HOME TIME - putting children in the frame, Leading children’s charity Barnardo’s and a host of well known faces have joined forces with acclaimed photographer Cambridge Jones in a pioneering bid to find permanent homes for the thousands of children awaiting adoption across the UK. Home Time – photography finding a home is an innovative and exciting exhibition which highlights just some of the thousands of children in the care system who have nowhere to call home.
Their stories are the focus of a new exhibition which opens at the Getty Images Gallery in London on April 24. High profile names such as Cherie Blair, Mario Testino, Gail Porter, Sam Taylor-Wood, Laura Bailey, Andrew Lincoln, Claudia Winkleman and Sean Bean have so far offered to become guest photographers for the day to get a snapshot of their lives. [Read More]
ITV is producing another Sharpe tale starring Sean Bean scheduled to screen later in 2008. Sharpe’s Peril takes up where the 2006 two-parter, watched by seven million viewers, left off. Sharpe and Harper lead an East India Company train through enemy territory and face off the inevitable bandit attack. The adventure is part of a new raft of dramas scheduled by ITV for the autumn. Sean Bean to star in another Sharpe adventure
The talented Colleen Doran wrote to let us know that she posted to her blog about her newest sketch cards. In this series, Colleen did sketches of Sandro Kopp, Sean Bean, Karl Urban, and Elijah Wood. And I must say, I am a bit jealous of Sandro.
Jerry Vanderstelt was in the right place at the right time. But it wasn’t luck that landed him there, it was hard work and making his own opportunities. Today this good fortune and hard work culminate when the artist releases a lithograph celebrating “The Fellowship of the Ring,” film released in 2001.
At the San Diego Comic-Con 2001, Elijah Wood walked around the mammoth floor of convention floor drinking in the celebration of popular culture and keeping his eye out for hints of how the world might accept the movie he had worked on that was about to overwhelm popular culture, the first film in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Sean Bean is to star in the big screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance. US stars Lindsay Lohan and Annette Bening have also been cast in the movie. Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance first appeared on stage at London’s Haymarket Theatre in 1893. Prunella Scales, Samantha Bond and Rupert Graves starred in a stage production at the same theatre in 2003. [More]
Actor Sean Bean is struggling on the Indian set of his new TV series Sharpe’s Challenge after suffering a bout of food poisoning. The Lord Of The Rings star was among a number of cast and crew members to be struck down with the notorious ‘Delhi belly’ while shooting the period war drama - a reprisal of the character that made him a household name. [More]
Evie sends along word that the British Academy of Film and Television Arts is screening ‘Sharpe’s Challenge’ on April 3rd at Princess Anne Theatre. Take a look below for more info.
Sharpe’s Challenge
Monday 3 April
Princess Anne Theatre
18:30 Reception
19:00 Screening
Followed by a Q&A with Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels, and members of the cast and crew.
Sharpe’s Challenge
A Celtic Films Entertainment / Picture Palace Films / BBC America production for ITV1 in association with Azure Films and Harper Collins
Dir: Tom Clegg Scr: Russell Lewis Cast: Sean Bean/Daragh O’Malley/Toby Stephens
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe’s Challenge. A year after Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests in India. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General’s daughter lie in one man’s hands…
After five seasons of action-packed adventure films, the award-winning Sharpe returns as two feature length episodes written by Russell Lewis (The Best Man, Inspector Morse, Hornblower). Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings, North Country, Flightplan), who returns to the role of Richard Sharpe for the first time in eight years, is joined once again by Daragh O’Malley (Rebel Heart) as Sharpe’s best friend Sgt Patrick Harper in this bloody enterprise filmed entirely in India.
Sharpe’s Challenge is based on the books by Bernard Cornwell.
To reserve a place in advance, please call 020 7292 5806
Academy Members: Free
Non Members: £10
New to DVD this week is Sean Bean’s ‘North Country’. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. [more]
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Today is Sean Bean’s Birthday! Sean was born on April 17th, 1959 in Sheffield, England. That makes him 49 years old today! Happy Birthday Sean!
HOME TIME - putting children in the frame, Leading children’s charity Barnardo’s and a host of well known faces have joined forces with acclaimed photographer Cambridge Jones in a pioneering bid to find permanent homes for the thousands of children awaiting adoption across the UK. Home Time – photography finding a home is an innovative and exciting exhibition which highlights just some of the thousands of children in the care system who have nowhere to call home. 
ITV is producing another Sharpe tale starring Sean Bean scheduled to screen later in 2008. Sharpe’s Peril takes up where the 2006 two-parter, watched by seven million viewers, left off. Sharpe and Harper lead an East India Company train through enemy territory and face off the inevitable bandit attack. The adventure is part of a new raft of dramas scheduled by ITV for the autumn. 