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Saturday December 11th
Garret looks at the upcoming Coen brother remake of True Grit, and director Michael Mann signs up for a new mafia biopic Big Tuna. Plus new releases including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Tourist.

Saturday December 4th
This week Garret presents a look ahead to the films and potential award-winners hitting the big screen this December and January, including The Tourist, Tron Legacy, Meet the Fockers, 127 Hours and The Kings Speech.

Saturday November 27th
Daniel Day-Lewis is to star as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's biopic, and Irish animator Seamus Malone wins an International Emmy award for Shaun the Sheep. Plus new releases include Colin Farrell in London Boulevard...

Special Harry Potter bonus podcast
In a special bonus podcast, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint talk about the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.

Saturday November 20th
News of an upcoming feature starring Glenn Close due to film in Dublin. Plus planned remakes including the Wizard of Oz and The Great Gatsby, and new releases including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. We'll also have an bonus extra Harry Potter podcast so keep watching the website...

Saturday November 13th
Robert De Niro receives a special award at the 2011 Oscars, and 21 Jump Street hits the big screen. Plus new releases including Skyline...

Movie News bonus podcast - Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival
Julien Ronet, grandson of Charlie Chaplin, talks to Garret at the launch of the Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival in the Origin Gallery in Dublin. The festival will take place each August in Waterville, Co. Kerry.

Movie News bonus podcast - Waterford Film Festival
Garret talks to the director of the recent Waterford film festival, Stephen Byrne. A record number of submissions were submitted this year from across Ireland, U.K, Germany, France, Serbia, Spain and as far as the USA and Canada.

Saturday November 6th
Casting rumours for the Dark Knight sequel, and James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton sign on for a new Aardman Animations production. Plus new releases including Mike Leigh's Another Year.

Saturday October 30th
This week Garret looks at the Cork Film Festival - screenings includes Never Let Go starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightly and Andrew Garfield, and Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff - and the Japanese Film Festival which tours Limerick, Galway and Dublin during November. Plus new releases including Burke and Hare...

Saturday October 23rd
This week we hear about Ben Affleck and James Cameron's next directorial projects. Plus a possible sequel to Jackass 3D that may arrive sooner rather than later, and new releases include Red...

Saturday October 16th
Garret has potential casting for the upcoming Aliens prequel, due to be directed by Ridley Scott. Plus delays for the current Mad Max production, and new releases include Social Network...

Saturday October 9th
This week, casting news for Kathryn Bigelow's latest project involving Tom Hanks. Plus a hobbit comes to Ireland and new releases including Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps...

Saturday October 2nd
George Lucas announces plans to release the Star Wars trilogy in 3D, and Christopher Nolan confirms that he will direct a third Batman film. Russell Crowe signs up for a big screen version of 80's TV series The Equalizer, and new releases include Takers...

Monday September 27th
There is no Movie News this week.

Monday September 20th
Garret talks to director of the Irish movie Savage, currently in cinemas. Click here to download an extended podcast of the entire interview.

Plus director Casey Affleck confirms that events portrayed in the controversial Joaquin Phoenix documentary are fictional. Plus Sacha Baron Cohen is to play Queen front-man Freddie Mercury, and new releases include Eat, Pray, Love.

Monday September 13th
Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion award and a script by Irish writer/director Shane McCabe places third at the 24th Annual Write Movies International Writing Competition. Plus some Hobbitt-related casting news and new releases including Savage...

Monday September 6th
A possible re-teaming of A-Team's Liam Neeson and director Joe Carnahan. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers joins the cast of the French romantic drama Belle Du Seigneur and James McAvoy and Tom Cruise vie for the lead in Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film, At the Mountains of Madness. Plus new releases including Cyrus.

Monday August 30th
Potential casting news for Mission Impossible 4 and John Cusack is set to play Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven. Plus some tweets from Sly Stallone and new releases including Jonah Hex.

Monday August 23rd
The upcoming Wolverine sequel gets a director, Jim Carrey signs up for two films and Zac Efron and Justin Timberlake compete for a musical role! Plus news of a new monthly short film screening space at Filmbase, and new releases include Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Monday August 16th
In casting news, Ben Affleck may replace Christian Bale in an upcoming Terrence Malick project, and Jamie Bell joins Cillian Murphy and Thandie Newton in the British psychological thriller Retreat. Plus the IFI invite the public to share their celluloid memories and new releases include The Illusionist.

Monday August 9th
This week, details of a film-making competition in conjunction with the Darklight Festival. Quentin Tarantino looks set to be working on a new film, and Avatar hits the big screen - again! Plus new releases including The Sorcerers Apprentice.

Movie News Summer Preview
Garret Daly takes a special look ahead at the biggest and best films coming your way this Summer, including Toy Story 3 and The A-Team. This exclusive audio is only available for download and listen back via our website!

Monday August 2nd
There is no Movie News this week

Monday July 26th
This week on Movie News, the return of The Muppets and a possible Marilyn Monroe biopic with Michelle Williams as Monroe and Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier. Plus Garret remembers the A-Team and produces evidence of his fan-club membership!

Monday July 19th
Roman Polanski gets back to work, Pixar plan a sort-of sequel to Cars and Brett Ratner is tipped to direct a live-action Hercules movie. Plus new releases including Toy Story 3.

Monday July 12th
Garret looks at the Summer blockbusters doing well stateside, and the ongoing casting saga for the X-Men prequel continues. Plus James Bond finally gets defeated - by the recession - and new releases include Christopher Nolan's Inception.

Monday July 5th
News of the Mad Max reboot, two big screen adaptations of beloved Stephen King novels and an Irish film based on one of his short stories. Plus casting news for the upcoming Spider-Man 3D film and a Margaret Thatcher biopic, and new releases including Predators.

Monday June 28th
Peter Jackson takes over directorial duties on The Hobbit, Horrid Henry hits the big screen and we take a look at the upcoming Galway Film Fleadh. Plus new releases including Shrek Forever After.

Monday June 21st
There is no Movie News this week

Monday June 14
There is no Movie News this week

Monday June 7th
Casting news for the remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and some big screen names join the cast of the upcoming TV series Camelot. Plus the Galway Film Fleadh and new releases including Brooklyn's Finest and Greenburg.

Monday May 31st
Garret remembers veteran actor Dennis Hopper who passed away recently. Plus news of an X-Men prequel and several projects that have met with delays including The Hobbit. Plus release dates for some much-anticipated sequels and new releases including The Killer Inside Me.

Monday May 24th
Prequels, sequels and big-screen adaptations make the news this week, in the form of Rise of the Apes, Scream 4, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom and MacGyver! Plus new releases including Sex and the City 2.

Monday May 17th
Fight Club director David Fincher teams up with Disney, and there's casting news for Pierce Brosnan and Michael Fassbender. Plus new releases including Up In The Air on DVD and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in cinemas.

Monday May 10th
Release dates are announced for Men in Black 3 and the Brad Bird-directed Mission: Impossible IV. There's a planned prequel to the Planet of the Apes franchise and new releases including Robin Hood.

Monday May 3rd
This week, bad news for an Anchorman sequel and Rambo 5 but good news for Arnold Schwarzenegger's back catalogue. Plus new releases including Four Lions and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Monday April 26th
Helen Mirren looks set to star opposite Russell Brand, Woody Allen announces his next project and the Irish head to Cannes! Plus new releases including Iron Man 2.

Monday April 19th
On this week's Movie News, Garret talks about the new Tom Hanks directorial project, and the glamour Hollywood couple Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky set about making a feature film on Jackie Kennedy...

Monday April 12th
This week there's news of two film festivals - the Celtic Media Festival in Newry and the IFI Stranger Than Fiction in Dublin. Sony Pictures appear to have found their new Spiderman, and new releases include Cemetery Junction and Dear John starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried.

Monday April 5th
There is no Movie News this week

Monday March 29th
This week Garret features a new Orson Welles film, a fourth Mission Impossible and an Oliver Stone documentary called South of the Border. Plus new releases including How to Train Your Dragon and Kick Ass.

Monday March 22nd
This week a look at upcoming 3D films from Warner Bros this year and next, including a third Batman and a second Superman film. Plus Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz and his unexpected next project, and new releases including Perrier's Bounty starring Brendan Gleeson, Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent.

Monday March 8th
Garret and Aedín provide a post-mortem on the 2010 Oscars, including clips from the ceremony and acceptance speeches!

Monday March 1st
Nicole Kidman joins Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in a new romantic comedy and Ben Stiller plans a Zoolander sequel. There's news of the Ireland's first short-film festival and new releases including Alice in Wonderland.

Monday February 22nd
Garret Daly talks to the stars backstage at The IFTA's including Brendan Gleeson, Conor McPherson, Saoirse Ronan, Kirsten Sheridan, Victoria Smurfit and more!

Monday February 15th
This week we look at the planned return of the 'Vacation' series. Vin Diesel goes again for another turn at Riddick, and Kevin Costner returns to the directors chair for A Little War of Our Own. New releases this week include Crazy Heart. Jeff Bridges stars as Bad, a 57 year old musician who lives life on the old musical road. And Peter Jackson's adaptation of 'The Lovely Bones' makes its grand appearance on Irish screens, starring our own Saoirse Ronan.

Monday February 8th
This week Garret looks at all the reboots, remakes, sequels and adaptations coming straight from the Hollywood Production stable. There are a few big budget movies out this week - the big horror action flick is Benicio Del Toro as 'The Wolfman'. Romance is in the air for Valentines Day (yes, that is the movie title), and fiction fantasy is served up in Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief. And if that isn't dramatic enough, Colin Firth plays a stand out role in "A Single Man", who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner Jim.

Monday February 1st
In this weeks Movie News, Garret talks about the demise of Miramax Films and the future for a new franchise, Sherlock Holmes. In the cinemas on Friday, the everlasting cinema force that is Clint Eastwood returns once more to the directors chair with Invictus starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. There are two animation releases, one called Astro Boy, the other The Princess and the Frog. Youth in Revolt is out on preview screenings, while Irish movie 'Eamon' makes it the cinema. And check out the Oscar nominations here on the RTÉ Entertainment Page.

Monday January 25th
Garret looks at likely contenders for the 2010 Oscars, not to mention BAFTA buzz and a planned lifetime achievement IFTA for John Boorman. There's casting news plus a delay in the release of the upcoming 'Hobbit' film and new releases including Golden Globe winner Precious.

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