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Hot Trailer: Simon Pegg’s ‘The World’s End’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 8, 2013 @ 1:50am PDTTags: Edgar Wright, Focus Features, Simon Pegg, The World's End

The team behind genre comedies Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz has reunited for sci-fi romp The World’s End. Edgar Wright directs Simon Pegg and Nick Frost along with Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Rosamund Pike in the story of childhood friends who come together after 20 years to stage an epic pub crawl. Things do not go quite as planned. Pegg, next up in Star Trek Into Darkness, wrote the script for the Working Title comedy. Focus Features releases in the U.S. on August 23, a month after the film’s UK debut on July 19. Here’s the UK trailer that just dropped:

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Edgar Wright To Direct Paramount’s ‘Collider,’ Mark Protosevich To Write

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 23, 2012 @ 3:35pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Edgar Wright, JJ Abrams, Mark Protosevich, Paramount Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is mobilizing a sci-fi film called Collider, and it is a collision of several of the top guys in the genre. Edgar Wright will direct the film, and he is co-writing the script with I … Read More »

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Comic-Con: Universal Greenlights Edgar Wright’s Pub Crawl Epic ‘The World’s End’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 10:38am PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, The World's End
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has officially greenlighted The World’s End, the third film in director Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost that began with 2004’s Shaun Of The Dead and 2007’s Hot Fuzz. Wright is currently in pre-production on the film, which will begin shooting this October in the UK

Edgar Wright The World's EndPegg wrote the script with Wright and once again stars with Frost. Working Title’s Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan will produce with Nira Park of Big Talk Pictures. Here Deadline can unveil the teaser poster (at right) made for Comic-Con. Read More »

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D.V. DeVincentis Sinks Teeth Into ‘The Night Stalker’ For Edgar Wright And Johnny Depp

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 18, 2012 @ 6:16pm PDTTags: Edgar Wright, Johnny Depp, The Night Stalker
Mike Fleming

Disney has hired D.V. DeVincentis to script The Night Stalker as a vehicle for Johnny Depp. The film is based on the classic TV series that starred Darren McGavin as the tabloid reporter who finds his way to a series … Read More »

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Working Title, Edgar Wright Set ‘The World’s End’ For September Start

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 9, 2012 @ 3:23pm PDTTags: Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, The World's End, Working Title
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Working Title and Edgar Wright have set a September start date for The World’s End, the last in a trilogy of comedies that started with Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz. Wright, who’ll direct, wrote the script with … Read More »

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Disney Taps Edgar Wright To Helm Johnny Depp In ‘The Night Stalker’ Feature Redo

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 22, 2012 @ 10:52am PSTTags: Disney, Edgar Wright, Johnny Depp, The Night Stalker
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is setting Edgar Wright to direct The Night Stalker, the remake of the ABC telepic and series that the studio is developing as a potential star vehicle for Johnny Depp to play intrepid tabloid reporter Carl Kolchak. Depp … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Attack The Block’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 6:51am PSTTags: Attack the Block, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Movie Trailers, Movies, Nick Frost, Video
Mike Fleming

The film Attack the Block makes its debut at South By Southwest at a March 12 midnight screening. It is produced by Edgar Wright and first-time director Joe Cornish (who worked with Wright on Tin Tin) and has an ensemble cast that features Nick Frost. Here is the new trailer:

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Comic-Con #5: The ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Panel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 2:10pm PDTTags: Chris Evans, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Edgar Wright, Michael Cera, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

Universal is spending a lot of money to make SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD the talk of Comic-Con. There’s an interactive exhibit at the Gaslamp Hilton, multiple screenings of the movie … Read More »

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