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Âåëüâåò: Penguin’s Dutton and Author Lauren Willig Partner with Storycasting.com to Let Readers “Cast” The Betrayal of the Blood Lily Under-the-radar hobby of “fantasy casting” drives a fourth of readers, who cast their favorite fiction roles using film and TV stars. Storycasting has established a pattern of cross-promoting their website with books from forward-looking publishers. “Blood Lily” is the sixth and newest release by Willig, whose fans have posted over 140 casts for her works. Mesa, AZ (PRWEB) January 15, 2010 -- “Who do you see in the movie” is a question routinely asked at author events, and the fans of author Lauren Willig have posted their casting answers at Storycasting.com. For the latest book, released Tuesday January 12th, the role of English heroine Penelope Deveraux is starting out as a three-way split between popular actresses Rachel McAdams, Kate Beckinsale, and Camilla Belle. Fans have also given the nod for dashing Captain Alex Reid to Jonathan Rhys Meyers, well known for his kingly portrayal in The Tudors on Showtime television. The books, classified as “regency romance”, are based on a fictional series of Napoleonic-era spymasters, all named after flowers à la The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy. The entire series is highly rated by Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. Dutton, an imprint of Penguin USA, is the most recent of a growing list of publishers to co-promote with Storycasting for a book launch and title cast. Previous publisher partners include YA heavyweight Harper Teen for Splendor, “geek fiction” champion Trapdoor Books for The Magician of Lhasa, and Trilogus Media Group for the new teen vampire novel Emery. Author Willig regularly features casting posts in her blog, and has a Diversions page on her website that features Storycasting prominently. When asked about engaging her fans through a cast-the-book process, Willig replied "It's always so hard to think of things that will keep readers engaged and coming back, but [Storycasting] seems to be the gift that keeps on giving." The site creators confirmed that significant site traffic comes from authors who cast and blog, and that Willig’s fans are large contributors. “Our site automatically tracks the books most frequently cast in a rolling 30-day period, and Lauren Willig books currently fill all five of the top slots.” Storycasting LLC started in Arizona in 2007, and the website went “live” in May of 2008. Early participation from writers like Pay It Forward author Catherine Ryan Hyde and Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the King, has boosted the site to international prominence as a premier destination for those who use it “for the movie in your mind”. The site is also used by fans who want to “cast” comics, graphic novels, TV and movie remakes, poetry, old movies, podcasts, and video games. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3447434.htm
Âåëüâåò: Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais is catching flak for his anti-Irish joke aimed at actor Colin Farrell as he prepared to make his entrance at Sunday night's ceremony. We had dozens of calls to our offices all this week complaining. Gervais, sipping a beer on stage was certainly up for mischief."The great thing about the Golden Globes is that it crushes prejudice and stereotypes." he began. "A particular stereotype is that Irishmen are drunk, hairy hell raisers. Now please welcome Colin Farrell. Farrell did not look too pleased with the mocking introduction but let's face it he has been called worse, the 'Lusty Leprechaun' among other names. The British actor had earlier thrown the same accusation at Mel Gibson, whose mother comes from Ireland. 'I like a drink as much as the next man, unless the man in Mel Gibson' he said. Now some Irish were obviously deeply insulted.Others less so. Gervais has a cutting edge humor not often seen over here. But in this case I can't really blame him.Just look at Irish actors who have become famous. Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole , Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Colin Farrell in his heyday. Yes, drunkards all and proud of it too. Of course Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson would be the exceptions but the Hollywood drunk Irishman is a stereotype --not without reason I'm afraid. Gervais was only stating the obvious. http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/was-drunken-irishman-jibe-by-british-actor-offensive-82218032.html
Âåëüâåò: LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The US-Ireland Alliance, a non-profit organization created to foster ties between the US and Ireland, will honor J.J. Abrams, Saoirse Ronan and Seamus McGarvey at the fifth annual "Oscar Wilde: Honoring The Irish in Film," Thursday, March 4, 2010 at the Ebell of Los Angeles. Colum McCann, a 2009 National Book Award winner will emcee. Irish band Bell X1 will perform. The US-Ireland Alliance's intimate, casual party has become a must-have ticket the week before the Academy Awards. The event has led to collaboration among artists and businesses for both countries. After being honored nearly two years ago, James L. Brooks created an episode of The Simpsons about an Irish pub. He visited Ireland in March to premiere the episode, which featured his co-honoree Colm Meaney, and performers Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. Fiona Shaw, who was honored with Brooks and Meaney, saw singer Duke Special perform that evening, leading to the Belfast singer-songwriter joining Fiona in the cast of Mother Courage and Her Children at the National Theatre in London. A concert has become a highlight of the evening, and has included performances by Van Morrison, Hansard and Irglova, Duke Special, Laura Izibor, Gemma Hayes and the Republic of Loose. Singers Paddy Casey and S.J. McArdle performed at the first Oscar Wilde event and subsequently received US recording contracts. "Academy Award nominees often feel the luck of the Irish from this event," said Alliance President, Trina Vargo "Bill Monahan was honored, and went on that year to win an Academy Award for The Departed. Hansard and Irglova performed at the event just before winning an Academy Award for their song "Falling Slowly." Last year, three nights before winning her first Oscar, Kate Winslet took the stage to honor her agent, Hylda Queally." Other honorees have included Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Van Morrison, Terry George, Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan and David Holmes. Major sponsors of the event include American Airlines, Culture Ireland, the Irish Film Board, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. Event committee includes Brad Grey, Dick Cook, Charlie Koones, Howard T. Owens, John Fogelman, Alan Moloney and John Gardiner. For info, visit www.us-irelandalliance.org. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jj-abrams-seamus-mcgarvey-and-saoirse-ronan-to-be-honored-at-oscar-wilde-honoring-the-irish-in-film-pre-academy-awards-party-82588402.html
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Âåëüâåò: JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS' BLIND LOVE Jonathan Rhys Meyers claims he could easily fall in love with someone he didn't know very much about. Jonathan Rhys Meyers thinks love is blind. The actor - who portrays character James Reece, an aide to a US Ambassador in France and secret CIA agent, in upcoming action film 'From Paris with Love' - thinks it is easy to fall for someone without knowing much about them, just like his alter-ego does in the film. He explained: "Well, you know, love is blind. Really, how much do you know about your partner? "He knows that she makes dresses, he knows that she's into fabric, but he's a naive guy anyway. It's not like he's being specifically naive because she's so fantastically beautiful, yet it's jarring and that's why she's there. He'll go for her blindly because the beauty, the charm, the elegance, he's living in Paris. This is the dream. "Would I fall for it in real life? Absolutely! 100 per cent! Hook, line and sinker." The 32-year-old hunk is currently single, and most recently had a four year on/off relationship with Reena Hammer, the daughter of Ruby + Millie cosmetics founder Ruby Hammer. http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/jonathan-rhys-meyers-blind-love_1131250
Âåëüâåò: NEW YORK – On the surface, Tudor tyrant Henry VIII and rock legend Elvis Presley would seem to have nothing in common. Except for one thing – both have been portrayed by a guy from Ireland's County Cork. Jonathan Rhys Meyers picked up a Golden Globe Award for his eerily authentic portrayal of Presley in the 2004 TV miniseries, Elvis. And he has received two Golden Globe nominations for his highly personal take on the despotic, womanizing King Henry VIII on the hit miniseries The Tudors, which launches its fourth and final season in April. Meyers has also scored for his portrayal as a social-climbing killer in Woody Allen's Match Point, a sympathetic football coach in Bend It Like Beckham, a young assassin in Michael Collins, and a glittering David Bowie-type singer in The Velvet Goldmine. There's a point to this calculated virtuosity, reflecting Rhys Meyers's determination to show his range – or, as he once put it, to allow audiences to see the "very many different layers of what I can do as an actor." Now, with the current From Paris With Love, he's fulfilled another longtime yearning – to make a genuine action thriller and buddy movie. And he's hoping that he and co-star John Travolta provide a classic combination. "I think what separates an action movie from a classic movie is the chemistry between the actors doing it," Rhys Meyers says. "If they're liking each other and they're liking the story, they're on. Why does Lethal Weapon work? Because Danny Glover and Mel Gibson worked with each other. You see the energy – they play off each other very well. You get some partnerships that just mean more." He cites the definitive buddy movie – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. "If that had been Robert Redford with Warren Beatty (instead of Paul Newman) would it have been the same movie? Who knows? It's the energy that carries it." Which brings him back to From Paris With Love and his role as James Reece, an uptight but ambitious personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in Paris. Reece has a side job as a low-level CIA operative and his big ambition is to make the grade as a full-fledged spy and see some real action. He ends up getting more than he bargained for when he teams up with Travolta's profane, trigger-happy Charlie Wax, a special agent who is bound by no rules as he launches a furious assault on a terrorist ring. He's the sort of guy who will think nothing of leaning out of a careening vehicle and firing a bazooka in Paris traffic. Rhys Meyers says that being paired with Travolta was a happy accident and he'll be eternally grateful to his co-star as well as producer Luc Besson and director Pierre Morel for making it possible. "If I (didn't) have somebody like John there, I'm not sure if it would work for me. I had to have somebody I could play off." Rhys Myers had a tight schedule with this one. He'd been working on The Tudors back in London on a Wednesday, and a day later was in Paris where he was immediately thrust into a pivotal scene with Travolta. In a sequence where an enraged Charlie Wax is on the verge of trashing a French customs and immigration office, Rhys Meyers didn't immediately recognize this ranting specimen with the shaved head and facial hair as the guy he once worshipped in Grease. "The first time I and John really had face time with each other was in that scene where I have to go in and bust him out of the customs office," Rhys Meyers says. "I'd seen John in many films, but I hadn't seen John like that, you know. I didn't know what to expect." But the 32-year-old actor says that he and Travolta immediately clicked. "James Reece's character – my character – expects a sophisticated, elegant, worldly James Bond to turn up. And what he gets is a biker boy – minus the Harley-Davidson but with pretty much everything else. James has dreams of what a spy is going to be like. He dreams of what a sophisticated undercover life is. But the reality is that it's a dirty job. James doesn't have the cynicism that Wax has, but James has the naivete that Wax enjoys. Wax enjoys seeing him be confused. He enjoys seeing him get a punch. He enjoys seeing him being shocked at the shootings, because there's only one way to train somebody and that's to throw him into the deep end. It was great." Rhys Meyers had one major problem with the film's action demands. "I don't like heights," he says. "For example, I had to run up these steel stairs, and I'm not a good height guy." One scene involved carrying a vase full of cocaine up those stairs, and much to his embarrassment, he dropped the vase. "It was in the middle of the shot. John's still running – he's like three floors ahead of me, and I had to go all the way down again. It was just awful." http://www.kelowna.com/2010/02/08/henry-the-eighth-he-isnt-irelands-jonathan-rhys-meyers-wants-to-prove-his-versatility/
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