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A first clip from gambling thriller Runner Runner has been released, and it’s all about showing off Ben Affleck as a rich guy who owns a boat. In what feels like a canny marketing move to capitalise on Affleck’s recent casting as Batman , the clip has a faint whiff …

(opens in new tab) While official shots from the set of Transformers 4 have so far focussed mainly on the fourquel’s automobiles, a new photo finally introduces a couple of humans – including Mark Wahlberg’s satchel-wearing hero. The above photo was released over the weekend, and shows director Michael Bay …

Despite bowing out of The Wolverine and suffering a series of on-set woes on Noah , Darren Aronofsky still can’t get enough of the movies – and he’s currently negotiating his next film, an adaptation of spy book Red Sparrow . Written by Jason Matthews, the book’s set in modern …

Twenty years on from its original release, nothing feels remotely extinct about Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster take on Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel. Not the Oscar-winning FX that brought the dinosaurs back to life. Not John Williams’ timeless score. Not even Richard Attenborough’s hokey-but-wholesome turn as John Hammond, the eccentric billionaire who …

Director Mikael Marcimain makes an auspicious debut with this chilly drama based on a real-life prostitution-ring scandal that nearly brought down Sweden’s government. An indomitable madam with a high-class clientele, Dagmar (Pernilla August) lures in girls’-home escapees Iris (Sofia Karemyr) and Sonja (Josefin Asplund) with easy money and glam perks …

When Carrie ’s US release date was shunted back from March to October, it immediately seemed a marketing decision to launch the film during the Halloween season. However, according to Chloë Grace Moretz, there was more to it than that. Naturally, an October release date is a better fit for …

(opens in new tab) Say hello to your brand new Total Film YouTube (opens in new tab) channel. Over the last few months, we’ve been sourcing more exclusives and creating more original video content than ever before, and with our YouTube subscriber number now nudging over 10k (hoorah!), there’s no …

When Total Film saw Neill Blomkamp’s dystopian mindfuck District 9 (2009), we were blown away. A “stunning debut,” we called the epic fantasy that wrangled hot-button issues of racism, subjugation and segregation, “heralding the arrival of an exciting new action-cinema voice”. Neo-realist, gritty, innovative and boasting a gut-punch of an …

Bryan Singer has posted a new image from the set of X-Men: Days Of Future Past , revealing a first look at a full-scale Sentinel in all its glory. While we were treated to a glimpse of a Sentinel in the recent viral video promoting Trask Industries , it was …

Inside the upcoming issue 210 of Total Film magazine, we’ve got an astonishing stack of comic-book exclusives, and full Comic-Con 2013 coverage, and there’s also a lot more alongside the capes and superpowers. Take Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, for example, who tells us about moving away from the fantasy world …