News and updates on the work of Scottish actors around the world.
In addition to his December 3 appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Ewan McGregor is also scheduled to be a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday, December 2.
Ewan McGregor was unable to attend Monday's Cinema Society's I Love You Phillip Morris screening. The New York Post reports that he was "trapped in a monsoon in Thailand while shooting" The Impossible. His co-star Jim Carrey was able to attend the screening along with the real-life Phillip Morris.
According to The Guardian, Dougray Scott will be joining David Tennant in BBC2's United. Dougray has been cast in the lead role as Sir Matt Busby, and shooting reportedly started yesterday.
Butler praised the charity worker whose organisation provides school meals for hungry children in developing countries.Photos of Gerard's red carpet arrival:
He said: "I'm proud because he's a fellow Scot. Every day Magnus lets children know that they matter, that someone thousands of miles away cares about them."
Mary's Meals was founded when Mr MacFarlane-Barrow and his brother Fergus made a plan to deliver aid to Bosnia while having a drink at their local pub.
Mr Butler said: "They were having a drink and talked about the heart-wrenching images of the Bosnian war they'd seen on TV. So they made an extraordinary decision that most of us don't make. They decided to help."
Mary's Meals provides a school meal a day for almost 460,000 children in 16 countries. [Karie Gillett]
Gerard Butler is among the celebrities expected to present at the fourth annual CNN Heroes: An All Star Tribute. Other celebrities include Halle Berry, Aaron Eckhart, Jessica Alba, LL Cool J, and Marisa Tomei. The tribute will tape this weekend and air on CNN on Thanksgiving Day (November 25) at 8pm EST.
Featuring an all-star cast including Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton, Michael Angarano, Matthieu Kassovitz and Antonio Banderas, the picture is a gritty spy thriller written by Lem Dobbs (”The Limey”) and starring Carano as a black ops soldier on mission of revenge after she’s double crossed by one of her team-mates...[Kevin Jagernauth]
Gerard Butler and director Antoine Fuqua are reportedly in talks with Relavity Media to develop scifi project, Afterburn. Based on a comic book, Afterburn is set "a year after a solar flare burns half the surface of a planet, and treasure hunters return to retrieve what's left of value." A script has already been written, but a according to Deadline, there will be a script rewrite.
McKidd, who is currently based in Los Angeles, said: "This would be devastating for Moray, plain and simple - not just for Lossiemouth but the entire region. In what are already difficult times economically, it seems this move would throw the Moray area into a downward spiral."
"I urge the powers-that-be to reconsider the closure of RAF Lossiemouth," added Mr McKidd, "for the sake of my home area, which depends upon its presence." [The Northern Scot]
