First full reveal of Cillian in Peacock drag

22 February 2010 at 06:42 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Angelica and Nairin78

Many Cillian fans, especially those who loved Breakfast on Pluto, have been eagerly awaiting the first full reveal of Cillian in drag for his upcoming split personality role in Peacock. Finally, today, the first photo hit the Internet at ShockTillYouDrop.com, and as an added bonus, he's arm in arm with the also lovely and doe-eyed Susan Sarandon.

We've added this and six other new images to our Peacock production still gallery.

Cillian in Peacock

Perrier's and Peacock show their colors

21 February 2010 at 06:20 PM | by Angelica, with Amanda and Nairin78

As noted earlier, we won't get to see Cillian's new thriller Peacock in theaters, but according to DVD Times.com, it looks like the DVD will be packed with lots of extras, including a making-of featurette, deleted scenes, an alternate ending, Cillian rehearsal footage, and a downloadable script.

And there are more goodies! We've added the latest Perrier's Bounty movie poster to our Gallery and have embedded the new trailer below. Enjoy!

Peacock going straight to DVD + Hippie and Perrier's in May + a Cillian Top 8

10 February 2010 at 12:32 PM | by Angelica and Melty_Girl, with Nairin78

Another Cillian flick fails to make it into cinemas

first Peacock poster
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The bad news is that, like Watching the Detectives, Cillian's psychological thriller Peacock will be heading straight to DVD. The good news? We won't have to wait too long to see Cillian in the dual starring role of a lonely bank clerk and his femme alter ego. VideoETA lists Peacock as coming out in the U.S.A. on 20 April 2010, and Maple Pictures shows the same release date for Canada.

We're happy that the film will be available, but terribly disappointed that this intriguing movie with its stellar cast is probably headed for obscurity. Luckily, Cillian will be appearing in one of the most anticipated films of 2010: Christopher Nolan's Inception.

Hippie and Perrier's out in the U.K./Ireland—and the U.S.?

As we blogged last summer, Cillian's troubled biopic, Hippie Hippie Shake, was abandoned by its director and screenwriter, and has been repeatedly delayed. At last report, it was supposed to come out in the U.K. and Ireland this month, but IMDb now shows the release date there as 21 May. No word on distribution in other countries.

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Thanks to Tabitha for the contribution!

Perrier's Bounty poster, photo, TIFF portrait

21 January 2010 at 11:09 PM | by Angelica, with Nairin78

first Perrier's Bounty poster

We have what may be the first official movie poster for Perrier's Bounty.

This image is from the Netherlands site Film1.ne, which indicates a potential general Northern European release. Still no word on a release date, though.

We've also just added a new photo from Perrier's Bounty to its production stills gallery page, and two new shots of Cillian from TIFF 2009 to our Photoshoots Gallery.

Peacock official website launches

20 January 2010 at 12:57 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Angelica

Peacock production still
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Finally, we have a sign that Peacock, in which Cillian is the central character (or characters?) will be coming out soon! The official website has been launched: www.peacockthemovie.com. Still no release dates or countries of release for this American indie film, but now you can see many great production stills, which we've archived in our Gallery. Check out shots of co-stars Ellen Page, Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman, and Josh Lucas.

The striking images and the intimate guitar soundtrack make Peacock look very promising. Let's hope this film gets a wide enough release to lift Cillian back up into the spotlight, with a variety of new juicy lead roles.

Thanks to Kat for tipping us off!

Perrier's possible release dates + charity angel concept

17 January 2010 at 11:34 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Angelica and Nairin78

Perrier's Bounty out soon in Ireland? In the U.S.A.?

pb promo

Research isn't turning up much that's really verifiable yet, but according to Irish cinema chain Swan's Twitpic caption for this photo of Cillian and Brendan Gleeson supposedly doing publicity for Perrier's Bounty, the film is coming out on 26 March in Ireland. Or in early April, according to Movies.ie. South Africans can look forward to Perrier's on 16 April, thanks to Videovision Entertainment. And Box Office Mojo, but no one else, says that American indie distributor IFC is releasing it on 14 May. Hopefully, more will become clearer soon!

Cillian's angel of peace

More on the angel that Cillian helped create for charity, as blogged on 2 January. The Dublin artists' collective IHeartArt describe how they realized Cillian's vision for him:

He wanted a denim blue angel with John Lennon's song "Give Peace a Chance" written all over the whole angel. Since a completely blue angel would have been too similar to another of our angels we came up with a patchwork of different blues, adding stitching and some pockets.

New and old photoshoots + Inception trailer and photos + Cillian makes art for charity + 2010 releases? + new staff

2 January 2010 at 03:25 PM | by Angelica and Melty_Girl, with Amanda and Nairin78

photoshoot by Jean Luc Morales
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We're catching up on some news here at The CillianSite, and we have a bunch of goodies for you!

Portraits new and improved

Photographer Jean Luc Morales recently posted four lovely new portraits of Cillian, which we've added to the section of our Gallery. In older Cillian photo news, we've just replaced some of our photos from a Rankin photoshoot with higher quality versions. Head over to the gallery for a look!

Inception's early blockbuster marketing moving ahead

Two posters for Inception have been revealed; we've added them to a new Inception promo gallery. And a second official trailer, this time including a few fleeting glimpses of our man, has been released:

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Thanks to Jessica for emailing us about the new trailer, and to Luthy for the pics!

Cillian hits the slopes for Inception

27 November 2009 at 11:56 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Amanda, Nairin78, and Pisces

Cillian Murphy and his ski coaches

The Calgary Herald has a fun bit of news about Cillian's latest Inception production activities: director Christopher Nolan asked many of the stars to take ski lessons as preparation for the final scenes of the shoot in Canada. Of Cillian's training, they reported,

Irish actor Cillian Murphy ... had never been on skis before. He was enthusiastic about the sport, but needed enticement to keep at it, often requesting beer breaks from [ski coach] Matt) Mosteller.

As a side note, I want to thank the site's news correspondents for being on top of this story, and to other friends for emailing The CillianSite Collective about a few other stories we haven't had a chance to cover yet. Thanks to everyone out there for sticking with us through this site's ebbs and flows and real life challenges. As always, we'll keep working as much as we can and would love to hear from folks interested in joining in on the fun.

CollegeHumor Dr. Crane giggle

18 October 2009 at 10:40 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Angelica

Rate Dr. Crane

CollegeHumor.com just ran a funny spoof of RateMy Professors.com, rating fictional instructors such as Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones, and Cillian's Batman Begins character, Dr. Jonathan Crane, was included. I suspect that many of us would risk the fear toxin to be schooled by Dr. Crane.

We've added the full-size image to the Article Spreads section of our Gallery.

Thanks to cranefan for the tip!

Collective x 2 + Virgin rumor + Gallery adds

12 October 2009 at 11:18 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Angelica

A Collective once more

Great news for The CillianSite: Angelica, formerly known by the pseudonym Lillian, has joined The CillianSite Collective. She has been hard at work around here for the past few months, digging her fingers into all aspects of this big, fat Cillian-lovin' web site. Thank you, Angelica!

Cillian to play a musician backing Neeson?

It's not clear if there's anything to this story, but IrishCentral.com says that Cillian is "in talks" to play a musician in Liam Neeson's new movie, The Virgin of Las Vegas. Supposedly Colin Farrell and Gabriel Byrne are also being wooed to play members of Neeson's singer character's backing band.

Cillian backstage

According to Variety, Alan Moloney, producer of Perrier's Bounty, Breakfast on Pluto and Intermission, is producing Virgin, so who knows?

Cillian backstage with rock stars, Cosmopolitan Russia

We've added a few random photos to our Gallery. One is Cillian last year in New York, backstage with Ed O'Brien of Radiohead, Feist and Rx of Cat Power. The other is a magazine spread from Cosmopolitan Russia.

Thanks to Nairin78 for the rock star photo and Elmira for the Russian spread!

Better early Perrier's Bounty reviews

5 October 2009 at 10:57 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Angelica

Perrier's Bounty
See more Perrier's Bounty production stills

No word yet of international distribution for Perrier's Bounty, but a few more early reviews have appeared, and they're more positive than the last bunch. We've added three more to our Reviews archive.

Moving Pictures, which explains that "Perrier's has something entirely more romantic and gentle of heart in mind" than the oft-compared In Bruges, says of our idol:

Cillian Murphy has eyes like shards of arctic ice. Even Sinatra and Newman would marvel. Yet his baby blues are never more expressive, never more alive, than when they are bloodied and bruised and looking at (co-star Jodie) Whitaker.

Film blog The Film Stage also makes the In Bruges comparison, but calls Perrier's "a little more whacky (sic)", a ... "purely adrenaline-filled action trip". They rave:

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Thanks to The Automatik, our long-time colleague, for alerting us to these reviews!

More TIFF fangirling + new staff + The Water is back online

25 September 2009 at 08:11 AM | by Melty_Girl, with Lillian

Betablue's red carpet hello

We recently posted a few new Cillian Encounters pages featuring fan show and tell from Cillian's appearance two weeks ago at the world premiere of Perrier's Bounty at the Toronto International Film Festival. Another fan, Betablue, has kindly contributed her story and photos from TIFF, so check it out.

New special correspondent Amanda

The CillianSite has a new contributing staff member: Amanda, of the late, great uCillian fan site. As many of you doubtlessly know, Amanda is an expert Cillian Murphy photo and news researcher, so we're very excited.

Short film starring Cillian and Feist is back online

In case you missed The Water's run online for a week back in April—or just want to see it again—now's your chance: Kevin Drew's short film starring Cillian and Feist is back, as part of the online Portable Film Festival. We've embedded it below:

Cillian and Ellen on the Inception set, and more

23 September 2009 at 11:14 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Lillian

It looks like shooting Inception is putting Cillian in a good mood. We've added this shot and others of him with co-star Ellen Page to our Inception on location gallery, along with a few photos of Cillian in character as Fischer. We've also swapped out a few watermarked images from our Toronto International Film Festival 2009 gallery, replacing them with better versions, and added some cute oldies-but-goodies of Cillian on stage in a 2003 production of The Seagull.

Cillian and Ellen on location
See more Inception on location photos

Thanks to Amanda for pointing us to the TIFF photos and the ones of Cillian and Ellen, and to Mitzi for the other Inception shots.

More from the set of Inception

21 September 2009 at 12:51 AM | by Melty_Girl

We've just added two new images to our Inception on location gallery. Here's Christopher Nolan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (facing away), and Cillian:

Inception set
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Thanks, melfan!

LA photos + critics down on Bounty

20 September 2009 at 11:49 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Lillian

New photographs

Cillian was photographed on Friday in Los Angeles at a screening of his Inception co-star Tom Hardy's film Bronson. We've added a gallery page for these photos in the Public Appearances section.

Early Perrier's Bounty reviews

Perrier's Bounty hasn't gotten nearly as much press as Cillian's previous film that went to TIFF. Could Perrier's find the success of Brendan Gleeson's recent In Bruges? Chances don't look terribly good so far. New York calls Perrier's screenwriter Mark O’Rowe "hilarious ... terrific" and the script "spastic," citing our reviewer The Automatik's favorite quote from the movie as among the best one-liners of the festival. But The Evening Herald, however, accurately terms the "critical response ... tepid" thus far.

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Thanks to Mitzi for finding the photos!

Red Light Runners clips + more eye candy

15 September 2009 at 11:17 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Lillian

Footage from a Cillian film that was never finished

I just made a startling discovery on YouTube: footage of Cillian in the aborted 2004 movie Red Light Runners, which also starred Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel, Roy Scheider, Crispin Glover, and Tricky. Check it out:

TIFF Q&A video, unwatermarked photos

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Thanks to melfan for the improved TIFF portraits and Mitzi for the Inception replacements.

Exclusive Perrier's review and premiere coverage

15 September 2009 at 12:00 AM | by Melty_Girl, with Lillian

Cillian Murphy at TIFF 2009
See more of The Automatik's pics

The CillianSite is very pleased to bring you an exclusive advance review of Perrier's Bounty and a story about attending its premiere at TIFF from our affiliate Popshifter.com, a fantastic webzine with a fandom-based approach to writing about pop culture. The pieces were written by our former contributing editor, The Automatik; she is Popshifter's founder and managing editor.

We've also got her friend Barry Sanders' photographs from TIFF.

We hope you'll enjoy reading The Automatik's engaging tale of going to see Cillian at TIFF and, of course, ogling the photos of Cillian she snapped. She tells all about the red carpet scene and the post-screening Q&A, as well as an instrusive celebrity presence that harshed her Cillian buzz. We've added pages for this and for Barry's photos to our Fandom section along with our other fun Cillian Encounters stories and galleries.

Her thumbs up review of Perrier's Bounty gives the scoop on the film and Cillian's performance for those of us who couldn't make it to Toronto. It's the first Perrier's review to hit our Press archive.

First Inception set photos

14 September 2009 at 04:32 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Lillian

Cillian Murphy on the set of Inception
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Here's the first look at Cillian on the set of Inception! Sorry for the watermark; please let us know if you have better versions of these.

He is looking very much the young executive we blogged about last month when plot details and spoilers were revealed. See our new Inception gallery page for more shots.

Thanks to Mitzi for the tip!

TIFF interviews and a taste of Perrier

13 September 2009 at 08:56 PM | by Melty_Girl

Tribute.ca has a great video interview with Cillian from the Toronto International Film Festival; they don't provide embed links, so you'll have to jump over there to watch it. The video below has footage from the Perrier's Bounty premiere, including red carpet interviews with the principals, and, excitingly, very brief clips from the film itself.

P.S. A super teeny tiny bit of TIFF gossip from The Toronto Star: Cillian dined with director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later..., Sunshine) and Brendan Gleeson at the Spoke Club on Friday night.

Thanks, Nairin78, for sending us the Tribute.ca link.

TIFF 2009 photographs

12 September 2009 at 11:55 PM | by Melty_Girl, with Lillian

Cillian TIFF 2009
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It's been a while since we've seen photos of Cillian on the red carpet! Our Gallery now holds images of Cillian attending yesterday's premiere of Perrier's Bounty at the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as portraits from a TIFF photoshoot. Unfortunately, we've only found watermarked versions of these images so far (please send us better versions if you've got 'em).

Stay tuned for a fan report from the premiere.

Thanks to Lilith, co-founder of The CillianSite, for hipping us to some of the photos.