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The borough has been selected to launch a major British film based on the book Cass - nearly two weeks before it is shown in London.

The decision was made by the writer of the autobiography of the same name, Cass Pennant, who was born in Doncaster but moved from the area as a small child.

Cass, who was born in Hyde Park, is a reformed football hooligan who renounced violence to become a writer and publisher. His autobiography became a bestseller

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Image Entertainment will release “Far North” AKA “True North” on DVD this September 23rd. The film stars Michelle Yeoh, Michelle Krusiec, and Sean Bean.

Extras will include: a “Making Of” featurette and a “Trailer.”

Synopsis:
Michelle Yeoh, Sean Bean and Michelle Krusiec star in this chilling epic thriller about the battle for survival, unexpected passion and the temptation of revenge. Haunted by a violent past, Saiva (Yeoh) and Anja (Krusiec) share an isolated, brutal existence in the desolate Arctic tundra. When Loki (Bean), a wounded stranger, enters their lives, a romance quickly develops, and the betrayal that follows leads to consequences as shocking as they are bloody.

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via comingsoon.net

The announcements were made by Ben Silverman, Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios.

[...] Life” resumes its second season on Friday, October 3 (10-11 p.m. ET) in the drama starring Damian Lewis as a wrongly imprisoned police detective who returns to the force searching for justice. “Crusoe,” the action-adventure, contemporary re-telling of the classic Daniel Defoe novel “Robinson Crusoe,” will debut on in a special two-hour premiere on Friday, October 17 (8-10 p.m. ET). “America’s Toughest Jobs” will air in its regularly scheduled timeslot (8-9 p.m. ET) on Fridays leading up to the premiere of “Crusoe.” [...]

The new landmark series “Crusoe” is an epic and ambitious take on Daniel Defoe’s legendary tale that finds the dashing and resourceful Crusoe (Philip Winchester, “Thunderbirds”) after many years of being a castaway on a desert island with his companion Friday (casting to follow). Written by Stephen Gallagher (”Eleventh Hour”) and directed by Duane Clark (”CSI: NY”), “Crusoe” follows the adventures of the two island dwellers while looking in flashback at Crusoe’s life before he was thrown into an isolated existence filled with danger and adventure. Among those are his tragic childhood with widower father James (Sean Bean, “The Lord of the Rings”), the blossoming relationship with the love of his life, Susannah (Anna Walton “Hell Boy: the Golden Army”) and his entrepreneurial aspirations under the watchful eye of family friend, Jeremiah Blackthorn (Sam Neill, “The Tudors,” ‘Jurassic Park”). Overcoming marauding militias, hungry cannibals, wild cats, starvation and apocalyptic lightning storms on his seemingly idyllic island, Crusoe dreams of the day he will be reunited with his beloved family. The executive producers are Justin Bodle for Power, Michael Prupas for Muse and Genevieve Hofmeyr for Moonlighting.

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Independent.co.uk

[...] In the UK, Damon’s equivalent may be Ewan McGregor, suggests Joe Sené, who is head of editorial at Splash News, one of this country’s biggest photo agencies. “He is Hollywood A-list – one of the world’s biggest actors – who has been in some of the biggest films ever. But how many people know he has an adopted child from Africa? It’s not because people aren’t interested. It is that he doesn’t court press. So he doesn’t go to Saint Tropez in the summer and he doesn’t go to the Caribbean in the winter. He doesn’t fall out of nightclubs or eat at the Ivy seven nights a week, and doesn’t live in Primrose Hill.” According to Sené, Sean Bean and Emma Thompson are other great lens-avoiders. [...]

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Sean has joined the cast of Crusoe, UK indie Power’s adaptation of the Daniel Defoe story for NBC. Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) is also a member of the cast.

The Northern Echo

[...] Film-makers are lavishing almost £18m on a swashbuckling new version of Daniel Defoe’s classic tale Robinson Crusoe.

And the cameras have now started rolling on the star-studded production, with the North Yorkshire locations including York and Whitby.

Visitors to the former have been startled to see big names like Sean Bean and Sam Neill striding the streets and rowing on the river in full period costume. [...]

World Screen

[...] “With such a wonderful script, a stellar cast and visionary director on board, we are well on course to deliver a landmark piece of event television,” said Bodle, Power’s CEO. [...]

C12Media

[...] The 13-part series, previously reported by C21, is slated for a 20.00 slot in the fall and is being coproduced with Muse and Moonlighting. Previously reported cast members include Philip Winchester (Thunderbirds), who plays Crusoe, and Anna Walton (Hell Boy). Joss Ackland will appear in one episode. Crusoe’s companion Friday is yet to be cast. [...]

TimesOnline

[...] A major new TV adaptation of Robinson Crusoe has just been announced, to be filmed in the Seychelles. Sam Neill and Sean Bean are among the cast but the eponymous role goes to a younger hunk, Philip Winchester (Thunderbirds). The last TV adaptation of Defoe’s novel was way back in 1964, a much-loved version starring Robert Hoffman. [...]

Times Online

[...] The Sharpe star will be joined by the American actor Philip Winchester, as the English castaway, and Sam Neill in the first remake of Daniel Defoe’s novel since 1964. Winchester recently played Scott Tracy in the film adaptation of the television series Thunderbirds. [...]

YorkPress

[...] he pair, who starred in blockbuster movies Lord of the Rings and Jurassic Park respectively, were filming scenes in a boat on the Ouse and then later shot footage in the Guildhall.

A spokeswoman for the production company, Power Studios International, said the actors will be filming in York and the surrounding area for the next two weeks. [...]

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Independent.ie

THE unusual link between Derry City and Sheffield United will be reinforced this weekend when actor and Blades fan Sean Bean visits the Brandywell.

The bond between the clubs stretches way back to 1932 when the Ulster side changed from white jerseys to red and white stripes to honour the arrival of Billy Gillespie as player-manager at the club from the Blades.

Bean, who starred in films such as ‘Troy’, ‘Goldeneye’ and ‘When Saturday Comes’ will be in the North-West for Sunday’s clash with Cork to launch the book ‘Sheffield United FC: The Biography’ which details the links between the clubs.

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thegreenkat posted these beauties over at the hires_hunks lj-community and allowed me to put them into my gallery. Thank you, kat .

Gavin Smith Photoshoot (12x)

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from Weta Holics

Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro invite you all to chat with them on May 25th and 26th to talk about their Hobbit project. Head over to An Unexpected Party to register.

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added The Radha’s Corner to my affiliates. The site about Sean’s co-star Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) is fresh out of the press and constantly growing.
Go check it out

edit:

added another affiliate. another fresh off the press site about Jeff Goldblum (The Fly, Jurassic Park).

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dailymail.co.uk

When we longed for the coming of what we once liked to call the New Man, don’t you sometimes think we should have been more careful what we wished for?

Back then, we thought we knew what we wanted. Moreover, what we thought we wanted didn’t sound unreasonable.

Put-upon women - run ragged by Neanderthal demands that we perform in the office, kitchen and bedroom - believed that if our partners could just be kicked up the backside of their latent sensitivity, they’d graduate from cavemen to soul-mates, and our lives would be that much easier for it.

A real man: Sean Bean, playing Sharpe, the rugged-looking soldier who bravely battled through the 19th century Napeleonic Wars

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