Calling all UK-based TeamSugar members! In addition to our current competition where you can win a year of films, we’ve got another fab London Film Festival giveaway for you!

We’ve teamed up with Pathe to give away a pair of tickets to a special LFF screening of Easy Virtue. The witty film, set in the 1920s, explores the culture clash between dusty English aristocrats and a brash, bohemian American (Jessica Biel), who marries into the Whittaker family (Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ben Barnes). It’s released nationwide on 7th Nov, but we’re offering one lucky winner the chance to attend an exclusive LFF preview screening at 8.45pm on Wed. 29th Oct.

All you have to do to be in with a chance is leave a comment before midnight (BST) on Mon. 27 Oct. One winner will be selected at random. You need to be a TeamSugar member to enter, so if you’re not already one and want to enter you MUST register for an account now. One entry per person; all repeat entries will be ignored.

You must be prepared to travel to London on 29th October for an 8.45pm start at the Rich Mix Cinema. Travel and accommodation are not included.

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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S., Latin American and South African distribution rights to Stephan Elliot’s “Easy Virtue.” The updated adaptation of Noel Coward’s play toplines Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Sources estimated the acquisition at around $1 million.

Helmer Elliot (”The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”) also scripted, adapting Coward’s play with Sheridan Jobbins. Producers are Ealing Studios/Fragile Films’ Barnaby Thompson, Joseph Abrams and Endgame’s James Stern.

Stern was involved with another pic snapped up by Sony Classics after Toronto: He co-directed and produced “A Chorus Line” docu “Every Little Step,” for which the deal closed on Sept. 15.

Pic was produced and financed in association with Odyssey Entertainment, BBC Films and Prescience Production Partnerships.

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The official UK poster for Easy Virtue has been releaed, and it’s pretty much the official website in poster form, the film is rated PG and the sound track is coming out November 2008 which is super exciting since Jessica will be singing on the album! Yay!

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Both Powder Blue and Easy Virtue are going to be at the American Film Market, this is the perfect place for the films to get an American distributor so all of us USA fans can see them - Be sure to check out their profiles to find premiere dates and such

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Jessica Biel is not just a body. The 26-year-old actress is not just known for her fab abs, glutes, buttocks and breasts, and for boldly featuring them in movies such as The Rules of Attraction, Blade and Stealth. And, certainly, she’s not just a Hollywood poster girl, current partner of Justin Timberlake, and an über-babe. She’s more than that.

How much more? Well, for starters she goes head to head, and emerges unscathed, with national treasure Kristin Scott Thomas in the period comedy Easy Virtue. The film, adapted from an obscure Noel Coward play by Priscilla, Queen of the Desert director Stephan Elliot, details the effect that a brash young American wife Larita (Biel) has on the denizens of a crumbling English pile, and more specifically on her new mother-in-law, the terrifyingly respectable Veronica Whittaker (Thomas).

The two women trade barbs and slurs for 90 minutes in the midst of dinner parties and garden walks. A sample attack, from Thomas: “Is it true that you’ve had as many lovers as they say?” A sample retort, from Biel: “Of course it’s not true. Hardly any of them actually loved me.” And off-camera there was also frostiness.

“There was definitely an element of distance between us,” Biel admits. “Kristin would dip in and out of character. Mostly she stayed within a space that was kind of uncomfortable for me, but perfect for the film.” Director Elliot later adds: “Right from day one they were like cats circling each other. I said, ‘Don’t change a f***ing thing! Go with it!’ There’s a lot of reality coming off on this film.”

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Sony Pictures Classics has picked up Latin American rights to Stephan Elliott’s “Easy Virtue,” the 1920s-set romantic comedy with dynamite disco tracks.

Pic, loosely based on the play by Noel Coward about a British aristocrat who falls for an American divorcee, much to the chagrin of his family, has won praise from critics and marks a comeback for Elliott, who was forced to put his career on hold for almost a decade after suffering a near-fatal ski accident in France.

Pic stars Ben Barnes, Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth.

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I come bringing you information on The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival! It will be showing ‘Easy Virtue’ on October 28th & 29th - Hopefully there will be premiere photos that Jesse can attend and we can get a new event! So we have a little over a month until it premieres there.. But just letting you all know Check out the page below!:

Easy Virtue @ The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival

17 September 2008
MEIFF to pay tribute to actress Jane Fonda

Abu Dhabi - The organizers of the second Middle East International Film Festival, to be held from October 10-19, announced the special presentations line-up today at a press conference held at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH). ……………………………

The MEIFF 2008 Special Presentations to be screened are:

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Easy Virtue (UK), directed by Stephan Elliott. Starring, Jessica Biel, Kristen Scott Thomas, Colin Firth and Ben Barnes.

Larita, a Jazz Age race-car driver impulsively marries young Englishman John Whittaker in Monte Carlo and travels to England to meet his privileged and batty family who naturally, hate her. John’s mother and sisters try their best to sabotage the newlyweds while his father, develops a deep bond with the bride founded on their mutual appreciation for motorbikes and flouting social etiquette

Easy Virtue’s Stephan Elliott has revealed that Justin Timberlake brought some unwanted guests on the set of the film.

The SexyBack star is dating Jessica Biel, who stars in the film, and was followed by some photographers when he visited the set.

“There was a bit of paparazzi, specifically when Justin turned up one day, and that’s when it got out of hand,” the Australian filmmaker recalled at the film’s premiere in Toronto.

“There’s a 20s dinner scene where everybody’s dressed to the nines, and there are these lenses coming up in the background of the shot. Snapperazzi! We had a couple of bad guys, but they’re generally pretty cool.”

While Justin doesn’t have a guest appearance in the film, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Stephan says he’ll be happy to give him a cameo in his next film.

Yeah! Why not?” he said, smiling.

In Easy Virtue, Jessica plays a glamorous American divorcee who ties the knot to a young Englishman, played by Prince Caspian’s Ben Barnes.

“The movie’s about marrying wrong. That’s the real heart of it,” added the director. “It’s not easy, and marriage isn’t easy. Her (Jessica’s) character discovers five minutes into the film that she’s made a terrible mistake.”