Benedict Cumberbatch, Gemma Arterton and Jonny Lee Miller are featured in the February 2012 issue of Vogue UK. They were photographed at London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

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- Scans > Vogue (UK) – February 2012
- Scans > Clippings From 2012 –> thanks to the wonderful Lorna for the Star scan
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) > Related Clippings > SFX (UK) – March 2012
- Byzantium (2012) > Related Clippings > Related Clippings > Daily Mail (UK) – January 13, 2012

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Gemma Arterton was in the gym six days a week for a month to get into fighting — or maybe biting — form to play a vampire.

The actress stars as Clara, a vampire who has to protect herself and her daughter (played by Saoirse Ronan) from those seeking to plunge a stake through their hearts.

‘She’s brittle and she’s a fighter,’ said Gemma of the role she plays in Byzantium, which is directed by Neil Jordan.

The film — set in both the 18th century and the modern day — is not all glossy surface nonsense like the Twilight pictures. For starters, it has a compelling storyline and much better actors, including Sam Riley, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller and Tom Hollander. Read the rest of this entry »

Gemma Arterton was pictured smoking a cigarette while covered in blood during a break from filming on the set of the vampire movie Byzantium in the Ballymun Flats complex in Dublin, Ireland.

After spending the afternoon pretending to be a vampire and getting covered in fake blood, no wonder Gemma Arterton looks in need of a rest.

Filming her new movie Byzantium in Dublin yesterday, the 25-year-old stepped out of character – but not costume – for a few minutes to enjoy a well-earned cigarette break.

Covering up in a dressing gown, the former Bond girl sipped on a cup of coffee as she puffed away.

Arterton had been filming scenes for the upcoming thriller Byzantium in a housing estate in Ballymun, renowned for being an impoverished area of Dublin in the 1970s.

Also on location was her co-star Saoirse Ronan, who also plays a vampire in the film.

Byzantium is adapted from Moira Buffini’s play A Vampire Story, which was commissioned in 2008 by London’s National Theatre.

Arterton and Ronan play two young female vampires who move to a small British town and mystery and intrigue immediately surround the pair who could be sisters or mother and daughter.

In the play, the eldest, Clara, takes a job in a pub while the younger girl, Eleanor, goes to school and during a truth exercise in her drama class, she confesses that she is over 200 years old and has survived on human blood.

Her classmates think she is crazy and her teacher contacts the school counsellor but she makes one friend in the form of Frank who has been home schooled and is considered an outsider.

Arterton started filming Byzantium in Sussex last month.

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- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Dublin, Ireland) – January 10, 2012

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Paramount and MGM are moving back the release of Jeremy Renner-Gemma Arterton starrer Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters by almost a year, from March 2, 2012, to January 11, 2013.

The move comes on the heels of the successful opening of Paramount’s micro-budgeted horror pic The Devil Inside and Christmas tentpole Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol, which has already earned $458.1 million worldwide. The two films almost guarantee that the studio will have a good fiscal quarter (and Devil Inside–scoring the best opening ever for early January–proves the corridor can be lucrative).

There are two other reasons for the move, according to an insider. The 3D materials for Hansel and Gretel are only now coming in, and Paramount wants time to market the 3D aspect, particularly overseas.

Third, Renner — who stars opposite Tom Cruise in Ghost Protocol — has two other 2012 films, The Avengers, which comes out in early May, and The Bourne Legacy, which hits theaters in early August. The insider said pushing back Hansel and Gretel also allows the movie to benefit from the exposure Renner earns from those two films.

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods. is producing Hansel and Gretel, which picks up the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 15 years after Hansel and Gretel found the gingerbread house. They’re now bounty hunters. Tommy Wirkola is directing.

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By Edel O’Connell
Saturday Jan 7 2012

We’re more used to seeing her oozing glamour on the red carpet in haute couture and full make-up.

But actress and Bond girl Gemma Arterton could have been mistaken for just another student as she roamed the UCD campus yesterday.

Make-up-free and wearing a casual grey cardigan and practical, puffa-style jacket, teamed with leggings and biker boots, the 25-year-old British star was dressed for the chilly January weather.

But the overall effect meant she was virtually unrecognisable from her role as a glamorous brunette in the James Bond movie ‘Quantum Of Solace‘. Read the rest of this entry »

Gemma Arterton was pictured on the set of Neil Jordan’s new vampire movie Byzantium in the UCD campus in Dublin, Ireland.

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- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Dublin, Ireland) – January 6, 2012

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Gemma Arterton and Sam Riley film a walking scene on the Byzantium film set in County Wicklow, Ireland. It was the last day of filming before returning in January.

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- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland) – December 23, 2011

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Gemma Arterton was pictured being beaten up by two men (including co-star Sam Riley), hand cuffed to railings and then threatened with a sword during a night time set shooting of Byzantium in Bray, Co. Wicklow.

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- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland) – December 22, 2011

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Gemma Arterton was pictured on a car bonnet being driven at speed and then lying dead on the road on the Byzantium film set in Ireland.

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- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland) – December 21, 2011

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Horror/fantasy twists on fairy-tale/literary classics are the big trend for 2012, but now it seems one of them won’t be hitting the screen as soon as originally announced.

Fangoria just got the scoop that Paramount has shifted HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS out of its March 2 berth and will instead release the movie next fall on a date to be determined. The Hollywood debut of DEAD SNOW director Tommy Wirkola, the film stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as the grown-up brother and sister who’ve never quite gotten over that childhood gingerbread-house incident, and set out to exterminate witches. Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Zoe Bell and Derek Mears co-star.

Gemma has a passionate kiss with a fellow actor on the film set of Byzantium. In the scene, she seems to be working in a fun fair, where she kissed a colleague who is working on a ride nearby. Gemma’s character is called Clara.

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- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland) – December 17, 2011

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Gemma was spotted on the set of Byzantium in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, last Saturday. She was wearing very tight black leather trousers and was drinking some hot beverage to keep warm.

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- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland) – December 17, 2011

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Saoirse Ronan gave a very interesting interview to the Irish Independent today and talked to them about the particularities of the Byzantium vampires:

“We’re getting away from the tradition of biting vampires in this film.

“Instead the vampires have talons with which they draw blood.”

On-set photos of the young Irish actress and co-star Caleb Landry Jones can be found online.