GK Films has released the first “official” image from “London Boulevard”!

They still classify the film as being in “post-production” with no mention of a release date, but at least the release of images can give us hope!

Edited to add:
After posting this.. my Entertainment Weekly arrived.. and look what was inside!!

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It looks as if the sources that listed Colin Farrell as playing “Marcus” in the adaptation of Emily Giffen’s “Something Borrowed, now filming in New York, were wrong!

The following is from MTV.com and I can confirm that Emily Griffin also posted a photo of Steve Howey on her Facebook page, saying that he will play “Marcus”

The upcoming film “Something Borrowed” based on the chick lit book of the same, which already has Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin among others on board, got a brand new addition today. The book’s author Emily Giffin tweeted to fans, “STEVE HOWEY as Marcus!! .” Steve, who also starred with Kate in “Bride Wars,” will play Ginnifer’s friend and quasi-love interest.

Colin Farrell has agreed to be one of the first celebrity ambassadors for the The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) which was founded in 1889 and is Ireland’s oldest and most well-known children’s charity.

The group’s mission statement is as follows:

To advocate on behalf of all children in Ireland, and to provide a range of independent and unique services which are preventative and empowering in nature.

Along with Colin, the other inaugural ambassadors are: Westlife, Brian O’Driscoll, The Script and Louis Walsh.

Ashley Balbirnie, ISPCC CEO, said: “It’s a real honour for us to announce our celebrity Ambassadors, all of whom have shown us tremendous support over the years. Westlife, The Script and Louis Walsh have consistently supported the Cheerios Childline Concert, and Brian and Colin are regular supporters of our annual fundraising activity. Today marks an important day for the Society and we are delighted to have the support of our new Ambassadors.”

You can read more at the:ISPCC Official Site

The Flora Women’s Mini Marathon June 2010

Colin Farell has agreed to take out five lucky DEBRA Ireland supporters on a date at a top Dublin restaurant and all you have to do to be in with a chance to win this amazing prize is enter the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon and Do It For DEBRA!

Colin Farrell START: 3PM
FROM: Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2
TO: St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
DISTANCE: 10k
FIRST ENTRY FORM: The first entry form will be in the Evening Herald on Wednesday
3rd March 2010
ENTRY PROCESS: All particpants must enter either on the official Entry Form which will
appear in the Evening Herald every Wednesday and Saturday from Wed 3rd March or
online at www.florawomensminimarathon.ie from 4th March 2010.

You can also look forward to our After Race party, where you can have a well
deserved juice, finger food and some physio to soothe your aching limbs.

To register for Sponsorship Pack or further details – please phone Caitriona 01
412 6924 or e mail caitriona@debraireland.org

Please join DEBRA Ireland and our team on Monday 7th June for a great day out – you will help make a real difference to the lives of children and adults living with EB. We really need your help to raise these vital funds.

Sign Up for information here:DebraIreland.org

Just added the scans of this article to the gallery: Entertainment Weekly 16 April 2010

Colin has come forth and issued a statement in support of The STAND UP! Campaign sponsored by BeLonG To Youth Services, Ireland’s national youth service for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender young people.

The campaign was launched Thursday April 8th at 6pm in Eamon Farrell’s National Performing Arts School on Sherriff Street, Dublin 1.

Here is Colin’s statement:

“I can’t remember much about the years of physical and emotional abuse my brother Eamon suffered. I was very small. The thing i do remember though, quite literally, is blood on his school shirt when he came home in the afternoon. The beatings and taunting were very frequent for my him and a constant part of his school years. I didn’t understand at that time the concept of ‘difference’. Back then, as now, he was just my big brother. If I did understand what difference was I understood it in the most pure and unaffected childlike way. To me then, as a child, difference meant being left out. Joy and laughter came with being included, being embraced , and BELONGING to.

People are often afraid of difference. They feel that anything that causes fear, should be turned away from. My brother represented fear for so many people, but caused joy in my life. From a very young age he made me laugh with his intelligence and wit, made me aspire to his strength and goodness. He was to be embraced. To many of the students of his school however he was to be feared. He was to be turned away from. I didn’t understand it then, and I still don’t know. As a race we humans are united and divided by emotions. The mother and father of all emotions, the queen and king are love and fear. Love unites, it brings us closer to an understanding of the possibility of beauty amidst all the confusion and pain that life can bring. Hate is a disease. It is fear’s messenger and it makes us do terrible things in a shadow of our better selves, of what we could be.

Intolerance is not genetically encoded – it is taught. It is learned at home. It is learned in the classrooms and it is learned anywhere else we gather as a group. But it is usually learned early and added onto from there. If there is nothing to feared, there is nothing to hate. If there is nothing to hate there is no pain. My brother was so forceful in standing up for who he was, and for the good that he knew wa inside of him. Many people missed out on an opportunity, not only to enjoy him, but to enjoy themselves by embracing his “difference”. They missed out because they saw him as a threat – not as a testament to the kaleidoscope and diversity of this beautiful world. Bullying is torture, it is another betrayal of basic human decency and its scars reach way into the future of its survivors. But the saddest truth is that not all children survive it. It is a potentially fatal societal illness and must be respected and not feared. Respected and dealt with as a very real problem and as an adversary of a potentially harmonious world, that should have no place for bullies or bullying.”

- From Colin Farrell

“Triage” will be opening the Belfast Film Festival this month. Below is a story from the Belfast Telegraph. Click on the link at the bottom to get more information.

Belfast Film Festival is 10 years old and, its director Michele Devlin reveals, some well-known stars will be turning up for next month’s programme of international and local screen hits……

The opening and closing night gala premieres are always a big draw for festival followers, and this year’s programme will kick off with Triage, which stars Colin Farrell, Juliet Stephenson and Christopher Lee in the story of the impact of war on a war photographer (Farrell).

The 10th Belfast Film Festival runs from April 15-30. For tickets and further programme information visit www.belfastfilmfestival.org or tel: 9024 6609

Read the full story here: Roll Out the Red Carpet for the Belfast Film Festival

Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curuś are expected to attend the Official Polish premiere of “Ondine” in Krakow on April 23rd as part of the OFF PLUS CAMERA film festival . This premiere is one of the most important and exciting events this festival, as the director and his two stars will be attending. Additionally, on Saturday April 17th there is a conference scheduled with Jordan, Bachleda-Curuś, Farrell, and Mariusz Łukomski, chairman of Monolith Films, distributor of “Ondine” in Poland. And during the TVN Media School, there will be two meetings: one with all three main figures of “Ondine”, and another just with director Neil Jordan.

You can get more information on the Festival here:Off Plus Camera Official Site. There are Polish and English versions of the site.

Thanks to Annusia for the heads up on this festival.

Ondine will be featured in the “Spotlight” group at theTribeca Film Festival which runs April 22nd to May 1st.

You can get Box Office info:HERE

Below are some photos of Colin presenting, along with Rosario Dawson, at the 25th Independent Spirit Awards held on 5 March 2010 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.