Today, I recieved this gorgeous theme from Nicole@Nowhereland9 Design, featuring those Jameson Film shoot images. I still have to change the current projects and maybe make a few more updates, but let me know what you think.
Also, I will start working on the career section very soon
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I recently added images of Matthew in a shoot for the Jamesons Cult Film Club. You can find them in the gallery:
Shoots from 2012 > Gareth Cattermole
**Plus a new layout is coming very soon
Good news on a project we’ve been following since last fall… glad to know that it’s moving full-speed ahead, as I’ve learned this afternoon that it’s locked up its starring cast which includes: Gugu Mbatha-Raw (in photo above-right), Miranda Richardson, Tom Wilkinson, Sarah Gadon, Sam Claflin, and Matthew Goode; all have signed up to star in British actor/writer/director/producer Amma Asante’s (in photo above-left) period drama about the trials and tribulations of a mixed-race girl titled Belle, from a script which she co-wrote.
Mbatha-Raw will of course play the lead role, Belle.
The project, which was developed and supported by the British Film Institute, is one of many being shopped to buyers at Cannes.
A quick recap… the story takes place in the 1780s, and follows a mixed-race girl, adopted into an aristocratic family, who faces class and color prejudices. As she blossoms into a young woman, she develops a relationship with a vicar’s son who is an advocate for slave emancipation.
The project, budgeted at £6.5 million ($10.1 million), is scheduled to begin production this summer.
The film is actually based on a true story – specifically, the true story of Dido Belle, a mixed-race woman raised as an aristocrat in 18th-century England.
The actor Matthew Goode, 34, who played Colin Firth’s lover in A Single Man and Charles Ryder in the movie remake of Brideshead Revisted, often gets lost in the shuffle.
“I’m not so well known in the UK, as I started out my career in America,” he says. But this is all about to change as he replaces his former co-star Firth to star alongside Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska in the upcoming psychological horror film Stoker. He has also just finished filming Stephen Poliakoff’s first ever TV series, Dancing on the Edge, due out later this year.
Goode is remarkably low key about his career. He was apparently up against all sorts of actors, including Michael Fassbender, for the role of the creepy uncle in Stoker, who gets caught in a bizarre love triangle with an unstable mother (Kidman) and her teenage daughter (Wasikowska).
“Colin’s work schedule was too busy. He was very sweet about it and said, ‘I wish I could be doing it myself, but I’m glad you are taking it on’,” says Goode. “I was slightly terrified, as Nicole is a huge star. Not that I’d heard any horror stories. But she was absolutely lovely and hardworking.”
In Poliakoff’s five-part BBC2 series, about a 1930s black jazz band, Goode plays a working-class music journalist, Stanley Mitchell, who has been hired by a hotel to find a new music act. “It has been a non-stop siege of having to learn lines – a barrage against the senses. Stephen Poliakoff is a task master. The way the sentences are constructed is very period and you can’t drop a word. It has taken four months to film five episodes.”
Goode grew up in the village of Clyst St Mary, near Exeter. His childhood involved performing as a singing rodent in The Wind in the Willows at the private Exeter School. “I haven’t been back home for about six years – isn’t that awful? Apparently, my bedroom is like a shrine because my mother hasn’t moved a thing. But I’m going back to pick up some toys for my daughter, Matilda, who is three years old.”
Stoker is the English-language debut of South Korean director Chan-wook Park (the Vengeance trilogy) and was written by Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller, initially under the pseudonym Ted Foulke. Director Park, whose biggest fan is Quentin Tarantino and is known for his brutal subject matter, completed filming Stoker in Nashville, Tennessee, seven months ago. “Partly it was filmed there because that’s where Nicole lives,” says Goode. “I would jump at the chance of working with Chan-wook again. The directing was done through translators. At the beginning you think, ‘Who should I be looking at? The director or the translator?’ The level to attention to detail was incredible.”
Goode played Scarlett Johansson’s posh boyfriend in Woody Allen’s Matchpoint in 2005, as well as an Irish hunk opposite Amy Adams in the romcom Leap Year in 2010. In 2009, he played the part of Adrain Veidt/ Ozymandias in the superhero film Watchmen and starred in Australian drama Burning Man last year, as an emotionally haunted English chef living in Bondi Beach.
He also had a supporting role in Birdsong, the two-part BBC adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel, playing Captain Gray.
These days, Goode is more philosophical about movies. “You never really know if a film is going to be a flop or not.”
Matthew Goode is the Jameson Cult Film Club Ambassador. www.jamesoncultfilmclub.com
‘Dancing on the Edge’ and ‘Stoker’ are both out later this year
Jaws
This is an absolute classic which struck the fear of God into me as a child, and I still get the shivers when I watch Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss head out together. It’s a great film, with a great finale.
The Big Lebowski
The Coen brothers’ classic offbeat comedy is a film I will never tire of watching. I’ve just worked with John Goodman and I’m happy to report that he’s a fabulous man. I just love his character, Walter, so much.
A Matter Of Life And Death
This Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger classic features my favourite David Niven performance. It’s visually stunning and so far ahead of its time for sheer cinematic invention. It’s beautifully touching and witty, and if you haven’t seen it, you’re in for a treat.
Matthew Goode has said that he is expecting big things from Chan-wook Park‘s upcoming movie Stoker.
“[Miller] wrote the film under a pseudonym and it was on the Black List, which is the top scripts that haven’t been made yet – that was in 2010,” he said.
“It got picked up by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and Fox Searchlight, and the fact they got Chan-wook Park to make it is creating quite a lot of buzz. He’s just the most stupendously gifted director. He speaks more English than he lets on, but everything is done via a translator. In the end it was just incredible, a really great experience.”
Discussing his mysterious character Uncle Charlie, Goode added: “He turns up at this funeral – the opening shot is of Nicole and Mia, they’re a mother and daughter, he’s the uncle and it’s his brother who’s died.
“[Charlie] hasn’t been around for 25 years he’s been off travelling, or so we think, and various people start to disappear. Then you realise there’s possibly a pre-disposition in the bloodline of the family to do dark things. It should be great.”
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A Single Man and Watchmen star Matthew Goode has announced the initial line-up for 2012′s Jameson Cult Film Club.
The free cult film event will kick off with an advanced screening of Jo Nesbo’s Scandinavian thriller Headhunters at London’s Saatchi Gallery on March 21.
Headhunters, which opens in UK cinemas on April 6, will be the first in Jameson’s ‘Future Cult’ strand and feature a post-screen Q&A with the cast and filmmakers.
The movie, based on the novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo, centres on an accomplished headhunter who risks everything to steal a valuable painting
Goode told Digital Spy of his new role as Jameson’s cult film ambassador: “It’s in its fourth year and they came and asked, and I actually hadn’t been to any of the events before but I just loved the sound of it and obviously I’ll be going to them this year.
“It’s just a little bit different and exciting and obviously Jameson has been a champion of cinema… it’s difficult to say ‘this is going to be a cult film’ immediately but it’s really championed independent film, which is obviously quite close to my heart.”
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