| ‘Macbeth’ Trailer: Michael Fassbender Shall Be King
The Weinstein Company has released the newest trailer for Justin Kurzel‘s big-screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s dark play Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender as the title character who rises to power to seize the throne with the help of his wife, Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard) Macbeth is already complete with The Weinstein Company acquiring the distribution rights and it already premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it was met with rave reviews. It’s now ready for its limited theatrical release this December, and judging by the looks of the trailer, we should be in for a major awards campaign. Check out the latest trailer for Macbeth below.
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| Blu-ray Review: The World’s End |
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The World’s End
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DIRECTOR: Edgar Wright
WRITERS: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
STARRING: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike
Universal Pictures
RELEASE DATE: November 19, 2013 There aren’t many words that could effectively describe my level of excitement for The World’s End, the latest movie from director Edgar Wright featuring the tag team of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The movie completes the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy, also known as the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, which began in 2004 with zom-rom-com Shaun of the Dead (one of my all-time favorites) and continued with another favorite, 2007’s Hot Fuzz. The movie follows Gary King (Pegg), a man who’s had trouble with the whole “life” thing and growing up since his high school days. When younger King and his friends—Andy Knightley (Nick Frost), Steven Prince (Paddy Considine), Oliver “O-Man” Chamberlain (Martin Freeman), and Peter Page (Eddie Marsan)—attempted the Golden Mile, a 12-pub, 12-pint quest, but were unable to complete it. Now, 20 years later, he’s on a mission to reunite his friends and complete the task they failed two decades earlier. This is not an easy thing to accomplish as his friends all think rather poorly of King, but he finds a way to make it happen. The reunion goes somewhat smoothly for a bit (as smoothly as they could hope for, anyway), but a random encounter in one of the pubs uncovers some very strange happenings in the town of Newton Haven, and forces the friends to figure out what it is…and also how to get the hell out of there.
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| Movie Review: The World’s End |
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The World’s End
Directed by Edgar Wright
Written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg
Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Martin Freeman
Focus Features
Release Date: August 23, 2012 (U.S.) “We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time. And that’s what we are gonna do. We are gonna have a good time… We are gonna have a party.” That little speech – abbreviated slightly from its original version – plays a large role in defining the theme of The World’s End, the eagerly-anticipated closing chapter in the “Blood and Ice Cream” (or “Three Flavours Cornetto”) trilogy that director Edgar Wright and his frequent star and co-writer Simon Pegg created a decade ago with the romantic zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead and continued in 2007 with the blazing police action drama spoof Hot Fuzz. The speech was first heard in the 1966 biker movie classic The Wild Angels and was given by Peter Fonda’s character Heavenly Blues. I recognized those lines the moment they were played on the soundtrack. The World’s End is, I believe, about the futility of trying to recapture your lost youth when you never lost it to begin with. But it is also about how when most of us enter adulthood we take it upon ourselves to abandon our youthful identities completely and replace them with domesticity and responsibility. The five main characters of The World’s End never learned to reconcile the buttoned-down, easy-going side of their personalities with the spirited sense of fun and friendship that defined them as people growing up. The lead character decided to remain a child forever but instead grew into a sad and bedraggled wretch of a human being while his four best friends became hollow shells of what they once were.
...continue reading » Tags: Eddie Marsan, Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Spaced, The World's End, Three Flavours Cornetto, Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy | |
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| Mondo Poster For ‘The World’s End’ By Kevin Tong Set To Go On SaleHad trouble getting past the shopping cart point on the Mondo website when trying to purchase that Shaun of the Dead poster this morning? Well so did I. And while we are left to see the insane prices that are posted on ebay, Mondo is giving us another chance to obtain a poster from Edgar Wright‘s Cornetto Trilogy, though it won’t be from Tyler Stout or be a Shaun of the Dead poster. MovieFone has just debuted the poster for The World’s End by Kevin Tong, which goes on sale at an undisclosed time tomorrow. Hit the jump to check out the poster.
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| Contest: ‘The World’s End’ Prize Pack and $25 Visa Gift Card Giveaway |
By Dave3
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In just eleven days, the third entry in Edgar Wright‘s Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy (also known as Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy), The World’s End, hits theaters. And once again, our behind-the-scenes team here at Geeks of Doom HQ has worked to bring our readers a giveaway we know you’ll appreciate. We’ve partnered with our friends at Focus Features for a very special The World’s End-themed prize pack, which consists of an official The World’s End Pub Crawl T-Shirt, a The World’s End Pint Glass (very appropriate), and a $25 Visa gift card that you can use to see the film! You can check out all manner of The World’s End images, posters, trailers, info, and links, and see the prizing after the form below. One (1) winner will receive: - One (1) The World’s End T-Shirt
- One (1) The World’s End Pint Glass
- One (1) $25 Visa gift card to see the film
The World’s End in theaters August 23, 2013. Prizing provided by Focus Features; Valued at $48 TO ENTER: There’s just two simple steps: (1) Subscribe to Geeks of Doom using one or more of the following methods:
Facebook “¢ Google+ “¢ Twitter “¢ Tumblr “¢ RSS Feed “¢ Daily Email Digest (2) Fill out the entry form here below and submit your entry. (Form is here after the jump.) Good luck!
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