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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
Here is a not so great review about Crossing Over from Reuters. Reviews are now coming in, in time for the release next Friday so hopefully there will be some positive ones as well.
The surprising success of Crash seems to have encouraged other filmmakers who yearn to make socially conscious ensemble movies. Whereas Crash wove together stories that focused on racial tensions in Los Angeles, Crossing Over brings the same kaleidoscopic technique to the hot-button issue of immigration.
Screendaily reports that Lionsgate UK has picked up UK rights to Philip Ridley’s psychological thriller Heartless from Omega Entertainment.
Jim Sturgess stars as a troubled young man struggling to cope with the mindless violence taking place on the city streets around him.
The film, currently in the final stages of post-production, will have its premiere at Cannes. Produced by Richard Raymond and Pippa Cross, it also stars Clemence Poesy, Noel Clarke and Timothy Spall.
Guardians of Ga’Hoole, director Zack Snyder’s owl-centric animated film, is taking wing, lining up a voice cast headed by Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor and David Wenhem.
Based on the children’s book series by Kathryn Lasky, the film, which is shooting in Australia, follows a young barn owl and his friends as they join forces with the mythical Guardians of Ga’hoole, owl protectors, to save the owl kingdom from rogue elements.
Rush most recently appeared in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Taylor, repped by Endeavor, has appeared in Transformers and Bottle Shock. Wenham, also repped by Endeavor, worked with Snyder in 300 and was seen in the recent Australia.
Village Roadshow and Warners are producing with Animal Logic, which also worked with Roadshow and Warners on the dancing penguin movie Happy Feet. Animal Logic CEO Zareh Nalbandian is producing, with Donald De Line, Deborah Snyder, Lionel Wigram, Bruce Berman and Dana Goldberg as exec producers.
Check out the very cool poster for Crossing Over. The film is definitely looking to keep it’s February 27, 2009 USA release so hears to hoping we’ll finally get to see this one!
Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures.
21 (2008) 
