Across The Atlantic: Twelfth Edition, 13th April 2012
It’s now the second quarter of 2012 and between April and June it seems another strong quarter will follow. Elfie Hopkins, [REC] Genesis, The Raid: Redemption, Moonrise Kingdom, The Avengers and Prometheus are just a handful of films you can look forward to seeing on a cinema screen near you awfully soon.
After making over £75m worldwide so far, producers have confirmed that the Woman in Black will be getting a sequel, which is tentatively named Woman in Black: Angels of Death. [BBC]
Daniel Craig has said that he’s willing to play James Bond until producers tell him to stop, which I think is fantastic news. [BBC]
Michael Sheen’s Port Talbot Passion Play was filmed, weaved and tinkered with, and after all of that, it had its world premiere on Easter Sunday. If you wish to see it yourself, it was released nationwide in the UK today (Friday the 13th). [BBC]
Tim Roth will chair the jury for the Un Certain Regard prize at this year’s upcoming Cannes Film Festival. [BBC]
James Bond is set to open the 2012 Olympics! Daniel Craig will play the suave British spy in an opening segment directed by the Games artistic director Danny Boyle. [Guardian]
Sky Movies has purchased the broadcasting rights to all the current and future Bond Films from the free-to-air television broadcaster ITV. [Guardian]
BlinkBox has agreed a deal with Disney allowing them to screen the company’s films. [Guardian]
A trailer for the remake of the 1970s television cop-show The Sweeney has dropped online. It stars Ray Winstone and Ben Drew. [Empire]
Fancy the trailer for an upcoming Simon Pegg film? Well here you go then! Here’s the trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything. [Empire]
Mark Millar is already looking towards adapting his most recent comic, The Secret Service, on to the big screen with Kick-Ass cohort Matthew Vaughn. The comic follows a London rioter trained to become a super-spy. [TotalFilm]
Here’s a trailer for the the charming comedy-drama The Angel’ Share by Ken Loach. [BleedingCool]
Do you want a promising first trailer for a Sci-Fi action-thriller starring and written by Noel Clarke? Of course you do, here’s the trailer for Storage 24. [BleedingCool]
The teaser trailer for the upcoming Keith Lemon Film has been released and it, well, it contains everything you’d expect from the comedian. [BleedingCool]
Doctor Who’s Matt Smith stars alongside Eva Green in what looks like a solemn Sci-Fi tale entitled Clone (it was previously released under the title of Womb). [Metro]
Nurse Mark Preece has been given a community order after being caught skipping work to be an extra in Wrath of the Titans. [Metro]
Ex-Busted singer Charlie Simpson (you know, that tacky British pop-rock band) is to make his acting debut as a convert operations interrogator in the film In God We Trust. [TheSun]
6 Comments
Great round up! Very interested in this The Secret Service comic.
Yea same here, more so because he wants to collaborate with Vaughn, and we all know how well that turned out last time!
Thank you for the updates…heading to those sites now.
I am curius with Ken Loach movie and Simon Pegg’s
‘Angels’ looks to be a comedy-drama in the same vein as ‘Looking for Eric,’ which was one of my favourite films of a couple of years ago, so I’m personally looking forward to it. Loach is just one of those filmmakers that churns great, well, films, and enjoyable ones at that without any of the mess that usually comes with them.
About Craig’s willingness to keep playing Bond… well, I like his rendition as 007 but he just looks so old already now, can’t imagine even 5 yrs from now!
Anyway, great rounds of updates, thanks Jordan.
Cheers for the kind comments guys, I’m kind of in the opposite camp as I wouldn’t mind seeing a 45yr old Bond who has wrinkles, scraggly hair and sometimes struggles to kick a guy’s arse, but at the same time is suave and wise-beyond his years. But, I suppose we’ll soon find out what is happening Bond wise when ‘Skyfall’ is released in a few months!
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