Showing posts with label paul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paul. Show all posts

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Pegg & Frost’s Favourite Sci-fi Moments

Comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up again in PAUL, an out of this world comedy about two comic book geeks trying to help a smart-ass alien escape to his mothership. The film is a celebration of sci-fi and features more than the occasional reference to science fiction movie classics.

To celebrate the 13th June release on Blu-ray and DVD, we’ve got hold of an interview piece below where Pegg and Frost reveal their five favourite Sci-fi scenes and characters. Then, after the jump we delve deeper into their choices to explore what makes them great….


ET - 1982
No surprises that this one made it in there, eh! Steven Speilberg's seminal sci-fi masterpiece is an absolute cult classic that has inspired many throughout the ages. ET instantly became everyone’s’ favorite quotable green critter. However adorable he may sound, you probably didn’t know that his grizzly tone came courtesy of Pat Welsh, an elderly woman who lived in Marin County, California and smoked two packets of cigarettes a day!

Close Encounters - 1977
It may seem unlikely that aliens will rock up in a vehicle that looks like a giant, inverted Christmas tree, however this tale will leave you believing that anything is possible. Set against a backdrop of a secretive, omniscient government agents and conspiracy, this film has to be one of the classiest alien visitation stories ever committed to celluloid, even if the aliens were played by local 8 year old girls!

Blade Runner - 1982
Talk about cinematic beauty - Pegg and Frost have some serious style! The opening scene in this film is a mesmerizing longshot that scans over a futuristic city scape intertwined with the belching firestorms of industrialism. However futuristic the scene may look, it was created out of very intricate (if rather old-school) modeling sets. No computer CGI here, just a dedicated staff who shared a vision that will continue to leave its pixel-fated successors in its wake.

Fifth Element - 1997
Okay so the movie may have its flaws, but damn it’s a beauty! With over a 1000 costumes designed by one of France’s most famous fashion designers — Jean Paul Gaultier - the film seamlessly brings together miniatures, enormous sets, remote controlled alien costumes, digital effects and old-fashioned movie magic to create a world of limitless imagination.

Galaxy Quest - 1999
A cult hit making fun of cult fans, this film’s biggest success is that it realised and exploited Tim Allen’s Kirk-like persona, which, to the actor’s credit, he was more than willing to go along with. Even Star Trek’s Sulu, George Takei, praised its realistic-yet-hilarious spoofing of fandom and the show that made him famous: “I think it's a chillingly realistic documentary…I was rolling in the aisles”.

Star Wars - A New Hope - 1977
Cinema has a unique ability to capture the intensity of mid-air dog fights, however very few films have come close to capturing the magic of George Lucas epic interstellar space battles. Simon Pegg’s favourite moment from the franchise involves Wedge saving Luke Skywalker’s bacon by shooting down a TIE Fighter that Luke had been unable to shake. Without Wedge there would be no Skywalker, therefore there would be no sequel, no prequel and no hope.

PAUL is available to own on Blu-ray & DVD on June 13

Friday, 1 April 2011

Who’s up for a close encounter?

PAUL BLU-RAY TRIPLE PLAY & DVD 13 JUNE 2011



"Another winner from the Hot Fuzz pair" – Heat
An extraordinary extraterrestrial comedy romp...” – Sunday Mirror
Paul is pure Pegg and Frost – clever, cheeky and very, very funny. You’ll never look at E.T. in the same way again” – Empire

From the team that bought you Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead comes an out-of-this-world gift for Father’s Day and the must-own comedy adventure of the year… PAUL. Comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up again in this inventive, laugh-out-loud film as Graeme (Pegg) and Clive (Frost); two sci-fi geeks who embark on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. Join Graeme, Clive and Paul on their road-trip adventure as Working Title and Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd bring you the hilarious PAUL on two disc DVD, two disc Blu-Ray Triple Play and two disc Limited Edition Blu-ray Steel Book on 13 June 2011.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen; Superbad, Knocked Up) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. When he discovers he's been taken prisoner, the quick-witted, smart-ass alien decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town-a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Frost) who are on a pilgrimage to America’s UFO heartland. Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. As the two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.

Co-written by Pegg and Frost, and directed by Greg Mottola (Superbad), PAUL features a fantastic supporting cast of Hollywood actors including Jason Bateman (Up in the Air, Juno), Bill Hader (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Superbad) and Kristian Wiig (Despicable Me, Knocked Up). Packed with brilliant special features, PAUL is the perfect comedy to share with your dad this Father’s Day on DVD and Blu-ray Triple Play!

Blu-ray and DVD Details
Certificate - 15
Feature Run Time - 1 hour 47 mins
RRP (DVD) - £19.99
RRP (Blu-ray) - £26.99
RRP (Blu-ray Steelbook) - £29.99

DVD Special Features:
Extended feature
Audio commentary with Greg Mottola, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
Bloopers
The Evolution of Paul
Simon Silly Faces
Who the hell is Adam Shadowchild?
Galleries
Between The Lightning Strikes: The Making Of Paul
Audio Description


Blu-ray Special Features:
Extended feature
Audio commentary with Greg Mottola, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Producer Nira Park
BTS Featurette (8 featurettes)
Between The Lightning Strikes: The Making Of Paul
The Evolution of Paul
Bloopers
Who the hell is Adam Shadowchild?
Simon Silly Faces
Galleries

Film © 2011 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. 
Packaging Design © 2011 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Friday, 11 February 2011

Paul Movie Puns are alive on Twitter

With the upcoming release of Simon Pegg's new movie Paul - the twitterverse is running wild with dreadful puns with the hashtag  #paulmoviepuns is currently trending in the UK.

Most of the puns are quite good, some are bad and the rest are dreadful and groan-worthy.

I Now give you the poster for the new Simon Pegg Film: The Incredipauls:
Click on the image to get the full sized version
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
Paul beams into Cinemas Friday February 14, 2011
© Universal Pictures
The Incredibles © disney

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Even more of Paul appears

After releasing images and having a Screening for people called Paul. Universal now has released a set of clips.

Little Alien

First Encounter

Bagels and Coffee

Stoke the Fire

Do you Guys Partake?
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
Paul beams into Cinemas Friday February 18, 2011
© Universal Pictures

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Paul VIP Screening

Yesterday, February 8, saw a special gala screening for Paul at London's Prince Charles Theatre. There was a small catch to get into the event - you had to be called Paul (or variant thereof). As you can see in the images that Paramount so nicely supplied, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg both made a surprise appearance.

I have only put on a choice set of images from the event.  If you want to see more of the event then our friends over at Heyuguys have the full set.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
Paul beams into Cinemas Friday February 14, 2011
© Universal Pictures
VIP Screening photos by Tim Whitby, © 2011 Getty Images

Monday, 24 January 2011

See more of Paul

Just before the weekend, Universal released a load of image for Simon Pegg's upcoming film Paul.  You can see more of Paul by looking here.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
Paul beams into Cinemas Friday February 18, 2011
© Universal Pictures

Thursday, 13 January 2011

See inside Paul

After releasing trailers and other things for the film, Universal has now released a piece about the making of the film. Sometimes it can be a hard life working in films - you will see what I mean when you watch the below feature!

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.

Paul is directed by Superbad’s Greg Mottola, from a story by Pegg & Frost. Joining the comedy’s cast are Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Joe Lo Truglio, John Carroll Lynch, David Koechner and Sigourney Weaver.
Paul beams into Cinemas on Friday February 14, 2011
© Universal Pictures

Monday, 20 December 2010

More Paul for your pleasure?

As I mentioned in the blog on Saturday that Yahoo had an exclusive for the new Paul trailer. I can now announce that Universal have now made the trailer available for anyone to host. They have also changed the release date to Valentine's Day here in the UK


as you can see there is a lot more of Paul in this one and some parts that you are lucky that you don't....
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
Paul beams into Cinemas Friday February 14, 2011
© Universal Pictures

Saturday, 18 December 2010

Pegg meets Paul in Roswell

Universal released the new trailer at Yahoo on Friday. If you missed it you can watch it here. If, on the other hand, you don't want to go away then you can watch the previous trailer below.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
Paul beams into Cinemas Friday February 18, 2011
© Universal Pictures