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Future Films Heads Up: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

At a loss for things to do next year on Valentine’s Day? Film adaptation of book sensation Fifty Shades of Grey will be released in UK cinemas on 13th February 2015. SYNOPSISFifty Shades of Grey is the hotly anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling book that has become a global phenomenon.  Since its release, the “Fifty Shades” trilogy has been translated into 51 languages…
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Future films Heads Up: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, the story of genius physicist Stephen Hawking & Jane Wilde

The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s.  The story Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of…
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The real House of Magic in London

Considering I never liked magic and magicians I have to admit that the experience I am about to talk about totally surprised me (in a good way). I was recently invited to attend a magician training and show with my son who was the Child Reporter for First News to cover the UK release of the animation film The House of Magic on 25th July 2014. Frankly I was more excited for Diego to do well in…
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Film Review: The Nut Job

The Nut Job, directed by Peter Lepeniotis and starring  Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl hits UK cinemas on 1st August 2014. The Nut Job is a 90 minutes PG rated family animation adventure comedy that will hit the screens just in time for the summer school holidays! It’s all about squirrels in  their nutty world and in this case specifically about an outcast squirrel…
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Film review: Guardians Of The Galaxy

This year’s summer blockbuster season at the cinema is well into its stride – week four, in fact.  Transformers: Age Of Extinction, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and Hercules have all had their turn.  But now come the unlikeliest bunch of heroes of the lot – a thief, two thugs, a murderer and a maniac – and they all have the fate of 12 billion people in their hands.  They’re the…
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Film Review: Earth to Echo

In the last couple of weeks I have watched a few mainstream movies but none of them really impressed me. The cinematic beauty this Summer comes from independent low budgets films and in the kiddies’ space two in particular caught my imagination because they are sensationally written: Boyhood and Earth to Echo. Kids-driven Sci-Fi Earth to Echo is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) meets The…
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Film review: Believe

While the blockbusters are dominating the summer box office, it would be all too easy to overlook the lower budget films on offer.  Which means that film makers have to be just a bit more imaginative when it comes to attracting an audience.  Take Believe, for example, which is released this Friday, 25 July. It’ll get decent distribution in cinemas but, so that it reaches a wider audience, it…
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Future Films Heads Up: The Unbeatables - AN AWARD WINNING 3D ANIMATION FROM OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR JUAN JOSE CAMPANELLA

The Unbeatables is voiced by an all-star British voice cast including Rupert Grint (Harry Potter), Anthony Head (‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, ‘Merlin’), Ralf Little (‘The Royle Family’), Rob Brydon (‘The Trip’) and renowned impressionist Alistair McGowan (‘Arthur Christmas’).  Vertigo Films has dated award-winning 3D animation The Unbeatables (Foosball) for 15th August…
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Future Films Heads Up: Planes 2: Fire & Rescue

Last Summer Disney’s Planes was released and we were so excited to have the opportunity to meet both Teri Hacher and the filmmakers behind the great animation that went on to gross more than $219 million worldwide. That’s why we are pleased to announced that the second instalment Planes 2: Fire & Rescue is released to UK cinemas in 3D on 8th August 2014. Planes: Fire & Rescue is…
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TV Show preview: EXTANT

When you are invited to a lot of film premieres and press conferences you know the score. Except with the launch of Extant the format was completely different. First of all it was a party and the venue was no ordinary one: the BAFTA’s building is so dense of cinema history that you feel you are sinking into it without wanting to resurface. Everything about the BAFTA is so special starting…
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