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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Zooey Deschanel and the Winnie the Pooh Premiere. LA!

July 11, 2011   FJ   No comments
Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel

What a great way to start the week. Who doesn’t like a bit of Winnie The Pooh and if you don’t you should! The Winnie The Pooh premiere was held last night in LA   at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank. Zooey Deschanel and Tom Kenny were at the event for this classic animation updated for 2011. Zooey Deschanel  as far as we can gather is not lending her voice to this animation film but she grabs the headline because as we say in London she was looking “alwight”

The Winnie the Pooh Premiere LA  Photos

The Plot:
The film is based on three stories found in the Milne books. Two stories are from Winnie-the-Pooh: “In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One,” and “In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump.” The other story is found in The House at Pooh Corner: “In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day and We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings.” Courtesy Wiki.

The film stars Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Tom Kenny as Rabbit, Craig Ferguson as Owl, Travis Oates as Piglet, Bud Luckey as Eeyore

 Winnie the Pooh Trailer. HD

The film is apparently being released on 15 July according to the trailer. That’s not particularly good timing as Harry Potter comes out on the same day. Could be interesting in box office terms? Seem to remember reading some good reviews on this though!

Photo Credit: EmilyinChains714
 
Winnie the Pooh Premiere Guest List.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Attend the BAFTA Brits To Watch Event. LA!

July 10, 2011   FJ   No comments
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

The BAFTA Brits To Watch Event was held at the Belasco Theatre last night  in Los Angeles. The new Royal couple the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were in attendance on the ninth day of their first joint overseas tour visiting Canada and the United States. This was the inaugural event for this BAFTA occasion. With a  250 strong guest list including many A listers this was very much a black tie affair, and as you can imagine the big names turned out for this one. Apparently quite a few of even the top celebs were worried about things like protocol and what to say, what not to say how to bow and courtsy and other such regal things and resist the urge to give them a quick hug.

The BAFTA Brits to Watch Event LA Photos courtesy Getty 

The guest list reads like a who’s who. Here’s some names that jumped off that list, blast from the past tennis star stunner Anna Kournikova, Actress and Singing legend Barbra Streisand, Blake Lively of Gossip Girl, Cat Deeley TV presenter, Ed Westwick of Gossip Girl, Gordon Ramsay Chef, Jack Black Comedy Actor, Jennifer Garner Actress, Jennifer Lopez needs no introduction, Nicole Kidman Actress, Piers Morgan TV Personality, Quentin Tarantino Director, Stephen Fry, Tom Hanks and Zooey Deschanel.  The Duchess of Cambridge is grabbing the headlines with the media though as the one setting the pace in the fashionista stakes. No surprises there then!

Bafta Brit Brits to Watch. Full Guest List

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Trust and this weeks film reviews. The Good. The Average and the Grim!

July 09, 2011   FJ   No comments
A scene from Trust

A Scene from Trust

Films are tricky things to figure out as to whether they are good or just plain awful. Yes you have the trailers on You Tube but it’s easy just to stick all the good bits in 2 minutes, whats the other 1 hour 58 minutes like? You could go by the posters that all say “The Best Film of the Year” “This film is definitely worthy of an Academy Award” ” A must see do not miss this” with always 4 and 5 star ratings. Yeah Right! Maybe just go by the poster itself “yes that looks good what a lovely design “and dive in but you’ve heard the expression don’t judge a book by its cover.

How about going with those high brow critics that rarely ever give 5 stars and use terms like “the film left a sacharin after taste” what’s that all about?, OR ” the film suffers from serious plot holes” god I hate that line and they never identify where those plot holes actually are do they? OR “This film is a CGI eye candy spectacular that will not require any brain cell activity on your part whatsoever AVOID” ? Sometimes we don’t want to be entering an edition of Mastermind we want eye candy special effects, loads of explosions and women in bikinis with limited dialogue where we can switch our brains off and wallow in the joy of it all after a beer or ten.

Which brings us nicely onto this weeks film reviews. With a helping hand from Alex Zane and Grant Rollings from The Sun we unravel the mystery that is the latest film releases and try to find which are the Good, which are the Average and which are the Grim. This weeks films are an odd mix with a couple of strange offerings including Trust, Super, Huge, The Tree of Life and The Devil’s Rock. All reviews have trailers in HD where available all with a dash of unavoidable sarcasm the lowest form of wit from yours truly.

Super.Think Kick Ass but just a bit more down market with a struggling with life guy deciding to dress up as a super hero and of course this wouldn’t be completed without the girl sidekick a bit like Tarzan and Jane.Rainn Wilson plays this superhero type called Crimson Bolt. Ellen Page plays his helper babe called Boltie who has a bit of a foul mouth on her just like Hit Girl out of Kick Ass. The budget on this film is no where near the film Kick Ass and it shows and unfortunately Kick Ass came out first, has been and gone and this film is not a patch and is firmly in the Kick Ass shadow. Still comes out at 3 stars. If this is your thing then it’s worth a look. If you’ve seen Kick Ass then probably worth missing!

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Adele Live at the iTunes Festival The Roundhouse London. 5 Videos!

July 08, 2011   FJ   No comments

The iTunes festival is currently in full swing and will be going on till 31st July with different class acts performing live at the Roundhouse in Camden, London every night. This venue has decent acoustics. Due to the overwhelming popularity of Adele on this site after her blinding live performance at this years Brit Awards a while back we’ve decided to focus on Adele who is one of the main headline acts at the fest. Sh’es been off with laryngitis for the last month or so and this has caused all sorts of chaos wuth her tour dates but it looks like she’s been given a clean bill of health and is ready to show us what she can do and where better than an event like this. Five songs below taken from this live session including Rolling in The Deep, Set Fire to The Rain, Hometown Glory, Someone Like You and Turning Tables taken from both her albums ’19′ and ’21′. Someone Like You below may have slight audio sync problems but still very good!.Grass roots stuff this and always the best!

Adele at The ITunes Festival 4 more Live Videos

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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 World Premiere London. Interview Videos!

July 08, 2011   FJ   No comments

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows premiered last night as if you already didn’t know and this event was of epic proportions. We’ve put together a video interview collection of the main stars at this event the source being the superb Absolute Radio with the interviews taking place in Trafalgar Square right in the middle of this World premiere. Being billed as the last ever Harry Potter premiere, one things for certain it’s definitely made it’s mark on London causing chaos in the West End and will be remembered for a long time to come! Average interview length about 2 and half minutes each.  Interviews include Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. Daniel Radcliffe and J K Rowling are after the jump. See also previous Part 1 and 2 Articles of this event with event red carpet photos and crowd event photos giving you an idea of how big this event really was and the stars in attendance!

Emma Watson Harry Potter Premiere Interview with Absolute Radio Trafalgar Square

Rupert Grint Harry Potter Premiere Interview with Absolute Radio Trafalgar Square

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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 World Premiere London. Part 2 Photos!

July 08, 2011   FJ   No comments
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

The weather wasn’t looking promising for this event earlier in the day but things came good at about the time of the premiere. If you’ve read Part 1 of this article you’ll already know how big this event was. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 had its World Premiere in London and this was a premiere amongst premiere’s and off the scale huge. Trafalgar Square was the main area and venue and the crowds you would not believe. This thing spread over into Leicester Square as well. You wouldn’t recognise the place!

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – World Premiere  Photos

Locals, people from around the UK and from abroad were there in the Squares in their droves to see the Harry Potter Stars set this film in motion and the stars certainly turned out for this one. This just has to be by far the biggest film premiere London has ever seen in terms of crowd size! Emma Watson grabs the headline for this event.

This article includes Red Carpet photos including outside and inside arrivals and also the After Party shots . Over 1000 photos from the best. Getty!

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 – World Premiere – Inside Arrivals

So who was there? For starters. most of the cast including of course Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, Robbie Coltrane and Helena Bonham Carter. Of course the film is based on the JK Rowling books and JK Rowling was also naturally present.

Other names that were at the event included Mollie King, Anna Wintour, Bonnie Wright, Guy Ritchie, John Terry, Julie Walters, Peaches and Pixie Geldof and many more. The guest list as you can imagine was extensive. Get the full arrivals guest list at the foot of this article.

Film Plot:
After destroying one Horcrux and discovering the significance of the three Deathly Hallows, Harry, Ron and Hermione continue to seek the other Horcruxes in an attempt to destroy Lord Voldemort. However, now that the Dark Lord has obtained the yet unbeatable Elder Wand, he aims to complete his final stage to ultimate power and launches an attack on Hogwarts School, where the trio return for one last stand against the dark forces that threaten to take over the Wizarding and Muggle worlds.Information courtesy Wikipedia

Of course a film premiere isn’t a film premiere without the After Party. Photos of the stars also at this event.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 – World Premiere – After Party

The Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 Guest List

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The Harry Potter World Premiere London. Part 1. How big was it? Photos!

July 07, 2011   FJ   No comments

This is Part 1 of the Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 World Premiere, The only way to tackle this “thing” is  to break it down into smaller still very large parts as this was a big event. This is the last of the Harry Potter films and I was expecting it to be big but not like this.  It was broadcast live via a stack of websites including You Tube but you can’t beat a photo as in still image to give you a fixed idea of what it was actually like. Also you can’t beat being there in person. There’s no red carpet shots, no stars, none of that this is just focusing on the sheer size of this event from a crowd perspective. The stars and red carpet shots come next!

Harry Potter Premiere Trafalgar Sq. Big Screen near Nelsons Column

Harry Potter Premiere Trafalgar Sq. Big Screen near Nelsons Column

Big is not really the word though for this premiere. To give you an idea of how big this thing was Leicester Square was solid which looked to be the secondary staging area, you couldn’t move with police and security everywhere and of course Harry potter fans and tourists caught up in the throng. . That’s where premiere’s like this are normally held. But the main arrivals for the premiere wasn’t here it was in Trafalgar Square around the corner. I was wondering WHY? . When I arrived there the question was answered quite graphically. It was like the old New years Eve celebrations before they were held on the Embankment but without people dancing in the fountains. Trafalgar Square was  absolutely chocker solid, there were Helicopters overhead, the crowd I would say was about 50 deep maybe more you couldn’t get any where near. I was muttering religious words throughout the 45 minutes I was there, either that or just gob smacked. and it takes a lot for me to get like that. I’ve never seen anything like this for a film premiere. NEVER!

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