Hot on the heels of this behind-the-scenes image of Joss Whedon and Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), this great new image of Chris Evans (Captain America/Steve Rogers) and Chris Hemsworth (Thor) has hit the net from Marvel’s upcoming ensemble superhero flick ‘The Avengers.’ Alongside Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth, the star-studded cast also includes Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye/Clint Barton), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man/Tony Stark), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), and Tom Hiddleston (Loki). The likes of Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Clark Gregg, and Stellen Skarsgard co-star. ‘The Avengers’ opens in cinemas May 4th, 2012.

Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in “Iron Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor,” and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Marvel’s The Avengers” is the super hero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. 

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1963, “Marvel’s The Avengers” brings together the mightiest super hero characters as they all assemble together on screen for the first time. The star studded cast of super heroes will be joined by Cobie Smulders (“How I Met Your Mother) as Agent Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Tom Hiddleston (“Wallander”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Angels & Demons,” “Mamma Mia!”) who will both reprise their respective roles as Loki and Professor Erik Selvig from the upcoming Marvel Studios’ feature “Thor.” 

This new behind-the-scenes image has found its way online from Marvel’s upcoming ensemble superhero flick‘ ’The Avengers,’ providing us with a new look at director Joss Whedon and Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow. The film also features Chris Evans (Captain America/Steve Rogers), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye/Clint Barton), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man/Tony Stark), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), and Tom Hiddleston (Loki). The likes of Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Clark Gregg, and Stellen Skarsgard co-star. ‘The Avengers’ opens in cinemas May 4th, 2012.

Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in “Iron Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor,” and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Marvel’s The Avengers” is the super hero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. 

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1963, “Marvel’s The Avengers” brings together the mightiest super hero characters as they all assemble together on screen for the first time. The star studded cast of super heroes will be joined by Cobie Smulders (“How I Met Your Mother) as Agent Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Tom Hiddleston (“Wallander”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Angels & Demons,” “Mamma Mia!”) who will both reprise their respective roles as Loki and Professor Erik Selvig from the upcoming Marvel Studios’ feature “Thor.” 

Featuring Chris Evans (Captain America/Steve Rogers), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye/Clint Barton), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man/Tony Stark), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow) and Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Entertainment Weekly have unveiled this first official look at the six main characters of Marvel’s upcoming ensemble superhero flick‘ ’The Avengers’ – courtesy of this weeks new cover image. To be honest this is a poor first look, the photoshopping is pretty shoddy. ‘The Avengers’ also stars the likes of Tom Hiddleston, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Clark Gregg, and Stellen Skarsgard. The film opens in cinemas May 4th, 2012. UPDATED with three production stills.

Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in “Iron Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor,” and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Marvel’s The Avengers” is the super hero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. 

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1963, “Marvel’s The Avengers” brings together the mightiest super hero characters as they all assemble together on screen for the first time. The star studded cast of super heroes will be joined by Cobie Smulders (“How I Met Your Mother) as Agent Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Tom Hiddleston (“Wallander”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Angels & Demons,” “Mamma Mia!”) who will both reprise their respective roles as Loki and Professor Erik Selvig from the upcoming Marvel Studios’ feature “Thor.” 

A new batch of images and video has emerged online from the New York set of Marvel’s upcoming ensemble superhero flick‘ ’The Avengers.’ The images give us a good look at Chris Evans (Captain America/Steve Rogers), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye/Clint Barton), and Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man/Tony Stark). The film also stars the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Scarlett Johansson, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Clark Gregg, Mark Ruffalo and Stellen Skarsgard. ‘The Avengers’ opens in cinemas May 4th, 2012.

Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in “Iron Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor,” and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Marvel’s The Avengers” is the super hero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. 

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1963, “Marvel’s The Avengers” brings together the mightiest super hero characters as they all assemble together on screen for the first time. The star studded cast of super heroes will be joined by Cobie Smulders (“How I Met Your Mother) as Agent Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Tom Hiddleston (“Wallander”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Angels & Demons,” “Mamma Mia!”) who will both reprise their respective roles as Loki and Professor Erik Selvig from the upcoming Marvel Studios’ feature “Thor.” 

‘The Guard’ is a hilarious, fish out of water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption. Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to his door. However, despite the fact that Boyle seems more interested in mocking and undermining Everett than in actively working to solve the case, he finds that circumstances keep pulling him back into the thick of it.

First his tiresomely enthusiastic new partner McBride disappears, then his favourite hooker attempts to blackmail him into turning a blind eye, and finally the drug-traffickers themselves try to buy him off as they have every other member of the local police force. These events unwittingly offend Boyle’s murky moral code. He realises that he needs to take matters into his own hands, and the only person he can trust is Everett. And so the scene is set for an explosive finale. Directed and written by John Michael McDonagh, ‘The Guard’ is out now in the US, it opens in UK cinemas August 10th.

The character you play, he certainly has a strong sense of justice, what stood out about him for you?

Don Cheadle: I love that he gets over there and he sort of gets the piss taken out of him, he’s knocked down a couple pegs. It’s funny to see that he gets over there and he doesn’t know who the people are, he doesn’t know much about them, he isn’t very interested at all, he’s just trying to follow his case. Then he runs into somebody who he cannot get around, not only who he cannot get around, but actually someone who has more information than anyone over there – and he knows it better than my character knows it. So there’s an affinity on that level. But they’re completely opposite, antithetical to one another.

Brendan, you’ve played a number of real-life individuals, Winston Churchill, Michael Collins. How does that differ from playing a fictional character?

Brendan Gleeson: There’s two ways of looking at it, obviously you can embrace something in a fiction, it’s all yours – it’s the writers, the directors and it’s yours. On the other hand if you take something like Churchill and Collins, because their lives have been so extraordinary, you can suspend disbelief immediately. It has happened, so you suspend disbelief, so the most remarkable things that happen in history – they say truth is stranger than fiction – it liberates the character from any suspicion that this couldn’t happen.

Don, you’ve worked with so many ensemble casts, the Ocean movies, Boogie Nights, Iron Man 2. This film has a very intimate feel to it, a lot of two person scenes. Do you enjoy that kind of more intimate filmmaking?

Don Cheadle: I enjoy it all. The difference between something like this and something like Oceans, where you have all the bells and whistles, all the amenities, trailers, whatever else you need at the tip of your fingers. This is a movie where everyone is there because they love the script. They love the story. They wanna see this come off. That kind of reminds you why you do this – lets just put this show in the barn kind of thing (laughs). People are there because they really believe in the material. That feels like a family, you’re all in the trenches together to make this thing.

You are both so great in this together. Did you have a lot of rehearsal time to get that chemistry right?

Brendan Gleeson: We had one meeting in LA, that we managed to get together with John. The three of us sat in a room and read the script, had a laugh about it, talked about it and chucked stuff back and forth. But that was it really. I just knew from the beginning, he’s such a great actor, such a great contributor to any work. We both knew that there wasn’t going to be some sort of competition on set, any of that dumb stuff that can happen (laughs). Where people try to create their own spaces, this was something we had to co-inhabit. So we went at it from the beginning, he arrived over and the weather was apocalyptic, basically that was the enemy (laughs).

Don Cheadle: We did hang out every-time after we wrapped. No matter what time it was we’d go to the pub, get a pint, hang out, get to know each other. Every weekend I’d golf so I saw a lot of Irish golf courses which is great. I really wanna go back and do that. Brendan was a great host while I was over there. It was a lot of fun, we hit off right away. We were really embraced by the community as well.

Is it more freeing to work with a director that wrote his own material like how John did with ‘The Guard?’

Don Cheadle: It can be a double edged sword, sometimes you run into people who have written their material that are directing it that don’t want a syllable changed, they want every inflection exactly as they’ve written it down. John was not that way about the material, he was very open to it flowing and breathing – but really there wasn’t that much improv necessary, the script was there. The characters were fully realised, the story was taut, it was a complete piece from the very beginning. I knew if we just showed up and did what…kind of the Bible dictated we’d have a good shot.

This new poster has made its way online for John Michael McDonagh’s upcoming comedy crime flick ‘The Guard.’ John Michael McDonagh is the brother Martin McDonough, writer/director of ‘In Bruges,’ which also starred Brendan Gleeson to hilarious effect. The story centers on a cop (Brendan Gleeson) in Ireland who ends up assisting an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) in his hunt for drug traffickers. I’ve heard nothing but great things about this film, it’s said to be full of banter and hilarious moments, mixed with some brilliant good cop, bad cop chemistry between Gleeson and Cheadle. ’The Guard’ hits UK cinemas August 19th, and US cinemas July 29th.

THE GUARD is a comedic, fish out of water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption, and the two cops who must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang, an unorthodox Irish policeman and a straitlaced FBI agent.

Empire have liberated this new UK poster for John Michael McDonagh’s upcoming comedy crime flick ‘The Guard.’ John Michael McDonagh is the brother Martin McDonough, writer/director of ‘In Bruges,’ which also starred Brendan Gleeson to hilarious effect. The story centers on a cop (Gleeson) in Ireland who ends up assisting an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) in his hunt for drug traffickers. I’ve heard nothing but great things about this film, it’s said to be full of banter and hilarious moments, mixed with some brilliant good cop, bad cop chemistry between Gleeson and Cheadle. ’The Guard’ hits UK cinemas August 19th.

THE GUARD is a comedic, fish out of water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption, and the two cops who must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang, an unorthodox Irish policeman and a straitlaced FBI agent.

Brooklyn’s Finest is the new film from Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day, Shooter & King Arthur. The trailers got me gripped, it looks real intense, I’m a sucker for realistic crime thrillers. Brooklyn’s Finest  has a great ensemble cast in Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Lili Taylor, Ellen Barkin, Will Patton, Michael K Williams (Omar in The Wire) and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.

The second poster looks just as good as the first one, which was just released a few days ago. I can see this film making a SH*T LOAD of money, probably the  highest earning of 2010. Hype  6 months before the release date is already massive.

Yahoo have debuted the first official movie poster for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2. The poster gives us our first real view of War Machine (played by Don Cheadle). Look out for the trailer in the next few weeks. The film is released right in time for my birthday!