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I added 8 new photos from a photoshoot he did recently.
Check them out by clicking the thumbnails below.

Check out the trailer of Heartless below.
Heartless will be released to theaters in the UK on May 21, 2010.

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I’m still here guys. Not updating much, but I try.
Anyway, Jim has been cast in the movie called Promised Land, which tells the creation story of Israel from Palestine.
I found some articles about this upcoming film.

British director Michael Winterbottom is going to the ‘Promised Land,’ which is not always such a pretty place, and he’s taking fellow-Brit actor Jim Sturgess with him.

Variety reports that the hip filmmaker (’24 Hour Party People’) has chosen ‘Promised Land’ as his next feature project; the film focuses on the events that led up the 1948 partitioning of Palestine, and the creation of the state of Israel.

Source: Moviefone

Due to start shooting in late summer, The Promised Land is billed as a political crime thriller set in British-ruled Palestine at the end of World War II, and covers the period leading to the establishment of Israel.

Firth has been cast as Avraham Stern, the leader of the Underground organization Lehi, which lead a violent campaign against the British Mandate in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The British authorities also called the Lehi “The Stern Gang.”

Sturgess and Macfadyen will play British police officers trying to end the Jewish revolutionaries and underground groups’ violent campaign to expel the British, which culminated in the 1946 attack on the British headquarters at King David Hotel in Jerusalem that left dozens of British soldiers dead.

Source: Palestine Note

Check out the IMDB page here

I know I haven’t update this site for a long long time.
Really sorry for being M.I.A.

Anyway, I found a new video from Glamour behind the scenes photoshoot.

Credit: jimsfantasygirl / Jim Sturgess Online

JS Online (JSO) has done an exclusive interview with Jim Sturgess. Jim talks about all his new films, including Heartless.

Make sure you read it HERE

Jim’s horror movie, Heartless, premieres on Sitges Film Festival and it receives some positive criticism.
Here are some reviews:

From Fangoria.com

Sitges ‘09: My Sitges Story – Part 5
Tony Timpone

Ridley has never branched out from his cult identity, but that may all change with his new commercial chiller HEARTLESS. I went into this film largely blind, which may be the best way to appreciate all the film’s terrifying surprises. 21’s Jim Sturgess (an gut-wrenching and emotional performance) stars as a photographer in East London whose hellish existence (he has a horrible birthmark on his face and lives in a city of urban blight) gets even more hellish when he encounters real demonic horror. Let’s leave the plot synopsis there so you can discover the film’s dark pleasures on your own. Ridley later tells me that the film has not nailed a U.S. distrib yet, but don’t expect that to last for long.

From Twich Film

Ridley’s cast play a large part in the success of his eclectic approach; the supporting lineup of experienced British character actors turn in sterling work (Timothy Spall and writer/director Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, Adulthood) among them) but Jim Sturgess is phenomenal in the lead role. Jamie has several key dramatic setpieces which could so easily have collapsed into saccharine tedium; he dreams another, ‘normal’ Jamie lives a successful life in an alternate reality; he doubts his self-worth, his ability to make friends, have relationships.

Yet Sturgess imbues these moments with an honesty that is nothing short of devastating. A quiet conversation with his mother where (like any caring parent) she assures her son he is a wonderful person who’s going to find that person who will love him for who he is inside is heartbreaking for all its obvious simplicity. A later monologue where he doubts this is similarly effective. One key scene shortly after the central demonic bargain has been struck switches from queasy (yet very funny) comedy to nerve-shredding horror with dizzying speed, yet it’s Sturgess’ performance as much as Ridley’s direction that means such genre-hopping never falters.

To reiterate – that horror is horrific.

Can’t wait to see the movie myself!!

It’s finally here!!
Not much news out there, so I decided to give the site a makeover. Still loving the dark colours though, so it’s still dominating this new layout.
Let me know what you think.