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/Film UK - [REC] 2, Foster, The Brothers Bloom, The Mighty Boosh Movie And More Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that won’t make it to the US for a good while yet, and from time to time you’ll read about films that will never make it to the US at all....

2021 Academy Awards Nominations Announced: ‘Mank’ Leads With 10 Nods The nominations for the 93rd annualAcademy Awardshave announced, revealing which films will contend to take home little golden statuettes for one of the strangest years in cinema history. While the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on movie theaters and the film industry, you know the saying: the show must go on. And due to rules tweaks that allow for more eligibility (we’re looking at you, streaming releases), the results look unlike many other Oscar line-ups....

Amer Movie Teaser: A New Giallo Seeks To Distill The Old Argento Style In much the same way thatHouse of the Devilwas an underground sensation in 2009, I expect that the Belgian filmAmerwill be one of the arthouse talking points of 2010. LikeHouse of the Devil,Amerhas a stylish throwback poster and revels in a bygone filmmaking style. This time, the style is giallo — the atmospheric thriller mode popularized by filmmakers like Dario Argento....

Apple TV+ Launch Date Set For November With Lowest Cost Of Any Major Streaming Service Apple has been leading up to their own streaming subscription service for a long time now. It’s been nearly two years since Apple started hiring big names likeSteven Soderbergh, Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg, and more to create original programming for what they hope will be a major competitor for Netflix, Hulu and the forthcoming Disney+ and HBO Max streaming services, not to mention the countless other subscriptions coming down the road....

Bond Watch: Could ‘Bond 25’ Remake ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’? It’s been a little over a monthsince we officially entered “Bond Watch.” If you know the movie news cycle, you know the drill. The nextJames Bondmovie is coming,which means that every single British tabloid in existence is blindly throwing darts at a board, trying to get the big scoop on what the next 007 adventure will be about and who will be in it....

Cool Stuff: City Secrets Movies: The Ultimate Insider’s Guide To Cinema’s Hidden Gems We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. City Secrets guides have been called “the best literary gift to travelers since the Baedeker and Henry James” by the Financial Times, providing charming travelers' companions to the world’s most fascinating cities. What made them different than the usual travel guides is that City Secrets offers reflections and discoveries from the authors, artists, and historians who know each city best....

Cool Stuff: Custom LEGO ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Vehicles Here at /Film, we’re big fans of anything having to do withLEGO. That includes real LEGO sets like the recentKwik-E-Mart releasefromThe Simpsons, custom LEGO sets such as thismassive 10,000 piece Millennium Falcon, and even video games like the forthcomingLEGO Jurassic World. So you can imagine how excited we were to find out that one LEGO fan built some custom sets paying tribute toMad Max: Fury Road....

Crazy Film Theory: Drag Me To Hell Is Really About A Girl With An Eating Disorder Readers of /Film know that I’m a fan of wacky movie theories that make you reevaluate a film in much different light. Sometimes the theories are intended creations of the writer/director behind a film, but most times they are just fun interpretations created by the viewer (like this one). Either way, I always find them interesting and entertaining....

Dave Bautista Is Already Campaigning To Star In James Gunn’s ‘Suicide Squad’ It’s no secret thatDave Bautistawasone of the more unhappyGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3cast members when directorJames Gunnwas fired after controversial posts on Twitter were brought to light by a disingenuous conservative troll. But now that the filmmaker has been hired to take over theSuicide Squadfranchise over at Warner Bros., the wrestler turned actor is ready to follow him into the DC Extended Universe....

David Fincher Directing Adaptation Of The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud AssumingDavid Finchersurvives the Herculean task of retelling the epic tale of Facebook inThe Social Network, it seems that his next project will bring him back to familiar territory. We’ve learned that Fincher has signed on to adaptThe Reincarnation of Peter Proudalongside screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who also wrote Fincher’sSeven. The novel by Max Ehrlich was already adapted back in 1975, with a screenplay written by Ehrlich himself....

Disney+ Adapting ‘Once On This Island’ Stage Musical Into A Live-Action Movie After finding great success withHamiltonlast month, Disney+ is looking to make another musical of their own. A live-action film adaptation of the one-act Broadway musicalOnce on This Islandis in the works at Disney+. Described as a calypso-flavored re-telling ofThe Little Mermaid,the story set in the Caribbean’s French Antilles focuses on a peasant girl who falls in love with an aristocrat, but of course the romance defies all of the social norms and is threatened at every turn....

Drake Doremus Talks ‘Like Crazy’ Trailer, Post-Sundance Expectations, A New PG-13 Rating And The Film’s Darker Cousin Writer/directorDrake Doremusknows that the sound onMonday’s trailer premiereof his award-winning Sundance romanceLike Crazywas bad and he takes full responsibility. You see, he was in New York working on his next movie starring Guy Pierce, Amy Ryan andLike Crazyco-star Felicity Jones and was forced to mix the sound over the phone and e-mail. But that’s been fixed now....

Dwayne Johnson Promises New ‘Jumanji’ Will Respect And Honor Robin Williams Last month brought news that this summer’sCentral IntelligencestarsDwayne JohnsonandKevin Hartwould star in Sony Pictures' developing big screen remake ofJumanji. Since then, Johnson has been confirmed to produce and star in the film that will be directed byBad TeacherandSex TapehelmerJake Kasdan. Now theFast & Furiousfranchise star has taken to Instagram to reassure everyone thatRobin Williams, star of the original 1995 film adaptation, would be respected and honored in the new take on the children’s book written byChris Van Allsburg....