Round-up of today’s gay film news:
…Gay parenting comedy The Kids Are All Right starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening got off to a storming start this weekend, grossing a massive half-a-million dollars from just 7 screens in limited US release. This gives it the best opening screen average of any film this year and suggests a cross-over hit of big proportions…
…UK tabloid The Sun exclusively reports that singer Robbie Williams is teaming up with his former Take That bandmate Gary Barlow for a new track called Shame. If that doesn’t exactly get you whooping with excitement, the promo for the song is apparently going to be a riff on gay movie Brokeback Mountain with the two singers lip-synching to some ‘cowboys alone on the hill-top’ action.
Apparently this is a lighthearted poke at their “love-hate relationship”. Whether the drunken tent buggering scene will make it to the video is unknown…
…Chris Evans is very happy with his Captain America costume. He told Empire movie mag:
It’s an amazing costume. Given the fact that his costume is red, white and blue, and it’s tight (yes please! – Ed.), and it could be kind of flash and over the top – and given the fact that the movie takes place in the ’40s and ’50s – they’ve done a really good job of making it look really cool.
“I think everyone that’s going to see it is going to say, ‘Okay, well done. Well done. I think they got the costume right. The casting they completely ruined, but the costume they nailed.’”
Oh Chris, don’t be so hard on yourself… pretty good chance of you being nailed too…
…Finally, Peccadillo Pictures has picked up Italian gay pasta comedy Loose Cannons for UK distribution and will be releasing the movie in the Autumn. Looks kind of dated from the trailer, but it’s been a massive hit in its native country, only being beaten to the top spot by Alice In Wonderland, so keeping an open mind on this one.



