Full Trailer for FILTH Starring James McAvoy movie news | 10 Jul 2013 |

New trailer for the adaptation of Irvine Welsh's controversial dark novel about a crooked Edinburgh copper, hitting Irish cinemas Oct 4th.

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GERARD BUTLER: Hollywood A-Lister sets hearts racing in Edinburgh (DEADLINE)

Drinkers in the bar told how Butler was sitting by himself having a quiet drink while checking messages on his phone.

Scott Wright, a politics student at Edinburgh University, said he and friends debated whether it even was Butler sitting side on a few feet away.

Scott, 21, said: “We called the barman over and asked him and he was like ‘yeah it’s him’. So I went over and asked if it would be okay for a picture.

“He said aye it would be okay but a little later like ten minutes or so. He wasn’t dismissive or anything he was just busy doing something on his phone.

“There was like loads of writing on the screen, like an email or something. He kept reading it and was shaking his head, I don’t know what that was about.”

He added: “He had quite a heavy beard growth and was wearing a leather jacket, jeans and some Adidas trainers. He was probably trying to blend in, he’s pretty A-list.”

About ten minutes later Scott approached the bar to get a drink and made eye contact with Butler. 

He offered the star one, but he politely declined.

The star then happily posed for pictures with Scott and his pals.

And when a friend’s girlfriend asked for a picture, Butler joked that he only posed for pictures with men.

READ MORE: http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2013/07/03/hollywood-a-lister-sets-hearts-racing-in-edinburgh/

Gerard Butler: Having a ball (SCOTSMAN.COM)

 By Alice Wyllie
Published on Sunday 30 December 2012 11:00

GERARD Butler has had a busy month. Dubai, Toronto, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Oslo. And Scotland.

He celebrated his 43rd birthday last month and knew he had to do it in the motherland, so he made a stopover on his way back to the US, where he lives between New York and LA.

Born and raised in Paisley, for Butler, Scotland is “a break” from a life lived 24/7, a place where he can “get out and breathe and be a part of the mountains, glens and lochs”. As such, he visits as often as he can, and 
today – a grey December morning in a bare hotel room in London – he can’t stop raving about a “magical” Highland trip he took in the summer.

“I just made it up as I went along,” he says excitedly. The adventure took him from a “haunted room” in Loch 
Lomond to Inverlochy Castle via various pitstops: “I was begging for a B&B at 1am in Plockton because everywhere was full and the barmaid ended up saying, ‘well, I have a B&B in another town if you want to come and stay there?’ It was nuts. A lot of my best trips have been those ones in Scotland where you never quite know they’re going to happen.”


He recalls another: “I was on my way to the airport and it just felt too soon. It was really breaking my heart. You know that feeling that only thinking about your country can ever give you, those butterflies?” He puts his hand on his heart.

“I was on the phone with my agent saying, ‘why am I leaving?’ And they said, ‘well don’t leave. Stay’. So I got to Edinburgh Airport and I carried on driving. I drove right through to Perth, went into an outdoors store and bought a tent and walking boots and spent the next few days camping and walking.”

Start him on the green green grass of home and he’s got plenty to say.


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Hugh Grant and friends refused entry at Fringe by Judith Duffy (HERALD SCOTLAND)

When Hugh Grant ventured out to see a show this weekend at Edinburgh's world-famous Festival Fringe, he faced the indignity of being turned away at the door by bouncers.

The star of Four Weddings And A Funeral went out in the capital with 10 friends to see US comedian Eddie Pepitone perform at the Just The Tonic venue at The Tron pub, just off the Royal Mile, on Friday night.

But the evening suffered a hitch after some of the group could not produce proof of their age when requested by bouncers and were denied entry.

Turning away high-profile festival-goers is not a tactic many venues will be copying this year with poor ticket sales worrying promoters.

A source at the venue, who did not wish to be identified, said: "Hugh Grant had reserved tickets and the group were about to go through the door when the bouncers asked some of his friends for ID.

"Because a few of them didn't have ID, they refused to let anyone in. I can see two sides to the story, as it is a pub and the bouncers obviously don't like people entering without ID. And if people are under-age fair enough – but his friends did not look under-age.

READ MORE: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/hugh-grant-and-friends-refused-entry-at-fringe.18625709

Sean Connery, Alan Cumming: Independence for Scotland?

EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 25 (UPI) -- Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has launched a drive to encourage his compatriots to vote for independence.

Salmond, who wants a referendum on independence in 2014, was joined at Thursday's event in Edinburgh by actors Alan Cumming and Brian Cox, The Scotsman reported. He also read a message from Sean Connery, possibly the best-known supporter of Scottish independence, who said the launch of the campaign was a "historic day."

About 550 people attended the event, 100 of them reporters. Others were asked to sign a declaration: "I want a Scotland that speaks with her own voice and makes her own unique contribution to the world: a Scotland that stands alongside other nations on these isles, as an independent nation."

Cumming, best-known in the United States as a presenter on the PBS "Masterpiece" series and as political fixer Eli Gold in "The Good Wife," said Scotland has made progress under devolution.

"I believe that independence can only add to that potential and bring a whole new wave of confidence and pride," he added.



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Colin Firth: Lomax tale staggering, admits Firth (THE BERWICK ADVISER)

Published on Wednesday 2 May 2012 14:59

actor Colin Firth has revealed how he was “overwhelmed” after meeting Eric Lomax, the Berwick man who has inspired Firth’s latest film ‘The Railway Man’.

Firth and Nicole Kidman, who is playing Lomax’s wife Patti, gave a press conference in Edinburgh to herald the start of a month-long shoot in locations including Berwick, Edinburgh, North Berwick and Holy Island on ‘The Railway Man’, which explores the impact of years of brutality and torture as Lomax worked on the ‘Death Railway’ in the Far East.

Firth has twice travelled to Lomax’s home in Berwick to meet the couple as part of his research on the film, which will chart more than 70 years of his life.

Jeremy Irvine, who shot to fame in the Oscar-winning ‘War Horse’, will play the young Lomax, who was brutally treated after being found with a clandestine radio.

Lomax, who was originally from Edinburgh, was an army signals officer captured in the 1941 fall of Singapore and later sent to the Burmese border jungle prison.


He famously won the UK’s premier award for non-fiction in 1996 – three years after his wife helped organise a meeting at the River Kwai with Nagase Takashi, the Japanese soldier who became his main tormentor, dramatic scenes which will be re-enacted in the film.

It was several decades after the war that Lomax met his wife-to-be on a train journey. Firth said: “They [Eric and Patti] are both incredibly engaging and made me feel very welcome. I found them both a delight, although I did feel at times a little overwhelmed by the enormity of the story.

“He is 92 and not really demonstrating that at all. He is mentally far more agile than I am. I have to keep up with him really. He has a tremendous sense of humour that can be a little dark at times.


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Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman & Jeremy Irvine to film WW2 film The Railway Man in Edinburgh (DAILY RECORD)

Mar 22 2012

OSCAR winners Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth are heading to Edinburgh to film a World War II movie.

They will shoot scenes for The Railway Man in the city’s suburbs, alongside War Horse star Jeremy Irvine. The movie is based on the true story of Scot Eric Lomax, who lives in Berwick. He was captured by the Japanese and forced to work on Burma’s Death Railway.

The film follows him as he tries to find those responsible for his torture.


READ MORE:  http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/television-news/2012/03/22/colin-firth-nicole-kidman-jeremy-irvine-to-film-ww2-film-the-railway-man-in-edinburgh-86908-23797218/