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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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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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Simon Pegg On A ‘Search For Happiness’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Saturday May 19, 2012 @ 9:02am PDTTags: Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg will star in Peter Chelsom’s Hector And The Search For Happiness. Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay adapted the novel by Francis Lelord about an eccentric London psychiatrist who sets out on a global quest when his patients stop getting … 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
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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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Hot Trailer: ‘A Fantastic Fear Of Everything’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday April 8, 2012 @ 4:17pm PDTTags: Simon Pegg

Music video director Chris Hopewell and British rocker Crispian Mills directed this tantalizing oddity in which Simon Pegg plays a paranoid children’s author-turned-crime-novelist who finds he’s being stalked by a real serial killer. Mills also wrote the screenplay. Paul Freeman, Clare Higgins and Amara Karan also star.

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Paramount Moves Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ To December 21 And Sets ‘One Shot’ For Early 2013

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 2:10pm PDTTags: Anil Kapoor, Brad Bird, Christopher McQuarrie, Jack Reacher, Jeremy Renner, JJ Abrams, Lee Child, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, One Shot, Paramount Pictures, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures will move Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol from its Dec. 16, 2011 release date to Wednesday, Dec. 21, putting the picture smack into the holiday corridor. That moves the film back from opening against Warner Bros’ Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows and Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel. It will now open against the David Fincher-directed Sony drama The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and be released two days before Paramount’s The Adventures of Tintin, Summit’s The Darkest Hour, Fox’s We Bought A Zoo, and FilmDistrict’s release of the Angelina Jolie-directed In The Land Of Blood And Honey.

At the same time, Paramount will soon formalize a Feb. 8, 2013 release date for One Shot, the Christopher McQuarrie-directed adaptation of the Lee Child mystery novel series that the studio hopes will launch another Cruise franchise. Cruise committed earlier this month to play Jack Reacher, a retired military policeman who wanders the country with his toothbrush, the clothes on his back and his bankbook and inadvertently gets involved in conspiracies that find him taking the side of the powerless and exploited. He often settles matters with explosive violence. For Paramount, the strategy is to replicate the winter release pattern it followed successfully on Shutter Island, the Dennis Lehane novel that was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Leonardo DiCaprio. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Paul’

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday December 21, 2010 @ 7:51am PSTTags: Greg Mottola, Movies, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Trailers, Universal, Video

Universal has released a trailer for the Greg Mottola-directed Paul, the 3rd film from Brit comedy team Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), This time they play 2 sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland, where they help an alien (voiced by … Read More »

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Comic-Con #14: The ‘Paul’ Panel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 25, 2010 @ 9:52pm PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Greg Mottola, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Joe Lo Truglio, Kristen Wiig, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Shaun of the Dead, Sigourney Weaver, Simon Pegg

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

PAUL is a road-trip comedy written by (and starring) Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who are treated like absolute royalty by fans here. (Proof that what plays well at Comic-Con doesn’t always make it huge elsewhere; see also: “Filion, Nathan”). But PAUL is a perfect Comic-Con movie, because it actually begins at Comic-Con, as our lead duo take a road trip from San Diego to Area 51, where they pick up an escaping alien called Paul. Read More »

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