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| Rowan Atkinson back as spoof spy Johnny English Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:37 AM PDT  Actor Rowan Atkinson arrives for the UK premiere of Johnny English Reborn, at the Empire Leicester Square in central London October 2, 2011. – Reuters pic The 56-year-old, whose television series "Mr Bean" also made it to the big screen, was on the red carpet in London at the weekend to promote spy spoof "Johnny English Reborn", which hits British theatres on Friday. "I never find filming particularly fun to be honest," he said at the event. "There isn't a tremendous amount of laughter going on when I'm filming because I tend to take it all far too seriously." In Johnny English Reborn, "the improbable secret agent" is called back into action when his superiors learn the Chinese premier's life is in danger. Director Oliver Parker said that hit spy series like the Bourne thrillers and the arrival of Daniel Craig as the new James Bond in 2006 had provided more source material for the English character. "We've had several years of Bourne and the new Bond, so that was a little more meat for us to feed on really," Parker said. "The first movie I suppose was reflecting much more on Roger, (former Bond actor) Roger Moore, and here we have those two new spies, and it gave us a lot more to play with I think." Parker and his cast, including Gillian Anderson as Pamela Head and Dominic West as Simon Ambrose, will be hoping for a repeat of the commercial success of the first movie. "Johnny English", released in 2003, earned US$160 million (RM513.44 million) in global ticket sales, according to movie tracking website boxofficemojo.com, on a budget estimated at US$40 million. Early reviews have been mixed to poor, according to critic tracker rottentomatoes.com. – Reuters |
| Ex-Beatles on red carpet for Harrison documentary Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:26 AM PDT  Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his fiance, Nancy Shevell, is seen in this file photo of September 22, 2011. Ex-Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr joined director Martin Scorsese on the red carpet on Saturday October 2, 2011 for the premiere of 'George Harrison: Living in the Material World'. – Reuters pic The documentary, about the Fab Four guitarist who died in 2001 aged 58, will be released in UK cinemas for one night only tomorrow before being aired by the BBC public broadcaster in November. Scorsese traces the life of Harrison from his musical beginnings in Liverpool, his meteoric rise to fame with the Beatles and his search from an early age for spiritual fulfilment. "We had lots of material things at quite an early age and we learned that wasn't it, we still lacked something," Harrison said when he was 22. Scorsese had access to publicly unseen footage from Harrison's childhood and interviewed Starr, McCartney, John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and Harrison's widow Olivia among others. "George, to me, was taking certain elements of R & B and rock and rockabilly and creating something unique," fellow guitarist Eric Clapton said. Although most of the Beatles' hits were penned by Lennon and McCartney, Harrison wrote classics including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun". He embraced Indian culture in the mid-1960s and organised the benefit Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 which the film makers called "the first major rock concert to address a world crisis." "For years, his music seemed to be dealing with themes that I connected with," Oscar-winner Scorsese told the BBC at the premiere. "I found comfort in them and a hope and a special experience listening to his music. I was fascinated by him." McCartney said on the red carpet: "Every time I see anything to do with George it brings back more memories than you would believe. "He was my little mate on the school bus ... when he was very little. He's sorely missed by us all." McCartney was accompanied by fiancee Nancy Shevell. The couple have posted their wedding banns at the London registry office where the musician married his first wife Linda over 40 years ago. – Reuters |
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