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Hollywood star Gerard Butler’s acting career has been characterized by a diverse range of roles across film and television. Starting with small roles, he gained recognition with projects like Attila and Dracula 2000 before taking on the role of King Leonidas in 300, which has also been attributed as his breakthrough role.

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas | Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures

He has since navigated between action-packed roles and more complex character portrayals, including ventures into voice acting. However, despite his extensive and successful career, the actor had concerns about the sequel to his beloved animated film How to Train Your Dragon.

Gerard Butler Was Concerned About How to Train Your Dragon Sequel

The 2010 animated fantasy film How to Train Your Dragon features Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, the Viking chief and father of the film’s protagonist Hiccup, voiced by Jay Baruchel. The film was a huge...

The American Society of Cinematographers has announced the honorees for its 38th Annual Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Gala on March 3, 2024. They are: Don Burgess, ASC; Steven Fierberg, ASC and Amy Vincent, ASC.

Burgess, Robert Zemeckis’ longtime collaborator, will be recognized with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award. While his latest work is Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, directed by James Wan, Burgess is best known for shooting Zemeckis’ Oscar-winning Forrest Gump, for which he earned ASC Award and Oscar nominations. The duo have also collaborated on such films as last year’s live-action Pinocchio, Flight, Contact, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, The Polar Express and the upcoming Here.

Burgess’ other credits include Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, the first Aquaman, Brian Helgeland’s 42, Allen and Albert Hughes’ The Book of Eli, Gary Winick’s 13 Going on 30, Jonathan Mostow’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Billy Crystal’s Forget Paris.

Jules Gouillon was born in 1996 in Vesoul. After a Literary Baccalaureate at the Lycée des Haberges in 2013, a BTS Business Unit Manager at Imea Vesoul in 2016 and a Bachelor in Event Project Manager at the Institut Français des Affaires de Metz in 2018, he created his company in 2019, which he named Bad Kid Productions.

Now a party host and creator of audiovisual and cinematographic content, Jules Gouillon has a special passion for music and cinema, for many years now. In 2020, he directed his first short fiction film, “The Incredible Quotidien of a Young French Couple”, selected in several online festivals. In 2021, “Possible”, a commissioned documentary short film and, “Attila”, another fictional short film which will see the light of day. The latter was selected at the 36th International Film Festival Entrevues de Belfort the same year, as part of the New Talents Course supervised by Aparr, the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and the Cnc.

In a packed edition of Horror Highlights, we have a clip from Crystal Eyes, details on the To Your Last Death Blu-ray release, info on The Year Without Halloween book, the short film We Got a Monkey's Paw, details on Joe Bob Brigg's drive-in event, and the trailer for Chop Chop!

Watch a Clip from Crystal Eyes: September's Arrow Video Channel offerings bolster the already great lineup with an eclectic mix of titles that include Crystal Eyes, Graveyard of Honor, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, and more. Here's a look at a clip from Crystal Eyes and more details on Arrow's September lineup:

"London, UK - Arrow Video is excited to announce the September slate of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including the Argentinian giallo homage Crystal Eyes, Fukasaku's Graveyard of Honor, and Miike's 2002 remake. The stylish slasher Crystal Eyes, Fukasaku's classic crime thriller Graveyard of Honor...

September's Arrow Video Channel offerings bolster the already great lineup with an eclectic mix of titles that include Crystal Eyes, Graveyard of Honor, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, and more:

"London, UK - Arrow Video is excited to announce the September slate of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including the Argentinian giallo homage Crystal Eyes, Fukasaku's Graveyard of Honor, and Miike's 2002 remake. The stylish slasher Crystal Eyes, Fukasaku's classic crime thriller Graveyard of Honor and Miike's reimagining lead a selection of cult classics, hidden gems and iconic horror films coming to the Arrow Video Channel September 1st.

Crystal Eyes, Graveyard of Honor (1975), and Graveyard of Honor (2002) will be available September 1st on the Arrow Video Channel in the US and the UK. Additional new titles available September 1st include Ivansxtc (UK/US), The Holy Mountain (UK), Fando Y Lis (UK), El Topo (UK), and Return of the Killer...

This might be the perfect time for a Tonya Harding biopic ... or rather, a Harding "biopic," one set some 23 years after the public's memory of the tabloid diva having drilled down to "white-trash figure skater who had something to do with smashing the knee of her rival Nancy Kerrigan during training for the 1994 Winter Olympics." I, Tonya – a raunchy, demented, dark-comic dazzler, snappily directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) from an anything-goes script by Steven Rogers, gives Tonya (Margot Robbie in her best performance yet) a chance to prove her almost-innocence.

This time they may have gotten it right! If a knife or a straight razor won’t do, how about killing a victim with 500-pound metal artwork studded with spikes? Dario Argento distilled a new kind of slick, visually fetishistic horror who-dunnit thriller subgenre with this shocker, aided by the dreamy cinematography of Vittorio Storaro.

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1971 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 96 min. / Street Date June 20, 2017 / L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo / Available from Arrow Video/ 49.95

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Starring: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho, Raf Valenti, Giuseppe Castellano, Mario Adorf, Pino Patti, Gildo Di Marco, Rosita Torosh, Omar Bonaro, Fulvio Mingozzi, Werner Peters, Karen Valenti, Carla Mancini, Reggie Nalder.

Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro

Film Editor: Franco Fraticelli

Original Music: Ennio Morricone

Written by Dario Argento from a novel by Fredric Brown

Produced by Salvatore Argento, Artur Brauner

Directed by Dario Argento...

Louisa Mellor Jan 26, 2017

BBC Four’s Time Commanders is joyful, nerdy, educational fun. We’d like a million new episodes commissioned please…

1) A dog carrying an unwieldy but clearly excellent stick.

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2) A child being presented with an ice-cream that’s bigger than their face.

3) Me whenever somebody falls into a paddling pool on You’ve Been Framed!

Until December 2016, those were the purest examples of joy I could name. Now? There’s a new addition to the list. Ladies and gentlemen I give you: the joy of BBC Four’s Time Commanders.

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Time Commanders aired its first sixteen-episode series on BBC Two in 2003. Devised by Adam Macdonald,...

It was nearly a year ago that we got the last substantial update about Orson Welles‘ long-overdue final feature, The Other Side of the Wind. After an initial fundraising campaign intended to help those involved with the production complete the un-edited film in time for Welles’ 100th birthday in May 2015 didn’t meet its goal, there was word that Netflix was discussing “the completion of the feature film for theatrical and streaming release and creation of a full-length documentary.” We finally have new development on the project, thanks to a Hollywood legend, and one of the stars of the film.

Last night, Peter Bogdanovich took part in a Q&A at the Metrograph in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, following a 35mm screening of his 1981 film They All Laughed. When asked about the status of The Other Side of the Wind, Bogdanovich revealed that, following many years of negotiation with...

A letter found inside a book at the Lilly Library at Indiana University has revealed that, while living in Europe in the early 1950s, Orson Welles was contemplating working on several films and stage projects.

The signed, two-page letter, which was typed on Welles’ stationery, was found by Liana Meeker, a catalog specialist at Lilly Library. It was folded inside a copy of Whit Materson’s “Badge of Evil,” which was the basis for Welles’ 1958 film “Touch of Evil.”

It is unknown how the letter ended up in the book, said Craig S. Simpson, Manuscripts Archivist at Lilly Library.”It was just a random item found in a random book,” he explained.

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The letter, dated March 11, 1953, is believed to have been addressed to Welles’ longtime friend and columnist Leonard Lyons. In it, the actor and filmmaker asks Lyons to publish a column about an...

Colorful and celebrated personality Zsa Zsa Gabor died Sunday, Dec. 18, at age 99. The Budapest-born socialite and great-aunt of Paris Hilton leaves behind a unique legacy: she was one of the first celebrities who was famous for being famous, she was married nine times and never shied away from drama or scandal. The only thing that seemed to slow her vivacious spirit in her later years was a string of serious health problems, including a lung infection and the amputation of her right leg.

Here’s a look at Gabor’s most headline-grabbing incidents and health issues.

1982: Gabor Orders Handicapped...

On this episode of Expedition Unknown Josh Gates searches for the lost tomb of Attila the Hun. From researching period text to tracking down interesting local legends, the historical sleuth and adventurer’s investigation takes him along the Danube to the hills outside Budapest. Atilla was a remarkable leader who ruled over the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. The Hunnic Empire was a loose confederation of tribes including the Huns and Ostrogoths. He looted the Balkans and tried to take Constantinople, becoming feared throughout both Roman Empires. His ambition led him to Perisa and even Roman Gaul, modern...read more...

'Die Nibelungen: Siegfried': Paul Richter as the dragon-slaying hero of medieval Germanic mythology. 'Die Nibelungen': Enthralling silent classic despite complex plot and countless characters Based on the medieval epic poem Nibelungenlied, itself inspired by the early medieval Germanic saga about the Burgundian royal family, Fritz Lang's two-part Die Nibelungen is one of those movies I can enjoy many times without ever really understanding who's who and what's what. After all, the semi-historical, fantasy/adventure epic is packed with intrigue, treachery, deceit, hatred, murder, and sex. And that's just the basic plotline. As seen in Kino's definitive two-disc edition, artistically and cinematically speaking Die Nibelungen contains some of the greatest visual compositions I've ever seen. Filmed mostly in long shots that frame the imaginative sets and high ceilings, each static shot is meticulously composed with such symmetry and balance that, even though Die Nibelungen takes the viewer through a mythical fantasia,...

Rita Gam, a glamorous actress who starred in such exotic films as Saadia with Cornel Wilde, Sign of the Pagan with Jack Palance as Attila the Hun and Nicholas Ray's biblical King of Kings, died Tuesday. She was 88.   Gam, who was director Sidney Lumet's first wife and a bridesmaid at Grace Kelly's 1956 wedding to Prince Rainier, died of respiratory failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, publicist Nancy Willen said. Gam also appeared opposite Gregory Peck in Night People (1954) and Shoot Out (1971), in William Dieterle's Magic Fire (1955), with Victor Mature in Hannibal (1959) and with

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February’s home entertainment releases are kicking off in a big way, as horror and sci-fi fans have an extraordinary number of brand spanking new titles to choose from this Tuesday. From indie horror to cult classics to cult classics in the making, February 2nd’s Blu-ray and DVD releases truly do offer up something for everyone.

Scream Factory is offering up two modern genre films this week, Hellions and Zombie Fight Club and Cinedigm is keeping busy too on Tuesday with their releases of Extraordinary Tales and The World of Kanako. Vin Diesel’s latest, The Last Witch Hunter, arrives on both Blu and DVD and if you call yourself a Henry Rollins fan, you will definitely want to pick up He Never Died this week as well.

Other notable titles being released on February 2nd include From Dusk Till Dawn: Season Two, Falling Skies: The Complete Fifth Season,...

Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Hard to Be a God is playing on Mubi in the Us through January 2.Hard to Be a GodRussian director Aleksei German spent the final 15 years of his life working on Hard To Be A God (2013), a brutal medieval epic adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strutgatsky, dying just before he could complete the job in February 2013. Happily, his son and widow were able to oversee the final sound mix. The result is one of the most immersive and harrowing cinematic experiences going, three hours of being put to the sword and mired in the mud, blood and viscera of a nightmare alternate reality.Although German's characters are dressed in the clanking armour, chainmail and robes of the European Middle Ages, Hard To Be A God is in fact set on a distant planet,...

In many ways, the "Night At The Museum" movies represent a near-perfect distillation of what Hollywood wants from its franchises. That is not a compliment. The three films in the series are interchangeable because none of the films seem to advance the characters or the premise beyond "Magical tablets bring things alive in a museum at night," and for the audience that keeps turning out to see these films, that seems like all they want or need from them. This one opens in Egypt, decades ago, as the magical tablet is discovered for the first time and a dire warning of a curse is ignored completely. We then flash forward to find that Larry (Ben Stiller) is still a security guard, but he is also somehow in charge of all the "special effects" for a major fundraiser that is being held. I'm not sure many major metropolitan museums put their...

Today we have a new trailer for the upcoming "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb," starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Ben Kingsley, Steve Coogan, and Ricky Gervais. Check it out below. Plot: Larry (Stiller) and museum exhibits including Pharaoh Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), Teddy Roosevelt (Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Roman centurion Octavius (Coogan) and Jedediah (Wilson) wind up at the British Museum's famed Egyptian wing to solve the deadly mystery. The new movie is once again directed by Shawn Levy and is set to hit theaters on December 19th. Trailer:...

The "Night At The Museum" films have done right by 20th Century Fox as a franchise. Two movies in, the pair have grossed almost $1 billion worldwide. So far, the films, starring Ben Stiller and directed by Shawn Levy, have explored the Museum of Natural History and The Smithsonian, but in the third film, ‘Secret Of The Tomb,’ Stiller, Owen Wilson and his growing gang of historical figure friends venture outside for once. "We go to the British Museum in the second half of the movie because that is where the answers lie," Levy told USA Today. "We are out in London, on a double-decker bus, in Trafalgar Square. It's a juicy idea we haven't explored." For the plot of the third film, Stiller’s security guard protagonist and museum exhibits including Pharaoh Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Roman centurion Octavius...

Just to make sure you know exactly how many people have crowded into the starry cast of Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb, the poster includes as many of them as possible. Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, one of the few people that know the secret held within New York’s American Museum Of Natural History: there is a stone tablet from the time of the Pharaohs that brings all the exhibits to life and has caused him no end of trouble. But in his capacity as watchman of the building, he’s grown to be friends with many of the historical figures and other displays that magically start to move and speak at night, so when they discover the tablet is corroding, the quest is on to stop them all reverting to wax figures, stone statues and rigged collections of bones.Larry and some of the...

The Total War franchise is a favorite among real-time strategy gamers (even though Rome II polarized fans of the franchise), and now Sega has revealed the next entry in the series which will feature one of the most notorious warlords in history: Attila the Hun. Come inside to check out the announcement trailer!

I love Rts games and despite some problems with the previous Total War game, it's to not get excited about this one. It's Attila the Hun, which gives us a ridiculous amount of interesting possibilities in the game. Hopefully Sega manages to learn from previous mistakes and make this the amazing game Total War fans have been clamoring for.

The Dark Ages approach. A time of famine, disease and war, where refugees in their thousands flee from a sweeping tide of destruction and death. Desperate barbaric tribes rally against the ailing might of a dying and divided...

The Scourge of God will arrive in the next iteration of the popular Total War franchise, as Total War: Attila will bring the savage Attila the Hun to the series.

Set during the dying days of the Roman Empire, Total War: Attila focuses on the fiery raids Attila the Hun waged on the massive empire. With the empire spread thin throughout Europe, now is the perfect time for the warrior king to begin his conquest. In order to combat this threat, you will need to be quick on your feet and able to calculate what’s the best move for the Roman Empire.

Janos Gaspar, project lead on Total War: Attila, spoke further about some of the changes coming to the franchise:

“We’re reintroducing some features that fans have been asking for, such as family trees and skill trees, and improving many of the core aspects of Total War...

Casting director Robin Lippin has a long list of television credits to her name, but her time on “Saved by the Bell” and all of its spinoffs made her uniquely qualified to work on Lifetime's movie, “The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story.” In addition to “Saved by the Bell,” Lippin has cast the miniseries “Attila,” “Lizzie McGuire,” and Lifetime's “Petals on the Wind” and “Blue Lagoon: The Awakening.” But, her work on the iconic Saturday morning series was special to her and she doesn't take the opportunity of returning for the movie for granted. “As a casting director, you rarely.

Today we have an international poster for the third "Night at the Museum" installments, called "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb." Check it out below. Plot: Larry (Ben Stiller) and museum exhibits including Pharaoh Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Roman centurion Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson) wind up at the British Museum's famed Egyptian wing to solve the deadly mystery. The new movie is once again directed by Shawn Levy and is set to hit theaters on December 19th. Poster: (click to enlarge)...

Today we have the official trailer from the third "Night at the Museum" installments, called "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb." Check it out below. Plot: Larry (Ben Stiller) and museum exhibits including Pharaoh Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Roman centurion Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson) wind up at the British Museum's famed Egyptian wing to solve the deadly mystery. The new movie is once again directed by Shawn Levy and is set to hit theaters on December 19th. Trailer:...

Shawn Levy’s Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Dan Stevens, Rebel Wilson and Ben Kingsley has its first trailer for you to watch below. If you enjoyed the first two films then you will no doubt be looking forward to this one; it looks bigger and better that’s for sure. I thought they missed a few steps with the first sequel so I expect if this is the last outing, they will give it their all.

Larry and museum exhibits including Pharaoh Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Roman centurion Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson) wind up at the British Museum’s famed Egyptian wing to solve the deadly mystery.

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb opens in theaters on December 19, 2014.

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Just yesterday, we brought you new shots from Fox’s upcoming trilogy topper Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb, and now the first trailer for the December release has arrived, promising patient fans of the franchise (which last reared its head in theaters circa 2009) a fittingly spectacular and eventful finale.

This time around, night security guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) brings his motley crew of living exhibits to the British Museum in London when Ahkmenrah’s (Rami Malek) Golden Tablet begins to decay, threatening to end the magic that brings the exhibits to life each night. Teaming with Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Sacagewea (Mizuo Peck), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson), Larry seeks out the counsel of a powerful pharaoh (Ben Kingsley), who created the tablet and is also Ahkmenrah’s father.

Dan Stevens, Rebel Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Skyler Gisondo, Mickey Rooney...

Five years after Battle of the Smithsonian (and eight years after the first Night at the Museum), Ben Stiller will be stepping back into the role of night security guard Larry Daley this December for Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, the third and final installment in the series. Today, we’ve got the first images for the threequel, which Fox has released ahead of the film’s first trailer debut later this week.

As the images show, Larry is rejoined in this third installment by living museum exhibits Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek) and Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), among others (expect big roles for Crystal the monkey, Owen Wilson’s Jedediah and Steve Coogan’s Octavius, as per usual). Additionally, Larry’s now-teenaged son Nick (Skyler Gisondo, replacing Jake Cherry) gets wrapped up in the action.

In Secret of the Tomb,...

Today we have the first three photos from the third "Night at the Museum" installments, called "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb." Check everything out below. Plot: Larry (Ben Stiller) and museum exhibits including Pharaoh Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Roman centurion Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson) wind up at the British Museum's famed Egyptian wing to solve the deadly mystery. The new movie is once again directed by Shawn Levy and is set to hit theaters on December 19th. Photos: (click to enlarge)...

They may not be critical darlings, but the two Night At The Museum films have certainly hauled in the coins at the box office. Shawn Levy is preparing to unleash the third and planned final chapter in the story, Secret Of The Tomb, and some new images have arrived. This third outing finds Ben Stiller back as the put-upon Larry Daley, who knows the secret of New York’s American Museum of Natural History – the exhibits come to life thanks to a magical Egyptian tablet from the time of the Pharaohs. But now the table is beginning to corrode and to help everyone involved, Larry and some of the gang including Pharaoh Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Roman centurion Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson) must travel to London’s British Museum to find out how to fix it.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to A Year In Champagne. Writer-director David Kennard’s follow-up to A Year In Burgundy focuses on France’s most famous beverage and was bought after screening at the Santa Barbara and Palm Beach fests. Pic will be released in the spring. We like drinking it but watching it? There is a lot of ground covered here. Pic covers the beverage’s history, grim and bloody, swept by war and destruction from Attila the Hun to the filthy trenches of Wwi and the Nazi depredations of WWII. The environment for winemaking is desperately hard — northerly […]...

One could argue the significance of the events that take place in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s widely considered the finest Star Wars film made to date but an argument could be made as to whether anything actually happens in the film. Yes, there is one major revelation that goes without saying, but isn’t the film merely just a stepping-stone to the next chapter? The film essentially is one long Saturday morning serial entry that practically ends with a voice-over announcing, “stay tuned next week Jedi; same Star time… same Star channel.” That feeling of seeing only the first part in a larger story can be said for the recent entry in the Apes reboot series. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes leaves a lasting impression based on the impressive special effects, rich visual landscapes, and moving character interactions (kind of like the other entry in the...

Now it’s all about the minions.

During Universal Pictures’ presentation at CinemaCon, documentary-style footage was shown about the evolution of our lovable minions from the “Despicable Me” franchise. Latino-Review was in attendance to watch the footage.

In this prequel “The Minions,” the footage revealed that they evolved from yellow single-cell organisms in the ocean and finally evolved to be as minions during the time of dinosaurs. The minions are always attracted to the most villainous creatures in order to serve them. However, their villainous masters will meet with some unusual end. Some of the masters include T-Rex, an Egyptian pharaoh, a medieval monarch, Attila the Hun and even Dracula.

But sometime later, they became masterless and lived in the artic to succumb into depression. Three brave minions, Kevin, Bob and Stuart, will set out in a journey to seek out a new diabolical master.

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Comic book fans are notoriously hard to please. Stray too far from the source material and we’ll storm the message boards like Attila the Hun on crack. However, if you keeps things too traditional by sticking too closely to the original comics then…we’ll storm the message boards like Attila the Hun on crack. It’s a fine line that bigwig producers often fail to understand in their attempts to earn the big bucks through the lucrative world of superhero blockbuster making.

Unfortunately, it’s the writers who then get it in the neck. Torn between pleasing the fanatical comic book fans and keeping the producers on side must be a thankless task. How can everyone be satisfied in that kind of situation? Quite often, they’re not and then our beloved comic book icons are left hung out to dry. We’ve all seen...

On Demand DVD New Releases Dec. 30-Jan. 5 A quiet start to the new year. Winnie Mandela is a timely option, in light of Nelson Mandela’s recent death. Other titles may be unfamiliar, but if you check the lists of cast members below, you’re sure to see some familiar names … Attila When American soldiers inadvertently steal Attila the Hun’s secret riches, the wrath of the barbarian is awakened. The mummified warrior will stop at nothing to kill the intruders. Chris Conrad, Anthony C. Ferrante, Tiffany Adams (1:30) 1/1 The Best Offer Geoffrey Rush is an eccentric art auctioneer obsessed with an heiress/collector. … Continue reading →

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Explosions! CGI effects work! Celebrities! A muscle-bound mummy looking to wreak havoc everywhere his feet happen to fall! Yes! It's another flick from The Asylum, and right now we have the official trailer for you for Attila! That's right, the friggin' hun!

Directed by Emmanuel Itier, Attila stars Cheick Kongo (Ufc Champion), Poncho Hodges ("True Blood"), Chris Conrad (Mortal Kombat: Annihilation), Todd Grant Kimsey (Planet of the Apes), Matt Krieger, Mikayla S. Campbell, Steve Hanks (#HoldYourBreath), Luke Barnett (Static) and M. Steven Felty (Headless Horseman). Sharknado director Anthony C. Ferrante and Itier penned the script.

Synopsis

When American soldiers inadvertently steal Attila the Hun's secret riches, the wrath of the barbarian is awakened; the mummified warrior will stop at nothing to kill the intruders.

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Karl Siemon is a Dp you've almost heard of thanks to a "little" movie called Saw, but if you're a serious cult film fan, you should know him well thanks to an Aussie horror film entitled Razor Eaters (2003).

Now Siemon is handling the cinematography for actor/director Leslie Simpson's first-time outing, Grandpa, and the results are chilling. Dread Central recently had the opportunity to do an email interview with the in-demand Dp while he was shooting a film in Sydney, Australia, and the results are both fascinating and funny.

Dread Central: Hello, Karl. and thank you for taking time to chat with us about Leslie Simpson's short film Grandpa. First off, would you mind telling us a bit about yourself? Your background, where you received your film training, etc.?

Karl Siemon: Cinematography is everything I love about the arts put together: writing, painting, light, color, drama, music.

'Though audiences remain uneasy with extreme violence, they're unmoved by violence on an extreme scale'

The Golden Gate Bridge first met its big-screen demise in 1955, torn apart by a giant stop-motion octopus in It Came From Beneath The Sea. This weekend it faces yet another aquatic foe: a fearsome "Kaiju" monster in Guillermo del Toro's hulking mess of a creature feature, Pacific Rim. But where the malevolent mollusc of the 1950s threatened only one life (a courageous marine biologist named John, if you were wondering), today's beast kills hundreds, indiscriminately, before the film has even reached its title card. Sixty years ago we agonised over John's plight; now we look on with blasé indifference as scores of Johns and Janes are flung helplessly to their deaths.

A certain dispassionate approach to mortality has been part and parcel of the action genre since its earliest days, when tight censorship controls...

Channing Tatum to direct Magic Mike 2? Channing Tatum, whose White House Down opens this evening in North America, may co-direct the sequel to his 2012 sleeper domestic hit Magic Mike. Unlike the original film, directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) and loosely based on Tatum’s own experiences as a stripper, the star of The Vow and 21 Jump Street told The Hollywood Reporter that the aptly titled (at least for now) Magic Mike 2 "will be a road-trip movie, and it will essentially be the movie that everyone thought the first one was going to be: crazy and fun and less slice-of-life and less drama. The first one, we had to make not so cheesy and campy; this one we are going to swing for the fences." (Photo: Channing Tatum in a rare non-shirtless moment in Magic Mike.) Channing Tatum adds that either he and producing partner Reid Carolin...

Our selected star to be included in our “Hollywood Movie Star of the Week Photo Gallery” is Gerard Butler. Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in the American miniseries Attila (2001). In 2003, he played André Marek in the adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Timeline. He garnered critical acclaim for his work as the lead in Joel Schumacher’s 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera. In 2007, Butler gained recognition through his portrayal of King Leonidas in the film 300. Since then, he has appeared in projects including P.S. I Love You (2007), Nim’s Island (2008), RocknRolla (2008), The Ugly Truth (2009), Gamer (2009), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), The Bounty Hunter...

Actress and prospective Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Ashley Judd is set to appear in Washington, D.C. later this week at two public events, which will likely draw increased attention due to ongoing speculation about her possible political ambitions.

Judd will head to George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services on Friday to deliver a speech on women's reproductive health, an issue that she is quite familiar with. She's spoken out on the topic frequently, and at times infused her speeches with controversial language that some predict could end up playing into a Senate run, if she decides to make one.

As Salon recalled earlier this month, Judd once ripped into former President George W. Bush over his stance on access to contraception, an issue that could resonate less powerfully among rural Kentucky voters than it might have among the crowd at a conference of Tennessee Democratic Women.

Comic books are like wine, there is a bottle out there for everyone. The comic book medium has been around for over seventy years and is home to some of the most original and ground-breaking stories the world has ever seen. But knowing where to start is daunting, and jumping in blind can have some serious repercussions. Here at Sound on Sight, it’s our job, nay, our duty, to make sure you are reading top tier books. So have a gander below and on behalf of all comic fans out there, let me be the first to say; Welcome friend, you’re in good hands.

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Batman: Year One (1987). Written by Frank Miller, Illustrated by David Mazzucchelli, Coloured by Richmond Lewis, Lettered by Todd Klein

If you watched any superhero movie and thought to yourself, ‘gee I’d like to see more of so and so’ then...

Britain's Prince Philip kept himself entertained on a train journey yesterday (20.12.12) by reading a book about Attila the Hun. The Duke of Edinburgh was seen clutching a copy of 'The End of Empire, Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome' as he boarded a train from London's King's Cross station with wife Queen Elizabeth for the start of the royal family's traditional stay at their Sandringham estate. The book by Christopher Kelly tells how the savage warrior king ravaged Rome in the 5th century and would no doubt have kept Philip amused on the nearly two-hour journey. While Philip had his book to read in the first class section of the First Capital Connect train, the queen was...

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A new issue of one the most essential film publications, La Furia Umana, is now available online. As always, alongside a rich collection of disparate texts, the issue has separate dossiers devoted to specific filmmakers, including ones on René Vautier (edited by Nicole Brenez) and Ida Lupino with Claire Denis. The amount of must-read coverage is daunting: included, too, are homages to Chris Marker and Stephen Dwoskin, a new video by David Phelps, and much more to explore.

In this issue, our pride and joy is to be found in the monograph-length dossier on Hollywood auteur William A. Wellman, a dossier edited by Gina Telaroli and Phelps. Our editor Daniel Kasman has contributed anoverview to Wellman's filmography; Telaroli has an incredible image-based piece on Good-bye, My Lady (alongside "scraps" and "findings" pointing the way for even more coverage of this filmmaker's wide oeuvre), filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has a new piece,...

The problem with Disney selling the princess fantasy to impressionable little girls is that it sets up a scenario that’s about 99% unlikely: a prince suddenly arriving on their doorstep to whisk them away to a life of royalty, heretofore referred to as sudden-onset princess syndrome (Sops). This of course assumes that little girls wouldn’t automatically dismiss the notion because in the Disney stories the suitor is a beast or street urchin with a magical lamp or because the girl has a tail for the lower half of her body, has a fairy godmother, saved the life of a colonist, or fought against Attila the Hun in dynastic China. However, if the girl does put those pieces together (like most do), along with the fact that they don’t live in a kingdom of some sort, how do you keep the Sops fantasy alive in the real world? Disney...

Do you remember the Attila the Hun television miniseries from 2001 starring Gerard Butler as the famous conquering Eurasian nomad? Neither does anybody else. Before that, the last time the infamous historical figure made his way onscreen was Anthony Quinn's portrayal of him alongside Sophia Loren in the 1954 film Attila from Pietro Francisci. It's odd that such a well known real world ruler has rarely been tapped as inspiration for adaptation, so it should come as no surprise that a biographical film about him is finally going into development. According to Deadline, Warner Bros. is going ahead with newcomer Nicholas Schoenfeld's pitch for a film tentatively titled Attila that would follow the conquerer's 'formative years' as the leader of the Huns. Deadline says that the tone resembles 'the good-man-gone-bad' arc of Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama's Dracula Year Zero. I'm not sure that's a comparison I'd be boasting about.

Attila the Hun is one of the more infamous and brutal figures in world history. Taking over as leader of the nomadic Hunnic Empire in 434, he led a series of bloody campaigns against the vast Roman Empire, pillaging and plunging along the way and showing very little (if any) mercy. His ruthless streak and reign of terror has been the fodder for many movies and miniseries, including a 2001 movie starring Gerard Butler. He also chopped heads off of mannequins with a hockey stick in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, which is where you probably remember him.

And now Warner Bros. wants in on that sweet, sweet Attila action — but instead of going for a full-on epic biopic, the focus is being narrowed a bit. Deadline reports that the studio has bought a pitch from writer Nicholas Schoenfeld called Attila, which will instead focus on his formative years, before he...

The famous historical warrior Attila the Hun will be getting a feature film based on his life. Warner Bros. picked up a original pitch from Nicholas Schoenfeld who will also write the screenplay. The movie will be called Attila and will serve as an origin story for the great warrior who was the leader of the Hunnic Empire. He was one of the most feared enemies of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. He mysteriously died on his wedding night in 453.

According to Deadline the studio loved the pitch, and said that the tone of the film will be "similar to the good-man-gone-bad pic Dracula Year Zero." It's kind of hard to imagine what that tone would be like as Dracula Year Zero has yet to get made. But the point of the Dracula film is to redefine the character, and put the whole legend on its head. 

As a major history buff,...

Nicholas Schoenfeld has sold his original script pitch for an Attila the Hun biopic to Warner Bros. Pictures reports Deadline.

The film is described as an origin story about the leader who brazenly attacked Rome and lay waste to much of Europe before dying under mysterious circumstances on his wedding night.

The site also says Fox 2000 and Temple Hill Productions have set Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber to pen a film adaptation of John Green's novel "The Fault In Our Stars".

The book focuses on two teens with cancer who strike up a relationship after meeting at a support group. Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will produce.

Attila original story from Nicholas Schoenfeld appeals to Warners. Newcomer Nicholas Schoenfeld's original pitch for an origin story about Attila, leader of the huns from 434 until his death in 453 on his wedding night, has sold to Warner Bros. Deadline reports the tone of Attila is similar to Dracula Year Zero, scripted by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, Schoenfeld’s mentors. The last Attila I saw was TV's Attila the Hun with Gerard Butler, Powers Boothe, Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Reg Rogers, Alice Krige, Pauline Lynch, Steven Berkoff and Andrew Pleavin starring. A none-too-shabby affair. Still, one wonders if this will spark or end up in the 300-styled plague of offshoots, including the recent and appalling Immortals.