I’m sure I speak for most of you that when those leaked character posters came out, we all just kind of reacted like this:
Now we can react like that to this one of Khylin Rhambo as Dink Meeker, which is unofficial, but still amazing for the fun/cool factor.
Khylin posted this to his Instagram today with credit to Ricky Middlesworth. Looks so legit, though I wish some names were on it!
Hey peeps,
I’m a little early this week because I’m leaving tomorrow for a week and a half to visit my family, but there’s plenty to report even now, since the Ender’s Game cast has been busy.
Asa Butterfield continues to film his new movie X Plus Y. The film team just relocated to Taipei/Taiwan, which seems to have made everyone more photo-happy.
There’s probably something in the water in Taipei, something that makes you cross-eyed and paralyzes your tongue. Or maybe it’s those 34 hours without any sleep that Asa Butterfield was talking about on Twitter. Anyway, it looks like tumblr users lovezucks and ceolwaerc, whose stalking abilities far exceed mine, have found the first images of Jo Yang, who plays Asa’s love interest in X Plus Y.
While in Taipei, Asa apparently also got his GCSE results. Not bad. I wonder if he is going to continue to A-levels. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Asa isn’t the only one currently concerned with school stuff. Suraj Partha has been studying for his SATs.
I’m sure he is going to ace that, but if he doesn’t, he could always become a photographer. Look at this beautiful picture he took during a recend road trip.
Meanwhile, Aramis Knight has been enjoying his celebrity status as well as the California sun. Last Thursday, Aramis attended WWE & E! Entertainment’s “Superstars for Hope” event.
More recently, he has been planning spring break with Khylin Rhambo. According to twitter user aramis_bean (as retweeted by Aramis Knight), this is what that’s gonna look like:
(Apropos Kings of Summer, Moises Arias’ Kings of Summer is out in the UK this week, as Moises let us know via Twitter.)
And just today, ETOnline published Aramis Knight’s personal ‘Shredding’ skateboarding playlist. Says Aramis
Skateboarding and music go hand in hand. There’s nothing like jamming out to my favorite tunes while cruising in my neighborhood or local skatepark.
Check out the playlist HERE!
Finally, adult cast members Andrea Powell (Theresa Wiggin) and Han Soto (Graff’s aide) are involved in new projects. Andrea is shooting a Christmas Special with Andy Garcia, while Han is filming a Left Behind remake with Nicholas Cage.
Sources: the cast’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, ETOnline
A couple of days ago, Moises Arias (Bonzo) tweeted this little interview he did in The Standard Lifestyle‘s Artist Issue. Click through for a bigger/readable version of the scan!
Hey peeps,
it’s been a while since I did a regular Cast Watch. So let’s cover some ground!
1. TEEN CHOICE AWARDS
Last Sunday (August 11, 2013) the annual Teen Choice Awards were held at Universal Studios LA. Abigail Breslin and Hailee Steinfeld presented an award together, and they looked stunning.
If you really dig Hailee’s outfit and are interested in her nail art, here is a pretty little article about it.
During the presentation, the girls seem to have given it their all.
I had thought that this pose was exclusive to German pseudo-folk singers whose dirndl dresses are made by their mothers, but apparently not. Afterwards, Hailee went to thank her outfitters for her awesome look, while Abigail seemed preoccupied with shoe woes. I commiserate.
Aramis Knight and Khylin Rhambo attended some of the pre- and after-parties of the event. On Thursday, August 8, both went to the Style Lounge/Gifting Suite event held by Red Carpet Events LA in honor of the Teen Choice Awards. Here, Aramis talked to Red Carpet Report about Ender’s Game. We posted his interview earlier HERE.
On Friday, August 9, KIIS-FM held a Teen Choice Awards gifting suite and pre-party in West LA. Aramis met up with his friend Dylan Sprayberry there. Look at the coolness!
On Sunday, August 11, Aramis and Dylan went to the Teen Choice Awards after-party. Nice print!
2. ASA BUTTERFIELD X PLUS Y
While the LA kids were partying, Asa Butterfield was busy shooting a movie. And with busy I mean BUSY! Pick up at 6, working from 7 to 7 – it’s a hard life.
And not only that, the work seems to go on after hours, as some instagram images from during and after filming contest to. For instance, this one’s titled 10:26.
Since the young star is very busy, he doesn’t have much time to tweet. Some of the kids on the film, however, seem to be willing to share the occasional behind-the-scenes/late night rehearsal pic. Tumblr users lovezucks and elinabfb have been tracking down some of those pics to share with the general, Asa Butterfield-obsessed public.
3. MISCELLANEOUS
In other news, Aramis Knight hung out with fellow child actors Danika Yarosh, Mason Cook, and Jadin Gould at Olivia Holt’s Sweet Sixteen, as wells as with his buddy Khylin Rhambo for some knar skateboarding session prior to the Teen Choice Awards.
Khylin Rhambo, after some contemplation (check his Twitter), has apparently decided to go back to a regular high school instead of continuing home schooling. Good Luck!
And finally: Listen Up, New Yorkers! Abigail Breslin is to perform at The Bitter End on Monday, August 13, from 7 pm!
Sources: Zimbio, the cast’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, lovezucks an elinabfb on Tumblr
Harrison Ford is doing the talk show rounds and went on Conan to talk Paranoia, which is out in theaters today. You can watch clips of his appearance below, which are, as usual, quite amusing. Make sure you watch them in order or you won’t understand the finger pointing!
Source: Team Coco
Yes, it’s a month later and we’re still catching up with Comic Con stuff…
Here are photos of Asa, Hailee, and Aramis at the Summit VIP party on July 18, 2013 at the Hard Rock Hotel. Kelly (from Ender News) and I got to go to the party and briefly said hi to Aramis and met moms of both Asa and Aramis, who were very nice! These photos are from the press line/carpet area before they came in.
Image source: Zimbio
Last Thursday, Harrison Ford attended the Hollywood premiere for his new movie Paranoia, also starring Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth. He attending the screening with his daughter Georgia and his wife Callista Flockheart.
There are still Comic Con videos trickling in. This one was posted recently by Entertainment Weekly. Watch Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld talk about Petra being the only girl, Graff being the “overbearing tyrant” of Battle School and their favorite thing to shoot. Also, Asa Butterfield speculates on when the Ender’s Game movie is actually set.
I’m not sure I believe the 50 year time frame. Maybe he means that that is when the first invasion occurs?
Thanks to asafarrbutterfield and ellassecretworld for posting this on Tumblr.
Source: EW’s Youtube Channel
In an interview with Reuters, Harrison Ford talked a bit about what attracted him to Ender’s Game.
Q: In November, you star in “Ender’s Game.” Your character mentors a child who is training to be a military specialist and fight future alien invasions. Were you familiar with the book?
A: I was unaware of the book until the script came along and I was asked to be involved. The book was written 28 years ago and is remarkably pressing in terms of the things that are part of modern warfare. Also the questions of moral responsibility for military leadership, the questions involving young people in warfare, manipulating children possibly for the good of mankind – that’s pretty heady stuff.
Q: Do you have any thoughts about those things as they relate to today’s world news?
A: I’m real interested in what’s going on in the world. I have personal feelings and opinions, but it’s not the opinions that drive my participation. I participate in things because I have an emotional recognition in the scenes that I’m reading about that’s beyond subject and is about human behavior.
Ford can be seen in a new movie out this week called Paranoia also starring Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth.
Source: Chicago Tribune
The EnderWiggin.net staff would like to wish the awesome Viola Davis a very Happy Birthday! May she reap the next Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Major Anderson in Ender’s Game!
Recently, the names of several cast members have been showing up in entertainment news articles around the Nets, and not just in connection to Ender’s Game. I figure that’s reason enought to take a closer look at the cast’s current and upcoming projects.
Hailee Steinfeld seems to be by far the busiest of the younger cast. Her new movie Romeo & Juliet, starring Douglas Booth as Romeo, is coming out in October and Relativity Media has recently released not only a new trailer and the first movie poster but also several hi-res stills to promote the film. See the poster and the trailer below, and check out the stills HERE!
In addition to Romeo & Juliet and Ender’s Game, Hailee has nine movies coming up, six of which have already been shot. Hateship Loveship and Can A Song Save Your Life? are set to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Release dates have yet to be set for The Homesman (a frontier drama starring Tommy Lee Jones) and The Keeping Room (with Sam Worthington, set during the American Civil War). The spy thriller Three Days to Kill is coming out in February 2014. Three more projects are currently in pre-production.
Abigail Breslin has a few movies coming out within the next few months as well. Her horror flick Haunter is set to be released in theaters and on Video on Demand in October, and the poster and trailer have just been released online.
See 58 hi-res stills of the movie HERE at Filmofilia. In addition, Abigail is starring in the thrillers Final Girl and Wicked Blood, both set to be released this year, and playwright Tracy Letts’ family Drama August: Osage County (with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Benedict Cumberbatch; out in December). Two more projects are currently in pre-production.
As we told you a couple of weeks ago, Asa Butterfield is currently filming BBC co-financed dramedy X Plus Y. He is also rumored to play the lead in The White Circus, a fantasy movie reuniting him with Chloe Moretz set to be released in 2015. And personally, I wouldn’t be too upset if the casting directors of the new Artemis Fowl movie would consider casting Asa. Tumblr users have done that for years.
But let’s not forget the adult cast, since they have been keeping busy, too. Harrison Ford’s new movie Paranoia (with Liam Hemsworth and Gary Oldman) is coming out in a little over a month. Anchorman 2, in which he has a small role, is set to be released in January 2014. In addition, he is involved in three projects that are currently in pre-production: psychological thriller You Belong To Me (with Zach Efron), Sly Stallone’s The Expendables 3, and the long awaited Star Wars VII (directed by J.J. Abrams). He has also declared on several occasions that he would be open to Indiana Jones 5. While I’m excited for Star Wars, I’m not so sure about Indy 5 (Indy 4 was one of the worst movies I’ve ever not finished watching), and I’m positively dreading Expendables. I wonder if Harrison lost a bet or something.
True to current form, Sir Ben Kingsley has signed onto every project he could fit into his schedule. WWII drama Walking With the Enemy and middle ages set The Physician (based on Noah Gordon’s best-selling novel) are set to be released later this year. SciFi movie Our Robot Overlords is to premiere in 2014. One more project, currently untitled, is in post-production. Two are filming at the moment (thriller Eliza Graves and animated movie The Boxtrolls). Three more are in pre-production.
Viola Davis has a new movie coming out in September as well: crime thriller Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhall. Two more movies – Th Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby and Cyber – are currently filming/in post-production.
Finally, Nonso Anozie has been doing pretty well for himself. He has landed roles in the upcoming Jack Ryan movie, starring Chris Pine and Keira Knightley (out in December) and NBC’s Dracula TV series, starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as the seductive vampire and Nonso as his loyal servant Renfield.
Sources: Gotham News, Access Hollywood, Filmofilia, Aint It Cool News, Indiewire, SpoilerTV, IMDB
Yesterday, Aramis Knight made an appearance at the Teen Choice Awards Style Lounge and talked to Red Carpet Report. He mentions how Harrison Ford remembered who he was from when they first worked together when he was 7, talks about meeting and working with his best friend Khylin Rhambo (Dink Meeker) and what it was like for him to attend Comic Con in San Diego.
The Teen Choice Awards will take place this weekend on August 11, 2013 and will be broadcast on FOX.
Source: MingleMediaTVNetwork via Aramis Knight
Yesterday, Harrison Ford was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote his new film Paranoia, out in theaters next week on August 16.
When we saw him at Comic Con, I thought he was hilarious. Then I saw him on MTV and just couldn’t stop laughing. These clips of him on Jimmy Kimmel are a great watch and good for some Friday laughs!