Films and TV

Twilight has just hit the cinema screens and plans to turn the film into a movie franchise are on the way!

The story is based around a set of indie graphic of novels. It sees Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) move to Phoenix high school after her mother remarries, the move takes her to a small rainy town called Folks. There she meets an unusual character, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) who she falls for and learns his dark secret - he is a vampire! He hasn’t aged since 1918, is super fast and incredibly strong. He is different to the stereotypical vampire as he doesn’t have fangs or drink blood and his family are unique from others of there kind due to their life style choice.

Edward believes that Bella is the soul mate he has been waiting for, for the last 90 years but as their romance starts to blossom he finds it increasingly difficult to subside his most primal instinct which could cause him to go on an uncontrollable frenzy - this is made more complicated when his mortal vampire enemys show up in town looking for Bella.

A bit more movie news for you, as Indie studio Summit Entertainment has started on the next two installments ‘New Moon’ and ‘Eclipse’ from Stephenie Meyers best selling series. They have even reserved the rights to a fourth movie ‘Breaking Dawn’ but no development has taken place as of yet.

Tony Goldwyn’s drama ‘Betty Anne Waters’, will see famous Hollywood star Hilary Swank as the title role.

The new movie due to hit our screens is all about a single mother who was wrongfully convicted of murder. She decides to prove her innocence to her brother by putting her self through law school.

“There is a spirit and indomitability that Hilary brings that is a strong match for this character’s fierce commitment,” Goldwyn told Variety.

Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed that the smash hit TV series ‘24′ are bringing out a movie once the show is over.

The lead male role in the show stated that the producers of the show don’t want his character ‘Jack Bauer’ in a movie until the TV series has been cancelled.

“It’s certainly on the table,” Sutherland told Extra. “We would certainly be thrilled to make it, but we’re going to wait until the series is finished.”

“It’s always been a desire but we’ve always known that for the writers, it’s so hard for them to actually get through the series every year that we put the film on the back burner, that we would do it after the series was over, and that might be as soon as next year.”

The BBC have won the bid for life time rights to air the popular TV show ‘Heroes’ in the UK .

BBC has been in talks with its provider US studio NBC Universal for some time now and has recently signed a deal with them to show all future seasons of the show. SKY also put forward a rival bid, so presumably they will be less than happy with the end result.

BBC acquisitions head George McGhee had this to say:- “As long as Heroes is on in the US, we will show Heroes,” BBC acquisitions head George McGhee “It’s a long-term partnership, and I think that was the right thing to do. [NBC] are really pleased that we’ve got Heroes - and they don’t want it going to a commercial broadcaster.”

The BBC is to air the 3rd series of the cult drama on BBC 2 & BBC 3 in September, only days after its shown in the US.

The new movie Mamma Mia had a few surprise visitors at its Swedish premiere the other day. Abba showed up to lend support!

This is the first time they have been seen together in public for years. The last time they were officially together , was back in 1986. Although there were reports that they also reunited for a one-off preformance at a friends birthday party back in 1999.

All the members of the band attended the event (Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog) along with the film’s star-studded cast, which includes Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Meryl Streep.

Anni-Frid or as she is better know by her fans ‘Frida’, and Agnetha posed for pictures with Meryl Streep and they even entertained fans by doing a dance together.

Lily Allen is to star as a lesbian vampire in a new movie called ‘Lesbian Vampire Killers’. They must be really struggling to think of new names for films these days!

Although she was offered a bigger part she was happy with just a cameo appearance. She will star along side Gavin & Stacey’s Mathew Horne and James Corden, as the lesbian vampire living in a cursed village.

The film is directed by Phil Clayton and the script is written by Paul Hupfield & Stewart Williams. It is due to release some time next year.

Just a quick post to let you all know about all the big blockbustersfilms coming this May. There’s films such as Iron Man, Indiana Jones 4 and Speed Racer to get excited about. Check out the full list for May below.

Iron Man - May 2nd
The newest Marvel comic book adaptation starring Robert Downey Jr. as the billionaire Tony Stark and directed by Jon Favreau.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Remake) - May 9th

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - May 16th
The sequel to 2005’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, that’s supposed to be even more epic and full of CGI than the last.

Indiana Jones 4 - May 22nd
Indiana Jones returns in a fourth sequel supposedly starring Shia LaBeouf and bringing back Harrison Ford to the big screen.

Speed Racer - May 23rd
The Wachowski Brothers are at it again, this time taking on this cartoon classic for a live action adaptation.