First Look: Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer in zombie love story “Warm Bodies”

November 2, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

ShockTillYouDrop has the first look at a promotional image from one of our most highly anticipated movies, Jonathan Levine’s existential zombie love story “Warm Bodies” , which is still currently shooting in Montreal. Nicholas Hoult plays a zombie who goes by R (because he can’t remember anything from his human life, much less his real name) and eats human flesh, as zombies tend to do. When he munches on the brain of Perry Kelvin (played by Dave Franco), he begins experiencing Perry’s memories and emotions, particularly towards Julie (Teresa Palmer), the girlfriend he left behind. R and Julie embark on an unlikely friendship that begins to have transformative effects on both their populations. Rob Corddry, Analeigh Tipton, John Malkovich and Cory Hardict round out the cast.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hoult’s “zombie” looks far more Edward Cullen than “Dawn of the Dead.” Apparently at Summit Entertainment, a little white powder on the face and you’re good to go as zombie/vampire/any traditionally menacing character restructured as a tween sex symbol. This is a love story after all. We kid, but in truth, Levine is a promising director directing a fantastic cast, so “Warm Bodies” remains on our must-see of 2012 list. See it for yourself when it’s released on August 10, 2012.

First Look: “Game of Thrones” star Harry Lloyd on the set of “Closer to the Moon” with Vera Farmiga

November 1, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

Romanian director Nae Caranfil is deep into filming on location on period drama “Closer to the Moon”, starring Vera Farmiga and “Game of Thrones” actor Harry Lloyd, and some promotional and behind the scenes photos and video have been snapped by local journalists.

Set in 1959 Bucharest, the film follows a group of Jewish former anti-Nazi revolutionaries who are arrested and sentenced to death after robbing a bank. Before their scheduled deaths, they are forced to star in a propaganda film for the enemy. Lloyd will play a cameraman assigned to the shoot, who falls in love with Farmiga’s character. She, in turn, has a child with one of the doomed men, played by Mark Strong. Christian McKay, Joe Armstrong, Tim Plester, Anton Lesser and Allan Corduner round out the cast.

The film is expected to shoot through November 7th in Bucharest and be completed by April of 2012 in time to submit to the Cannes Film Festival in May. Below are a behind the scenes video and some photos of Lloyd filming.

New images of Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in the David Fincher’s “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”

October 31, 2011 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Images 1 Comment

One of our most anticipated Fall releases (and to be honest, perhaps our top most anticipated release of the year!), “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” is director David Fincher’s adaptation of the international best selling novel by Steig Larsson.

Rising actress Rooney Mara stars as Lisbeth Salander, a heavily tattooed and pierced goth computer hacker genius, who teams up with Daniel Craig‘s Mikael Blomkvist to solve the cold case of a young girl who went missing in the 1960s.

Gearing up for a December 21st release date in the US, we’ve so far had the first trailer, the first red band poster, and the intriguing launch of a viral site – Mouth-Taped-Shut.com.

Now thanks to several sources (Moviezine, Empire and Neon Punch, all via The Playlist), we have some new images to share.

Nothing that could spoil you, but just in case you still have yet to read the novels, or perhaps missed the Swedish adaptation which was released in 2009 with Noomi Rapace, we’ll place them behind a cut.

First look: Ryan Gosling in Derek Cianfrance’s “The Place Beyond The Pines”

October 30, 2011 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Images Leave a comment

When the news broke that Ryan Gosling was teaming back up with Derek Cianfrance for a new project, everyone at Up and Comers was pretty excited; their collaboration on one of 2010′s best films, “Blue Valentine”, was outstanding. But the premise of the new project was vastly different and intriguing, and now we have our first official still from the film, featuring Gosling astride his motorcycle.

“The Place Beyond the Pines” is a ‘multi-generational crime drama’, and will also star a host of exciting rising actors, including Rose Byrne (who replaced Greta Gerwig back in the summer), Emory Cohen and Dane DeHaan, as well stars such as Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Ray Liotta.

Filming finished late in the summer and is currently in post-production. No word on a release date yet, but we expect to see both Gosling and Cianfrance on the festival circuit next year.

Luke (Gosling) is a professional motorcycle rider who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son, but when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer (Cooper) their violent confrontation spirals into a tense generational fued. THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES is a rich dramatic thriller that traces the intersecting lives of fathers and sons, cops and robbers, heroes and villain.

Click below for a larger image.

First Look: Michael Angarano and Julianne Moore caught in the rain on “The English Teacher” set

October 29, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

Filming is underway on what is turning out to be a very promising project and local uptown New York news blog Tarrytown Patch has the first images of Michael Angarano and Julianne Moore on the set of indie dramedy “The English Teacher.” The two filmed at an art gallery which has been converted into a coffee house, and huddled under an umbrella together in some makeshift rain.

Moore plays a high school teacher whose life is turned upside down by the return of a former student (Angarano) whose journey to becoming a successful write in New York City has ended in failure. Nathan Lane and Lily Collins rounds out the cast under the direction of Craig Zisk. By the glasses on Moore’s face, it’s obvious her character is supposed to be frumpy and not all that attractive. Oh, magical movie glasses, the way superheroes and hot women simply disappear behind them.

First Look: British rising stars Jack O’Connell and Alexandra Roach in first “Private Peaceful” images

October 28, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

Jeremy Irvine is set to break out in a big way when he headlines “War Horse”, adapted from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, so are three of his fellow young British thesps headed down a similar path to success? Ok, sure, Irvine was directed by no less than Steven Spielberg on an epic blockbuster with a “catering budget [that] would have more than covered the total cost of shooting” the second Morpurgo adaptation, starring Jack O’Connell, George MacKay and Alexandra Roach, but filmmakers are hoping its similar themes of youth and war will resonate just as deeply with audiences. British newspaper The Daily Mail has the first pictures of O’Connell and Roach from the set of the currently-filming “Private Peaceful.”

Morpurgo’s 1982 novel centers around two brothers, Charlie and Tommo, who enlist to fight in World War I, but one of them ends up being court-marshaled for cowardice. “It highlights the iniquity of us shooting our own men during the war,” producer Guy de Beaujeu tells the London newspaper. Simon Reade, who also wrote the screenplay, is co-producing. Pat O’Connor will direct a cast that also includes Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour and three young actors playing the lead trio as children: Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Samuel Bottomley and Izzy Meikle-Small. Roach, soon to be seen as the younger Margaret Thatcher in Meryl Streep’s “The Iron Lady”, plays Molly, the girl both brothers love.

As for those inevitable comparisons to “War Horse”, De Beaujeu says, “Simon got the idea of doing Private Peaceful as a film years before Spielberg had seen the National Theatre’s War Horse in London. However, our poster is going to say ‘From the writer of War Horse’ — and why shouldn’t it?” Touché.

Michelle Williams in stunning new poster and a plethora of stills from “My Week with Marilyn”

October 27, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

“My Week with Marilyn” has been all the rage in the blogosphere ever since it premiered at the New York Film Festival several weeks ago, with critics tripping over themselves to heap praise upon Michelle Williams portraying the iconic screen legend. When you see some of the imagery from the film, it’s not hard to see why. Moviefone has the exclusive unveiling of the stunning new poster, shot by famed French photographer Brigette Lancome, capturing Williams in an uncanny likeness to the late and great Marilyn.

We still have our reservations about whether Williams can really pull it off (sorry critics, you’ve been wrong before!), but for now, we’ll sit back and enjoy how beautiful and enchanting the film looks. Eddie Redmayne and Emma Watson also get some time in the spotlight in the new stills below, giving us just a couple of more things to look forward to. “My Week with Marilyn” opens November 23 in select theaters.

First Look: Jennifer Lawrence stays brunette, wears a wedding ring on “The Silver Linings Playbook” set

October 27, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 1 Comment

Looks like Jennifer Lawrence is going to revel in being a brunette for a little while longer after dying her blonde locks dark for her role as Katniss in “The Hunger Games” (check out the newly released character posters here). Just Jared has the first shots of the actress on the Pennsylvania set of her new film, “The Silver Linings Playbook”, and looks like her character Tiffany will be a brunette too.

One accessory that Katniss didn’t have that Lawrence is now donning is a wedding ring, which the newly widowed Tiffany wears even as she goes on a wild sexual spree as a means of dealing with her grief. Enter neighbor Bradley Cooper, who suffered a mental breakdown and was recently released from a mental institution. Cooper replaced Mark Wahlberg in the role in the David O. Russell project in August.

See the first set pics below, and head to Just Jared for more.

Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and more grace “The Hunger Games” character posters

October 27, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 5 Comments

What can we say other than, Holy Photoshop Batman! While “The Hunger Games” remains one of our most highly anticipated upcoming movies, the promotional materials released thus far can justly be described as awful (with the exception of that awesome motion poster). But that first teaser? Underwhelming. And now these characters-in-profile posters that spotlight Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss, Liam Hemsworth’s Gale, Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta and five more strong supporting characters from the film, all airbrushed within an inch of their lives.

Luckily for Lionsgate, the massive success of the Suzanne Collins trilogy of books means the Gary Ross directed film will practically sell itself. And the studio is clearly confident it has the birth of a franchise on its hands, having already set a November 23, 2013 release for the sequel, “Catching Fire.” Let’s just hope the quality of the marketing materials isn’t reflective of the film itself. “The Hunger Games” will be released on March 23, 2012 and you can see all eight character posters below, which also feature Elizabeth Banks as Effie, Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, Alexander Ludwig as Cato and Amandla Stenberg as Rue.

First look at Dakota Fanning and Tom Sturridge on set for Emma Thomspon’s “Effie”

October 26, 2011 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Images 2 Comments

UPDATE: Picture of Tom Sturridge on set have surfaced, thanks to Socialite Life.

Thanks go to Just Jared, who have the first images of Dakota Fanning, one of our favorite rising stars, in costume and on the set of “Effie” in London yesterday.

We announced back in August that Fanning had taken on the role of Effie Grey, after Saoirse Ronan dropped out.

Also starring Tom Sturridge (who replaced fellow Brit actor Orlando Bloom), the film is based on the life of Effie Grey, who married young to a much older man, John Ruskin (to be played by Grey Wise), only for him to refuse to consummate their marriage. Effie then turned to Ruskin’s more age-appropriate protege, the painter John Everett Millais (Sturridge).

Emma Thompson has penned the film, and will also star as Lady Eastlake, who takes the heartbroken Effie under her wing. Directed by Richard Laxton, we last heard that the film was hoping to premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2012. No word on whether that is still the case.

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