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Ryan and his Knights of Badassdom co-stars were on hand at Comic-Con for a convention panel earlier this evening. We are still waiting for panel photos and videos to be released, but in the meantime, the official movie trailer was recently unveiled! Take a look at Ryan, Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau and Steve Zahn in action:
Tim Stack of EW hosted the True Blood panel this year. Alan Ball and the cast of this hit HBO series (Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Anna Paquin, Deborah Ann Woll and Stephen Moyer) chatted with Tim before the panel. Take a look at what they had to say:
Think you know Ryan Kwanten? Do you know what his favourite movie is? The actor makes the ‘big reveal’ to www.nextmovie.com
“This is always a hard one and it changes day to day, but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is always in my top five.
“It makes me feel good and has many different layers to it. I love the way that Paul Newman can just ooze coolness with his laugh. It’s the kind of film I can watch over and over again — it doesn’t take a tremendous amount of motivation to put it on.”
Ryan Kwanten can currently be seen on HBO’s True Blood airing Sunday nights.
A stray dog that unites a mining town and a superhero who works in an office by day will be leading the charge for Australia at the Berlin Film Festival, which kicks off today.
Red Dog is a film adaptation of Louis de Bernieres’s worldwide bestselling novel about a stray red kelpie that changes the lives of a group of locals from an outback mining town. It stars Josh Lucas and Rachael Taylor.
True Blood star Ryan Kwanten takes a turn as an office-working superhero who has his world turned upside down in Griff The Invisible, co-starring Maeve Dermody, which has also been selected to screen at Berlinale.
It is the second year in a row that one of Kwanten’s films has screened at the festival, with his western, Red Hill, receiving much critical acclaim in 2010.
But the two feature films are not the only sign of an Australian invasion at Berlin, with producer Jan Chapman to sit on the seven-person jury, three short films selected for the Generation program, filmmaker Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae) to sit on the Generation jury and several local filmmakers selected to participate in marketplace initiatives and talent projects.
The three short films selected for the Generation program are Minnie Loves Junior, a love story set in a seaside fishing village; Lily, a story of a girl and a father who share their last holiday; and Pig, about a young boy whose life is changed forever.
“It’s great to see Australia recognised once again as a place for discovering great films and talented new filmmakers,” Screen Australia’s Kathleen Drumm said in a statement.
“We expect more than 60 Australians to attend Berlinale.
“The festival, its high-level talent programs and associated film market combined represent one of the international industry’s top-tier events.”
Leon Ford’s Australian superhero comedy “Griff the Invisible,” starring Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood”), and Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky’s “Totally True Love” will open the Berlinale’s Generation children and youth sidebar.
“Griff,” which kicks off the older-skewed Generation 14plus, is about a young office worker who dons a superhero costume by night to fight crime but ends up falling for his equally quirky neighbor.
Ford, Kwanten and co-star Maeve Dermody (“Beautiful Kate”) will attend the Feb. 11 premiere.
Jan Chapman, who exec produced “Griff,” is serving on the Berlinale’s international jury for the main competition section.
Opening Generation Kplus on the same day with its world premiere, “Totally True Love” is a racy drama about first love that focuses on a 10-year-old girl whose major crush not only triggers butterflies in her tummy but also intense jealousy and a thirst for revenge.
In a special screening, Generation is honoring Tim Pritchard’s British-South African documentary “Street Kids United,” featuring aid project Umthombo, which helps street children.
Pic follows a kids’ soccer team to the 2010 Street Child World Cup in Durban. The filmmaker and members of the soccer team will attend the Feb. 17 screening.Meanwhile, Generation is cooperating with other Berlinale sections to make a wide range of films accessible to viewers under age 18 as so many works from around the world are increasingly focusing on coming-of-age stories.
This year’s cross-section screeners include Victoria Mahoney’s U.S. competition film “Yelling to the Sky”; French director Celine Sciamma’s Panorama title “Tomboy”; and, from the Forum section, Richard Ayoade’s U.K. drama “Submarine.”
As part of the fest’s Culinary Cinema, the German documentary “Taste the Waste,” a disturbing look at how food is wasted worldwide, will also screen for the public.
In addition, in collaboration with the Retrospective, Ingmar Bergman’s 1982 classic “Fanny and Alexander” will be screened for school children as part of an educational presentation hosted by a film expert.
This year’s Generation films will screen at a new venue, the 1,000-seat cinema at the House of World Cultures, which offers one of the city’s biggest auditoriums.
The Berlinale runs Feb. 10-20.
The stunt performers and coordinators from “Inception” and “True Blood” are recipients of this year’s Screen Actors Guild honors for Outstanding Performance by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles, it was announced today from the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® red carpet by Screen Actors Guild Awards Committee Chair JoBeth Williams and Screen Actors Guild President Ken Howard. The announcement was made on the live SAG Awards® red carpet pre-show webcast on tnt.tv and tbs.com which streams until 8:00 p.m. (ET) / 5:00 p.m. (PT).
Screen Actors Guild Stunt Ensemble Honors commend work within the stunt community during 2010 and recognize stunt performers and coordinators. Nominees that were chosen by their respective SAG Awards® film and television nominating committees — each consisting of 2,100 SAG members from around the country, randomly selected anew each year — were announced on Dec. 16, 2010. Balloting procedures to choose the final recipients were sent to the nearly 100,000 eligible voting members of Screen Actors Guild on Dec. 30. Voting closed on Friday, Jan. 28 at noon PT. Results were sealed by the Guild’s official election teller until Williams and Howard announced them on the SAG Awards red carpet.
Kwanten spotted in 80’s flashback with Bill Compton in this new True Blood season 4 spoiler. As previously reported, there’s going to be a 1980’s flashback scene in 1982 London for one of the True blood season 4 shows. Actor Darren Darnborough was cast to play character Callum who is a bartender in a punk underground nightclub.
Now, according to trueblood-news,their source has gotten some more info on this flashback scene. They say that Ryan Kwanten who plays Jason Stackhouse was seen filming it with Stephen Moyer who plays Bill Compton on the show. So, it looks like Ryan Kwanten is going to be seen in the flashback scene with Bill.
The speculation on their site,is that Bill and Dermot could have an encounter in the 80’s,which could mean that Bill has been stalking Sookie’s family since before she was born. Dermot is an older relative of Sookie’s family,and is supposed to look exactly like Jason Stackhouse so it should be pretty interesting to see what that’s all about. Everything is pretty much just speculation right now, though.
February is “American Heart Month,” and our e-mail inboxes are filling up with information about all sorts of cardiovascular-related events, including a celebrity-studded game of Capture the Flag at UCLA.
Apparently, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, singer Natasha Bedingfield, actor Ryan Kwanten and others will serve as captains of CTF teams that will compete for money to fund heart research at UCLA and UC Davis. CTF games will also be played in Washington, D.C., Chicago and Boston, according to a news release.
Australia’s young Hollywood A-list stars are joining forces at a Los Angeles hotspot to help raise funds for the Queensland flood relief appeal.
Ryan Kwanten, Teresa Palmer and Joel Edgerton are among the celebrities expected to attend an event on Sunday at the Eveleigh, the Sunset Blvd restaurant run by Australian restaurateurs Nick Mathers, Lincoln Pilcher and Nick Hatsatouris.
Tickets, $US20 for women and $US40 for men, can be bought at the door between 3pm to 6pm.
All proceeds will be donated to The Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal.
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