Jim Sturgess Fan

Kari Skogland, the director of Fifty Dead Men Walking won Citytv Western Canada Feature Film Award from Vancouver International Film Festival.

Here’s the article:

For the seventh year running, Citytv is generously sponsoring an award for Western Canadian filmmakers. Last year, Carl Bessai and Normal won the $12,000 Citytv Western Canada Feature Film Award.

This year, the jury-selected prizes was again be announced at the awards presentation at the Closing Gala. The feature films in this year’s competition were:
45 RPM (dir. David Schultz)
Control Alt Delete (dir. Cameron Labine)
Crime (dir. Tom Scholte)
Edison & Leo (dir. Neil Burns)
Fifty Dead Men Walking (dir. Kari Skogland)
Mothers & Daughters (dir. Carl Bessai)
Sheltered Life (dir. Carl Laudan)
Stone of Destiny (dir. Charles Martin Smith)
When Life Was Good (dir. Terry Miles)

The jury for the Canadian Images program awarded the Citytv Western Canada Feature Film Award and its $12,000 cash prize to director Kari Skogland of B.C. for FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING.

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Jim was featured on the Movie Fanatics (tMF) Exclusive!
They has a pretty long article including biography, comments, and his previous roles.

f there’s one actor who has captured the imagination of Hollywood with such intensity, then it’s Jim Sturgess. The 27-year old British actor just recently celebrated the win of his latest movie, Fifty Dead Men Walking at the Vancouver Film Festival. Sturgess plays Martin McGartland, a mole planted by the British government inside the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The explosive political thriller is a far cry from Jim’s previous role as a young lover in the Beatles-inspired Across the Universe.
As more projects line up his door, let’s take a moment to know Sturgess before the hype.

Before Hollywood: Drama school, a band and a one-man act: Reported to have been approached by a talent agent “on the strength of a one-man show he put up in Manchester as a student”, Jim Sturgess began his quest to become an actor early on.

He was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre for two years and studied acting at the University of Salford’s School of Media, Music and Performance. At the same time, he’s a member of the “Dilated Spies”, a seven-member band. Thus, it was no surprise Sturgess can sing and act with such conviction and authenticity. The ability to performance both as an actor and as singer will be used by the young actor later on in his quest to become a serious and professional actor.
Much like his fellow Brits, Jim got involved in a variety of roles in British productions- mostly made for TV movies and series- including The Quest, a Touch of Frost, Judge John Deed, Hawk and Rehab.

Read the complete article here

The movie poster of Fifty Dead Men Walking finally surfaced.
Click on the picture to see tha larger version on the gallery!

Hey guys sorry for the lack of updates. There’s not much going on lately (that I can find). Anyway I just upgraded to wordpress 2.6.2. Sorry it took forever.

New layout is also on its way. Hopefully next week if I could get it done.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Crossing Over will be released at limited platform.
Here’s the article:

The Weinstein Co.’s distribution deal with MGM is ending not with a bang but a whimper.

Although the deal was set to expire Dec. 31, the Weinstein Co. is taking back seven titles that it will release itself before the end of the year and then send to cable through its new Showtime output deal. They include two wide releases: “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” (Oct. 31) and “The Road” (exclusive Nov. 14, going wide Nov. 26).

The other titles, which will get limited platform releases, are “Killshot,” “Fanboys,” “Crossing Over,” “Extreme Movie” and “Shanghai.”

And guys I will be out of town til Saturday, I will try my best to update but I couldn’t make any promise. Take care y’all!

From MSN News

Jim Sturgess, who portrays British double agent Martin McGartland in Fifty Dead Men Walking, revealed that he felt little fear about filming with close contact with the IRA.
“I felt unstoppable. We had the IRA around us,” he admitted at the film’s press conference in Toronto.
“They knew where we were at every moment. So I felt fine. It was a weird feeling knowing that this organisation was looking after me and Kevin in particular, making sure we were ok and respected by everybody. We were going to places we would never dream of going if we weren’t with them. It was a thrilling experience, a thrilling ride.”

But the 27-year-old did have a moment of doubt.
“I had a few moments when we were filming in a fairly rough area of Belfast – we were doing a night shoot – and slowly, the crowds grew and grew,” he recalled. “There were kids everywhere stealing our sandwiches and drinking our tea, and they multiplied, they were everywhere. We were doing a scene, and there was a stone that smacked me in the head. There were kids effing and blinding and shouting at me. That was the only time I thought, ‘ok, maybe I’m not as safe as I think I am’.”
However, director Kari Skogland painted a different story.
“Because he (Jim) was playing a character they were not sure of, or that they don’t like at all, we had a very close watch on him,” she revealed.

I added some pictures from The Other Boleyn Girl Premiere in UK back in February.

From PA Entertainment:

They may have visited Toronto to promote their latest films, but the stars were just as keen to bag some goodies during their stay. Jennifer Aniston, Paris Hilton, Thandie Newton, Anne Hathaway and Claire Danes were some of the celebrities spotted at the IT Lounge and Hollywood Life House gift suites, created to coincide with the Toronto International Film Festival. And the guys didn’t want to miss out either, with Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges and Tim Robbins all popping in too.
At the IT Lounge in the Windsor Arms hotel, hotel heiress Paris, who arrived with boyfriend Benji Madden, left with a Hero necklace by Right Hand Gal, along with One Tree Hill’s Sophia Bush – the jewellery label is loved by Brit beauty Hayley Atwell and Heather Graham. Former Friends star Jennifer, Jim and Tim will hit the ski slopes in style after picking up pieces by Ripzone and Powder Room.
At the Hollywood Life House, held at Empire bar, French Connection, Hamilton watches and Parasuco Denim styled the stars. High School Musical’s Zac Efron loved French Connection’s checked shirts and schoolboy cardigans, while Geoffrey and Ludacris received Hamilton wristpieces.

Lainey Gossip

A few stars who dropped in to the IT Lounge?
Scott Speedman, seen here posing in front of the Wall of Heroes for Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Sophia Bush who took home a Hero Necklace, and … sigh… Jim Sturgess with Kevin Zegers. Jim left the lounge with some Cookie & Joe tiny tees for his nieces and/or nephews.

And Lainey has another article about meeting Jim in person, it’s hilarious. Read it here