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The Other Boleyn Girl is now available on R1 DVD. Be sure to grab your copy! I’m currently waiting to get my copy and when I do I shall be making clips and HQ resolution DVD screencaps of the film and any features.
I have updated the gallery with a couple of pictures today. I’ve added Jim’s photoshoots for his 2008 Men’s Vogue and Alternative Press editorials. AP having a new unseen image which I totally love! I also added a scan from the June 13th, 2008 issue of Entertainment Weekly. It was the “Next A-List” edition, and among a handful selected for next year’s top potential was Jim, how cool!
The Independent newspaper published an article about the hot new British Actor’s causing a stur. Jim is among the 5 gentlemen featured. Among some of the guys were Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) and Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). Here is a little piece of the article accomponied by a scan. Thanks to Lorna & Johnny!
A pack of talented, attractive young British actors are beating their American rivals to the plum roles. alice jones reports on a new invasion of Hollywood.
At the tender age of 26, Jim Sturgess already has two Hollywood leads in the bag – as Jude in Julie Taymor’s Beatles-inspired musical Across the Universe, and as the geeky MIT student-turned-card shark in 21 – as well as a supporting role playing the brother of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson in The Other Boleyn Girl; he will next be seen in Crossing Over, an ensemble film about immigration, with Harrison Ford and Sean Penn, that is being touted as the next Crash.
So what is it about these – in their own words – pasty-faced, skinny British boys that so appeals to the casting directors? “British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle,” Sturgess says. “Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it’s interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.”
Check out this really detailed Synosis for Heartless (caution: Potentially spoilery). Thanks to Johnny for the heads up!
Jamie Morgan has a large disfiguring birthmark on his face, in the shape of a heart. It’s a unique deformity that has left him alone in a cynical society. He lives with his mother, Marion, in the East End of London - in an area notorious for its violent hooded gangs. The news reports say that the gangs are now wearing demon masks. One night, Marion is attacked and brutally murdered. Jamie realises that the gangs are not just kids wearing masks, but real demons, and hell is starting to descend on the city. Jamie embarks on a mission of revenge and comes face to face with the master demon - Papa B. Jamie is offered a deal, a second chance at life. The chance to get rid of his birthmark and become normal. It’s a shot at everything he’s ever wanted - friends, happiness, a chance to fall in love. But there is a price. … Read the full story »
21 (2008) 
