I will be uploading this to my Chris website very soon. It’s the entire production so is just under 2 hours long.
Monday, 18 February 2013
Monday, 11 February 2013
Interview: Christopher Eccleston
Best known for playing the Doctor in Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston stars in the upcoming comedy drama Song for Marion.
Eccleston, who plays James in the film, described the subject of Song for Marion as a “spiritual awakening done in a very light comedic style.” He explained: “It’s a little bit like A Christmas Carol in a way. It’s about the awakening of a miserable old man to the possibilities of life.
“Arthur (Terence Stamp), my father in the film is married to Marion (Vanessa Redgrave). His wife is in a local community choir that get together and sing popular songs poorly. He’s very disapproving of this and distant from it as he’s been with his son all his life. I play the son.”
He continued: “During the course of Marion being involved in the choir, she realises that she’s got cancer and that she’s dying. This has a massive emotional impact on Arthur and his son, and increases the tension in their relationship, but Marion is increasingly involved in the choir.
“When she’s gone, there’s a gap and the young woman who runs the choir, played by Gemma Arterton, pursues Arthur to become involved, in order to help him deal with his grief and in order for him to shed some of his misery really.”
Eccleston, who has also appeared in Elizabeth, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and The Others, said that working with Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave and Gemma Arterton was a beneficial experience: “I looked at Terence’s character and I looked at Vanessa’s character and I had to decide how much each of them had influenced the psychology of my character James.
“I think it’s probably very difficult if your father’s distant, cold and unemotional. However, it seems that his mother was the complete opposite of that, which is often the case in couples, and she was very warm, very expansive, inclusive and optimistic. Based on this, I think I decided that my character was far more like his mother than his father.”
He added: “I only had one scene with Gemma but it was great to be around her obviously.”
Despite being set in London, Song for Marion was filmed in Newcastle and Durham, where the local community were “hugely supportive” of the film. Eccleston, who was born in Salford, explained: “You know you get a very specific generosity and warmth in the North of this country.
“It’s fact that people voted the Geordie voice as the friendliest on the telephone. We’ve got great locations. We were made to feel very welcome. It was a very positive experience up there.”
Song for Marion, also known as Unfinished Song, closed the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, and has already received a “very positive” response. Eccleston explained: “You never get universal approval but generally people have responded really well to Gemma, Vanessa and particularly Terence’s performance, because he anchors the film.”
Song for Marion is released in cinemas on February 22nd, 2013.
http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Film/2013-02-11/Interview_Christopher_Eccleston.html
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Christopher Eccleston receives 'substantial' hacking damages.
Actor Christopher Eccleston received a public apology, "substantial" damages and his legal costs.
David Sherborne, representing the star, told the judge that the star was "repeatedly targeted" by News Group Newspapers (NGN) in 2005 and 2006 "not only because of his successful acting career, but also because his private life was apparently of significant interest to the News of the World".
He said Mr Eccleston was a "private individual who has always taken care to keep his personal life out of the press".
Christopher Eccleston has received a public apology, "substantial" damages and his legal costs Credit: Yui Mok/PA
The News of the World "targeted" him as "part of their unlawful activities, to obtain private information belonging to him, and then sought to publish articles about his personal relationships and private life".
Counsel told the court: "The claimant was deeply angry and upset to discover that, owing to the deliberate destruction of documents by the News of the World, he will never find out the true extent to which his privacy, and that of those close to him, was invaded."
He said NGN now accepted responsibility for its unlawful actions and agreed to apologise to the actor.
Friday, 1 February 2013
9th Doctor eBook.
9th Doctor eBook is in the works. Puffin is releasing the eBooks - one for each Doctor - for the 50th anniversary.
Virginia is mobile.
Virginia is mobile.
Saturday, 19 January 2013
Christopher Eccleston on the central human message of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Duration: 01:28
Christopher Eccleston says the central message of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is "the strength of humanity".
Christopher plays Winston Smith in Radio 4's dramatisation of Orwell's dystopian novel which was originally published in 1949.
Saturday, 12 January 2013
My apologies.
Unfortunately my site went down recently due to the domain name being renewed, I apologise to those visitors who received error message upon visiting the site, hopefully there’ll be no crossover next renewal. 
Thursday, 3 January 2013
The Trailer for Unfinished Song/Song for Marion.
The Weinstein Company has brought online the trailer for Unfinished Song, which was previously titled "Song for Marion." Starring Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton, Vanessa Redgrave and Christopher Eccleston, the Paul Andrew Williams film opens on February 8.
Unfinished Song is a London-set comedic drama about grumpy pensioner Arthur (Stamp) who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion (Redgrave) to join a highly unconventional local choir. At odds with his son James (Eccleston) it is left to choir director Elizabeth (Arterton) to try and persuade Arthur that he can learn to embrace life. Arthur must confront the undercurrents of his own grumbling persona as he embarks on a hilarious, life-affirming journey of musical self discovery.
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Sad News: Chris' father passed away
Posted from bad Wolf:
Just passed along to me on Tumblr. Chris' dad passed on December 19th. Services were held after the holidays. Here's the obituary:
http://notices.menmedia.co.uk/22474737
Condolences to Chris & his family.
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Royal Mail reveals Doctor Who stamps.
Tom Baker, David Tennant and Patrick Troughton are to feature on a special set of Royal Mail stamps in 2013.
The collection marks the 50th anniversary of sci-fi show Doctor Who, with all 11 Doctors getting their own first class stamp.
Four of the show's most notorious villains, including the Daleks and the Cybermen, star on the second class set.
The show first ran from 1963 to 1989. A successful revival returned it to Saturday night schedules in 2005.
Andrew Hammond of the Royal Mail said the commemorative selection "pay tribute to the brilliant actors that have played the Doctor over the years, as well as the adversaries that helped make the show so popular".
The time travelling adventurer is currently played by Matt Smith.
Joining him for the 50th anniversary year is new co-star Jenna-Louise Coleman, who played Clara in the Christmas Day episode, and will be the Doctor's new companion in the 2013 series.
The show's head writer, Steven Moffat, has promised "tremendous surprises" for the golden anniversary, but says he will be keeping them under wraps.
"They wouldn't be surprises if I accidentally said them now, would they?" he said at a preview screening of the Christmas episode.
"But I promise you, we're going to take over television," he added.
The writer has even kept the secrets safe from his leading man.
"We're as much in the dark as the majority of other people," Smith told BBC Radio 1. "I imagine I'll get to read something in January, February time."
However, the actor promised: "We'll make it the biggest and the best year, hopefully in the show's history."
The Royal Mail stamps will be available in March.
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
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