James McAvoy: 'Trance' trailer, Gandalf ambitions, 'Shameless' speculation

 

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'Trance' release date and trailer

British director Danny Boyle’s next film will be Trance, a project he made quickly with James McAvoy before he directed the 2012 London Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. The film has reportedly earned a March 2013 release date in the U.K., but there’s no word on when exactly it could hit U.S. theaters.
According to The Film Stage, Pathe, which will release the film in the U.K., will release it on March 27, 2013 across the pond. It is expected to get a spring release in the U.S. in 2013.
The film is described as having the “dark, sexy, hard-edged tone” of Boyle’s earlier films like Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, which were co-written by John Hodge, who also worked on Trance.
Source: The Celebrity Cafe 

Movieline has shared the trailer for 'Trance'

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James McAvoy wants to be Gandalf in Tolkien prequels
Scots actor James McAvoy has revealed that he would love to play Tolkien’s wizard Gandalf.
Gandalf is one of the main characters in The Hobbit, which follows the adventure of Bilbo Baggins.
The role was played by Sir Ian McKellen in Peter Jackson’s screen adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
It was been reported that McAvoy would like to play the role if any prequels are planned.
The X-Men: First Class star said he has a great knowledge of Tolkein’s work and he discussed the possibility of appearing in something adapted from Tolkien anthology The Silmarillion.
He told Total Film: "It's a collection of poems and songs that chart the ancient history of Middle-earth.
“My true geek is coming to the fore, but they're really, really beautiful stories.
"In part of that is the genesis of Gandalf, or Mithrandir, or Stormcrow, or any of his many, many names. Anyway, maybe that's the one!"
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is currently out in cinemas and is top of the UK box office.
Source (including photo above): STV

'Shameless' return?
What About James McAvoy? Anne-Marie Duff Returns To 'Shameless' For Last Ever Episode
Will McAvoy return as well?

Anne-Marie Duff will return to Shameless for the series' last ever episode, it has been confirmed.
The actress played Fiona Gallagher (then McBride) during the show's first and second seasons, rising to fame alongside on-screen partner James McAvoy... who she later married.
Jody Latham and Elliot Tittensor will also return for the Channel 4 drama's swansong, which is currently being filmed.

Anne-Marie Duff and James McAvoy (WENN)

The eleventh and final run of episodes will begin broadcasting in the Spring.
Duff played Elizabeth I in BBC One's The Virgin Queen, and also starred in movie 'Nowhere Boy'.
A spokesperson for the show has teased that the finale will be as "celebratory, defiant and unapologetic as ever".
The show launched in 2004 and has been a provocative but hugely successful staple of the Channel 4 schedules ever since.
Source (including photo): Entertainment Wise 

Scots actress Kari Corbett to star in Channel 4 show 'Shameless'

Kari Corbett is moving to the Chatsworth Estate to play the first Scots character to appear in smash-hit show, Shameless. She will play trouble-making Ruby Hepburn, niece of crime queen Mimi Maguire.

The 27-year-old actress, who has starred in River City, Hollyoaks and The Royal, follows fellow Scot James McAvoy, who got his big break on the Channel 4 show – but he didn’t play a Scot on the hit show.

Kari said: “My character brings in the odd Scottish phrase, which I think is quite interesting for national television. But of course you also need to be understood, so I need to ensure my accent doesn’t become too thick.”

Kari first appears as Ruby on January 24. And the Cheryl Cole clone soon locks horns with the show’s most iconic character, Frank Gallagher, played by David Threlfall.

She said: “They seem to clash quite a lot. Their lives seem to cross, and it can be quite confrontational. She calls him a ‘p**-soaked tramp’ and tries her hardest to be as scathing as possible in true Shameless manner. Ruby can be very dismissive of him as some sort of tramp who she thinks is sexually inappropriate, and inappropriate in general. But what’s so wonderful about how they’re writing these two characters is that they manage to see each other as very intelligent in a room full of people who don’t see their intelligence.”

Kari, who is from Paisley, trained at the Scottish Youth Theatre and Langside College in Glasgow before her first role as Kirsty Henderson in River City. From there she’s built up a strong CV on Monarch of the Glen and Doctors. She then played Marian McKaig in The Royal at the same time as she was Caroline in Hollyoaks.

Although she watched the first series of Shameless, Kari admitted she caught up on events in Manchester’s Chatsworth Estate by watching DVDs of all the series while she was filming the current one.

She said: “It was a big help. I watched them while I was filming, so as I was filming I was getting to know the characters, and then coming in and performing with them. There isn’t another job like Shameless in British television. So I don’t know if anything can quite prepare you for how challenging it can be to play a dark comedy.”

While Ruby looks like Cheryl Cole, in real-life Kari says she wouldn’t want to follow the Girls Aloud star’s style.

She added: “Not even slightly. Ruby models herself on mass pop culture. She’s an early 20s woman with not a lot of money, but she can do approximations of what’s fashionable. How we dress her is that she understands what’s in fashion, but she can’t afford it, so she always gets it a little bit wrong. I think that’s very true of a lot of people who live on the Chatsworth Estate – it’s nearly there, but it’s a version of what’s fashionable that always looks slightly off.”

Source: Daily Record