Russell Brand is apparently in negotiations to play the younger brother of Captain Jack (aka Johnny Depp) in the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie! Reports today suggest he could earn up to £5million for the role, and even if this is a nice fluffy bit of publicity for Russell after his recent mishaps I have to say I think it would be a lot of fun. I loved his turn in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and I think the craziness of Captain Jack and Captain Jonathan would be rather amusing. 
Ricky Gervais has been talking about a possible return to British TV! His new movie The Man From The Pru could possibly be spun off into a series similar to that of The Office and Extras called The Men From The Pru. Ricky is working on the movie with Stephen Merchant, and will follow a group of twenty-somethings in the 1970s as they waste their lives while working at the Prudential building society. 
Calling all UK-based TeamSugar members! In addition to our current competition where you can win a year of films, we've got another fab London Film Festival giveaway for you!
We've teamed up with Pathe to give away a pair of tickets to a special LFF screening of Hunger. 
Miramax has made the brave decision of releasing a film version of Brideshead Revisited which takes a fair few liberties with Evelyn Waugh's novel. If you've read it (which I did for September's PopUK Book Club) you may find the alterations distracting, but view the film as a separate entity and you can marvel at the acting and cinematography.
It tells the story of Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) and his involvement with the aristocratic Flytes, from his Oxford days with Sebastian (Ben Whishaw) to his relationship with Julia (Hayley Atwell). 
London's Cipriani restaurant played host to several stars of upcoming movie musical Nine last night. Producer Harvey Weinstein brought together Dame Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, Marion Cotillard and Fergie for dinner, before shooting starts in a few days time. The film will be directed by Rob Marshall and follows a famous film director (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he searches for harmony in his professional and personal lives, spanning relationships with his wife, his mother, his mistress, his muse and his agent.
The new Miramax film version of Brideshead Revisited, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel (which we read for September's PopUK Book Club), is released in the UK today.
It centres on Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) and his infatuation with the aristocratic Catholic Flyte family, headed by Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson) and Lord Marchmain (Michael Gambon).
Dramas unfold from Charles's intense relationships with siblings Sebastian (Ben Whishaw, who appears in our October Must Haves) and Julia (The Duchess' Hayley Atwell).
When Happy-Go Lucky begins we meet Poppy, a single woman in her 30s, who has just discovered a new bookstore and does her darnedest to charm the store clerk with her goofy persona — despite the fact he's completely annoyed and hardly acknowledges her. This opening struck me as awfully precarious and could have easily bombed due to Poppy's perkiness, but it doesn't.
And that's because the star of the movie, Sally Hawkins, who plays the optimistic Poppy, is so brilliant in this role, and this would-be cringe-worthy moment successfully launches one of the sweetest movies I've seen in a long time.
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I knew I had the basis of my first Pop Classic when FabUK posted her Back To Cool article, featuring the style of Liv Tyler playing Corey in the 1995 film Empire Records. This movie has been a firm favourite of mine since I rented it out on VHS years ago, without a clue who the actors were. At the time, all I saw were a bunch of weird kids working in a cool record store, and I loved it. 
The biggest strength of Pineapple Express (out today in the UK) is the brilliant chemistry between Seth Rogen as stoner Dale Denton and the yummy James Franco as his dealer Saul Silver. I have fond memories of the two actors working together when they were younger in one of my favourite TV shows Freaks and Geeks, so seeing them reunited in this movie was fun on a couple of levels for me.
Both Dale and Saul are the typical emotionally-stunted guys you see in a Judd Apatow produced movie (see Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up etc). 
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