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From ScreenDaily Leading Swiss indepedent distributor Ascot Elite has acquired rights for Kari Skogland’s Fifty Dead Men Walking with up-and-coming star Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan, from Handmade Films International. Fifty Dead Men Walking is one of four films acquired by Ascot Elite for German speaking Europe.

According to IFTN, the movie The Way Back, which also star Colin Farrell and Saoirse Ronan, will begin production in Bulgaria on March 2009. Irish actors Colin Farrell (In Bruges) and Saoirse Ronan (Death Defying Acts) are set to star in ‘The Way Back’, a WWII drama to be directed by Peter Weir (Master and [...]

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations have been announced and Jim Sturgess is up for best actor award. The Necessities of Life’s Natar Ungalaaq (who also starred in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) is up for a best actor award, in addition to L’Écuyer and Jim Sturgess (Fifty Dead Men Walking). The awards will be announced [...]

Jim Sturgess, as well as Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan are reported being in final negotiations to star in Peter Weir’s The Way Back. The film will focus on a group of soldiers who engineered a grueling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942 — walking thousands of kilometers through the Gobi desert [...]

News has been seriously lacking. I couldn’t really find anything worth posting (if you got any news please email me or comment, you will be credited of course). This is why, as much as I despise myself for doing this, there are 2 posts in a row lacking any Jim news whatsoever. *Sigh* Back to [...]