Fright Night premiere closes Empire’s BIG SCREEN weekend

Empire magazine’s BIG SCREEN weekend closed on Sunday with the premiere of Craig Gillespie’s Fright Night – a remake of the 1985 film starring Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall and William Ragsdale.

Star David Tennant attended the packed premiere at London’s O2 on the last night of a successful weekend of film and television related panels, Q&A’s and screenings.

In the film Tennant plans Peter Vincent, played by McDowall in the original, a Vegas entertainer and vampire expert.

When High school student Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) suspects neighbour Jerry Dandrige (Colin Farrell) is a vampire he turns to Vincent for help.

Speaking to seenit.co.uk ahead of the screening, Tennant told us: “there’s no attempt to what [McDowall] did, it’s a very different character. Probably of all the characters in the movie he’s the one that’s most repositioned.”
The former Doctor Who star said the new film “has some gruesome moments, some proper shocking, thrilling horror moments.”

Audio: Listen to our full David Tennant interview


Shot natively in 3D, Fright Night is released in the UK on September 2nd

Source: Seen It

CORIOLANUS trailer

In Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, watch the UK trailer for CORIOLANUS starring Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, James Nesbitt, Jessica Chastain and Brian Cox. The film showed In Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year.

As to CORIOLANUS’ Academy Awards hopes, Anne Thompson of indieWIRE recently wrote, “Vanessa Redgrave, as his Machiavellian mother Volumnia, could win the Oscar for best supporting actress. She is extraordinary as a naturally beautiful older woman who is powerful yet maternal, wicked yet loving, logical yet insane.”

Synopsis:

Caius Martius ‘Coriolanus’ (Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus’s anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city.



Based on William Shakespeare’s tragedy, The Weinstein Company will release the film in the U.S. on December 2, 2011.

Source: We Are Movie Geeks

Gerard Butler to star in FBI thriller 'The Bricklayer'

The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively revealed that Millennium Films has acquired the rights to The Bricklayer, the best-selling novel by former FBI agent Noah Boyd, and attached Gerard Butler to star as a rogue former agent who’s called in to help battle a criminal group that is demanding an escalating series of multi-million dollar ransom payments.

It’s the first project to be assembled by Mark Gill since he stepped into the role of Millenium president in June, and he’ll oversee it along with Boaz Davidson, head of development and creative affairs, and head of production John Thompson. Hanna Weg (Enigma) is adapting the novel for the screen. Butler, Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson are producing, with Erik Lindsay and Weg serving as executive producers.

The Bricklayer was published by William Morrow in January, 2010. Boyd is actually a pseudonym used by former FBI agent Paul Lindsay. In the book, his main character, Steve Vail, is a former FBI agent, working as a Chicago bricklayer, whom the agency reaches out to help track down and combat the criminal gang. The plot also involves a female deputy director at the FBI who is assigned to work with Vail – a part that that has not yet been cast.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Billy Boyd in Moby Dick - caps & photos

Basically Billy Boyd has a new gallery of screen caps and behind-the-scenes photos featuring Billy Boyd in Moby Dick - check out the site to see more

Pound of Flesh release on Blu-ray

Independent distributors Cult Epics have revealed that they are preparing a Blu-ray release of Tamar Simon Hoffs' Pound of Flesh (2010), starring Malcolm McDowell, Angus Macfadyen, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Timothy Bottoms, and Dee Wallace. Technical specs and region coding status for this release are unknown at the moment, but the preliminary release date set by the distributors is November 15th.

Barden College's most revered professor, Noah Melville (Malcolm McDowell), meets his tragic downfall in the shoddy underworld where sex meets scholarship, in Tamar Simon Hoffs' dark comedic thriller.

Professor Melville teaches the most popular Shakespeare class at the idyllic college. His beautiful wife and daughter adore him, as do his students. Yet all is not as it seems. Between lectures, the professor runs an upscale escort service using gorgeous coeds whose steep tuition is financed through Melville's prestigious "Scholarship" program. Pillars of the community, faculty, and the school's wealthy chairman of the board, Cameron Morris (Timothy Bottoms), are among Melville's satisfied clients.

Charges of abuse of force have relegated hardened Detective Patrick Kelly (Angus Macfadyen) to a lowly desk job in Barden, where his only distraction is his feisty boss, Sergeant Rebecca Ferraro (Elizabeth Rodriguez). When an unidentified young woman's body is found near campus, Kelly intuitively suspects the cocky Professor in the crime. A late night alcohol driven brawl unexpectedly implicates Cameron.

Kelly and Ferraro's rough interrogation is stunted by the Chief of Police, who deems the case closed. Furious, Kelly relentlessly seeks justice for the dead girl, leading to Melville's arrest for pandering.

Tortured by the specter of a long prison sentence, the professor flees. Taking the law into his own hands, Kelly, driven by his own skeletons, is determined to track Melville down at any cost, even losing his job. The sensualist professor and the disgraced detective will meet and duel to a brutal conclusion filled with unexpected revelations.



Source: Blu-Ray.com

Weekly schedule for Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 8/15: Betty White, Patton Oswalt (R 5/17/2011)
Tu 8/16: Rosie Perez (R 7/06/2011)
We 8/17: David Beckham, Shohreh Aghdashloo (R 6/01/2011)
Th 8/18: Dick Van Dyke, Kristin Gore (R 6/2/11)
Fr 8/19: Elizabeth Banks, Rich Fulcher (R 7/18/11)

David Tennant - news and new projects

David Tennant camps it up in ginger wig and yellow jacket for wedding planner role in new TV comedy

He's currently starring as a very camp and flamboyant vampire killer in the remake of the 80s horror Fright Night. And flouncing around in outrageous - and let's face it, tasteless - clothes clearly appeals to David Tennant as he's gone and done it again. The former Doctor Who star sports ginger hair, paisley drainpipe trousers and yellow and gold platform heels for a new TV role in the comedy series This is Jinsy, due to air in the UK next month.

Read more at Daily Mail


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David Tennant joins voice cast for new CBeebies animated series

Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is teaming up with another veteran of the time-travelling show for a new animated children's television programme.

Sophie Aldred, who played Ace alongside Sylvester McCoy as the seventh doctor, is going to be the voice behind Tree Fu Tom in the CBeebies series of the same name.

It follows the adventures of an eight-year-old boy who is transformed into a hero by putting on a magic belt. Tennant will play his sidekick, Twigs, in the show which follows the pair's adventures in a magic world called Treetopolis.

CBeebies controller Kay Benbow said: "We have a fantastic cast on this show who work brilliantly as a team. Their rapport permeates through to the programme reflecting the characters as a group of friends working together.
"We are delighted to have David on board as part of the team. The physical energy in his performance works so well for animation and his sense of fun and cheeky humour will delight the older CBeebies audience.
"We have many incredibly talented actors on CBeebies - in shows and the Bedtime Hour - because the very young deserve the very best. It's about seeking out great performances and offering the best possible quality to our viewers."

Source: Daily Record

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Have you booked your tickets for Empire’s Big Screen weekend?

There’s less than two weeks to go until Empire’s BIG SCREEN takes over London’s O2 for a weekend of film screenings, panels, discussions and displays.

Included in the weekend's events will be the UK premiere of Fright Night, hosted by star David Tennant.

Tickets for the weekend are still available and can be bought via empirebigscreen.com

Read more at Seen It

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Doctor Who's David Tennant Celebrated on DVD

David Tennant is about to feel the love.
The man voted as our personal favorite Doctor of all-time will receive this wonderful box set in his honor, containing every episode starring Tennant as the Tenth Doctor -- allons-y! It's truly hard to crack what makes the Tenth Doctor so iconic, but one of the many reasons we loved him is his ability convey all emotions, to go from wise-crackin' and enthusiastic to richly dark and completely sinister on a whim. Now you can experience every adventure the Tenth Doctor had with this box set.
Titled Doctor Who: The David Tennant Years, the box set will contain Series 2, Series 3, Series 4, The Complete Specials and even the two animated endeavors, The Infinite Quest and Dreamland, just to prolong your love affair of Tennant, a true fanboy to the series who brings as much passion to the lore as an actor as he does a viewer to the benefit of everybody.

Warner Home Video and the BBC will be bringing this one out exclusively on DVD come October 11, 2011, leaving those clamoring for a Blu-ray release someday a little sad. The mega set will contain 26 discs that are holstered inside of a spiffy collector's book, and should contain all of the special features from the prior releases. No word was mentioned on our promotional flyer regarding new special features, but the price is set at the MSRP of $199.98.

We hope to have images of the box, the book it comes in, and all sorts of packaging very soon. Stay tuned to IGN DVD for more information about this and other upcoming releases!

Source: IGN

Billy Boyd - 'Moby Dick' and 'The Witches of Oz'

Billy Boyd is currently starring in a new mini-series based on Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” which airs on Encore, Monday and Tuesday nights at 8, Eastern and Pacific times; 7, Central time (USA)

Read more at NY Times


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The Witches Of Oz DVD
Released in the UK today (8th August 2011), the TV mini-series stars Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Jeffrey Combs, Mia Sara, and Christopher Lloyd.

Full review at The Film Pilgrim

‘My Week With Marilyn’ to premiere at 2011 New York film fest

'My Week With Marilyn’, a film about Marilyn Monroe’s time in England in 1956, will be premiered at the New York film festival in October.

The film revolves around the brief meeting between Monroe and British writer Colin Clark while she was on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller and filming the romantic comedy ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ opposite Laurence Olivier.

‘My Week With Marilyn’ stars Oscar nominee Michelle Williams as Monroe, Eddie Redmayne as Clark, Kenneth Branagh as Olivier, Dougray Scott as Miller along with Judi Dench, Emma Watson and Dominic Cooper.

The film will premiere during the two-week long film festival in New York starting from October 9, with the film being released in UK cinemas on 14th November.

Source: TruthDive



The film will premiere Oct. 9 at Alice Tully Hall and is to be released by the Weinstein Company on November 4, according to The Sacramento Bee

James McAvoy and Alan Cumming join the cast of Filth

The lead character of Irvine Welsh's Filth sounds like a dream job for any actor. Bruce Robertson is a Scottish cop and misanthrope who is addicted to sex and drugs and would rather spend his days pranking his fellow police offers than doing his job. It's nothing you wouldn't expect from the author of Trainspotting, but what performer wouldn't want to try their hand at playing someone like that? In that sense, James McAvoy has just won the lottery.

The Playlist has received confirmation from Welsh himself that casting has begun for an adaptation of Filth, and McAvoy has landed the lead role. What's more, Jamie Bell and Alan Cumming have both come on-board as well, starring as Ray Lennox (Robertson's partner) and Chief Inspector Bob Toal (Roberton's boss), respectively. The project is being directed by Jon S. Baird, who only has one feature credit to his name, but it impressed Welsh to the point that he knew he wanted the filmmaker on board. "Jon did a biopic of Cass Pennant, a film called Cass, which was well received in the U.K," Welsh said. "It was compared favourably by some of the critics to This Is England. It was the same kind of style and really kind of a beautiful little film."

Baird as also done a rewrite on the script, which Welsh called "absolutely brilliant." The project is scheduled to start production in January 2012. Given the three actors that have already been wrangled, this could definitely turn out to be a project to look out for.

Source: Cinema Blend

Doctor Who's Karen Gillan gets her own Rom-Com

Doctor Who is currently in its sixth season on BBC (and on BBC America in the States) and it’s the best show on television you probably aren’t watching. Acclaimed though the last few incarnations of the series have been, somehow that hasn’t really translated into much mainstream success for most of the cast. Maybe that’ll change when the tenth doctor David Tennant rocks your socks off as Peter Vincent in Fright Night, or maybe it’ll change when the eleventh Doctor’s companion becomes a rom-com star.

Karen Gillan, who currently stars on Doctor Who as the fiery, adventurous Amy Pond opposite Matt Smith’s eleventh Doctor, has just landed a role in a Scottish comedy called Not Another Happy Ending. Screen Daily says Gillan would play a “beautiful but eccentric writer of miserable, but best selling fiction”. One problem, now that she’s successful she’s not feeling so miserable, and her newfound happiness is giving her writer’s block. Her publisher played by Emun Elliott, then sets out to make her life miserable to get her writing again. It’s a rom-com, so yeah, along the way he falls in love. Who can blame him? It’s Karen Gillan.

Not Another Happy Ending is an indie production written by David Solomoms and being produced by Synchronicity Films. Translation: You’ll probably have to put some legwork in if you want to see it. It’s not likely to show up at your local megaplex any time soon. But if you’re a Doctor Who fan (and if you’re not, get working on that), you know that Gillan’s worth the effort.

Source: Cinema Blend

New Images released for Cameron Crowe’s ‘We Bought a Zoo’

HeyUGuys has a great new batch of images released by 20th Century Fox for Cameron Crowe’s new movie, We Bought a Zoo. They come via USA Today and really give us a sense of what we can expect from this family movie which is set to hit cinemas in both the US and UK around Christmas.

It stars Matt Damon​, Scarlett Johansson​, Elle Fanning, Carla Gallo, Thomas Haden Church​, Angus Macfadyen and is based on the true story of a father (Damon) who moves his young family to the countryside in in Southern California to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

More photos and info at HeyUGuys

Vote for Scottish actors in Anglophenia's Tournament of Men

Anglophenia are currently hosting a Tournament of Men contest, in which visitors are invited to vote for their favourite actors in a series of eliminating rounds.

The contestants include Scottish actors David Tennant, James McAvoy, John Barrowman, Ewan McGregor, and Gerard Butler.

Vote here.

Thanks to Twitter’s timegeek for the heads up

Weekly schedule for Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 8/8: Don Cheadle, Brooklyn Decker (R 6/6/11)
Tu 8/9: Heather Graham, Chris Gorham (R 6/8/11)
We 8/10: Howie Mandel, Wendy Booker, the Goldberg Sisters (R 6/7/11)
Th 8/11: Geoffrey Rush, OK Go (R 5/3/11)
Fr 8/12: Robot skeleton sidekick Geoff Peterson, Simon Helberg (R 5/16/11)

Mo 8/15: Betty White, Patton Oswalt
Tu 8/16: Rosie Perez
We 8/17: David Beckham, Shohreh Aghdashloo