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In autumn 2011, ‘In Bruges’ director Martin McDonagh will start shooting a new comedy in LA, called ‘Seven Psychopaths’. Colin Farrell will play one of the lead roles, next to other famous actors like Mikey Rourke, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell.

Like ‘In Bruges’, the script is written by McDonagh himself. The dark comedy centres on Farrell’s struggling screenwriter character who is inspired by the scams of his two oddball friends who decide to kidnap valuable dogs. They get into more trouble than they bargained for when they accidentally steal a psychotic gangster’s Shih Tzu.

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The hotel price comparison site trivago has put together a list of ten top-rated hotels, all of which have featured prominently in internationally successful movies. The travellers - who rated the hotels for this list - put the ‘In Bruges’ hotel Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce on the fifth place.

The shooting of the movie ‘In Bruges’ dates from 2008. The crew rented the whole hotel for 3 months to film the room where the characters of Colin Farell and Brendan Gleeson could stay low after a failed job as contract killers.

The top 10 movie hotel list:

1. Hôtel de Paris (Monaco, Film: Iron Man 2, 2010)
2. Hotel Park Hyatt Tokyo (Tokyo, Film: Lost in Translation, 2003)
3. Grand Hotel de Cabourg (Cabourg, Film: Coco Before Chanel, 2009)
4. Hotel Giraffe (New York, Film: Sex and the City - the movie, 2008)
5. Hotel Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce (Bruges, Film: In Bruges, 2008)
6. Budapest Marriott Hotel (Budapest, Film: Munich, 2005)
7. Hotel 71 (Chicago, Film: The Dark Knight, 2008)
8. Hotel de la Reconquista (Oviedo, Film: Vicky Christina Barcelona, 2008)
9. Grandhotel Pupp (Karlsbad, Film: Casino Royal, 2006)
10. Hotel Regina (Paris, Film: The Bourne Identity, 2002)

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Once again, great news for Martin McDonagh and the ‘in Bruges’-crew. The academy nominated Martin in the category ‘Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen’. It ’s his second nomination. Let’s cross our fingers on February 22nd and hope he wins his second oscar!

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Another great day for the movie ‘In Bruges’. It received 3 nominations for the ‘Golden Globes’…

‘In Bruges’ is nominated in these categories:

• Best Picture - Comedy/Musical

• Best Actor - Colin Farell

• Best Actor - Brendan Gleeson

On January 11th 2009, we ‘ll know more…

UPDATE (JAN 12th): Congratulations to Colin Farell! He won a golden globe for ‘Best Actor’

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OSCAR WINNING director Martin McDonagh has won the top prize in the second Annual Writers Guild Awards.

He was awarded the best film script for In Bruges , which he wrote and directed and which was released to critical and commercial success earlier this year. The dark comedy stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen exiled to the Belgian city of Bruges to await instructions from their boss, played by Ralph Fiennes.

The other nominees in the category were Mark O’Halloran for Garage and Mark O’Rowe for Boy A .

The awards, known as ZeBBies after actor and writer OZ Whitehead (aka Zebby), are staged by the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild (IPSG) and were presented in The Sugar Club, Dublin yesterday by Senator David Norris.

O’Halloran won best television script for Georgie’s Story , the third episode of the Prosperity drama four-part series shown on RTÉ1 last year. The other nominees were Marcus Fleming for The Running Mate (Episode 1) on TG4 and Graham Linehan for The IT Crowd (Series 2: Episode 1, The Work Outing ) which is shown on Channel 4.

The award for best theatre script went to Christian O’Reilly for Is This About Sex? and the best radio script was by Belfast woman Lucy Caldwell for Girl from Mars which was broadcast on BBC Radio Four earlier this year.

Source: Irishtimes.com