Friday, March 16, 2012

Fascinating video interview with Benjamin Mee for the movie based on his incredible true life story, We Bought a Zoo here:


Based on Guardian columnist and author Benjamin Mee's incredible true story of uprooting his family to Devon to rescue a perishing Zoo on Dartmoor, it was a story too good for Hollywood to miss. As We Bought A Zoo reaches UK cinemas, Premiere Scene's Claire and Anthony Bueno were intrigued to find out from the Mee brothers Benjamin & Duncan about life at the Zoo, their investment in education and the ecology and how tinsel town turned their humble tale into a movie starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson! Also in attendance TV stars Kelly Hoppen, Bill Oddie, Sinitta & Vanessa Feltz all walk the red carpet for the Gala Premiere.

For more information on Dartmoor Zoo visit http://www.dartmoorzoo.org/

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Tim Burton's Dark Shadows actually looks rather fun! With Johnny Depp as the coolest vampire ever! New trailer:

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet—or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green).

A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin.

The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

Friday, March 09, 2012

Two new clips and stills from Titanic 3D will bring back lots of memories for the mega fans of the movie out there!


James Cameron's Titanic is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic, the pride and joy of the White Star Line and, at the time, the largest moving object ever built. She was the most luxurious liner of her era -- the 'ship of dreams' -- which ultimately carried over 1,500 people to their death in the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912.













Thursday, March 08, 2012

Twitter Comp! RT & Follow Us for chance to win @BFI tickets to see Dreyer's influential masterpiece 'Ordet'. More info


To celebrate the BFI's release of Carl Dreyer's influental masterpice Ordet (The Word), we are offering you the chance to win some fantastic prizes!

First prize is a pair of tickets to see Ordet and any other screening in the Dreyer season at the BFI Southbank! One runner up will also receive a pair of tickets to see Ordet at the BFI Southbank.

Considered by many to be the greatest of Dreyer's work, this adaptation of Kaj Munk's play has had a tangible influence on filmmaking today.

Old Morten Borgen fears God has abandoned him. Though he adores daughter-in-law Inger, he wishes she could restore her atheist husband Mikkel to the family's traditional beliefs; Anders his youngest wants to marry the daughter of a tailor who preaches a detestably puritanical Christianity; and his middle son Johannes now believes he's Jesus. How could things be worse? Far from the miserabilist litany this brief character summary might suggest, the intimate naturalism of the performances, the exquisite lighting, camera movements, sets and sounds all add to the sense of a super-reality, strangely familiar yet informed by mysterious forces of dark, almost primal emotion. Dreyer’s penultimate film is a heartrending hymn to the power of earthly passion and love.



See Ordet in cinemas nationwide from 9 March. For more information visit: http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/node/24731

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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Fascinating interview with director Paolo Sorrentino for his film This Must Be The Place released by @trinity_films


Premiere Scene's Claire Bueno was fortunate enough to grab a sit down interview with Cannes film festival winning director Paolo Sorrentino when he was in London for the press junket to promote his new film This Must Be The Place. Sorrentino shares with us what it was like working with Oscar winning actor Sean Penn (Cheyenne) and what it was like shooting his first film in the USA.

To see more interviews and to find out what's happening on the movie calendar visit http://www.premierescene.net

Extremely insightful video interview with fashion designer Ozwald Boateng and director Varon Bonicos for A Man's Story:


Premiere Scene's Claire Bueno was fashioning herself for a great interview as she attends a London press junket with Savile Row men's fashion designer Ozwald Boateng and director Varon Bonicos as they promote their documentary A Man's Story. Charting 12 years of Boateng's life the gentlemen share this us the incredibly personal journey this has been for both tailor and filmmaker.

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Friday, March 02, 2012

UK Premiere Video of John Carter! Interviews with Taylor Kitsh, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong and more:


For Premiere Scene's Claire & Anthony Bueno the planets aligned as the cast and crew landed in London's BFI Southbank for the UK premiere of John Carter. Producers Jim Morris & Lindsey Collins share with us the importance of shooting in real locations regardless of it being a sci-fi movie. Actors Mark Strong tells about is part Matai Shang, Willem Dafoe reveals his new talent - acting on stilts! And John Carter himself Taylor Kitsh gives us an insight into his extensive stunt work.

To see more interviews and to find out what's happening on the movie calendar visit http://www.premierescene.net