It’s the new – but decent – V For Vendetta…

Cinema release date:
December 1st, 2008

At the Abbey Mills Pumping Station in East London, where a grimy waterworks has been fashioned into a bureaucratic dystopia, the whiff of Gilliam hangs heavily in the air. From the extras dressed as chavvy Camden Market regulars to the forbidding line of registration booths, today’s set detail is so saturated in Gilliamana, you half expect ol’ Terry to poke his head out and start giggling. “I will hold my hand up,” chuckles Franklyn’s writer-director Gerald McMorrow, “and say that I’m a child of Gilliam and Tim Burton. There are elements of Brazil here, but it’s more Victorianism via the Kingdom of Brunel.” Read the rest of this entry »

You already know who to thank for it: our awesome mata!

I got my “Golden Compass” DVD and immediately made captures of Serafina for our viewing pleasure! Enjoy!

Captures from the featurettes will follow soon. You can already find captures from the costumes featurette.

While we all wait for new Eva-related news or public appearances, I started scanning a few older magazines. Here’s the first of them.

Thanks to the lovely Clarisse for informing me that the French/German TV channel ARTE will air “The Dreamers” tonight at 9pm for the first time on open TV in those countries. Be sure to watch it if you can!!!

Dynasty beauty Joan Collins helped fellow actress Eva Green out of a tight spot with the loan of a ÂŁ5-million necklace at a glittering party in Switzerland. Both screen lovelies had been promised spectacular sparklers by the organisers of the event, luxury accessories brand Montblanc.

“Eva’s went missing and wasn’t delivered to her in time,” reveals a source. “When Joan realised (the French star) didn’t have a necklace she generously parted with her own. It had more than 3,000 diamonds, including one six-carat stone, to make sure Eva was suitably attired when she faced the cameras.”

And the grateful Parisian found a sophisticated alternative to the way Joan had worn the necklace - by draping the stunning jewels down her back.

Source: Hello! Magazine

New Eva event today!!!

Scanned by Mirik

You already know who to thank for it: our awesome mata!

“It’ really like nothing else you’ve ever seen,” he says. “That’s the kind of stuff I try to find. It’s really original. The closest description I can come up with is: ‘Batman’ meets ‘Magnolia.’ So, it’s really going to be interesting.”

Source: timesleader.com

Today I don’t bring you a scan that’s directly Eva-related. In fact, it’s an article about the whole process of shooting “Franklyn”. I think that this can be interesting for those interested in filmmaking or all of us who want to know more about this film.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazines: British Cinematographer (UK) - March 2008

Thanks once again to HAS for the heads-up!

Many thanks to HAS for our new “Franklyn” still featuring Eva and Sam Riley.

Thanks to Tom for letting us know about it and to Charponnaise who scanned it from April Harper’s Bazaar.

Many thanks to Olga Iv for sending me a scan from Vogue Russia with a stunning Montblanc printed ad. It’s the first one we’ve seen so far!

PS: I’ve also been adding some older scans to the gallery and I don’t always post about them on the first page.

It’s this time of the month again and the talented and lovely mata brought us another Calendar page to grace our desktops. Thank you dear!

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Jordan’s film, Cracks, meanwhile, recalls the contained nature of her father’s 1977 debut The Duellists. It is a tale of “misguided love and obsession” set in an English all-girls boarding school in the 1930s. Eva Green, star of Casino Royale, will play Miss G, a charismatic teacher. “It reminded me a lot of Lord of the Flies,” says Jordan, who co-directed the short Jonathan with her father for the 2005 anthology movie All the Invisible Children. “It was interesting as you always see that kind of story played out among boys. You never see it presented with a group of girls.”

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Source: Times Online

‘Casino Royale’ star Eva Green hates her image as the sexy French girl - and the scandalous rumours that follow her, says Celia Walden

Eva Green, best known as the vulpine Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, looks uncomfortably beautiful - encumbered, embarrassed and bored, it seems, by her own looks. This morning, in the draughty basement of a Sloane Street store, her narrow frame is clad in secretarial, dark-grey Roland Mouret, while her blue-black hair is tressed in neat waves around her pale face, which has been made-up to look un-made-up.

“After Casino Royale it all happened quickly,” she says, with an unexpected cockney inflection to her thick French accent, “although I’m not really recognised in the street yet. I don’t dress like this in real life, so I’m still getting away with it.” Read the rest of this entry »

Eva wasn’t interviewed on E! USA but they showed her posing for photographers on the red carpet. Video clips should be coming tomorrow or on Wednesday.

EDIT: She was interviewed on E! UK. I couldn’t get it here. I got the version with Ryan Seacrest.

Our beautiful Eva arrived at the BAFTAs!

As for my other news… Well, Montblanc and Eva announced today at a press conference that Eva is the new Montblanc Ambassadress. She’ll be supporting Montblanc cultural and educational programmes, including the Montblanc initiatives for UNICEF – known as “The Power To Write”.

EDIT: And the BAFTA ORSA went to Shia LaBeouf. “The Golden Compass” won an award for Best Visual Effects.

Thanks to Ms Green’s management, I can announce you her next official film project. Eva is set to star as ‘Miss G’, a charismatic teacher, in “Cracks”, to be directed by Jordan Scott, Ridley Scott’s daughter. They need to complete the financing, which should be done soon – and shooting is set for March, April and May. This film isn’t on IMDb.com yet, so don’t bother going there for info. “Cracks” is a British boarding school-set period drama. “It’s about misguided love and obsession, as told through the eyes of a group of elite girls in this boarding school,” said Jordan Scott.

PS: I’ll also have something else to announce you this week end. But don’t ask now. You’ll know about it when it’ll be the right time. In the meantime, enjoy these fabulous news!

I don’t know if you all noticed, but I’ve been adding some new scans to the gallery in the past couple of days.

But there are some people who should be credited for them, so here are my thank yous.

Vogue (Australia) - January 2008 - scanned by myself

We finally have scans from the December issue of Belgian Elle thanks to the lovely Mina!

Thanks to the talented mata.

The Golden Compass will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the USA on April 29th. Read about it HERE.

Is it true that Eva Green makes an appearance in this film in flashback?
Barbara Broccoli: No, she doesn’t appear in flashbacks, but she’s certainly on Bond’s mind.

Thanks to the lovelies Irene and Olga from Eva Green Russia (a site that hasn’t been updated in months but still lives in my heart), we have captures and a video from a Russian news show about the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Nomination.

Eva has the amazing ability of making the funniest/silliest faces and still look gorgeous! Lucky girl!

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Video (in Russian):
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