Tagged: movienews

Here's the newly released trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn 's new film, Only God Forgives . Like Refn 's last film (the awesome), Drive , Only God Forgives stars Ryan Gosling and the film follows Gosling 's Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front for his family's drug smuggling operation. When Julian’s brother murders a prostitute the police call on retired cop Chang – the 'Angel of Vengeance'. Chang allows the [...]

Quentin Tarantino 's forthcoming Django Unchained film reaches UK cinemas on 18th January next year (three weeks earlier in the US - on 25th December). And as Slacker Shack is a big fan of movie posters (especially alternative designs) it seemed only fair to share the Argentinian poster for the film. It's pretty cool - check it out below:

Words By Julie J. | @Julie_TBIH Many Bourne fans stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the initial preview for The Bourne Legacy. On one hand, it’s another Bourne [...]

Makers of The Dark Knight Rises have released a new, 13-minute featurette featuring interviews with the cast and crew, as well as a few snippets of footage - check it out below: The Dark Knight Rises opens in the UK on 20 July 2012.

Here's a new Hobbit poster: The poster has been released to celebrate Peter Jackson 's appearance at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday July 14. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is out later this year on 26th December.

So, do you fancy starring in the forthcoming NWA biopic? This was posted onto Facebook today. And word has it, it's 100% legit too:

In my world Will Ferrell can basically do no wrong. I'm not sure another film star has made me laugh quite so much in the last five years. So it gives me great joy that as well as starring in the recently released, Casa De Mi Padre , another Will Ferrell film called The Campaign is due out in the UK on the 28th September (10th August in the US). Check [...]

I'm a huge Michel Gondry fan. He's a true innovator and every film he directs has his unmistakable imprint all over it. Gondry 's recent foray into blockbuster film making (with The Green Hornet ) may not have been a success, but one mildly poor film does not a director make. Which means I for one am really looking forward to his return to independent film making with his forthcoming The We And The I . [...]

Back in February, Slacker Shack reported that Andre 3000 had put the kibosh on Outkast reunion rumours, stating that he had been enjoying taking part in collaborations for the past two years and was toying with the idea of a solo album. Now he's putting hip-hop to one side and picking up a left-handed stratocaster instead - for news reaches us that Andre is about to step back into the world of films and take on the role [...]

On the 15th June a new Ice-T fronted (and co-directed) documentary about rap gets a limited cinema release. Something From Nothing : The Art Of Rap follows Ice-T as he travels coast to coast, visiting the likes of Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Flash, Nas, Mos Def, KRS-One, Eminem, Chuck D, Run-DMC, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg to trace the inspiration for hip-hop and rap. [...]

The film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road opens in the UK on 21 September 2012 and starts Kristen Stewart. Check out the trailer below. The supporting cast of characters is littered with star names, like Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, Kirsten Dunst and Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss .

Disney has announced that it will adapt the non-traditional fairytale musical "Into the Woods" for the big screen.  Rob Marshall will work on directing the adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's beloved musical. He previously directed the film adaptation of "Chicago." "Into the Woods" mashes together the fairytale stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc into an original story about a baker and his wife trying to have a child and find their happily ever after. With multiple Snow White stories on the way [...]

We're already counting down to the Avengers, swooning over the surprise announcement of Much Ado About Nothing and eagerly awaiting the early SXSW reviews of Cabin in the Woods, but Joss Whedon just isn't done spoiling us yet.  Whedon has announced he's writing and producing a supernatural romance starring Abigail Spenser. "In Your Eyes" is said to be about two polar opposite people that are supernaturally connected. Brin Hill is directing. Though the current description is vague, Whedon + supernatural usually equals awesome, so color us excited.

Good news for Hunger Games' fans. The first film adaptation hasn't even been released, but things are already well underway for sequel "Catching Fire." Lionsgate has confirmed the sequel's writer and director.  Simon Beaufoy will helm writing the novel's adaptation for the big screen. Supervising Beaufoy and directing will be Gary Ross, who already co-wrote and directed the first "The Hunger Games" adaptation. Spoiler alert: "Catching Fire" will return heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) back to the bloody games as punishment for her defiance in the first story. [...]

Jonah Hill (pre-weightloss) + Sam Rockwell + a Method Man cameo + the Eastbound & Down and Pineapple Express director = The Sitter . Check out the trailer below: The Sitter is out on 20th January next year.

John Cusack's career has been a peculiar tale of quirky American indie excellence ( High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich, Grosse Pointe Blank, Bullets Over Broadway, The Grifters ), comical frippery ( Must Love Dogs, Serendipity, Say Anything, America's Sweethearts, Hot Tub Time Machine ) and lots of flops (can anyone even remember any of these? - The Ice Harvest, This Is My Father, Grace Is Gone, Money for Nothing ) He's always been considered cool though - and completely unique. It's hard [...]

The official trailer for The Avengers was released this week. Check it out below: The Avengers is released in May 2012.

Just nine days after Slacker Shack told you that Kurt Russell had replaced Kevin Costner on Quentin Tarantino's next movie, Django Unchained , the film's cast has acquired another new face. The latest star to join the cast is none other than Miami Vice's famously smooth 802s heart-throb, Don Johnson - proving that Tarantino’s [...]

Are you excited? Of course you are! And now I'll tell you why. We film nerds - and I say 'nerds' with more pride than you can ever imagine - here at State are going to be bringing you a weekly round-up of all that matters in film news, every Friday, until the day you die. That might be tomorrow, that might be in 80 years, but at least when you shuffle off this mortal coil to meet 'Sky Grandad' you can punch him right in his face with a fist of FILM NEWS!!! Jeremy Renner [...]

Acclaimed director David Lynch gears up to direct a live online concert with legendary pop icons Duran Duran . “I am very excited about this opportunity to experiment with the band, Duran Duran, at the Mayan Theater on March 23rd,” said filmmaker David Lynch. “The idea is to try and create on the fly, layers of images permeating Duran Duran on the stage. A world of experimentation and hopefully some happy accidents.” Speaking from a rehearsal studio in London where they are [...]