Last night Saoirse Ronan attended Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Costume Institute Gala. I’ve uploaded 5 HQ pictures of the actress arriving at the event. Saoirse shines in a sultry red Rodarte gown, Jack Vartanian earrings and Neil Lane bracelet.

Saoirse appeared in two magazines this month and I’ve uploaded the scans on our gallery. Be sure to check it out!

[1x] Magazine Scans > 2011 > W Magazine

[1x] Magazine Scans > 2011 > The Dubliner

And thanks to Saoirse Ronan Web we have the article on The Dubliner:

For two months before shooting began on this month’s action thriller Hanna, 17-year-old Saoirse Ronan endured a daily four-hour regimen of martial arts and weight lifting to play a girl trained by her father—a former Central Intelligence Agency operative (Eric Bana)—to assassinate a top CIA official (Cate Blanchett). It’s not the first time Ronan has been called upon to portray a kid with very adult challenges. In Atonement, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination, she played 13-year-old Briony Tallis, whose rape allegation dooms the love affair between Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. In Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, she was 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who narrates her own murder investigation from beyond the grave. Yet to Ronan’s surprise, she found some childlike elements in the character of Hanna. “At first I thought, This is going to be a badass kid,” says the Irish actress. “But she turned into something else, which was actually quite innocent.” Although Hanna is very much an action movie (set to a thumping Chemical Brothers score), it’s also a coming-of-age story, to which Ronan can relate. “I’m still figuring out who I am,” she admits.

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I’ve uploaded new stills and a behind the scenes picture of Hanna:

[2x] Productions> Hanna > Promotional Stills

[1x] Productions > Hanna > Behind the Scenes

Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
Apr 22 – 24 weekend

1. Rio – $26,800,000
2. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family – $25,750,000
3. Water for Elephants – $17,500,000
4. Hop – $12,460,917
5. Scream 4 – $7,154,000
6. African Cats – $6,003,200
7. Soul Surfer – $5,436,868
8. Hanna – $5,296,302

Thanks Yahoo!Movies

Tim Estiloz watched and reviewed Hanna for Critic’s Choice. You can read it here:

From the opening scenes in the new film “Hanna”, we immediately learn the title character is certainly no ordinary 16-year old girl. Indeed, Hanna’s intensity, focus and skill in hunting down, killing and graphically gutting a massive reindeer for food armed with little more than a bow and arrow amid a frigid and remote forest… indicates a girl far more mature and hardened beyond her years.
Read full article.

Brendon Connelly from Bleeding Cool talks about a new supposed Saoirse´s project. But it´s just a rumor of course.. Check out!

Eoin Colfer has described his Artemis Fowl novels as “Die Hard with fairies”. I’ve never read them, but I just ran that description past a former student of mine who has and she said “Okay, I suppose, if he says so”. She added that the books are named after their lead character, who’s like “the anti-Harry Potter”, and described him as a rather winning young master crook at large in a fantasy version of our world.

With a pitch like that, I’m not too surprised there’s a big screen adaptation in the works. Yet, according Colfer, who was speaking to the Irish Independent‘s Weekend Review, director Jim Sheridan is currently ” in LA, trying to get it unblocked”.

The problem, apparently, is “the format of the movie” – which might mean they’re arguing about how many books worth of story to squeeze into one film, or if they end on a cliffhanger or a happy ending with every bow tied neatly. These were arguments that the filmmakers behind, for example, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings and The Spiderwick Chronicles all had to go through.

Sheridan previously directed My Left Foot and In The Name of the Father, to give just two fine examples, and has Dream House with Daniel Craig coming along later in the year. I like most of his films a great deal, and all of them at least a little. And yes, that includes Get Rich or Die Trying, the 50 Cent film he was responsible for.

The same newspaper reported back in February that Saoirse Ronan took meetings with Sheridan about the role of Holly Short, a member of the elven law force. Colfer punningly calls these characters LEPRecons, or members of the Lower Element Police Reconnaissance. This week, the Irish Independent say, Colfer “wants” Ronan to take the role.

Well, who wouldn’t?

Here’s hoping Sheridan can break through the blockage. I’d also like to see him sign Ronan. She’s good, even in bad films.

PopSugar made an interview with Saoirse and Hanna director, Joe Wright:

Watch a Blu-ray clip from The Way Back DVD.