ET Online has a first look at the new Legend of the Guardians theme song,“To The Sky” by Owl City. Directed by Zack Snyder and starring Jim Sturgess as Soren, the film is being released in IMAX and selected theaters in 2-D and 3-D on September 24.
‘LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS’ SONG, “TO THE SKY”
September 2nd, 2010
‘THE WAY BACK’ PREMIERES AT TELLURIDE & NEWMARKET TO DISTRIBUTE
September 2nd, 2010
The official line-up of films for the 37th annual Telluride Film Festival taking place September 3-6, 2010 in Colorado this weekend was just announced today. The festival traditionally unveils the films slated to be screened just as festival-goers arrive in the mountains of Telluride. This year renowned Australian director Peter Weir will be one of three Medallion Award winners honored by the organizers:
TFF is proud to honor the following three recipients with its Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema:
PETER WEIR – Filmmaker Peter Weir (WITNESS, THE TRUMAN SHOW, MASTER AND COMMANDER) will be presented with the Silver Medallion followed by an onstage interview with Leonard Maltin (Friday) and Scott Foundas (Saturday). A screening of Weir’s lost classic THE PLUMBER (Australia, 1976) and his latest film, THE WAY BACK, will screen during the Festival.
Other honorees include Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and British actor Colin Firth. Congratulations to Mr. Weir on this tremendous honor!!! You can read more about the Telluride Festival on their official website here. Special thanks to our forum member Izzy for alerting us to this news.
And in other breaking news today, Newmarket Films was announced as the U.S. distributor for The Way Back, which stars Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, and Colin Farrell. Movie City News (MCN) reported the announcement made jointly by Nigel Sinclair, CEO and Co-Chairman of Exclusive Media Group (“Exclusive”) , and Chris Ball, Co-Chairman of Exclusive and President and Co-Founder of Newmarket Films (“Newmarket”):
The Way Back is inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, as well as by other real life accounts. The film chronicles the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Notes Nigel Sinclair, “We brought Newmarket into the Exclusive Media Group fold to give our company access to a well respected and established distribution entity. Chris and I, and our partners at National Geographic are extremely proud to be able to bring Peter Weir’s story to US audiences.”
Chris Ball added, “The Way Back is one of the great real-life escape stories of our time. Slavomir Rawicz’ book, which the film is inspired by, has been translated into 25 languages and really captures the triumph of the human spirit. It’s a story of man’s struggle to survive at any cost, and the strength to push on when all hope seems lost. Newmarket has a history of working with exciting directors like Christopher Nolan and Niki Caro and we are very pleased to now be working with Peter Weir.”
The film will have a wide release in January 2011, with limited release in December 2010 in time for Oscar consideration.
‘ONE DAY’ FILMING IN PARIS CONTINUES
August 31st, 2010
We have more on-set images from the filming of Lone Sherfig’s One Day starring Jim Sturgess as Dexter Mayhew and Anne Hathaway as Emma Morley. The images feature a new short-haired Emma, although it’s been confirmed the actress is wearing a wig, along with a gray-haired and slightly more wrinkled Dexter, as the two characters change and age over the course of twenty years within the context of the film. (Click on images to enlarge.)
We’ve added even more new images to our collection of behind-the-scenes pictures of Jim and Anne filming One Day. We hope you enjoy this preview of a tender moment between Dexter and Emma in Paris:
You can view all the new behind-the-scenes images here.
Lainey Gossip has been following the progress of the filming closely and is a huge fan of the novel, as well as Jim Sturgess. Below are a few excerpts from her column:
Have you read One Day yet? Please do soon. Because I always forget to alert for spoilers and it’s so hard especially when set shots are being released and besides, what’s the delay anyway? It’s one of the best books of the summer (my review is here), if not the best book of the summer and it will break your heart and make you happy, so why are you putting it off? One Day is a story for which you’ll have so much affection and tenderness for a long, long time. If you know about Emma and Dexter, you’ve no doubt this is true.
And here they are, the film versions in Paris today, shooting that scene when she meets him at the station and, well, it all happens after and it really is as it’s written, at least to me anyway, the way he’s touching her hair, and loving it short (a wig by the way, and another good one), and older, damaged, weary, but ready. Finally ready. Sob!
(She continues…) Dex, as you can see, is most definitely Jim Sturgess, right down to the way his head is titled to the side as he’s walking towards her and her adorable sign. It’s awful and wonderful at the same time isn’t it? The way a book stays with you and comes back in aches in your stomach.
Dear Lainey, we couldn’t agree with you more!!!
‘ONE DAY’ BEHIND-THE-SCENES IMAGES FROM PARIS
August 29th, 2010
We now have confirmation that filming for the new romantic drama, One Day, based on David Nicholls’ bestselling novel and starring Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway, has moved from London to Paris, thanks to these latest behind-the-scenes images published by celebrity photos. Both actors seem to be enjoying the roles of Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley, whose friendship and romance is traced over the course of twenty years within the film.
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We’ve added additional on-set images to our gallery (see examples below).
You can see all the latest images from One Day in our gallery here.
WEIR’S ‘THE WAY BACK’ LIMITED RELEASE IN DECEMBER
August 28th, 2010
Several sources, including Playlist, are now quoting the private Facebook page for The Way Back producer Joni Levin who recently posted news about a limited release for the film in December, just in time for Oscar consideration:
Even more mysterious is Michael’s Telluride Film Blog where the author speculates The Way Back, noticeably absent from the this year’s film festival circuit, will make a surprise showing at the Colorado festival next weekend. Telluride has long been famous for last minute, high profile additions which thrill festival goers and critics alike. Here’s what’s being said:
An Australian film company [Palace Films] tweets cryptically this morning that a “major” Australian director will unveil a new film next week at the Festival. Deductively we’re going to guess that it’s Peter Weir’s “The Way Back” featuring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris. Weir has a relatively short resume…but it’s long on quality…”The Truman Show,” “Master and Commander,” and “Dead Poet’s Society” among others. The prospect of “The Way Back” playing TFF #37 would make what we already think is likely to be a great festival even better. Hope he and the film are there.
Special thanks to forum members, Izzy and Momoko, as well as Co-webmistress, Michelle, who have been following this story closely and sharing the news on our forum here.
‘HEARTLESS’ WINS TOP AWARD AT TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FEST
August 26th, 2010
We are pleased to announce that Philip Ridley’s Heartless starring Jim Sturgess has been awarded the Vision Award for Best Independent Feature Film at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, which took place August 13-20, 2010. The Vision Awards are given out by the Festival in recognition of outstanding independent genre feature filmmaking.
Congratulations to the entire Heartless team on receiving this prestigious award!!!
Special thanks to forum member, Izzy, for sending in this news.
‘LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS’ TV SPOTS FEATURING “SOREN”
August 25th, 2010
Excitement is building around the September 24th premiere of Zack Snyder’s 3-D animated action adventure, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, with the release today of three new 30-second television commercials by Warner Brothers. Below are two of the spots which both center around the film’s main character, Soren, a young barn owl voiced by Jim Sturgess.
‘LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS’ TV SPOTS
August 20th, 2010
Two new Legend of the Guardians trailers were leaked today on YouTube, both under 30 seconds in length and will presumably be used as television advertisements for the film. The new 3D animated feature directed by Zack Snyder and starring Jim Sturgess as Soren, is due to be released in the U.S. on September 24. Check out both trailers below:
‘MOVIE SCOPE’ ARTICLE & MAGAZINE UPDATES
August 12th, 2010
JSOnline is pleased to share some archival magazine scans featuring articles about Jim’s films 21, Across the Universe, and Heartless, just to name a few. You can view all the new magazine scans in our image gallery under Publications & Photoshoots - Miscellaneous.
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Also included in the scans is an article from the June/July issue of Movie Scope magazine featuring a story on the filming of Heartless. The 5-page article includes images from the film including a cover portrait of the film’s star, Jim Sturgess.
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You can read the entire Movie Scope article in our gallery here.
‘LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS’ PREVIEW & NEW U.K. POSTER
August 10th, 2010
On Tuesday, Director Zack Snyder treated selected guests to a 15-minute preview screening of Legend of the Guardians footage at Warner Brothers studios. The film, slated to be released in the USA on September 24 and in the UK on October 22, stars the voice of Jim Sturgess as the main character, a young barn owl named Soren. Among those attending the screening was Gary Phillips from HEYUGUYS!, a British film website, and below is a brief excerpt of his impressions of the film:
Each scene showcased some excellent 3D which was as good as any I’ve seen; it never felt that it was there for the sake of using 3D, nor did it look out of place. What really surprised me was just how good the animation is, it’s some of the best I’ve ever seen. The birds themselves looked flawless, the design stunning with detailed feathers and other features which really stood out. The thoughts which troubled me from the trailers were forgotten instantly as I grew to like the characters, helped by some excellent vocal casting and I warmed more and more to the idea of a more realistic looking animated character that Legend of the Guardians is offering, as opposed to your regular toy range friendly creations which litter most animated movies. It really works well.
Overall the story looks very interesting combining a wonderfully mythological tale with characters that seem interesting with a wide range of comical, wise and evil roles in place to offer something for all. It is visually incredible and the action scenes were exciting, scary, well choreographed, delicious to watch and contained your regular Snyder slow motion moments. It left me desperate to see more.
You can read the full article about the screening here. Today, HeyUGuys! has published a newly released UK version of the Legend of the Guardians movie poster. This stunning image features Soren in flight, along with other characters from the animated feature.
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