TFR reported some time ago that Daniel had been cast as beat generation poet, Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings. Now we have a batch of on-set images of him in full costume.

We must say, Dan is looking rather convincing in Ginsberg’s trademark attire: suit, sweater and scarf. Even the specs don’t give us Harry Potter flashbacks , being much larger and squarer than the round ones that he’s worn for the last decade or so. What’s more, he’s changed his eye colour to match Ginsberg’s own (brown), especially for the role.

We have also been given a glimpse of Dane DeHaan, who is starring alongside him. The Chronicle star plays Lucien Carr, a key figure in the beat movement.

Directed by John Krokidas, Kill Your Darlings will follow Ginsberg and his relationship with his friends and fellow beat generation writers, Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster), after David Kammerer (who was reportedly infatuated with Carr) was unexpectedly murdered. The film will chart their relationships and how they are tested in the aftermath.

Kill Your Darlings also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick and recent breakout star, Elizabeth Olsen. The official release date is yet to be set, but the film is expected to reach cinemas some time during 2013.

Radcliffe certainly looks the part, but how will his portrayal be received? Click on the images below to see the full-sized picture, and let us know what you think!

The owners of the 14 bedroom property, were actually hoping to sell the house for £1.53m, however, they settled on a lower asking price with the buyer who has not been unidentified.

The house – which went on the market 10 months ago – is just 16 miles north of the Windy City and a few minutes from Lake Michigan.

The redbrick Colonial-style building was massively featured in the festive film, which saw eight-year-old Kevin fend off two bumbling, boisterous burglars using inventive contraptions he had created out of his toys. The dim-witted thieves, as played by Daniel Stern (City Slickers) and Joe Pesci (Raging Bull) are seen trying to sneak in through windows, the basement and even the front door. There is a significant scene linked to almost every part of the house.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the house was sold by John and Cynthia Abendshien. The couple – who had owned the property for more than 20 years – camped out in the four-room master suite for six months while the rest of the 4,250 sq ft property was used for filming.

The huge house, which estate agents described as a “classic residence that offers timeless and inspired family living” was just one of the real life sets which director John Hughes
liked to use in his films. Marissa Hopkins told AOL Real Estate: “It’s a beautiful home with a lot of space and a warm feel. Hughes liked to have real homes as his stage.”

In other auction news, a collection of extremely rare 1931 film posters for The Public Enemy, Cimarron, The Front Page and Little Caesar, are expected to fetch £160,000 at auction in Texas later this month. Three dozen posters were discovered in an attic in Pennsylvania, some of which have never been seen before.

Sam Mendes’ Skyfall will be the first James Bond film to be made in IMAX format, allowing the audience to really feel like part of the film as they experience the crystal clear images and powerful digital audio the cinema offers.

The much anticipated film will be a ‘cool, must-see event’ according to Sony.

Skyfall – which is due for an October release – marks the 50th Anniversary of the long-running Bond franchise.

The IMAX president, Greg Foster thinks that James Bond‘s ‘iconic characters and electrifying action will only be amplified in the IMAX format.’

Mendes (American Beauty, Jarhead) has released a 90-second video blog, which shows special behind-the-scenes clips from the upcoming film.

The plot is being kept tightly under wraps; all we know is that M’s past comes back to haunt her after which Bond’s loyalty to her is severely tested. MI6 then comes under attack and Bond’s mission is to track down and destroy the threat, disregarding the personal cost.

If you can’t wait until Skyfall is released on October 26th, you can have a sneak peak at the making of the film, which stars Daniel Craig (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Layer Cake) and veteran actress Judi Dench (Pride And Prejudice, My Week with Marilyn) in the video blog below.

Twickenham Studios have sadly gone into administration, after 99 years of service to the film industry.

The studio, situated in St Margarets, London, will be wound down between now and June.

Scenes from recent films including War Horse and My Week with Marilyn, were shot at the historic studios, which would have celebrated its century next year.

According to Gerald Krasner, who handles the site’s administration, the business had lost money over the past three years.
Krasner told BBC News: ‘I doubt it will be retained as a film studio. Half of the 17 employees have already left’.

He then added that the remaining employees are working their notice and the studios are being sold on.

When the site was constructed in 1913, it was the biggest film studio in the UK. It has since been home to many classic movies including The Italian Job, A Fish Called Wanda and even the Beatles films Help and A Hard Day’s Night.

Later films such as The Others, Layer Cake , The Crucible, Interview with the Vampire, and Sweet Revenge also made use of its facilities.

You can see the studio’s old viewing theatre and wardrobe department in My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh.

Camera technician, Rupert Lloyd Parry, who is known for his filmography for Gladiator and more recently, The Iron Lady, was also disappointed to hear that the studios were closing.

He was reported saying, ‘It’s nice when you work where you feel like there’s a real sort of tradition of the British film industry. It’s like working at Ealing, places like that. The film industry is buoyant at the moment, there is work coming in. There doesn’t seem like there is any reason for it to shut.’
Over the years other film sites which have closed include the Amalgamated Studios; the site was sold to MGM-British, who used it as a base of operations until 1970.
In addition, Bray Studios in Maidenhead, are currently under threat of being turned into a residential housing estate. The studio is best known for its close link to Hammer Film productions, which have made films including The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Alien. Their last Hammer Horror release filmed at the studio was The Mummy’s Shroud  back in 1966.

However, with a death of a studio comes two brand new ones. Two more sites are set to open, one of which is located in Manchester and the other in South West England.

According to The Location Guide, a former Woodford Aerodrome site near Manchester, could soon be a new film studio facility. It used to be home to Britain’s Nimrod planes, formally owned by BAE Systems. Other potential plans for the site, include a polo club and housing accommodation facilities.

The heir to the JCB company Joe Bamford, has been involved in buying some of the land.

A spokesman for Avro Heritage Ltd, co-owned by Bamford, was reported saying, “It will hopefully create new jobs and provide the local community with much needed leisure facilities.”
It would also bring alternative filming locations to the UK because the aerodrome’s hangars are ideal for filming and could be used by a big-budget studio production sometime this year.Meanwhile, chairman of the newly-created Full Picture Company, Peter Lamont, is looking at four potential sites in the South West for a brand new film studio.

According to the Mail Online, Lamont, who has worked on 16 James Bond films, is “delighted” to be bringing the project to life.

The UK film industry is worth about £230 million a year, but it is thought Full Picture hope to bring in a further £125m.

The film studio, which could cover up to 200 acres, may be up within four years, before becoming Europe’s largest studio; it is also thought to host state-of-the-art special effects facilities and TV stages.
Not only will it be a working studio, but there are also plans to build accommodation for film crews, as well as a visitors’ centre, making it a major tourist attraction.
As soon as the company receives planning permission, the project can begin.

Let’s hope the project goes ahead  because it’s thought that the Oscar-winning design director, Lamont, already has five big productions planned for its first year.

A lucky group of orangutans will have the chance to watch the heart-warming documentary which tells the story of one devoted woman who rescues, rehabilitates and returns primates to the wild.

The Warner Brothers picture will be screened in Borneo rainforest where most of the filming took place, as a thank you gesture to some of the monkeys who co-starred in the film.

The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, admitted that the documentary tugged at his heart strings. According to The Telegraph, he hopes it will inspire Indonesians to work harder to save the red apes from extinction due to the country’s rapidly decreasing rainforests.

Producer Drew Fellman (Made in Hollywood) is said to be eager to see if the primates will pay attention.

He said: “They worked pretty hard on it. They came to be like members of the crew.”

Narrated by award winning actor Morgan Freeman, the 40 minute film transports the audience to the lush, green rainforest where it documents Biruté Mary Galdikas and Daphne Sheldrick  – two extraordinary women who rescue and raise many orangutans and elephants, before returning them to the wild.

Canadian primatologist Galdikas  has devoted her whole life to looking after vulnerable primates. She set up her own orangutan orphanage centre just outside Tanjung Puting National Park in the early Seventies and has done much to publicise their plight.

Many mother orangutans have been killed after straying into agricultural plantations in search of food for their babies. Others have been hunted by villagers, occasionally for their meat, but primarily as pests.

Ms Galdikas is glad that the movie has finally reached its homeland.

The 65-year-old was reported saying: ‘It helps raise awareness. The average person in Indonesia still doesn’t yet understand the orangutan is a close relative and that they are a protected species and on the verge of extinction’.

The documentary shows how these endangered creatures are at risk of dying out due to the rapidly depleting rainforests. A staggering 90 per cent of all orangutans live in Indonesia, and over the 50 years, a shocking 50 per cent of their native rainforests have been lost due to the world’s demand for wood pulp, paper, timber and palm oil.

Another element of the documentary follows Daphne Sheldrick - a woman who has spent her whole life caring for orphaned Kenyan elephants, whose mothers have been hunted for their valuable ivory tusks. Her hard work and devotion earned her an MBE from the Queen in 1989.

The documentary reached the UK in April 2011 where it has been screened in 3D across various IMAX cinemas. It is still screening today amongst other 3D nature shows.

It has been highly praised, receiving a 96 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as being described by the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw as a  ’charming’ and ‘pleasant featurette’ .

You can watch a short clip of Born To Be Wild below.

The international athletic cast are set to showcase a unique and exclusive performance at next week’s Oscars; it will be the largest Cirque cast ever assembled for one single act.

Over 50 talented artists from Cirque du Soleil will come together to bring the dynamic performance to life. Some performers will be flying in from Japan and Russia to appear in this one-off act, which will be televised live across more than 225 countries worldwide.

The performers have been perfecting their routine since last year and are said to be eager to get into the Kodak Theater and try it out on the Oscar stage.

According to special events director, Yasmine Khalil, it is going to be pretty tricky for the cameramen to film all of the great acts going on without missing any.

She was reported saying: ‘To capture 50 people jumping around everywhere, from the ceiling and from the ground, and right and left and centre, it’s a whole added challenge’.

However, the challenge is also down to the viewers who according to Khalil will have to be ‘very attentive. There will be a lot happening, You don’t want to be blinking too much because you might miss something.’

Khalil added ‘The theme is very much in line with paying tribute to the movie-theater experience’.

This will be the second time Cirque du Soleil have appeared on the Oscars. Their first performance was at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002.

Providing the music for the three minute display will be Danny Elfman, who also scored the music for Cirque du Soleil’s IRIS: A Journey through the World of Cinema.

The American composer has written the theme tunes for many well known TV shows, including The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives. In addition, the musician is responsible for some of the most catchy and well known film scores, from Batman and Mission Impossible to Black Beauty and Chicago. Elfman is an old friend of Tim Burton and has written some of the music for The Nightmare Before Christmas and Alice in Wonderland.

Be sure not to miss this outstanding display by tuning in on Sunday 26th February.

This time, we’ve got a close-up of the man and his iconic Riddick goggles (Riddick sees in the dark, the goggles make life a lot easier for him in the daylight). He also looks like he’s hiding from something, and possibly injured, implying that life as the king isn’t working out quite as well as he’d probably hoped.

The Riddick films are serious sc-fi, and they seem honed enough by super-geek Diesel to really make it big if he can ditch some of the niggles people had with The Chronicles Of Riddick and go back to the originality and the mastery of dark sci-fi that came through so well in Pitch Black.

So, with the two images here plus the one we’ve already seen (one up top, one just above this bit), I’m really looking forward to how it pans out – Vin Diesel’s an actor I enjoy watching, even if his actor-dial is permanently set to “grinning, cocky, badass motherf******”. More photos as they appear!

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Rehearsals for the film start on Monday, and joining the Hollywood stars will be two of the original cast from the stage show.

Hollywood actors, including Hugh Jackman (X-Men ) Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries ) Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen (Hugo), will be joined by theatre stars, Colm Wilkinson and Frances Ruffelle.

Wilkinson played the original Jean Valjean – a Frenchman who was in Bagne prison for 19 years after stealing bread – while Ruffelle played the role of Eponine – the destitute daughter of the crooked Thénardier family.

Russell Crowe will be playing Inspector Javert, Hugh Jackman is taking the role of Jean Valjean, Anne Hathaway has been cast as Fantine and Amanda Seyfried is playing Cosette.

We will also see Sacha Baron Cohen as Thénardier – a corrupt innkeeper – with his larger than life wife played by Helena Bonham Carter.

Cameron Mackintosh – who produced the stage show – is also involved with the cinematic remake, with award-winning film maker Tom Hooper directing the picture.

Hooper, who used to direct Eastenders and Byker Grove, has already spent three weeks with Jackman in order to perfect his character for the role.

Wilkinson was reported saying that his journey with Les Miserables has ended ‘and I have come full circle’.

Les Miserables was first staged almost 30 years ago and it still remains a sell out show in the West End and Broadway.

Around 23 years ago, Alan Parker (Angela’s Ashes) planned to direct a movie adaptation but for various reasons, it fell through.

The film will try and keep true to the musical by incorporating direct scenes from the show. Some of the scenes will be filmed at Pinewood Studios, with other parts shot on location in the UK.

We are looking forward to seeing this star-studded film – we will keep you updated on the latest news.

It is one of the most anticipated British film releases for some time. The Iron Lady, a biopic about Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher is going to have an exclusive gala screening on Thursday 15th December at Manchester Town Hall to celebrate it’s impending release. The hall was used as a double for the Houses of Parliament, the key location in the film.

The event is the next in line of Volkswagen’s ‘See Film Differently‘ series, which has been providing fans with an intimate and unique experience for the past six years. They have hosted screenings of some of the most iconic British films in their most iconic filming locations in support of independent film-making and to give audiences a bigger and more involved experience.

To date they have successfully held screenings of: An American Werewolf in London inside ZSL London Zoo, Trainspotting at the Royal Scottish Academy and a 40th anniversary screening of  A Clockwork Orange at Brunel University – all classic locations from the films.

The latest offering of The Iron Lady, will allow fans to watch the film, which stars Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher and Jim Broadbent as her husband Denis,  almost a month before its UK theatrical release in January 2012.

Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the biopic is a complete departure from her first collaboration with Streep, Mamma Mia. The Iron Lady is a compelling and intimate portrayal of Thatcher’s battle through the male dominated world of politics to become the most infamous, longest reigning and only female Prime Minister in Britain’s long history.

The Iron Lady co-stars Richard E. Grant and Anthony Head.

The screening is held 15th December 2011, or you can catch it after its UK release on 13th January 2012.

I’d like to say this is the first time this has happened, but sadly it’s not true. Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double was severely injured during the filming of one of the last Harry Potter films, someone was almost killed in a set mishap during the Transformers 3 shoot, and Dungeon Siege 2 suffered six injured parties after an explosion. But it’s rare that someone is actually killed.

The crew member in person was in the process of helping to dismantle the set with the aid of a scissor-lift. Some theorise it may have been resting on ground that wasn’t completely level, which may be true, as the scissor left then tipped over, the injuries from the fall proving fatal for the poor individual involved.

Those who (apparently – such is the nature of comments threads) work in the industry are keen to infer that sets, and set tear-downs, are dangerous environments, no different to a construction site. Regardless, it is a rare and shocking event nonetheless, and one that will no doubt colour many people’s experiences of the film’s production.

It’s an incredible shame to see this happen to anyone, and the black banner is simply because there isn’t anything appropriate to use as an image given that finding any such media is unlikely. Our condolences go out to their family, as it’s hard to imagine how they must feel, given the freak accident nature of the incident. Our thoughts are with you.