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Total Film Magazine - Issue 204

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By Total Film published 15 February 2013

The Summer Blockbuster Preview!

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The Summer Blockbuster Preview Special

The Summer Blockbuster Preview Special

In this month’s Total Film magazine, we look forward to the films set to dominate the cinema this summer in our essential preview.

For our monster cover story, Guillermo del Toro gives us a world exclusive look at his new epic Pacific Rim . Giant robots? Enormous monsters? Could be the biggest sci-fi blockbuster ever...

Plus, join us on set of the likes of Jack The Giant Slayer, G. I. Joe: Retaliation and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone . and get the inside track on Steven Soderbergh's swan song, Side Effects .

And, Total Film magazine issue 204 comes with four incredible free posters: including Pacific Rim , Man Of Steel , Oblivion and The World's End .

[ Click on the posters to see a larger version ]

Also, you may have already heard that Total Film magazine is now available on your iPad , and it now costs just £1.99 per issue, or £12.99 for a whole year ($2.99 per issue or $17.99 yearly for the US and Canada, €2.39 per issue or €14.49 yearly for the Europe)! Read about the key features of Total Film's interactive iPad edition .

Fans of the good old-fashioned paper edition need not worry - this version ain’t going anywhere! Like the look of that exclusive subscribers-only cover? Well, subscribe to Total Film magazine then!

And Total Film magazine is now available on your Android device from Google Play !

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Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim

We explore the gigantic monsters vs robots world of Pacific Rim in our cover feature with director Guillermo del Toro.

With world exclusive images and secrets revealed, see why the ginormous sci-fi epic is set to stomp all over summer.

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Summer Blockbuster Preview

Summer Blockbuster Preview

We preview the summer’s most sizeable hits, from J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness to Baz Luhrmann’s visually sumptuous The Great Gatsby .

Plus a look at Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion , with Bond babe Olga Kurykenko going sci-fi with Tom Cruise.

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G. I. Joe: Retaliation

G. I. Joe: Retaliation

On set of G.I. Joe: Retaliation , the cast and crew - including “franchise Viagra" Dwayne Johnson - promise to deliver a gritty sequel with the year’s biggest set-pieces.

Plus, Johnson tells us about the rest of his pec-poppin' 2013 as he limbers up for Fast & Furious 6 and Pain & Gain .

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Henry Cavill

Henry Cavill

Henry Cavill stars as Superman, alongside Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe in Zack Snyder’s high-flying superhero actioner, Man Of Steel .

Cavill chats candidly about stepping into those very big red boots, not to mention that suit…

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Jack The Giant Slayer

Jack The Giant Slayer

Magic beans, golden goose eggs, giants that live at the top of beanstalks… Bryan Singer super-sizes the classic fairytale with his 3D blockbuster, Jack The Giant Slayer .

On-set with Singer, Nicholas Hoult and Ewan McGregor, we find out if a film about beans can produce a blockbuster hit.

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Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle

Olympic hero Danny Boyle talks new thriller Trance , a noggin-botherer that could be London’s answer to Inception .

We meet the man who made it OK to be British.

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Buzz and Agenda

Buzz and Agenda

In Buzz this month, Jennifer Lawrence and Sam Claflin turn the heat up in our look forward to T he Hunger Games: Catching Fire .

Julianne Moore works her magic in The Seventh Son , we scope out sci-fi's school of hard knocks in Ender's Game , and size up end-of-the-world comedies The World's End and This Is The End . Plus, there are chats with Tim Roth, Famke Janssen and Riddick director David Twohy.

Meanwhile, in Agenda ... Dave Grohl heads in a new direction, the new faces of horror stake their claims, Sundance gets steamy, and we meet the daddy of screen supervillains.

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Lounge and Screen

Lounge and Screen

Steven Soderbergh’s sleek mystery Side Effects , Park Chan-wook’s wickedly weird Stoker , and Terrence Malick’s soul-stirring To The Wonder are just some of March’s new release films reviewed in this month’s Screen .

In Lounge we take a fresh look at the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases, including Argo , The Master , Game Of Thrones: Season 2 , and the restored Hammer classic Dracula .

Plus, become an instant expert on Sherlock Holmes, and join us on the set of David S. Goyer's lavish new drama, Da Vinci’s Demons.

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The Total Film Interview Jason Statham

The Total Film Interview Jason Statham

Once a member of the British national diving team and now Hollywood’s hardest action man, Jason Statham says he’s now got the best of both worlds.

Ahead of the release of his upcoming crime-thrillers Parker and Hummingbird , we get up close and personal with him in The Total Film Interview.

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