Guy Ritchie shot Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in London in the Fall and early Winter of 2010. Now  a year later, he’s brought the finished product back for a lavish premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday December 8. Joining Guy Ritchie (and his baby mama Jacqui Ainsley) on the red carpet were stars Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, the lovely Kelly Reilly and even Stephen Fry! It is evident from the pics, some of which look like candids from a frat party, that they were having a ball together. Clearly the chemistry RDJ and Jude Law exhibit on screen is genuine.

In other Guy Ritchie News, Deadline has reported that

“Warner Bros is making a deal with Guy Ritchie and his new partner Lionel Wigram to come aboard The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the film that Steven Soderbergh left just recently over budget and difficulty with casting after George Clooney dropped out. Based on the classic TV show, the film has a script by Scott Z. Burns.  Ritchie and Wigram are forming a shingle together after making the Sherlock Holmes films. The intention is for Ritchie to direct the film.

This would be the first project under the new shingle for the British director and producer…”

They have a deal that starts in January. Meanwhile, Warners has been trying to make a big-screen version of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. for twenty years.

Scott Z. Burns is responsible for the scripts for The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant and Contagion. Lionel Wigram wrote the story upon which 2009’s Sherlock Holmes was based (although he’s been a producer for more than twenty years).

Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows opens December 16.

Warner Brothers has just unleashed a huge cache of clips for  Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows .  The three below give us new looks at Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty, Rachel  McAdams as Irene Adler and Noomi Rapace as Sim, but I’m most excited about the fact that we FINALLY get a glimpse of Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older “smarter” brother!  (They call each other  “Mycy” and “Sherly”)

"A Public Place":

"Slow Witted":

"Slow and Steady":

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, of course, stars Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson reprising their roles from Ritchie’s 2009 hit Sherlock Holmes. Also back for more fun, including the above named McAdams, are Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan, Eddie Marsan as Inspector LeStrade and Geraldine James as Mrs. Hudson. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, focusing on Holmes and Watson's attempts to bring down their chief adversary, the cunning Professor Moriarty, opens December 16.  More clips can be found here.  Check out the pics of the press conference held last Friday in Beverly Hills.

When Warner Bros. goes so far as to tell us it’s the final poster, that can only mean one thing: We’re getting really close to the release date! Yay! Woot! *demented poodle dance*! It feels like it’s been forever since we first heard about Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows!

We’ve had posters being dropped on us from all parts of the globe; we’ve seen clip after clip, trailer after trailer and even a few featurettes. Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams have all been captured working on set as director Ritchie managed to turn back the clock on parts of London (although if there's a city where this is still possible without too much trouble it's London) to recreate the late Victorian/Edwardian era. We’ve been patient and we’re ready to see the movie!

Downey, Jr., Law and McAdams all reprise their roles from the first film, along with Kelly Reilly, Geraldine James and Eddie Marsan. Noomi Rapace plays a fortune teller called Sim and she joins the cast along with Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes and Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty.

The plot, of course, centers on Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson, who this time join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, the above named Professor Moriarty.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens everywhere on December 16. A little over two weeks. Can’t wait to see what other crumbs Warners will drop between now and then! Oh, there’s also wallpaper!

We have a few more banners of the international variety to share with you for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.  At first I thought we were getting all of these great posters and banners in Russian because the movie must be opening there first. Nope, it doesn’t open in Russia until December 29.  Maybe they just have a thing for Robert Downey, Jr. or maybe Jude Law.  Sherlock Holmes? Who knows. 

To sum up,  we get this refresher from the film’s official webpage: Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his formidable colleague, Dr. Watson, in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room…until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)—and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder—a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows begins its rollout on December 16 in the US, Canada and the UK.

We have a bunch of new on-set pics (and a few stills and a couple of International posters) from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, a lot of them featuring director Guy Ritchie in action.

I’m probably not telling you anything you don’t already know at this point, but I am eagerly looking forward to this film, the follow-up to the 2009's, Sherlock Holmes. Robert Downey Jr, of course, reprises his role as the 'world's greatest detective'. In this one, Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson have to rejoin forces (much to Watson’s apparent dismay) to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty, played by Jared Harris. 

Also back for more are Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade, Geraldine James as Mrs. Hudson, Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan and Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler. Adding to the fun are Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes and Noomi Rapace as a gypsy called Sim. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens everywhere on December 16. (And don’t forget about that The Dark Knight Rises trailer that will be ahead of it. Get your popcorn early and settle in!)

The push is on. Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, a family film he made because his family asked him to, opens in theaters on Wednesday November 23 here in the US, just in time for the long holiday weekend. A few days ago I surmised that Hugo was meant to be Scorsese’s (an avowed film fan as well as a curator of celluloid and keeper of the flame) sonnet to moviemaking. Everything I’ve read about the film, as well as what the master himself had to say to Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" last week, bears that out.

One of the main characters is Georges Méliès, one of the first and most influential filmmakers of the 20^th century (played by Sir Ben Kingsley) who had by the 1930’s retired to a toy shop in Paris, just as his cinematic counterpart has.  Not having read Brian Selznick’s book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, I cannot wait to find out how  Méliès, an orphaned boy, whose father has left him an automaton, a clock and a key all fit together.

We have gorgeous new character posters to share as well as a host of beautiful images, many of which show us characters we haven’t seen before, including those played by Emily Mortimer, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour and the great Christopher Lee. I highly recommend Martin Scorsese’s interview with Jon Stewart. The whole interview wasn’t available except in the context of the entire show. If you’re interested, you can find it here.  Hugo opens November 23 in the US & Canada and 2 December in the UK. Enjoy the pics!