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Ben Kingsley has joined the cast of Wake opposite Bruce Willis. John Pogue directs the action thriller about a sociopath with no fear (Willis), who returns to his childhood home on a remote island for his brother’s wake. When the island comes under siege, he must save the very family that banished him from his ancestral home years ago. Michael Benaroya, Tobin Armbrust, David Alpert and Chris Cowles are producing. International Film Trust is handling international sales in Berlin at the European Film Market. CAA is representing domestic rights. …

Arclight Films has acquired worldwide rights to Frank & Lola, starring Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots. Writer-director Matthew Ross’s romantic thriller also stars Michael Nyqvist, Justin Long, Rosanna Arquette and Emmanuelle Devos. The film was produced by Parts & Labor, The Supply Company and Lola Pictures. Preferred Content and Killer Films are executive producers. The film was fully financed and...

This morning at BAFTA HQ in London, BAFTA announced the nominations for the 2011 Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award.

Those gunning for this year’s award include:

* Gemma Arterton

* Andrew Garfield

* Tom Hardy

* Aaron Johnson

* Emma Stone

Previous winners of the award include James McAvoy in 2006, Eva Green in 2007, Shia Labeouf in 2008, Noel Clarke in 2009 and Kristen Stewart in 2010. Tradition suggests the previous winner will be at the award ceremony to pass on their award so could that mean the Twilight star will be at the ceremony? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

You can vote for your favourite & find out more information on the Orange website here. So, who do you think is going to win?

Nominee Biographies

Gemma Arterton

After graduating from Rada in the summer of 2007, Gemma has quickly become one of Britain’s brightest young actresses, most notably for her iconic Bond girl role in Quantum of Solace,...

2009 was an awesome year for movies. It was a year when "cinema magic" was brought back, via James Cameron's Avatar, the fastest movie ever to reach $1 billion in total box office take. It was also the year when animation rule - Up, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline, three amazing animation that made waves in both the domestic and international scene. It was also the year of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Carey Mulligan and Sam Worthington. Twilight's New Moon continues to make waves with an ever-growing fans worldwide and its lead cast Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart continue to hug the limelight.

While there are a lot to be celebrated for 2009, there are also a good number of disappointments- Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones failed to impress. While it has an amazing cast, the film as a whole failed to deliver. Michael Bay's Tranformers: Revenge of the...

2009 was an awesome year for movies. It was a year when "cinema magic" was brought back, via James Cameron's Avatar, the fastest movie ever to reach $1 billion in total box office take. It was also the year when animation rule - Up, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline, three amazing animation that made waves in both the domestic and international scene. It was also the year of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Carey Mulligan and Sam Worthington. Twilight's New Moon continues to make waves with an ever-growing fans worldwide and its lead cast Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart continue to hug the limelight.

While there are a lot to be celebrated for 2009, there are also a good number of disappointments- Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones failed to impress. While it has an amazing cast, the film as a whole failed to deliver. Michael Bay's Tranformers: Revenge of the...

2009 was an awesome year for movies. It was a year when "cinema magic" was brought back, via James Cameron's Avatar, the fastest movie ever to reach $1 billion in total box office take. It was also the year when animation rule - Up, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline, three amazing animation that made waves in both the domestic and international scene. It was also the year of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Carey Mulligan and Sam Worthington. Twilight's New Moon continues to make waves with an ever-growing fans worldwide and its lead cast Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart continue to hug the limelight.

While there are a lot to be celebrated for 2009, there are also a good number of disappointments- Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones failed to impress. While it has an amazing cast, the film as a whole failed to deliver. Michael Bay's Tranformers: Revenge of the...

2009 was an awesome year for movies. It was a year when "cinema magic" was brought back, via James Cameron's Avatar, the fastest movie ever to reach $1 billion in total box office take. It was also the year when animation rule - Up, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline, three amazing animation that made waves in both the domestic and international scene. It was also the year of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Carey Mulligan and Sam Worthington. Twilight's New Moon continues to make waves with an ever-growing fans worldwide and its lead cast Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart continue to hug the limelight.

While there are a lot to be celebrated for 2009, there are also a good number of disappointments- Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones failed to impress. While it has an amazing cast, the film as a whole failed to deliver. Michael Bay's Tranformers: Revenge of the...

2009 was an awesome year for movies. It was a year when "cinema magic" was brought back, via James Cameron's Avatar, the fastest movie ever to reach $1 billion in total box office take. It was also the year when animation rule - Up, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline, three amazing animation that made waves in both the domestic and international scene. It was also the year of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Carey Mulligan and Sam Worthington. Twilight's New Moon continues to make waves with an ever-growing fans worldwide and its lead cast Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart continue to hug the limelight.

While there are a lot to be celebrated for 2009, there are also a good number of disappointments- Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones failed to impress. While it has an amazing cast, the film as a whole failed to deliver. Michael Bay's Tranformers: Revenge of the...

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.

In a quick follow-up to our feature on Aaron Johnson, I've just discovered this gem of a movie by Matthew Thompson (http://formatfilms.com/article.aspx?ID=47) entitled Dummy. Dummy is a coming of age drama about two young brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves. - - - - - - While Danny loses himself in music, sex and drugs, his younger brother Jack takes action – transforming, with the help of some make up and his mother’s old clothes, a life size mannequin into a brand new ‘mummy’ for him to talk to. Jack’s obsession with this new member of the family leads to both comic misunderstandings and bitter antagonism as the pair battle through grief, anger and denial. Finally, the boys intense struggle to survive in an upside-down world leads to a new understanding that...