ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY – Director Matthew Vaughn’s third Kingsman movie is firming up a Kick-Ass cast.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (re-teaming with Vaughn after Kick-Ass 2) and Gemma Arterton (The Escape, Netflix’s Watership Down) have joined the cast of Kingsman: The Great Game, EW has learned.

Vaughn, returning to write and direct, always intended the Kingsman films to be a trilogy. He previously spoke about potential plans for a more traditional sequel to Kingsman: The Golden Circle for “the conclusion of the Harry Hart-Eggsy relationship.” However, The Great Game is not that.

The subtitle is one Vaughn mentioned during past interviews in reference to a prequel that would follow the organization of Kingsman agents in the ’90s. Taron Egerton, the star of the past two Kingsman movies as Eggsy, will sit this one out as The Great Game will be the origin of the Kingsman story.

Taylor-Johnson and Arterton join the previously cast Charles Dance (HBO’s Game of Thrones), Daniel Bruhl (TNT’s The Alienist), Harris Dickinson (FX’s Trust), and Ralph Fiennes (Holmes & Watson).

Kingsman: The Secret Service introduced Eggsy as a London rabble-rouser recruited to try out for the Kingsman spy agency under the tutelage of Colin Firth’s Agent Harry Hart. The sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, took the agents to meet the organization’s American brethren, The Statesman, to take down drug kingpin Poppy (Julianne Moore).

The Great Game is currently scheduled for release on Nov. 8. (source)

Today (February 02) it’s Gemma 33rd birthday! We hope she’ll have a great one, spent with the people she loves. To celebrate it we added in the gallery some exclusive outtakes from a portrait taken back at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 while she was promoting Their Finest. This is one of my favorite portraits of her!

Be sure to check them out and please, credit us if you repost them, thank you! Enjoy :)

Last night (January 29) Gemma – together with her sister Hannah – attended the Christian Dior: Designer Of Dreams Exhibition, held at the Victoria&Albert Museum in London, hosted by the Board of Trustees and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram Hunt.

Gemma looked amazing in a floor-length Dior gown with sheer sleeve detailing and a black clutch bag.

Photos from the evening have now been added to the gallery, enjoy!

On Sunday, December 02 Gemma attended the 21st British Independent Film Awards and she looked simply amazing!

For the occasion Gemma wore a ligh pink Emilia Wickstead S/S 2019 The Kingsley Dress with Giuseppe Zanotti shoes and Jessica McCormack earrings.

Several photos from the event have now been added to the gallery, be sure to check them out and enjoy!

Back on Saturday, November 24 – Gemma attended the photocall for Watership Down, the animated television miniseries where she voice the rabbit Clover.

The event has been held at the BFI Southbank and several photos from it have now been added to the gallery! Be sure to check them out and enjoy :)

BAFTA – The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) tonight (November 07) celebrated 2018’s BAFTA Breakthrough Brits, in partnership with Burberry – 19 of the UK’s most promising future stars of film, games and television – at a star-studded reception attended by leading figures in the creative industries.

Sara Putt, Chair of BAFTA’s Learning and New Talent Committee, welcomed guests before the honourees were introduced by actors George MacKay, Stacy Martin and Tom Hiddleston. Other guests at the event, which took place for the first time at 194 Piccadilly, an exciting new event space underneath the home of BAFTA, included actors Gemma Arterton and Susan Wokoma, documentary-maker Stacey Dooley, SB.TV founder Jamal Edwards MBE, and CEO of games industry trade body Ukie Dr Jo Twist OBE.

Breakthrough Brits is BAFTA’s flagship initiative that identifies and supports the UK’s next generation of creative talent. Selected by a jury of industry experts after a UK-wide open call for nominations and applications, the 2018 Breakthrough Brits will be supported by BAFTA over the next 12 months as they progress their careers. (source)

Gemma looked great during the event wearing a Delpozo SS19 lavender delicate criss-cross draped dress. Several photos from the evening have now been added to the gallery, enjoy!

VARIETY – Embankment Films has sold British rights to Lionsgate U.K. for romantic drama “Summerland,” starring Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Variety has been given the exclusive first-look image for the film, which has just wrapped production.

The pic is the feature debut of British playwright Jessica Swale, who won an Olivier Award for her play “Nell Gwynn,” in which Arterton and Mbatha-Raw both starred. Swale won BAFTA’s JJ Screenwriting Bursary for “Summerland” in 2012.

The film centers on fiercely independent writer Alice (Arterton) who “secludes herself in her clifftop study, debunking myths using science to disprove the existence of magic,” according to a statement.

When a spirited young man, Frank, an evacuee from the London Blitz, is placed in her care, “his innocence and curiosity awaken Alice’s buried emotions… perhaps magic really does exist.”

The cast includes Penelope Wilton (“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”) and Tom Courtenay (“45 Years”), as well as rising young actors Lucas Bond (“Slumber”) and Dixie Egerickx (“The Secret Garden”).

The film is produced by Guy Heeley and Adrian Sturges, with Arterton serving as an executive producer alongside Natascha Wharton for the BFI, which helped finance the pic alongside Quickfire Films.

Embankment is handling international sales and co-representing the U.S. with the Gersh Agency.

Zygi Kamasa, CEO of Lionsgate U.K., said: “At Lionsgate we’re constantly looking for projects that nurture both established and rising British talent – and ‘Summerland’ has both of those elements. Jessica is clearly a filmmaker on the rise.” (source)