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| Updated July 28th, 2010 |
On August 3rd, The five part submarine thriller "The Deep" will begin it's run on BBC1.
Lastly, it was announced yesterday that "Beginners" will make it's World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. For details on all three of these events, please check out the Newsroom on the Message Boards.
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Breaking News on a new film project for Goran from Breaking Ball Films. "Kalahari" is a romantic dramedy set in the exotic Kalahari Desert. Award winning filmmaker Darrell Roodt ("Yesterday", nominated for Best Foreign Film in 2005)is set to direct with stars Saffron Burrows ("The Bank Job") and Goran. The film is scheduled for production in late 2010. Visit the "Kalahari " thread in the Newsroom on the Message Board for the story synopsis and updates on the film as we find them.
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Good news for those of you who have been waiting patiently to see Goran's film "Helen". The DVD was released in Germany on May 28th, in Canada on July 27th, and on August 10th those of us in the US will have a choice of buying the film on either BlueRay or DVD. Links to ordering information are available through the Message Board Button on the bottom of this page. Once there go to the "Helen" thread in the Newsroom.
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Sad news via Richard Hatem's Facebook page..."I got the official word last night on a crowded bus somewhere between Shreveport and Dallas... "Boston's Finest" is not getting picked up. It's dead. Which is really too bad; a lot of people did a lot of great work doing everything they could to make it happen. The cast: Katee, Goran, Nia, Richard, Will, Jason and Treat, to name a few; the production staff and crew in Boston; a lot of ABC studio and network people who were passionate about it from day one; Gary Fleder and his whole team at Mojo Films. But mostly Bert Salke and Chris Brancato who relentlessly moved this thing forward with a level of energy and dedication I've never seen before. I can honestly say I've never worked harder on anything I've ever done -- and I was mostly MIA working on "The Gates" during the actual production. We went through dozens and dozens of drafts, addressed thousands of notes and came back from the dead a small handful of times. So it seems odd and a little surreal that after ten months it's just...over. But the "no"'s outnumber the "yes"'s in this business by about 100-1, so I guess it's never that big a shock when the final "no" drops into place. I have a lot of great memories working on this show and met a lot of wonderful people, so that's what I take away... And finally, thank you to everyone who hoped to one day see this show. Your support on this page was huge." If there is anyone who has access to the pilot, we would love to host it here on the website so that all of us who have been so eagerly anticipating series have a chance to see it.
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Goran spoke to members of Congress in Washington on Wednesday on behalf of IFAW about the issue of whaling. According to a Washington Examiner article, At a young age, Croatian-born "ER" hunk Goran Visnjic was smitten with the sea. "I spent all my childhood on a boat," the actor gushed Wednesday. So it was easy enough for the International Fund for Animal Welfare to snap him up and have him represent one of its pet causes -- whales -- this week in Washington. The actor told Yeas & Nays many people he meets don't realize whaling is still a problem in the world and that a big concern is that countries may be allowed to, again, commercially whale. "People think that if it's not happening in the states, it's not happening in the world," Visnjic said. You'll find the rest of the article in the Newroom on the Message Board.
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Photos and information have been posted in the Newsroom on the Message Board regarding the mini-series "Tito", which began airing on HRT Television in Croatia on March 19th. Look for Goran to appear as Andrije Hebrang.
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After 12 weeks of filming "The Deep" in Dumbarton, Scotland, shooting has been completed. Location pictures, articles, and other news on the up-coming BBC mini-series can be found in the Newsroom on the Message Board. Head on over for a look.
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Screencaps from “Apocrypha” directed by Russian writer-director Andrei Zvyagintse and staring Goran and Carla Gugino have been posted in Pics of the Day on the Message Board. While you're there, stop into the New York, I Love You thread in the Newsroom for another surprise.
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Goran, Ivana, and Tin spent the holidays in Croatia for the first time in three years, visit the Newsroom on the Message Board for photos and the latest on their visit.
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Goran has joined Ewan McGregor, Melanie Laurent and Christopher Plummer in the indie drama "Beginners" for Olympus Pictures and Parts and Labor. Mike Mills ("Thumbsucker") is directing from his own script; the film concerns a son(MacGregor) dealing with the double revelation that his father (Plummer) is dying from terminal cancer and has come out of the closet. Producers are Dean Vanech, Jay Von Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Leslie Urdang and Miranda de Pencier. Production has already started in Los Angeles and according to Movieline, Goran has been cast as Andy, Mr.Plummer’s headstrong boyfriend.
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According to the website Virtual Shtetl, The European premiere of "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler" will take place on the 31st of August in Gdansk, Poland, during thecommemorations of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The film tells the story of Irena Sendler who risked her own life and managed to save the lives of 2500 children from Warsaw ghetto.
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"The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler" is now available for sale in your local Hallmark store. If you don't have access to a store, copies may be ordered for worldwide delivery, through this site. Prices and ordering information are available in News, under the Information heading on the left side of your screen.
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The DVD for the documentary "Searching for A Storm" is also available for sale, for more information visit our Newsroom or the Official website link:http://searchingforastorm.com for details.
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Goran spoke at the International Fund For Animal Welfare's Global Whale Conservation Reception on May 19 in the U.S. Capital Visitor Center Atrium in Washington, DC. Head on over to the Forum Newsroom for pictures and articles on the event.
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Photos and video footage of Goran at the 30th Annual Gift of Life Celebration for the National Kidney Foundation have been posted in the Image Gallery here on the Website as well as in the Newsroom on the Forum.
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Thanks to Hallmark Hall Of Fame, and photographer Kenny Felt, we've added a total of seven "Irena Sendler" premiere pictures of Goran and Ivana to our Image Gallery here on the Website.
Our congratulations too, to all involved, the April 19th airing was the second highest watched program for the evening with 9.82 million viewers over its two-hour run. You'll find more articles in the forum Newsroom.
The premiere's for "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler" were held on the 13th in LA, and on the 15th in Kansas, the first articles and photos of those events are now posted in the Image Gallery here on the Website, and in the Newsroom on the Forum. Go take a look, you won't be disappointed.
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"After singing stop the war in Croatia for a couple of months we realized nobody was going to give us a hand and we had to do this on our own." Goran Visnjic, in "Searching For A Storm"
Director Jack Baric's, "Searching for a Storm" will be screening in Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Toronto, Chicago, Cleveland, Montreal, and New York. In Australia it will be screened in Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Gold Coast, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, and Geelong. Details regarding distribution in Croatia have not yet been set. Visit the Newsroom on the Forum for times and dates of showings.
"Searching for a Storm" is a documentary film that asks if the UN is guilty of using its international war crimes court to justify UN failures during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Critics charge that the UN's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is attempting to create a narrative which justifies the UN wartime position that the conflict in the Balkans was a civil war and not a war of aggression by Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.
This charge is especially relevant to the current war crimes case of Croatian general Ante Gotovina, who has been indicted as a war criminal by the UN court. Gotovina is a hero in Croatia for leading Operation Storm, a military operation that liberated the country after four years of Serb occupation. However, many crimes were committed in the operation's aftermath and Gotovina is being tried as a war criminal for his command responsibility.
Juxtaposing current interviews with archival footage, Searching for a Storm examines UN wartime policies to learn if they may have contributed to the war's tragedies and the film asks if Gotovina is guilty or a political scapegoat for UN failures during the war.
In the documentary's search for the truth about what happened before, during, and after Operation Storm, the filmmakers interviewed people with a wide variety of opinions about the war and Gotovina's case, which is currently under way and will conclude in the summer of 2009. These interviews took the crew on a whirlwind tour of Europe to Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Paris, London and The Hague and included diplomats, human rights activists, journalists, clergy, soldiers, prosecution and defense staff, and lay Croats, Serbs and Bosnians, including Croatian actor Goran Visnjic.
For more on the film, and a link to the website, visit the Newsroom on the Forum.
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Thanks to Hallmark Hall of Fame, we have just added a Behind The Scenes Video, and 2 film previews, to the 3 new video interviews and photos of Goran from "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler" already on the website. All six videos may be seen on the website News page until they reach their permanent home in Videos. Click on News below the Information heading on the left of your screen. They will appear in the center window of the main page. They are too big for the whole image to fit, so there is a sliding bar beneath them, you can center that and you see the green arrow, hit that and they play. Scroll down to see all six new videos. We have also added print interviews with the actors and writer/director John Kent Harrison in the Newsroom on the Forum. The film premieres on CBS Sunday, April 19, 2009, 9-11 PT/ET.
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Goran and Ivana attended the premiere of "Watchman" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood last night, pictures are up in the Newsroom, more will follow in the Gallery as we get them loaded. We've also included a link to the video of Goran and Ivana outside Madeo, in Hollywood, earlier this week, courtesy of PacificCoastNews.com.
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From the Sundance Film Festival in Park City we've posted interviews that Goran did with EW and AMC, screencaps from collected interviews,and links to additional ones given by Goran and Ashley Judd. You'll also find articles and reviews of "Helen", all can all be found in the Newsroom on the Forum.
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In the year ahead, let's all find what's most beautiful in ourselves, our lives, our hearts, and pass it on. Let's believe at least one impossible thing every day -- then let's make it absolutely possible. Let's refuse the words no, can't, don't, give up. Let's spread the word that cancer can be defeated. Let's remember those we've lost and loved, and those still in the fight. And let's make a difference every day. When we stand up to cancer.
To show your support to Goran for his involvement here is the link to our team:
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