EDDIE THE EAGLE : Promotion and Box Office

[annetter]

FYI
AOL Build is an internet interview show
AOL building is downtown & is different from Time Warner Center @ Columbus Circle

[jo]

Thanks, Annette

Lol - that was why I was wondering why they backtracked on the name -- wasn't it called AOL-TIME/WARNER Center before?

Jo

[annetter]

i don't recall aol & time warner being partners

[jo]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner_Center

Originally constructed as the AOL Time Warner Center, the building encircles the western side of Columbus Circle and straddles the border between Midtown and the Upper West Side.

But the historic merger between AOL and Time Warner ( the largest in financial history) was followed eventually by a split between the two companies --


fortune.com/2015/01/10/15-years-later-lessons-from-the-failed-aol-time-warner-merger/

[annetter]

cool thx for the explanation

[jo]

www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/657111-talking-eddie-the-eagle-with-hugh-jackman-taron-egerton-and-director-dexter-fletcher?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=talking-eddie-the-eagle-with-hugh-jackman-taron-egerton-and-director-dexter-fletcher&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#/slide/1


Excerpts --

By comparison, Jackman’s character Bronson Peary is a fictional one, made up for the story. “There are elements of the story that are fictionalized,” he explained. “A lot of it’s for real but at the end of the day, as Dexter said, ‘Let’s not let the truth get in the way of a good story.’ My character has a go on his own in the whole movie, it’s going to get pretty boring, so they came up with an idea or a construction of him having a coach. I don’t think he had a coach at all officially.”

“I think he crossed paths with people,” Eggerton chimed in.

“He probably picked up some info here and there, so the movie is not just a sports movie,” Jackman continued. “It’s primarily a story about his exploits but it also becomes about his friendship. The movie itself has this great theme of ‘You don’t have to win to be a winner in life’ so in every way I wanted to do it.”...

Eggerton had a chance to see the movie at the annual Butt-Numb-A-Thon this past December and was blown away by what a receptive audience the geek movielovers were to Eddie the Eagle, it not being their normal fare. “That was the most incredible audience I’ve been around. They were wonderful. There was about ten spontaneous rounds of applause throughout the whole movie, it was interesting. They were so supportive and so clearly enjoyed it and loved it and they all tweeted saying how much they enjoyed it. I’d go again in a heartbeat. I didn’t go for ‘Kingsmen’ but I’m intending to go back with ‘Kingsmen 2.’”

Next up for Eggerton is Billionaires Boys’ Club with Ansel Elgort and Kevin Spacey. It will be Egerton’s first American role—he “borrowed” Hugh’s dialect coach Jeff Platt for the part—...

[jo]

Is this the NYC premiere?

The AOL Build Event for February 23 is already SOLD OUT!

buildtickets.eventfarm.com/tokens/event/7fff5387-0000-455b-aa5b-d90429feb62d

SOLD OUT


Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton


New Film: "Eddie the Eagle"
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
5:15PM ET

[annetter]

NO IT'S AN INTERNET INTERVIEW SHOW, I THINK

[jo]

Ah...okay.

After the AOL Build event, maybe they will then proceed to the New York premiere which was supposed to happen that evening?


Jo

[jo]

It looks like Hugh did not make the Toronto screening --

Theresa Lubowitz ‏@theresalubowitz · 2h2 hours ago

Thanks @realhughjackman for your apologies on missing Toronto screening of #FlyLikeEddie. Movie was great!

Kevin Ahoy ‏@flightsimgeek · 2h2 hours ago

@dexfletch Thanks for the great Q & A in Toronto! Very entertaining & uplifting film. Sorry @realhughjackman couldn't make it.#FlyLikeEddie

Will he be able to make the other stops in the roadshow?

Or is he still healing from his recent surgical procedure?


Jo

[jo]

Or maybe they were not really going to Toronto, although Dexter Fletcher tweeted that he was going to Toronto and implied that Hugh and Taron will also be there.

MR. WILL WONG ⛄
‏@mrwillw
Sorry, Toronto fans! Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton due to unforeseen delays have cancelled their appearance at the #EddieTheEagle Premiere.

[mamaleh]

I'm thinking the polar weather and storms probably prohibited their flying to Toronto. Hundreds of flights were canceled this weekend.

Ellen

[jo]

You mean to say that EDDIE THE EAGLE, whose motto is "FlyHigh!" could not get there with his unusual mode of transport ( and he can do it, too, over snow and ice)...while Hugh could not ask the help of fellow mutant Nightcrawler to teleport him to the Windy City

Jo

[jo]

Seriously, maybe that was what the tweeter meant with his phrase " due to unforeseen delays" .

On our side of the world, it is a bit colder (low of 20*F in Manila but low of 11*F in our Pine City) than usual but because the northeast monsoon (aka tropical winds) is blowing down on our northern shores. Sort of tropical vortex

Jo

[jo]

Hugh, Taron, and Dexter are due in Dallas for a premiere on February 18.

redcarpetcrash.com/dallas-win-reserved-seats-to-a-special-red-carpet-screening-of-eddie-the-eagle-with-hugh-jackman/

[jo]

There is a new friend helping promote EDDIE THE EAGLE -- if he could only lead all his friends to the cinema to watch Eddie fly high

www.eonline.com/news/740683/ryan-reynolds-interviews-hugh-jackman-to-ask-all-the-juicy-questions-we-ve-been-dying-to-know

[jo]

Hugh tells us all about it --

Hugh Jackman ‏@realhughjackman · 14h14 hours ago

Mate you are like gum on my shoe! youtu.be/OqLVvj6Ks20
@eddieeaglemovie @vancityreynolds

[jo]

At Chicago premiere --



























Is it just me...or is Hugh getting handsomer by the day

[jo]

Check out an interview with 4 smitten ladies --

www.thesocial.ca/culture/film/hugh-jackman-and-taron-egerton-have-fun-with-accen

[jo]

[jo]

Hugh Jackman ‏@realhughjackman · 20m20 minutes ago

Come to Papa!! #bananasfoster #TheWindyCity @eddieeaglemovie @dexfletch @ralphlauren Thank you!!

[jo]

Has Richard Roeper been roped in to give the EDDIE team ( Hugh and Taron) a helicopter tour of Chicago?

www.fox32chicago.com/mornings/93097720-story

Is Richard part of the FOX media team? And can we expect a great review from him - haha!

Jo

[jo]

GQ analyzes the Ryan/Hugh interview --

www.gq.com/story/ryan-reynolds-hugh-jackman-eddie-eagle-interview

But the best part of the interview is when he turns to fan questions from "Bryan Bleynolds" to set the record straight about Jackman's shoe lifts from X-Men Origins: Wolverine...

Er...I thought it had more to do with making fun of Hugh's height being too incongruous with the one-foot-less tall comic-book Wolverine? And also the well-known fact that Hugh was made to look less tall (via a filming trick) than co-star James Marsden in the first XMEN movie and that the comic-book Wolvie is not supposed to be tall?


Jo

[mamaleh]

It was all in silly good fun--a fun interview.

Ellen

[jo]

Please scroll down for a few interviews with Hugh ( and/or Taron) from this Taron fansite --


taron-egerton.us/topics/eddie-the-eagle/