McGovern drama The Lakes, before going on to star in State Of Play and Crime and Punishment on TV, as well as the movie 24 Hour Party People.
Doctor Who returns to BBC One this Saturday at 7pm.
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DreamWorks has set the release date for Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd to January 11, 2008. The film will get a limited release three weeks earlier on December 21, which means the studio is putting in the Oscar window.
Tim Burton’s film - starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen and Christopher Lee - is an adaptation of the award winning musical-thriller by Steven Sondheim. It tells the story of a man unjustly sent to prison, who vows revenge not only for that cruel punishment but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, he becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who “shaved the heads of gentleman who never thereafter were heard from again.”
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M. Night Shyamalan’s (The Sixth Sense, Lady in the Water) next film The Happening has landed its lead actor: Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Shooter), reports Variety.
The paranoid thriller will star Wahlberg as a man who takes his family on the run from a large-scale environmental crisis which threatens to end the world. ‘Mark has a unique blend of charisma, humanity, authenticity and skillfulness as an actor,’ Shyamalan said, ‘all of which coalesced at this moment in his career, making him the perfect person to take on the role of Eliot Moore, the science teacher at the center of this event.’
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While both segments of Grindhouse, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, premiere in US cinemas as one film starting next week (April 6), other territories will see a separate release of the two.
Variety today reports that Tarantino is looking to cut an extended version of the currently 87 minute-long Death Proof to be screened at the Cannes film festival (which won the director the Palm D’Or for Pulp Fiction in 1994), which takes place May 16-27. Added scenes may involve more character development and extended action. Rumours even indicate that Tarantino will try to land a competition slot for his film (while previous works like Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill were debuted out of competition). It will be interesting to learn if this longer cut will be the separated version released outside of the US (beginning May 31).
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With more creatures than the Star Wars cantina, Hellboy and his cohorts set about trying to stop an Elf prince from destroying the human race. Hey, it’s all in a day’s work for Big Red.
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2008 U.S. Presidential election
I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.
- Cam
