Can it really be a full five years since Richard Curtis' directorial debut with Love, Actually? In point of fact it can, but the writer/director returns next summer with sixties-set comedy The Boat That Rocked and we have the first posters for the film for you to feast your eyes on below. The film's ensemble cast is populated by the likes of Phillip Seymour Hoffman as brash American DJ The Count, Bill Nighy as radio boss Quentin and Nick Frost and Rhys Ifans as homegrown song spinners Dave and Gavin. The story revolves around Radio Rock, a pirate radio station run from the middle of the North Sea, and their ongoing commitment to rock 'n' roll, damning 'the man' and sticking two iconoclastic fingers up at the British governement. Sounds like a winner to us! The film hits UK cinemas on 1 May 2009.

James Dyer

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It all looks very 'Life On Mars' ... Read More eoghanb About me
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The film's pretty much wrapped - I was in London the other night and I got offered tickets to a free screening that was showing last night at the Apollo Cinema in the West End. I couldn't go, but I'm sure someone will comment on the quality of the film so far.... ... Read More doubleobenny About me
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