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Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz to Reunite in “The White Circus”

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via Variety

via Variety

Variety reports that both stars from Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” will reunite in a new dark fairytale by executive  producer Terry Gilliam.

“Circus” is an adventure-romance that takes place on a snowy New Year’s Eve, when a young pilot crashes his plane into a war-torn town on his first mission. There, he falls in love with a beautiful cabaret singer, befriends a talking circus bear and incites the townsfolk to liberate themselves from a despot.

“The White Circus” will start production in Germany and Serbia February 2014.

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Interviews of Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Harrison Ford From CinemaCon

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This past week Las Vegas hosted the annual CinemaCon event and three members of the Ender’s Game cast were honorees. Asa Butterfield (Rising Star award), Hailee Steinfeld (Female of Tomorrow award), and Harrison Ford (Lifetime Achievement award) presented an unfinished sneak peek at the Ender’s Game trailer.

Showbiz Junkies posted some videos of interviews from Asa, Hailee, and Harrison Ford. Watch them here.

It’s still refreshing to see the passion and enthusiasm the actors have for the Ender’s Game book and movie.

Ender’s Game premieres Nov. 1st.

Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, and Hailee Steinfeld at CinemaCon

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With CinemaCon taking place in Vegas right now Variety had the chance to interview the 3 cast members of Ender’s Game being honored at the event.

Harrison Ford, who is being presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award, says that Ender’s Game is “ just a whole different canvas — no replicants — and character and world view.”

Also, Asa Butterfield, who is receiving the Rising Star Award, reveals that what he was excited for turned out to be the most difficult to shoot.

“It was the best script I’d read, and I thought how much fun it would be to be in zero gravity with laser guns.” Actually, that turned out to be the hard part. “All the wire stuff is difficult. Floating up there, you need a strong core so you don’t look lie you’re in a harness. I’d go home completely sore after a day in harnesses.”

Last, Hailee Steinfeld, who is going to be presented the Female Star of Tomorrow Award, talks about her experience with working with co-stars her age.

“At that point I’d wanted to work with kids my age, and was looking forward to it,” she recalls. “The catch is that they were all boys, so it was 3½ months with a bunch of guys, which is not a bad thing.”

The cast, again, reinforce the idea that the movie is going to be amazing. Being or saying that Ender’s Game is a new slate of a sci-fi movie or putting in the effort to make scenes look real, or just showing again the companionship the cast had during filming.

Lionsgate will present on April 18th, along with the presentations of the awards.

What do you feel about the recent interviews? Let us know in the comments.

Source: Variety via EnderWiggin

Harrison Ford Throws First Pitch at Dodger Stadium

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Last night at the Dodger Stadium was a night of celebration where the team commemorated the baseball legend Jackie Robinson. With the team players wearing the famous number 42 and the recent premiere of the movie “42″, which chronicles the struggle of baseball player Jackie Robinson, they also began the night with Harrison Ford, “Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey in the biopic” and Colonel Hyrum Graff in Ender’s Game, throwing the ceremonial first pitch.

You can see Ford shaking hands with the Los Angeles Dodger’s Star player Matt Kemp and alongside Basketball legend Magic Johnson and Robinson’s wife Rachel Robinson.

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Pictures courtesy of Dailymail.

Hailee Steinfeld in Romeo and Juliet

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I wasn’t very happy in high school when I had to read Shakespeare’s play. (I think a lot of people can relate to that) However, now a creative writing major I’ve learned to appreciate the value of such a great work of art and its capability of multiple media adaptions.

Plus, who doesn’t prefer watching the movie over reading the book in class? Well here’s an alternative to add to the high school classes next year.

The official trailer for the newest adaption of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet features Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet and Douglas Booth as Romeo.

Asa Butterfield Attached to “X+Y” Drama

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asa-butterfield-1344675126Screendaily reported last week that Asa Butterfield, Ender Wiggin, is going to appear in the new drama X + Y which is set to shoot this summer mostly in the UK but Taiwan and China as well.

Morgan Matthews will direct X + Y - inspired by his BAFTA-nominated BBC documentary Beautiful Young Minds - a rites of passage drama about a teenage prodigy’s journey to the Mathematics Olympiad, and his quest to find a formula for love.

Asa is set to play the part of Nathan, while his love interest is still set to be cast. Sounds like a very interesting project. Have you heard of X + Y? What do you think of Asa as Nathan? Let us know in the comments below.

Ender’s Game Cast Attend 2013 Oscars After Party

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Kyhlin Rhambo updated his Facebook Page with some great photos of himself at the Oscars After Party. As well as added some to his Instagram.

 

In attendance with Khylin, Aramis Knight posted these pictures of himself and Khylin on his Instagram:

The guys look handsome in suits. They are definitely getting ready for their debut for the Ender’s Game premiere. The only difference will be us fans screaming and calling to them on the sidelines. Does Ender’s Game have a shot for being nominated for an Oscar? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Ender’s Game At Breaking Dawn Part II Premiere

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Did you ever think the Twilight saga was in any way related to Ender’s Game?

Well in a small way it is. In the premiere for the last installment of the saga Andrea Powell, who plays Mrs. Wiggin in Ender’s Game, plays Sasha from the Denali Clan, the founder of the Denali vampires. She is walking the black carpet of the Breaking Dawn Part II premiere along with Aramis Knight, who plays Bean.

Aramis is attending to promote Ender’s Game and has promised some pictures of his experience and hopefully as they both went back and forth on twitter we can get a picture of their reunion.

UPDATE: We got some pictures of Aramis at the premiere (Thank you Ro for the tip). Also, we got this from Asa Butterfield via Twitter:

via @asabfb

Kyle Clements Cast as Young Mazer Rackham

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Ender’s Ansible has confirmed that Kyle Clements has been cast as the young Mazer Rackham for the Ender’s Game film.

Kyle has many credible works including Battleship, Breakout Kings and  House of Bones. Check out his page at IMDb. He has been at work on set, but today was a wrap for his character.

I can see a resemblance between Kyle and Ben Kingsley. Do you? Well he is playing young Ben so there must be. Also, with a young Mazer cast we will get a glimpse of the second invasion videos or maybe flashbacks. Maybe learn what went on during the glorious win over the buggers.

More Ender’s Game Questions Answered!

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Today on the Ender’s Game production blog, more questions were answered regarding the film. And a new image was released, as well!

Ccspatriot35 asks:

How militaristic will the environment be?  Will we be seeing the children treated like the soldiers they are meant to portray?  For all intents and purposes they are in boot camp for most of their adolescence.  Will we see the characters being broken down?

Funny you should ask.  We had a great visit with some online press who visited the set, and they got to talk to our actors.  Without giving too much away, they told great stories of not only going to Space Camp, but also having to undergo a form of boot camp with a no nonsense instructor who taught them how to march properly in unison and much more.  And when they screwed up they were ordered to do push ups!  They got in shape trust me.  It’s painful for my self image to see so many young kids with six pack abs.  Maybe I should go to boot camp next.

DavidB asks:

How is the film team approaching the great deal of wonderful internal monologue?  Voice-overs rarely translate well to the visual medium of film, so just wondering what types of mechanisms will be considered to convey the “important stuff” inside Ender’s head?

We have a muppet of the Colonel who narrates the whole thing from the future.  Oh, no wait, different movie.  I joke because that is a great question and I think Gavin would tell you that it was the biggest challenge he faced in composing his script.  It was also the most challenging aspect of the casting process.  So here we have two things that really make it happen.  First, we got such an unbelievable group of actors who can convey so much with their faces and body language… frankly, with their performances, which is something a book is denied using to convey inner emotion or thought.

And secondly, of course, Gavin elegantly translated some of the inner thought into action or character decisions in his script — drama — and that allowed him to find natural places for the characters to speak about what they are going through.

Joey Oliver asks:

How much of Bean’s story will we be hearing about?

Bean who?  Oh, Bean!  You should know how much Orson Scott Card advocated for as much Bean as we could muster, and really encouraged ways to make him pivotal.  You’ll decide if we succeeded!  I think we did. And we’re even more excited for you all to experience Aramis Knight’s fantastic portrayal of Bean.

Katrina asks:

How has the book been adapted to script to work with the ages of the actors?

Time has been compressed impressionistically.  Though we don’t specify how much time has passed, leaving it somewhat up to your imagination, it is clear that the time span is not as long as the book’s.

Sarah Pezzat asks:

Is it still about using empathy as a weapon?

One of the great themes that is explored, in more ways than one, is how empathy can be seen as a weakness or a strength. How understanding an enemy makes you also understand their weaknesses.  And even how withholding empathy can also be a weapon.  The fact that the audience is going to want nothing more than for commanders to show these young people warmth and understanding, but that it has to be weighed against the fear of it being not in the young soldiers best interests in order for them to do what they have to do, makes for fascinating stuff.

What are your thoughts? Are you excited? The fact that the production team is keeping the fans in the loop is such a wonderful thing. We’re so grateful.