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Here’s the latest trailer for upcoming flick Tron Legacy, we get to see a little bit more of the ‘in computer’ world than we did in the previous trailers and a bit more is revealed on the story to do with Flynn.

I cannot wait for this to hit theatres it looks fantastic. Unfortunately we have to wait around a year or so to see this, but make sure you book your IMAX tickets as soon as readily possible, because this looks like one of those movies that has to be seen on a big ass screen.

Tron Legacy stars Oscar fresh Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Michael Sheen and Garrett Hedlund.

Check out the new feature Trailer for Iron Man 2, we get to see more of Rourke’s character Whiplash, more of Cheadle as  War Machine, Scarlet Johnansson as Black Widow and Downey Jnr looking mighty fetching as Tony Stark. Check it out below.

So far Iron Man 2 looks like it’s shaping up to be the flick of the summer. If you remember the ending from the first film, you’ll know that Stark revealed to all that he was Iron Man, so it looks as if we’re going to see the backlash of Stark’s revelation in this sequel.

Is it just me or is Downey Jr looking a little bit worse for wear? It’s probably all those movie’s he’s making, the dude needs to get some serious shut eye.

Iron Man 2 hits UK cinemas on April 30th 2010 (not soon enough).

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Here at The Film Buzz we love all things film, and we love finding all those little gems scattered across the net. Popular film magazine Empire are running a competition to recreate classic films in 60 seconds called ‘Done in 60 Seconds’ and we at The Film Buzz are most impressed.

If you got a few minutes to kill, it’s well worth checking out the competition on the Empire site. Editors picks are: Top Gun, Avatar and Return of the Jedi shorts. You can also vote for your favourite. Just goes to show you what can be done with a next to nothing budget, a video camera and bunch of eager beaver friends.Takes me back to my media studies days when we used to take the video camera out and shoot some random nonsense that we made up. Ah it’s got my creative juices all flowing again.

For me Zoolander is like Marmite, you either love it or you hate it. I myself cannot stand Zoolander.

When Ben Stiller appeared on Friday Night with Jonahtan Ross a little while back I cringed when Ross even suggested that there could be a sequel to Zoolander.

I guess my nightmares came true, word on the grapevine is that Stiller has been working on a sequel to Zoolander for quite some time now.

The film itself is still a while away (thank goodness) and there is no news on whether Owen Wilson will be reprising his awful role. The details so far is that Zoolander will be set about a decade in the future where Stiller’s character will no longer be a model and will be finding this quite difficult to deal with.

Zoolander itself, was not recieved well at the box office on its opening in 2001, but has since managed to earn itself somewhat of a cult following. Heaven knows why. Hopefully they will pull the plug on this drivel before its released to the general population.

It’s been reported that UK cinemas (Odeon, Vue & Cineworld) may not show the new Tim Burton flick Alice in Wonderland, due to a disagreement with Disney the distributor behind the film.

Disney want to shorten the time it takes to release a film at the cinema to its DVD release. At present the interval from movie theatre to DVD is 17 weeks, Disney want to shorten this to 12 weeks.

So what does that means for consumers, well we get those films a few weeks quicker. What does that mean for Disney? They get more money in their pockets earlier a few weeks earlier. The cinema chains aren’t liking this idea, they want to keep the current interval between the releases as they feel this will reduce cinema goers appetites to see films at the cinema.

Just so you know these three cinema chains combined represent 95% of the UK’s 3D screens –  that’s an awful lot of cash Disney will be missing out on if Disney flicks don’t make it to the cinema. Disney distributors and the cinema chains are currently in discussions to resolve the situation.

So were you planning on going to see Alice in Wonderland at the cinemas upon its release from March 5th? Some have suggested that if UK cinema goers cannot see Alice on the big screen they may just turn to piracy instead.  Let’s hope they can resolve the situation.

Best Picture

	Avatar
	The Blind Side
	District 9
	An Education
	The Hurt Locker
	Inglorious Basterds
	Precious
	A Serious Man
	Up
	Up in the Air

Best Director

	James Cameron – Avatar
	Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
	Quentin Tarantino – Inglorious Basterds
	Lee Daniels – Precious
	Jason Reitman – Up in the Air

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Here at The Film Buzz we like to celebrate films that are worthy of praise and adoration, however from time to time, we like to equally slate those films that are just too atrocious to by-pass.

Prior to the massively awaited Oscars on 22nd February, look what we found circulating web-space: a list of the “Anti-Oscars” - awards honouring the worst actors, actresses, screen-writers, directors and films this past year.

WORST PICTURE

Disaster Movie
The Happening
The Hottie and the Nottie
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
The Love Guru
Meet the Spartans

WORST ACTOR

Larry the Cable Guy, Witless Protection
Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave
Mike Myers, The Love Guru
Al Pacino, 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill
Mark Wahlberg, The Happening and Max Payne

WORST ACTRESS

Jessica Alba, The Eye and The Love Guru
The cast of The Women (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan)
Cameron Diaz, What Happens in Vegas
Paris Hilton, The Hottie and the Nottie
Kate Hudson, Fools’ Gold and My Best Friend’s Girl

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Giant food chain Tesco have announced today that they will be starting to make films.

In a joint venture with new media company Amber Entertainment (set up by the people who started New Line Cinema), Tesco will be making films from books by best selling authors. At the top of that author list is mega author Jackie Collins. Negotiations are under way for the rights of books by authors Jacqueline Wilson (The Tracey Beaker Series) and Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials).

The first film to go into production will be Collins ‘Paris Connections‘. Which is about to start shooting in France.

So will Tesco be trying to take on the big guns? Well no.

Tesco say they have no interest in the creative process and are focusing soleley on getting the cash in the pockets, plus marketing those DVDs. These films will be straight-to-DVD but Tesco will have exclusive rights to the film, just like they did previously with films such as ‘Merry Madagascar‘ which they sold over the christmas period.

Looks like Tesco are well on their way to world domination.

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Looks like the low-budget turned supernatural sensation Paranormal Activity wants to do it again.

The sequel to the hugely successful Paranormal Activity 1 is slated for release on October 22nd 2010, just in time for Halloween, how smart!

Have they even started filming for it yet? But then again, it can’t take long filming 90 minutes of shadows, jolting and swinging chandeliers with a hand-held camera?

Only kidding, I can only be too pleased after immensely enjoying the first one, I’m looking forward to the volume of scares and plot development in this sequel.

Are you excited about the sequel?

If you didn’t catch who was nominated for what, read up on our post here.

Sunday night saw a fresh round-up of this year’s gong-winners for Golden Globes 2010, here’s the list of the well-deserved guys and girls:

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture:

Mo’Nique – Precious

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical:

Toni Collette – The United States of Tara

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:

John Lithgow – Dexter

Best Animated Feature Film:

Up

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama:

Michael C. Hall – Dexter

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama:

Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife

Best Original Song – Motion Picture:

“The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)” – Crazy Heart

Best Original Score – Motion Picture:

Michael Giacchino – Up

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television:

Grey Gardens

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical:

Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:

Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television:

Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture:

Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – Up In The Air

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical:

Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock

Best Foreign Language Film:

The White Ribbon

Best Television Series – Drama:

Mad Men

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:

Chloë Sevigny – Big Love

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture:

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Director – Motion Picture:

James Cameron – Avatar

Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical:

Glee

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy:

The Hangover

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama:

Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical:

Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama:

Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart

Best Motion Picture – Drama:

Avatar

I am personally a huge fan of Dexter so I’m really glad Michael C. Hall gained recognition for that awesome show.

Up winning Best Animation – damn right!

The Hangover was definitely comedy of the year and Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes was just perfect.

Avatar – Best Motion Picture – by 1000 light years, hell yeah.

What do you think of the winners? Are they all well-deserved or should some have gone home empty-handed?