BFI London Film Festival - Premiere of Coriolanus. Video Interviews with Ralph Fiennes, Brian Cox and more:

Culture was certainly in the air for day 5 of the 55th BFI London Film Festival as Ralph Fiennes directorial debut CORIOLANUS premieres. Premiere Scene's Claire and Anthony Bueno were there to find out more about how this Shakespeare play turn Screen play is brought to a contemporary audience. Fiennes shares with us his reasons for directing, actor Brian Cox tells us more about his performance, screenwriter John Logan tells us how he tackled this complicated play and see why newsreader John Snow make a surprise appearance!!!

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UK Trailer for Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut movie Coriolanus. Starring Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and more:

The people of Rome are hungry – they cannot afford to eat. Riots are widespread. Their vitriol turns on Caius Martius (later to be Coriolanus), Rome’s foremost general who despises the people.

Simultaneously, Rome is at war with the Volsces, a neighbouring state which is lead by Caius Martius’s sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius. When Caius’s outstanding courage secures the Volscian city of Corioles for Rome and the Volscians are defeated, Caius is newly named Coriolanus in honor of his victory. The people’s anger subsides.

His mother Volumnia, who has instilled in him a strict martial code of honor, anticipates Coriolanus being elected ‘Consul’ – a ruling position in the Roman senate. In order to be voted Consul, Coriolanus must secure the people’s support. However, the great warrior is loath to engage in the necessary glad-handing and political canvassing that he sees as artificial and contradictory of his personal code.

Under pressure he relents but with the minimum of civility. The Tribunes, the elected representatives of the people, persuade the masses that they should renege on their votes and refuse Coriolanus the office of Consul. Coriolanus is enraged and his vocal aggression leads to a major riot after which he is banished from Rome.

Alone now, he takes himself to the city of Antium, the Volscian capital, home to his enemy, Tullus Aufidius. Coriolanus seeks out Aufidius and offers either his life or his services against his parent city. Confronted by his greatest enemy, Tullus must decide whether to accept Coriolanus as his warrior in arms and seize the opportunity to defeat an Empire, or to destroy his life-long rival and try to take Rome alone, while in its most vulnerable state...

Released in the UK January 20, 2012.

Directed by Ralph Fiennes.

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, James Nesbitt.

All hail the dawn of a new age! It's time for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes! Trailer, Featurette and Concept Art:

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is a reality-based cautionary tale that blends science fiction and science fact, which depicts how mankind’s hubris leads to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. Oscar®-winning visual effects house WETA Digital – employing certain of the groundbreaking technologies developed for “Avatar” – will render, for the first time ever in the film series, photo-realistic apes rather than costumed actors.