• Roland Emmerich’s ANONYMOUS Movie Trailer

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    Anonymous is a movie by Roland Emmerich which Surprisingly, has nothing to do with world devastation & catastrophe. Instead, the movie digs into the interesting conspiracy theory that revolves around William Shakespeare and how some scholars believe that he never wrote anything that has his name on it. Emmerich is well known for directing movies such as 10,000 BC, 2012, and The Day After Tomorrow.

    Columbia Pictures has released the first  trailer which you can watch below:

    Official Synopsis:

    Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, and it speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds ranging from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens to Henry James and Sigmund Freud, namely: who was the author of the plays credited to William Shakespeare? Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in English literature. Anonymous poses one possible answer, focusing on a time when cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne were exposed in the most unlikely of places: the London stage.

    The movie stars Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Xavier Samuel, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall, Edward Hogg, Jamie Campbell Bower and Derek Jacobi.

    It’s set to be released on September 30th 2011.

  • THE HOBBIT Shooting At 48 Frames Per Second!

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    James Cameron recently talked about how the future of filmmaking will be shooting films at a higher frame rate, which will up the visual presentation of the film. This is something he plans on doing with Avatar 2 and 3. He talked about how Peter Jackson was thinking of doing it for The Hobbit and now it looks like he’s actually going to move forward with it. It was recently discovered that the director is currently shooting The Hobbit at a higher frame rate of 48 frames per second. The industry standard has always been 24 frames per second, but it looks like that is all going to change.

    All of this come from The Hobbit‘s cinematographer Andrew Lesnie:

    – Being shot on 30 RED EPIC cameras
    – Using Zeiss Ultra Primes, Master Primes and Optimo zoom lenses (would expect no less)
    – Shooting at 47.96 frames per second
    – Using 3ality Digital rigs.

    So why 48 fps and not 60? Cameron had said that one of the reasons why Jackson didn’t choose the higher frame rate was because he didn’t want to select the wrong frame rate if the industry went to the alternative. So it looks like the industry is going to move forward with 48 fps, which mean Cameron will most likely be shooting Avatar 2 and 3 in 48 fps as well. The fact of the matter is “60 fps would be significantly more expensive to implement for the modest visual gains.”

  • Johnny English 2 Reborn: Official Movie Trailer

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    Here’s the one you’ve all been waiting for! Johnny English 2 Trailer, which has the title, Johnny English Reborn. The movie sees Rowan Atkinson back as the lead character alongside Rosamund Pike, Dominic West, Gillian Anderson, Burn Gorman, Mark Ivanir, Togo Igawa, Joséphine Baume, Daniel Kaluuya, and Mandi Sidhu.


    Official Synopsis:

    Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the accidental secret agent who doesn’t know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty’s Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. In the years since MI7′s top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier’s life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action.

  • Harry Potter Finale To Get Four Different Endings For Malfoy Family

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    It looks like the second part of the final installment in the Harry Potter saga will turn out to be more surprising than we thought, even for the actors themselves.

    Four different endings have been shot for the Malfoy family, as revealed to MTV by Helen McCrory, who plays Narcissa, mother of Draco and wife of Lucius Malfoy (Harry’s biggest antagonists after Lord Voldemort).

    Spoilers Ahead

    Whoever has read the final book knows: the story is complicated, there’s quite a lot going on, and we can only guess that the producers must be having a tough time trying to piece everything together and make it look as striking as the audience expects it to be. It’s the last of seven hugely successful movies; it has to be perfect.

    However, Harry Potter fans will be chewing their nails with worry after these news (well, at least the hardcore ones will) thinking what “four different finals – and three different battles!” could imply. Slightly modified lines? Different outfits? Harry screaming “levio-ssa” instead of “levio-sa” (yes, we know, we never got that either)?

    In truth, they know that something much worse lurks behind those words, in the form of the ominous fairy of literary adaptations who could end up changing the ending of the story – or any other part of it. It has happened before, and it didn’t leave fans particularly impressed.

    The movie is out in July this year, and the anticipation is growing exponentially. Helen McCrory remains quite tight lipped, and swears she doesn’t know which ending will eventually make it onto the big screen -and far from wanting to spread rumours, we don’t know either.

    Bonnie “Ginny Weasley” Wright says it’s “really weird”. Let’s just hope the only shock we have will be due to seeing Harry, Ron and Hermione made to look like they’re 40.

    Report by Margherita Pellegrino