All children are born with the same rights the right to a childhood, the right to an education, the right to be healthy, the right to be heard, and the right to be treated fairly. They have these rights wherever in the world they are born.
But for millions of children around the world, these rights are denied.
UNICEF is working in more than 190 countries around the world to protect children and to uphold their rights. But we need your help.
We want you to help put it right for children not because you feel sorry for them, but because you know it is unacceptable for them to live in this way.
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Hollywood comes to Dublin with filming of Knockout
Monday, February 8, 2010
But fame, fortune and the endless rounds of red carpets and award ceremonies really belong to showbusiness. The process of making movies, as any early bird in Dublin’s Grafton Street witnessed yesterday, is a tedious one of shooting and reshooting and mostly hanging around.
How many times can you film a woman coming out of Burger King? Let us count the ways. It took nearly two hours to film Gina Carano, the star of Knockout, crossing Grafton Street to the flower stall at the corner of Chatham Street, a sequence that might end up being 10 seconds in the film or alternatively could end up on the cutting room floor.
Carano, a relative unknown, is a tough cookie with a background in mixed martial arts, but, in between takes, she wore a full-length puffer jacket to keep out the cold.
Knockout, an international thriller, is one of the most high-profile Hollywood films to come to Ireland in recent years, mostly because it is directed by Steven Soderbergh who won a best director Oscar for Traffic in 2000.
Soderbergh’s films, which also include the Oceans Eleven series, Erin Brockovich and Sex Lies and Videotape, are better known than he is and few shoppers recognised the angular-looking man with the outsized glasses calling the shots yesterday.
You would have to have got up early to follow Soderbergh and the 100-strong cast and crew. While many people were sleeping off their Saturday night excesses, the team filmed outside the Shelbourne Hotel at 7.30am taking advantage of the light and the empty streets before moving on to Grafton Street and finally to Dawson Street.
In total they shot for 10 hours. At best five minutes of it will make it on to the screen.
The $25 million (€18 million) budget for the film is partially financed by the Section 481 tax breaks and money from The Irish Film Board. Irish company Parallel Films is one of the producers.
The movie also features three bona-fide A-list stars in Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas and Ewan McGregor. Unfortunately none is taking part in the Irish leg as the film is also being shot on location in Turkey, Spain and New Mexico.
The makers of Knockout will film in Ireland for three weeks in total.
Unicef is launching “Put it Right,” a five-year initiative with its first ever television campaign to champion the rights of children across the globe.
The TV ads, created by Abbott Mead Vickers.BBDO, are supported by a fully integrated marketing campaign press ads, outdoor ads and digital activity which will roll out in three phases.
The campaign focuses on five key rights children should have; right to a childhood, to be healthy, to be educated, to be treated fairly and to be heard, and features five children from around the world who have received help and support from Unicef.
The first phase of the campaign breaks on 8 February with TV ads across terrestrial and digital channels and will feature Unicef UK ambassador Ewan McGregor as the voice of the campaign.
The second and third phases will see a 60-second direct response TV ad and a direct marketing campaign to solicit donations.
Unicef UK executive director David Bull, says the campaign marks a “transformative moment” for the charity and is the start of the long-term initiative to build public awareness and support.
France has honored actors Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor by naming them knights in the prestigious National Order of Arts and Letters.
The two are in Paris to promote their upcoming gay romance, "I Love You Phillip Morris."
At Monday's ceremony, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand declared, "I love you Jim Carrey! I love you Ewan McGregor!"
He added that French moviegoers feel the same.
The film is based on a true story. Carrey plays a con man who meets the love of his life (McGregor) in prison, then comes up with elaborate escapes and masquerades to free himself and his man.
Source: ABC News, photos from Just Jared (click on the link for more photos!)
Thanks to Lisa, Barbara, Madlen and Ester for the heads up!
Our Long way down helmets & jackets were stolen from the Adventure Travel show at the weekend. cant believe it. can anyone help us find them. Anyone will information about where they are please contact the Big Earth team asap.
The Men Who Stare at Goats is coming to Blu-ray and DVD
By James Plath First published Jan 22, 2010
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Academy Award-winner George Clooney ("Up in the Air"), Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart"), Golden Globe® and SAG Award nominee Ewan McGregor ("Angels & Demons"), and two-time Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey ("American Beauty") star in Overture Films’ "The Men Who Stare At Goats," a comedic look at real life events that are almost too bizarre to believe, available on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, February 23rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Directed by Academy Award nominee Grant Heslov ("Good Night, and Good Luck") from a screenplay by Peter Straughan ("How to Lose Friends & Alienate People"), "The Men Who Stare At Goats" follows a reporter (McGregor) who gets way more than he bargained for when he accompanies an enigmatic Special Forces operator (Clooney) on a mind-boggling mission.
Featuring a supporting cast that includes Robert Patrick ("The Unit"), Stephen Root ("The Soloist"), Stephen Lang ("Avatar") and Rebecca Mader ("Lost"), "The Men Who Stare At Goats" was inspired by Jon Ronson’s non-fiction bestseller of the same name, an eye-opening and often hilarious exploration of the government’s attempts to harness paranormal abilities to combat its enemies. "The Men Who Stare At Goats" was produced by Clooney, Heslov and Paul Lister. SRP is $29.98 for the DVD and $39.98 for the Blu-ray edition.
Michael Sragow of the Baltimore Sun called "The Men Who Stare At Goats" "refreshingly unpredictable." Said Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post, "The Men Who Stare At Goats" "taps into the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson." Added E! Entertainment’s Ben Lyons, "Clooney and his pals are clearly having fun in this offbeat, yet effective political comedy," while Screen International’s Mike Goodridge said "Bridges revisits his ’Dude’ character from ’The Big Lebowski’ with enthusiasm."
"The Men Who Stare At Goats" standard definition DVD bonus features include Goats Declassified: The Real Men Of The First Earth Battalion; Project "Hollywood": A Classified Report From The Set; audio commentary with director Grant Heslov; audio commentary with book author Jon Ronson; character bios; deleted scenes; and the theatrical trailer. "The Men Who Stare At Goats" Blu-ray edition includes the same bonus features, plus a digital copy of the film.
Update 2: Just Jared has a great picture of Ewan from last night!
Update: Ewan is answering the phones!
According to USA Today, Ewan will take part in tonight's Hope for Haiti Now tonight that will be telecast on every major network in the U.S. and in several countries.
From the makers of the MotoGP doc Faster comes a new film called Charge, chronicling the world’s first ever zero emissions grand prix, the TTXGP, at the Isle of Man TT in 2009. Once again Scottish actor and motorcycle enthusiast Ewan McGregor narrates, but Valentino Rossi only makes a cameo appearance here. The focus this time is on e-racers, more specifically on American Michael Czysz and his MotoCzysz team's struggle to build their first electric race bike in time to compete in the inaugural race.
Check it out the Charge trailer below and don't forget that Canada's first TTXGP will be taking place at Mosport International Raceway this summer, July 8 – 11.
When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start - not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident.
The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA - a war crime. The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, Ruth, and his personal assistant (and mistress), Amelia. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Was Lang in the service of the American intelligence agency while he was prime minister? And was The Ghost's predecessor murdered because of the appalling truth he uncovered?
Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level - sexual, political and literary. In a world in which nothing, and no one, is as it seems, The Ghost quickly discovers that the past can be deadly - and that history is decided by whoever stays alive to write it.
Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender are coming to Dublin to film 'Knockout', the new thriller from Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh.
The Press Association reports that the film will begin shooting on Dublin's streets and rooftops within weeks, with the script written specifically for the capital.
'Knockout' tells the story of a private security agent (mixed-martial arts star Gina Carano) who is betrayed by one of her colleagues.
Fassbender will play a British agent who teams up with her but is shown to be untrustworthy, while McGregor will play the owner of a private military company.
