Hey! First, I just wanted to say I’m really excited about working with Alyse and Michelle on Brilliance. I’ve been a fan of the site since forever, and it’ll be fantastic to have a part in it.
Also, I typed up the article on Jude that ran in Premiere magazine from March of this year. The photos that went with the article will be up soon – we’re still working on transferring over all of the images from Jude-Law.org.
Various coverage of Jude’s appearance at Comic-Con is now online. Jude answered questions from the audience and took part in a very special Sky Captian cast signing limited to raffle winners. You can view video and read interviews at the following:
Thanks to Katie for the above photos. It was also just announced that World of Tomorrow is set to screen at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The publicity for this film is just starting – expect plenty more leading up to its September 17th release date.
The trailer for Closer is now online and in theatres. It’s playing attached to Natalie Portman’s new film Garden State. It’s a very cool trailer that does not give away too much. I was lucky enough to have seen a test screening of this film a few months ago and it was really well done. Jude is great in it of course!
Lastly, there are rumors going around that Jude is in talks to star in a bio-pic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Nothing has been announced and it’s only one of the many rumored roles that Jude is up for.
Added 333 new images from Cold Mountain. 20 are new stills and 313 are screen captures that Alex made. Working on changing the film pages in the Gallery to include more info. Cold Mountain is the only one so far updated.
Brilliance now has two new fans, Alex and Michelle, on the team to help maintain and update this fansite. Michelle ran Jude-Law.org for a long time and has now joined forces with Brilliance. Alex runs an Emile Hirsch fansite. Both are fans of Jude and are working with me to make Brilliance better than ever!
Exciting news announced today about another new film project for Jude from Variety (thanks to SilverThoughts):
Col crowns ‘King’s’ man
Thu Jul 22, 7:11 PM ET
Nicole LaPorte, STAFFJude Law has been cast as Jack Burden, the journo-narrator of Robert Penn Warren’s novel “All the King’s Men,” which is being adapted at Columbia Pictures.
Sean Penn is in negotiations to star as Willie Stark, the Huey Long-like politician whose rise and fall the film chronicles.
Production begins later this fall.
Steven Zaillian wrote the script and is directing.
Phoenix Pictures chairman Mike Medavoy and prexy Arnie Messer are producing, with Zaillian and former Col exec Ken Lemberger.
Longtime Democratic consultant James Carville and Todd Phillips are exec producing.
New pic will draw more heavily on Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, published in 1946, than on the 1949 best picture Oscar winner starring Broderick Crawford and John Ireland.
Law next stars with Gwyneth Paltrow in Paramount’s “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” bowing in September. In October he’ll be seen in Fox Searchlight’s “I Heart Huckabee’s,” directed and written by David O. Russell. He recently wrapped “Closer,” which Mike Nichols is helming for Columbia.
More information about Comic Con and Jude’s appearance tomorrow (thanks to SilverThoughts):
Paramount Pictures’ “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’
Ignites 35th Annual Comic-Con International Convention With Special Appearance by Jude LawSAN DIEGO, July 22 /PRNewswire/ — Giant 75-foot-tall robots will tower over the San Diego Convention Center as Paramount Pictures launches its forthcoming action/adventure, “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” at the 35th Annual Comic-Con International Convention. Working with convention organizers, the studio will unveil a jaw-dropping first look at the groundbreaking live-action/CG film presented by the film’s star, two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law, along with co-stars Bai Ling and Giovanni Ribisi, writer/director Kerry Conran and producers Jon Avnet and Marsha Oglesby.
“This is my first time at Comic-Con and I’m excited for sci-fi and comic book fans to have this special first look at ‘Sky Captain,’” says Law. “I think this convention is the perfect venue to be presenting a film like this.”
Paramount Pictures’ presentation will take place on Saturday, July 24th from 3:00 – 4:30 PM in the convention center’s 6000-seat Hall H. The annual event, which draws comic book and movie fans from around the world, takes place in San Diego from July 22 – 25.
Special footage and behind-the-scenes glimpses of Paramount’s forthcoming titles will include “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events”.
If you have not already pre-registered for Comic Con and want to attend tomorrow, please arrive early. There will be very long waits for those purchasing tickets the day of. Tickets for Saturday are $25. Jude is not scheduled to do any kind of autograph signing. He is only appearing at the panel to introduce the clips to Sky Captain.
Jude will be making a rare appearance at this month’s Comic Con in San Diego on Saturday, July 24. You can purchase tickets for Saturday the day of the event or in advance on the Comic Con website.
3:00-4:30 Paramount: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow—This year’s Comic-Con audience will get a jaw-dropping first look at one of 2004’s big surprises: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Jude Law makes his one and only convention appearance, alongside writer/director Kerry Conran (who will show a clip prepared exclusively for Comic-Con), producer Jon Avnet, and other stars and behind-the-scenes talent from the film. If you love sci-fi serials, giant robots, dogfights, villains bent on world domination, globe-spanning adventures, Max Fleischer’s Superman cartoons, comics, pulps, noir, and classic fantasy art, you won’t want to miss this exclusive preview of this breathtaking film made by fans who love the same things.
Exciting new project is in the cards for Jude. From ComingSoon.net:
Jude Law Joins Brideshead Revisited Adaptation
Wednesday, May 26, 2004The New York Social Dairy website reports that Jude Law will be joining Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly in the movie version of Evelyn Waugh’s romantic novel Brideshead Revisited, from Warner Independent Pictures.
The film will be directed by David Yates from a script by Andrew Davies. Set in the 1920s and ’30s, it is the story of Charles Ryder (Bettany), an aspiring painter who gets mixed up with the aristocratic, beautiful, doomed Flyte family – sister Julia (Connolly) and gay brother Sebastian (Law).
Law is expected to spend the summer in Derbyshire, England at the country seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth, filming the adaptation. The Sebastian Flyte role was made famous in the 1981 series by Anthony Andrews.
The original series was filmed at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, starring Claire Bloom and Sir Laurence Olivier. The role of Charles Ryder, Sebastian’s very romantic school chum who was infatuated but evidently straight was played by Jeremy Irons and made him a star.
Good news about Tulip Fever. According BBC News, the film is back on track and Jude is still attached:
Tulip Fever, which featured Jude Law and Keira Knightley in its cast, is still reorganising its finances and arranging a new schedule.
Kate Lee of Freud Communications, which represents Tulip Fever and other films, said some movies had to “start from scratch” again after losing funding.
“It set everything back about six months, I suppose,” she said. “Everything is still not 100% back on track.”
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