ALIEN VS PREDATOR 2: REQUIEM - PREPARE
FOR THE MOST BRUTAL BATTLE EVER OUT ON DVD…
RELEASED BY TWENTIETH CENTURY
FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENTMONDAY 12TH MAY
The sequel to the long awaited
face off between two of the fiercest and feared species returns to the
small screen on Monday 12th May as Alien vs Predator 2: Requiem is released
on DVD courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - but this
time they have upped the ante as hell is unleashed…on earth!
Released in a hardcore extended
edition, this new DVD (also out on Blu Ray) delivers even more relentless
carnage than ever before and boasts over seven minutes of additional
unseen footage including large helpings of violence and gore.
When a Predator ship crash-lands
outside a little town in Colorado, one of most formidable creatures
ever spawned is released onto human soil - the Predalien! This advanced
specimen immediately sets out on a slaughter mission, but is soon pursued
by a sole Predator who has been sent to clean up the mess.
One by one the town’s inhabitants
become targets of the Aliens and the Predator and the town becomes absorbed
in relentless carnage between these two deadly extra-terrestrial lifeforms
- with the humans caught in the middle!!
Directed by The Brothers
Strause, Colin and Greg, whose visual effects house, Hydraulx, is renowned
for it’s computer-generated wizardry on films such as 300, X-Men:
The Last Stand and Fantastic Four, and featuring a worthy cast including
Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me), Reiko Aylesworth (24, ER) and John Ortiz
(American Gangster, Miami Vice, El Cantante), this action packed blood
bath is an unmissable spectacle that truly delivers on DVD. Click
here for a trailer.
Made of Honour
Cinema Release May 2nd
For Tom (Patrick Dempsey), life
is good: he’s sexy, successful, has great luck with the ladies,
and knows he can always rely on Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), his delightful
best friend and the one constant in his life. It’s the perfect
setup until Hannah goes overseas to Scotland on a six-week business
trip… and Tom is stunned to realise how empty his life is without
her. He resolves that when she gets back, he’ll ask Hannah to
marry him – but is floored when he learns that she has become
engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman and plans to move overseas.
When Hannah asks Tom to be her “maid” of honour, he reluctantly
agrees to fill the role… but only so he can attempt to woo Hannah
and stop the wedding before it’s too late.
Get in the mood for the hotly anticipated sassy,
sexy film for the summer in cinemas across the UK on 28th May 2008
New York’s favourite, fashionable,
female foursome are back, continuing their search for sex, love and
relationships not tomention the
perfect pair of sling backs in SEX AND
THE CITY in cinemas on 28th May
2008.
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), successful author and everyone’s
favourite fashion icon-next-door, is back, her famously sardonic wit
intact and sharper than ever, as she continues to narrate her own story
about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single woman in New York City.
SEX AND THE CITY finds Carrie, Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin
Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) four years after the hit HBO series
ended, as our favourite friends continue to juggle jobs and relationships
while navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate.
Chris Noth reprises his iconic
role of Carrie’s handsome yet elusive Mr. Big; David Eigenberg
as Miranda’s down-to-earth husband Steve Brady; Evan Handler as
Harry, Charlotte’s dependable and loving husband; and Jason Lewis
as Smith Jerrod, an actor, client and devoted lover of Samantha’s.
Also co-starring are Candice
Bergen as preeminent Vogue Magazine editor Enid Frick and Academy Award®-winning
actress Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) as Carrie Bradshaw’s young
and inexperienced but still label-savvy assistant, Louise, a character
new to New York and introduced in the film. Also returning are Mario
Cantone as Anthony Marentino, Charlotte’s opinionated wedding
planner, and Willie Garson as Carrie’s sartorially splendid pal
Stanford Blatch.
Michael Patrick King, longtime
executive producer and a writer and director of the series, writes and
directs SEX AND THE CITY. The producers are Michael Patrick King, Sarah
Jessica Parker, John Melfi and Darren Star, who initially created the
series based on semi-autobiographical columns written by Candace Bushnell
for the New York Observer. The film also reunites the cast with iconic
fashion designer Patricia Field, who defined a decade of fashion.
SEX AND THE CITY will be released in the UK through Entertainment Film
Distributors on 28th May 2008.
SOLVE THE MYSTERY WITH NANCY DREW
“Nancy is an engagingly
upbeat heroine” – The Times “Teen detective gets a modern, ironic makeover” –
The Independent “An engaging movie” - Sunday Mirror “Curiously entertaining & laugh out-loud moments”–
London Lite “Right balance of sparkly energy” – The Daily
Record
Grab a magnifying glass, compass
and detective hat and prepare for Nancy Drew, the must-see movie of
this half term, arriving to DVD from 11th February 2008.
Directed by Andrew Fleming (The
Craft, Dick) and starring Emma Roberts (Unfabulous, Aquamarine) and
Tate Donovan (Friends, The O.C), Nancy Drew is a fun, exciting adventure
film for young girls, which tells the story of a smart, stylish and
headstrong young detective-in-the-making, who has a passion for the
truth and helping people who need her!
Nancy Drew and her dad move from
their small hometown of River Heights, where Nancy is a local hero renowned
for her detective skills, to start a new life together in sunny Los
Angeles, California. Nancy promises her dad that her detective days
are behind her…that is until they move into their new home, the
Draycott mansion. There, Nancy faces her greatest challenge yet as she
unravels the mystery behind murdered Hollywood actress, Dehlia Draycott.
As if moving to a new city and
solving taxing mysteries weren’t enough, Nancy must also adjust
to life at a new school, Hollywood High, a whole new (sometimes-less-than-friendly)
crowd, an over-enthusiastic sidekick, Corky (Josh Flitter, License to
Wed), whilst coping with missing her best friend and almost-boyfriend,
Ned (Max Thierot).
However, if anyone can do it,
Nancy Drew can! She’s all about solving cases and she won’t
stop until they are closed.
Nancy Drew also stars Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That) as Jane Brighton,
with cameo appearances from Bruce Willis and Adam Goldberg.
This must-see adventure movie
is available on DVD from 11th February offering something for the whole
family to enjoy during half term! Check out the Nancy Drew website for
further information, photos and videos - http://www.nancydrewmovie.co.uk
SINGLE DISC SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Nancy Drew: Kids at Work
• Gag reel
• ‘Pretty Much Amazing’ music video
• Mini Featurettes:
o Our iPod Idolatry
o Nancy Drew’s Detective Kit
o Behind the Scene
o Day on the Set
o Emma’s Last Day
Peter Kay STAND UP UKay
RRP £21.99
‘Everything Kay has touched
has turned to comic gold’ Independent ‘A comic gem’ Daily Telegraph
He’s been listed by The Times as one of Britain’s best loved
national treasures, has released chart-topping records, performed record
breaking sell-out tours, made genre defining comedy series and best-selling
books and DVDs.
This November, sees the new release
of ‘Stand-up UK’ featuring Peter Kay at his undisputed best
– Live. Featuring classic routines especially chosen by the British
public, including Garlic Bread, Dipping Biscuits, the dancing skills
of people at weddings, as well as the video for the No. 1 smash-hit
‘(I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles’.
With unique insight and interviews
with the Great British Public, ‘Stand-up UK’ is a joyful
celebration of not only the comedy of Peter Kay but of British humour
in the 21st Century.
The rebellion begins on 12th November
2007!
“Moody and Magical
– the Phoenix brims with sizzling entertainment and action –
a dark and delicious delight – a must see movie 4 stars****”
Sunday Mirror
“Fans will surely savour
the high professional gloss and expertise of this film, and acting of
a notable cast. This is a movie that is bound to satisfy most of those
who have read the book, and a good many who haven’t too.”
– London Evening Standard
“Potter film is the
best and darkest yet…Harry has lost none of his magic” –
Daily Telegraph
Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™, the darkest, most
thrilling installment in the Harry Potter series makes its highly anticipated
debut on DVD on 12th November 2007 from
Warner Home Video.
Widely tipped to be the UK’s
No. 1 movie for Christmas 2007, the blockbuster film, which grossed
£48.4 million at the UK box office, will be available to own as
a double disc set that includes breathtaking featurettes, behind the
scenes and additional footage and exhilarating DVD-Rom features. Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will also be available to rent (single
disc only) and in HD and BluRay formats.
Based on JK Rowling’s award-winning
fifth novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix features great
performances from the returning cast of Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter),
Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) who join
forces with Katie Leung (Cho Chang), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Bonnie
Wright (Ginny Weasley), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) and James
and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley) to form Dumbledore’s
Army, a magical and rebellious self defense organisation that battles
against the Dark Arts.
Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix
Lestrange) and Imelda Staunton (Dolores Umbridge) join legends of the
big screen Gary Oldman (Sirius Black), Alan Rickman (Severus Snape)
Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort), Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid), Emma
Thompson (Sybil Trelawney), Julie Walters (Mrs Weasley), Maggie Smith
(Minerva McGonagall), Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore), Brendan Gleeson
(Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody), Richard Griffiths (Vernon Dursley),
Jason Issacs (Lucios Malfoy), Warwick Davis (Filius Flitwick), Fiona
Shaw (Petunia Dursley) and David Thewlis (Remus Lupin), in this fantastical
movie adventure filled with more danger, drama and action than ever
before!
The perfect Christmas gift, Harry
is older, bigger, bolder, darker - the best film yet, no one would want
to miss this journey!
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry returns for his fifth
year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that much of the wizarding community
has been denied the truth about his recent encounter with the evil Lord
Voldemort. Fearing that Hogwarts’ venerable Headmaster, Albus
Dumbledore, is lying about Voldemort’s return in order to undermine
his power and take his job, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge,
appoints a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over
Dumbledore and the Hogwarts students. But Professor Dolores Umbridge’s
Ministry-approved course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards
woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the dark forces threatening
them and the entire wizarding community, so at the prompting of his
friends Hermione and Ron, Harry takes matters into his own hands. Meeting
secretly with a small group of students who name themselves “Dumbledore’s
Army,” Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the
Dark Arts, preparing the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary
battle that lies ahead.
RUN FAT BOY RUN sprints into 1st place
at the UK box office
The hilarious new British
comedy from actor-turned-director David Schwimmer starring Simon Pegg
outran all the competition this weekend and leapt into 1st place at
the UK box office grossing more than £2,000,000.
David Schwimmer’s directorial
debut feature film boasts a strong international cast including BAFTA
winning actress Thandie Newton (Crash, Mission Impossible II), Hank
Azaria (Huff, The Simpsons) and Dylan Moran (Shaun of the Dead, A Cock
and Bull Story). The film also stars Harish Patel (The Buddha of Suburbia,
My Son the Fanatic) and newcomers India de Beaufort and Matthew Fenton.
Five years ago Dennis (Simon
Pegg) was at the altar, about to marry Libby (Thandie Newton), his pregnant
fiancée. He got cold feet and ran for the hills, and he’s
been going in circles ever since. When Dennis discovers Libby’s
hooked up with high-flying-go-getter Whit (Hank Azaria), he realises
it’s now or never. He enters a marathon to show he’s more
than a quitter but then finds out just how much sweat, strain and tears
it takes to run for 26 miles. Nobody gives him a chance but Dennis knows
this is his only hope to be more than a running joke.
RUN, FAT BOY, RUN. is directed
by David Schwimmer (Friends, Joey) from an original screenplay from
Michael Ian Black (Stella, The Pleasure of Your Company) and Simon Pegg
(Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). RUN, FAT BOY, RUN is produced by Robert
Jones (The Constant Gardner, Vera Drake, The Usual Suspects) and Sarah
Curtis (Charlotte Grey, Mrs. Brown).
Entertainment Film Distributors
will release the film in cinemas across the UK on 7th September 2007.
Forest Whitaker has received
numerous roles for his role as Idi Amin. Below is an interview with
him regards this outstanding film.
What
was it like seeing the finished film? Oh it was striking really. It’s always usually hard to watch
myself first time around and it kind of was again. But I saw it early
on as they wanted me to do some scenes and voice-overs. I remember thinking
not, “Oh my god, look what you did?” but “oh, this
is interesting”. Seeing it now, it looks like we’ve captured
something. I’ve seen it probably like three times. I think it’s
a really strong film.
The
director apparently wanted an air of ambivalence about the character
of Amin… I wanted to play him as such. I mean he obviously has flaws, but
he has nice things about him. Every time you’re looking at two
sides of a person’s character you become more complete and I think
the picture of him before was such a flat one-dimensional image. Adding
different areas of thought for him made him more of a person. I didn’t
set off trying to make him a nice guy, trying to make him likeable.
I never thought in my mind once, “I’m going to make him
likeable”, you know, perhaps because I found his sense of humour
and I found his passion it started to make people — as Nicholas
needs to — enjoy being with him. But I didn’t consciously
do that. I was literally like, “Well he likes Scotland, he doesn’t
like the British…” and I slowly started to assimilate and
accumulate all of his different feelings and that’s what started
to come out no the film, but with no judgement.
In
your research about him did you find anything that surprised you? I was surprised particularly by the Ugandan point-of-view. I think
now I saw the really propagandised point-of-view of Idi Amin. I didn’t
see him in a way as being able to bring about positive change. Whereas
when I talked to Ugandan people, they were able to reconcile with a
man who killed so many people and yet changed Uganda for the better.
They would tell me that they weren’t enslaved, whereas they felt
that in neighbouring countries like Kenya, those people were still,
in a way, enslaved. So in that way they felt free, even though their
economy was not well. I met businessmen that weren’t really allowed
the opportunity to have businesses before. It’s almost a weird
kind of understanding. It was always weird to listen to them reconcile
those two things. I think it would be difficult in a lot of cultures,
particularly Western cultures, to have that kind of point-of-view. Certainly
there were people who did despise him and there were also people who
idolised him. There was a larger group in the middle who had this reconciled
concept of him, recognising him as one of the few major players in the
international stage crowd.
How
did they react in general to a Western company coming in and making
a film in Uganda did they see that as a strange thing? First of all they met with Kevin (Macdonald — director) and
the company and they went into a cabin and they all met with the president.
They had complete access and complete aid from the government. It literally
got to the point where the government gave us their tanks and their
army and their airports and parliament. I don’t think there’s
any more welcoming an environment. They let us close down their streets
and the people themselves seemed excited by the prospect. Because films
just don’t get shot there, 1. There was an influx of money. 2.
For a while there was a surge of jobs and then they are feeling like
part of their own history that is going be told to the world. I got
trepidation from relatives and things like that. Wondering, what is
it you’re going to do? Are you about to just go and paint this
image again or are you delve any deeper?
How
about in terms of your performance, was he quite a traumatic role to
play? It was always a lot of work and depending on the scene it could
be quite emotional, but sometimes it was just empowering. Later in the
film when I was more comfortable being him I was less worried that they
wouldn’t believe my accent. Which I was at the start the very
first time I had to a speech and I was a little nervous because I knew
they knew Idi Amin. I new that the older ones had probably heard him
speak in Kampala and so that made me nervous. There were times also
where it was very difficult due to the emotions running high playing
someone who lives completely in the moment, feeling that kind of paranoia,
that kind of fear.
Other
actors have said that when you play dark souls that there can be a residue.
Did you carry him with you for a while?
I tried to get rid of him right away, but there are things that I carried
with me. Like, I remember whenever I would reference him, I’d
always reference him the first person. Now that’s gone, it’s
been gone for a long time. There are certain phrases I used so much
they kind of would come out methodically and slowly. You know we were
trying to live his entire life in a short period of time… But
there have been parts they I’ve played part and there have been
characters that have been really downtrodden and it’s been hard.
Which
ones?
I did this film called Vantage Point. It’s a strong film but I’m
kind of a weak guy, maybe he’s more similar to me in a way. It’s
kind of hard to get rid of it. When you play indecisive people that
energy stays with you. I get comments about that at home: “I can’t
wait until you get rid of this character”. You can’t decide
whether you want a water or a coke — you know what I mean? I just
know that it’s hard to get rid of some of those other characters,
even to the point where I don’t want to play the lead. I want
to play people who are a little clearer. It’s not fun, it’s
really not fun.
Was
it possible for you to understand Amin? I think he started to feel abandoned, that was a big thing for him.
Then he felt cornered and threatened. I think I tried to play that in
the film. That’s a choice I made, the fear and the desire to maintain
power and loathe everything. And he started to behave, as with the character
I created, as a soldier. Like, “These are my enemies, how do I
stop my enemies, how do I destroy my enemies?” He was a soldier
who took orders. He was told who the enemy was, but when he became president,
he made those decisions and there were people around him who were trying
to destroy him its clear. But he had these paranoias that there people
in his staff and people from other tribes were out to get him. But when
he first came into power he surrounded himself with a really intelligent
cabinet — the best of the best — and slowly, you can see
the cabinet shift as he get more and more afraid as he thinks 1. They’re
trying to betray him. 2. They don’t think he’s smart. 3.
He needs people around him to help him keep power. You can see it, just
in the way his cabinet shifted, you can se it in the way he decided
to kick people out of the country because he was betrayed. They put
him in the country, in power and when he asked for help to defend himself
they said, “No”. He said, “What do you mean, ‘No?”.
You’ve put me in a position where all of the countries around
me hate us. So then he says “If you’re not going to help
me then get out”. If you’re not going to help me, then you’re
part of the problem. And he’s trying to figure it out, so he’s
trying to show his might, trying to show he’s strong. There’s
paranoia and fear that’s gripping. He’s trying to hold onto
his position because it took a long time for everybody to start to recognise
it.
Tell
me a little bit about working with James, you know he was quite a fresh
actor at that point. Well he’s so present emotionally; he’s really in the
moment and that makes him really easy to work with. He makes strong
emotional choices, clear choices, he’s not afraid to make his
character dirty, to point out the flaws. And at the same time I think
there is such a glee in his eyes. But you still really care about him
in a deep way because he has this kind of elfish quality in his eyes.
I can’t imagine anybody else playing the character really. I think
he’s perfect (laughs).
Did you and James find links
between one another to help you portray the relationship between Nicholas
and Amin?
Yeah, I think those kind of things happened organically, because he
came very clearly with his point of view and I came with one and we
just honestly played the scenes. The scenes obviously wouldn’t
work as well without the two of us connecting and I think the connection
between us really works as a hard love relationship. It really is like
a love relationship with the betrayal and the break up- you know what
I mean? James coming in with his British point-of-view. He came into
the movie almost like a backpacker and all of a sudden he finds himself
in this cool situation like, “Oh I get to stay at this house?”
and slowly he becomes seduced by this man and he can’t find his
way out. I think at the end of the movie when he is on the plane is
a great moment, I think at that point, Kevin has succeeded in beating
the audience. You feel, as Nicholas does at that moment. And I think
that’s a tribute to James’ work.
Do
you buy into the metaphor that Nicholas is a representation of the west’s
attitude towards Africa? Yeah, I think that’s a big part of the story. In the naivety
of not understanding the culture itself and thinking that you can apply
your own rules and thoughts upon it. But it just doesn’t work
that way, not just in Africa, but anywhere; any non western culture.
He just comes in thinks that’s what he’s going to and I
think that it services the film in many ways. Sort of being the eyes
and the ears of the audience and also he metaphorically becomes the
west. It’s interesting because Idi Amin is torn by that relationship
and is torn by it as he has sex with his wife then he tries to destroy
him, he tries to kill him which is what the west tried to do as well.
But in the beginning it was just like ‘let’s go have some
fun, we’ll go fix this place’ it will be little a jaunt
a nice little trip and I think he slowly finds out, slowly.
What
do you think Idi Amin would have made of the film? I certainly think he may have thought it was more complete that
the other portrayals. I would love to know. When I first started to
try and get the movie made he was still alive and if we would have spoken
to him it would have been very interesting.
Would
you have wanted to? If he was alive? I would have loved to. Now how that would have
affected me, in a positive way or if it would have restrained me- I
don’t know. But I’m always searching for the truth of the
character, whether fictionalised or real, so I’ll always do whatever
I can to find that out. Just to feel them out. So I would like to be
there. Hopefully, that would help me in some way. Maybe something they
said, just being in their presence. It might be he brothers saying,
“Idi Amin used to play here and the mangos would fall from the
trees” and I remember it.
Have you done a DVD commentary
for the film? They were talking about me and James about doing one and I think
it’s scheduled. We didn’t get to do it, yet but they want
us to. I’ve never done one, I’ve talked, not over the films
but I’ve never done one. It should be interesting. Never say never.
Ian Nathan, October 2006
Officers seize fake Hot Fuzz DVDs The film Hot Fuzz was filmed in the Somerset
city of Wells
Pirated copies of the blockbuster film Hot Fuzz have been seized in
South Gloucestershire just days after it went on general release in
UK cinemas.
The movie, set in Somerset, was among a haul of counterfeit DVDs confiscated
by trading standards officers in Mangotsfield. One man was arrested.
Other new films such as The Queen
and Rocky Balboa were also seized.
Some copies have been sent to
the Federation Against Copyright Theft which will try to trace their
origins.
Trading Standards senior enforcement
officer Neil Derrick said: "Incredibly, copied versions of Hot
Fuzz were being sold within days of its release.
"This can have a very big
effect upon its success or failure at the box office.
"In addition, it can have
a detrimental effect upon subsequent DVD rentals and sales."
The maximum penalty on
conviction under the Trade Marks Act 1994 is an unlimited fine and/or
10 years imprisonment.
