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- Mark Wahlberg, star of The Departed (2006) has confirmed that he will play Nathan Drake in the upcoming film adaptation of the Uncharted video-game series.
- The release date of the prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic The Thing has been pushed back to October 14th 2011 after being bumped from its original April 2011 release date by Fast Five. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, most recently seen earlier this year in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) opposite Joel Edgerton who played the young Owen Lars in the Star Wars prequels (2002 and 2005).
- Director Neil Blomkamp of District 9 (2009) fame has released a teaser video for his latest project. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the teaser is seemingly found camcorder footage of the discovery of a grotesque creature dead at the side of the road. Blomkamp has previously stated that his next film will not be District 10, though little else is known about the project.
- Director Ben Hibon, who helmed the animated sequence through which Hermione relates the tale of the three brothers in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I is now involved in two new film projects. One, entitled Pan, is a dark adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. The other is an adaptation of the novel Worldshaker by Richard Harland.
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) is showing on ITV1 at 2:50pm on Saturday. Another Burton-helmed film: Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008) is on Channel 4 at 9:30pm on the same day. Critically-acclaimed The Death of Mister Lazarescu (2005) is on Flim4 at 12:50am on Sunday. Overlooked comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) is on ITV2 at 11:00pm on Monday. Also, the classic submarine comedy Operation Petticoat (1959) is on Channel 4 at 1:10pm on Wednesday.
- The American
George Clooney plays the titular assassin in this surprisingly dark and tense thriller from director Anton Corbijn (Control) about a lonely assassin who flees to Italy. Apparently a rather slow and bleak film, it has received mixed reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, but certainly looks like an interesting film.
- Machete
Following the highly amusing fake trailer that came attached to the rather entertaining Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez’s new film stars regular Danny Trejo as a Mexican assassin in this modern exploitation movie. Deliberately designed to be over-the-top and ridiculous, the film has done relatively well critically and features a surprisingly high profile cast including Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez and Jessica Alba.
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The third and final instalment of Stieg Larson’s Millennium trilogy has arrived with a lot to live up to considering how impressive parts one and two were. Regrettably, the film has garnered mixed reviews and is apparently a disappointing end to the trilogy, but certainly worth a look for its fans.
- London Boulevard
The debut directorial effort from The Departed scribe William Monahan is a London crime film starring Keira Knightly as a reclusive actress and Colin Farrell as her bodyguard who must deal with a criminal past being brought back to haunt him. Unfortunately, the film has refused to allow critics to watch it beforehand, a traditional sign that it’s not very good.
- Unstoppable
Tony Scott’s (Top Gun) new film stars his current collaborator of choice Denzel Washington in a film “inspired by true events” about two railway workers who must prevent a runaway train carrying extremely dangerous chemicals from causing a disaster. It may all sound rather silly but having garnered some excellent critical responses, it certainly seems worth a look.
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