Tamara Drewe UK Premiere

The UK Premiere of Tamara Drewe took place in London earlier tonight.

The film is released in cinemas this Friday.

Remember that you can now follow the site’s updates over on Twitter – twitter.com/DominicCOnline

New photoshoot!

A lovely new photoshoot has been added to the gallery.

‘Inception’ Premiere

Dominic attended the premiere of the film Inception in London earlier tonight.

Recent events round up – Cannes, National Movie Awards

Dominic has attended various events over the past couple of weeks, including various appearances in Cannes last week to promote Tamara Drewe. Lots of pictures have been added to the gallery!

• Cannes Film Festival – “Tamara Drewe” Photo Call (18/05/10)
• Cannes Film Festival – “Tamara Drewe” Premiere (18/05/10)
• Cannes Film Festival – “Tamara Drewe” Press Conference (18/05/10)
• Cannes Film Festival – “Tamara Drewe” Portraits (20/05/10)
• Louis Vuitton Bond Street Maison Launch (25/05/10)
• National Movie Awards 2010 (26/05/10)

Recent events update – Gucci Party, Tribeca, Candids

We finally have our first glimpse of Dominic at public events this year! Over the past week he has attended various events in London and New York as filming on The Devil’s Double has recently wrapped. Appearances are listed below:

• Gucci Icon – Temporary: London Opening (21/04/10)
• Sighting in New York (24/04/10)
• Sighting in New York #2 (25/04/10)
• 9th Annual Tribeca Film Festival – “Letters to Juliet” Premiere (25/04/10)

First look at Dominic in ‘The Devil’s Double’

Empire magazine have posted an exclusive look at The Devil’s Double which includes the first image of Dominic as Latif Yahia! A couple of pictures of Dominic with the real Latif have also been added to the gallery, courtesy of his official site.

As The Hurt Locker gears up for the Oscars and Green Zone nears release, a new kind of Iraq movie is being filmed in Malta, one with a very different focus. Starring An Education’s Dominic Cooper in a dual role, The Devil’s Double tells the true story of Latif Yahia, an Iraqi soldier who was forced to become a stand-in/decoy for Uday Hussein, the insane son of ruling tyrant Saddam.

Set in 1987, the film promises to be a middle-eastern Scarface-style gangster thriller, in which Yahia is thrown headlong into a world of outrageous opulence and raw, vicious violence – although, in this case, the fiction might not quite match the truly absurd reality. “We’re telling a soft story compared to what I’ve heard about this guy,” says director Lee Tamahori, who knows this turf, having helmed the OTT Bond movie Die Another Day and the gritty Kiwi gang drama Once Were Warriors.

The gangster element, however, is just one element of the story being told here. “Everybody likes gangsters,” says Tamahori, “and there’s no doubt that Uday is gonna drive right over the top of the story, but at the core we have an innocent man, a kidnapped soldier, who’s been dragged into this situation, which is equally compelling. So you’ve got these two characters playing off each other.

“On the one hand, it’s about a guy, Uday, who’s in love with himself. He has a mad, Oedipal complex – his father doesn’t love him, and we all know who his father is! He can’t have the respect that he wants from his father, and he’s wildly out of control: guns, money, women, death. There’s something extremely volatile about that. And then we’ve got this other guy, Latif, who came into this situation as an innocent and actually got himself out of it. So it’s about an innocent man being dragged into a hellish environment, trying to maintain a decency and an equilibrium, then trying to escape from it.”

We can expect to see the finished Devil’s Double sometime late this year or early next.

New photoshoot added

A lovely new photoshoot has been added to the gallery! Huge thanks to Kelly for the pictures. Shame about the tags, hopefully I’ll replace them with untagged versions soon!