Plot Summary:
When Julie Bottomley (Suranne Jones) discovers her husband of 10 years has been sleeping with her sister, her first instinct is to slaughter him. However, rather than risk life imprisonment herself, she devises a better plan to get revenge on Ian (Dean Lennox Kelly) by faking her own death and framing him for murder. But can she resist the temptation to let her jailed husband know just how ?Dead Clever? she?s been?
Starring:
Dean Lennox Kelly | Andy Darbyshire | Lesley Nicol | Suranne Jones | Rachel Leskovac | Helen Baxendale | Jennifer Hennessy | Malcolm Storry | Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Ted Holden | Paul Wormwell | Robert Angell | James Quinn | Martin Buchan | Vincent Franklin |
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A hit subject has second thoughts about his active life and seeks refuge from his boss by finding work as a baker in a rural Welsh village.
Starring:
Damian Lewis | Kate Ashfield | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Michael Gambon | Boris the Sheep | Dyfan Dwyfor | David Garfield | Michael Geary | Brian Hibbard | Philip Howe | Rhodri Meilir | Anthony O’Donnell | Robert Page | Nicholas Rowe | Steve Speirs |
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The final installment of Dario Argento’s “Three Mothers” trilogy. The film centers on a young American art student, Sarah, who “unconsciously opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world’s most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all covering the world approach on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the ‘Mother of Tears’ before her evil conquers the world.”
Starring:
Asia Argento | Cristian Solimeno | Adam James | Moran Atias | Valeria Cavalli | Philippe Leroy | Daria Nicolodi | Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni | Udo Kier | Robert Madison | Jun Ichikawa | Tommaso Banfi | Franco Leo | Clive Riche | Massimo Sarchielli |
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Rykker is an intergalactic warrior trapped on Earth, destined to fight a gang of ruthless aliens known as The Syndicate. The syndicate is an alien fifth column plotting to take over the world. The thin skin opens with a spectacular highway chase, as Rykker liquidates several syndicate agents. Saylon is a top syndicate leader who comes from outer space and crash-lands on Earth. His mission to build a wormhole link between Earth and the alien planet - a portal - making feasible a full-scale invasion of the Earth. Isis is the sexy and ruthless leader of the syndicate on Earth. While launching a robbery spree to steal the spare intelligence necessary to shape the portal, Isis becomes hell bent on destroying Rykker and clearing the way for Saylon’s master plan. Julie is a fifteen year old who’s family is murdered During the hijacking of a truck carrying material for the portal. Julie left totally alone in the world, Seeks vengeance on the killers. Rykker also seeks to find them. He must stop them before they complete the portal and flood the creation through not native scum. Julie and Rykker are thrown together by tragic circumstance. They hook up - actually, she follows him against his will; he tries and tries to ditch her, otherwise than that she keeps popping up, even saving his life at human being point - and embark on a cross rural parts fare, with Isis and an army of syndicate killers in hot pursuit. The final showdown, inside a nuclear reactor, is a balls to the wall action climax, as Rykker and Julie battle Isis, Saylon and their army of killers, and try to prevent the portal from opening a bridle of destruction upon Earth.
Starring:
Mark Dacascos | Emma Lahana | Billy Zane | Kim Coates | Luke Darnell | Rob Hayter | Sean O. Roberts | Darren Shahlavi | John Tench | Dominiquie Vandenberg | Amelia Cooke | Lindsay Maxwell | Kelsey McIlroy |
A new James Bond novel has been launched dramatically onboard a warship with the Royal Marines standing by.
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, which hits the shelves on Wednesday May 28th, has been specially commissioned by the household of creator Ian Fleming in commemoration of the centenary of Fleming’s birth.
Tuuli Shipster, the model featured on the front cover of the book, delivered the exclusive first 007 copies from the printers in a specially commissioned Samsonite case, with a full military escort from the Royal Navy.
The Royal Navy ‘Pacific 24′ sea-boat import the model and the novels under the escort of Royal Navy Black Cat Lynx helicopters met with HMS Exeter with Shipster and the books then received on board by the captain.
Faulks, better known as the author of wartime classics such as Charlotte Gray and Birdsong, signed copies under the watchful eye of Fleming’s nieces, Lucy Fleming and Kate Grimond, before explaining how he attempted to mimic the writing style of the Bond creator.
"In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write a thousand words in the dawn, therefore go snorkelling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another thousand words in late afternoon, then more Martinis and glamorous women," he was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying.
"In my house in London, I followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkelling."
Though the plot has been kept tightly under wraps, it is known that the novel is run in 1967 during the Cold War.
"I found writing this light-hearted book more thrilling than I had expected," Faulks added.
"I hope people will enjoy reading it and that Ian Fleming would consider it to be in the cavalier spirit of his own novels and therefore some acceptable addition to the line."
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By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY NEW YORK — Crowds were there to cheer on the women from Sex and the City: The Movie when they arrived in high name Tuesday night at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan for their homecoming.
Despite the heat and humidity, the movie premiere was big and every bit as sparkly as Carrie Bradshaw’s wardrobe.
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Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall turned up to fete their film, along with the movie’s men — Chris Noth, David Eigenberg and Jason Lewis. Screaming fans lined up along 51st Street, angling for a glimpse of the actors who walked on a pink carpet sprinkled with fake diamond chips.
The film, what one. picks up three years after the HBO series ended, follows the very different but still intertwined lives of writer Carrie (Parker), lawyer Miranda (Nixon), homemaker Charlotte (Davis) and sexaholic publicist Samantha (Cattrall). It opens Friday.
“It feels otherworldly,” Parker said of the Big Apple reception. “It’s one of the great nights of my professional career.” Her “patient, sweet” married man, Matthew Broderick, was there, at the same time with “26 or 30 family members,” said Parker, wearing a silvery Nina Ricci gown.
“It’s good to be hearthstone,” agreed Cattrall, dressed in a metallic green Vivienne Westwood arrange. As for a sexy place in New York, she noted, “My bedroom is the sexiest spot. And I love Central Park.”
Davis concurred. “Central Park is so evocative and beautiful,” said the actress, who was wearing a gold Donna Karan make straight. Davis noted the heat. “We were worried about everyone out there with the weather, but they’re New Yorkers,” she said. “They can take anything.”
Still, “If God could turn on the ground the heat, I’d be grateful,” said Nixon, in a white Narciso Rodriguez gown.
As for the movie men, Noth echoed the homecoming theme. “I live in New York,” he said. “This is like a party. It’s a great place for it.”
Eigenberg before-mentioned that the excitement “is surreal. … Twenty years ago, I was a bike messenger.”
And Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson, new to the SATC cast, was soaking in the fan frenzy. “I’m loving it,” said Hudson, in a metallic Peter Soronen dress. “The Oscars are nice and formal. This is Sex and the City. It has an edge to it.”
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Ewan McGregor has signed on to join the cast of upcoming aviation biopic Amelia.
The Scottish actor is star as Gene Vidal, father of author Gore Vidal, in Mira Nair’s film about Amelia Earhart, the pioneering breeding pilot.
Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Virginia Madsen are already attached to the project, currently shooting in Toronto.
Amelia will point of convergence on the Earhart’s groundbreaking career as well as her tumultuous relationship with George Putnam, (Gere), her publicist and later husband.
Swank will play the pilot as her flight to fame began, when Putnam was engaged by socialite Amy Guest in 1927 to set up a non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
When Guest realised she was not capable of completing the journey herself, Putnam recruited Earhart, who had set the world altitude record for a female pilot in 1922.
Sideways actress Madsen will star as Dorothy Binney, Putnam’s first wife while McGregor - currently shooting I Love You, Philip Morris alongside Jim Carrey - will star as Vidal, with whom Earhart had a zealous affair.
He will shoot his role before commencing production on Angels and Demons, Ron Howard’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
Though she later admitted that co-pilot Wilmer Schultz did most of the flying on the trip from Trepassey Harbour, Newfoundland, to Burry Port in Wales, the transatlantic flight propelled Earhart to worldwide fame.
She disappeared in 1937 over the central Pacific Ocean while attempting to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe.
Guillermo Del Toro has revealed that he and Peter Jackson have agreed onward a first-choice actor to play Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming Hobbit films.
The Pan’s Labyrinth monitor was named during the allotted period that the chosen director to take JRR Tolkien’s novel to the conceal earlier this month and he is to produce sum of two units films tied to the book, with Jackson on executive producing duties.
And after Sir Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis committed to reprising their Lord of the Rings role as Gandalf and Gollum respectively, Del Toro has admitted that he and the Kiwi helmer have agreed upon their ideal unusual to take down the lead role of Bilbo.
Speaking to Empire magazine, Del Toro confirmed that the character of Bilbo will be based on Ian Holm’s portrayal of the hobbit in Jackson’s Oscar-winning trilogy, even though the British actor himself will not take the role as such.
"We are writing based on [Ian Holm’s performance], but other than that, we have ideas [of who could play him]," he explained.
"I can tell you that it’s down to a hardly any names that we all agree upon.
"And that our first choice… completely, magically, we said the same name. All of us!"
However, with the script for the first of the two films still to be written by Del Toro, Jackson and Philippa Boyens, Tolkien fans resolution have to wait "at least a year" before any casting announcements are made.
Del Toro’s talk with the film magazine followed a webchat in which he and Jackson took part for wetanz.com, the fan site for the especial effects residence responsible for the stunning visuals of Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films.
The pair revealed some choice minor circumstances about their plans for the two films, including the go of Howard Shore as score composer, the use of New Zealand as a primary location, and the confirmation that film two will most likely focus on "one short section of time" in the 60 years that elapse between the conclusion of The Hobbit and the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring.
The computer-animated Tinker Bell, out Oct. 28 on DVD and Blu-ray ($30 and $35), is the first of four fairy films in the works, a new one launching each year.
The movie represents something bigger, too: a refocusing of Disney’s straight-to-DVD strategy. The studio will stop releasing sequels of classics such as Bambi, Lady and the Tramp and Cinderella, which have been a rich source of revenue. (Last year’s Cinderella III, for instance, took in more than $80 million, estimates the Redhill Group tracking firm.) Instead, they’ll go for “added original work, original stories,” says John Lasseter, the force behind such animated hits as Cars and Ratatouille.
In Tinker Bell, Peter’s pixie friend finds her voice — it’s the first time fans behest hear her speak — and “what she is really meant to be,” Lasseter says. “It is kind of a creation story.”
The story line takes place before the events in Disney’s animated Peter Pan (1953) and introduces Pixie Hollow, a part of Never Land where fairies live.
“We’re creating a whole new mythology,” says Lasseter, who oversees the Disney/Pixar home-video originals as well as theatrical releases.
The inspiration for Tinker Bell came from the 2006 book In the Realm of the Never Fairies, from Disney’s publishing house. “It guided me to the notion of how fairies are united to god,” Lasseter says. “You know you get those questions with kids who are growing up, like, ‘Daddy, why do leaves turn colors in the fall?’ and ‘for what cause are there dewdrops on the grass?’ And now I’ve got the perfect answer: ‘Fairies did it.’ “
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NEW YORK (AP) — Adam Sandler became a box-office superstar by interpreting his favorite character: the repressed man-child.
He soared to fame portraying short-tempered Peter Pans in the Happy Gilmore,Billy Madison and Big Daddy films, branding himself the poster boy for guys who don’t want to grow up.
Now the 41-year-old actor-comedian will be rewarded for his antics with the Generation Award at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, to be presented June 1 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif.
He will receive the award for his “amazing contribution to Hollywood” and years of entertaining the network’s young viewers, MTV announced Wednesday. The Generation Award is MTV Movie Awards’ highest honor.
“A 30-something water boy, a brokenhearted ’80s wedding singer and a rejected hockey player-turned-pro golfer … now that’s an impressive resume,” said Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music, Logo and Films Group, in a statement. Toffler was referring to Sandler’s roles in The Waterboy,The Wedding Singer and Happy Gilmore.
Sandler’s film credits also include Click,50 First Dates,Spanglish,Mr. Deeds,Punch-Drunk Love and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
He will next be seen in the comedy You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, opening June 6.
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