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12 articles from 2009
Nowhere Boy: A career-defining role for Aaron Johnson!
29 October 2009 12:50 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
tMF has been keeping an eye on Aaron Johnson from the time we watched him in The Illusionist. He went on to grab a leading role in Kick-Ass, even after Matthew Vaughn, the director announced that he's not going to cast a British for the part. Apparently, Johnson made quite an impression. - - -
- - - At 19 years old, the ambitious, fearless and definitely independent-minded Johnson has just been nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his role as the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. The film also received another 5 nominations, including Best British Independent Film. Is this Johnson's chance to move up his acting career even higher?
Critics seem to like the young actor, and early reviews of the film were very positive. More of Johnson, the trailer for Nowhere Boy and more insights after the jump!
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About the »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Nowhere Boy: A career-defining role for Aaron Johnson!
29 October 2009 12:50 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
tMF has been keeping an eye on Aaron Johnson from the time we watched him in The Illusionist. He went on to grab a leading role in Kick-Ass, even after Matthew Vaughn, the director announced that he's not going to cast a British for the part. Apparently, Johnson made quite an impression. - - -
- - - At 19 years old, the ambitious, fearless and definitely independent-minded Johnson has just been nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his role as the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. The film also received another 5 nominations, including Best British Independent Film. Is this Johnson's chance to move up his acting career even higher?
Critics seem to like the young actor, and early reviews of the film were very positive. More of Johnson, the trailer for Nowhere Boy and more insights after the jump!
- - -
About the »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Nowhere Boy: A career-defining role for Aaron Johnson!
29 October 2009 12:50 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
tMF has been keeping an eye on Aaron Johnson from the time we watched him in The Illusionist. He went on to grab a leading role in Kick-Ass, even after Matthew Vaughn, the director announced that he's not going to cast a British for the part. Apparently, Johnson made quite an impression. - - -
- - - At 19 years old, the ambitious, fearless and definitely independent-minded Johnson has just been nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his role as the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. The film also received another 5 nominations, including Best British Independent Film. Is this Johnson's chance to move up his acting career even higher?
Critics seem to like the young actor, and early reviews of the film were very positive. More of Johnson, the trailer for Nowhere Boy and more insights after the jump!
- - -
About the »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Nowhere Boy: A career-defining role for Aaron Johnson!
29 October 2009 12:50 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
tMF has been keeping an eye on Aaron Johnson from the time we watched him in The Illusionist. He went on to grab a leading role in Kick-Ass, even after Matthew Vaughn, the director announced that he's not going to cast a British for the part. Apparently, Johnson made quite an impression. - - -
- - - At 19 years old, the ambitious, fearless and definitely independent-minded Johnson has just been nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his role as the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. The film also received another 5 nominations, including Best British Independent Film. Is this Johnson's chance to move up his acting career even higher?
Critics seem to like the young actor, and early reviews of the film were very positive. More of Johnson, the trailer for Nowhere Boy and more insights after the jump!
- - -
About the »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Nowhere Boy: A career-defining role for Aaron Johnson!
29 October 2009 12:50 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
tMF has been keeping an eye on Aaron Johnson from the time we watched him in The Illusionist. He went on to grab a leading role in Kick-Ass, even after Matthew Vaughn, the director announced that he's not going to cast a British for the part. Apparently, Johnson made quite an impression. - - -
- - - At 19 years old, the ambitious, fearless and definitely independent-minded Johnson has just been nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his role as the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. The film also received another 5 nominations, including Best British Independent Film. Is this Johnson's chance to move up his acting career even higher?
Critics seem to like the young actor, and early reviews of the film were very positive. More of Johnson, the trailer for Nowhere Boy and more insights after the jump!
- - -
About the »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Next 'Twilight'-Pegged Vampire Adaptation: Moira Buffini's 'A Vampire Story'
19 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Had enough of vampires yet? Not if the weekend's Scream Awards are any indication. So it's a safe assumption that you're open to more adaptations of vampire stories to watch in between installments of the "Twilight" franchise and episodes of "True Blood." Try Moira Buffini's British play "A Vampire Story," which is now headed to the big screen.
Husband-and-wife producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen ("How to Lose Friends and Alienate People") announced the adaptation, which has been retitled "Byzantium," among a whole slew of projects their company, Number 9 Films, is currently developing. Woolley has some previous experience with vampire films. As a longtime collaborator with filmmaker Neil Jordan, Woolley produced "Interview with a Vampire."
/Film's English correspondent, Brendon Connelly, shares the plot of "A Vampire Story" over at that site, and he's certainly correct to say it sounds like a British version of "Let the Right One In, »
- Christopher Campbell
Hart's Heart Goes Out To Movie Triplets' Mum
3 July 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Harry Potter star Ian Hart felt terrible for one young mum on the set of his new film A Boy Called Dad - because her triplets were always cold, soaking and in peril.
The unnamed mum agreed to let her babies alternate as the child star of the movie - but Hart feels sure she had no idea what was expected of the tots.
In one scene, his movie son, Kyle Ward, was standing on the edge of a cliff in wind and driving rain - with one of the babies cradled in his arms.
The Backbeat star says, "We did some of that scene with a doll and then we did the rest of the scene with the baby. The mother of the baby was watching it get further and further away from her arms and closer and closer to the edge of a cliff handled by a child, effectively.
"What was going through her mind I don't know! It was raining and it was wet and slippery... We had rain galore and wind.
"The poor little baby was getting rained on. It was freezing cold and the baby was crying; by take two this little baby was soaked! His little face was covered in water. It was terrible." »
Hart Considers Hat Line
24 June 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Backbeat star Ian Hart is considering bringing out his own line of hats - because he's always looking for the perfect trilby.
The British actor, who played Professor Quirinus Quirrell in Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone, is rarely seen without his trademark hat - and now he's thinking about turning his fashion statement into a sideline.
He's hoping his potential line of headwear will prompt hat fans to buy better hats.
Hart says, "More people are wearing hats but they're bad hats. I still get the best hats from New York. I went to a hat shop by Madison Square Garden and I walked in and the guy went, 'That hat you're wearing is wrong for you.' I'm like, 'It's just a hat.' He's like, 'No, come here. As I get older, I get shorter and every time I get shorter the brim has to come in a little bit.'
"So he took my hat off and, for five dollars, trimmed the brim of my hat until it was the right size for me, and I've had that look ever since."
Hart admits he's hooked on hats: "I have got a bit of a hat problem. I've got loads of hats in the house and I've been asked to try and find somewhere else to put them! It's like being a woman with tons of shoes.
"I wear a hat in the house and I've been known to sleep in a hat. I've got a sleeping hat that's this soft cotton hat, which is flexible - so it forms to your head, and you can sleep in it."
But the balding actor insists his love for good headwear is a practical one.
He explains to WENN, "I get severe head burn, plus it's always raining in London and I've got nothing to soak up the moisture, so my head just gets wet straight away. A hat covers you from the sun and the rain - and it's fetching!" »
Hart Tried Paparazzi Life In Cox And Aniston's Shoes
22 June 2009 1:05 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
British actor Ian Hart researched his role as a paparazzi in Courteney Cox's axed TV drama series Dirt by pretending to be the former Friends star.
The Backbeat actor agreed to take Cox's car for a spin after dining with the actress and her pal Jennifer Aniston - and quickly realised how dangerous life can be for an A-list celebrity.
Hart says, "I drove their car for them to drive the photographers outside off the scent. It is completely round the bend. At Courteney's house they're constantly popping their heads over the fence like little rabbits... they're hiding in the bushes. It seems impossible for them to leave home without the paparazzi following them.
"Courteney is very fortunate to live a nice life on the beach in a lovely house in Malibu, but they've had to put up a big fence so they can't see the ocean, so what's the point? Both Courteney and Jennifer have a very sensible attitude towards it - they accept it, they know it's not gonna go away.
"If it was me, I'd be in prison because someone would get hit or a camera would get smashed. Then I'd have to take an anger management course. It wouldn't end well."
Hart played a shady, schizophrenic paparazzo on the U.S. show, which was a critical success but a rating failure. »
Hart: 'I Hated The Beatles'
21 June 2009 4:05 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Backbeat star Ian Hart kept a secret while shooting the acclaimed early Beatles movie - he hated the Fab Four.
The Liverpudlian actor, who portrayed John Lennon in the 1994 movie, admits he never liked the group growing up - and couldn't understand why they were so beloved.
He tells WENN, "I hated The Beatles, hated them. I hated the whole nostalgia thing about them. You'd turn on the local radio and all you'd hear was music from the 60s in my childhood.
"As a young man, I wanted to be a punk or a mod, never a Beatle."
But the Harry Potter star never told his character's son or Lennon's partner Yoko Ono about his feelings: "You can't do that. I met Julian Lennon when I did Backbeat and Yoko Ono some years ago when she was in Liverpool doing some TV show."
Hart insists he didn't hate all the members of the Beatles: "I would've liked to have met George Harrison. I thought he was an amazing human being." »
Murphy's 'Beyond the Fire' Premieres At London Fest
22 April 2009 6:16 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »
Maeve Murphy's second feature film 'Beyond the Fire' will screen tonight (April 22nd) at the London Independent Film Festival. Nominated for Best UK Feature & Best Director at the Festival, 'Beyond the Fire' tells the story of Sheamy (Scot Williams – 'Hillsbourough'), a gentle Irish ex-priest who arrives in London to find his old family friend and mentor Father Brendan. After an unsuccessful search Sheamy reaches out to the only other person he knows in London, Rory (Chris O'Neil – 'Backbeat'). »
Iain Softley Interview, InkHeart
19 January 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Director/ Producer Iain Softley has earned praise for his work on a wide range of feature films. In 1994, he gained widespread acclaim for his feature film directorial debut, "Backbeat," which he also wrote. The film told the story of The Beatles' founding band member Stu Sutcliffe and his intense and often stormy relationships with John Lennon and photographer Astrid Kirchherr, before Sutcliffe's tragic and untimely death. The film received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best British Film, and brought Softley a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Newcomer. The following year, he ... »
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