Linnea Pihl Shortfilm 'Ursäkta att jag är sen'

The lovely Linnea Pihl has been really busy.  As well as being an awesome looking Viking, here is a link to her new short film 'Ursäkta att jag är sen' which she not only stars in but has co-written with Peter Hallin.

http://vimeo.com/73905463

Linnea Pihl in Viking T.V. Series, 'Terra X'

Linnea Pihl has just finished shooting her role as Viking in the T.V. Series, 'Terra X'.  The series is directed by Stephan Koester and produced by GRUPPE 5.  Here are some pictures of her rocking some serious Viking fur!

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN

The gorgeous Olwen has been out in Ireland this week shooting the feature film 'Darkness On The Edge of Town' for Lagoon Pictures. The director Patrick said 'Olwen was an absolute pleasure to work with, very professional and a lovely person to boot.' Here are some stills from the shoot as a taster for the film to come!

ITV X FACTOR ADVERT

Check out Dua's new advert for X Factor. Isn't she amazing and beautiful? And hell yeah that is her singing just in case you didn't quite believe it!

DYLAN DUFFUS

Exciting news here everyone, just taken on this very cool chap, Dylan Duffus. He used to be with one of the world's largest theatrical agencies and now he's with me! I must be doing something right, huh?

Credits include the lead in Vertigo and Channel 4 films' gritty gangster film, "1 Day" and also a guest lead in BBC's "Line of Duty". He is also one of the leads in "Money and Grime" which you will all know about because I look after the main lead, Sirach Charles.

Just mocked him up a little reel from some of the scenes from "1 Day". Check it out below - he's bloody awesome!

DUA LIPA

Lovely new headshots of Dua Lipa!!!  Such a talented and lovely girl she is the lead in a top secret project at the moment. I mean I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you....

BEN ROBSON

Just learnt that super talented (and yes, girls, we all know he is hotter than the sun), Ben Robson is shooting his short film, Hard to Lose, in the beginning of September. Ben plays Nero, a hardened dock worker and cage fighter who starts to fall for a young prostitute.

Ben has been gyming it hard recently. Girls are gonna faint, I'm sure and he will be performing the role in his native Geordie accent and also be covered in hardcore fighting tattoos. 

Definitely looking forward to this one then!

CHANTAL BROWN

Just received gorgeous Scottish actress and model Chantal Brown's new Rankin produced short film. Now, Chantal is probably the sweetest and nicest girl I know. So unaffected and just all together bloody awesome. Think I might love her a little bit (haha!) - just coz she is so fabulous and oh yeah, super super pretty. Check it out here (it's quite dark!!!)...

And she's just had a general meeting with very sweet and cool Sophie from Suzanne Smith's office!!!

REBECCA WILIG

Slight delay on this lovely girl coming over, end of summer now (boo!) but check out this super beautiful short film she did. Doesn't she look amazing? And girls... check out the dude in it. Been told he's rather yummy....

RAFAELA CONSTANTINO

So, this beautiful 18yr old girl I've taken on.... for commercials at the moment but screen tested her and there is something very sweet and natural about the way she performed the script (little scene from Ally McBeal) so gonna get her trained up and ready for TV and Films soon.... 

She's Brazilian so once she's nailed an American accent .....

ANGEL

So, written confirmation for Sirach Charles (Angel) for the lead role in Money and Grime. He is starring opposite Tayo Jarrett (aka Scorcher and Kamal in Top Boy).

Already got him another great film audition... he is going to be a massively successful! With his film star good looks ... of that there ain't no doubt!

SATURDAY MOVIES

Watched a load of cool films yesterday.... This Must be the Place with Sean Penn as an ageing wealthy rock star who bored with his retirement decides to track down the Nazi guard who persecuted his father. At last Sean Penn acting without that dreadful mannered intensity of his. Bloody brilliant! As was his wife (played by Frances McDormand).

Then I watched Dark Shadows which was equally cool. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp can do no wrong, right? Oh and Bella Heathcote... she's nice! 

And then as I was gonna go bed saw that Terminator 2 just started and seeing as that is one of my top ten movies of all time I just had to watch it (for the zillionth time)... awesome. Arnie never better ... and remember when it came out just wanting to be Edward Furlong!!

Top ten movies then of all time? Blues Brothers (actually know the whole script by heart - it's that good), Blade Runner, Third Man, Usual Suspects, Terminator 2, Midnight Run, Rear Window, Truman Show, True Romance and (diversely) The Snowman.

BEN MANZ

Lovely handsome chap, Ben has just finished his first short film, The Waiting. Here are some very good looking stills from the shoot.... ah the idyllic English landscape. Just can't be beaten. Oh and the film was directed by Chiara Towne who is Robert Towne's daughter..... he who wrote Chinatown!!! Can't wait to see it.

ANGEL

So, my good friend, Tyrone's younger brother is the the UK R&B star Angel (Sirach Charles) and I've known him for a while. Super talented, super cool, and just all together bloody awesome.

And I've just got nabbed a very cool audition for a lead in a cool British street movie set in London and Ayia Napa!

Excellent.

DAFNE ROTOLO

So here is lovely Dafne's new commercial for Camay. Now this girl is gonna be a huge star. Trust me! She is super hot with Puerto Rican and Italian heritage and with that American accent she has network TV star all over her.

She has studied at LAMDA and is going back there this summer for a two month long Shakepseare course. She has also just finished the lead in a cool short film called Grinder (directed by the chap who directed this advert...)

SUAN-LI

Beautiful Suan-Li's little short film now finished.... check it out here. Isn't she lovely? Also, I'd love to tell you more as pretty sure I am not allowed to but she has some rather huge TV/Film auditions this week and next.

Total game changers! Trust me. So fingers crossed I'll be able to impart very good news to everyone in the next couple of weeks!!!

KNIGHT OF THE DEAD

So, very beautiful brazilian actress, Vivien Vilela's film Knight of the Dead gets released in a couple of weeks.
 

 Vivien plays the female lead, Badriyah who helps our band of intrepid knights as they deliver the cup of Christ across a plague and zombie infested land!

Trailer below...


Knight of the Dead from Automatic Entertainment on Vimeo.

DARK TOUCH/TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

So, Time Out picking Charlotte Flyvholm's "Dark Touch" as one of the highlights of Tribeca Film Festival. Yes, man!

Tribeca Film Festival 2013: Our best-of-the-fest picks

From a brilliant threequel to a literally chilly thriller: Here are ten Tribeca 2013 titles you won’t want to miss.

By David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf and Keith UhlichFri Apr 12 2013

Before Midnight

Back with another hodgepodge of hit-and-miss flicks, the Tribeca Film Festival once again takes over downtown in the name of something-for-everybody cinematic delights. Selections for the 12th annual fest include a portrait of Brooklyn rock heavyweights the National (April 17’s opening-night doc, Mistaken for Strangers), along with world-cinema obscurities, Amerindie oddities and virtually everything in between. Here are ten titles you should get tickets for, stat.

Before Midnight
Every nine years, Richard Linklater extends the flirty series he began with Before Sunrise (1995)—first with the hopeful Before Sunset (2004) and now with this magnificent Greece-set follow-up, tinged with resentment and sharp-tongued discord. We’d call it a summation work, but we don’t want to rule out a fourth chapter in 2022. Mon, April 22; Wed, April 24. Click for showtimes and tickets—JR

Byzantium
Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) shows there’s plenty of life left in the undead-bloodsucker genre: His Irish-seaside horror story features a brilliantly brooding performance by Saoirse Ronan as an adolescent vamp, and the kind of mythic, adult-fairy-tale imagery—a mountain waterfall running crimson red—at which this incomparable film fantasist excels. Thu, April 25; Fri, April 26, Sat, April 27. Click for showtimes and tickets—KU

Cutie and the Boxer
Had Zachary Heinzerling’s doc on Pop artist Ushio Shinohara and his long-suffering wife, Noriko, simply charted the latter’s attempt to forge her own career, it’d still be intriguing. The fact that it’s also a deconstruction of the struggling-painter myth and a downtown art-world version of Scenes from a Marriage makes it damned near invaluable. Sun, April 21; Wed, April 24; Fri, April 26. Click for showtimes and tickets—DF

Dark Touch
France’s Marina de Van isn’t the easiest filmmaker to love (In My Skin, her 2002 debut, took on the shocking subject of self-cannibalism). Her latest—exactly what an avant-midnight film ought to be—turns a spooky house into a site of atmospheric abuse. Helpful neighbors aren’t the solution.Thu, April 18; Fri, Aprii 19; Tue, April 23. Click for showtimes and tickets—JR

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Nicholas Wrathall’s treasure-trove documentary does a terrific job of summing up the late political writer’s life and work; in between clips of memorable showdowns with public intellectuals like William F. Buckley Jr., a still mentally astute Vidal offers pithy, profound commentary on his cosmopolitan upbringing and the slowly crumbling American empire. Thu, April 18; Sat, April 20; Fri, April 26. Click for showtimes and tickets—KU

Prince Avalanche
David Gordon Green’s intimate indie about two guys (Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch) repairing roads in the Texas backwoods is more than just a return to poetic-ruralist form; the Pineapple Express filmmaker has finally found the perfect middle ground between his earlier introspective character studies and his recent stoner comedies. Bravo! Tue, April 23; Fri, April 26; Sun, April 28.Click for showtimes and tickets—DF

Red Obsession
Narrated in authoritatively full-bodied tones by Russell Crowe, this look at the frenzied global market for bordeaux wine is one palate-pleasing provocation. Traveling from the châteaus of France to the skyscrapers of China, the film fascinatingly reveals how Old World vintner artistry is being shaken up by New World supply-and-demand. Sat, April 20; Mon, April 22; Thu, April 25; Sat, April 27. Click for showtimes and tickets—KU

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
How does one follow up two definitive portraits of Roman Polanski? If you’re Marina
Zenovich, you move on to another enigmatic, damaged male: the African-American comedian who shattered social barriers and nearly self-destructed in the process. The unused dailies from his famous Live on the Sunset Strip concert movie alone are worth the price of a ticket. Tue, April 23; Wed, April 24; Sat, April 27. Click for showtimes and tickets—DF

Star Wars Uncut
Casey Pugh’s heartwarming pastiche—a re-creation of George Lucas’s 1977 vision in 15-second fan-made segments—captures a radical spirit of participatory reinvention (also seen in the recentRoom 237). At these Tribeca screenings, new footage based on The Empire Strikes Back will be introduced. You, the viewer, get to control the flow with a joystick. Thu, April 18–Sun, April 21.Click for showtimes and tickets—JR

Whitewash
A man stumbles down a road in a blizzard; seconds later, another gent (Sideways’ Thomas Haden Church) runs him over with a snowplow. How these two got to this moment is the subject of Canadian writer-director Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais’s bleak noir, an airtight demonstration of the maxim that no good deed ever goes unpunished. Fri, April 19; Sun, April 21; Sat, Apr 27. Click for showtimes and tickets—DF

The Tribeca Film Festival screens through Apr 28. Visit TONY's Tribeca Film Festival page for complete access to the festival’s schedule, showtimes and ticket info.

OLWEN

So, here's a strange one. Very lovely Irish model, Olwen. (Yes, she is very, very beautiful) was offered straight the role of Aisling Callahan in "Darkness on the Edge of Town", an Irish film produced through Lagoon Pictures and to be directed by Patrick Ryan. No casting, no nothing!

Now I've screen tested Olwen before and this girl has a natural acting talent and when you couple that with her soft Irish accent and those looks, well, you get something very special me thinks!

So, got to be honest I wasn't expecting much. Film producer offering hot young girl a role in his movie...? Hmmm! However, just read the script and the contract. All totally cool and above board! Woo! This girl has just landed herself her first acting role and I didn't have to make a phone call! Awesome stuff, Olwen. Can't wait to see it!

ALICE LIBERTY STAR NORCLIFFE

Slightly uninspired right now so check out super cute photos of Alice snacking! Yup, she loves her food!

I'm sure I'm the only person (apart from her mother, also featured!) who finds this interesting. What the hell....

REBECA WILLIG

Isn't this new girl stunning! And ... (watch the short film) ... super talented! She is moving over to London in May... Woo!

                                                 

Rebeca is from Mendoza in Argentina. At 18 she started modelling (having been spotted for a Nokia commercial shoot in Texas). She then moved to Europe where she has been repped by all the big modelling names.

Having graduated in graphic design her loves include painting, photography but her great passion (yay for me!!) is acting! Her love of creativity is the basis for her love of acting as this gives her the opportunity to create something new every time. 

Here is a silent short film she did entitled "Muse in Chains". It's rather beautiful....

SEXUAL HEALING

Suan-Li confirmed in a little role in "Sexual Healing". "Sexual Healing", directed by Julien Temple is based on the last years of Marvin Gaye's life, from his parting with Motown and self-imposed exile to Europe. to his relationship with freddie Cousaert, the promoter who guided the singer through the recording of his biggest-selling album, Midnight Love.
Suan plays the Chinese street girl who Marvin visits regularly. She was also a spiritual healer and rumour has it that Marvin wrote the song "Sexual Healing" about her.....

FOYLE'S WAR

So, Foyle's War ended last night and I truly love this programme. It really is very good and both Michael Kitchen (Repped by The Rights House - god I'd love to look after this chap!) and Honeysuckle Weeks (Ken McReddie) are awesome! The recent episodes have taken place during the start of the Cold War and it is all very Third Man: high contrast, dark shadows, trilbies, old cars and filterless cigarettes.

I do hope they make more.

Unfortunately, they didn't seem to eat through the whole episode so nothing to cook up. However, my flat mate did make slow simmered pork belly with ginger, soy sauce and kimchi (Korean mixed vegetables). Fuck that shit was awesome. He's gonna show me how to make it and I'll pass it on. Promise.

During the commercial break saw the new BT advert (cast by my very talented sister, Belinda Norcliffe!!). Kinda hated these ads to begin with but is anyone else warming to these three characters? Especially the inept fella who in the latest ad gets a long awaited for date...