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Interview: Edgar Wright (The World’s End)

By Simon Miraudo July 24, 2013 Director Edgar Wright reunites with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for The World’s End, the final instalment of their ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ trilogy. Following on from previous instalments Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, it concerns a quintet of developmentally arrested forty-somethings eager to attempt the Golden Mile: […]

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Cheers – The World’s End review

By Simon Miraudo July 22, 2013 Edgar Wright is one of the lucky few: a born filmmaker. Despite a minor set-back with the box office failure of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (though certainly not creative failure), he returns to the comforting embrace of co-conspirators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the final instalment of […]

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Teaser Debut: The World’s End

The teaser trailer for The World’s End, director Edgar Wright’s latest collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, has arrived online. The trio has described their long-awaited follow-up to zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead and cop-movie satire Hot Fuzz as the final instalment of their Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. As you may be able to guess by it’s title, […]

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Teaser Debut: Star Trek Into Darkness

The teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness has landed, promising a sequel that has much more in common with The Wrath of Khan than we expected. Though the one-minute clip features lots of money shots and little plot, we are treated to a threatening monologue from Benedict Cumberbatch’s mysterious villain. Also, glimpses of […]

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Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan join Wright and Pegg’s The World’s End

Empire recently reported that Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan have joined the cast of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s long-awaited third collaboration, The World’s End. After Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, we have all been eagerly awaiting the final film in what Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have dubbed the ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ […]

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Rosamund Pike in Edgar Wright’s The World’s End

Rosamund Pike will join Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the final instalment of Edgar Wright‘s “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy, The World’s End. According to The Daily Mail, Pike will flex her funny bone in an as-yet unspecified role. Pegg, Frost, and Wright have long described their apocalyptic The World’s End as the final instalment of a trilogy that began with zombie […]

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Edgar Wright teams with J.J. Abrams for Collider

Edgar Wright and J.J. Abrams will team up as producers for a new sci-fi drama entitled Collider, Deadline reports. Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Shaun of the Dead) will direct the film and share co-writing credit with Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend). He will also co-produce along with Abrams through his Bad Robot […]

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Poster Debut: The World’s End

The teaser poster for Edgar Wright‘s latest collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World’s End, has arrived a mere month before shooting officially begins. If you’re perplexed by the seeming non-sequiturs on this one-sheet for a movie about the apocalypse, don’t be: ’tis but a listing of famous taverns. Here’s the official synopsis: “20 years after […]

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Simon Pegg embarks on Search for Happiness

Simon Pegg is attached to Peter Chelsom‘s adaptation of Francois Lelord’s novel Hector and the Search for Happiness. According to Deadline, Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay have translated Lelord’s work for the screen. It tells of London psychiatrist who embarks on an ambitious worldwide mission to figure out why his patients remain miserable. Chelsom said this of […]

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Edgar Wright might shoot Ant-Man this year

Edgar Wright is suddenly a very busy man. Just last week it was revealed he would finally reunite with Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost for The World’s End, and now it looks like his long-gestating superhero flick Ant-Man is getting off the ground too. Wright has been attached to direct Marvel’s Ant-Man for quite some time; he worked on the script with Joe Cornish (Attack the Block). […]

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Wright, Pegg, and Frost’s The World’s End gets start date

After years of hints, taunts, rumours, and prayers, a start date has been set for Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost‘s third feature film collaboration, The World’s End. According to Deadline, Working Title wants to begin production in September. That’s mere months away! The trio has long described The World’s End as the final instalment of their Three […]

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Edgar Wright to direct Johnny Depp in The Night Stalker

Edgar Wright has finally booked his follow-up to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, though his most devoted fans may be disappointed to learn it isn’t Ant-Man or his long-gestating third collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, apocalypse-comedy At World’s End. According to Deadline, Wright will direct The Night Stalker for Disney. It is a remake of a 1972 telemovie of the […]

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Choose to accept – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol review

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg. Directed by Brad Bird. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. The Mission: Impossible franchise is one of the most uneven in cinematic history, with the quality wildly fluctuating from one instalment to the next. The Brian De Palma-directed opener was promising, if deeply […]

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Double spaced – Paul review

Paul – Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen. Directed by Greg Mottola. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Paul is a fun tribute to sci-fi films (and film geekery in general), but did it have to be so … dumb? Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the writers and stars of this road-movie-cum-science-fiction-spoof, have proven […]

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>New trailer for Paul longer, funnier

>That headline kind of sums it up, but an extended trailer for Greg Mottola‘s sci-fi comedy Paul has debuted online. Paul stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (who also penned the screenplay) as a couple of sci-fi geeks who meet an alien on the way to Area 51. Seth Rogen gave a motion-captured performance as […]

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Teaser Debut: Paul

Back in May of 2009, we (rhetorically) asked if Greg Mottola‘s sci-fi flick Paul had “the comedy cast of the year”. Which year were we talking about? It’s hard to say. But our basic sentiment was that Paul featured a cavalcade of brilliant comic performers. We now have our first glimpse of them in action, […]

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Does Paul have the comedy cast of the year?

source: variety.com Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and Jane Lynch will join Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the upcoming sci-fi comedy Paul. The film stars Pegg and Frost (who also wrote the screenplay) as a pair of sci-fi geeks who encounter a genuine alien on the way to Area 51. Rogen […]

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