Mischa Barton to arrive in Belfast tonight
Former 'OC' star Mischa Barton is due to arrive in Capital of Northern Ireland tonight for the public premier of unity of the biggest movies to be filmed in the metropolis.
The glamorous Hollywood champion, world Health Organization played troubled adolescent Marissa Peter Cooper in 'The OC', will join Academy Award winners Richard Attenborough and Shirley MacLaine at the premiere of the romantic wartime heroic poem 'Closing the Ring' tomorrow night in the city.
The picture, directed by Attenborough, was shot in Belfast last twelvemonth and tells the tragic story of a doughnut establish on a alfred Hawthorne overlooking the city 50 geezerhood subsequently an American B-17 bomber crashed at that place.
Spanning deuce continents and over five-spot decades, it emerges the last death wish of the artilleryman was that he wanted the ring returned to his girl in United States of America.
Oscar winner Brenda Fricker and acclaimed actors Pete Postlethwaite, Neve Joseph Campbell and St. Christopher Plummer ar as well among the cast.
The pic is loosely-based on real events surrounding the doss down of an American hoagie which was returning to its base in Nutts Corner near Antrim.
The motion-picture show, role of which is set in North Carolina, was also filmed in Toronto.
The securing of the pic was a major coup for the Northern Irish Republic Film and Television system Commissioning which has since been able to attract a number of high profile screen projects to the city by converting an old paint hallway in Capital of Northern Ireland docks into the Titanic Film Studio.
Billhook Sir James Augustus Henry Murray and Tim Jerome Robbins slam the children's science fiction epic poem 'City of Ember' in Capital of Northern Ireland this year and histrion Ben Kingsley, world Health Organization north Korean won an Academy Award in the championship role of Attenborough's 'Gandhi', is presently shooting 'Man on the Run' about an IRA rat.
'Closing the Ring' has already boosted the vocation of Belfast actor Marty McCann, wHO, on the durability of his execution, landed an audition with Steven Steven Spielberg and then a office in the review to the television series 'Band of Brothers'.
Stormont Civilisation Pastor Edwin Poots and Economy Diplomatic minister Nigel Dodds volition tomorrow host a lunchtime reception for the movie's stars.
As the Hollywood team arrived in the city, 'Closing the Ring's producer, Belfast-based Jo William Gilbert, radius of her pridefulness over Northern Ireland's role in the making of the movie.
"With the majority of 'Closing the Ring' crack on location in Capital of Northern Ireland, including the Cave Alfred Hawthorne, the eastern United States and north of the city as well as filming on the stages of the Titanic Studios and at Bangor's Clandeboye Estate, it proves that Northern Irish Republic has strong certification as a film making hot spot," she said.
Find out Richard Attenborough's interview on 'The Tardily Late Show' here.
