Photos: Kid's Choice Awards & Balenciaga store opening
posted by Jas, 03/30/08
Some photos of Orlando at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards and Balenciaga Flagship Store Opening at Ka-Bloom. Johnny Depp won the Favorite Male Movie Star award for his role in At World's End. Youtube has a couple of clips of Orlando getting slimed here and here

Black and Orlando Bloom, seated in chairs above the stage, took the brunt of the green goo as the show ended. "This is the whole reason I became an actor," a good-natured Bloom said. Earlier, Harrison Ford got doused with the slime as he stood near Shia LaBeouf, co-star of the upcoming "Indiana Jones" sequel. Full report

Maxim scans
posted by Jas, 03/18/08
mejia has posted scans of Orlando interview in the spring/summer issue of Maxim Fashion magazine, translation here

Orlando not doing An Education
posted by Jas, 03/16/08
Lori has confirmation that Orlando has dropped out of "An Education" due to a scheduling conflict, the report about him starring in Johnny To's "The Red Circle" is true, production has begun and will be shot in Hong Kong. The film is a remake of the 1970 French movie "Le Cercle Rouge". Some info on Johnny To and his works here, my favourite is of course "All About Ah Long" starring big brother Chow Yun Fat. Update: Hollywood Reporter has also confirmed the news about Orlando pulling out of "An Education".

Orlando Bloom gives his bit-part the chop
posted by Jas, 03/14/08
Not sure if this is true or not but Daily Mail reports that Orlando has given up his role in An Education to star in Johnny To's movie The Red Circle. The rumour about this Hong Kong kung-fu flick has been around for quite some time but there hasn't been any confirmation or official press release about it and Angie wrote to the Event manager of the Cafe de Paris and was told that Orlando has pulled out of An Education production. I'll post an update once I have more info.

Orlando Bloom is doing full on martial arts training for a Hong Kong kung-fu movie. It means Bloom has had to drop out of the small role he was going to take in An Education, which has just started production, with Carey Mulligan playing a teenager in Sixties London who comes under the spell of a charismatic - and totally unsuitable - older man played by Peter Sarsgaard, who introduces the girl to a high-living lifestyle. Bloom was to have played a friend of Sarsgaard's character. Instead, the fastrising Dominic Cooper will play Bloom's role.

Mr Cooper will be seen this year in the screen version of the hit musical Mamma Mia! (still in the West End), and opposite Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Hayley Atwell in The Duchess. Meanwhile, Bloom is limbering up and getting fit to be in Johnny To's movie The Red Circle, which will film in Hong Kong. By the way, An Education is based on a memoir Lynn Barber wrote for Granta - it was adapted for the movies by Nick Hornby.

Cafe dismantled to recapture swinging sixties
posted by Jas, 03/14/08
Daily Express has this report on the production of Orlando's upcoming film, An Eduction.

The historic Café de Paris is to be completely dismantled and rebuilt for a big-budget British movie, An Education – and the whole process will be captured on film by actor Orlando Bloom. Club regular Orlando stars in the flick, the story of a 17-year-old suburbanite caught up in the glamorous world of Sixties London, which also features Rosamund Pike, Emma Thompson and Olivia Williams.

"It will cost a five-figure sum to take down all the venue décor and furnishings and turn the Café into the swinging Sixties," reports our girl at the bar. "The Café was also transformed for the Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller film, The Edge Of Love, but this will be far more dramatic – Orlando will be recording the whole transformation on his own camcorder. "The film's producers have quite a task on their hands – the Café's owners want it all back to normal for their usual footballers and young pop stars by the weekend so everything will have to be put back in a frenzy."

Love and Other Disasters screening
posted by Jas, 03/14/08
Love and Other Disasters will be shown at the 22nd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on March 27 and 29 and at the 11th Annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival on April 9 and 11. You can watch a clip of Orlando's cameo here, download hi-res here

Vote for AWE for Kids Choice Awards
posted by Jas, 03/06/08
Voting for the Nickelodeon's 21st Annual Kids' Choice Awards is now open, At World's End has been nominated for Favourite Movie. Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley are also nominated for Favourite Male Movie Star and Favourite Female Movie Star respectively for their role in AWE. Click here to vote for AWE, the show will be telecast on Nickelodeon on Saturday, March 29 at 8-9:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Orlando at First Lights Movie Award
posted by Jas, 03/06/08
Reports say Orlando was at the First Lights Movie Award in London on Tuesday, no photos or video clip have surfaced yet, will post and update if they do.

Video Download: Uno commercial #2
posted by Jas, 03/06/08
Elf Lady has grabbed Orlando's second Uno commercial, download here, some caps at Ka-Bloom.

Go Go girl Kuriyama blooms working with Orlando
posted by Jas, 03/06/08
Kuriyama talks about working with Orlando in the new Shiseido Uno commercial

Actress Chiaki Kuriyama, best known overseas for playing Go Go Yubari in "Kill Bill Vol. 1," has spoken of her delight in working with Hollywood heartthrob Orlando Bloom on a commercial for cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. "He's got a star's aura. But he's friendly and kind. He shows a lot of time for production staff, yet also concentrates on his acting. He's the type of guy I have a lot of respect for," the 23-year-old actress said of Bloom during a Tokyo event to promote Shiseido's uno brand of men's cosmetics.

Kuriyama and Bloom appear together in a Shiseido commercial shot to appear like a short film. The commercial is set in a European town, with Bloom playing a young artist who, while on his way to submit a painting to a contest, bumps into a beautiful young Japanese woman played by Kuriyama. His painting was not widely respected and he was getting frustrated by the work before suddenly realizing that he should use Kuriyama as a model for a new masterpiece. The painting wins the contest's grand prize, but the woman decides to walk away from the artist, leaving viewers wondering about how love between the two would work out.

Shiseido is running the commercial on its site and at movie theaters from Wednesday, with different versions centering on Bloom to screen nationally from Friday. Kuriyama has no lines in the commercial. She said she prepared for the role by pretending to be an ambitious and independent student.

Also attending the event with the actress was celebrity movie critic Osugi, who spoke highly of Bloom. "He was still a kid when he appeared in the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, but he grew into a man during the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies," the 63-year-old movie critic said, before moving on to comment about how he would use uno to style his hair. "It looks like I could do it. But I'm gay, so perhaps I don't need to."

First Lights Movie Award
posted by Jas, 03/01/08
Pre-K reports that Orlando is scheduled to attend the First Lights Movie Award in London on Tuesday.

Town schoolchildren with a talent for film-making will be rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars next week. A documentary by pupils from Isambard Community School has been nominated for a prestigious First Lights Movie Award. The children will visit London's Leicester Square for a glittering awards ceremony, which is due to be attended by movie stars Orlando Bloom and Kevin Spacey. Rachael Mattey, headteacher of the Redhouse Way school, said: "I am very proud of the children and the film. It has been a wonderful experience for them."

The First Light Movie Awards, dubbed Britain's mini-Oscars, recognises young filmmakers from around the country. The film, titled The Child and Me, charts the transition between junior and senior school and is nominated for Best Documentary. Pupils involved were chosen from five Swindon junior schools, but they have now all moved to Isambard. The school's youngsters fought off competition from more than 100 other entries just to secure a nomination. And they will now head to the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square for the star-studded awards ceremony on Tuesday. Along with Hollywood leading men Bloom and Spacey, judging will be in the hands of producer Nira Park, writer-actor Stephen Fry and Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes.