Direct Download Links For The Extended Sunshine Trailer

Sunshine has come and gone here in the UK, but some corners of the world are still waiting for it to reach their cinemas. A new, very long trailer has launched - near on five minutes long, seemingly quite desperate but, if you ask me, infinitely less boring than the whole daft film - and can be downloaded in hi-res Quicktime or 480p, 720p or 1080p HD.

If you turn out for this one but didn't make the effort for, say, Soderbergh's Solaris... well... I think you're maybe mistaken.

Movie Minesweeper - The I Thought Yesterday Was Monday, My Mistake Edition

- The Sun are alleging that Brad Pitt is the front-runner to play He-Man. Sure he is. Their back-up bet is Gerard Butler. The Sun's other Pitt-stop alleges that Angelina and Brad have 'banned their kids from seeing them brandishing guns in movies'.

- Robert Rodriguez may make The Jetsons for Warners. There's a technicality by which he could work around his DGA resignation, apparently - anybody expert enough to know if this renders his DGA resignation hollow? I'm honestly not sure. I'm most interested by the news that he may be sizing up films outside of the Weinstein's shadow - are they going cold on him after his Planet Terror has taken a lot of the blame for crippling Grind House?

- Latino Review are alleging that Jessica Biel will play Chun Li in a Street Fighter film. I'd hope she wouldn't be so silly, even though the character will apparently be the focus of the film. Another casting report in the same place suggests that Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry and Patrick Wilson are all negotiating roles in Brian Singer's Valkyrie. Sounds like somebody listed every possibility they could come up with, but that somebody might just be Singer or his casting agent.

- Luke Wilson has been quoted in the Brit tabloids as saying the Dallas film is off. This isn't strictly true, I understand - the film is just on a rather remote back burner. I understand that options still exist on Wilson, Shirely Maclaine and John Travolta, and should any of the scripts and treatments that get cooked up in the coming months seem to carry the budget, the switch will be flicked back on.

- Just Jared have snaps and video of Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy on the set of the Dylan Thomas biopic, The Best Times of Our Lives. [EDIT: Which is now called The Edge of Love]

Beeban Kidron Gives Rupert The Bear A Boner

Richard Neville's memoirs, Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups: The Sixties, are to be adapted into a film. Beeban Kidron is directing, Cillian Murphy will play Neville and Sienna Miller, Max Minghella and Emma Booth will also appear. The film drops the majority of the title, as you might well imagine.

Cillian Murphy really has the right eyes for a psychedelic film, so expect any tuned-in, dropped-out nonsense to capitalise on those dazzling peepers.

The film's focus will be the obscenity trial surrounding Oz magazine, during which Neville defended himself and the other two editors were defended by John Mortimer, Emily's old man. John Peel was called by the defence in the real case, and I'm curious as to who, if anybody, will get to cameo as The Greatest DJ of All Time.

Hugh Grant played Neville in a previous film about the trials, the BBC's The Trials of Oz. Peel was played by Nigel Planer that time - and spookily.

Little Rays Of Sunshine

Allocine have posted a whole heap of Sunshine clips, both in the original English and also dubbed into French.

Knock yourself out.

Russian Sunshine

Hot on the heels of confirmation that Sunshine is being held back until December in the US, here arrives the Russian site for the film. You may find it tricky to navigate directly if you don't speak the language, but clicking systematically through all of the options always works.

Sunshite?

Apparently, Danny Boyle's Sunshine has been pushed back by a number of months because the finished film didn't 'meet expectations'. I'm sure it will meet mine. Boyle's films always have done.

I don't think reshoots are likely, but a recut might be. Or maybe just a release in a less valuable slot.

I'd like to thank the mighty Spinal Tap for the inspiration behind this post's title. All hail the Tap.

[EDIT: Sunshine is being released in April in the UK, where Boyle's name/national pride are possibly enough to open the film respectably, but the US release is indeed some months away. They may be having cold feet about releasing this in America where it is essentially a lower profile film than at home, and would need good word of mouth to do decent business]

[EDIT: Slashfilm's sources are agreeing with mine, now. They say that Sunshine was pushed back because it 'didn't meet expectations'. Sound familiar? Trust me, something's up. This film wrapped a year and a half ago]