New Batmoblie On Show In London
Visitors to London’s Leicester Square this weekend will come face-to-face with the real Batmobile from BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE. Ahead of the film’s release on 25th March, Warner Bros. Pictures UK will be showcasing the incredible automotive machine at the Odeon Leicester Square on from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st February.
Measuring 21ft long by 11ft wide and boasting a 50mm Twin Rotating front cannon, the 3500kg Batmobile will be an awesome presence, with both cinemagoers and passersby getting the opportunity to take photographs thanks to the Odeon’s glass-fronted lobby.
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Karlie Kloss Wins Elle Style Inspiring Woman Award
Today ELLE UK announced that supermodel and tech entrepreneur, Karlie Kloss, will be winning an ELLE Style Award for ‘Inspiring Woman of The Year’ at the awards ceremony next week. Kloss will formally receive her award at the ELLE Style Awards ceremony, the official closing party for London Fashion Week, taking place Tuesday, 23rd February.
The ‘Inspiring Woman of the Year’ category is a new addition to the annual ELLE Style Awards that honours and recognises Kloss’s motivating contribution to the industry as well as her entrepreneurial and philanthropic work. Karlie Kloss has launched various charitable initiativesincluding her scholarship programme ‘Kode with Karlie’ that inspires a new generation of women to learn to code. The influential supermodel has graced international catwalks and has long been a favourite of ELLE UK, appearing on the cover and guest editing its Tech Trailblazers March Issue.
The ELLE Style Awards, in association with H&M, is the most talked about fashion event of the season and this year’s awards are set to be bigger than ever before. In 2016 film stars, pop royalty and global style icons will come together to celebrate the most stylish stars, the brightest emerging talent and fashion’s greatest achievers. Other coveted ELLE Style Awards categories include; H&M’s Conscious Award, Outstanding Contribution to Fashion and Female Artist of the Year.
Saoirse Ronan Lands Chesil Beach Lead
Oscar nominated star Saoirse Ronan is officially set to star in a film version of bestselling novel Chesil Beach. The 2007 book written by Ian McEwan tells the story of young newlyweds honeymooning on the Dorset coast in 1962. Saoirse Ronan will be playing young wife Florcence, with the role of her husband Edward still to be filled.
Ronan previously featured in the film adaptation of another of McEwan’s books Atonement alongside Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. The new Chesil Beach film will be produced by the Number 9 Film team behind recent romantic drama Carol.
Talking about the new adaptation producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley have said:
“It’s an extremely exciting prospect to be reunited with Saoirse Ronan on such a beautiful and heartbreaking project.”
Saoirse Ronan talks in depth about Oscar nominated drama Brooklyn below:
Julianne Moore Joining Kingsman Sequel
Fresh from her villainous turn in The Hunger Games Julianne Moore is now reportedly in talks to join the cast of the sequel to Kingsman The Secret Service. She’d be facing off against returning star Taron Egerton’s chav turned superspy, apparently playing the main villain in the follow up to the slow burning box office hit.
It remains unclear whether Moore would be reunited with her former A Single Man co-star Colin Firth. Despite early talks about creative ways to bring Firth back in some capacity despite his apparent demise in the first film, it still looks unlikely he’ll feature in the new Kingsman film.
Empire Awards Nominations 2016
Empire readers and the cinema-going public have nominated 50 films, seven TV shows and five games for this year’s Jameson Empire Awards, honouring a diverse spectrum of entertainment from the past year. The public will continue to cast their votes at www.empireonline.com/awards2016 with the winners to be announced at a star-studded ceremony on March 20th hosted by David Walliams
George Miller’s high-octane Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens lead the pack, followed by The Martian with six nominations and BAFTA favourite The Revenant, with nods in five categories. All four films are nominated for the prestigious Best Director (presented by Vue Entertainment) and Best Film (presented by Sky Movies) categories where they are joined by The Hateful Eight for Best Film and Ryan Coogler for Best Director for Creed.
Overlooked by other awards bodies, Creed also secures a nomination for Michael B. Jordan in the Jameson Best Actor category alongside Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant),Matt Damon (The Martian), Michael Fassbender (Macbeth/Steve Jobs) and Tom Hardy (Legend/Mad Max: Fury Road). Hardy’s Mad Max co-star Charlize Theron is nominated in the Best Actress category alongside Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2), Emily Blunt (Sicario) and BAFTA-winner Brie Larson (Room).
Rising stars of the acting world are recognised in the Best Newcomer categories, including Larson’s nine year-old Room co-star Jacob Tremblay who is nominated alongside
15 year-old Ghanaian actor Abraham Attah, who made his film acting debut in Beasts Of No Nation. Rounding off the Best Male Newcomer category are: Thomas Mann (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl); Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton) and BAFTA EE Rising Star winner John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens). Fox Searchlight’s Sundance award-winning Me And Earl And The Dying Girl also features in the Best Female Newcomer category, with a nod for actress Olivia Cooke, who is nominated with fellow Brits Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Bel Powley (The Diary Of A Teenage Girl), alongside Maika Monroe (It Follows) and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation).
British filmmaking talent is once more recognised in the coveted Best British Film category, which is presented this year by The Hollywood Reporter. Historical drama Suffragette rallies for votes alongside 45 Years, Legend, Macbeth and Spectre.
Mad Max: Fury Road also dominates the newly introduced craft categories with nominations for Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up and Hairstyling, Best Visual Effects, Best Production Design and Best Soundtrack. The introduction of 11 new categories in 2016 has attracted a wider range of nominations and recognition for films such as Crimson Peak(Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up and Hairstyling, Best Production Design), Cinderella (Best Costume Design) and Jurassic World (Best Visual Effects).
The specialised genre categories continue to champion a broad range of cinema not otherwise included in most awards nominations, such as Krampus, Insidious: Chapter 3 andThe Hallow, which are all nominated for Best Horror, and Ant-Man, Spy, Inside Out and Trainwreck amongst the nominations for Best Comedy (presented by Absolute Radio). Amy Schumer’s hilarious script is also recognised in the new Best Screenplay category, where Trainwreck takes on Steve Jobs and The Hateful Eight as well as recent BAFTA-winners Spotlight and The Big Short.
Animation scores a dedicated category this year with nods for Inside Out, Minions, Shaun The Sheep The Movie, Song Of The Sea and The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya,while Pixar is also recognised in the Best Short Film category (presented by Jameson Irish Whiskey) with nominations for Lava and the Oscar®-nominated Sanjay’s Super Team which are nominated alongside fellow Oscar®-nominee Stutterer as well as World of Tomorrow and Kung Fury. Elsewhere, the new Best Documentary category recognises both film and TV formats with nominations including: Amy; He Named Me Malala; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief; The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst and much-debated Netflix series, Making A Murderer.
The unparalleled popularity of television drama is recognised with the introduction of the Best TV Series category, which will see Game Of Thrones and Marvel’s Jessica Jones take on Fargo, This Is England ’90 and Marvel’s Daredevil. Another comic superhero features in the Best Game nominations, with Batman: Arkham Knight up against record-selling Fallout 4 in addition to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Bloodborne.
Commenting on this year’s shortlist, Empire’s Editor-In-Chief, Terri White, concludes:
“2015 was an absolutely cracking year for film and entertainment, evidenced by the strength of the actors, filmmakers, movies and TV shows fighting it out for gongs this year. With Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens going head to head with awards favourite so far The Revenant, I can’t wait to see who walks away with the Empire trophies on the night. It’d take a braver woman than me to bet against any of them.”
The nominations for the Jameson Empire Awards cover films released within the period January 31, 2015, until January 31, 2016
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