Official Serenity Press Release

UK PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT

United International Pictures and Universal Pictures are delighted to announce that UK Premiere of SERENITY will take place on Wednesday, October 5th at the Odeon West End Leicester Square, and will be attended by JOSS WHEDON, NATHAN FILLION and SUMMER GLAU.

This event will benefit MediCinema, a unique charity, bringing the magic of the silver screen to patients by building state of the art cinemas in hospitals. It’s absolutely free for patients and their families.

All MediCinema's are purpose built to allow easy access for patients including those in beds and wheelchairs.

Through the generous support of leading distributors, who donate all the prints, we screen the latest films as well as special previews! We were lucky enough to show ‘Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone’ a week early to a packed cinema full of eager, young – and not so young – Harry Potter fans! Many of the children were recovering from serious operations and could not have seen the film in any other cinema. It provided a much needed boost and truly the magic of cinema wove its special charm!

MediCinema is dedicated to bringing ‘big screen therapy’ to as many patients in as many hospitals as possible.

A limited number of tickets for this premiere are now on sale via this charity on a strictly ‘first come, first served’ basis.

Contact: christine.hill@gstt.nhs.uk and Tel: 020 7188 3697

- Wednesday 5th October, Odeon West End, Leicester Square
- Doors open: 6.30pm, Seated By: 7.15pm
- Press Pens Open 4.00pm, Press Pens Close 5.45pm

Serenity to get the red carpet treatment.

Just found out that there will be a red carpet premiere for this movie on Wednesday October 5^th at the Odeon West End. So far Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion and Summer Glau have been confirmed as attending the premiere. Hopefully, some of the guests from Collectormania will also attend, as they did for Kingdom of Heaven.

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Terry Gilliam @ NFT

From Jabberwocky to Time Bandits, Brazil to 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam has made some of cinema's most fantastically imaginative, intellectually stimulating and visually distinctive films. He spent some of his early career in New York as a writer and illustrator working with comic book legend Harvey Kurtzman on his magazine Help! before moving to the UK in the mid-60s. Gilliam had met John Cleese during his time at Help! and through him ventured into television, a move that led to his involvement in Monty Python's Flying Circus for which he created the programme's iconic animation sequences. It was through Python that Gilliam gained movie experience. In 1975 he co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Jones and in 1977 made his first outing as director on a non-Python project, the medieval fantasy Jabberwocky. Famously uncompromising in his approach to film-making he has often had to struggle to realise his vision, an aspect of his career aptly illustrated in the documentary, Lost in La Mancha, which followed the ill-fated production of his long-cherished project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. His latest film The Brothers Grimm, included in the Festival, is a dark and magical imagining, focussing on the adventures of the fairytale scribes. It's with great pleasure we welcome him to the National Film Theatre to discuss his fascinating career, on 1st November 2005 @ 18:30, National Film Theatre, NFT1.

Cinderella Man, 8th September

Just got back from this premiere, and after a bit of confusion about the venue, I finally managed to track the premiere down to the Curzon, Soho.

Both Renée Zellweger and Director Ron Howard turned up to the UK premiere, they spent a little time with fans before entering the Curzon, Soho, also actress Natasha McElhone made an apperence to support the movie.

STOP PRESS - Cinderella Man Premiere

Just found out, that this Thursday 8th September @ 6:30pm Cinderella Man will have its UK Premiere at the Curzon Mayfair in London's West End. Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger and Director Ron Howard will be in attendance.