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Released 5th March 2010
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From Chloe’s opening scene it’s: ‘Hello vamp. Goodbye innocent Amanda’. It’s quite literally eyebrow-raising, erotic stuff to see Mamma Mia!’s sweet little Amanda Seyfried lose all inhibitions, and felt much like witnessing the first time a bouncy, bright-eyed Billy Piper donned her suspenders for the part of Belle in Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Seyfried as escort Chloe is not only incredibly seductive and believable in the role, but tantalizingly dangerous, too, daring us to challenge our previous perceptions of her - as one scene depicts when she looks directly into camera. But is Chloe just one of those misunderstood and sexually-active female characters that film theorists like to claim are eventually ‘punished’ for being so open and driven by what they want, sexually? The beauty of this story is the constant change of opinion you have on this very subject, given Julianne Moore’s doctor character Catherine’s initial interest and encouragement in Chloe for her own relationship purposes. The first-class performances from Moore, Seyfried and Liam Neeson as Catherine’s wronged husband, David, also grab the interest from the word go.
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By Lisa Keddie
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Titanic and Terminator creator James Cameron’s long-awaited 3D epic, Avatar, that’s been taking shape inside the master movie-maker’s head for 11 years, prior to 2006 when the first script was penned, comes to UK screens in all its vivid, ultraviolet glory on 17th December. We caught up with the man, his producer Jon Landau and some of the leading cast, including Sam Worthington (’Jake Sully’), Zoe Saldana (’Neytiri’), Sigourney Weaver (’Dr Grace Augustine’) and Stephen Lang (’Colonel Miles Quaritch’), in London for a chat:
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Jim, how does it feel now that it’s done?
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James Cameron: So relieved. You know, we got it done on budget and we can hold our heads high that we got it done on time by the skin of our teeth. It’s been a very lengthy process, so tonight we can pull the cover back and show the world, so to speak. It’s really just a huge relief to be able to pull the curtain back and stop talking about it. There’s been a huge buzz around this thing.
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Released 4th December 2009
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The feisty blonde plays Sarah Carter in The Descent: Part 2 who emerges alone, distraught, confused, and half-wild from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors… We caught up with her for a chat:
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Do you see the appeal of potholing? Anything scare/thrill you by it?
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SM: I have been sperlunking and it was terrifying. It’s very disorientating and when you turn your lights off it is pitch black and all you can hear is the odd drip of water. I had to concentrate on my breathing so I wouldn’t panic as I really don’t like small spaces.
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Smashing box office records all over the globe, The Twilight Saga has become a worldwide phenomenon, with the latest installment taking $473m dollars worldwide and the loyal legion of fans swelling in numbers daily. Now the hunt is on for a superfan to crown them all!
Open to fans old and new, E1 Entertainment is launching a unique competition. Taking place over the course of five weeks, the official UK site - http://www.newmoon-movie.co.uk/ will play host to a super quiz where users will have to answer a dedicated weekly question based on the New Moon story and its idolised characters. As the weeks go on, the questions will get progressively harder and the real challenge will begin…
Entrants with the correct answers to all five questions will be given exclusive access to view never before seen Twilight Saga: New Moon footage as well as placed into a free draw to win the amazing holiday to walk the streets of ‘Volterra’ in Italy where scenes of New Moon were filmed earlier this year!
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner continue the Twilight saga where Bella Swan is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.
Twilight Saga: New Moon is in cinemas NOW!
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