Results tagged “film gossip”

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By John Hill on December 15, 2008 11:27 AM |

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It’s probably not escaped you that an eighth Police Academy film is in the offing.

Steve Guttenberg admits he’s keen to get the project off the ground with the old cast, possibly because he’s had a little more time on his hands than expected when he bailed after the fourth movie.

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By John Hill on December 3, 2008 2:30 PM |

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He’s one of the best animation directors around today - and it looks like Hollywood knows it.

A gaggle of Tinseltown titans have signed up to add their voices to Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest project, entitled Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.

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By John Hill on November 20, 2008 3:30 PM |

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If there's one thing worse than being on the edge of a financial black hole, it's watching a Michael Moore documentary about it.

Since his interesting breakthrough with auto industry doc Roger and Me, Moore has steadily morphed into the sort of blowhard that even irritates people that agree with him.

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By John Hill on November 12, 2008 3:37 PM |

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Sylvester Stallone may look more like beef jerky than beefcake these days, but he’s still capable of packing a punch when he wants to.

So action fans will be drooling at the prospect of his latest direct-and-star escapade The Expendables, in which he teams up with The Transporter’s Brit star Jason Statham and martial arts legend Jet Li.

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By John Hill on November 5, 2008 3:12 PM |

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With eight films already sitting on video store shelves around the world, surely you’d think the Hellraiser barrel has been well and truly scraped.

But you’d be wrong, poor naive reader.

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By John Hill on October 29, 2008 3:18 PM |

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Sometimes it takes more than a ball of twine and a rugby shirt with a hilarious nickname on it to attract the twenty-something stag night crowd.

And when your target market is off laying waste to European cities instead of Surrey, you've got to pull out all the stops.

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By John Hill on October 21, 2008 9:20 AM |

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BEST of luck to Westferry director Eran Creevy, who will be attending the world premiere of his first movie this week.

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By John Hill on October 17, 2008 4:00 PM |


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HE once appeared in the horrible movie adaptation of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth.

But surely an Oscar nod for The Last King Of Scotland has given Forest Whitaker a place on the Hollywood top table?

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By John Hill on October 14, 2008 9:03 AM |


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AS anyone with a passing knowledge of sleuthing will remember, Dr Watson is the learned sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, known for his pin-up looks and romantic trysts with models and actresses.

Wait. What?

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By John Hill on October 7, 2008 9:00 AM |


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IT'S time to begin the scramble for tickets to this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

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By John Hill on September 30, 2008 9:00 AM |


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IT'S always amusing when a star turns down a role in a sequel, only to crawl back for the third film when their career explodes.

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By John Hill on September 12, 2008 9:09 AM |


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DID you miss this summer’s bleak Batman instalment The Dark Knight?

If so, welcome back from the moon. I hear its nice this time of year.

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