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“I very nearly lost my mind,” admitted Across the Universe star Jim Sturgess about staying in Las Vegas for over a month to shoot 21, his latest film.
Jim, who won fans as the lead in the Beatles music-inspired Across, plays one of the M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) students who are recruited by an unorthodox math professor (Kevin Spacey) to make millions of dollars at blackjack tables in Las Vegas casinos.
The high stakes action-adventure, directed by Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law), is based on Ben Mezrich’s Bringing Down the House, which reveals how a real-life team of gifted college students beat casinos in Vegas and elsewhere around the world by counting cards and using an elaborate system of signals.
Also, as reported earlier, I told you Fifty Dead Men Walking was being marketed at Cannes and the other day we have learned the film has gotten a distribution deal with company Handmade. The agreements states it will have major theatrical distributors throughout the world so hopefully this means the film will not only premiere in the UK later this year but other countries as well. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
I have now added over 50 new pictures of the Heartless photocall bringing the album’s picture count to 106 (with 47 HQs). I would like to pay special thanks to Riikka, Mariana and Cassie for their help with these new images! (My many thanks!)
Variety reports CinemaNX will produced Heartless from writer-director Philip Ridley. Funding will come from the Isle of Man and concerns, according to the IMDb, a young man makes a deal with the devil to become handsome, but then discovers there’s a price for his good looks: he has to become a killer.
Ridley previously helmed the 1990 thriller The Reflecting Skin.
Heartless will star Jim Sturgess, Clemence Poesy, Noel Clarke and Timothy Spall. Richard Raymond and Pippa Cross will produce with Omega Entertainment.
21 (2008) 
