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LONDON FIELDS WORLD PREMIERE AT TIFF15 LONDON FIELDS has been added as a Special Presentation at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival. The festival runs September 10 to 20, 2015, but the screening date has yet to be announced. Keep up with the film on it’s official TIFF page.Since things are now moving forward with the film, I’ve been holding on to a couple of things to share.TOYDRUM, the musical act that Jim has posted about before, are officially listed as being involved with the soundtrack. The production notes for KIDNAPPING MR. HEINEKEN not only mention LONDON FIELDS as one of Jim’s upcoming projects, but that he is also involved with original music for the film. I guess that is what this post from TOYDRUM’Sblog last year was all about: Lastly, Billy Bob Thornton discussed the film on October 15, 2014, at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film & Television. This is really the most any member of the cast have said about it. If this doesn’t get you excited about the film, I don’t know what will! I just made a movie last year in London that’s gonna come out next year. 12 people are gonna see it, six of them won’t know what it means and the other six are gonna think it’s a masterpiece, which it is…I didn’t direct it, by the way, so don’t start thinking I’m saying I made a masterpiece. It’s called London Fields. It’s based on a Martin Amis book. I recently saw it with the director. It’s not all together yet but it’s brilliant. It’s like they used to make movies that were different. I mean if you want to say avant-garde, I suppose you could but it’s really more… It feels very contemporary and yet it feels like a movie like Blow-Up. You know, it’s terrific. It excited me to see it. It excited me to make it and every day it was hard. Every day was miserable on this movie and with the weather in London and we had no time and no money and it was a real, real hard movie to make. And I miss it. It’s almost like an abusive relationship or something. It’s like I wish I was back there making it again because it was so hard and yet we knew we were making something that the bloggers will destroy, a few of the critics in the papers and stuff like that are gonna love it. It’s gonna be a polarizing movie and the average… Like if you’re looking for a broad audience like the guy that runs a lawnmower shop out in Iowa or something, they won’t even know what it is. I mean, it could be is that a raccoon or a baseball bat? They won’t even know what it is.

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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken ± Who Are We Kidnapping?

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NEW: Jim Sturgess on Close The Enemy set (Tuesday Jul 28, 2015)

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Happy Birthday James Anthony Sturgess

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM STURGESS!

With much love from your friends and fans at JSO! xx

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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, 2014

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Eliza Graves (still)

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Get to know me meme: [5/5] Favorite actors Jim Sturgess

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Chloë Sevigny and Jim Sturgess in Electric Slide (2015).

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Stonehearst Asylum (still)

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Stonehearst Asylum (still)

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Jim Sturgess Fault Magazine Cover

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So how does he deal with the disappointment? Along with smaller-production titles like The Lion’s Share, Jim recently starred in big-budget box office flop Cloud Atlas, an excitingly ambitious yet commercially disappointing multi-role epic with a story that spanned five centuries.

“As long as I feel I’ve made a good film, I can feel good about it. That’s what’s so frustrating about acting, because once you’ve done your bit, you kind have to hand it over… there’s so little you can do.” He pauses, contemplative. “You want a film to do well, but that’s not always going to be the case. With Cloud Atlas, I was hopeful that people would be excited to see something different, which was a bit hard to watch. So much work went into it; all it took was the distribution companies to give it some love and support, but they didn’t. But you know, we got such positive feedback from the people who did watch it – it connected with them, and that’s the most important thing.”

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Another one to watch hits cinemas this year in the form of London Fields, an adaptation of Martin Amis’ darkly comic murder mystery Jim plays Keith Talent, the thug, philanderer and darts-player extraordinaire who becomes embroiled with Nicola Six (Amber Heard), Guy Clinch (Theo James) and Samson Young (Billy Bob Thornton [FAULT 13’s Cover Star] in a twisted love affair.

“It was such a bonkers movie – testing to make, and to dare to be involved in,” says Jim, alluding to the narrative’s brooding apocalyptic undertones and increasingly sinister sequence of events. “The nice thing about it, for me, was getting to travel around London and shoot in areas I hadn’t been to in years, like Brixton Market. It almost felt like I was seeing the city through new eyes. With a lot of Americans involved, it was good to be the host for a change – normally I travel to other parts of the world, being a guest in someone else’s town.”