Here is a little newspaper-article: In 2007 Sean Bean visited the"Royal Hallamshire Hospital" in Sheffield, to support the fundraising for a new unit...

Clegg to open new hospital unit
Published Date: 15 October 2009
HALLAM MP and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will join nationally acclaimed leukaemia experts next week to officially open the Royal Hallamshire Hospital's new haematology unit.

The unit's life-saving equipment and improved facilities were partly funded by £420,000 from the Sheffield Leukaemia and Blood Disorders Appeal.

The appeal was backed by the Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust and was launched by Sheffield actor Sean Bean in 2007. It shot past its target of £150,000.

Josh Wright, consultant haematologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We have been overwhelmed by the level of support from patients, families and local residents.

"With the support of the trust and charity we can now offer excellent facilities for patients undergoing therapies for all types of blood disorders."...

Fundort: www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk - Info with thanks to Anne.

photo by Amanda Eliasch, Fundort: http://amandaeliasch.blogspot.com/2009/10/under-greenwood-tree-all-for-sake-of.html

Aaah! Gangsters! Not a film you do know? Well, so far, it is known to Bean-Fans as Essex Boys. Filmed in 1999 in England. The German DVD-Company KSM-Films (that is the company, that made the quite successful German Sharpe-DVD-Box) will bring out "Essex Boys" under the title "Gangsters" dubbed into German on the German market!. (start: 5. November 2009) So far, I I have avoided this film - on the very good reason, that even English-speaking persons had difficulties understanding, what was said. (And I wasn't too unhappy about that - this is no easy going film, but quite intense and dark) Well, it looks, like that excuse will now not work anymore, and I will have to watch that film - finally...

this is btw the German DVD-Cover:

Sooo. my job asks for permanent attention during the summer months, so I'm just catching up at the moment what's happened since the end of May:

Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief will be brought to cinemas worldwide in February 2010. There is now a official website online with a first trailer: www.percyjacksonthemovie.com

And Sean Bean seems to be cast in a new role: As "Eddard Stark" in "Game of Thrones". American TV-station HBO plans to make a pilot, filming should begin in October 2009 in Ireland. "Game of Thrones" is a very successfull fantasy-book-series with strong characters. Here is an image of "Ned Stark", Sean Beans Character...

Sean Bean is nominated for an acting award:

"TV Awards nominations announced
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 14:11 BST
by Dan French

Red Riding leads the nominations for this year's TV Quick and TV Choice Awards.

The three-part Channel 4 series picked up five nominations, with Sean Bean, Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey and Maxine Peake all up for acting awards and the series itself nominated in the best new drama category.
Peake will compete for the best actress crown with Kaya Scodelario for her role as Effy in E4's teen drama Skins , Jill Scott ( The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency ), Keeley Hawes ( Ashes To Ashes ) and Billie Piper ( Secret Diary Of A Call Girl ).
The awards ceremony, to be hosted by Primeval 's Ben Miller, will take place at London's Dorchester Hotel on September 7.

Prizes are awarded based on reader votes from TV Quick and TV Choice"

Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a156430/tv-awards-nominations-announced.html

with thanks to Evi.

You can vote here: www.tvquick.co.uk

EMPIRE MAGAZINE, the big british film magazin, celebrates its 20th birthday with a photographic Exhibition and charity auction, "...featuring 19 specially commissioned portraits..." of international stars, one of them is Sean Bean.

The exhibition will be held from May 21-27 here:
Century Club
61-63 Shaftesbury Avenue
London, W1D 6LG
Great Britain

"The exhibition will be open free of charge to the public on Thursday May 21 from 10.00am to 10.00pm. Visitors will be able to view and read about the exclusive portraits and enjoy refreshments in the Rose Langton rooms..."

On Thursday may 28 the portraits will then be auctioned in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity at the
Paramount Club
101-103 New Oxford Street, WC1
London, Great Britain

Read full article here: http://www.myvillage.com/events/event/show?id=2243387%3AEvent%3A3199583

Info with thanks to Anne

And don't forget Ca$h - it will have it's first screening in Cannes here:

CANNES Screening (Premiere)

Screenings

May 18 - 12:00 LERINS 2

May 19 - 18:00 LERINS 2

source: cashthefilmfanblog.blogspot.com

Black Death is sold to UK and 11 other countries. Read article here

Red Riding goes America! Read the following article:

"IFC nabs 'Red Riding Trilogy'
Films are inspired by Yorkshire Ripper case
By SHARON SWART
Posted: Thurs., May 14, 2009, 7:22am PT

IFC Films snapped up three British films inspired by the Yorkshire Ripper investigations called "The Red Riding Trilogy."

Each pic is helmed by a different director: Julian Jarrold's "1974," James Marsh's "1980" and Anand Tucker's "1983" are self-contained crime thrillers with plot threads that link the three films.

Cast includes Mark Addy, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, Andrew Garfield and Rebecca Hall.

Trilogy is based on David Peace's cult novels about a serial killer who stalked the Yorkshire area of England in the 1970s and 1980s. Scripts were penned by Tony Grisoni.

Pics are produced by Michael Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton's Revolution Films. StudioCanal handled sales.

"Red Riding" aired on Britain's Channel Four earlier this year. IFC Films plans a theatrical and video on demand release in fall."

source: www.variety.com - info with thanks to Terri

photo and translation into English by rg, 2009

As many of you will have heard, Chris Clarke, founder and secretary of the Sharpe Appreciation Society, got ill with an inoperable and terminal brain tumour a few weeks ago.

I have to inform you now, that Chris passed away in her sleep on Friday 1st May.

What can I say?

We met along the way. We exchanged occasionally e-mails. She was always friendly and very helpful, and, as people who knew her better than me, described her: full of life.

For people who knew her and want to express their condolences to her family: you might want to sponsor Chris's daughters in the 'Race for Life' taking place on 26th July in Nottingham, Chris's home town, to raise money for Cancer Research here: http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/clarkesisters

Dear Chris, I salute you.

Renate, am 4. Mai 2009

Casting Calls for Black Death to be found in two German Internet-Publications.

already since 27. March 2009 on this Site: my.modelvita.com They are looking for actors in small supporting roles. Since there are short descriptions of these roles, that tell a little bit about the film, I will in the next days post a translation into English :-) Thanks to Anne for this info.

also interesting is this short article from today in the Nordkurier, which says, apart from a short description of the film, (nothing new here), that the agency "Wanted" are looking for people of every age, who want to be in the big cinema-production "Black Death", at the side of Sean Bean and Carice van Houten. One can come at the 25. April to the Torgelower School, Goethestr. 2, for registering between 12:00 h - 18:00 h. Filming will be at the end of may.

If you want to go there, you can find Torgelow very far at the top and very far at the right of Germany :-)

"Kleindarsteller für Mittalterfilm gesucht

Torgelow (NK). Für die große Kino-Produktion „Black Death“ sucht die Agentur Wanted Kleindarsteller und Komparsen jeden Alters, die in dem Film mitwirken wollen. An der Seite von Sean Bean (Herr der Ringe) und Carice Van Houten (Operation Walküre) soll das Mittelalter wieder auferstehen.

Der Film spielt um das Jahr 1350. Es geht um die Schwarze Pest und ein kleines entlegenes Dörfchen, das erstaunlicherweise nicht von der Pest befallen wird. Ein Abgesandter des Bischofs und eine Gruppe Söldner machen sich auf den Weg in dieses Dorf, um herauszufinden, warum das so ist... Zu diesem Anlass kann man sich am

25. April von 12 bis 18 Uhr in der Torgelower Pestalozzi-Grundschule, Goethestraße 2, registrieren lassen. Es wird ein Personenbogen ausgefüllt und ein Foto erstellt. Gedreht wird Ende Mai. Außerdem ist neben Essen und Trinken, eine Vergütung pro Drehtag vorgesehen. Wer nicht zur Registrierung kommen kann aber trotzdem Lust hat, meldet sich unter 030 695 798 0 oder bewirbt sich unter: @!www.agentur-wanted.de

© Nordkurier.de am 22.04.2009" Fundort: www.nordkurier.de

...LIFF was nice enough to confirm, that Drumhead WILL be shown on 23 April 2009, 8:30pm to 10:00pm during "The Best of UK Shorts"
Danke Erich Schultz, London Independent Film Festival --- 13. April 2009

Sometime in the not too far away past Sean Bean must have found time, to do a shortfilm!

The Black Dog "...Britain’s leading left-field techno group..." from Sheffield, gave a short information on there website: www.theblackdogma.com about some studiowork, they did on 07. April.: "We’re back in the studio writing a piece of music for a short film by London filmmaker Alan Coltman featuring the voice of Sheffield’s favourite son Sean Bean. The film is called Drumhead and will debut at the London Independent Film Festival on the 23rd April.
The poem that Sean’s reading is called Strange Meeting and was written in 1918 by Wilfred Owen, who died a few days before the war end at Sambre."

The London Independent Filmfestival "...is dedicated to showcasing new emerging film talent." It runs from 17. - 27. April 2009. The Roxy, the Coronet, and the Curzon cinemas will be the hosts. Due to it's calendar, they will show on Thursday, April 23, 8:30 pm at the Roxy: "The Best of UK Shorts", this runs for 90 minutes. Since "Drumhead" is not listed anywhere else, this must be where it can be seen.
Fundort: www.londonindependentfilmfestival.org

Infos with thanks to Anne.

Black Death: oh... and here is also something more: on the Site of Egoli Tossell, the German Producers, this is now to be found regarding the film:

Black Death

Feature Film in pre-production

Chiller

14th century. The black plaque has killed millions. God's punishment? One village is miraculously spared from the pestilence, a village of faithless and invulnerable. A group of crusaders set forth to find and defeat the devil in this town. The young monk Osmund offers himself as their guide through the danger, while he really hopes to find Averill, his secret love.

CAST: Sean Bean
DIRECTOR: Christopher Smith
SCRIPT: Dario Poloni
DoP: Sebastian Edschmid
PRODUCERS: Jens Meurer, Phil Robertson
CO-PRODUCER: Robert Bernstein (Ecosse Films)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Judy Tossell, Chris Curling
SUPPORTED BY: MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
WORLD SALES: Hanway

Principal Photography coming soon!

Black Death is being shot from April through June, 2009 in Saxony-Anhalt. (source: www.egolitossell.com)

Infos mit einem großen Dankeschön an Tina!

Hmmm. This sounds promising, doesn't it? Only there are named not many actors... That's where I start to ask myself, if the Black death has (of course mistakenly) collected already in advance? And in the end there was only Sean Bean left? That would mean very much screentime for him this time... Well, no complaint from me :-)

Black Death: Ah! Like seen on www.crew-united.com, there is now named a "personal driver - Sean Bean"...Weeell! This kind of an indirect confirmation, that Sean Bean will be in the Film, and that they actually will start filming - is it not? Or why would they need a driver for him?

Thanks to Evi for this info!

Some people might ask themselves, what Sean Bean and his pretty wife Georgina are actually doing on the weekends in England? (When there is no play of Sheffield United, of course!) Well, last sunday, March, 29th, they were at the "Empire" - Party in London...

It was the night of the "Jameson Empire Awards 2009" and the Party must have been really big. And of course, there was the award ceremony itself. It must have been somewhere inbetween. Because, like you can look for yourself, all the people, like the Bean Sean as presenter of the "Icon"-Award, and - surprise! his buddy Viggo Mortensen as winner of it, were very, very jolly.

As proof don't miss this video here: www.empireonline.com/awards2009/winners/empire-icon.asp - Viggo Mortensens "Thank you"-speech!

Perhaps I should explain here, that "Jameson" is a Whiskey-brand? This makes it of course quite understandable, that the Mortensen Viggo came to the micro with a paperbag in hand, and gave at the beginning of his speech his good friend, Boromir, which is, in the end, the Sean, a bottle of same said brand.

And why the speech of him, I mean Aragorn, who is actually Viggo is done in a very happy mood... and when Viggo starts to explain (quite logically) why, when they play (perhaps) again together, Boromir will be a baby, and the Bean Sean can't stop laughing and tries in a nice way to bring his friend away from the micro, before he embarasses himself completely.... Ah well, like I said, look for yourself.

3. April 2009

It's April the 3., and Winona Kent has stopped to do the "Compleat". She lives in Vancouver, Canada. I live in München, Bavaria. So we never met in person, but due to this incredible new medium, the internet, we came to know each other nevertheless.

When I first searched for information about this great British actor, Sean Bean, back in 2001, it was Winona's Site, that emerged from the depths of the World Wide Web - and it never ceased to provide me since then with answers to my questions. The Compleat Sean Bean is done by Winona in best journalistic tradition: Extremely well researched, extraordinarily reliable, always to the point, always strictly divided between rumour and facts. And all texts done in Winona's beautiful writing style!

Winona is these days following her career as a scriptwriter. She can't complete the Compleat anymore, and this is a loss to all of us. But she promised, that it will stay. Not updated from now on, but online, as it is. And Danke, Winona, for this and all the immense work you have done over the years.

My own Website, bean-land.de, came to live in 2002, at first as a small German-only Site, that developed slowly in a lot of directions. Finally, it demands now, to express itself - and the opinions of it's webmistress - also in English language....

rg