Murphy teams up with Liu
Cillian Murphy will be joined by Lucy Liu in the romantic-comedy being shot in New York by debut director Paul Soter … In Watching the Detectives, Murphy plays a film buff with female problems.
Ulster playboy, singer and wannabe actor Jamie Dornan, linked romantically to Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and model Lily Aldridge and recently co-starring alongside Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette, has moved into a Notting Hill flat with older sister, Jessica. A friend says: "Jamie's sister would do anything for him, from cooking to propping him up emotionally."
John 'Two Guns' Prescott, the British politician universally dubbed a walking disaster, has been linked with Stateside billionaire Philip Anschutz, playing cowboys at his Denver ranch. But did you know that the smash hit film of Ulster-born C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was down to the American? A committed Christian, Anschutz bought the film rights from Lewis's stepson Douglas Gresham, and another Chronicle is just around the corner.
Guy Ritchie, British film producer and Mr Madonna, will be in Belfast to present the prizes at the newest film festival. He has helped set up the Film for Youth Festival to encourage budding moviemakers and July 30 sees the first fest at the Waterfront Hall.
Details have been announced by Abu Media for their next feature film, Twice, described as "a great romantic comedy unlike anything done in Ireland before." Shooting starts towards the end of the year with a planned premiere at next year's Galway Film Fleadh. And after Twice will come Fair Oaks, to be shot in partnership with a German company.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has issued membership invites to Oscar winner and nominee Martin 'Six-Shooter' McDonagh and Jeffrey 'The Constant Gardener' Caine as part of its plan to expand its worldwide membership.
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