68th British Academy Film Awards Live

Welcome to our BAFTA hub for 2015. Tonight is the biggest night of the British film calender as the esteemed academy elects its triumphant films, directors and stars. Keep on refreshing the page for the latest updates.

If you’re not preoccupied before the ceremony, try out our prediction game. Rank the nominees for Best Film, Director, Actor/Actress, Supporting Actor/Actress, Cinematography, British Film and Rising Star from 1-5. If your number one pick is correct you receive five points, number two gets four, number three gets three and so on. Comment your score from a maximum of 59. Unsure where to start? Try our own predictions as a primer. Get the full nominations list here.

The red carpet lineup is amassing: Benedict Cumberbatch! Eddie Redmayne! Keira Knightley! Steve Carell! Ralph Fiennes! Ethan Hawke! Mike Leigh! Jack O’Connell! Michael Keaton! Mark Strong!

Here we go!

Stephen Fry begins his annual interrogation of the esteemed audience members. Rosamund Pike! Julie Walters! Edward Norton!

Outstanding British Film:

The Theory of Everything
Pride
Under the Skin
The Imitation Game
’71
Paddington

Beckham awards the first win of the night. Does that put Theory in the front seat for Best Film?

Special Visual Effects:

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Guardians of the Galaxy

It missed out on the main categories but it made up here. Jones and Hawking’s humour shining through again.

Supporting Actor:

Steve Carell – Foxcatcher
Edward Norton – Birdman
Ethawn Hawke – Boyhood
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
JK Simmons – Whiplash

Witherspoon on her way to Leading Actress as she awards J Jonah Jameson a BAFTA.

Next two British greats award a third.

Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema:

BBC Films (Revolutionary Road, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Jane Eyre, Made in Deganham, Notes on a Scandal, Billy Elliott, Coriolanus, Pride, An Education, Quartet, In the Loop, Philomena, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa)

The Butler’s Cuba Gooding Jr dishes out the second acting category.

Supporting Actress:

Rene Russo – Nightcrawler
Emma Stone – Birdman
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Imelda Staunton – Pride

A rising star and Bilbo himself award Birdman’s first win.

Cinematography:

Mr Turner (Dick Pope)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Robert Yeoman)
Interstellar (Hoyte Van Hoytema)
Ida (Lukasz Zal)
Birdman (Emmanuel Lubezki)

The ever sharply suited Loki and MI6 Head celebrate a great career beginning.

British Debut:

’71
Northern Soul
Lilting
Kajaki
Pride

A fitting tribute to a true great, Lord Richard Attenborough, from Prince William and Robert Downey Jr.

Best Actress favourite Julianne Moore arrives.

Best Original Screenplay:

Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro Gonalez Inarritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone, Armando Bo -Birdman
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler

Two JJ Abrams collaborators on stage. Shared universe? It’s all a conspiracy!

Foreign Language:

Leviathan
The Lunchbox
Two Days, One Night
Ida
Trash

He’s semi-bald! Future Lex Luthor Jesse Eisenberg and Noomi Rapace turn up.

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Anthony McCarten – The Theory of Everything
Graham Moore – The Imitation Game
Jason Dean Hall – American Sniper
Paul King – Paddington

We taking a minute off to honour the In Memoriam section.

X-Men’s James McAvoy arrives – we forgot he was Scottish again.

EE Rising Star:

Gugu Mbatha Raw
Miles Teller
Shailene Woodley
Jack O’Connell
Margot Robbie

Your new one to watch is Jack O’Connell, one of the many protogee’s of E4’s Skins who’s starred in the acclaimed likes of Starred Up, Unbroken and ’71.

Brick is back.

Director:

Alejandro Gonzale Inarritu – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
James Marsh – The Theory of Everything
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Only God Forgive’s Kristen Scott Thomas compliments her opposite number.

Leading Actor:

Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Another crossover in the work: Superman V Captain America!

Leading Actress:

Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Amy Adams – Big Eyes
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Reese Witherspoon – Wild
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl

That was a surprise: Tom Cruise!

Film:

The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Boyhood
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Fellowship:

Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, Life is Sweet, High Hopes, Career Girls, Abigail’s Party, All or Nothing, Topsy Turvy, Secrets and Lies, Naked, Vera Drake, Happy Go Lucky, Another Year)

Here comes the quickfire awards.

Original Music:

Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Documentary:

Citizenfour

Makeup and Hair:

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Production Design:

The Grand Budapest Hotel

British Short Film:

Boogaloo and Graham

British Short Animation:

The Bigger Picture

Editing:

Whiplash

Sound:

Whiplash

Animated Film:

The Lego Movie

Costume Design:

The Grand Budapest Hotel

We managed 53/59 so comment how you did. Here’s the winners leaderboard.

The Grand Budapest Hotel – 5
Boyhood, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash – 3
Ida, Interstellar, The Lego Movie, Pride, Citizenfour, Still Alice, Birdman – 1

Paddington review

Director: Paul King

Starring: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Nicole Kidman, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris, Julie Walters, Peter Capaldi, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Simon Farnaby, Matt Lucas

Michael Bond’s novels and subsequent TV show depicting the ever inquisitive bear Paddington have garnered the mass of international following his character now has. Remaking him in 2015 (almost sixty years on from his debut) can only be problematic. Appealing to modern audiences perhaps slightly more atuned with Ted or winning over the doubtful die hard fans seems to be two very different goals.

After a natural disaster destroys his home, a bear (Whishaw) journeys from Darkest Peru to London, where he wishfully expects a warm welcome. Reluctantly, Mr Brown (Bonneville) and his family (Hawkins, Joslin, Harris, Walters) accept him into their madcap home, unaware that a mysterious taxidermist, Millicent (Kidman), is strangely willing to take him off their hands.

The first step to ensuring excellence here was hiring the right people. Harry Potter producer David Heyman elevates this far from low rent productions like Pudsey, which this so easily could have been. Not only his Paddington himself visually fantastic; his whole Peruvian environment is remarkably stunning before he slickly slips into the city streets. Writers Paul King and Hamish McColl fill their script with childish immaturity and adult wisdom in equal measure.

Ben Whishaw, who famously replaced the voice of Colin Firth for the titular role, applies those same qualities into his own performance excellently while Downton’s Hugh Bonneville and Godzilla’s Sally Hawkins poignantly resemble the two halves of Britain today: the xenophobic or the welcoming. Youngsters Sam Joslin and Madeleine Harris don’t greatly impress as the children of the Browns but at least they’re far more likeable than the usual annoying infants occupying family films.

Even the stern Mr Brown is soon won over but the villains of the piece aren’t so easily charmed. New Doctor Who Peter Capaldi inexplicably creepy as the Farage-next-door type Mr Curry. Oscar winner Nicole Kidman shines as the comically cruel but undeniably scary Millicent, who has the twisted and macabre intention of killing and stuffing Paddington and actually poses a half decent twist in the ending.

The aforementioned finale may overly extend the amount of peril that the usual mild mannered past instalments contained but simultaneously gives a defiant emotional gut punch. Still retaining the classic quintessential charm while inserting an uncanny relevance to modern issues. The most iconic refugee of all time triumphs in this potentially timeless update.

8/10

” Long ago, people in England sent their children by train with labels around their necks, so they could be taken care of by complete strangers in the country side where it was safe. They will not have forgotten how to treat strangers.”

Deadpool confirmed as part of X-Men universe, new Hobbit poster and Michael Gambon joins Paddington

Deadpool made a mediocre introduction in the vastly disappointing prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Five years on, the persistence of star Ryan Reynolds (Safe House) has finally got the project greenlit for a 2016 release, just before studio tentpole X-Men: Apocalypse. When asked about whether Deadpool will still be part of the main series, producer/writer Simon Kinberg explained that “There’s definitely a sort of overall plan that we’ve all been talking about for the X-Men universe now, and Deadpool obviously fits into that.

“I guess I would say it’s part of certainly an overall timeline and the thought process that goes into these films, some of which is inspired by the comics and some of which is inspired by seeing what Marvel’s done with telling a larger tapestry and linking all those movies together, even as they stand independently, as well. The same kind of thought is going to go into these X-Men movies at Fox.” Tim Miller directs.

Harry Potter producer David Heyman is behind the new adaptation of Michael Bond’s Paddington. He’s now added to his stellar cast with two HP stars. Michael Gambon (Gosford Park), who played Professor Dumbledore, and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), who played Professor Umbridge, have been cast as the voices of Paddington’s Uncle Pastuzo and Aunt Lucy. They join the the ensemble of Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas), Nicole Kidman (The Hours), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It), Julie Walters (Billy Elliot) and Jim Broadbent (Iris, Topsy Turvy, Hot Fuzz).

This Christmas Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, Heavenly Creatures, The Lovely Bones, King Kong) concludes his Hobbit trilogy with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. A new poster has been released today. The film stars Martin Freeman (Fargo), Ian McKellen (X-Men), Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Hugo Weaving (The Matrix), Richard Armitage (Into the Storm), Luke Evans (Fast and Furious 6), Evangeline Lilly (Lost), Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean), Sylvester McCoy (Doctor Who), James Nesbitt (Millions), Ken Stott (Shallow Grave), Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy), Ian Holm (Time Bandits) and Christopher Lee (Dracula).

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – December 12th

Paddington – November 28th

Deadpool – February 12th 2016

Mark Ruffalo talks potential new Hulk film and Colin Firth departs from Paddington

Despite only having one performance and one cameo in the role, Mark Ruffalo’s (Now You See Me, The Kids Are All Right, Zodiac, Foxcatcher, Shutter Island) portrayal of Bruce Banner/Hulk is one of the most loved in the whole of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and yet looking into the future he’s only signed up for Avengers: Age of Ultron. There’s nothing official yet but there have been talks of Hulk solo film, a concept that’s failed twice before. Oscar nominee Ruffalo has himself now spoken out on the possibility of the film. “I think they are, for the first time, entertaining the idea of it,” Ruffalo told Digital Spy.

“When we did The Avengers it was basically ‘No!’, and now there is some consideration for it. But there’s still nothing definitive, not even a skeletal version of what it would be. I look forward to going down that road, if we could crack that nut.” I’m unsure if Hulk by himself would work third time round but I’d love a two-man Avengers team-up of Banner and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor (whose third instalments isn’t going too far in development). Or, depending on where A2:AoU leaves us, perhaps Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) will be still be kicking around. As for directors who can make great beasts full of character, we’d tip Monsters/Godzilla man Gareth Edwards were he not busy on Godzilla 2 and a Star Wars spin off.

Paddington, a Peruvian bear who travels to London in order to find a family, has, over the years, become a British icon and in the UK there has been a fair amount of hype for the new reboot, brought to us by Harry Potter producer David Heyman and Bunny and the Bull director Paul King. It’s gathered the ensemble supporting cast of Hugh Bonneville (The Monuments Men, Downton Abbey), Nicole Kidman (The Hours, Moulin Rouge), Jim Broadbent (Iris, Cloud Atlas), Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Matt Lucas (Bridesmaids, Alice in Wonderland), Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine, Godzilla) and Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who, World War Z, The Thick of It) before making the huge casting of Oscar winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man, Love Actually) as Paddington himself,

It’s now reported that Firth has made a late withdrawal from the film. “It’s been bittersweet to see this delightful creature take shape and come to the sad realisation that he simply doesn’t have my voice,” Firth explains, “After a period of denial we’ve chosen conscious uncoupling. I’ve had the joy of seeing most of the film and it’s going to be quite wonderful. I still feel rather protective of this bear and I’m pestering them all with suggestions for finding a voice worthy of him.”

Paddington – November 28th 2014

The Hulk – 2017?

New Monuments Men trailer and Maleficent reshoots

Maleficent is Angelina Jolie’s potential new huge role. It’s the story of Sleeping Beauty told from the point if view of it’s villain, a misunderstood but ultimately corrupt witch. Elle Fanning (Super 8) plays the young Princess Aurora who falls into Maleficent’s malevolent traps. Sharlto Copley (Elysium, District 9), Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It, Doctor Who), Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter, Blackadder), Sam Riley (Byzantium, On the Road), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake, Harry Potter), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises, Killer Joe) and Lesley Manville (Another Year, A Christmas Carol) also make up the supporting cast. Hopefully, they can make this darker than the average Disney film but put it a level higher than the plain dullness that made up Snow White and the Huntsman.

That strong concept will be tweaked however now that John Lee Hancock (director of The Blind Side, which won Sandra Bullock an Oscar, an the upcoming Saving Mr. Banks, which could do the same for Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson) has been drafted in to rewrite the opening of Robert Stromberg’s fantasy adventure which will lead to a reshoot. “He’s not directing,” producer Joe Roth tells is, “He wrote pages and I hired a first-time director and it’s good to have him on set. The movie is gorgeous to look at and the last 75 minutes are really entertaining.”

George Clooney writes directs and stars in The Monuments Men, the true story of a team of art experts venturing into the warzones of WW2 to reclaim some of Europe’s cultural treasures before Hitler wipes them out, alongside Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Bob Balaban and Hugh Bonneville. This more action based trailer for the film was released for your entertainment recently. Enjoy!

The Monuments Men – January 9th 2014

Maleficent – May 30th 2014

Saving Mr. Banks – November 29th

Tuorhoth’s first predictions for the 2014 Academy Awards

October and November are seeing the releases of some of the huge contenders for the Oscars next year well before award season has begun. We’ve no idea how well any of these films are going to do critically seeing as none of them have actually been released to mainstream audiences. This isn’t an award by award breakdown but we’re giving you a brief guide as to what could be nominated in “the big six” awards at world’s biggest annual movie event. I’m also ranking the potential nominees by their likelihood of winning by colour: red means most likely to win, blue means second most likely and green means I’ve ranked them third.

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett – The Monuments Men

Cameron Diaz – The Counsellor

Julianne Moore – Carrie

Michelle Pfeiffer – The Family

Kristen Wiig – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Benedict Cumberbatch – 12 Years A Slave

Jean Dujardin – The Monuments Men

Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street

Tommy Lee Jones – The Family

Best Leading Actress

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Nicole Kidman – Grace of Monaco

Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Chloe Grace Moretz – Carrie

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

Best Leading Actor

George Clooney – Gravity

Steve Coogan – Philomena

Leonardo di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips or Saving Mr. Banks (undecided)

Ben Stiller – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Director

Alfonso Cauron – Gravity

George Clooney – The Monuments Men

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Ben Stiller – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Picture

12 Years A Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

The Counsellor

Gravity

The Monuments Men

Out of the Furnace

Saving Mr. Banks

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Wolf of Wall Street

So, these are my beginning of season suggestions for who will be nominated at this prestigious event. We’re now going to talk through those films and actors that I haven’t included but could be major contenders. There’s a huge cast for The Monuments Men which I haven’t fully gone over. I’ve put George Clooney, who I’ve already selected for Best Director for this film, in for Best Leading Actor for Gravity not The MM but he could easily win for both. Stars of The Monuments Men like Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville and Bob Balaban could squeeze into the supporting actor position that I placed Dujardin in. Dujardin is already popular with the academy after his Lead Actor win in 2012 for The Artist and as likely could get a nomination for The Wolf of Wall Street instead of The Monuments Men.

Wolf of Wall Street could do very well. Jonah Hill may seem like a surprise nominee but remember that he got similar recognition at the 2012 Oscars for Moneyball. I’ve only put Nicole Kidman forward for this film but Grace of Monaco is a noteworthy contender for a Best Pic nomination. American Hustle is only in one award on my list but the stellar cast of Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence (whose already in for Hunger Games 2), Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale. I think it will win Best Original Screenplay however.

Other potential nominees are the aforementioned Bale for Out of the Furnace, for which Casey Affleck and Zoe Saldana could also be in contention. Dame Judi Dench could get into the actress categories for Philomena. Robert De Niro stars in both American Hustle and The Family and could crack into the shortlists. Colin Farrel and Paul Giamatti came close to my lists for Saving Mr. Banks. 12 Years A Slave could through in Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul Dano and Quvenzhane Wallis back into the award scene while The Counsellor could do the same for Fassbender, Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem as well as it’s director Sir Ridley Scott. We can’t rule out other entries like All is Lost with Robert Redford, The Book Thief with Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson or Inside Llewyn Davis (the Coen brothers’ folk tale with Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan). Spike Lee’s mysterious action remake Oldboy could creep in with it’s stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen, Hannah Simone and Sharlto Copley.

It’s not too late to remove this year’s earlier hits like The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann directing Leonardo di Caprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton), Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen directing Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin), Prisoners (Hugh Jackman, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard and Jake Gyllenhaal in the directing of Denis Villeneuve) and Rush (Ron Howard’s biopic with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl). Blockbuster action films like the upcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Ender’s Game or 47 Ronin have been known to do well as the Oscars (see The Dark Knight, Inception and a few others) and there’s usually a surprise foreign language film in the mix (like Amour). There’s a whole variety of films that could be next year’s nominees but I think the leaders are: Gravity, Captain Phillips, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Monuments Men and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Find out more about these films at our Future Films pages for 2013 and 2014.

The 86th Academy Awards will be hosted by Ellen De Generes and will be on ABC on March 2nd 2014

Tell us in the comments who YOU think will win big at the 2014 Oscars.

Colin Firth to voice Paddington Bear

You’ll have seen motion-capture at some point in the last decade or so. Andy Serkis’ portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy is still the most famous use of the technique where actors put of dotted leotards and, as they walk around on set, their motion is picked up by a computer. This allows bizarre effects that would be ineffective with make-up and practical effects while still giving the character a solid presence in the worlds and people they are surrounded by. It’s also been used in Iron Man, Th Avengers, The Hobbit, Avatar, King Kong, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Mummy and Tron: Legacy. Some films, such as Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, Heavenly Creatures) and Steven Spielberg’s (ET, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, War Horse, Lincoln, AI) Hersh adaptation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and Robert Zemeckis’ (Back to the Future trilogy, Forrest Gump, Flight, Cast Away, Who Framed Roger Rabbit) Beowulf, A Christmas Carol and The Polar Express, are made entirely out of motion capture. After that pro-longed introduction to the medium, it’s time to announce that the latest application of mo-cap will be Paddington Bear.

Harry Potter producer, David Heyman, and Warner Bros. announced that they had the rights to make a new Paddington Bear movie in 2007 but, six years later, they’ve confirmed that the star role will be played none other than Oscar winning actor Colin Firth (who will not be donning mo-cap’s traditional dotted leotard but high-tech cameras and dots will incorporate his facial movements onto his character). He was King George the VI in The King’s Speech as well as star of A Single Man, Gambit, Love Actually and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and now he’ll play the Peruvian immigrant mammal as he befriends a young boy (still uncast) and an English train station.

The film has a phenomenal cast (joining Firth are Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent (both Harry Potter star), Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge)) that has three acting Oscar wins, two additional Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe win plus another GG nomination.

Paul King, famed for British comedy Bunny and the Bull with Richard Ayoade and Edward Hogg, will direct the story that’s expected for a release next November. We leave you with the film’s poster, which is labelled as Paddington but that’s not the full title. By for now!

Paddington Bear is out November 28th 2014

Thor 2 and Monuments Men trailers, Hobbit 2 pic and “The Star Wars” graphic novel

Perhaps as part of promotion for JJ Abrams 2015 sci-fi release, a new graphic novel entitled “The Star Wars” will be headed our way. Dark Horse will be bringing us a comic book series based upon franchise creator George Lucas’ original 1974 draft script of the hugely successful trilogy that began with a new hope in 1977. A trailer was put on line recently which you can find on USA Today. So Luke’s an old man and more reminiscent of Obi Wan, Darth Vader is just a guy and may be a different person to Anakin Skywalker. Plus, how can Han Solo be a lizard alien. We do know that George Lucas had to make lots of changes to the script due to limitations with budgets and the technology of that time but he made many of the changes he wanted, including Jabba the Hutt’s upgrade from human to slug alien, when later remastered versions were released. The eight issue saga will be coming this autumn.

Two new trailers have come in in the last few days. First of all, The Monuments Men is the new George Clooney film in which he directs and stars, as he did in The Ides of March with Ryan Gosling and Paul Giamatti. His new World War 2 drama tells the story of a group of eight men, a collection of art experts and soldiers, as they cross Europe protecting all the artifacts and art work of cultural significance before they’re destroyed by the Nazi’s. They are literally saving history.

Clooney brings in his Oceans and Syriana co-star Matt Damon as well as John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Bill Murray (Groundhog Day), Cate Blanchett (The Lord of the Rings), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Bob Balaban (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and Jean Dejardin (The Artist). The cast has five Oscars (one for Blanchett, Damon and Dejardin and two for Clooney) and at least 7 nominations between them.

Thor 2 next and, as The Dark World approaches, it’s launched a 2nd trailer. We see Thor (Chris Hemsworth) bringing Loki (Tom Hiddleston) out of imprisonment where Loki witnesses a full scale attack on Asgard from various creatures and demons of the Nine Realms. The Dark Elves’ home of Svartlfheim is revealed in Icelandic scenery, which is quickly becoming the norm after Stardust, Prometheus, Game of Thrones, Oblivion and the upcoming The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Alan Taylor, The Dark World’s director, in fact found huge success in directing several Game of Thrones episodes.

We also get glimpses Brits of Idris’ Elba, Pacific Rim, and Christopher Eccleston, Doctor Who, in their roles as Heimdall and Malekith respectively. The final sequence of the trailer may be spoiling a great scene from the film but it definitely did provoke a few laughs.

We leave you with a shot from the production of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and of Evangeline Lilly, as Tauriel, and Orlando Bloom, reprising his role as Legolas from The Lord of the Rings, from Entertainment Weekly. As they discuss the fate of the Elves, men and dwarves atop a rock.

The Star Wars will be on sale a comic-book stores and online from September 4th

The Monuments Men is out January 9th 2014

Thor: The Dark World is out October 30th

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is out December 13th

Unfortunately this’ll be our last post until Friday next week before we’re off again for another week. After that we should be blogging for the whole summer so please remember to visit Tuorhoth Movies.