Skyfall Gets London World Premiere
The World Premiere for new Bond Film Skyfall is officially confirmed for 23rd October at The Royal Albert Hall. The Prince Of Wales, The Duchess Of Cornwall, Daniel Craig, Dame Judi Dench,Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw and Director Sam Mendes are all confirmed to be attending the red carpet launch.
The event will raise money for charities which support former and serving members of the Secret Intelligence Service, the Security Service and GCHQ.
It’s recently been announced that following his third outing as Ian Fleming’s iconic 007 spy, Daniel Craig will be reprising the role in at least two further big screen adventures.
Here’s the official trailer below for Skyfall:
Hunger Games Catching Fire Starts Filming
Filming has started on the first Hunger Games sequel Caching Fire, with the film mainly set to shoot around Atlanta Georgia. The production will also move on to the beaches and jungles of Hawaii before wrapping in December.
The production is being pushed through by Lionsgate at a breakneck speed, mostly because beautiful star Jennifer Lawrence is already contractually committee to filming the follow up to X-Men First Class from January next year. Catching Fire is already scheduled to be in cinemas as early as 22 November 2013.
Francis Lawrence (Water For Elephants, I Am Legend) has taken over directing duties from Hunger Games director Gary Ross, reportedly due to the original director’s vocal concerns about the tight production schedule.
Catching Fire will see returning stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Donald Sutherland. The production has already added quite a few new star names to the cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jena Malone and most recently Sam Claflin.
The final book in Suzanne Collins bestselling series Mockingjay will be split into two parts on screen, with the final films set for release in November 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Let us know in the comments what you think of the casting so far for Catching Fire and what you’re most excited to see in the new Hunger Games films.
For now it only remains to say Good luck to the Catching Fire cast and Crew… and may the odds be ever in your favour.
Rupert Sanders talks Kristen Stewart on Snow White DVD Commentary
The release of Snow White & The Huntsman of DVD has sparked a debate among fans about whether or not to buy a copy following the public scandal surrounding the affair between Kristen Stewart and her married director Rupert Sanders. News that the DVD release would include a director’s commentary track with Rupert Sanders left fans curious what if anything he would have to say about Kristen.
Perhaps it won’t surprise fans that in fact Rupert Sanders says actually very little about Kristen during the feature length commentary. It was always unlikely the studio would release anything too controversial and Sanders feature length discussion sticks mostly to the process of actually making the film.
However in his rare comments about Kristen Stewart, Rupert Sanders praises her ‘athleticism’ and describes her as “obviously a beautiful damsel in distress”. Rupert Sanders previously told us at the world premiere that Kristen was “very intense” and “Like a wild untamed horse”. Comments that perhaps seem a little more provocative in hindsight.
Here’s some of the other pieces specifically Kristen Related Trivia revealed during the Commentary track.
- Kristen Stewart lights a fire in her first scene as Snow White because Rupert Sanders was inspired by watching Ray Mears survival show the night before filming.
- Kristen’s leap into the sea during her castle escape was actually a real leap into a dirty water tank at Pinewood.
- The infamous scene where Kristen punched Chris Hemsworth in the face was actually when Snow White stabs the Huntsman shortly after they first meet in the Dark Forrest.
- Snow White’s eye colour is actually Kristen’s real eyes; she wears actually brown contacts in Twilight. They had to digitally change the Young Snow White’s eye colour to match Kristen’s
- During her confrontation with the Troll all Kristen Stewart had to act with was an angry tennis ball on a stick.
- Kristen Stewart actually injured her hand badly punching one of the Dwarves when they first capture her and the Huntsman.
- Snow White’s rousing speech to her army was developed over many week and only finalised the night before during an on set read through that was interrupted by a security guard in a neon jacket.
Listen to our red carpet premiere interview with Rupert Sander in full below:
Snow White And The Huntsman Trivia
- Director Rupert Sanders provided three drops of his own blood during the opening scene with Snow White’s mother.
- The opening battle scene with the King was shot at Bourne Wood, the same location as the opening battle in Gladiator.
- Rupert Sanders played dramatic Handel music on set while filming the wedding scene to get the cats in the mood.
- Some of the castle set was built at the Pinewood car park. The castle gate was actually added on top of the studio security gate with CGI.
- The Queen’s actual Mirror on the wall was made of beaten bronze.
- The Mirror Man was inspired by the work of artist Kevin Francis Gray.
- Charlize Theron’s Milk Bath was inspired by Queen Cleopatra.
- The pillars in the palace were actually copies of those found in Durham Cathedral
- The ‘Dark Forrest’ only actually had 8 real prop trees in it. They were rearranged for each scene and complimented by extensive CGI.
- The normal sized Dwarf actors had to attend ‘Dwarf School’ to learn how to waddle amongst other things.
- Bob Hoskins’ Dwarf body double was actually a woman.
- The ‘enchanted forest’ was shot at the Queens woods at Windsor among 200 year old oak trees.
- Nick Frost enjoyed swimming backstroke in the sewer because it reminded him of the trash compactor scene in Star wars.
- The climactic battle beach scenes were shot in Wales but the castle exterior and interior scenes were all shot in Pinewood.
- Helicopters, Cranes and cameras mounted on BMW cars were all used to capture the beachfront horses charge.
- 150 horse were used during the opening battle and 250 were used during the final battle.
- The evil ‘dark faeries’ at the end of the film were each comprised of over 40,000 CGI shards of Obsidian.
Resident Evil Retribution Interviews
The fifth movie in the long running Resident Evil franchise, based on the bestselling zombie plagued video games is arriving in cinemas later this month. Resident Evil Retribution sees the return of stars Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory & Michelle Rodriguez; alongside newcomer Bingbing Li.
Here’s the official synopsis for the new 3D adventure:
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex.
Check out what the films beautiful action stars had to say about their characters and new film:
Here’s the official trailer as well:
Resident Evil Retribution 3D is out in UK cinemas on 28th September