Anchor Bay Home Entertainment announced that the film THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED will be coming to Blu-ray on November 23, 2010. The thriller stars up and coming actress Gemma Arterton, most recently known for her roles in the summer blockbusters CLASH OF THE TITANS and PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME as well as last years PIRATE RADIO. Arterton plays the daughter of a millionaire who is kidnapped but doesn’t bow down to her captors. The film had a limited theatrical release earlier this month but premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. There’s a short list of special features that include:

* Storyboard featurettes
* Audio commentary with director J Blakeson
* Extended scenes with commentary

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- The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009): Production Stills
- Events: Virgin Media Louder Lounge at the V Festival #1
- Events: Virgin Media Louder Lounge at the V Festival #2

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If you’ve seen British actress Gemma Arterton as a Bond girl in Quantum of Solace or as the regal Tamina in Prince of Persia, you really haven’t seen her at all.

Arterton, 24, may be best-known to North American audiences for those two blockbusters, but all that’s going to change with The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a grimy little thriller about a kidnapping that stars Arterton, Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston.

Arterton is not just another pretty face, and The Disappearance of Alice Creed, opening Friday, is proof. Read the rest of this entry »

GALLERY LINKS:
- Tamara Drewe (2010) > Related Clipping: Be (France) – July 9, 2010
- Scans From 2010: Envy (France) – July 8, 2010
- Scans From 2010: Nylon Guys (USA) – September 2010

Call her the Not-It Girl.

For the past few years, the English actress Gemma Arterton, 24, has been on a trajectory that Hello! magazine dreams are made of: graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; roles in a gritty Guy Ritchie movie (Rocknrolla) and a frothy Richard Curtis one (Pirate Radio); starring as Elizabeth Bennet and Tess (of the D’Urbervilles) on British TV. Then (drumroll), the break that every starlet fantasizes about: playing Bond girl Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.

Arterton rolled in flagrante with Daniel Craig, and yes, it was good for her. Hollywood and its megabudgets came calling. In Clash of the Titans, she got both a death and a resurrection scene – setting her up for the sequel, which she’ll film next year. In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, she intoned mystical prophecies like a pro. It appeared that a new It Girl had arisen. Read the rest of this entry »

By ROBERT W. BUTLER
McClatchy Newspapers

Despite having played Bond girl Strawberry Fields in “Quantum of Solace,” it’s hard to think of British actress Gemma Arterton as a resident of our modern age.

In “Clash of the Titans” and “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” she wore sandals and robes to depict inhabitants of magic-filled mythical lands. For TV’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” and “Lost in Austen” she was sewn up in 19th-century corsets.

So when Arterton first appears as a kidnap victim in J Blakeson’s new thriller “The Disappearance of Alice Creed,” it’s a bit of a shock.

For starters, she’s stripped of her clothes and wears a bag over her head. And when the bag comes off she’s nearly unrecognizable beneath heavy black eyeliner and a shaggy ‘do. Read the rest of this entry »

The ‘Prince of Persia’ actress deftly balances the indie and blockbuster film worlds, taking a dark turn in the upcoming ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed.’

“Hallo, it’s Gemma!” The voice on the line is musical as Gemma Arterton apologizes for the early hour, which the London caller imagines to be “something silly” in L.A. Although the cheery-sounding actress is most closely associated with big-budget popcorn movies (” Quantum of Solace,” “Clash of the Titans,” “Prince of Persia”), it’s her dark, twisty new thriller, “The Disappearance of Alice Creed,” which opens Friday, that more suits her tastes.

“People are always surprised when I say Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke are my favorite directors: ‘But you’re so pop!’ They’ve seen me in something very mainstream, which is not necessarily what I would go to see at the cinema myself,” says Arterton, whose musical tastes also run just to the side of mainstream, with Björk, Kate Bush and Radiohead being favorites. “‘Alice Creed’ came out in the U.K. between ‘Clash’ and ‘Prince of Persia,’ so it really challenged people’s perceptions of me.” Read the rest of this entry »

It was less than two years ago that most American filmgoers became familiar with Gemma Arterton, the 24-year old British actress whose all-too-brief tenure in Quantum of Solace ended in… well, oily fashion. Arterton has been more than a little busy (and conspicuous) in the time since, with another pair of blockbuster appearances culminating in this week’s new indie thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed — in which her title character puts up much more of a fight than her doomed Bond girl.

Arterton appears as Alice, who one day is violently kidnapped by a pair of mysterious hoods (played by Eddie Marsan and Martin Compson) in search of a ransom windfall from her wealthy father. Set almost entirely in a lone, fortified apartment — with Arterton bound, gagged or worse — director J Blakeson’s debut moves pivots from suspense to psychodrama and even to romance and back again, often in seconds flat. Along with his very game ensemble, Blakeson defies viewers to determine who’s playing who — and who has the upper hand, if anyone — from scene to scene. Read the rest of this entry »

In just the past two years, Gemma Arterton’s been drowned in crude oil (in Quantum of Solace), stabbed to death (Clash of the Titans), and dropped off a cliff (Prince of Persia) — is it any wonder she’s tired of blockbusters? “I don’t want to sound too dismissive of big movies because they are fun and you know, they’re business moves and you can’t just be artistic all the time,” she tells us. “But I am more interested in doing only smaller films right now.” Up next for Arterton: serious films with girls’ names in the titles! The Disappearance of Alice Creed, an indie thriller in which she plays the titular kidnapping victim, is out this week. In the fall, she’ll star in Stephen Frears’s Tamara Drewe. Vulture spoke with her during a recent visit to New York about Creed, the movie she hopes to make next (Luca Guadagnino’s Corsica 72), and why she’s not disappointed she wasn’t cast in Transformers 3.

When Megan Fox was fired from her role in Transformers 3 in May, it only took the Internet a few minutes to cast you as her replacement. Was that ever a possibility?
I didn’t even hear anything until I went to meet with another director for something else. He asked, “So, you’re doing Transformers?” I was like, “I’m sorry, what?” Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve only seen Gemma Arterton in big budget productions like Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia, you’re really missing out. Lucky for you, Arterton has something new hitting theaters on August 6th and while The Disappearance of Alice Creed may not have been showered with cash and effects like those other productions, it’s certainly far more powerful.

Arterton stars as Alice Creed, the poor young woman Vic and Danny (Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston) target in their kidnapping scheme. They confine their terrified victim to a room while they move along with their plan to make some quick cash at her expense. What Vic and Danny don’t know is that Alice has no intentions of being a good hostage and obeying their orders; she wants to fight back and survive. Read the rest of this entry »

“The Disappearance of Alice Creed” opens with a bravura, wordless sequence in which two men plan and carry out the abduction of a young woman. From there the film takes place solely in an apartment and an abandoned building with a cast of only three performers. As the men attempt to extract a ransom from the woman’s wealthy father, their clockwork plan spins off-course.

“It was entirely on purpose,” said writer-director J Blakeson of the film’s terse, oblique simplicity. “I started with the fact it was going to be a contained film before I even had a story. I knew I was going to write a film I could direct myself even if nobody gave me any money to do it.” Read the rest of this entry »

The full list of nominees for the 2010 Digital Spy Movie Awards is listed below. Voting closes for this year’s DSMAs at the end of August. The winners will be announced on Digital Spy in early October.

> Click here to vote at the Digital Spy Movie Awards

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed (Four Lions)
Nicolas Cage (Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call – New Orleans)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception)
Ashton Kutcher (Spread)
Tobey Maguire (Brothers)
Eddie Marsan (The Disappearance Of Alice Creed)
Andy Serkis (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll)
Thomas Turgoose (The Scouting Book For Boys)

Best Actress
Gemma Arterton (The Disappearance Of Alice Creed)
Marion Cotillard (Inception)
Melissa George (Triangle)
Holliday Grainger (The Scouting Book For Boys)
Mo’Nique (Precious)
Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)

By BENNY GAMMERMAN

So the other day I had the pleasure of interviewing British actress and all-around gorgeous creature Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans, Quantum of Solace). Gemma was promoting her new (in the U.S.) film, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a taught kidnapping thriller which I viewed the day prior. It was a 25 minute round-table press thingy – me and three other writers – so you could say I didn’t quite get every question in. But what little connection we had left both of us reeling at the possibilities of life, art, and love. The following is a record of the words and the emotion behind them… Read the rest of this entry »

Bond girl Gemma Arterton has told how she had to pee in a bottle for a new movie.

The actress stars as a kidnap victim in thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed.

And at one point in the film her character is ordered to go to the bathroom by her male captors.

Gemma, 24, said: ‘That was another awkward moment, but more for the guys than me.

‘They didn’t know where to look; they thought I was uncomfortable. I just wanted to get on with it. You know, it was in the script, I knew it was coming.’ Read the rest of this entry »

By Bert Osborne
For the AJC

Up-and-coming British actress Gemma Arterton is more than just the pretty face who appeared on screen earlier this year in “Clash of the Titans” and “Prince of Persia.” A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, with years of experience on the London stage, the 24-year-old actress tackles the most demanding role of her film career in the new thriller “The Disappearance of Alice Creed.” Arterton portrays the title character, a kidnapping victim held hostage by a pair of ransom-seeking thugs (played by Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston).

Q: Talk about both the emotional and physical challenges of this role. Read the rest of this entry »