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More than 15 years later, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is unpacking a millennial teen fave that hasn’t aged well with at least one fan.

The Golden Globe winner reminisced about Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008), based on Louise Rennison’s young adult novels, as one fan of the rom-com shared how her take on the film has evolved over the years.

“Dave ‘The Laugh’ (Tommy Bastow) deserved better,” said the caller on BBC Radio 1, to which Taylor-Johnson confusedly responded, “Dave ‘The Laugh’? Who’s that?”

Refreshing his memory, the fan explained, “You say that he’s his friend. You get chipped with him at the beginning of the movie. But then Dave absolutely pines over Georgia (played by Georgia Groome) for the entire film.”

“Does he?” the actor replied. “Poor dave.”

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‘The Big Bang Theory’ star Kunal Nayyar has joined the cast of Gurnder Chadha’s festive offering ‘Christmas Karma’ from True Brit Entertainment, Bend It Films, Maven Screen Media and Civic Studios.

Inspired by Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol, Nayyar will lead the cast as Scrooge with a further cast including Eva Longoria, Boy George, Billy Porter, Hugh Bonneville, Leo Suter, Charithra Chandran, Pixie Lott, Danny Dyer, Bilal Hasna, Allan Corduner, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Rufus Jones, Eve, Nitin Ganatra.

On his casting Nayyar stated; “To explore a beloved holiday tale through the eyes of an immigrant story (much like my own) is exactly the kind of movie that I believe will resonate with so many of us who are searching for the meaning of home. It takes a visionary like Gurinder to take a chance on a story like this, and I am humbled to be a part of it.”

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Actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a hot favourite to take on the role of the MI6 spy, James Bond. It has already been over two years since the last ‘James Bond’ film was released. Aaron broke into the mainstream with the rom-com film ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ before going on to play action roles in violent comic book flick ‘Kick Ass’ and later played Quicksilver in the Marvel film ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, reports Mirror.co.uk.

This year he was due to play adventurer Sergei Kravinoff in the Marvel film ‘Kraven the Hunter’, but the film release has been delayed until August 2024.

Reports have suggested Aaron will soon be announced as the next Bond – while ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Batman Begins’ director Christopher Nolan is hotly tipped to direct the next film in the series.

An insider told the MailOnline: “Aaron Taylor-Johnson is currently the hot favourite to step into the iconic role,...

Actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a hot favourite to take on the role of the MI6 spy, James Bond. It has already been over two years since the last ‘James Bond’ film was released. Aaron broke into the mainstream with the rom-com film ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ before going on to play action roles in violent comic book flick ‘Kick Ass’ and later played Quicksilver in the Marvel film ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, reports Mirror.co.uk.

This year he was due to play adventurer Sergei Kravinoff in the Marvel film ‘Kraven the Hunter’, but the film release has been delayed until August 2024.

Reports have suggested Aaron will soon be announced as the next Bond – while ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Batman Begins’ director Christopher Nolan is hotly tipped to direct the next film in the series.

An insider told the MailOnline: “Aaron Taylor-Johnson is currently the hot favourite to step into the iconic role,...

The persuasively engaging cinema of Gurinder Chadha—she was last seen having a blast with the songs of Bruce Sprinsgteen in Blinded By The Light—has for now, moved to the Ott platform.

Gurinder will now collaborate with the very happening Applause Entertainment for a webseries based on the life of a real godman entitled The Seeker. Applause has announced its first international partnership with the highly acclaimed Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Films & TV and Sunder Aaron’s Locomotive Global, to expand its global footprint.

Speaking from London Gurinder Chadha told this writer, “I am just super-excited to work with (CEO) Sameer Nair and his team at Applause Entertainment. Also I feel good to be finally working with Sunder Aaron whom I first met while we were both staying at Jw Marriot 18 years ago at the time of Bend It Like Beckham. We remained friends and this project came...

Just weeks after her latest film, Viceroy's House, had its world premiere in Berlin, Gurinder Chadha has donated her entire working archive to the British Film Institute's National Archive. 

The BFI helped produced the Punjabi-British filmmaker's breakthrough, the 1989 documentary I'm British but.... Since then, Chadha has directed features such as 1993's BAFTA-nominated Bhaji on the Beach and Bend It Like Beckham, which smashed box-office records for a British film in 2002, alongside titles such as Bride and Prejudice (2004), Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) and It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010).

She was awarded an Order of the British Empire award in 2006 for...

Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging is directed and produced by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice), from the screenplay she co-scripted with Paul Mayeda Berges, Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi. This hilarious coming-of-age story is based on the international best-selling series of books by the British author Louise Rennison, and follows the eccentric and irresistible Georgia Nicolson as she overcomes the trauma of being a teenager. Georgia Nicolson is played by Georgia Groome. Alongside her playing fellow Ace Gang members are Eleanor Tomlinson as Jas, Georgia Henshaw as Rosie and Manjeeven Grewal as Ellen. Aaron Johnson, Sean Bourke, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor and T4’s Steve Jones (making his acting debut) also star.

Sam Taylor-Woods' young-John-Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy went down a storm at the London Film Festival, and is rapidly approaching its Christmas Day release here in the UK. So just to keep you going until then, we have a clip from the film to give you a taste of the music you can expect.Aaron Johnson (the upcoming Kick-Ass, but you may remember him from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Or not) plays John Lennon, with Thomas Sangster (Love Actually) as Paul McCartney. This clip sees McCartney giving Lennon a guitar lesson as they begin their long collaboration, and yes, that's Kristin Scott-Thomas as Lennon's disapproving aunt Mimi. Happily, the pair sound more like Lennon and McCartney than they look like them - as you can tell from the soundtrack album, which comes out on Monday 14. And yes, they did their own singing rather than miming to Beatles or Quarrymen (the Beatles' predecessor) tracks.

Imagine going to work and being called a sex god by your co-workers, who also happen to be super-humanly beautiful. Now, while you’re at it, dream about being only 18 years old and having already earned enough money to buy a bachelor pad in the trendy part of East London. Sound like never-never land? Well, British actor Aaron Johnson calls it reality.

Fresh from his successful turn as Robbie (a.k.a. the school sex god) in Gurinder Chadha’s 2008 comedy Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Johnson will next be seen playing the ill-fated boyfriend of hot commodity Carey Mulligan in the upcoming drama The Greatest. The film revolves around a family coping with the loss of a son. “I play the son,” Johnson explains. “He dies, so I’m in it for about 30 seconds.”...

I have a huge passion for acting but I'm interested in variety, both in the characters I play and the kinds of films I'm involved with, says the 18-year-old British actor, Aaaron Johnson. There is always a constant supply of pretty faces aspiring to star in movies. But only a few of these pretty boys and girls can really make it big-time. I've heard a lot of buzz regarding Aaron Johnson for his role in the British teen flick, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963743/). That got me curious, and to my surprise, he's also the same young actor who played Eisenheim in The Illusionist. If a small role in the Edward Norton starrer impressed me, what more if its a prominent role? Here's more: Aaron recently appeared as Robbie 'the hottie' in Gurinder Chadha's movie Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging and at 18 has buckets of potential.

Batman continues to reign over the U.K. box office chart as The Dark Knight holds on to the top spot for a second week, with takings of $13.4 million (GBP6.7 million).

The Batman Begins sequel, starring the late Heath Ledger as The Joker and Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, kept Abba musical movie Mamma Mia! in second place with ticket sales of $6.4 million (GBP3.2 million).

Animated robot Wall-e debuted on the chart at number three with earnings of $4.2 million (GBP2.1 million), while The X Files: I Want To Believe enters at four with $1.77 million (GBP887,209).

British teen film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, which took $1.43 million (GBP716,344), falls one place to fifth position.

New Batman movie The Dark Knight has stormed the U.K. box office in its opening weekend, with takings of $17.2 million (GBP8.6 million).

The Batman Begins sequel, starring the late Heath Ledger and Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, toppled movie musical Mamma Mia!, which came in second place with ticket sales of $5.6 million (GBP2.8 million).

Teen film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging made its debut in fourth position, with Tina Fey's comedy Baby Mama also entering at 10.

The Dark Knight has broken U.S. box office records by becoming the first film to pass the $300 million (GBP150 million) mark in just 10 days.