The Transformers series returns on June 29 when the Michael Bay-directed Transformers: Dark of the Moon is launched in cinemas. Trailers for the third movie have popped up recently, but now a brand new clip has been released featuring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and new cast member Patrick Dempsey, otherwise known to Grey's Anatomy fans as the dreamy Derek Shepherd.
Watch the new Transformers: Dark of the Moon clip below:
Saturday, 21 May 2011
The Muppets : First poster released
The Muppets centres on Jason Segel's Gary and Amy Adams's Mary as they attempt to raise $10 million in order to save the Muppet Theatre from the clutches of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper).
Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Zach Galifianakis, Selena Gomez, Neil Patrick Harris, Ed Helms, Jack Black, Ricky Gervais, Katy Perry and Whoopi Goldberg are among the all-star cast for The Muppets, which will be the first outing for Jim Henson's creations since 1999's Muppets from Space.
Cinéfondation prizes awarded at Cannes
The Cinéfondation prizes have been handed out at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, with a German film taking the top prize.
The Cinéfondation and Short Films jury was headed by Green Hornet director Michel Gondry and included Julie Gayet, Jessica Hausner, Corneliu Porumboiu and João Pedro Rodrigues.
Sixteen student films from Asia, America and Europe were chosen for this year's programme, selected from 1,600 entries.
First Prize - € 15,000 (£13,000):
Der Brief (The Letter)
Director: Doroteya Droumeva
Germany
Second Prize - €11,250:
Drari
Director: Kamal Lazraq
France
Third Prize - € 7,500:
Ya-Gan-Bi-Hang (Fly by Night)
Director: Son Tae-gyum
South Korea
The winning films were screened during a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre.
The Cinéfondation Selection has previously showcased student films by directors who are in Cannes this year with full-length feature films, including Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy) and Vimukthi Jayasundara (Chatrak).
Taylor Lautner 'wanted Pettyfer stripper role'
Taylor Lautner is said to have been desperate to win the lead role in Steven Soderbergh's biopic about Channing Tatum's days as a young male stripper.
Last week, it was confirmed that British actor Alex Pettyfer has been cast as the film's lead. However, Twilight star Lautner is believed to have been actively pursuing the part.
"Taylor wanted the role really badly," a source close to the project told E! Online. "Alex was also pursuing it super hard."
Producers were allegedly concerned about casting Pettyfer, until the actor managed to convince Tatum and Soderbergh that he was right for the role
"He flew himself to New Orleans where Channing [Tatum] is filming 21 Jump Street and blew him away," the source added. "He met with Channing and Steven, and they felt he was the perfect guy to fill [Tatum's] shoes."
Pettyfer will play the role of a young Tatum, who begins stripping at the age of 19, while Tatum himself will play his mentor, the titular Magic Mike.
No start date has been announced for production on Magic Mike
Last week, it was confirmed that British actor Alex Pettyfer has been cast as the film's lead. However, Twilight star Lautner is believed to have been actively pursuing the part.
"Taylor wanted the role really badly," a source close to the project told E! Online. "Alex was also pursuing it super hard."
Producers were allegedly concerned about casting Pettyfer, until the actor managed to convince Tatum and Soderbergh that he was right for the role
"He flew himself to New Orleans where Channing [Tatum] is filming 21 Jump Street and blew him away," the source added. "He met with Channing and Steven, and they felt he was the perfect guy to fill [Tatum's] shoes."
Pettyfer will play the role of a young Tatum, who begins stripping at the age of 19, while Tatum himself will play his mentor, the titular Magic Mike.
No start date has been announced for production on Magic Mike
Friday, 20 May 2011
Pedro Almodóvar: "I'm in a thriller period"
Pedro Almodóvar has said that he is currently in a thriller period and will probably make more films of that genre in the future.
The acclaimed Spanish director made the comments during the Cannes press conference for his new movie The Skin I Live In.
Almodóvar said of the film: "It's a thriller indeed because that fits in with my life at the moment. Throughout my life and throughout my career I've had favourite types of films - favourite genres - like comedy and melodrama, and now I'm in a thriller period.
"This kind of film makes it possible to bring together different possibilities. You can touch on all sorts of other genres. I don't think it's necessary to strictly abide by the rules of a single type of film that is musical, thriller, comedy. I couldn't do that as people naively did in the '50s and '40s."
He insisted that research he conducted with his brother into the current science of the human genome, transgenisis and bioethics meant that his movie was not "fantastical" like Georges Franju's 1960s movie Eyes Without A Face.
"I don't believe that my film is a fantastic kind of film - it's not science fiction - because these experiments exist," Almodóvar explained. "There's a lab in Granada in Spain where they actually make artificial skin - they're experimenting with artificial skin - so these are very real things today."
He added: "I wanted suspense without gore, without blood. Of course there are a lot of surgical incisions in the film... but I didn't want it to be a gory film where you saw blood flowing all over the place. I didn't want to show such brutal images.
"Naturally the body is very important in my film. Morphology is extremely important in my film. But just as in the Eyes Without A Face, I wanted people to understand that this was happening but I didn't want the images to be gory."
The acclaimed Spanish director made the comments during the Cannes press conference for his new movie The Skin I Live In.
Almodóvar said of the film: "It's a thriller indeed because that fits in with my life at the moment. Throughout my life and throughout my career I've had favourite types of films - favourite genres - like comedy and melodrama, and now I'm in a thriller period.
"This kind of film makes it possible to bring together different possibilities. You can touch on all sorts of other genres. I don't think it's necessary to strictly abide by the rules of a single type of film that is musical, thriller, comedy. I couldn't do that as people naively did in the '50s and '40s."
He insisted that research he conducted with his brother into the current science of the human genome, transgenisis and bioethics meant that his movie was not "fantastical" like Georges Franju's 1960s movie Eyes Without A Face.
"I don't believe that my film is a fantastic kind of film - it's not science fiction - because these experiments exist," Almodóvar explained. "There's a lab in Granada in Spain where they actually make artificial skin - they're experimenting with artificial skin - so these are very real things today."
He added: "I wanted suspense without gore, without blood. Of course there are a lot of surgical incisions in the film... but I didn't want it to be a gory film where you saw blood flowing all over the place. I didn't want to show such brutal images.
"Naturally the body is very important in my film. Morphology is extremely important in my film. But just as in the Eyes Without A Face, I wanted people to understand that this was happening but I didn't want the images to be gory."
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