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You may not recognise them yet but these young British actors are tipped to become superstars.

The hotlist has been drawn up by movie industry magazine Screen International – whose previous Stars of Tomorrow have included Robert Pattinson, Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Rebecca Hall, Dominic Cooper and Gemma Arterton – and it includes several Londoners.

Toby Regbo, from Hammersmith, will appear as a young Dumbledore in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2. The 19-year-old will then star as Jim Hawkins in Sky’s Treasure Island.

If anyone has a better quality image of the shoot please send it in.

Source: This Is London.

Windy City Times: You have a new movie coming out Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.

Peter Gallagher: Yes, it is a great book by Peter Cameron. It is about a young boy coming of age, starring Toby Regbo. He is a beautiful kid and acted in Harry Potter. He plays my son who is 17, turning 18 and figuring out what he is all about. Marcia Gay Harden plays his mother and we are divorced. Ellen Burstyn is in it and Lucy Liu. It is directed by Roberto Faenza from a lovely script and is a real indie. We shot it in New York.

Windy City Times: When does it come out?

Peter Gallagher: We are going to find out very soon, in the next couple of weeks, I think.

Source: Windy City Times.

The world premiere of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the final instalment in J.K. Rowling’s fantasy saga, will take place at London’s Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square on July 7, Warner Bros has announced.

The red carpet event will see the Potter cast and filmmakers arrive at Trafalgar Square before heading along to Leicester Square’s cinemas to watch the first showing of Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

Special areas will be reserved within Trafalgar Square for fans and competition winners from around the globe. It will mark the first time the London landmark has hosted a movie premiere.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson said of the event: “For the last decade we’ve been gripped by the on-screen battle between Harry Potter and his arch enemy Lord Voldemort and this is one of the most eagerly awaited films in history.

“As befits a great British triumph, I can think of no better venue than the iconic surroundings of Trafalgar Square in which to stage the most spectacular of send offs for this dramatic finale.”

Source: Digital Spy.

Ireland is one of the locations for a new two-part US miniseries based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure ‘Treasure Island’. 

Variety reports that ‘Treasure Island’ stars Elijah Wood as Ben Gunn, Eddie Izzard as Long John Silver and Donald Sutherland as Flint.

The cast also includes ‘Harry Potter’ stars Shirley Henderson and Toby Regbo and ‘Ashes to Ashes’ star Philip Glenister.

Filming is also to take place in Puerto Rico and the miniseries will premiere on US television in early 2012.

Source: RTE.

I’m very excited about this news.

Elijah Wood is joining the stellar cast of Sky1′s adaptation of Treasure Island.

The actor, best known as Frodo in the Lord of the Rings series, will star as Ben Gunn alongside Eddie Izzard as Long John Silver, when filming in Puerto Rico begins next month.

The new take on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic will be a two-part drama based on the story of Jim Hawkins (newcomer Toby Regbo) who discovers Flint’s treasure map.

The series also sees Ashes to Ashes star Phillip Glenister play Captain Smollet, Spooks’ Rupert Penry-Jones take on the role of Squire Trelawney and Made in Dagenham’s Daniel Mays as Dr Livesey.

David Harewood and Keith Allen also star as pirates Bones and Pew, who lead Jim into the murky world of piracy.

Source: Whats On Tv.

An oldish article.

It’s a good thing that 18-year-old actor Toby Regbo was a quick study-he had an allergic reaction to his first drama class. “They had us stand in front of a mirror and pretend to be a plant,” he recalls. “I thought, ‘Oh, shit. Is this what drama is going to be like?’?” Impatience paid off for the London teen, who found another theater group run by an agent who got him into auditions. Two guest spots on British TV helped him get cast as the young Dumbledore in the highly anticipated final two Harry Potter films–a.k.a. one of the rare golden tickets in the cinematic lottery. Part one lands in theaters this month. “The part I play means so much to certain people,” he reflects. “They send you very intense mail, saying everything from ‘I hope it goes well for you’ to ‘Don’t mess it up or I’ll kill you.’?” Having played overburdened adolescents in both the 2009 film Mr. Nobody and the West End play Tusk Tusk, Regbo seems to be cornering the market on young alienated types. He will star alongside Ellen Burstyn and Marcia Gay Harden in the upcoming comedy Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. In the movie, Regbo plays James Sveck, a sexually confused high school senior who rejects just about everything. “It’s searingly accurate about what it’s like to be this age,” says Regbo. “Because James is so self-aware, he can never invest himself in anything fun.” Aside from overinvested Harry Potter fans, Regbo is also acclimating to the online scrutiny that has come with his father’s tendency to google him. “I was at the BFI London Film Festival and this photo of me got put up online,” he says. “My father sent me a link to the article, which was from a website called something like hairandbeautycelebrities.com. It was analyzing my haircut. And it had been cut by my grandmother about 20 minutes before I got to the premiere.”

And there is a gorgeous photoshoot to go with the article

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Source: Interview Magazine.

Elda Ferri and Allen Bain announced today the wrap of principal photography on Director Roberto Faenza’s “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You” based on Peter Cameron’s award-winning novel of the same name. Praised by critics and readers alike, Cameron’s 2007 novel has been favorably compared to “The Catcher in the Rye.”
 
A heartfelt New York comedy, the film was shot entirely in New York and stars Toby Regbo (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows”) in his first lead role as well as veteran actors Marcia Gay Harden, Peter Gallagher, Ellen Burstyn and Stephen Lang and features Deborah Ann Woll (“True Blood”), Aubrey Plaza (“Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World”) and Lucy Liu. 

“Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You” is a funny and tender film about James Sveck (Regbo), a vulnerable teenager with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. James is the child of divorced parents living in Manhattan (Harden and Gallagher). While his estranged parents may be better served examining their own lives, they seem more content conspiring to guide him in a more “normal” direction.

James, however, rejects all the assumptions that govern the adult world around him, including the expectation that he will go college in the fall. Articulate, sensitive, and cynical, he would much prefer to move to an old house in the country and spend his life reading books and learning long forgotten trades.

Read more @ Broadway World.

The drama tells the tale of an isolated youngster (Toby Regbo) who must contend with his dysfunctional family the summer before he heads to college. Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu and Stephen Lang are already on board.

Source: Reuters.

The film, which is being directed by Roberto Faenza, centers on a recent high school grad (to be played by Toby Regbo) who feels out of step among his affluent peers despite being raised in a privileged albeit broken home by his mother.

Source: Theatermania.

A review on Mr Nobody

A very, very old and possibly senile man lies in hospital in 2092 and gradually recalls key fragments of his life in a jumble of flashbacks, flash forwards, near-death experiences and fantasy in Belgian filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody, an ambitious, if uneven, experimental sci-fi romance that is less a thought-provoker than a dazzling juggling act.

We learn our protagonist’s name is Nemo (Latin for “no one”), a sly reference to Jules Verne’s underwater captain considering this Nemo can’t swim, an important factor in several path-altering decisions. The emotional crux of the film is a brutal scene in which nine-year-old Nemo (Thomas Byrne), whose parents are divorcing, stands on a train platform and is asked to choose whether to leave with his mother (Natasha Little) or stay with his father (Rhys Ifans). We see three versions of him as a teen (a fine performance by Toby Regbo) and as a 34-year-old (Leto) which result from him taking both tracks, so to speak, of that childhood decision.

READ MORE @ The Globe And Mail.