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I’ve finally been able to add a picture of Joseph at the 13th Annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival to the gallery, which he attended on December 30th.

I’ve also added a total of 102 screencaptures of Joseph’s WWI drama The Red Baron to the gallery. Click below to see them:

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» 13th Annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival
» ‘The Red Baron’ Screencaptures

2274 screencaptures of Joseph’s 2007 drama Goodbye Bafana have been added to the gallery. See them by clicking below:

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» ‘Goodbye Bafana’ Screencaptures

There may be a new project for Joseph in the near future, playing Dr. Richard Hoskins, a professor at Bath Spa University who helped the police on the investigation of the death of Adam, a young man whose body was found mutilated floating in the Thames.

Hoskins’ book, Sacrifice, is in talks to be made into a film, and there’s speculation Joe will play the expert in African religions. Joseph has recently visited Shebbear College, where Richard currently works, held a workshop on Shakespeare with its promising drama students (as reported HERE) and discussed the potential of the book as a screenplay.

When asked if he can see Joseph Fiennes playing him in a film, Dr. Hoskins replied,

Yeah I do. He’s a great guy. He’s a really lovely person and he’s got real integrity. He is one of those actors who, pretty much right across the board, has chosen his parts on what he believes in, that he identifies with. He’s not a commercial fellow. Because he loves the story and has really got a grip on it I couldn’t think of anyone better to play me.

Source: This Is Not Devon

IFC Films has acquired US distribution rights to the prison break film “The Escapist,” starring Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes and directed by tyro helmer Rupert Wyatt.

The film premiered stateside at Sundance in 2008 and will be released in April of this year. Pic has already opened in the U.K., where it received a British Independent Film Award and a BAFTA Scotland award for Cox’s perf.

Source: Variety

Vertigo Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of The Escapist on 9th February 2009. Extras include:

• Audio Commentary with Rupert Wyatt and Dominic Cooper
• The Making of The Escapist
• Behind the Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Storyboard Comparison

Amazon UK price: £8.98. Make sure you get your copy!

Source: DVD Times

Joe is being considered for a new project, billed as “the Spanish Joan of Arc”. Cillian Murphy and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are also being considered for the role of LT, General Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Other possible actors attached to the film are Natalia Tena (who played Tonks on the last Harry Potter film) as Agustina Raimunda Maria Saragossa Domenech, a famous Spanish heroine who defended her country’s independence during the Peninsular Wars against Napoleon, Daniel Radcliffe as a young Lord Byron and Penelope Cruz or Eva Mendes to play Augustina’s older sister.

British journalist Richard Thompsett has written the screenplay. “We are hoping to shoot the film this year in either Lithuania or Malta with a couple of weeks in Zaragoza on location,” adds Max Montalvo, a Spanish based producer with Intervision Partners. “But we’ve been told Radcliffe is not available until 2010 so we might have to wait. Hopefully if Tena says yes, he’ll want to take on the role as well.”

“We are in advanced talks with The Weinstein Company to make the film, as part of a five year deal on a slate of films. I have talked to other studios, but I get on very well with The Weinstein Company. If they agree to take on Agustina we’ll do most of the financing and they’ll distribute it.”

The plan is to turn the film into a franchise with prequels and sequels. A director is yet to be attached to Agustina.

Source: Screen Daily

I’ve just added the only available still for Joe’s upcoming dramedy, Against the Current, starring himself, Michelle Trachtenberg, Elizabeth Reaser and Justin Kirk. The film will premiere next month at the Sundance Film Festival. Click below to see the picture:

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» ‘Agains the Current’ Production Stills

Joseph’s upcoming drama, Against the Current, is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The film tells the story of a man who, after his pregnant wife’s tragic death, decides to swim in the Hudson River with the help of his friends. The cast also includes Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Reaser, Mary Tyler Moore and Michelle Trachtenberg. ‘Against the Current’ isn’t in the competition.

The 25th edition of Sundance, an 11-day event, will take place in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah, and is set to run Jan. 15-25.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Here’s an interesting article/interview on Spring 41:

‘We know all the horrors that surround these stories, and sometimes you can get to the truth more through fiction than through fact,” says Joseph Fiennes, the celebrated British actor best known for his starring role in Shakespeare in Love, who is attending the 24th Haifa International Film Festival to present his latest film, Spring 1941.

The movie, which was made by Israeli director Uri Barabash (Beyond the Walls), is based on an Ida Fink story and tells the story of Artur, a Jewish doctor in Poland (played by Fiennes) who goes into hiding with his wife and family during World War II. They are taken in by a Polish peasant woman and Fiennes’s character becomes involved in a complex romantic relationship with his host.

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Arclight Films has acquired worldwide rights excluding German-speaking Europe and the Czech Republic ahead of AFM to the $23.3m (€18m) German aerial action title The Red Baron.

Matthias Schweighofer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey and Joseph Fiennes star in the Niama Film tale of the legendary first world war German fighter pilot.

Nikolai Mullerschon wrote and directed the project and Thomas Reisser and Dan Maag produced. The film opened earlier this year in Germany and Arclight is re-cutting it with the producers for the US audience.

“The story of the first legendary flying ace is great material and I believe the film will resonate with a broad international audience,” Arclight chief Gary Hamilton said.

“We are working with the producers to refine certain aspects of the drama and action to ensure that the film has the impact that audiences will expect from this gritty and romantic story of courageous men engaged in aerial combat.”

Arclight will screen the re-cut film for the first time at AFM next month.

Source: Screen Daily