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Metrodome Group films is giving you the chance to win one of three tickets to Fifty Dead Men Walking screening in London! Jim is reportedly not scheduled to be in attendance but it would still be cool to win so take your chances and enter!
Be the first to see Fifty Dead Men Walking at an exclusive preview screening in London’s Leicester Square on Tuesday 31st March, 9 days before its national release.
Inspired by Martin McGartland’s incredible autobiography, Fifty Dead Men Walking is the stunning new action thriller by Kari Skogland about a secret agent working undercover for British security services in Northern Ireland in the late eighties. Over the course of four years, until his betrayal and subsequent discovery, it was estimated that McGartland was responsible for saving the lives of up to fifty men. Fifty Dead Men Walking stars Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Rose McGowan, Natalie Press and Kevin Zegers.
To be in with a chance to win one of three tickets all you have to do is send an email to fifty@metrodomegroup.com
U.K. indie distrib Metrodome has snapped up all U.K. rights to Canuck helmer Kari Skogland’s thriller 50 Dead Men Walking from co-producer and sales agent Handmade Films Intl.
Pic is loosely based on Martin McGartland’s autobiography of the same name about his time as an informant inside the Irish Republican Army from 1987 to 1991, who was exposed, tortured and then escaped. He remains in hiding today.
Pic, which toplines Jim Sturgess as McGartland and also stars Ben Kingsley and Nathalie Press, world premiered at the Toronto Film Fest.
The trailer for Fifty Dead Men Walking is available here. I have added captures to the gallery as well as two posters. I really think Jim looks great in the movie and I personally can’t wait to see it for his performance alone.
Based on Martin McGartland’s shocking real life story, Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process; until one day he is exposed, captured and tortured to within an inch of his life. He escaped dramatically by throwing himself from a tower block window and is still in hiding today.
Indie distributor Metrodome Distribution has snared U.K. and Irish distribution rights to Kari Skogland’s Fifty Dead Men Walking in a deal with co-producer and sales banner HandMade Films International.
The deal, announced Thursday, was signed by HandMade’s Guy Collins and Metrodome’s Peter Urie after negotiations that started following its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.
HandMade also said it has sold the film to a host of countries including Australia (Village Roadshow), Scandinavia (Svenske), Germany and Austria (ARD Degeto), Spain (Festival Films), Russia (Paradise) and Benelux (EFP).
21 (2008) 
