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Recently, I was talking about Kate Winslet with Russell Carpenter, one of the world’s finest cinematographers. He won an Oscar for his work on Titanic. Russell said that while making Titanic he’d seen in Kate screen magic and he knew she would become a big star. He said he had the same feeling while shooting 21 with Jim Sturgess. Carpenter says Sturgess is remarkable.
Winslet and Sturgess are alike off camera in that neither seems too preoccupied with fame. They don’t put up a movie star wall when they speak to you. British actors and musicians are great that way. In Britain you are an actor not an icon. Their sports figures are far more revered.
There he was, Jim Sturgess, a real live movie star, at a shopping mall in suburban New Orleans. The occasion was a preview screening of his new film, 21, at the AMC Palace Clearview 12.
The 26-year-old British actor, previously seen in the Beatles-based musical, Across the Universe, and the historical-costume drama, The Other Boleyn Girl, plays a super-bright MIT student in 21. His character, Ben Campbell, joins a group of fellow card sharks from MIT for hugely profitable weekend treks to gambling mecca Las Vegas.
I have uploaded a bunch of new pictures of Jim for today. Including new additions to the 21 premieres, ShoWest and a new photoshoot picture from this year.
Also, Jim has been featured in some mags this year and his in some currently some on sale now. I will be doing my best to get these to make scans for the site, so be on the lookout for those soon, hopefully I will be able to have them this week!
Columbia Pictures’ new gambling drama 21, directed by Robert Luketic and starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey, opened in first place with an estimated $23.7 million from 2,648 theaters, and average of $8,950 per site! The studio said the debut for the $35 million-budgeted film exceeded expections, and it played strongly to old and young, male and female moviegoers. Congrats to Jim!
1.) 21 - $23,700,000
2.) Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who - $17,425,000
3.) Superhero Movie - $9,510,000
4.) Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns - $7,760,000
5.) Drillbit Taylor - $5,800,000
The Arcade recently had the opportunity to interview Jim Sturgess, the 26-year-old star of the upcoming movie 21. Based on the successful novel Bringing Down The House, 21 recounts the journey of five MIT students and a professor beating the casino blackjack odds through card counting.
After being accepted into Harvard Medical School, Jim Sturgess’s character Ben Campbell finds himself unable to pay for the expensive tuition. One of his professors (Kevin Spacey) discovers Ben’s brilliance and invites his to a secret card counting club. Ben thinks that joining the club will curb his anxiety about paying for school, so he decides to stay in the club until he reaches his goal of $300,000. The team members study during the week at MIT, then fly to Las Vegas on weekends to test their gambling abilities. Within all this excitement, however, Ben finds himself becoming greedier and more eager to lead the team. We first asked Sturgess about playing the lead role.
21 (2008) 
