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Olympic Opening Ceremony Details Revealed

Featuring real animals, greenery and a huge bell end.

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Frankenstein @ National Theatre: How To Get Tickets

Danny Boyle’s production with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller is stunning, and utterly sold out. But there are still ways to see it…

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Extra, Extra

Royal Festival Hall by Dollum In an unsurprising move, the All England Club has banned the vuvuzela from Wimbledon Diane Abbot talks tough about her Labour leadership bid As predicted, Danny Boyle has been selected as director of 2012 opening ceremony Royal Festival Hall gets …

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Danny Boyle To Direct 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony?

Where do you go after directing Slumdog Millionaire to both critical and popular success? Staging the greatest, most-watched show on Earth, perhaps? Rumours suggest that Danny Boyle is top choice to orchestrate the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. A parade of ‘anonymous sources‘ are …

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Zombie Love

Lets face it, everybody loves a bit of zombie, there’s something oddly loveable about the undead as they lumber about feasting on flesh and being generally hungry. So what could possibly be better than a whole night of zombies on the truly massive and awe-inspiring …

Friday Film News

This week – rage causes a lot of trouble in 28 Weeks Later and the memoirs of Nelson Mandela’s prison guard are opened in Goodbye Bafana. In 28 Days Later the Rage virus spread throughout Britain leaving it full of dead people and those that …

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Friday Film News!

This week – The pilot light’s gone out… on the sun (Sunshine) and Will Ferrell goes iceskating (Blades of Glory). Don’t you hate it when the sun is going out and you have to go and reignite it? First up, Sunshine Bradshaw gives it 4/5, …

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Execute Code Red

Well we’re not sure we needed it, but we’re certainly getting it: 28 Weeks Later is on its way. The sequel to 28 Days Later has got some empty London: Some swan infested London: And some holy-fuck-the-Americans-have-napalmed-London: See the full trailer here. In a day …

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Sunshine update

The new Danny Boyle / Alex Garland movie currently filming in London seems to be coming along nicely from the video snippets up on the website. Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship …

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Ramsay’s Kitchen Confidential No More

On the subject of dangerous kitchens we believe that Frank Zappa sang it best: Who the fuck wants to clean it? It’s disgusting and dirty / The sponge on the drainer is stinky and squirty / If you squeeze it when you wipe up what …

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Bring Me Sunshine

We mentioned Danny Boyle’s new Sci Fi movie a while back after chatting to him at Raindance East, but we now have a press release stating that principle photography on the now Untitled Sunshine Project has just begun. It also reveals some pretty interesting casting …