The cast of Ender’s Game have made it to Madrid, Spain for another photo call! Check out photos of Gavin Hood, Hailee Steinfeld, Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, and Harrison Ford below!
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GALLERY: Photos from Paris Photo Call
Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford, and Gavin Hood are currently touring Europe for press junkets and photo calls. Check out photos taken in Paris yesterday!
Source: Zimbio
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Submit an Entry for ‘Ender’s Game’ Panel Tickets in London
London Comic Con is hosting an Ender’s Game panel next week and Launchies wanting to attend can now apply for a free ticket in the door at their website.
Exclusive Panel Q&A with Stars and Filmmakers
7th October 2013 – West End – LondonGuests
HARRISON FORD, ASA BUTTERFIELD, HAILEE STEINFELD, BEN KINGSLEY
Director and writer GAVIN HOOD
Producers BOB ORCI and GIGI PRITZKER
Includes never seen before footage and props from the filmProvisional times:
DOORS OPEN: 6.30pm – EVENT BEGINS: 7pm – EVENT ENDS: 7.50pmGo HERE to enter for a ticket!
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Sir Ben Kingsley: “No Difference Between Me and Asa Butterfield”
LA Confidential interviewed Sir Ben Kingsley, talking to him about acting, his newfound love for Los Angeles, and his opinion of Asa Butterfield.
More than a refuge, acting burst the protective bubble Kingsley had created and allowed him to turn that inward energy outward—to connect with strangers in ways he couldn’t with his family. He recalls a telling moment early in his career during “the great privilege and terrifying experience of playing Hamlet” when he was walking across a meadow and found himself intercepted by a lovely young woman. “She was determined to meet me face to face in the middle of the field,” he remembers. “She said, ‘I saw Hamlet last night—how did you know about me?’ And that always stayed with me.” Decades later he’d relive the experience in Los Angeles. “In the months following House of Sand and Fog, I had wonderful Iranian families come up to me in The Grove and say, ‘How did you know about my uncle?’ Isn’t that beautiful?”
“It’s not the characters that stay with me,” he explains. “It’s the opportunities that I’ve had as an actor to put my hand on someone’s shoulder and look them in the eye and say, ‘I know.’ And there’s nothing more comforting than that.” And that comfort extends to both self-made Sir Ben Kingsley and the eager-to-entertain boy he used to be—and in many ways still is. “The child in me has not ossified,” he says. “He’s alive and curious as ever. In that sense, there’s no difference between me and Asa Butterfield. There can’t be. There mustn’t be. If there is, I’ve got to give up.”
They also spoke with Ender’s Game director Gavin Hood about the interactions between Kingsley and Butterfield.
“It’s not often in a movie that young actors are playing leads opposite seasoned actors who are in important but supporting roles,” says Hood. “Someone had raised a question about whether Ben might want his part expanded in some way, and he said, ‘No, no, no. This is Asa’s movie.’ I thought that that was someone who a) is tremendously generous toward a young actor, and b) perhaps even more importantly, understands that his role as an actor is to support the story being told.”
It’s a great article, so be sure to give the full thing a read at LA Confidential.
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Ender’s Game Cast Watch #12
Hey guys,
it’s been two weeks, and while the cast have not been overly busy on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, we still have tons of news and pretty pictures to share with you.
Let’s start with Hailee Steinfeld, who has been by far the busiest of the young cast, having signed on to not one but two new projects in the last couple of weeks. First, she is going to play teen assasin Megan in Kyle Newman’s Barely Lethal alongsinde Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Alba. Second, she’s set to appear as Vince Vaughn’s daughter in his adaptation of Term Life, a graphic novel by A.J. Lieberman and Nick Thornborrow. Not to forget all those other projects she’s either currently working on, like Three Days to Kill and The Homesman, or recently finished shooting, like Loveship, Hateship and The Keeping Room. No wonder German GLAMOUR editor Wolfgang Hertel calls her “A Girl for All Occasions.”
Hailee’s latest project, the new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, just premiered in LA. Here she is on the red carpet with “Romeo” Douglas Booth and BFF Taylor Swift.
I like the dress. It proves again that Hailee Steinfeld is quite the fashionista. Which is probably why she made time to attend several events during New York Fashion Week, such as the Donna Karen 25th Birthday Bash, the Estee Lauder “Modern Muse” Fragrance Launch or the Calvin Klein Spring 2014 After-Party. I don’t know about you, but while I’m not sure about the Donna Karen one I’m partial to the Calvin Klein outfit.
Hailee herself has often admitted that fashion is hugely important for her. So too in the October issue of ASOS, the magazine published by the online fashion shop of the same name. E-Online published five shots ahead of time, along with a little article. Check them out HERE! (Update: More shots and a making-of video HERE at the Daily Mail Online.)
Speaking of fashion magazines: Several pictures of Abigail Breslin appear in digital magazine ContentMode’s current issue #11, together with a video in which Abigail talks about August: Osage County, Ender’s Game, and her fashion philosophy. Check out the photos and the video HERE!
Since then, Abigail has been keeping busy. She did a number of interviews recently to promote her various new and upcoming movies. She talked to ShockTillYouDrop about Haunter and Zombieland, discussed the terrifying experience of being locked in a trunk in The Call with DIY, and chatted to ALLURE about this and that. And according to Comingsoon.net, she has just started working on her newest movie, zombie thriller Maggie with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
While it’s not exactly a new movie, Khylin Rhambo also had news to share. He recently booked a guest role in the cop show Ironside!
Conor Carroll, on the other hand, has been walking down memory lane, sharing THIS awesome little ad with the world. Looks like little Conor already had the bully role down pat. Otherwise he’s been keeping busy getting into boxing and Facebook. Check out his new account HERE!
And since we are speaking of new social media accounts: Moises Arias finally decided to share his awesome photography on Tumblr. Here are a few examples of his work. Go check out his Tumblr 490tx for the rest HERE.
Finally, let’s briefly talk about the older cast: Ben Kingsley has joined the cast of Learning to Drive. Harrison Ford will receive the Hollywood Career Award at the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards. He’s also keeping up the Han Solo act by angering leading politicians. Viola Davis appears on the cover of the October issue of ESSENCE. You can see a video of the shoot HERE. And while I couldn’t find the entire article online, several online news outlets have published parts of her interview with the magazine: Check them out HERE, HERE and HERE.
Sources: The MarySue, The Wrap, Amazon, German GLAMOUR, JustJared, E-Online, ASOS, ContentMode, ShockTillYouDrop, DIY, ComingSoon.net, HuffingtonPost, People, HipHollywood, ESSENCE, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr
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Straight from the Set Part 5.3: Meeting Sir Ben Kingsley
It was a long week of spilling all the beans on my visit to the set of Ender’s Game last year and I definitely think all that word spewing burnt me out. I’ve still got one last report and you can bet the best has been saved for last. Or rather, the best for me.
Not that meeting everyone else wasn’t just flat out amazing, but keep in mind we were at the end of a full day on set. They were going to stick us back in the van and take us back to the hotel. I was looking around for something to tie myself down to so that I could insist that I had to stay longer.
Then they announce that Sir Ben Kingsley is willing to give us ten minutes of his time between scenes. They led us to a some dark formic room on the Eros set that had already had the lights removed. It was stifling in there and we simply waited for him to arrive. I suddenly found myself suffering from some weird kind of anxious terror. What in the heck do you ask a knighted actor you’ve seen in movies all your life?
After a while, footsteps echoed down the hall and suddenly Mazer Rackham walked into the room. Now, we’d already seen a photo of Sir Ben Kingsley in his Maori tā moko makeup, but for some reason I was expecting just the actor. So when he walked into the room in full makeup and costume, I went from anxious terror to dizzying terror.
He sat down on a stool and in a really weird moment, we suddenly all swarmed around him, recorders in hand.
“So your tattoo must have hurt really bad.” joked a woman in our group.
“That’s right! Agony, yeah.” he said, playing along. I asked him how long it takes to put on. “It takes an hour and a half. I sit very still.”
Though we only talked to him for a brief four minutes, Kingsley seemed to have a great appreciation for science fiction, which is perhaps why he went on to star in Our Robot Overlords. “Very often, bad science fiction is completely locked into the present; they have no perception–who could?–of the future. It takes a great imagination to transcend the limits of what we know.”
Since he’d worked with Asa Butterfield previously on Hugo, we asked what it was like working with him again and whether he’d changed, other than the obvious six-inch growth spurt. “We have a very good working relationship. Very good. He’s pure, he’s simple, he’s uncluttered. He’s highly intelligent and there’s no wasted time on the set with Asa. It’s a great relationship.”
As for whether he ever gives Butterfield any advice, he assured us they never give each other advice. Instead, they work and learn from each other through osmosis. “The wonderful thing about making a film is that it’s collaborative, and if you are alert to what’s around you. You will learn, and you’ll probably teach.”
When I asked him what impressed him the most about the project, he had an interesting answer. It was collaboration between all the different departments that impressed him the most. “To see it all being coordinated is a great sight.”
I feel I should note that this question I asked him became one of the most memorable parts of my time on set. I don’t know if it was because he was still slightly in character, having just walked off the set, but when he spoke to me he locked eye contact with me and I felt like he was somehow staring into my soul. I felt paralyzed until he looked at someone else. He simply looked that intense.
Earlier in the year, Kingsley had starred opposite another Hugo co-star Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator, which is a decidedly different type of role for an Academy Award-winning actor. When asked what makes him choose such vastly differing roles, he simply told us that change is good. “[It’s] one of the most exciting things about my life. Every day’s different, every role’s different, every director’s different, every script is different. So if you’re blessed, it’s going to be a bonus in that part of your life. Some actors tend to play the same role over and over again–and they’re very good at it. But I’ve been really fortunate. It’s great to change.”
Before we knew it, he was whisked away to resume filming, but not without a few parting words. “Lovely to meet you all! I really hope you enjoy the movie when it comes out. Thanks for your enthusiasm. Spread the word!”
And that was something we were all more than happy to do.
This concludes EnderWiggin.net’s ‘Straight from the Set’ reports. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading all about our time on the Ender’s Game set!
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Ender’s Game Cast Watch #8 – New Projects Edition
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
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Six New Ender’s Game Character Posters Revealed
Moviefone and Fandango have exclusively revealed three new Ender’s Game character posters each. They look awesome! Click for higher resolution! (Especially the Fandango ones, i.e. Anderson, Mazer and Ender, are super hi-res.)
Which one is your favorite? Any you don’t like? Do you miss anyone? Tell us in the comments or sound off in our Forums!
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VIDEO: Sir Ben Kingsley Loved Working with Gavin Hood
RedCarpetNewsTV spoke with Sir Ben Kingsley last week and chatted a bit about Ender’s Game and working with Gavin Hood. Here’s a transcript as well:
Ender’s Game is a project that fans are so excited about. What can fans expect from the film adaptation of that? Of course you play a major part.
I’ve only seen some tiny clips of it, but I loved working with the director and I think it’s going to be an absolutely spectacular film. Beautiful.
Working with Asa again, an astonishing young talent. What makes him such a promising young star?
Intelligence and application and a well-brought up boy. He has a lovely mother.
Harrison Ford as well, the cast is littered with greats. What’s it like working with him?
He’s a delight, we got along really well. Yeah. Really well.
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Ben Kingsley Found Tā Moko “Very Empowering”
When Sir Ben Kingsley spoke recently to the Wall Street Journal’s Barbara Chai about his character the Mandarin in Iron Man 3, he also spoke briefly about his Ender’s Game role as Mazer Rackham and the facial tattoos, known in Maori tradition as “tā moko”.
He also mentions a bit of Mazer’s background story.
“I had the privilege of being advised and guided by a Maori who knows all about Ta Moko [Maori tattoo] and what each line and design means – its ancestry,” Kingsley said in an interview. “When it’s accurately and beautifully presented, it’s very empowering for the actor. To be able to put that on and allow it to tell its own story, and then you breathe life into it yourself.”
Kingsley said his key into Mazer was that the character loved his Maori father, a warrior whom he had lost in the Great Battle for the planet.
What do you guys think? Is it possible the pilot we’re seeing in the trailer isn’t Mazer, but Mazer’s father?
Source: WSJ
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EW.com Exclusively Reveals First Look at Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham in ‘Ender’s Game’
In anticipation of the trailer’s global debut next week on May 7, Summit/Lionsgate has given EW.com the exclusive first look at Sir Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham.
As many book fans know, the character of Mazer is actually a book twist, but the film doesn’t seem to be going this route since Mazer is mentioned in the official synopsis.
In the near future, a hostile alien race (called the Formics) have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander, Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training only the best young children to find the future Mazer. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy, but strategically brilliant boy is pulled out of his school to join the elite.
Arriving at Battle School, Ender quickly and easily masters increasingly difficult war games, distinguishing himself and winning respect amongst his peers. Ender is soon ordained by Graff as the military’s next great hope, resulting in his promotion to Command School. Once there, he’s trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead his fellow soldiers into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.
EW spoke to Ben Kingsley a bit about the role.
Director and co-writer Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) was key, according to Kingsley, as was the make-up and costume team working with Kingsley to breathe life into the half-Maori war hero, who is an almost mythical presence in Orson Scott Card’s 1980s bestseller.
“In the script, which I think is beautifully written, what come across is the authority and mystery,” Kingsley said of Rackham, a man who saved earth once and may have to do it again. “There’s quite a lot said about him in the story before you see him — by the recruits and by his fellow officers — and that’s useful as far as preparations.”
Source: EW.com
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Ben Kingsley Calls ‘Ender’s Game’ a “Very Exciting Franchise”
Steve Weintraub of Collider got to talk to Sir Ben Kingsley about his role as the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 and his role as Mazer Rackham in Ender’s Game. And while it’s certainly not confirmation, it’s interesting that he refers to Ender’s Game as “a very exciting franchise“!
What do you think? Is he hinting about more Enderverse movies to come? Which direction do you want the storyline to go? Kelly and I talk about this on Episode 11 of EnderCast so be sure to give that a listen!
Source: Collider
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Ben Kingsley Says ‘Ender’s Game’ Will Be “A Wonderful Film”
Actor Ben Kingsley is doing a lot of press for the release of Iron Man 3 and spoke briefly to the Coventry Telegraph about his role as Mazer Rackham. Possible spoilers here for those who haven’t read the book!
Ender’s Game is coming out later this year. How did that work out?
Lovely, but quite different from the challenge of the Mandarin. With Mandarin I was very rarely involved in green screen. In Gandhi we had none. We actually had 4,000 people on screen for the funeral.
In Ender’s Game we had a lot of green screen. The kids in the film were obviously challenged by being told ‘It is all going to be CGI-d later but you have to react’ . Gavin (Hood) looked after them so well and they did form a wonderful relationship with him. So that he would, where possible, talk them through what they were seeing while they were reacting to it.
He really knocked himself out pumping energy into those kids who couldn’t see anything. I think it is going to be a wonderful film.
Tell us about your role.
Mazar Rackham. He is a combination of historically ancient warrior in that he is descended from Maori and has Maori tattooed on his face. And at the same time he is teaching children how to operate drones. So he is very advanced and also rooted in an ancient warrior tradition.
Source: Coventry Telegraph
