Not Another Happy Ending to premiere at EIFF

EIFF to close the 2013 Festival with World Premiere of 'Not Another Happy Ending'

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is proud to announce NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber (alongside Amy Manson, Iain de Caestecker, Kate Dickie, Freya Mavor, Gary Lewis and Henry Ian Cusick), as the Closing Night film of the 67th edition of the Festival.
The red carpet will be rolled out at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on 30th June when the stars and filmmakers attend the World Premiere of this indie romantic comedy set in Glasgow.
Read more at The Fan Carpet

Also reported by STV, Screen Daily, The List, Radio Times, The Edinburgh Reporter, and many others.

Clare Grogan: 'Aye Write' interview

Video: Clare Grogan at Aye Write!
From Herald Scotland:

Clare Grogan has given us a special video interview about Altered Images, female musicians and Gregory's Girl.

 

Clare Grogan and Ken McCluskey. Picture by Martin Shields. Source: Herald Scotland

The actress and singer appeared at the Aye Write! festival with Ken McCluskey from The Bluebells to talk about What Presence!, a book that celebrates the photography of Harry Papadopoulos.

Watch the interview at Herald Scotland

Elaine C Smith: radio interview

Elaine C. Smith: Celebrity Interview

Photo source: Twitter

Susan Calman talks to actress Elaine C Smith about Zombie Rule #9.
  Duration: 09:32

Source: BBC Radio Scotland

Joanna Vanderham: new role in 'Marple' series

Miss Marple just got sexy! 
Classic mystery gets a raunchy revamp with Joanna Vanderham playing sultry American heiress
From Daily Mail:

She may not be the sexiest of sleuths but there is no fooling Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
And ITV bosses are obviously hoping the wisened old spinster will still entice audiences - especially with the added glamour factor of gorgeous actress Joanna Vanderham in the mix.
Filming has begun for the latest adaptation of the detective stories written by Christie - although Miss Marple remains as an elderly spinster, her surrounding cast is notably glamorous.

Joanna Vanderham plays a sultry American hostess

Tom Hughes joins Julia McKenzie, who plays Jane Marple, as filming begins for Marple: Endless Night.
Tom and Joanna are reunited to play young lovers alongside Olivier award-winning actress Julia.
Read more (includes more photos, and video) at Daily Mail

Weekly schedule for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 4/22: Kat Dennings, Philip Kerr
Tu 4/23: Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall
We 4/24: Rainn Wilson, Karen Gillan
Th 4/25: Zac Efron, Anna Quindlen
Fr 4/26: Robin Wright, Andy Dick

Mo 4/29: TBA
Tu 4/30: Larry the Cable Guy, Andrea Osvart
We 5/1: Michael Ian Black
Th 5/2: Pierce Brosnan, Tone Bell
Fr 5/3: Angela Kinsey, Simon Amstell

David Tennant: project news and updates

 

photo courtesy of BBC

• Broadchurch

Currently the Radio Times website lists the final episode of Broadchurch (on 22nd April) to last an extra 5 minutes so it would run from 9pm to 10.05pm.
The first six episodes of Broadchurch are now available to download from iTunes. Each episode costs £1.89.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The original soundtrack EP of Broadchurch, featuring music written by Olafur Arnalds, will be available for download on Mercury Classics from Monday 15 April. Clips have been posted to Mercury Classics Sound Cloud.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The first two episodes of Broadchurch will be shown in Paris on 28th April at Forum des Images.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest Broadchurch news, reviews, interviews, photos, etc., can be found here.

• The Politician's Husband

The BBC have posted the first trailer for The Politician's Husband to YouTube.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter

It has been confirmed that the first episode of The Politician's Husband will premiere on Thursday 25th April at 9pm on BBC Two. This means that the first episode of the three part drama will be broadcast the same week as the final episode of Broadchurch. More information here.
The BBC Media Centre has added a new David Tennant interview (plus photos) about The Politician's Husband. This is to promote the three part drama, and extracts from the interview will be used in various publications over the next few weeks. In the interview, David explains that Paula Milne's writing and the fact that it is a political drama drew him to the project. Read more here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Amazon are now showing both the front and back cover of The Politician's Husband DVD. It will be released on Monday 20th May.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter

All the latest news, etc., is here.

• Headway

Headway has published April's newsletter, which includes the new David Tennant signed cards.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Spies of Warsaw

In the US, Spies Of Warsaw is available now on Amazon Instant Video.
DentonRC says that the US version of the Spies Of Warsaw DVD (released on Tuesday) includes "a 10-minute featurette with Tennant discussing the feature." Other websites indicate that the extra features will be the interview clips which are on the BBC America website.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
More information here.

• The Great Scott

From Sunday 14th April 2013 at 3pm on BBC Radio Four for three consecutive Sundays, David Tennant will be starring in a series of radio plays written by Walter Scott. The first story is The Fair Maid Of Perth and the second one will be Rob Roy. The final story has not been announced yet.
More information (including MP3 links) here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Richard II

The Richard II performance which was listed in some places for Saturday 7th December has now been removed from both the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Barbican websites. Tickets never went on sale for this performance. This means that now David Tennant will play 84 performances (39 in Stratford-Upon-Avon and 45 in London). Most performances of Richard II on the Royal Shakespeare Company website are sold out but The Barbican Centre website still has availablilty for most dates.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest news, etc., is here.

• Diary dates

Mon 15 Apr - Broadchurch soundtrack EP available for download on Mercury Classics.
Mon 15 Apr - Watch start a new run of repeats of David Tennant's episodes of Doctor Who.
Mon 15 Apr - Episode seven of Broadchurch premieres on ITV at 9pm.
Tues 16 Apr - Spies Of Warsaw DVD is released in the US and Canada.
Thurs 18 Apr - David Tennant's birthday!
Sun 21 Apr - David Tennant stars in The Great Scott: Rob Roy on BBC Radio Four at 3pm.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter



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Elaine C Smith: fundraising evening for St Andrew's Hospice

Elaine C Smith performing for St Andrew's Hospice at Airdrie's Sir John Wilson town hall

 

Comedian Elaine C Smith is doing a show to raise funds for Lanarkshire’s St Andrew’s Hospice.

An Audience with Elaine C Smith will be at Airdrie Town Hall on Thursday, April 18.
She said: “I am so pleased to be performing not only in Lanarkshire but also to help raise money for St Andrew’s Hospice – a well-loved local charity which has to raise £57,000 every week in life.
“The hospice is very close to my heart and I can’t wait to see everyone turning out to have a great night and support an amazing cause.”
Read more at Wishaw Press

Sionhan Redmond and Phyllis Logan: Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel'

 

Stars to recite Sylvia Plath’s Ariel as she intended

Stars including Juliet Stevenson, Harriet Walter and Miranda Richardson are to read aloud Sylvia Plath’s entire Ariel collection of poems as she arranged them.

As part of the London Literature Festival, 40 actresses and poets, including Phyllis Logan, Samantha Bond, Anna Chancellor and Siobhan Redmond will each read a single work from the restored edition of the manuscript found on Plath’s desk after her suicide at the age of 30 in February 1963. Plath predicted that the collection would “make my name”.
The Royal Festival Hall performance on May 26 will be introduced by Plath’s daughter, Frieda Hughes, 53, who wrote a foreword to the restored version.
Read more at London Evening Standard
Image sources: IMDB and Wooller


Doctor Faustus
Glasgow South & Eastwood Extra's review of Siobhan Redmond's Doctor Faustus is here. 

Jonathan Watson: 'Quiz Show' reviews

Quiz Show reviews

Jonathan Watson in Quiz Show

Here's a selection of Quiz Show reviews from Herald Scotland (source of pic), Thom Dibdin, The Independent and The Scotsman

Ewan McGregor: interview

Celebrity Interview: Ewan McGregor
Scottish movie magnet Ewan McGregor recounts his vibrant two-decade career, and discusses a return to the role that made him famous

He's a Hollywood powerhouse and a lead in some of the biggest blockbusters in years including Moulin Rouge, Angels and Demons and as the fabled Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas' Star Wars prequel trilogy. Ewan McGregor however, has Danny Boyle to thank for his global success after the Oscar-winning director cast him as the heroin addled Mark Renton in Irvine Welch's ode to a defining generation, Trainspotting. Put mildly, it propelled the young Scot into the stratosphere.

So with the long-awaited announcement that Boyle will go on to film the sequel, Porno, its understandable McGregor was one of the first to sign on to reprise his role. In fact, the entire original cast - including Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Kelly McDonald and Robert Carlyle - have all confirmed their participation in the movie. It seems they're all equally aware what a great debt they owe Boyle.

Announced shortly after this interview, McGregor spoke about his thoughts of a potential for a sequel. "I've always been waiting to read it and I never got sent it to read", he said. "I know in the past I always said I wouldn't do anything that would damage the reputation of the movie Trainspotting because I wouldn't want to do a poor sequel, but at the same time, I would always read it if I was sent it. I was never in the position where they've asked me to do it."

Read more at Compass Magazine

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

Leah Macrae: 'Fifty Shades of Maggie' on stage

50 Shades author in legal row over Glasgow comedy send-up

Leah MacRae stars as Maggie, who meets the man of her dreams in a Glasgow Job Centre

 

Robert C. Kelly is set to stage Fifty Shades of Maggie, described as 'a hysterical send-up' of EL James' story of college graduate Anastasia's S&M affair with business magnate, Christian Grey.
The storyline switches to Glasgow, where Maggie, a young lady meets the man of her dreams in the Job Centre office at her Back-to-Work interview.
But rather than being erotic, Fifty Shades of Maggie, starring Gary: Tank Commander's Leah MacRae, pokes fun at the S&M fantasy world.
And it laughs at the very notion of padlocks and chains claiming: "Any right-minded Glasga burd that's intae being dominated by a bloke needs locking up."
Read more at Evening Times

Clare Grogan: appearing at Aye Write!

Musical twist: Clare Grogan will be speaking at Ken McCluskey's event Celebrating Harry Papadopolous at Aye Write!

William McIlvanney, Denise Mina, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway, Val McDermid – the list reads like a who’s who in Scottish literature.
But the cream of the country’s writing crop have come together for the city's eighth Aye Write! festival, which returns on April 12.
Writers from north of the border will be appearing side by side with the likes of Sandi Toksvig, Darcey Bussell, Jeremy Vine and Tracey Thorn during the ten day book festival.
Last year more than 40,000 people attended events at Aye Write! and with talks including I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue – the Best of Forty Years and Ian Buxton’s 101 World Whiskies selling out within weeks of going on sale.
However there is a tinge of sadness hanging over this year’s festival. Following the news that Iain Banks is battling terminal cancer, The Wasp Factory writer has cancelled his appearance at Aye Write!
Read more at STV

Tony Curran: 'Defiance' updates, photos, interviews, etc

Sci-fi TV series 'Defiance' launches with video game: 'one world, two ways in'

Cast members of the television show "Defiance," (left to right) Tony Curran as Datak Tarr, Jaime Murray as Stahma Tarr, Julie Benz as Amanda Rosewater, Mia Kirshner as Kenya Rosewater, Grant Bowler as Joshua Nolan, Stephanie Leonidas as Irisa Nyira and Graham Greene as Rafe McCawley are shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Shaw Media-Joe Pugliese/Syfy

What will Earth look like in the year 2046? Pretty beat up if a sprawling outdoor backlot for a new sci-fi TV series, tucked out of sight in an industrial section of Toronto's east end, is any indication.
"Defiance" launches simultaneously in Canada and the U.S. April 15 as both a TV series and a video game. Both Showcase and the U.S. cable channel Syfy will premiere it over two hours Monday at 10 p.m.
Earlier this year before TV critics in Los Angeles, Syfy president Dave Howe called it "one world, but with two ways in." Five years in the making, the series was planned all along as a way to unite "high-quality scripted television and online gaming in an unprecedented way."
Read more at Brandon Sun

Tweets (and photos) from Tony Curran: Great night at Syfy up Fronts New York City
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Datak&Stahma having a moment 3 days till launch
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It wouldn't be the Syfy Upfront if it wasn't a star studded event, and the stellar cast of Defiance surely delivers
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Up Fronts NYC
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In MYM Magazine out April 18th in UK
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Defiance Trailer: Datak
Cunning, intelligent, and ambitious, Datak Tarr has a firm grip on Defiance's underworld. How long can they stay on top? Defiance premieres Monday at 9/8c only on Syfy.
Watch the trailer here.


Defiance - Syfy Video Featurette: 'Datak' Promo - NEW Series Apr 15 '13Read more at Antipodalarapaima.


DEFIANCE: Jaime Murray and Tony Curran Plan To Prosper In New Sneak Peeks
Full article at Seriable


Another Trailer for Syfy’s Defiance
The 2-hour premiere arrives April 15th.
Read more at SciFi Cool

Nice Boy of the Week: Tony Curran
The Nice Boy of the Week this week is actor Tony Curran, who is one of the cast members of the upcoming Syfy series Defiance that will debut on Monday, April 15.

Tony Curran was born in Glasgow, Scotland and graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He got his first break on television in 1986 in the British children’s series called Dramarama.

A few years later he had small roles in the box office films Captive that starred Julia Ormond and Tim Roth and Being Human that starred Robin Williams. Over the course of the next four years, he appeared in the British and Scottish TV series Soldier Soldier, Grange Hill, Taggart, The Bill, A Touch of Frost, This Life and Touching Evil.
Read more at Nice Girls TV


NBCU's $100 Million Gamble on Syfy's 'Defiance'
The first TV series and video game to launch in tandem, the multiplatform event marks a critical test for the cable network.
Syfy is welcoming a two-headed baby into the world. The NBCUniversal-owned network in April is launching Defiance, a risky experiment in transmedia that pairs the most expensive series in the cable net's history with an equally pricey massively multiplayer online (MMO) video game. Each can be enjoyed on its own, but NBCU, which has invested close to $100 million in Defiance, needs both sci-fi fans and gamers -- two fickle groups -- to show up in big numbers to justify the expense.
Read more at Hollywood Reporter


Defiance - The Gate Mag: Cast Video Interview - NEW Series Apr 15 '13 on Syfy
The cast of SyFy's series, Defiance, introduce themselves and actor Grant Bowler talks about the inspiration for his character, Chief Lawkeeper Jeb Nolan.

Video includes interviews with Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Jaime Murray, Mia Kirshner, Tony Curran and Graham Greene.

Set on a transformed Earth thirty years in the future, Defiance is the story of courage and survival in a frontier town where feuding factions of humans and aliens must stand together against outside forces that threaten their existence. Defiance premiering Monday April 15 at 9/8c on Syfy.
Watch the interviews at Antipodalarapaima



Defiance - The Gate Mag: Cast Video Interview Part 2
The cast of SyFy's new series, Defiance, talk about the languages of the alien races, the Votan, and how it impacted their performances. David J. Peterson developed the languages for the series.
More here.


Loving The Aliens - Article in TV & Satellite Week
Read a scan of the article here.


Michael Nankin interview: Defiance, latex, TV pilots and more
With the launch of the Defiance series and TV show imminent, we spoke to producer and director Michael Nankin about its making...

The Syfy Channel is about to air what is surely its biggest experiment yet. Called Defiance, it’s a sci-fi series which not only employs some proven industry talent - not least writer Rockne S O’Bannon, of Alien Nation and SeaQuest DSV fame, director and producer Michael Nankin, who previously helmed episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Alphas - but also coincides with the launch of the online shooter of the same name.

In a media first, Defiance the TV series and Defiance the videogame will share characters and storylines, with events in the show replicated in the online experience, too. It’s a concept that has roped in the creative minds from both Syfy and Trion Worlds, cost an undisclosed sum of money, and will, if successful, no doubt pave the way for further ‘transmedia’ collaborations in the future.

Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where multiple races of aliens live uneasily among humans, Defiance takes place in the ramshackle town of the same name. Roguishly handsome newcomer Nolan (Grant Bowler) provides our way into this grubby community, in which bitter rivalries and cultural chasms constantly threaten its stability. As much a Western as a sci-fi show, Defiance is infused with a lightness of touch and a faintly kitsch sensibility, which is far removed from the brooding, post-911 atmosphere of Battlestar Galactica, whose success Syfy will no doubt be hoping to replicate here.

Ahead of the Defiance pilot’s premiere on the 16th April, we had a chance to talk to Nankin about what we can expect from the show, the pitfalls in developing a TV series and game at the same time, and the perils of directing a show full of alien prosthetics, contact lenses, and brightly-coloured wigs...
Read the full interview at  Den of Geek




Tony Curran (Datak Tarr)Actor bio at Showcase


At the Defiance Shoot. Photos (including Tony Curran)
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Defiance: the official photos of the cast bonus
http://www.syfy.fr/blogs/defiance-les-photos-officielles-du-cast-bonus
Defiance: the official photos of the cast bonus. Tony Curran
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Dive Into the TV and Game World of DEFIANCE With Featurette, Exclusive Set Visit Pics and More

SciFiMafia.com attended a set tour and press conference a few months ago and we have chosen a sampling from the sheer tonnage of pics taken to share with you, to accompany this first Making Of featurette of the game and series and the newest trailer for the series and TV spot for the game.
Read more at SciFi Mania



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Vampires, Zombies & Werewolves Movie Marathon - Syfy: Schedule Apr 6 '13

Underworld: Evolution
Gory sequel finds the bloodsucking heroine (Kate Beckinsale) tracing the origins of the ancient feud between the tribes of vampires and werewolves.
Cast includes Kate Beckinsale, Defiance's Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen and Sophia Myles.

Blade II
A vampire slayer (Wesley Snipes) teams up with the undead to take down a band of mutant bloodsuckers.
Cast includes Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela, The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus, Luke Goss and Tony Curran.
Source: Antipodalarapaima