HBO will be airing (thank goodness we didn’t cancel HBO when Game of Thrones ended) a special First Look at Ender’s Game on October 17, 2013 at 10:15 PM ET/9:15 PM C. Watch an amazing preview of their behind-the-scenes special below including scenes we’ve never seen before including Ender being taken from home by Graff and Anderson, shots of Ender with other Launchies on the shuttle, and Ender commanding Dragon Army.
Tag: Harrison Ford
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VIDEO: Ender’s Game Cast and Crew in Madrid
Several members of the Ender’s Game cast along with director Gavin Hood and producer Bob Orci were in Madrid on October 4th to promote El Juego de Ender. Watch video below from the photocall:
Here is another of better quality:
Thanks for Fernanda for the finds!
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VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game on Wetten Dass …?
As promised, here is Harrison Ford talking about Ender’s Game on Wetten Dass …? last night in Bremen. He is pretty hard to understand due to the tranlsator’s voice being much louder than his own, so there’s a transcript below the vid. Enjoy!
Translation/Transcript:
Host: A young boy is asked to save the world. What is the general idea behind this?
Ford: He does save the world. This takes place in the future. Obviously it’s a kind of science fiction, but I think unlike the kind of science fiction you see, you’ve seen before, it has real heart and emotion. It’s, I think, a very powerful story about a young man who learns leadership, the challenges of leadership. I play the man who’s responsible for training him. It proposes that in the future, there is a world government and we have a combined military force, the International Fleet. And we have been invaded once before by an alien life form that you got a brief glimpse of there [in the CLIP they aired before] and suffered real damage from this alien life form, and we know they are coming again. And the proposition is that young people really integrate complex data more quickly than adults. So the soldiers, or warriors, of this period are fighting with drone warfare. The book, which is 28 years old, and this is a bestseller, predicted the internet, predicted touch screen technology, predicted drone warfare. And all of that has come true, and its a … the story is very compelling.
Host: A very interesting story, of which we shouldn’t give away too much, and a very visionary book this film is based on. The movie will have its great opening in Germany on October 24th.I had hoped for a bit more information concerning the production of the movie, his co-stars etc., but I guess between having him talk about Indiana Jones and his planes and having him bet on whether a guy could throw five eggs over a beer tent and catch them on the other side with a frying pan, there just wasn’t enough time to talk about this movie some more. Meh. Still, it’s something, and we got an awesome clip with that.
Source: ZDFneo
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Harrison Ford to Appear on Wetten Dass …?
Listen up, everyone! Harrison Ford is going to be on German TV in about 20 minutes, and he is most likely going to promote Ender’s Game! Harrison is to be a guest at Wetten Dass …? (“Bet you that …”), the biggest German show in existence (or at least it used to be). Other guests include Silvester Stallone and Cher. The show airs live, and you may even be able to stream it here: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek#/hauptnavigation/startseite (the show will be available there for a number of days afterwards)
A fair warning, though: the show has a high potential to be embarrassing. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry were apparently quite “perturbed” last year. Also, it runs for 2 and a half hours, although Harrison may not be there for all of it.
Source: ZDF Mediathek, Morgenpost
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GALLERY: Asa, Hailee, Gavin, Ben, and Harrison in Madrid
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!
Source: Zimbio
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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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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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VIDEO: Harrison Ford on Conan
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
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Photos: Harrison Ford at Paranoia Premiere
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.
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Harrison Ford: Ender’s Game is “Pretty Heady Stuff”
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
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GALLERY: Comic-Con 2013 “Ender’s Game” Press Conference
I know they’ve been long in coming, but here are the final photos from the “Ender’s Game” press conference held on 18 July 2013 at San Diego Comic-Con!
I had the amazing opportunity to sit second row, a mere ten feet from a fabulous ensemble: Writer/Director Gavin Hood, Producer Roberto Orci, Asa Butterfield (Ender Wiggin), Hailee Steinfeld (Petra Arkanian), and of course, Mr. Harrison Ford (Colonel Graff). I’m not really sure what they talked about, since I spent most of my time trying to snap photos and take video simultaneously. Though I’m pretty sure one of those surlier photos of Harrison came shortly after some silly reporter said the words “Han Solo”…
(These photographs are the property of Elizabeth C. Spencer and may not be utilized without permission. If you want to share them, link to them, no problem – just please make sure to credit your source!)
written by Elizabeth Spencer
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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
