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Guillermo del Toro has given an update on his long-rumoured adaptation of Disneyland ride, Haunted Mansion , which is still apparently among several projects on his back burner. “It’s a hard screenplay to crack,” says Del Toro. “We’ve done it a few times. We are on our third or fourth …

FrightFest have announced their full line-up of short films for this 2014’s horror festival, and it’s a bumper crop. Paul McEvoy, Co-director of FrightFest said: “This year’s crop of Film4 FrightFest short films is the biggest and best line-up we have ever had. We are thrilled to be showcasing an …

The first image has arrived online from Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes , in which Ian McKellen stars as legendary sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, in the twilight of his career. The image was posted via McKellen’s Twitter account, and shows the great detective with a few more age spots, but looking just …

Woah, the turtley tubular Total Film have got their ten toes on some triumphant (and exclusive) motion posters, and we’re riding them like skateboards! Look out below, dudes! Wooo! Wooo! *cough* *cough* Apologies, we’re not sure what happened there. It could be the effect of these AWESOME motion posters, which …

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) The Road Trip Moment: En route to California for little Olive’s beauty pageant, the Hoover family suffers a major setback when grandpa Edwin (Alan Arkin) dies. Why It’s Crazy: The family sneak his body out of the hospital, pile him into the van and illegally transport …

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes has released a new featurette online, showing off the film’s remarkable visual effects in all their glory. The technological whizzes at WETA have been helping out in that regard, with director Matt Reeves describing the studio as having taken “a quantum leap forward”. …

From the handheld opening shot of a kid barrelling through slums, a spirit of rough-hewn urgency drives debut director Diego Quemada-Díez’s drama about four Guatemalan teenagers trying to cross the border into the US. Casting non-professionals (Brandon López and Karen Martínez foremost) in the lead roles, Quemada-Díez channels Sin Nombre …

Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige was in Barcelona this week to present footage from Guardians Of The Galaxy , Marvel’s latest big-screen hopeful. Harking back to the days when taking Iron Man to market seemed like a risky proposition, Feige was enthusiastic about presenting something new. “It’s very important that …

Following Pot Luck (2002) and Russian Dolls (2005), Cedric Klapisch’s charming-but-choppy trilogy culminates with… more of the same. Pinballing off his ex-partner, his lesbian bestie, and an old flame, Romain Duris’ restless novelist Xavier plunges into a Green Card -style fake marriage that threatens to turn this sophisticated New York …

Colin Firth will no longer be lending his voice to Paddington Bear in the forthcoming big-screen adventure, leaving producers with something of a headache ahead of the film’s proposed release date. Firth explained to Entertainment Weekly that, “after a period of denial, we’ve chosen ‘conscious uncoupling'”, in reference to Chris …