22 August 2008

I believe the Terminator series returns on 8 September 2008 in the US. Here's a nice new promo photo of Lena as Sarah Connor from Fox.

The first season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles came out on DVD in the UK on 11 August 2008.

6 June 2008

This week some Terminator season 2 photos of Lena have turned up. Some of them are on newfilmdimension.com.

There's a nice gallery of Lena at www.digicelebs.com.

2 May 2008

According to www.tvshowsondvd.com the first season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be out on DVD in August. Extras will include commentary tracks and mini-documentaries.

23 April 2008

The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been renewed by Fox for a second season.

The network has greenlit a second season of the franchise series, picking up 13 new episodes. Move wasn't a surprise; net and Warner Bros. TV had already started staffing a second season of the show.

Source: www.variety.com

21 April 2008

The final episode in the all too short first season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles aired in the UK last week. I'll miss it. Will there be a second season? Check out this message from TVGuide:

We interrupt your regularly scheduled weekend activities to bring you this urgent public service announcement: She'll be back! Although Fox declined comment, multiple sources confirm to me exclusively that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been renewed for a second season.

Source:community.tvguide.com

That would be a "Yay!"

12 April 2008

Scans of the Lena article from Cult Times can be found on both sarahconnoronline.com and sarahconnorsociety.com.

St Trinian's is out on DVD in the UK on Monday 14 April 2008.

Looks like the last episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on Virgin 1 next week. That was a short season. I've really been enjoying it so I hope it gets renewed.

2 April 2008

Here's another Red Baron article, this time on the BBC news website.

There is a two-page article about Lena in the current issue of Cult Times (April 2008).

27 March 2008

It appears that Ealing Studios is planning a sequel to last year's St Trinian's film. No word yet if Lena will be returning.

Ealing Studios is planning a sequel to its hit St Trinian's film. Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft, who worked on the 2007 project, are writing the sequel script now.

The ensemble cast of last year's film featured Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Lena Headey, Russell Brand, Gemma Arterton, Mischa Barton, Jodie Whittaker, and Lily Cole. There is no word yet who will reprise their roles in the planned sequel.

The schoolgirl comedy, based on the cartoons by Ronald Searle and reviving the popular film franchise from the 1950s and 1960s, had a budget of $13m (£6.5m) and has become one of the recent surprise smash hits at the UK box office, taking $24.8m (£12.3m) in its home territory.

Barnaby Thompson, head of Ealing Studios, who produced and co-directed St Trinian's alongside Oliver Parker, suggests success is largely down to the support and guaranteed distribution deal with Entertainment Film Distributors. "Entertainment was very supportive," says Thompson. "Without that, the numbers wouldn't have added up.

"The challenge with the film was that, in order for it to compete, it had to be made on a big scale. We were very ambitious in terms of the production values and the casting. And the fact that it's a concept that is very UK-centred made it difficult. It had to have a budget that was big enough but also achievable in the UK."

St Trinian's, sold by Ealing's new sales arm Ealing Studios International, has also sold to a number of territories where it has yet to open, including Italy, Germany, France and Scandinavia.

Source: www.screendaily.com.

20 March 2008

There's an interview with Lena at www.boston.com where she discusses her role on "The Tharah Connor Chroniclth".

The only complaint Lena Headey can muster about her new series is the title. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. And to make matters worse, she confides that she and her costars amuse themselves by adding a lisp when they say it: "The Tharah Connor Chroniclth."

18 March 2008

There is a long article about The Red Baron at www.independent.co.uk. Lena gets another mention. This prompted me to do a bit of searching. The official site for the movie can be found at www.redbaron-themovie.com. The movie opens in Germany on 10 April 2008.

I went hunting for some photos and gathered up the following from various sources. Nice to see Lena on the poster! The wallpaper image is from the official site and you can get it in different sizes over there.

17 March 2008

There's a piece in the Guardian about the new Red Baron movie that Lena has a part in.

Lena Headey, best known for 300 and television's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is the love interest Käte Otersdorf, a nurse who may or may not have had a romance with Richthofen in real life.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk.

15 March 2008

Lena's making a new movie:

Josh Lucas and Lena Headey will begin filming Tell-Tale, a loose contemporary update of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Tell-Tale Heart, Monday on locations in Burrillville and Providence.

Source: www.projo.com

Here are a couple of UK pieces about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles dating from when it started on Virgin 1 few weeks ago:

I have to say I'm enjoying the show so far.

23 February 2008

There's an interview with Lena Headey at www.popmatters.com.

22 February 2008

The first episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles was on Virgin 1 in the UK last night. not a bad little show considering that they are doing The Terminator on a TV budget. I will look forward to my weekly fix of Lena. And killer robots! From the future!

Here's a couple of very nice promo photos that I found:

16 February 2008

I had more or less abandoned this page, but lately my interest in all things Lena-shaped has returned thanks to The Sarah Connor Chronicles which starts in the UK on Virgin 1 next Thursday, 21 February.

There's a piece about Lena in today's Times newspaper:

Link: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

There's also a Terminator article in the new issue of SFX.

15 July 2007

www.slashfilm.com has listed a schedule of the San Diego ComicCon. Here are the Lena bits...

Friday, July 27
3:15-4:45
Warner Bros. Home Video: 300 and Blade Runner Final Cut—First up, 300 creator Frank Miller, director Zack Snyder, stars including Lena Headey and David Wenham, producers Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari, and other special guests are on hand to discuss the groundbreaking film and its highly anticipated July 31 DVD release. Be the first to see a clip not included in the theatrical release!

Saturday, July 28
5:15-6:30
The Sarah Connor Chronicles Screening and Q&A—Catch the first-ever fan screening of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the television incarnation of the Terminator franchise, followed by a Q&A with stars Lena Headey (300), Thomas Dekker (Heroes), Summer Glau (Firefly), and Richard T. Jones (Event Horizon), along with executive producers Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), David Nutter (The X-Files), and James Middleton (of C-2 Pictures, producers of the Terminator trilogy). Produced by C-2 Pictures in association with Warner Bros. Television, The Sarah Connor Chronicles will air Sundays at 9 PM ET/PT on FOX, starting midseason. Room 6CDEF

There's a review of Lena's movie The Contractor at dvd.monstersandcritics.com.

Lena has been nominated for a teen choice award.

28 June 2007

Lena's Terminator hit coming to British TV Jun 27 2007
By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A NEW adventure series starring Huddersfield actress Lena Headey is heading for the UK.

Virgin Media have snapped up the UK rights to The Sarah Connor Chronicles - a spin-off from the massively-successful Terminator films.

And it is expected to be another huge success for Headey, who got rave reviews for her last film role in 300.

Celia Taylor signed up the new series for the UK cable company yesterday.

In a deal concluded with Warner Bros International Television, Virgin 1 has secured exclusive UK rights to forthcoming US drama The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which the US studio is making for Fox to be shown in the autumn.

The series follows the life of the mother of John Connor, the leader of the human resistance in a future world ruled by machines, as she fights off yet more death-dealing droids.

Headey stars as Sarah Connor, with Thomas Dekker as her son John.

They go on the offensive against the androids that are intent on taking over the world.

Taylor, who is director of programming for Virgin 1, said her channel would be giving the Sarah Connor series "the full multimedia treatment" by offering viewers catch-ups and previews via Virgin Media's websites and on-demand broadband services.

"The Sarah Connor series stood head and shoulders above other content at the LA Screenings," she added. The show is also expected to rerun on other Virgin channels.

Headey, 33, has been filming for the role in Los Angeles.

The series is being directed by David Nutter, who has been responsible for high-profile successes like ER and The Sopranos.

Lena Headey got her big break at the age of 17.

She was appearing in a Shelley High School production at London's Royal National Theatre and was snapped up for a role opposite Jeremy Irons in Waterlands.

Since then she has appeared in more than 30 films.

Virgin 1 will broadcast free-to-air on Freeview replacing Sky One on Virgin's cable platform as a 24- hour channel.

Source: ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk.

I'm glad to hear that Virgin 1 will be on Freeview, although I think it must be replacing Sky Three or Sky News as Freeview doesn't carry Sky One...

Daniela got in touch to say that according to piperandlena.com "Lena has gotten married to Peter Paul in Belfast, May 19th 2007..." News to me! Can anyone confirm this? If it's true then congratulations to Lena!

16 June 2007

'Virgin Media Television, in a groundbreaking deal with Warner Bros. International Television, has secured exclusive U.K. rights to the upcoming drama "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," starring British actress Lena Headey.' Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

9 June 2007

The new issue of Starburst magazine (#351) has a full-page photo of the cast of The Sarah Connor Chronicles and I've scanned it in.

26 May 2007

300 has a UK DVD release date of 17 September 2007.

23 May 2007

There's a trailer for Lena's TV show The Sarah Connor Chronicals over on youtube.

19 May 2007

Lena Headey will star in "Six Bullets From Now," which is loosely based on a true story. Headey plays the good-hearted girl-friend of a thief (Josh Lucas ) who plans a heist at New York's Pierre Hotel in 1971. Tim Roth and Dermot Mulroney play his accomplices.

Source: www.detnews.com

16 May 2007

Lena is number 64 in the Maxim magazine's Hot 100.

2 May 2007

Lena has been nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category of Best Breakthrough Performance in 300. The full list of nominees can be found here. The awards take place on 3 June 2007.

15 April 2007

Comingsoon.net and other sites have posted the first photo of Lena in The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

11 April 2007

Variety is reporting that Lena Headey is joining the cast of the new 'St Trinian's' movie.

LONDON — Several new cast members have joined the Ealing Studios comedy "St Trinian's," including Toby Jones ("Infamous") and Lena Headey ("300").

Jones and Headey, along with Celia Imrie and Anna Chancellor, will play staff at the infamous girls' boarding school of the title, while model Lily Cole and newcomer Gemma Arteton will play two of the schoolgirls.

The movie, currently shooting, is directed by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson, and financed by Entertainment Film Distributors and the U.K. Film Council.

Previously announced cast include Rupert Everett, Colin Firth and Caterina Murino.

Source: Variety.com

8 April 2007

A story on www.bbcamerica.com guided me to this article at the New York Times on the number of British actors working on US television at the moment. Lena gets a mention due to her upcoming role in the Terminator spin-off series The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

3 April 2007

I've found another cheerful article about Lena called Lena Headey Almost Abandoned Acting. Here's a taster:

"The actress Lena Headey nearly decided to give up on the profession after an unpleasant on set disagreement with the director Terry Gilliam whilst making the film, The Brothers Grimm."

Interesting. I had read somewhere that Terry Gilliam had wanted Samantha Morton for the part. The Brothers Grimm is not a bad movie but I think the script could have used a couple more drafts.

Not exactly news, but I should mention that Lena is presently staring in 300, based on Frank Miller's graphic novel. It's been a big hit in both the US and UK. I've not seen it yet, but already I want this poster...

And did you know you can get a Lena Headey action figure? Yes you can! Here's Queen Gorgo from 300...

Dianne sent me in a link to her If Only page, part of her Douglas Henshall site. Click www.douglashenshall.com to check it out.

31 March 2007

I've added the nine scans from InStyle to the Photo Gallery. I'll start looking for something else to scan!

Here's a cheerful article about called Lena Headey Reveals Her Depression Hell.

28 March 2007

I have added the photos of Lena's shoot for ES magazine. You can find them in the Photo Gallery.

27 March 2007

I've been a fan of Lena Headey for some time and for the last year or so I've been intending doing a fan page about her. I've finally had a burst of enthusiasm and this is the result.

To kick things off I've scanned in the best three articles I've seen of Lena. They include her shoot for ES magazine in 2005 plus her apperances last year in Arena and InStyle UK. Tonight I have started with the Arena photos. You can find them in the Photo Gallery. Over the next few days I'll add the others.

Over the next few weeks I will also dig out my other clippings and scan the best.

There are a number of good fan sites already and I've linked to them in the links area.

TV and Movie List

Vivaldi (2008)
The Brøken (2008)
The Red Baron (2007)
The Shooter (2007)
The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2007)
300 (2006)
Ultra (2006)
Imagine Me & You (2005)
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
The Cave (2005)
The Long Firm (2004)
No Verbal Response (2003)
The Actors (2003)
Ripley's Game (2002)
Possession (2002)
The Gathering Storm (2002)
The Parole Officer (2001)
Anazapta (2001)
Round About Five (2001)
Aberdeen (2000)
Gossip (2000)
Ropewalk (2000)
Onegin (1999)
Inside-Out (1999)
If Only (1998)
Merlin (1998)
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
Face (1997)
The Hunger (1997)
Kavanagh QC (1997)
Gold (1997)
Ballykissangel (1996)
The Grotesque (1995)
Loved Up (1995)
Band of Gold (1995)
Devil's Advocate (1995)
The Jungle Book (1994)
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994)
Fair Game (1994)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Spender (1993)
Soldier Soldier (1993)
Century (1993)
Waterland (1992)
Clothes in the Wardrobe (1992)

Links

If you find another link I should know about please get in touch! Ta!