from filmstarts.de comes a new still for Black Death
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Empire is holding its first-ever photographic exhibition featuring all the portraits specially commissioned for the 20th Birthday issue by guest editor Steven Spielberg.
The exhibition takes place on Thursday May 21 at the Century Club in London’s West End.
Visitors will be able to peruse the portraits and read about how the shots came about, before the photos go under the hammer at a charity auction on Thursday May 28. There’ll be an opportunity to bid online for an exclusive signed Harry Potter print - check back on the 28th for more details.
The collection features the world’s most celebrated actors, each of whom posed exclusively for Empire in celebration of the magazine’s 20th birthday. They include: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, Ben Stiller, Matt Damon, Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean, Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. There’s also a siged portrait of the editorial brains behind the portfolio, Señor Spielberg himself.
Empire’s MD, Stuart Williams said: “Empire magazine worked closely with Steven Spielberg in commissioning this incredible set of photographs. It’s a great pleasure to be able to exhibit the images in this way and then to be able to auction them in support of Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, a cause close to Empire’s heart.”
The exhibition is free to attend and runs from 10am to 10pm. It’s all taking place at the Century Club in London’s West End. You can find all this photographic goodness on Shaftesbury Avenue - click here for directions - AND tuck into some free refreshments while you’re there.
source: empireonline
May
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Red Riding leads the nominations for this year’s TV Quick and TV Choice Awards.
The three-part Channel 4 series picked up five nominations, with Sean Bean, Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey and Maxine Peake all up for acting awards and the series itself nominated in the best new drama category.
Peake will compete for the best actress crown with Kaya Scodelario for her role as Effy in E4’s teen drama Skins, Jill Scott (The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency), Keeley Hawes (Ashes To Ashes) and Billie Piper (Secret Diary Of A Call Girl).
The Apprentice, Big Brother, Katie & Peter: Stateside and Living’s Jade series are all nominated in the best reality show section.
In the soaps categories, Simon Gregson, Larry Lamb and Scott Maslen are among those nominated for the best actor gong, while Samia Smith, Katherine Kelly and Samantha Janus are up for best actress.
Coronation Street’s Craig Gazey will compete against former EastEnders star Lauren Crace for best soap newcomer.
The awards ceremony, to be hosted by Primeval’s Ben Miller, will take place at London’s Dorchester Hotel on September 7.
Prizes are awarded based on reader votes from TV Quick and TV Choice.
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source: digitalspy.co.uk
May
17
You’ve got to love it when life imitates art. A favorite “car chase” movie for most guys is John Frankenheimer’s 1998 flick, Ronin. Starring Robert De Niro as a semi-retired Special Forces operative who agrees to do a heist-for-hire with fellow ex-soldier Jean Reno and a shady crew that includes Natasha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård and Sean Bean, the plot swerves through Paris, down to Arles, and across Nice and Villefranche-sur-Mer in a series of tightly-choreographed car chase scenes that no sensible driving instructor would ever recommend.
May
15
source: variety
IFC nabs ‘Red Riding Trilogy’
IFC Films snapped up three British films inspired by the Yorkshire Ripper investigations called “The Red Riding Trilogy.”
Each pic is helmed by a different director: Julian Jarrold’s “1974,” James Marsh’s “1980″ and Anand Tucker’s “1983″ are self-contained crime thrillers with plot threads that link the three films.
Cast includes Mark Addy, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, Andrew Garfield and Rebecca Hall.
Trilogy is based on David Peace’s cult novels about a serial killer who stalked the Yorkshire area of England in the 1970s and 1980s. Scripts were penned by Tony Grisoni.
Pics are produced by Michael Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton’s Revolution Films. StudioCanal handled sales.
“Red Riding” aired on Britain’s Channel Four earlier this year. IFC Films plans a theatrical and video on demand release in fall.
May
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source: THR.com
French indie distributor branching into new territory
CANNES — French indie giant Wild Bunch is kicking off its German distribution operation with the Middle Ages mystery thriller “Black Death” starring Sean Bean.
Wild Bunch will bow the Christopher Smith-directed feature in Germany next year.
The 14th century drama, which also stars Carice van Houten and Eddie Radmayne, is shooting in the eastern German state of Sachsen Anhalt. Germany’s Egoli Tossell and Britain’s Ecosse Films are producing and Hanway Films is selling the title in Cannes.
Wild Bunch launched its German distribution outfit under the radar a few weeks ago, snatching up ex-Telepool executive Marc Gabizon to run the operation out of Munich. Booking and billing for the German releases will be handled by Central Film, the Berlin-based 50-50 joint venture between Wild Bunch and Senator Film.
Wild Bunch is expected to announce a full slate of titles for Germany soon.
May
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added 8 stills from Cash as well
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May
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added the poster and a fresh still from Black Death to the gallery
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added the poster for Ca$h to the gallery
May
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source: ew.com
The cast of Twentieth Century Fox’s upcoming fantasy adventure Percy Jackson, about a teenager who discovers that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, just got a whole lot randier. The studio has hired Steve Coogan to play the lord of the underworld, Hades, and Rosario Dawson will take on the role of his imprisoned wife, Persephone, who in this story carries on a flirtation with Percy Jackson’s teenage friend Grover, played by Brandon T. Jackson.
The duo joins Pierce Brosnan (Chiron), Uma Thurman (Medusa), Sean Bean (Zeus), Kevin McKidd (Poseidon), and Melina Kanakaredes (Athena) as fellow Greek gods on the precipice of war unless Percy (Logan Lerman), the half-human son of Poseidon, saves the day. Director Chris Columbus is currently filming the adaptation of Rick Riordan’s first novel in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Lightning Thief, in Vancouver, B.C., with an eye on a Feb. 12, 2010, release date.
