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Dougray Scott on Playing Arthur Miller and Sir Matt Busby
Dougray Scott admits he jumped at the chance to star as one of his real-life idols.
The Glenrothes-born actor was thrilled to land the role of legendary Scots football manager Sir Matt Busby in BBC Film, United, which dramatises the events surrounding the Munich air disaster on February 6, 1958.
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Marilyn explores relationship between Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret
Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an object of endless fascination. Later this year Michelle Williams will portray her in the film My Week With Marilyn co-starring Dougray Scott as playwright Arthur Miller.
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Todd Solondz, the maverick US indie director of Happiness and Welcome To The Dollhouse, is continuing to cast his spell over buyers.
Solondz’s latest feature Dark Horse (handled by Goldcrest at the EFM) has been sold to Svensk for Scandinavia and and to Village Roadshow for Australia.
Jordan Gelber and Selma Blair star in the film, which is about a thirtysomething toy collector who becomes engaged to a failed academic with disastrous consequences. Mia Farrow, Christopher Walken, Justin Bartha and Donna Murphy are also in the cast. Goldcrest is showing a promo here in the market.
Also on Goldcrest’s Berlin slate is Dana Lustig’s romantic time travel drama A Thousand Kisses, starring Emilia Fox, David Warner, Jodie Whittaker and Dougray Scott.
Whittaker plays Mia, a woman who, returning home from work, witnesses someone leap from a window. Scattered around the woman’s broken, lifeless body Mia discovers shredded pieces from a beloved photograph of herself and her former lover Ludwig (Dougray Scott). Highly unnerved, Mia begs Max (David Warner), the buildings’ all knowing custodian, to let her into the deceased woman’s flat. While inside this strangely familiar place, Mia recognizes the contents as her own.
The film is in post-production. Goldcrest is showing footage at the Euro Film Market in Berlin.
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A Thousand Kisses is considered a hot title at the Euro Film Market, according to Deadline.com

South Riding to air on Sunday 20 February

South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.

Change is on her agenda straight away - of the curriculum, of teaching methods, of the rundown buildings. Her hurry to transform the South Riding brings her into immediate conflict with landowner Robert Carne, a man tragically trapped in his past, and wins her the friendship of Joe Astell (played by Douglas Henshall), a reforming socialist councillor bent on improving the lives of the Yorkshire poor by means of a spanking new housing estate to replace the rural slum known as The Shacks. As term begins, Shacks girl Lydia Holly arrives at the High School, with talent to burn and domestic circumstances that make it almost impossible for her to realise her dreams. Meanwhile, Sarah is brought closer to Carne through his highly-strung and delicate daughter, Midge.

Episode One will be broadcast on Sunday 20 February 2011 at 9 p.m. on BBC One (UK)

Source: BBC

UK Film release schedule for Fright Night

David Tennant's 'Fright Night' is mentioned in Movies to Look Out For in 2011

In "Fright Night" a remake of an 80s comedy hit, Craig Gillespie ("Lars and the Real Girl") directs a team of witty, talented actors including Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin and David Tennant. The story takes place in your average 80s suburb where one high school student suspects that his mysterious neighbor is a vampire
Source: Notre Dame Observer

Launching Films report that Fright Night will premiere in the UK on Friday 2 September 2011

Photo source: SFX

New Billy Boyd photos from the Ecstasy set

Director Rob Heydon has posted some new photos of Billy Boyd from the set of Ecstasy.

Details and pictures can be found at Basically Billy Boyd

Weekly schedule for Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 2/7: Dominic Monaghan, Gabrielle Union, Kurt Metzger

Tu 2/8: Emily Blunt, Dr. Kara Cooney

We 2/9: Carl Reiner, Cat Cora

Th 2/10: Jennifer Beals, Jean-Michel Cousteau

Fr 2/11: Jason Biggs, Jennifer Ouellette

Mo 2/14: Bob Barker, Melissa Rauch

Tu 2/15: William Shatner, Gillian Jacobs

We 2/16: TBA

Th 2/17: Sarah Chalke, Louie Anderson

Fr 2/18: D.J. Qualls, Lily Tomlin

Mo 2/21: Forest Whitaker, Wolf Blitzer

Tu 2/22: John Waters, Malin Akerman

We 2/23: Joel McHale, Greg Warren

Scottish actors tipped to star in new BBC Scotland blockbuster

BBC Scotland is to launch a multi-million-pound blockbuster that will chart the human story behind the great days of the Clyde shipyards.

With the working title The Clyde, the costume drama will be given the Upstairs Downstairs treatment by basing the story of Glasgow’s great shipbuilding heritage around two 19th-century families.

One will be the ‘aristocratic’ yard owners and the other the working-class family whose father and sons work in the yard.

The scale of the project is unprecedented in television drama production, and will require European or US co-production funding to cover the massive costs.
A source said: “This will attract a stellar cast of actors. There are roles for some of our finest performers, including Robbie Coltrane, Robert Carlyle and Dougray Scott.”

The project is the brainchild of Sigma Films, a production company based in the old Govan Town Hall, now known as Film City. They are best known for art house pictures such as Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton, and Red Road, which won the Jury Prize at the 2006 Cannes festival.

The company’s executives have recently returned from the Sundance Film Festival, where their latest film, Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green, had its world premiere.

While the shipbuilding saga has just entered the script stage, BBC Scotland is seeking production partners for the network venture.

Production isn’t expected to begin until 2012, but there is a clear appetite for period costume drama after ITV’s recent success with Downton Abbey and the BBC’s revival of Upstairs Downstairs, which was first a hit for ITV in 1971.

Read more: Express

Sean Biggerstaff doodles for charity

Sean Biggerstaff is one of many celebrities who have donated hand-drawn art for National Doodle Day 2011, the proceeds from which will go to fund the Epilepsy Action charity, which focuses on epilepsy research and advocacy. All the donated art work will be auctioned on Friday, February 11, 2011.

See Sean's art, and learn more about the project, at National Doodle Day

First UK Trailer for Medieval 'Ironclad'

In addition to James Purefoy, Ironclad also stars Paul Giamatti, Brian Cox, Robert Carlyle, William Moseley, Jason Flemyng, Bob Hoskins, Pete Postlethwaite and Kate Mara. Apparently in the film Giamatti is "in pure Shoot 'Em Up snarling-villain mode, facing off against the noble and true James Purefoy." And although this has a low budget, Empire promises that it's "a gritty and compelling British action flick." This was directed by Jonathan English, of Minotaur and Nailing Vienna, from a script by English and Erick Kastel.

Ironclad hits theaters in the UK this March, but as far as we know still doesn't have a US distributor or release date yet.


To watch more, visit www.t5m.com

Source: First Showing

Dougray Scott film to debut at Kingussie Food on Film

A new film starring Scots actor Dougray Scott and chef Gordon Ramsay will debut at Kingussie's Food on Film Festival.

No Ordinary Trifle's director and writer James Hacking will also be among the guests at the annual celebration of movies and cuisine.

He will be joined by actor Lee Boardman, who also stars in the film which will not be released at UK cinemas until later this year.

The Food on Film Festival will opened yesterday (Thursday 3 Feb) and runs until Sunday 6 February.

Source: BBC

French Film – DVD release

French Film, a hilarious new British romantic-comedy from Revolver Entertainment, is the feel-good tale of how to find love... and more importantly, how to keep it!

Starring Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff, Douglas Henshall, Victoria Hamilton and charismatic Eric Cantona, the story holds as much charm as humour.

Following the entangled lives of four British people, the narrative is punctuated by the fictitious French films of Thierry Grimandi, which inspired both writer and director from the outset.

In French Film, journalist Jed Winter (Hugh Bonneville) is preparing to interview the celebrated French auteur film-maker Thierry Grimandi (Eric Cantona), a self-appointed expert on the nature of love.

Jed quickly dismisses Grimandi's theories of love and romance as pretentious nonsense, but when long-term girlfriend Cheryl (Victoria Hamilton) refuses to marry him, forcing him into couple counselling instead, Jed begins to realise that his own emotions aren't as straightforward as he once believed.

Meanwhile, even Jed’s best friend Marcus (Douglas Henshall) is talking less about football, and more about love, as the truth about his relationship with perfect girlfriend Sophie (Anne-Marie Duff) gradually emerges...

As one by one his loved ones reveal their dedication to l'amour, Jed begins to think that Grimandi might have the answers after all.

But he's damned if he's going to admit it.


French Film is released 7th February

Source: Female First

David Tennant helps to launch Red Nose Day 2011

David Tennant will once again be contributing to this year's Comic Relief campaign
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David Tennant appears in a video for an ap for iPhone which raises money for Comic Relief.
In the press the Daily Mail mentions David Tennant as one of the celebrities involved with Comic Relief this year which launched yesterday.
The Mirror printed yesterday that David Tennant would be hosting part of Red Nose Day on Friday 18th March although a hosting slot hasn't been confirmed.
Meanwhile the Daily Star wrote that David Tennant visited Sierra Leone for Comic Relief. However David has said that it was Uganda.
And today David Walliams said that he hopes David Tennant and Catherine Tate will join in tribute Take That act.
More details of this, and further news about David Tennant and Red Nose Day this year is posted in the Comic Relief section of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com.

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Rumours:

According to David Tennant News, a New York Times overview for "Love On The Murder Mile" lists David Tennant and Billie Piper in the cast

According to Patti Tib, David Tennant is listed as starring in "The Hobbit"
IMDB still shows him as only 'rumoured'

Billy Connolly brings comic relief to Brisbane

He could have written a cheque. He could have organised a We Are The World-style celebrity-laden recording simply by consulting his phone's speed dial.
But that's not how the heart of Billy Connolly beats.
To show his support and to share how the stories of devastation and tragedy of the Queensland floods have touched him, the roguish Scottish comedian currently touring Australia announced this morning he will donate his time to perform a fundraiser in Brisbane on February 13.

Full article at Courier Mail

Alan Cumming to Star in Staged Reading of The Notebook of Trigorin at CSC

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will star in a staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, to be presented by Classic Stage Company on Sunday, February 13, at 7pm.

A free adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, the play keeps the basic story the same, but Williams' characters are redefined in vivid colors, their actions rerouted from offstage conflict to onstage events and the character of Trigorin is brought more into focus making his notebook the play's central symbol.

The cast will also include Keli Garner, Ryan Homchick, John Christopher Jones, Mackenzie Meehan, Ryan O'Nan, David Rasche and Stephanie Roth.

Cumming won the Tony Award for Cabaret and also starred on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera and Design for Living. He will soon be seen on the big screen in Julie Taymor's adaptation of The Tempest and received a 2010 Emmy Award nomination for his role as Eli Gold on CBS' The Good Wife.

For tickets and more information, click here.

Source: Theater Mania

Weekly schedule for Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 2/7: Dominic Monaghan, Gabrielle Union, Kurt Metzger
Tu 2/8: Emily Blunt, Dr. Kara Cooney
We 2/9: Carl Reiner, Cat Cora
Th 2/10: Jennifer Beals
Fr 2/11: Jason Biggs, Jennifer Ouellette

Mo 2/14: Bob Barker, Melissa Rauch
Tu 2/15: William Shatner, Gillian Jacobs
We 2/16: TBA
Th 2/17: Sarah Chalke