The long-awaited Foxcatcher – a film I prematurely added to my Most Anticipated of 2012 list – is finally hitting cinemas this December. To tide over our ravenous anticipation, here’s another teaser trailer. Steve Carell stars as schizophrenic billionaire John du Pont, a chemical heir who tried to train wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) ahead of […]
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Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes join the Coens’ ‘Hail Caesar’
June 25, 2014 
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The Coens’ increasingly incredible-sounding Hail Caesar now has Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes linked to star alongside the previously announced George Clooney and Josh Brolin. We’re not worthy! Variety first revealed the news of Tatum’s involvement – though it’s still being negotiated – while THR jumped on the bandwagon with news of Swinton and Fiennes. It was […]
Continue readingSpring fakers – 22 Jump Street review
June 18, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo June 18, 2014 I’d like to report a murder. The buddy-cop comedy is dead, drowned in a sea of d*** jokes by directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Hey, at least it died doing what it loved. In 22 Jump Street, Lord and Miller, along with screenwriters/accomplices Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel and […]
Continue readingHere are your 2014 Cannes Film Festival winners
May 26, 2014 0 Comments
Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic follow-up to Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, has won the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Though the Turkish filmmaker is much loved on the Croissette – he has previously collected the Grand Jury Prize on two separate occasions, as well as the Best Director Award […]
Continue readingChanning Tatum to play Gambit in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
May 14, 2014 0 Comments
Unexpected! Channing Tatum is set to take on the role of Gambit in X-Men: Apocalypse before getting his own standalone feature. The news was first broken by producer Lauren Shuler Donner while spruiking the impending X-Men: Days of Future Past. THR confirmed his casting. Though the latest X-Men feature will see old and new cast […]
Continue reading‘Magic Mike’ sequel christened ‘Magic Mike XXL’
March 31, 2014 0 Comments
The Playlist has unzipped some major details regarding the next Magic Mike film, namely… it’s name! Magic Mike XXL is what the strippertastic sequel shall be christened. Since Steven Soderbergh won’t return to direct – on account of his “retirement” – his right-hand man and frequent first AD Greg Jacobs will take the helm. Channing Tatum has co-written the script […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Jupiter Ascending
December 12, 2013 0 Comments
The Wachowskis are back with Jupiter Ascending, their latest sci-fi mind-bender. This one stars Channing Tatum as Caine, a bleach-blonde warrior from another planet, tasked by “the Queen of the Universe” to kill Earthling Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), whose DNA has her marked for future greatness. Obviously, Caine falls for Jupiter, because they are played by Channing […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Foxcatcher
September 27, 2013 0 Comments
Foxcatcher was – somewhat prematurely – featured on our Most Anticipated Films of 2012 list a little while back. Now, near the end of 2013, comes the first official teaser for Bennett Miller’s true-crime drama. Steve Carell stars as schizophrenic billionaire John du Pont, a chemical heir who tried to train wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing […]
Continue readingChanning Tatum might direct Magic Mike 2, and Steven Soderbergh might shoot it
July 3, 2013 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh isn’t exactly going gently into the good night. Though he’s supposedly retired from directing feature films, he’s still open to acting as a cinematographer for pals. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Channing Tatum revealed that Soderbergh has offered to be DP on his sequel to Magic Mike (which, by the way, is going […]
Continue readingTom Cruise abandons The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
May 27, 2013 1 Comment
Seems like you could make a movie out of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’s troubled production history. Tom Cruise is the latest actor to abandon the project, Deadline reports. Guy Ritchie is set to helm the adaptation of the classic TV series for Warner Bros, which would have starred Cruise and Armie Hammer. Though Hammer is […]
Continue readingJoseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum wanted for Guys and Dolls remake
April 30, 2013 0 Comments
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum are at the top of 20th Century Fox’s wish list for their upcoming remake of Guys and Dolls, Deadline reports. They would tackle the roles made famous by Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. The remake of the Tony Award winning stage show and Academy Award nominated film has no writer […]
Continue readingPoster and Trailer Debut: White House Down
March 28, 2013 0 Comments
Our first look at White House Down (aka: Die Hard in the White House), gives us the requisite amount of explosive images of America’s presidential palace burning. King of disaster films Roland Emmerich is the director behind this blockbuster and from 2012 to Independence Day it seems he definitely has a knack for destroying the […]
Continue readingA few good ninjas – G.I. Joe: Retaliation review
March 25, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 25, 2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation is easily the best film produced under the Hasbro banner, clearing the lowest cinematic bar perhaps ever known to humanity. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never director Jon M. Chu has been subbed in for the outgoing Stephen Sommers (who helmed predecessor Rise of the Cobra), while […]
Continue readingSexual nightmares and sleep crime – Side Effects review
March 11, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 11, 2013 Steven Soderbergh‘s Side Effects begins as one thing, and then ends as something else entirely. Over the course of its 106 minutes, the feature evolves from an icy, haunting tale of depression and abandonment into a squalid, sordid, serpentine Alfred Hitchcock pastiche. That it can glide from these two […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Side Effects
November 5, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s latest pharmaceutical thriller, Side Effects, has arrived online. Though the teaser is largely ambiguous, from what we know of the picture, Rooney Mara stars as the wife of a convict (Channing Tatum) who develops a drug dependency in the lead-up to his release. Written by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion), Side Effects may well end up Soderbergh’s last […]
Continue readingMagic Mike sequel might be a road movie
September 14, 2012 0 Comments
Channing Tatum fans are rejoicing as the buff star recently revealed that a Magic Mike sequel could be on the cards. In a European interview reported on The Playlist, Tatum spoke of the sequel potentially taking the form of a road movie. Currently working on a Broadway adaptation of Magic Mike with writing partner Reid […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: 10 Years
August 17, 2012 0 Comments
Channing Tatum: loves high school! After posing as a teen in 21 Jump Street, he’s now appearing in Jamie Linden’s reunion flick 10 Years. The trailer shows Tatum catching up with his buddies (Oscar Isaac, Chris Pratt, Anthony Mackie, Justin Long, Max Minghella, Brian Geraghty) and reconnecting with his old flame (Rosario Dawson). Bad news for his wife […]
Continue readingBody work – Magic Mike review
July 24, 2012 0 Comments
Magic Mike – Starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. There was once a time when I referred to Channing Tatum as a “human hatstand,” so unimpressed I was with his lumbering screen presence and seeming lack of personality. There was also a time when […]
Continue readingTinker tailor Soderbergh spy – Haywire review
July 24, 2012 2 Comments
Haywire – Starring Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, and Channing Tatum. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. By Richard Haridy. Haywire arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia July 25, 2012. Mixed martial artist Gina Carano stars in Steven Soderbergh‘s Haywire; an action film swathed in such a haze of cold detachment it’s positively glacial. From Solaris […]
Continue readingAll class – 21 Jump Street review
July 19, 2012 0 Comments
21 Jump Street – Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Brie Larson. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Rated MA. Originally published March 7, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. 21 Jump Street is now available on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia, and via Quickflix Pay Per View. In this cinematic reimagining of the 80s TV show 21 Jump Street, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as incompetent and immature police […]
Continue readingWill Arnett to play Lego Batman for 21 Jump Street directors
June 28, 2012 0 Comments
Will Arnett will voice Batman in an upcoming animated Lego film from Chris Miller and Phil Lord (21 Jump St). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Parks and Recreation‘s Chris Pratt will voice the lead character in the movie, Emmet; an average Lego figure who stumbles onto a grand plan by an evil tyrant who is […]
Continue readingMagic Mike headed to Broadway
June 27, 2012 0 Comments
Steve Soderbergh‘s male stripper flick Magic Mike might be headed to the Great White Way. Producer and screenwriter Reid Carolin has told USA Today of plans to turn it into a Broadway show. “[It] would be a different story, more of a romp, more of a fun night out at a club with a story. I’m almost more […]
Continue readingG.I. Joe 2 delayed to accommodate for injection of more Channing Tatum
May 31, 2012 1 Comment
*The following article features mild spoilers for a version of the upcoming G.I. Joe movie that is being drastically changed anyway.* Deadline reveals the reason behind Paramount’s bizarre decision to delay the release of G.I. Joe: Retaliation: they are resurrecting Channing Tatum. TV ads had begun and billboards were up, all set for the U.S […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Magic Mike
April 19, 2012 0 Comments
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived! The trailer for Steven Soderbergh‘s Magic Mike has slid down the stripper pole and into our laps. The film stars Channing Tatum as Mike, and is based on his own experiences as a male stripper prior to becoming a film star. Alex Pettyfer joins him as his protégé, […]
Continue reading21 Jump Street sequel in the works
March 19, 2012 1 Comment
When we spoke to 21 Jump Street directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord last week about a potential sequel to their buddy comedy, they said they had to “wait and see if planet Earth likes it as much as we do.” Well, it seems planet Earth does. The picture opened to an impressive $35 million in the […]
Continue readingInterview: Chris Miller & Phil Lord (21 Jump Street)
March 14, 2012 0 Comments
Interview: Chris Miller & Phil Lord (Directors of 21 Jump Street). By Simon Miraudo. Chris Miller and Phil Lord are following in the footsteps of Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton (just barely) before them, leaving behind the world of animation and making their live-action feature debut. However, unlike Pixar alumni Bird and Stanton – who began the […]
Continue readingAll class – 21 Jump Street review
March 7, 2012 2 Comments
21 Jump Street – Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Brie Larson. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. In this cinematic reimagining of the 80s TV show 21 Jump Street, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as incompetent and immature police officers banished to an experimental undercover department where they […]
Continue readingRooney Mara to team with Steven Soderbergh for Side Effects
January 31, 2012 0 Comments
The newly Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara has booked her first post-Dragon Tattoo role, and it ain’t shabby. The ingénue will take the lead role in Steven Soderbergh‘s pharmaceutical thriller Side Effects (formerly titled Bitter Pill), Deadline reports. Mara is replacing Blake Lively in the picture, which is also set to star Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: 21 Jump Street
December 21, 2011 0 Comments
The first official poster for the Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum headlined 21 Jump Street flick has arrived online with a fairly cheeky tagline. What more can be said? Well, the following: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller direct Hill and Tatum as young police officers who go undercover at a high school to bust a drug ring. […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Vow
November 25, 2011 0 Comments
Your tear-ducts are going to get a work-out. The new feature trailer for Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum‘s romantic drama The Vow has arrived online. Directed by Michael Sucsy and inspired by a true story, The Vow tells the tale of a young man who must re-romance his wife after she wakes from a coma […]
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