The UK premiere of The Butterfly Tattoo movie was last night at Cornerhouse in Manchester. The Culturewitch blog was there and has reviewed it already. You can read it here. If you were present at the screening last night, why not let us know what you thoughts.
Addenum: Sister blog to Culturewitch, Bookwitch, adds its two pennies worth on Butterfly Tattoo here.
You may remember that the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford hosted a fundraising evening in November 2007, at which their patron, Philip Pullman was guest of honour. Amongst other things the audience were offered discussion on the then upcoming film adaptation of ‘The Golden Compass’ and a world premiere reading of Pullman’s latest book, ‘Once Upon A Time In The North’. Pegasus’ fundraising efforts have continued, and they are now just £800,000 away from reaching the amount they need to redevelop their building in Oxford. Their most recent e-newsletter reports that Philip and Jude Pullman recently donated £100,000 towards the Pegasus campaign. If you’d like to find out more about Pegasus head here.
As we reported in June, the Birmingham Rep Company is to stage a production of His Dark Materials on stage during March of next year. It seems however, that this production is also to see light in Manchester, at the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays in April. The production will run from April 23rd to April 26th in the Lyric Theatre, with ticket costs for adults starting at £14 (discounts are applicable if you book both parts at the same time). You can get more information on this here. Thanks to Haku for the tip.
Subsequent to our report a couple of days ago that ‘The Butterfly Tattoo’ movie is to have a special screening at Cornerhouse, Manchester in its UK premiere, we can also now add that Dynamic Entertainment have released an extended trailer which runs for about 1 minute longer that the previous teaser that had been released. You can watch the video here, or in the embedded player just below.