Showing posts with label madagascar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label madagascar. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Watch Henry Cavill Meet One Of The World’s Rarest Tortoise [Video]

THE INQUISITOR
September 16, 2014

Henry Cavill at Durrell conservation

Henry Cavill plays Superman in the 2016 movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, so you may be interested to see how he reacts when coming face to face with Madagascar’s Ploughshare Tortoise. The video, shared by the charity, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, of which the actor is an ambassador, shows the cute meeting.

When Cavill was on break from filming the Man of Steel sequel, he returned to his home in Jersey, in the U.K. and took the time to embark in a couple of worthy causes. One of them was the Durrell Wildlife Conservation trust, which he visited while he was in England.



On their website, the organization talks about how cool it was to have Henry as a guest in early August and how enthusiastic he was about the work they do on behalf of endangered species.

“Henry might be an actor by trade, but the infectious energy he brought with him – and the sheer happiness we saw when he met our animals – was 100 percent real.”

“That’s the thing; to a person, everyone at Durrell – from Volunteer to Director – is here because they love animals, and care about the fate of those species that need human help, if they aren’t to become extinct. It turns out that we have a soul mate in Hollywood, and his name is Henry!”


Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich lend their voices to DreamWorks Animation's The Penguins of Madagascar


FAN CARPET
August 6, 2013

He can currently be seen as Marvin in Dean Parisot's RED 2 and word is that John Malkovich will lend his voice alongside The Hobbit trilogy antagonist Benedict Cumberbatch in the forthcoming Madagascar spinoff The Penguins of Madagascar.

Cumberbatch will take on the role of the CIA agent hot on the trail of Malkovich's charming villain of the story.


The DreamWorks Animation favourite has spawned several Penguins spinoffs including a straight-to-DVD film and a comic book written by David Server and Jackson Lanzing as well as the Nickelodeon TV show.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.thefancarpet.com/newspage.aspx?n_id=8183


Friday, June 29, 2012

Martin Clunes: A Walk On The Wild Side With Martin Clunes By Marion McMullen on Jun 29, 12 03:54 PM (COVENTRY TELEGRAPH)




MARTIN Clunes recently took a break from Doc Martin to front an ITV documentary about the lemurs of Madagascar.

"I never saw any of this coming," he says. "I used to worry about doing these factual things, I used to think that they'd damage my stock as an actor. But now I've got so far with them, I'd really miss them if I didn't.

" The places I've been, the people I've met and the things I've seen are just incredible. Next I'm flying off to Nairobi.

"It's so exciting. For two years I've been trying to make a film about Tony Fitzjohn who used to live and work with conservationist George Adamson.

" They lived at this place called Kora, where all the famous photos of George with the lions were taken. The Somalis burned the camp to the ground, but the last couple of years, Tony's rebuilt it, stick by stick, faithfully as it was. And we're going to collect the first lion cub and go down there and start the work of rehabilitating the lion. He's tiny, he needs bottle feeding."


READ MORE: http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/2012/06/a-walk-on-the-wild-side-with-m.html

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Martin Clune: JUST WHAT THE DOC ORDERED (EXPRESS CO. UK)



Sunday March 18,2012
By David Stephenson

WANT to cast a comedy drama or a sitcom? Then go no further than Martin Clunes, our foremost character actor. Not that he is particularly looking for other projects, mind. In his year off from Doc Martin he is doing a documentary on Madagascar and a film for the Born Free Foundation.

After his series about dogs and horses, Clunes is never far from the animal kingdom but this week Cornwall is on his mind with the release of the latest DVD of the universally loved Doc Martin. We talk about “the baby”.

Clunes says: “I guess we have to put in new elements to stop it being really repetitive. Just ‘Man sees patient...’ wouldn’t work but we have to have that as well.”

The plot lines, he reveals, he develops with his wife Philippa Braithwaite, who makes the show with him. “She is the main brain,” he says. “We’ve started doing series six story lines now. “I never want to meddle with the premise, warm him up, but we are very self-conscious about repeating ourselves with the relationship with Louisa, so we are always trying to do it slightly different.