Happy birthday Ewan!

Today is Ewan McGregor's 38th birthday. Hope he has a wonderful day.

Happy birthday Robbie Coltrane!

Today is Robbie Coltrane's 59th birthday. I have the urge to celebrate by rewatching some Harry Potter movies.

Gerard Butler also at the Empire Awards

I searched to see if Gerard Butler and James McAvoy took any photos together like James and Ewan McGregor did last year, but alas, no luck yet. Gerard appeared onstage with Guy Ritchie and his RocknRolla cast mates to accept the Jameson Empire Award (from James McAvoy's lovely wife, Anne-Marie Duff) for Best British Film. You can watch the video of the acceptance speech at Empire's website. Below are the transcript of the acceptance speech and photos of Gerry at the award show:

The Acceptance Speech

Guy Ritchie: "Thank you very much indeed. There's not much more I'll say because Gerry Butler is the eloquent one among us, so Gerry, perhaps you'd like to say a couple of words but just before you do, the Warner Bros team, thank you very much for doing the job that you all did. Empire readers, thank you very much indeed, Empire thank you very much indeed. Gerry Butler, you're on."

Butler: "This was supposed to be Guy speaking but as usual he dumped it on me. Listen, I want to thank Guy who really wrote all the words and directed all the stuff and did a great job and it's about time he got SOMETHING right... you did put me up here you bastard!"

Ritchie: (chases Butler away from the mike)"That's quite enough out of you Gerry."

Mark Strong: "It's over Ger, that's it, your time's up. It's great that people who know about movies and love movies decided to vote this Best British Film; thank you very much."

Photo Credit: Gareth Gay / Alpha

Photo Credit: Jeff Spicer / Alpha

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James McAvoy at the Empire Awards

The Empire Awards ceremony was hosted last night in the UK and James McAvoy made an appearance to receive Wanted's award for the Best Sci-fi/Superhero movie. I can't embed the video of his acceptance speech, so you can go here to watch it. Here's a transcript of his acceptance speech, and photos of James at the Empire Awards:

The Acceptance Speech

"Oh my god, I got an award from the CAG! Er, not everyone's going to get that. I wasn't sure what to say but I was inspired by another winner tonight so I think I'll just say... (adopts deep, serious tones)'stop all the clocks...' No, seriously. Please. Bullshit is all I have, to take this award away. What a brilliant year for British directors and British actors and British stories. So it's when I chose to leave for the Czech Republic and make an American-funded film about superheroes. But I really did have a cracking time and I did learn to bend bullets, and on behalf of everybody... Timur: Mad, evil, Kazakhstanian director I'd like to say thank you. Cheers!"

Photo Credit: Gareth Gay / Alpha


Photo Credit: Jeff Spicer / Alpha

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Kevin McKidd to appear on the Rachael Ray Show

Someone posted this information on the new Facebook page (thank you!). Kevin McKidd will be on the Rachael Ray Show tomorrow, March 31 on CBS at 9am Eastern time in the US. I'll be sure to post the interview tomorrow.

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Weekly schedule for Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 3/30: William Shatner, Regina King
Tu 3/31: Isabella Rossellini, Linda Cardellini
We 4/1: Jennifer Tilly, Heidi Newfield
Th 4/2: Brittany Murphy, Christopher Gorham
Fr 4/3: Zooey Deschanel, Henry Cho

Scottish Actors on Facebook

The Scottish Actors blog is now on Facebook. You can join, add photos, videos, and messages, so go ahead and follow. And I'm on it, so now you guys can find out my real name and what I look like. I'd also just like to thank you for subscribing to, following, commenting on, and reading the blog.

First look: 'How to Train Your Dragon'

The first promo photo for How to Train Your Dragon (opening March 26,2010) has hit the internet. The animated film includes the voices of Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson. Here's a summary of the film from imdb:

The son of a Viking trains his scrawny, toothless dragon to be a brave hero. Based on Cressida Cowell's children's book, How to Train Your Dragon.

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Kevin McKidd joins cast of 'Percy Jackson'

Kevin McKidd has been cast in Fox 2000's adaptation of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, a fantasy adventure about classical Greek gods. The film is based on Rick Riordan's first of five children's novels about Poseidon's half-human son, Percy, who sets out to prevent a war among the gods. Kevin has been cast as Poseidon and other members of the cast include Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, and Sean Bean. Director Chris Columbus is currently shooting the film in Vancouver and is preparing for a February 12, 2010 release.

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John Barrowman at the London premier of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

John Barrowman and his gorgeous partner Scott attended the opening night of Priscilla last night in London. Photos below:






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New Italian trailer for 'Game'

Game stars Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Alison Lohman, and John Leguizamo. It isn't the kind of film I usually go for, but I said the same thing about Wanted last year, and I ended up loving it. Here's the trailer:

Update: The trailer has been removed (boo), but I'll look for a new one and post that as soon as I find it. Meanwhile, you can go here for screencaps from the trailer.



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Kevin McKidd on The View

Kevin McKidd appeared on the show this morning, but the video I found on youtube isn't the best quality. It's not bad, but if someone uploads a better one I'll post it. Here's Kevin's interview for you:



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Gerard Butler is doing a nude scene

Yay! I got your attention. This is my shallow post for the year. Gerard shot nude scenes on a closed set in Pennsylvania last Friday for Law Abiding Citizen. The nudity is for a scene in which the police break into Gerard's character's house, so it isn't a love scene or anything. You can tell that today is a bit of a slow news day.

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'Tales of the Black Freighter' debuts on DVD

Tales of the Black Freighter came out on DVD and Blue-ray today, and it's available on Amazon to order. Tales of the Black Freighter featuring the voice of Gerard Butler, tells the story of a man trying to protect his home from a crew of pirates.

Here's a brand new featurette from Empire Online for you to check out: