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6Nov2017

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Superman: The Movie | 1978 | UK Quad

Superman (also known as Superman: The Movie) is a 1978 film directed by Richard Donner and based on the DC Comics character. The film was produced by Pierre Spengler and the screenplay was written by Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman and Robert Benton. Superman stars Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando and Jackie Cooper. The film starts with developing the story behind Superman from his origin as an infant on Kal-El of Krypton through to his teenage years in a small rustic town of Smallville. In adulthood he takes on an alter ego call Clark Kent, a reporter for the Daily Planet, possessing a mild-mannered disposition in Metropolis. While working for the Daily Planet he develops an affection for Lois Lane all the while battling the villainous Lex Luthor as...

3Nov2017

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Casino Royale | 2006 | Teaser | UK Quad

Casino Royale released in 2006, is the 21st film in the James Bond series. It was directed by Martin Campbell and co-produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The screenplay was co-written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis. Casino Royale stars Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Caterina Murino, Ivana Miličević and Simon Abkarian. It is the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name, after the 1954 CBS television adventure series Climax! and the film 1967 starring David Niven. Casino Royale was the first film to cast Daniel Craig as MI6 agent James Bond and provided a reboot to the James Bond series with the producers establishing a new timeline and narrative framework not meant to precede...

20Oct2017

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Robocop | 1987 | UK FOH Lobby Card

Robocop is a 1987 film directed by Paul Verhoeven, in his first major Hollywood production and was produced by Arne Schmidt. The screenplay was co-written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The novel, released around the same time as Robocop and written by Ed Naha, differed in several ways from the film as it followed one of the earlier drafts of the screenplay. It expanded on Alex Murphy's struggle with being part man and part machine, and his memories. It also included more "humanised" dialogue from RoboCop, as opposed to the minimal, cold dialogue heard in the film. Robocop stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Robert DoQui, Ray Wise, Felton Perry and Paul McCrane. The storyline is set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in th...

19Oct2017

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Baby Driver | 2017 | Final | UK Quad

Baby Driver is a 2017 film directed by Edgar Wright. It was co-produced by Nira Park, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner with Edgar Wright writing the screenplay. Baby Driver stars Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Eiza González, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx and Jon Bernthal. The storyline follows Baby a young man who has a partial hearing impairment works as a getaway driver who can make any wild move with the right music track playing. His crime boss, Doc values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Paired with a new crew of thugs who are violently unstable, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. It will ta...

18Oct2017

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Baby Driver | 2017 | Teaser | UK Quad

The Graduate | 1967 | 50th Anniversary | UK Quad

17Oct2017

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The Graduate | 1967 | 50th Anniversary | UK Quad

The Graduate is a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Lawrence Turman. The screenplay was co-written by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry based on the 1963 novel by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The Graduate stars Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton and Elizabeth Wilson. The storyline follows Ben, having recently graduated from Williams College and with his parents now expecting great things he is becoming increasingly uncomfortable. At a party to celebrate his graduation, he meets Mrs Robinson who is the wife of his father's business partner. Ben drives her home, leading to an affair between the two. When the affair ends he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs Robinson's daughter. ...

Spider-Man Homecoming | 2017 | Teaser | UK Quad

16Oct2017

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Spider-Man Homecoming | 2017 | Teaser | UK Quad

Spider-Man: Homecoming is a 2017 film directed by Jon Watts. It was co-produced by Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal. The screenplay was co-written by Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Spider-Man: Homecoming is based on the original Marvel Comics character Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. It stars Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. The storyline follows Peter Parker as he tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, and must confront a new menace, the Vulture who is prowling the skies of New York City. Jon Watts wanted a different approach with Spider-Man: Homecoming and didn’...

Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Teaser | UK Quad

13Oct2017

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Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Teaser | UK Quad

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 film directed by Tim Burton and was co-produced by Denise Di Novi and Tim Burton. The screenplay was written by Caroline Thompson from a story by Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson. Edward Scissorhands stars Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Alan Arkin and Vincent Price. The storyline is set around an inventor's greatest creation, Edward a near-complete person. However, the inventor died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. At first, everyone welcomes him into the community and he is taken in by a suburban family but soon things begin to take a change for the worse. Tim Burton conceived the idea for Edward Scissorhands from his childhood upbringing in suburban Bu...

12Oct2017

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Moon | 2009 | UK Quad

Moon is a 2009 film directed by Duncan Jones and is his first feature film. It was co-produced by Stuart Fenegan and Trudie Styler. The screenplay was co-written by Nathan Parker and Duncan Jones based on his own story. Moon stars Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart and Robin Chalk. The storyline is set in 2035 and follows Sam Bell, an Astronaut working for Lunar Industries. He experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary working contract where his primary responsibility is to harvest and periodically send back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. The film was specifically written for actor Sam Rockwell and film pays homage to films from...

Skyfall | 2012 | Bond Style Advance | UK One Sheet

11Oct2017

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Skyfall | 2012 | Bond Style Advance | UK One Sheet

Skyfall was released in 2012 and is the 23rd film in the James Bond series. It was directed by Sam Mendes and co-produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The screenplay was co-written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan. Skyfall stars Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Bérénice Lim Marlohe, Albert Finney and Judi Dench. The theme song for Skyfall, was co-written and performed by British singer Adele. The storyline follows James Bond’s latest assignment which goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters are attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 ...

Captain America First Avenger | 2011 | Evan Style | UK One Sheet

10Oct2017

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Captain America First Avenger | 2011 | Evan Style | UK One Sheet

Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 film directed by Joe Johnston and was produced by Kevin Feige. The screenplay was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely based on the Marvel Comic, Captain America, created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America stars Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke and Stanley Tucci. The storyline is set predominantly during World War II and tells the story of Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier from Brooklyn who is transformed into super-soldier Captain America and must stop the Red Skull, who intends to use an artefact called the Tesseract as an energy-source for world domination. Principal photography was mainly completed in the United Kingdom u...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | 2017 | Final | UK One Sheet

6Oct2017

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | 2017 | Final | UK One Sheet

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a 2017 film directed James Gunn. It was produced by Kevin Feige with James Gunn writing the screenplay based the Marvel comic books, Guardians of the Galaxy created by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a sequel to the original Guardians of the Galaxy released in 2014 and features an ensemble cast of Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn, Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. The storyline is set after the Guardians saved Xandar from Ronan's wrath and are now recognised as heroes. The team travel throughout the cosmos as they help their leader Peter Quill learn more about his mysterious parentage. Along th...

National Lampoons European Vacation | 1985 | UK Quad

4Oct2017

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National Lampoons European Vacation | 1985 | UK Quad

National Lampoon's European Vacation is a 1985 film directed by Amy Heckerling and was produced by Matty Simmons. The screenplay was co-written by John Hughes and Robert Klane, based on a story by John Hughes. This is the only instalment in the series to credit the family’s surname name as ‘Griswald’, instead of ‘Griswold’. National Lampoon's European Vacation stars Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Jason Lively, Victor Lanoux, Mel Smith and Eric Idle. The storyline follows the Griswold family after competing in a game show called Pig in a Poke where they win an all-expenses-paid trip to Europe. They try their best to blend with the local people of Europe in traditional Griswold fashion but nothing ever goes to plan when the Griswolds are in town. Principle photography for Na...

25Sep2017

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Blade | 1998 | Final | UK Quad

Blade is a 1998 film directed by Stephen Norrington. It was co-produced by Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes, Robert Engelman, Andrew J. Horne and Avi Arad. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer and is based on the character, Blade who was created in 1973 for Marvel Comics by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan as a supporting character in the 1970s comic The Tomb of Dracula. Blade stars Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N’Bushe Wright and Donal Logue. The storyline follows Blade, in a world where vampires walk the earth unbeknown to the human race. He is half-vampire, half-mortal man and becomes the protector of the mortal race. His goal is to rid the world of all the evil vampires assisted by Whistler. The vampires, who infiltrated nearly every major organisa...

22Sep2017

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The Boat | 1981 | Final | UK Quad

Das Boot (otherwise known as The Boat) is a 1981 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It was co-produced by Günter Rohrbach. The screenplay was written by Wolfgang Petersen and is an adaptation of the 1973 novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Das Boot stars Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber, Erwin Leder, Martin May, Heinz Hoenig and Uwe Ochsenknecht. The storyline follows the crew of U-96 as they are engaged in the Battle of the Atlantic to destroy the British transatlantic fleet. It shows both the excitement and the boredom of the fruitless hunt, examining how they maintained their complete professionalism while attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. ...

The Phantom Menace | 1999 | 3D Release | UK Quad

21Sep2017

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The Phantom Menace | 1999 | 3D Release | UK Quad

The Phantom Menace (also known as Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace) is a 1999 film directed by George Lucas who also wrote the screenplay. It was produced by Rick McCallum. The Phantom Menace stars Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Ahmed Best, Pernilla August, Brian Blessed, Ray Park and Frank Oz. The first of a Star Wars prequel trilogy and set 32 years before Star Wars. It follows Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi as they protect Queen Amidala. She is working on securing the peaceful end to a large-scale interplanetary trade dispute. They are joined by Anakin Skywalker, a young slave with unusually strong natural powers of the Force. At the same time must contend with Darth Maul who i...