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Frank Darabont might direct ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ sequel; Kristen Stewart not expected to return

As was rumoured shortly after the release of Snow White and the Huntsman, The Wrap reports Kristen Stewart will not return for the film’s sequel. The follow-up will instead center entirely on Chris Hemsworth’s Huntsman character. The first movie was embroiled in controversy when Stewart and director Rupert Sanders revealed they had been having an affair behind […]

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Aussie Margot Robbie cast opposite Will Smith in Focus

Australian actress Margot Robbie is continuing her meteoric rise in Hollywood after Variety exclusively reported that she has snagged a big starring role opposite Will Smith. Known locally for her work on Neighbours, Robbie left Australia to make it big and her first two major starring roles are coming up later in 2013: the female […]

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II honoured as Worst Picture at Razzies

The Razzies didn’t let The Twilight Saga slink off without due recognition in their annual pre-Oscars shaming and celebrating of the year’s worst films and performances. The final instalment in the series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II, took home an impressive seven awards, not able to emulate the success of the previous year’s […]

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 nominated for all the Razzies

The Twilight Saga came to a close last year, and the Razzies are farewelling it with a gift basket full of scorn. Breaking Dawn Part 2 has dominated the 33rd annual Golden Raspberry Award nominations, collecting 11 nods across 10 categories. Despite their pledge to celebrate the very worst in film, the Razzies have mostly […]

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Slow death – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 review

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 – Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. Directed by Bill Condon. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. And stay dead! If any event necessitated a Return of the Jedi style Ewok orgy, it’s the staking of the abysmal Twilight Saga. Director Bill Condon wraps up the final […]

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Kristen Stewart might co-star with Ben Affleck in Focus

With The Twilight Saga behind her, Kristen Stewart is looking for a role to herald the next stage of her career. According to Deadline, the young actress is considering Focus, a comedy from Crazy, Stupid, Love directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. The pic already has Ben Affleck attached as a seasoned con-man; Stewart would play his protégé. Ficarra and Requa […]

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Kristen Stewart might be dumped from Snow White sequel

The sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman might be short one Snow White. The Hollywood Reporter suggests plans for Universal’s sequel to the fairy-tale flick are being rejigged following the revelation that star Kristen Stewart had an affair with director Rupert Sanders. The focus of the follow-up will instead be turned to Chris Hemsworth‘s Huntsman. THR […]

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Rambling – On the Road review

On the Road – Starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, and Kristen Stewart. Directed by Walter Salles. Originally published June 13, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. On the Road plays the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. This review was first run during the Sydney Film Festival. I had endeavoured to finally read […]

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Trailer Debut: The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part 2

The first theatrical trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 has been released, whetting fans’ appetites for the film’s November 16 release.  In the final instalment of Stephenie Meyer’s saga, directed by Bill Condon, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) are happily married and are “both the same temperature” now that Bella […]

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Interview: Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Interview: Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman). By Simon Miraudo. Commercial and short film director Rupert Sanders makes his feature debut with Snow White and the Huntsman, a gritty retelling of the Brothers Grimm legend with Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth as the title characters (we’ll let you guess who plays whom). It can […]

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Fair play – Snow White and the Huntsman review

Snow White and the Huntsman – Starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, and Charlize Theron. Directed by Rupert Sanders. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Rupert Sanders‘ revisionist adaptation of the Snow White saga takes its cues from two recent fantastical period pieces rather than the Grimm brothers’ original legend: Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings trilogy […]

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Twilight won’t be rebooted anytime soon

Summit Entertainment has told Deadline there are no plans to reboot the soon-to-conclude Twilight saga. Rumours have been swirling online – as rumours as wont to do – that Summit’s parent company Lionsgate plan to reboot the vampiric love story on the fifth anniversary of the original film’s release. Summit’s official comment is thus: ”We […]

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Rambling – On the Road review (Sydney Film Festival)

On the Road – Starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, and Kristen Stewart. Directed by Walter Salles. By Simon Miraudo. On the Road played the Sydney Film Festival. It does not yet have an Australian release date. I had endeavoured to finally read Jack Kerouac’s legendary, Beat Generation-defining novel On the Road before watching the long-awaited film […]

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Teaser Debut: The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2

A second teaser trailer for  Bill Condon‘s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 has appeared online, giving fans a glimpse of vampire Bella. Following the 15-second teaser released last week comes this slightly longer 48 second clip that expands on how Bella and Edward are now the same temperature, and how surprised Jacob is […]

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Sneak Peek: The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2

The hot new trend in Hollywood seems to be releasing teasers for teasers. Thus, we present to you a 15 second sneak peek at the impending trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. In honour of the super-short teaser, we’ll offer only 15 characters of commentary. It seems to focu… Sorry folks! That’s […]

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Trailer Debut: Snow White and the Huntsman

The trailer for Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman has debuted online, offering us some brand new footage and a greater glimpse of the plot. Of course, the plot is of the legendary Snow White fairytale, so we had a pretty good idea of it anyway. Although we’re equally excited for Tarsem‘s insane-looking family flick Mirror Mirror (starring Lily Collins as Snow White, and Julia […]

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Trailer Debut: On The Road

The trailer for Walter Salles‘ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s legendary beat generation novel On The Road has arrived online.  Though it’s taken more than 50 years for a film version of Kerouac’s rambling road-movie to hit cinema screens, Salles’ take looks promising (and the fact he helmed The Motorcycle Diaries helps too). Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley star […]

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Saoirse Ronan will play Snow White too

For reasons not totally clear to anyone, Snow White is suddenly the hottest property in Hollywood.  Not only are two Snow White flicks hitting cinemas this year – Mirror Mirror starring Lily Collins, and Snow White and the Huntsman starring Kristen Stewart – but Saoirse Ronan is now in talks to star in a film inspired by the same […]

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Warning: Breaking Dawn causes seizures

In addition to acting as a terrific incentive not to sleep with vampires, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 now comes with another warning concerning these blood suckers: this film may cause seizures. According to ABC News in the US, there have been several reports of people claiming to have developed seizures during (spoiler […]

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Losin’ it – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 review

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Directed by Bill Condon. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Let the carnal delights begin! The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is supposedly the reward for all of our suffering. Twihards have endured three movies worth of smouldering glances, […]

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Breaking Dawn Part 1 rated MA in Australia (Update: Not anymore…)

UPDATE: The Classification Board has overturned the rating. Hoyts Distribution has revealed The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is now merely rated M. Original story as follows. Breaking Dawn Part One – the penultimate instalment of The Twilight Saga – has scored a series-first MA 15+ rating in Australia for ‘Strong themes’. This MA rating means people under […]

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Teaser Debut: Snow White and the Huntsman

The first trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman has appeared online and poses the question, who is the fairest of them all? The Rupert Sanders directed fantasy stars Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth, who all get their fair share of screen time in this teaser. If there were any doubts after the […]

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Poster Debut: Snow White and the Huntsman

Snow White and the Huntsman gets a fancy new banner in the lead up to a trailer release. The Rupert Sanders directed adaptation of the classic story stars Kristen Stewart as White, Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman and Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen. While in competition with the Tarsem Singh directed Mirror, Mirror, the […]

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Tarsem’s Snow White renamed Mirror, Mirror

Relativity Media’s untitled Snow White project finally has a title. Slashfilm confirms the Tarsem Singh directed film will be called Mirror, Mirror. Many comparisons have been made between Singh’s take on the classic Snow White story (starring Lily Collins) and Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman (starring Kristen Stewart) also currently in production. Singh told […]

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Trailer Debut: The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part One

The official trailer for The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part One has debuted online, featuring all the hot human/vampire action you’ve been waiting for! Like the teaser before it, this new trailer gives us a good glimpse of Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward’s (Robert Pattinson) nuptials – and, of course, the honeymoon- before hinting […]

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See Edward and Bella on their honeymoon in new Breaking Dawn pics

Because we know you can’t get enough… Entertainment Weekly has released a couple new snaps of Edward and Bella on their honeymoon in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One. Sadly, these are not the Honeymoon images we really want to see. You know what we’re talking about. We look forward to seeing all the […]

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First look at Lily Collins in The Brothers Grimm: Snow White

We’ve seen Kristen Stewart in character as a gritty Snow White in Rupert Sanders Snow White and The Huntsman. Now comes the first official photo of Lily Collins as Snow in Tarsem Singh‘s own take on the classic fable, The Brothers Grimm: Snow White. And it’s certainly got a different look! Singh’s version will star […]

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First look at Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in Snow White and The Huntsman

The first official images of Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron in character for Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman debuted at Comic Con over the weekend, and have made their way online for your visual pleasure (courtesy of Slashfilm). As you can see from the above pic of Stewart as Snow White, […]

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Sean Bean cast in The Brothers Grimm: Snow White

Remember that other film about Snow White? The one that doesn’t star Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth? No? Well, anyway, Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) has been cast as The King in that one (better known as Tarsem Singh‘s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White).  According to Variety, Bean is in final negotiations to appear in the film as […]

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Snow White and the Huntsman to be first in a trilogy

In the battle of the duelling Snow White flicks, Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman just scored another victory! Producer Joe Roth has told Coming Soon ‘Huntsman‘ will be the first film in a planned trilogy. Roth revealed that although the story in the first film will end, there will be questions left lingering about the fates […]

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