James McAvoy: 'Filth' trailer, 'Trance' reviews, 'X-Men' portrait

 photo courtesy of James McAvoy MB (Twitter)

• Filth

Down and dirty: watch the first trailer for Irvine Welsh's Filth
A talking tapeworm is the least of James McAvoy's problems in Filth, the new adaptation of Irvine "Trainspotting" Welsh's novel. In this definitely 18-certificate trailer, we see booze flow, punches thrown, sex had – but that's hardly a surprise, this is Irvine Welsh after all
Read more and watch the trailer at The Guardian

Red band trailer also available at Aces Showbiz and BBC America

• Trance

Reviews are coming in. Here's a selection from Montreal Gazette, Washington Examiner, Courier Journal, and Huffington Post.
Interview at Interview Magazine.

• X-Men

From Flicks and Bits:

Stunning ‘X-Men’ portrait of James McAvoy’s Professor X

Imaliea has drawn this incredible digital portraits centering on Michael Fassbender’s Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto and James McAvoy’s Charles Xavier/Professor X. Both characters will next be seen on the big screen in 2014 in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the seventh installment in the ‘X-Men’ film series. X-Men: Days of Future Past is scheduled to go into production this month in Montreal, Canada. It will be the first film in the ‘X-Men’ film series to be filmed in 3D.
Head on over to Imaliea’s page for more top-notch artwork to feast your eyes on.

 Source: Flicks and Bits

Tony Curran: 'Labyrinth' photo and 'Defiance' videos

Photo: Tony Curran in the miniseries "Labyrinth"

Photo from Bekia. Larger version here.


Defiance Trailer: No Place Like Home
A revolutionary entertainment experience set on future earth. Defiance premiering Monday April 15 at 9/8c on Syfy

Get More Defiance:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/Defiance
Twitter: http://twitter.com/defianceworld
Source: YouTube


Defiance: Preacher
Defiance is going to be epic! And so is Jamie N Commons. Check out our latest trailer featuring the music of up-and-coming artist, Jamie N Commons. Defiance premiering Monday April 15 at 9/8c

Sourece: YouTube 

Gerard Butler: New Poster for OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN

Watch the just-released trailer for the upcoming action thriller from the director of the hit film Training Day. Olympus Has Fallen will be released in theaters this March.

When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President, and avert an even bigger disaster.

Olympus Has Fallen is directed by Antoine Fuqua and stars Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Ashley Judd, and Rick Yune. FilmDistrict has scheduled it for theatrical release on March 22nd, 2013.



Source (including images): The Daily Blam!

Gerard Butler: new trailer for "Olympus Has Fallen"

He's The Only Hope You've Got

A new trailer has arrived for Training Day director Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen. Terrorists have infiltrated The White House, the President is a hostage, and there's nobody left to save the leader of the free world.
Except one man.
Gerard Butler is the ex-special forces trapped inside the West wing who will pick off terrorists like fruit from a tree.
Olympus Has Fallen arrives in cinemas five months before Roland Emmerich's similarly themed White House Down. Which terrorist will be most terrifying? Which President will be most presidential? Which special forces guy hates terrorists the most? Well, Gerard Butler and co have set the action bar pretty high judging by the trailer below...

Source: Sky Movies

Ewan McGregor: 'Jack the Giant Slayer' trailer, and new espionage thriller 'Our Kind of Traitor'

Our Kind of Traitor
Ewan McGregor has joined the cast of espionage thriller Our Kind of Traitor.
Justin Kurzel will direct the movie based on John Le Carre's 2010 novel of the same name, the Daily Mail reports.
Our Kind of Traitor follows a British couple who find themselves caught up between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service after becoming mixed up with a mysterious Russian businessman.
McGregor, who recently appeared in The Impossible and will next be seen in Jack The Giant Slayer, will begin work on the project after completing Julius Avery's Son of a Gun.
Director Kurzel is best known for helming the 2011 Australian thriller The Snowtown Murders.
Our Kind of Traitor is yet to be given a release date.
Read more at Digital Spy

Also reported by Female First, Cinema Blend, Indie Wire and many others.


Jack the Giant Slayer trailer   




Read more at Joe.ie

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

 

Photo courtesy of STV


'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'

Read more at Movieline

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 

Tony Curran: 'Defiance' premiere, trailer, and updates

 

Photo source: Facebook

Defiance: Combining a TV Series and Game Into One World
Creators and cast discuss the upcoming Syfy series and how it will connect to the video game.
Two other important characters are the alien/Castithan married couple Datak (Tony Curran) and Stahma (Jaime Murray).
Said Curran, “These characters are very complex, with a lot of depth to them. And a few of them have got sordid pasts and possibly some very sordid futures, yes. Some very unpredictable futures. But a lot of it is to do with survival in this town. As Julie was saying, there's this indomitable spirit which a lot of these characters, which is a great human trait which also a lot of these aliens have. And that's where the tone of Defiance originated from, was after the Pale Wars that happened for nine years, there was the act of defiance, as it were, between the aliens and humans who ended up saving some children and hence the name of Defiance.”
Read loads more at IGN


'Defiance': New trailer for Syfy's action epic -- EXCLUSIVE
From Inside TV:

Here’s the new trailer for Syfy’s upcoming major drama series Defiance, which not only returns a few star ships to the network, but also gives us giant muscular blue guys, battle mechs, some strange religious group and a whole lot of other elements we don’t quite understand yet, but sure look intriguing, wrapped up in a post-apocalyptic neo-Western setting.

Defiance is both a show and an online video game (details below and more photos below) that’s set amid the ruins of St. Louis following the arrival of seven races of aliens. The result, especially with the song featured in this new trailer (“Preacher” by Jamie N Commons), almost has a Firefly vibe.

The series also just got an official première date: Monday, April 15 at 9 p.m. with a two-hour début.

Source (with embedded trailer): Inside TV


"Defiance": Humans, Aliens and Military Scavengers
"...the 'Votan' aliens came to Earth seeking a new home after their solar system was destroyed. But they found they were not welcome on Earth, forced to orbit the planet for six years as prolonged negotiations with skeptical Earth governments proved futile. With supplies running low, the Votans declared war with the humans to make Earth their new home.

"During this war, Votan ships shot down by government military, accidentally released 'terraformer technology'into the atmosphere, causing radical changes to the biosphere and geology of Earth.

"Then after decades of hostility a ceasefire was declared. Few organized governments remained for either the humans or the aliens, as both sides factionalized with members looking out for themselves. In several areas, local human and Votan militias banded together to cooperate if they were to survive on a rapidly changing planet.

"'Jeb Nolan' served in the military during the war. With the war now over, he returns to his hometown of St. Louis to find that it is no longer the city he left; it is little more than a refugee camp.

"Deciding that his services are needed, Jeb becomes the 'Chief Lawkeeper' in 'Defiance', protecting the town from clashes between humans, aliens and military scavengers..."

Cast includes Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Stephanie Leonidas, Mia Kirshner, Graham Greene and Fionnula Flanagan.
Read more at Sneak Peak


Syfy's 'Defiance' Gets Première Date

The 12-episode season will launch Monday, April 15 at 9 p.m., the cable network announced Monday. Defiance bridges a scripted television and online gaming for the first time.

The series and the game feature an interconnected world and storylines that will launch later this year with the release of the game, ahead of the TV series debut. Defiance introduces an exotically transformed planet Earth, its landscapes permanently altered following the sudden – and tumultuous – arrival of seven unique alien races.

Defiance stars Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Graham Greene and Mia Kirshner.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Première also reported by The Futon Critic

Defiance (Syfy): What to Expect
There’s a little Charles Dickens in it. Asked about his character Datak, Tony Curran said, “Me and [Datak's wife] Stahma, their planet has been destroyed. They have come to Earth, looking for a new home. And there is a war that begins between the humans and aliens. [Datak is] from a very low caste. He’s from the pages of a Dickens novel. You might say he’d been scraped out of the gutter. On the ship coming to Earth, he ends up meeting Stahma, and she’s a higher caste than Datak. She’s somewhat aristocracy, you might say. And he’s a bit of a silver tongued devil, and he ends up charming her to the point that they actually get married.”
Read more at TV Equals



From Tony Curran's Twitter feed:

• Defiance 2 hour première Datak looks forward to meeting you 2013 April 9pm on Sy Fy (source)
• Backstage at TCA press tour @DefianceWorld 2013 April 9pm (source)

From Tony Curran's Facebook page:
 
Behind the scenes from Labyrinth. A nice cuppa and a good read during some down time on Labyrinth Cape Town. (source)




More links:
Defiance: Worlds Away
Civilization begins again. Defiance, April 15 at 9/8c on Syfy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cs1vO9_KLPY#!

DEFIANCE: To Première on Syfy April 15 - New Trailer Released
Syfy’s highly-anticipated Defiance will have its series première Monday, April 15 @ 9pm with a two-hour episode (culminating in a total of 12 episodes/13 hours). For the network, this is designated as the "next big thing."
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/scifimediazone/news/?a=72330

Syfy Releases New Trailer and Première Date for Game Crossover Series DEFIANCE
http://scifimafia.com/2013/01/syfy-releases-new-trailer-and-premiere-date-for-game-crossover-series-defiance/

Syfy Unveils Transmedia Series 'Defiance' at TCA, Part TV Show and Part MMO Video Game
http://www.indiewire.com/article/television/syfy-defiance-tca-winter-press-tour-2013

Tony Curran at event of Defiance
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Tony Curran, Stephanie Leonidas and Jaime Murray at event of Defiance
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm56208640/nm0192889

Still of Tony Curran and Jaime Murray in Defiance
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Still of Graham Greene, Julie Benz and Tony Curran in Defiance
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Still of Tony Curran in Defiance
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1699458304/nm0192889

Martin Compston: First Trailer For UK Teen Slasher ‘Comedown’

Bloody Disgusting has landed the trailer for Menhaj Huda’s UK horror-thriller Comedown, an urban horror film set against a contemporary London backdrop of abandonment and decay.
Arriving on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download on January 28, Martin Compston, Geoff Bell, Adam Deacon, Red Madrell and Charleene Rena will all star.

Penned by Steven Kendall, “Six friends, who’ve known each other from childhood, break into the tower block they lived in as kids, now deserted and condemned, to rig-up a pirate radio station, get high and party. When one of the group goes missing, her friends begin to search the dark interior of the tower and soon realize that they are not alone: a resident psychopath lurks in the shadows and is hunting them down, taking them out, one-by-one.“

Source: Bloody Disgusting

'Jack the Giant Slayer' poster and trailer

Jack the Giant Slayer – Poster Debut

 

UK Release date: 22 March 2013

Director: Bryan Singer

Cast:  Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, Ian McShane, Warwick Davis, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ewen Bremner

An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom and its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend… and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

Source: Cinema Geek

Jack the Giant Slayer – Trailer

Trailer source: YouTube

Source: Cinema Geek

 

James McAvoy: 'Welcome to the Punch' trailer

'Welcome to the Punch': James McAvoy hunts Mark Strong in new trailer

Welcome to the Punch has debuted its first trailer.

The video sets up the hunt between James McAvoy's detective Max Lewinsky and Mark Strong's exiled master criminal Jacob Sternwood.

The film centres on Sternwood, who returns from exile to rescue his critically wounded son from hospital.

Lewinsky's single-minded attempt to make the most of this opportunity to capture his foe slowly gives way as he realises there is more to the case than meets the eye.



David Morrissey, Andrea Riseborough, Elyes Gabel, Peter Mullan and Daniel Mays also feature in the Eran Creevy-directed British thriller.

Welcome to the Punch will arrive in cinemas on March 15.

Source: Digital Spy

Trailer and poster for 'The Wee Man'

A new trailer and poster have been released for Martin Compston’s next film, The Wee Man, based on the life of notorious Glasgow gangster, Paul Ferris.
The film follows Paul (Compston) as he grows up an ordinary young kid in the notorious area of Blackhill, Glasgow and the journey through his teenage years to manhood.
The story begins in the sixties. At the age of just eleven, Paul has already learned that life on the street is tough. Everybody knows his place. Poverty breeds corruption, crime, violence and bullying. The film charts the way in which Paul was bullied as a child, and whose road to crime came as a reaction against the monsters of his youth.


Patrick Bergin, John Hannah, Denis Lawson, Lorna McMonagle, Stephen McCole and Rita Tushingham co-star.
Source: Reel Scotland

There's also a glimpse of Daniel Kerr, who plays the young Paul.

The Wee Man trailer offers glimpse of Martin Compston as Paul Ferris

New film The Wee Man is based on the well documented life story of reformed Glaswegian gangster Paul Ferris – and its first released trailer reveals more about what audiences can expect from the gritty true-life tale.

With a Scottish cast led by Martin Compston (The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, Sweet Sixteen), the film features John Hannah (The Mummy Trilogy, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Spartacus), Denis Lawson (Perfect Sense, Star Wars Trilogy), Lorna Mcmonagle (Lip Service), Clare Grogan (Gregory's Girl) and Stephen McCole (Neds).

The Wee Man follows Paul (Compston) growing up as an ordinary young kid with hardworking parents in Blackhill, Glasgow, and follows the journey through his teenage years to manhood. The film has been produced by Carnaby International Productions (Rise Of The Footsoldier, A Lonely Place To Die).
The plot description is as follows: “The story begins in the sixties. At the age of just eleven, Paul has already learned that life on the street is tough. Everybody knows his place. Poverty breeds corruption, crime, violence and bullying. Blackhill was the most notorious area of all.

“The film charts the way in which Paul was bullied as a child, and whose road to crime came as a reaction against the monsters of his youth. Paul worked for feared gangland boss Arthur Thompson Snr (Patrick Bergin) and rose to power in Glasgow's murky underworld in the late 80s and early 90s. In 1991 he was charged with the murder of Arthur 'Fat Boy' Thompson Jr (Stephen McCole), son of Arthur.
“Ferris sparked a furore when he was given a hero's reception outside the High Court and walked free after a not-proven verdict, following one of Scotland's longest murder trials. He was jailed for gun-running in 1998, and on his release in 2002 turned his back on his former gangster life and vowed to go straight, determined to teach others how to avoid a life of crime.”
Source: STV

• The Wee Man is released in selected UK cinemas on January 18, 2013.

Peter Mullan: 'The Joy of Six' trailer and review, new project, 'The Fear' trailer

The Joy of Six
A mixed selection of short films, featuring Judi Dench, Peter Mullan and direction from Romola Garai
Read a review by The List here 


Swedish Sunset Song production
A new film based on one of Scotland’s classic novels will soon be in production – in Sweden. An adaptation of Sunset Song, the book by Mearns novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon, will be filmed next year. Stars will include Peter Mullan, Agyness Deyn and Stuart Martin. Location scenes will be shot in the Mearns but most of the technical work on the movie will be done in Sweden.
Read more at Kincardineshire Observer

Another trailer for 'The Fear'
Channel 4's new 4-part drama series The Fear, starring Peter Mullan as a Brighton crime boss turned entrepreneur. A promising chronicle of the the disintegration of a criminal mind... Don't miss The Fear Première on Monday, December 3rd | 10pm | on Channel 4
Source: YouTube

PETER MULLAN: PLAYING RICHIE BECKETT

Glaswegian actor and director Peter Mullan is known for his hard man roles in shows such as Red Riding and The Fixer. However there was a much more personal reason for taking on his latest gangster persona for Channel 4’s The Fear.

He says: “What grabbed me about it was that someone with a very dark past and a very shady present should have to come to terms with a disease that has claimed the lives of millions and caused so many families to suffer.

“I have lost a lot of my family to Alzheimer’s. Ritchie is a guy who quite rightly you should not, nor ever should, sympathise with but who will nevertheless demand a certain degree of empathy from the audience. To understand that even bad people get diseases.

“As far as I’m concerned he’s been a pretty bad boy to say the least. Based on his previous actions, you would be more than justified in saying he’s not a pleasant human being. So now he’s been diagnosed, his false persona unravels and you get to see who he is and what is at the heart of him.”

A word of warning. This drama is not for everyone, with violence, gore and bad language. If you don’t flinch from any of those, The Fear is a thought-provoking idea that none of us is immune to Alzheimer’s, not even hard-men gangsters. The challenge for actor Peter Mullan has been to make his character sympathetic. Or has it?

One of our best character actors, Mullan is far from bothered about whether we like Richie Beckett or not.

He says: “I don’t like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them. With Richie there is nothing. Nothing at all redeeming.

“I don’t think you would pity him. He’s just too unpleasant to pity. But yeah, there are certain moments when I guess you may not dislike him as much.

“I mean, you’re looking at a guy who has been running a drug empire for years, he has killed people to get to where he is and he wouldn’t think twice, in the past, about the number of lives he has destroyed through the so-called illegal product that he sells. No, I hope the audience wouldn’t pity him because that would lead to sympathy and let him off the hook.”

In the four-part drama stripped across the week, Mullan plays crime boss turned “entrepreneur” Richie, trying to fight off both an attack on his commercial interests and a mind that seems to be disintegrating.

Unbeknown to him, he has a very aggressive form of Alzheimer’s. As Beckett’s dark past becomes apparent, unresolved traumas echo the medical chaos that engulfs him. Says Mullan: “Well, Richie sees himself as a businessman, so called, but he is a gangster in reality, which I suppose some businessmen are, at least in my book anyway!

“He’s recently realised that his behaviour is quite aberrant and through the course of the series he discovers he has Alzheimer’s, which takes hold in a concentrated period of time. It’s extreme.”

“Aberrant” is not the word. In the first five minutes, he vents his anger on a passing cyclist. Mullan shares some of his character’s feelings towards the pedaling fraternity: “I have to say I really don’t like Brighton [where it’s set] cyclists. They cycle too worthily.”

His character though has more of a problem with foreign upstarts. “There is a group of gangsters,” he says, “who have come over from Albania to try to take over his patch.

“His family have, on the one hand, to cope with his increasingly erratic behaviour, but also disguise it at the same time because they don’t want it known to the wider gangster community that he’s no longer in charge of his faculties.”

All of this troubling behaviour puts pressure on his relationship with his wife and two sons. Says Mullan: “He becomes more aggressive, more emotional and in a weird way, paradoxically, more open, more vulnerable than he’s ever been before.

“So in some respects it brings the family closer together but obviously in other respects it rips them apart because his nature is to fight things.

“Instead of coping and finding the support he needs to get through these things, his behaviour becomes more and more violent and unpredictable. That obviously pushes the family away.

“He’s fighting, in this case, the unfightable.”

The Fear, Channel 4, December 3, 9pm.

Source: Express

Ewan McGregor: 'Jack The Giant Slayer' trailer

Ewan McGregor in the new trailer for 'Jack The Giant Slayer'
The new trailer for 2013 fantasy film Jack The Giant Slayer has hit the web and, by the looks of things, this star-studded movie is going to be an absolute must-see!
Jack The Giant Slayer follows the story of a young farmhand who accidentally opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants, reigniting an ancient battle long since forgotten in the process.
Read more at Entertainmentwise

Also featured by Blastr and Daily Blam and HitFix

Peter Mullan

The Fear starring Peter Mullan Ch4 PREVIEW

Red alert for Richie Beckett (Peter Mullan) in The Fear. Pics: C4

Rating: ★★★★ 

Channel 4: starts Monday, 3 December, 10pm  

Eyeball to eyeball with the Albanians

Story: Richie Beckett, former gang boss turned respected Brighton businessman, pledges money to help rebuild a pier. But Richie's mind is in turmoil and the empire he runs with his sons is endangered by a vicious Albanian gang.

Tony Soprano famously suffered panic attacks and had to see a shrink. In C4’s new hard-knuckle crime drama The Fear we have another gang boss whose mind is under assault.

But Richie Beckett’s turmoil is more serious and urgent, because just when his Brighton-based empire is under siege from a gang of Albanian psychos, Richie is starting to lose his identity.

He is suffering from some form of dementia or Alzheimer’s. This would be alarming enough in the new role he has taken on as respectable local businessman, but when his family and interests are suddenly under threat from the vicious newcomers in town, this is calamitous.

Richie with sons Cal and Matty

Grisly killing
Peter Mullan is excellent as the fearsome family head, veering alarmingly between menace and bewilderment. Harry Lloyd and Paul Nicholls are his sons, Matty and Cal, who, along with their mother (Anastasia Hille) think their father is on the booze again.

Cal, the eldest and a creep who revels in his dad’s notoriety, wants to broker some deal with the family of Vajkal, the Albanian guvnor. But the Albanians implicate him in the grisly murder of a prostitute he has used, keeping her beheaded corpse as evidence to incriminate Cal if the Becketts don’t fall into line.

Richie is therefore dragged into a meeting at the Albanians’ farmhouse retreat. Irritable, sleepless, forgetful – Richie can’t even remember battering a young man on the front in broad daylight – his presence at the farmhouse is as sensible as juggling gelignite.

Cal (Paul Nicholls)

Peter Mullan is terrific as a gangster in decline
The Fear is being shown over four consecutive nights and is a bruising but riveting portrait of a criminal in decline, haunted by his past and out of touch with the present. And it's a story with emotion, as in the scene where Richie enters his wife's bedroom and asks if he can lie with her. Amid his confusion and increasing aggression, he seeks some feeling of closeness with his estranged wife.

Brighton is evocatively photographed as a lurid but at the same time genteel backdrop, regency buildings juxtaposed with drag entertainers and night-time revellers.

Writer Richard Cottan has created a rich thriller, though having Richie’s wife buying a couple of paintings called Confusion 1 & 2 was not the most ingenious bit of symbolism.

Still, the opener sets up a drama full of tension and dread, setting in motion what can only be a fearsome, tragic train of events.

Cast:  
Peter Mullan Richie Bennett
Anastasia Hille Jo Beckett
Harry Lloyd Matty Beckett
Paul Nicholls Cal Beckett
Demosthenes Chrysan Vajkal
Dragos Bucur Marin
Shaban Arifi Davit
Julia Ragnarsson Zana
Danny Sapani Wes
Source (including photos): Crime Time Preview



Peter Mullan discussed 'The Fear'

In Channel 4's new four-part drama series The Fear, Peter Mullan stars as crime boss turned entrepreneur Richie Beckett, trying to fight off both an attack on his commercial interests and a mind that seems to be disintegrating. Unbeknown to him, he has a very aggressive form of Alzheimer's. As Richie's dark past bleeds into the present, unresolved traumas that echo the chaos threaten to engulf him.

Here, Mullan reveals a little more about the drama.

Tell us about Richie...
Well, Richie sees himself as a business man, so called, but he is a gangster in reality, which I suppose some business men are, at least in my book anyway.
He's recently realised that his behaviour is quite aberrant and through the course of the series he discovers he has Alzheimer's - a very aggressive form of it which takes hold in a concentrated period of time. It's extreme.
In the meantime, there is another group of gangsters who have come over from Albania to try and take over his patch. And his family have to, on the one hand cope with his increasingly erratic behaviour, but also disguise it at the same time because they don't want it known to the wider gangster community that he's no longer in charge of his faculties.

Describe the effects on his relationship with his wife and sons?
He becomes more aggressive, more emotional and in a weird way, paradoxically, more open, more vulnerable than he's ever been before. And so in some respects it brings the family closer together - but obviously in other respects it rips them apart because his nature is to fight things. So he's fighting - in this case - the unfightable. So instead of coping and finding the support he needs to get through these things, his behaviour becomes more and more violent and unpredictable. That obviously pushes the family away.

How does The Fear differ from other gangster dramas?
The thing that attracted me to it was the combination of the two aspects - a gangster with Alzheimer's is interesting, to me. A gangster TV series, I'm not interested in.
What grabbed me about it was that someone with a very dark past and a very shady present should have to come to terms with a disease that has claimed the lives of millions and caused so many families to suffer. I have lost a lot of my family to Alzheimer's. So the idea that he is a guy that quite rightly you should not - nor ever should - sympathise with, but the nature of the illness demands a certain degree of empathy - not sympathy - empathy, to understand that even bad people get diseases. And as far as I'm concerned he's been a pretty bad boy to say the least. His previous actions, well you would be more than justified in saying he's not a pleasant human being. So now he's been diagnosed, his false persona becomes unravelled and you get to see who he is and what is at the heart of him.

Will audiences pity Richie?
I would hope empathise - I don't think you would pity him. He's just too unpleasant to pity, but yeah there are certain moments when I guess you may not dislike him as much. But I certainly wouldn't sympathise with him. I mean, you're looking at a guy who has been running a drug empire for years, he has killed people to get to where he is and he wouldn't think twice - in the past - about the number of lives he has destroyed through the so-called illegal product that he sells. But no I hope they wouldn't pity him because that would lead to sympathy and let him off the hook.

Source (including photo): Channel 4


Channel4 trailer for The Fear starring Peter Mullan
Published on Nov 15, 2012 by James Brown
Channel4 cinema trailer for The Fear starring Peter Mullan.
Music is Colliders by Raffertie
Voice Over is Hermione Norris
Source: YouTube

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Two trailers for 'Sir Billi'

 

The movie has been made by Billi Productions Ltd. in Glasgow, directed by Sascha Hartmann, who wrote it with his wife Tessa. It was originally announced in 2010; then it was slated to première at the 15th annual Sonoma (Calif.) International Film Festival on April 11 – 15, 2012. It apparently did, according to a killer review, but it has not been seen since. Now no date is promised.

Read more at flayrah

Tony Curran

Datak and Irisa chilling in 'Defiance'
Source: Tony Curran (Twitter)

'Defiance' trailer: New In Town

Source: YouTube

SET VISIT: the bleak future world of Defiance
Scottish actor Tony Curran plays a Votan assistant to the mayor, kind of an alien enforcer. Takes him an hour-and-a-half to get "Votan-ed" every morning, he says.
Read more at TV Feeds My Family

Billy Connolly: 'Quartet' trailer

Trailer for Dustin Hoffman's Quartet
The trailer for Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet, is now online and you can check it out in the player below, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.

Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Michael Gambon, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay and Sheridan Smith star in the December 28 release.

Quartet tells the story of Reggie (Courtenay), Wilf (Connolly) and Cissy (Collins) who reside in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Each year they stage a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday, which also raises funds for the home. Reggie's ex-wife Jean (Smith) arrives at the home and creates tension, playing the diva part but refusing to sing in the concert.
Source: Coming Soon
 

Gerard Butler: project news, casting rumours, trailers

New 'Chasing Mavericks' poster, and competition
From I Need My Fix:

We’ve got a new poster for Chasing Mavericks with Gerard Butler. The movie also wants to give you the opportunity to win some swag. If you, during any of your travels out and about, should spot a poster for Chasing Mavericks, simply upload it to the film’s FB page for the chance to win a #LiveLikeJay bracelet:
“Can you spot a Chasing Mavericks poster? Upload your sighting on Instagram and include the hashtag #LiveLikeJay for your chance to win a Live Like Jay bracelet! Make sure to follow us on Instagram: @OfficialChasingMavericks.”

Read more at I Need My Fix

Green Band trailer for Movie 43
We saw a red band trailer for Movie 43 earlier this month which contained profanity, boobs, and about 30 familiar faces ranging from Gerard Butler, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone and Liev Schreiber.

Now Relativity Media have released a regular green band trailer which still contains some of the cleaner material, but there’s some extra stuff thrown in there too. Still no plot in sight, but I don’t think this is a movie that aimed for one in the first place.
Watch the trailer below:

Read more at http://filmonic.com/green-band-trailer-for-movie-43#QqQzJkRcI7xWUTRR.99

 

Gerard Butler’s upcoming US TV appearances Below is a list of Gerard’s upcoming TV appearances in the US.  ALL these dates are tentative and subject to change.  The dates are NOT filming dates, but air dates for the interviews. 

Air times will vary by location so check your local listings for the times in your area.

Monday, October 22, 2012
   - Good Morning America
   - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
   - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
     Gerard is scheduled to appear on The Daily Show on Comedy Central.  Check your local listings for air times.  http://www.thedailyshow.com/guests
   - Live with Kelly and Michael
     Gerard is tentatively scheduled to appear on Live with Kelly and Michael on October 23.  Check your local listings for more information.

Source: Gerard Butler Dot Net

Gerard Butler to star in Chetnik movie?
Blic reports that Scottish lawyer-turned-actor Gerard Butler could star in a movie recalling the sacrifice that Chetnik resistance fighters made in 1944 when they rescued hundreds of US airmen from the Nazis.

Serbian producer Marko Mišković is currently negotiating with Hollywood partners to produce the movie about this little-known event which, if produced, would surely cast new light on the tremendous contribution made by Chetnik fighters to the Allied cause. Villagers from Pranjani – where the airlift for Operation Halyard was staged – risked their own lives and shared what precious little they had to save the US airmen.

Gerard was critically acclaimed in Phantom of the Opera which was followed with leading roles in chick-flick PS I Love You and  Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla. He also starred alongside Ralph Fiennes in a movie production of Shakepeare’s Coriolanus which was filmed on location in Belgrade.  The actor is said to have loved his time in Belgrade and there are rumours of a romantic attachment he forme with Serbian actress Martina Rajić.
Source: Britic 

 

A new trailer for ‘Playing For Keeps’ starring Gerard Butler

December 7th is coming soon! That’s when Playing For Keeps, starring Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel hits theaters. A new behind the scenes trailer has just been released.

The synopsis goes like this: 

Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Dennis Quaid star in “Playing For Keeps,” a romantic comedy about a charming, down-on-his luck former soccer star (Butler) who returns home to put his life back together. Looking for a way to rebuild his relationship with his son, he gets roped into coaching the boy’s soccer team. But his attempts to finally become an “adult” are met with hilarious challenges from the attractive “soccer moms” who pursue him at every turn. “Playing For Keeps” is directed by Gabriele Muccino, the director of “The Pursuit of Happiness.”

The movie hits theatres on December 7, 2012. Be sure to check out their Facebook and Twitter pages too.
Source: TEN Gossip

Ewan McGregor: new movie project, UK trailer for 'The Impossible'

Ewan McGregor to star in crime drama 'Son of a Gun'
Julius Avery’s Australian crime thriller Son of a Gun, starring Ewan McGregor, will be touted to buyers during the American Film Market, with a shoot start date in early 2013. 

The movie, billed as a visceral, tautly paced heist thriller, centers on a complex relationship between Australia’s public enemy No. 1 (McGregor) and his young protégé. 

It will be sold to North American buyers by UTA Independent Film Group and internationally by high-profile U.K. start-up sales, finance and production banner Altitude Film Entertainment.
Hopscotch/eOne has inked a deal for Australian and New Zealand rights. 

Read more at Hollywood Reporter
Also reported by Digital Spy (with a 'Career in Pictures' feature) and many others 


The Impossible Trailer 2
Powerful UK trailer for The Impossible with Ewan McGregor & Naomi Watts
Acclaimed Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) makes his English language début with The Impossible, the powerful drama based on a harrowing true story of a family caught up in tsunami that hit the coast of Thailand on Boxing Day, 2004.
 
Starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts in the leads, the film premièred at TIFF last month and with its release just a few months away, Yahoo Movies have debuted the new UK trailer.

The Impossible will be given an Oscar-qualifying release in the US on 21st December, and will arrive in theatres in the UK on 2nd January, 2013. The film is absolutely flawless in its execution, and is by far one of the most powerful dramas in recent memory.

Source: Hey U Guys

Tony Curran: Syfy's 'Defiance' headed to Canada

Canadian broadcaster Shaw Media has acquired the Syfy series Defiance for its Showcase channel. The hybrid TV and gaming property will début on Showcase in 2013 as part of a deal between Shaw Media and NBCUniversal Television Canada. The deal with NBCUniversal Television Canada comes ahead of the hybrid TV and digital property, which is shot in Toronto, bowing north of the border in 2013. Shaw Media already found ratings with Continuum, as it broadens out into sci-fi with homegrown series like Lost Girl from Prodigy Pictures. 

"We are thrilled that Defiance, an exciting and innovative new drama, will be available to viewers in Canada," Ron Suter, executive vp and general manager of NBCUniversal Television Canada, said Tuesday. 

Defiance stars Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Graham Greene and Mia Kirshner. The series from Universal Cable Productions is executive produced by Kevin Murphy and Michael Taylor.

Source: Hollywood Reporter



'Defiance' trailer: First look at Syfy's new TV/videogame series -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO 

Syfy’s upcoming series Defiance is being billed as a transmedia event. The tale of a near-future Earth recovering from an extended apocalyptic war with an alien race, Defiance will debut on SyFy in 2013. But the show is just part of the Defiance experience — there will also be a tie-in MMORPG, allowing viewers to take part directly in the show’s world. And the world on display in the first Defiance trailer looks intriguing, with space sci-fi settings combined with pitched warfare and at least one bare-knuckle fight. 

Check out the exclusive trailer at Inside TV