First Trailer For Secret In Their Eyes

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Roberts hunt a murderer

Drawing the basics of your script from a novel that has already been adapted overseas to Oscar-winning effect can be a daunting challenge. But it’s one that Shattered Glass writer/director Billy Ray has taken on with Secret In Their Eyes, bringing Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts along with him. The first trailer has now arrived.

Taken from Eduardo Sacheri’s novel La Pregunta De Sus Ojos, this new film is attempting to follow Juan José Campanella’s 2009 Argentinean effort The Secret In Their Eyes, which went home with the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2010 Oscars. Along with knocking off that initial “The”, Ray has tweaked the plot to add in more of a female presence in the lead when Roberts expressed her interest.

The story follows similar lines, with Roberts and Ejiofor as FBI colleagues called to investigate a body found brutally murdered and left in a dumpster. To their horror, they discover that the victim Roberts’ teenage daughter. The revelation shatters the team, and though they think they’ve zeroed in on the prime suspect, the case collapses and he walks. Cue a 13-year obsessional drive to find the truth and resolve the case, with Ejiofor pushing his District Attorney supervisor (Kidman) to help bring some closure. But how far are they all willing to go for justice?

While the trailer just says coming soon, the film is listed with the FDA as arriving on March 4 next year. 

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Five Minutes Of M:I-5 To Screen Before Terminator Genisys

Catch the opening of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation early

Movie marketeers are always scouring the ideas pile for new ways to get their films’ promotional messages in front of potential moviegoers. Paramount’s gurus are going one step further and plonking the opening of their film in front of an actual audience. If you’re in the UK or US and planning to catch Terminator Genisys at your local IMAX, congratulations. You’ll get the first five minutes of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation into the bargain.

While this deal - buy one T-800, get Tom Cruise clinging to vertiginous objects totally free – looks like a calculated move to drive Terminator ticket sales, it is a chance for cinemagoers to catch an early glimpse of the fifth IMF-er. The Christopher McQuarrie-overseen action sequences, judging by the first trailers, are more daffy and deranged even than those in previous instalments. And, lest we forget, they were fairly deranged.

For those not in the know, Jack Reacher and Way Of The Gun alum McQuarrie is marshalling the Mission madness his time around, as our heroes - Simon Pegg's Benji, Jeremy Renner's William Brandt, Ving Rhames' Luther Stickell and newcomer Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) - are up against something called The Syndicate, a rogue nation organisation that is trained and equipped much like the IMF, but intends to destroy them. And then there's our own government, with Alec Baldwin's official looking to shut down Cruise's Ethan Hunt and his team for good. 

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation hits UK cinemas on July 30, four weeks after Terminator Genisys makes its bow.

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New Trailer For Zach Galifianakis' Masterminds

‘That bullet just grazed my biscuits…’

Masterminds’ pairing of Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig sounds seriously auspicious. The queen of Bridesmaids and the king of The Hangover teaming up for comedic mayhem and a scene in which one loses their shit on heavy tranquillisers? Count us in. The movie’s new trailer offers a taste of what to expect when these two titans collide.

Galifianakis play dozy security truck driver David Ghantt who falls under the not-exactly-Voldemortish spell of Wiig’s flirty colleague, Kelly. She and her dubious pal Steve (Owen Wilson) persuade him to pull a heist on his own employers, preparing for him to fail horribly in the process. When he unexpectedly pulls off the job, it turns out to be the biggest bank robbery in US history. (Presumably excluding the whole subprime thing.)

Unsurprisingly, this hapless Bonnie and Clyde soon have the feds breathing down their necks as Steve starts splurging their newfound wealth around.

This one promises to mix slapstick with road trip caper, with Galifianakis getting his full redneck and Wiig providing bonus silliness. Masterminds gets its UK release on August 7.

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Matt Gerald Joins Nicolaj Coster-Waldau In Shot Caller Cast

Daredevil's Melvin gets some action

With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell and Jon Bernthal already cast, action drama Shot Caller is continuing to round out its roster. Latest to sign up is Matt Gerald, lately perhaps best known as Daredevil's Melvin Potter. 

The movie finds Coster-Waldau as a gangster freshly released from the slammer who is “encouraged” (read: ordered) to pull off a major, violent crime with a rival gang on the streets of Southern California. Gerald's role is that of a parole officer with a grudge against some particular gang members.

The director is Snitch’s Ric Roman Waugh, who also wrote the screenplay. The ex-stuntman reportedly went undercover as a parole officer to do the necessary prison gang research. That's some hardcore method writing right there.

Omari Hardwick, Benjamin Bratt, Emory Cohen, Juan Pablo Raba, Evan Jones and Jeffrey Donovan bulk up the rest of the cast, and production is already underway in New Mexico Bold Films is behind this one, with Relativity Studios agreeing to take on distribution for the finished product. 

You can still catch Gerald in San Andreas, and we'll next see him in Solace with Colin Farrell, which is out in the UK on October 9.

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