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The Suspiria remake has bagged itself a leading lady in the form of Isabelle Fuhrman, who will play the teenage protagonist in David Gordon Green’s new take on the film. Based on the gore-soaked original by Italian horror maestro Dario Argento, Suspirira will follow Fuhrman’s character as she travels to …

An Enemy , the forthcoming psychological thriller from director Denis Villeneuve, has added a trio of actresses to its cast list, after Pathé announced the involvement of Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini at the Cannes film festival. The film will star Jake Gyllenhaal as Adam, a history teacher …

The Dictator has released a new red-band trailer featuring a new set of controversy-baiting antics from Sacha Baron Cohen. The film sees Cohen star as Middle Eastern despot General Aladeen, who embarks upon a state visit to the United States, before realising he has fallen into a trap. Stripped of …

The Avengers has blazed a trail through the U.S box office, taking a staggering $200.3 million in its opening weekend to leave previous records crushed into a heap of smouldering rubble. After saturating the media with promotional material, everybody had anticipated Marvel would end up with a commercial hit on …

[brightcove]1572547593001[/brightcove] Forty nine years to the day after Sean Connery filmed From Russia With Love in Istanbul, the Skyfall crew have returned to the exotic Turkish city to film the opening scenes of Bond’s 23rd outing. Total Film flew out to catch the action and quiz the notoriously secretive team …

After their teacher’s suicide, a grieving class gets an unlikely replacement in Algerian immigrant Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag). Philippe Falardeau’s intricate drama (a Best Foreign Language Film nominee) inverts ‘inspirational teacher’ clichés; Lazhar’s as troubled as his pupils but touchy-feely sentiment is actively thwarted by a ban on teacher/student contact. …

Django Unchained has released the first pair of images of its cast in full costume, with Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx and Leo DiCaprio all suiting up for Tarantino’s western. The first image shows Foxx and Waltz as Django and Dr. King Schultz respectively. The former is a freed slave who …

The Amazing Spider-Man may not be in cinemas for another couple of months, but Sony aren’t resting on their laurels, as proven by the announcement that the sequel will go into production in early 2013. A first draft of the script had previously been written by James Vanderbilt, but the …

Catching Fire , the second instalment in the Hunger Games series, may soon have a new director in the shape of I Am Legend ‘s Francis Lawrence. In the wake of Gary Ross’s abrupt departure, the studio has had to move quickly to find a replacement, with filming scheduled to …

What do you get if you cross a Norse god-king with an ego the size of a planet, a nervy science boffin with gigantic anger issues, a WW2 super-soldier with a very silly costume and a genius billionaire playboy with flying armour? Arguments, obviously. With great power comes great banter …