Legendary actor, the excellent Michael Mckean has been released from hospital following a car crash last week. The Spinal Tap star sustained a broken leg will miss the remainder of the Broadway musical “The Best Man” in which he was appearing. McKean has been transferred to hospital for further rehabilitation. Mckean seen recently in the brilliant TV show, “Homeland”, was walking on a sidewalk in New York when he was accidentally struck by an out of control car.

On Wednesday, McKean checked out of St. Luke's Hospital and into partner facility Roosevelt Hospital for  what a hospital spokesperson described as "extensive rehabilitation,"

McKean had this to say:

"I am heading into week two with renewed admiration for New York City’s Emergency Medical Service staff, the NYPD, the staff of St. Luke's Hospital (where I was born!) and all those with problems much greater than my own, I am overwhelmed by the good wishes of friends old and new. My family has been wonderful. My wife Annette, whom I've always suspected of being a saint, has proven to be somewhat more than that."

For those movie buffs out there who haven’t seen the star in the superb This Is Spinal Tap, you should definitely check it out, not to be missed.

We here at theMoviebit.com wish him a speedy recovery.

Via The Hollywood Reporter

Here’s a real decent look at the forth coming Tony Gilroy turned director Bourne movie. There’s lots here with a host of new footage. Renner looks good and it has a little bit of the Bourne vibe running through it, as well as a connection to the past movies. Take a look and drop a comment on what you think.

SYNOPSIS: The narrative architect behind the "Bourne" film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office: "The Bourne Legacy." The writer/director expands the "Bourne" universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films.
For "The Bourne Legacy," Renner joins fellow series newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Oscar Isaac, while franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn reprise their roles.
RELEASED:: 3rd August U.S. / 17th August U.K. & IRE

Those of you following Marvel Comics in the last few years will be familar with the Iron Patriot. A redesigned suit of Iron Man armour with a colour scheme to envoke the memory of the then deceased Captain America, it was piloted by long time Spider-Man villain Norman Osborn when he held the mantle of America's 'Top Cop'. Now it seems the Iron Patriot will be jumping from the printed page to the big screen, judging from recent pictures from the set of Iron Man 3.



Due to the rights of all Spider-Man characters belonging to Sony, Osborn won't be piloting the new armour, the rights to which belong to Marvel Studios since Iron Patriot made his debut in an Avengers comic. Instead that honour falls to the recent announced James Badge Dale, even though his character, Eric Savin, is best known as a completely separate character called Coldblood. This development has me all sorts of intrigued, and I can't wait to hear more.

Source: The Superficial

Most people are familiar with the Snow White tale. You know the one. Princess locked in a tower by her evil queen step mother, who talks to a mirror and wants to stay forever young. Combined with a Huntsman, a bunch of dwarves, it’s been a classic Disney tale for quite some time.

While the Universal version keeps the core of the story at its heart, the niceties of the original animated version are long gone as hearts and souls are consumed in great numbers amongst other on screen delights. This is a very different version to what you might have previously been accustomed to. It’s dark, It’s large and it’s absolutely brilliant.

Kristen Stewart has really shed the Bella Vamp vibe incredibly quickly here and looks the part of Snow White. She’s got a great, powerful woman type presence on screen and as handy as she is with a multitude of weapons from swords to nails, she also has a very subtle gentleness about her, which is a nice throwback to the original Snow White. The rest of the cast are equally great and while Chris Hemsworth’s accent drops in one or two places, he pulls off a fantastic performance which is incredibly likeable. Granted, from a timing point of view, it doesn’t help that he’s swinging a hammer in a screen next door. Either way, he’s great.
The real highlight here though besides the Dwarves (played by some great cast including Nick Frost and Bob Hoskins) is Charlize Theron as the evil queen.  Her portrayal of a seriously bad ass evil queen is worth the price of admission alone. Simply brilliant!

To be uber critical, on occasion one or two scenes drag on a bit, but not enough to derail the movie or anything. Visually, this is a real masterpiece. This fairy tale land is breath taking. On a second viewing you will definitely see some stuff that you missed the first time round. The level of detail is amazing. Forests, Woods, Creatures and Castles come to life in a way that is utterly convincing. A huge amount of credit to Rupert Sanders here and his vision, let alone the amazing visual effects work that has been completed. The set pieces and battle sequences are vast and realistic and are a sight to be hold.

Overall, Snow White And The Huntsman is a fantastic piece of cinema. Exciting, Exhilarating and Brilliant. This can’t be recommend highly enough. Brilliant!

Reports from Hollywood have confirmed that Tom Cruises’ upcoming movie One Shot in which he plays the role of Jack Reacher has been renamed. The new title is set to be.. wait for it… Jack Reacher! Well that will be handy as to avoid confusion, no reasons  for this late edit but one suspects that it may have  to do with branding of the project and association with Novelist, Lee Child’s creation. Seemingly this has been on the cards for a while as recently as last month Cruise was heard referring to the project as “Reacher”

Anyway that won’t spoil your enjoyment Cruise Fans as Tom will be in his customary fine acting form. for the shift in title, though it has been on the cards since last month when Tom Cruise kept referring to the movie as "Reacher."

Christopher McQuarrie, is directing the movie which sees Cruise’s character  Reacher getting sucked into the mystery of a sniper accused of killing five people. The cast is also set to include Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo and Werner Herzog.

The newly branded Jack Reacher is set to hit screens in December.

Via Empire

Catwoman's certainly got a set of lungs on her. The first trailer for Tom Hooper's adaption of the world renowned and long running stage musical has hit, giving us a taste of what to expect, both aurally and visually. I have got to admit I have quite a soft spot for this musical, and so far the movie seems to do it justice.

This is brief, and chances are it will never happen. But bare in mind The Dark Knight Rises is arriving amidst a football stadium sized amount of hype (same stadium will blow up in the movie) and I’d guess it will cruise past the billion dollar mark easily enough. What’s that got to do with a sequel? Hang on? A sequel, to The Dark Knight Rises? Are you out of your mind? Not entirely. Christian Bale has spoke to Empire and said the following

“My understanding is that this is the last one. I think it’s appropriate, I think it’s going out at the right time. But…if Chris came to me with a script and said, ‘You know what? There is another story’ then I would love the challenge of making a fourth one work.”

Chances are, as mentioned above, it’ll never happen considering Christopher Nolan has said this is the last one, its his trilogy.. But from a studio point of view, surely a fourth Batman movie with the same cast and crew would be far more profitable and successful than doing a reboot on an incredibly successful franchise of movies. Offers that can’t be refused come to mind!!

Currently shooting in Ireland, John Ridley's All Is By My Side chronicles the early days of rock legend Jimi Hendrix, up to the release of his first album Are You Experienced. The official synopsis for the film reads like this:

In “All Is By My Side,” there’s rock music. Then there's Jimi Hendrix. “All Is By My Side” captures the energy, the charisma, the mind-boggling talent of a legend whose musical influence still resonates around the world today. Based on actual interviews and archival materials, “All Is By My Side” brings authenticity and poignantly reveals a Jimi Hendrix behind the legend. At its heart a love story, “All Is By My Side” is about a man growing up, falling in love and becoming Jimi.


Andre Benjamin (better known as Andre 3000 from hip hop band OutKast) plays the man himself, and pictures from the set certainly show he has got the look down. We also get to see Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger) as Linda Keith, former girlfriend of The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, and the women who discovered Hendrix.

No release date has been given as of yet.

After the success of The Kings Speech, director Tom Hooper is now bringing the smash hit musical, Les Miserables, to the big screen. This marks the first time an adaption of the musical has been attempted instead of the novel, first published in 1862, on which it is based. Quite a cast has been assembled including Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Boham Carter, Anne Hathaway, and Amanda Seyfried.

Ahead of the trailer, which debuts later this week, new photos have been released, giving us our first proper look at the movie.

Marvel Studios head honcho, Kein Feige has been talking about lots of stuff in the latest edition of Empire. Feige can’t believe how successful The Avengers has been stating "I was just hoping it would beat the opening weekend of Iron Man 2, which was the biggest opening weekend for any Marvel Studios movie. We did 80 or 90 million above that. As the numbers started coming in on Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, they just kept getting bigger and bigger, into areas I would never in a million years have believed."

And keeping with The Avengers, the studio boss went on to say The Avengers was not the finale for us, It was a giant, giant marker, but it was never the finale. We are already well into the plan for the next phase of our little cinematic universe."

Thor 2 as well as Iron Man 3 are all part of that cinematic universe and Feige spoke about the Thor sequel and what to expect"We're going to see the other side of Asgard. It's not all polished and golden in this film. And the events of Avengers will have affected Thor for sure. His relationship with Loki will continue to evolve, and the biggest part is Natalie and Thor returning with Jane Foster."

And will Thanos make a return to the screen in Thor 2? Feige says No. “No, future, future. But there will be a major new villain. A major, major new antagonist..."

Via Empire

Great news for Simon Pegg fans, the final instalment of the much heralded and highly anticipated three flavours Cornetto trilogy is well on the way and a few details have been released. In an interview with Empire Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg talk about the upcoming project. The final part entitled The World’s End revolves around a pub crawl involving four childhood friends, which include Simon Pegg’s character Gary King while Nick Frost plays Andy Knight. It was leaked a few months ago that the storyline involved the group enjoying a few beers while in the background an apocalyptic event engulfs around them. Now it seems according to Pegg that the plot involves "a crawl through twelve pubs, culminating in the final one, which is The World's End."

Edgar Wright, the film’s director had this to say: "This is as much about where you grew up as the people you grew up with..." the style of this movie is set to be a little more grown up that previous outings, Hot Fuzz and the one that started it all, the epic, Shaun of The Dead. Despite this, Wright is keen to point out that "it's also very silly. I would say it's darker, more personal and more silly."

So with this in mind and after the very successful outings of both Shaun and Hot Fuzz, which direction can fans expect this time around? "Hard to say," Says Wright, before clarifying, "It's a sci-fi comedy." "Social sci-fi," adds Simon Pegg. "Social science-fiction."

All this seems to be good news for us fans and I for one cannot wait for the film to be released; it is due to start shooting in autumn.

Via Empire

Synopsis:
Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a ground-breaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. 
Released: June 1st 2012 (U.K./IRE)/ June 8th 2012 (U.S.)

Now this is more like it. The latest TV spot for The Dark Knight Rises is rather epic and provides a proper taste of the movie that will arrive in an Everest sized amount of hype. I’m still not sold on Catwoman OR Anne Hathaway. Here’s hoping she doesn’t do here what she did at the Oscars! I accept Nolan is incredibly gifted, but Catwoman??? Lets hope it doesn’t go all Spiderman 3, with far too much going on.

Synopsis: Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to their limits, forcing its former hero Batman to resurface after taking the fall for Harvey Dent's crimes.
Released: July 20th 2012

It’s eagerly awaited and while theres quite some time to go to the next Quentin Tarantino movie, that hasn’t stopped a bunch of images appearing and I’d imagine a teaser trailer isn’t too far behind.

Synopsis:
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, “Django Unchained” stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.

Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Academy Award®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival…

Released: December 25th (USA) / January 13th 2013 (IRE & UK)

The new Abe Lincoln flick is certainly shaping up nicely. And of course we know Timur Bekmambetov can do action. This latest trailer isn’t as intense as the other ones and its a bit more character driven. Anyway, check it out below and as always let us know what you think.

Synopsis: President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
Released: June 22nd USA / August 2nd IRE / UK