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Jonathan Rhys Meyers And Fiancee Mara Lane Welcome Baby Boy

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 05 January 2017

The couple's first son arrived back in December - and they've given him a unique name!

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the star of BBC series ‘The Tudors’, has become a father for the first time after his fiancée Mara Lane gave birth to a baby boy last month.

E! News reported this week that the 39 year old Irish actor and his partner welcomed their son, who they have named Wolf, back on December 15th. It was also reported that the birth took place in the comfort of their own home, assisted by a midwife.

The couple met back at the start of 2014, and they were soon engaged, announcing that December that they were going to tie the knot.

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Stonewall Trailer

Danny Winters is a young man in 1969, who becomes disenfranchised from the marginalisation and discrimination of some members of society. His radical opinions cause his parents to kick him out of their Kansas home, and so he takes the opportunity to travel to New York where he meets a group of liberal and flamboyant youths who shelter him and bring him to a discreet gay club run by the mafia known as The Stonewall Inn. Unfortunately, this is a place frequently raided by cops, who are less than liberal in their way of thinking. Tired of the constant social threats and alienation, Danny leads an army with members of the gay, trans and cross-dressing community to fight against the corrupt police with a full scale riot.

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers Apologies To Fans After Being Pictured During "Minor Relapse"

By Stephanie Chase in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26 May 2015

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The 'Dracula' star has said he suffered a 'minor relapse' earlier this month.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has broken his silence over the shocking pictures which appeared in British tabloids earlier this month, showing the actor drinking on a London street. The star of ‘Dracula’ and ‘The Tudors’ apologised for what he described as ‘a minor relapse’, adding that he feels ‘quite embarrassed’ about the incident.

Johnathan Rhys Meyers Meyers has apologised for his minor relapse.

Meyers used his fiancée Mara Lane's Instagram account to make the apology, writing it under a picture of the actress and producer shedding a single tear. “Mara and I are thankful for your support and kindness during this time. I apologise for having a minor relapse and hope that people don't think too badly of me,” Jonathan wrote.

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers looking cool in his shades, white V-neck T-shirt, denim jacket, jeans and brown boots whilst out shopping with an unkown female companion at The Grove in Hollywood - Los Angeles, California, United States - Monday 11th August 2014

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Don't Suck As 'Dracula': NBC Series Praised By Critics

By Joe Wilde in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25 October 2013

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Yet another re-imagining of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' premieres on NBC tonight, and its pretty darn good too.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is the latest actor to take on one of the most recreated parts of all time, playing Dracula in NBC's all new series, cleverly titled Dracula. The new series differs rather dramatically from the normal Dracula formula though, and this bit of experimentation has so far been praised by a number of criticshead of its debut episode tonight (October 25, 2013).

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There is plenty of gore on offer in the show

Set in Victorian London, Meyer's Dracula arrives in the industrial capital and goes on to form an unlikely partnership with his traditional foe Van Helsing (played by Thomas Kretschmann). The two unlikely accomplices team up to take on the shady criminal organisation known as the Order of the Dragon. Combining rich visuals, praise-worthy story telling and some thoroughly absorbing acting from our stars, the 10-episode mini-series has been a hit with a number of critics already.

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The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones Review

By Rich Cline

OK

Fans of Cassandra Clare's book series won't mind that this film is overcrowded and chaotic, but the uninitiated will be worn out by what feels like a superficial mash-up of leather-clad stereotypes. Director Zwart (who remade The Karate Kid) certainly creates a lively sense of energy, zipping through each scene as if he's trying to cram every moment in the book into two hours. But as a result, nothing grabs hold.

Our hero is Clary (Collins), a New York teen whose mother (Headey) never told her that she was a Shadowhunter, a half-angel whose job is to protect humanity from demons. But just as she meets goth dreamboat Shadowhunter Jace (Campbell Bower), her mom is kidnapped. So she and her best pal Simon (Sheehan), who has a secret crush on her, travel with Jace into the city's underworld of angels, demons, werewolves and vampires. At the secret Shadowhunter headquarters, she meets leader Hodge (Harris) as well as siblings Alec and Isabelle (Zegers and West). And everyone warns her about the villainous Valentine (Meyers), who has some sort of nefarious master plan involving Clary and her magical cup.

The film is structured as a series of quests, as Clary learns about her supernatural abilities by visiting the City of Bones under a cemetery, breaking into a church to collect a stash of demon-fighting weapons, consulting with a variety of magical creatures, and so on. But these individual sequences never quite connect together into a story with any momentum. It's simply impossible to get involved in these events without being able to identify with the characters, none of whom are properly developed. Obviously, readers of the books won't have this problem, but such a fragmented film is unlikely to draw new fans to the franchise.

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Mortal Instruments...Of Torture, Critics Slate Harald Zwart's Movie

By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 21 August 2013

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The teen fantasy failed to delight the press.

In a cinematic landscape that includes Harry Potter and Twilight shapes mountains, there isn’t much room for another supernatural teenage escape pod. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones has attempted to muscle in there unnoticed, but the critics have found it out.

Teenagers with attitude (and actual weapons)

The story follows a familiar theme of the genre: young teenager – this time Lily Collins as Clary – finds out she can’t just get drunk at 16, moan about homework and eventually marry and have two kids because she’s got to go and save the world. Clary is next in a long line of demon slayers, and has to fulfil her destiny to fight off evil. Having teamed up with people like her, she descends to the dangerous alternate New York called Downworld.

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See Jonathan Rhys Meyers As Dracula In New Trailer (Video)

By Joe Wilde in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 May 2013

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The trailer for the new Dracula series is online now. Watch below

NBC are teaming up with the producers of Downton Abbey for yet another re-imagining of Bran Stocker's timeless tale, Dracula. The project has been in the works for a while now, and at last we have a chance to sneak a peak at the project in the new trailer for the show.
The Tutors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who has already managed to make King Henry VIII sexy, will star as the titular vampire. The series will see the Count arrive in London posing as an American entrepreneur who is planning on funding modern science projects in the heart of the Industrial revolution. However, his real agenda is more sinister as he seeks out revenge on those who betrayed him centuries ago.

Of course, it wouldn't be a modern vampire tale if there wasn't a love story involved in the plot, and the new series offer no diversion from this. But there is a twist in this love story, as the woman that Dracula falls in love with may actually be the reincarnation of his dead wife. The show also features Nonso Anozie, Jessica De Gouw, Katie McGrath and Thomas Kretschmann, who will be playing the shows Van Helsing.
The show is set to air on NBC in the US this autumn and will come to Sky Living in the UK later this year. No exact date has been set for the show to air on, but with NBC's fall schedule beginning in mid-September the show may be aired around then.

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Harold Pinter Theatre London United Kingdom Thursday 31st January 2013

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Trailer

Clary Fray has been made to live as a normal girl all her life with her mother making sure she never discovers who she truly is. However, when she watches a man getting slaughtered in a nightclub and seemingly is the only one who notices, she starts to suspect that there's more to the world than most people can see. The killer is a man called Jace who reveals himself as a Shadowhunter; a half-angel demon slayer with the power to make himself invisible to the Mundane (humans). Soon, Clary discovers that her mother is in grave danger having been brutally kidnapped from their home and she finds out that her mother is also a Shadowhunter who has been having Clary's memories of unusual happenings blocked all her life. Clary must embrace her true identity and help Jace and the other Shadowhunters in the battle to maintain the balance of good and evil and return her mother back to her.

Here comes the latest teen fantasy movie adaptation in the shape of 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'. Based on the first book of a series by Cassandra Clare, the movie has been directed by Harald Zwart ('The Karate Kid' [2010], 'Agent Cody Banks') and written by I. Marlene King ('Just My Luck', 'Now and Then') and Jessica Postigo in her screenwriting debut. It is due to hit screens on August 23rd 2013.

Director: Harald Zwart

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Albert Nobbs Review

By Rich Cline

Good

Based on a true story, this introspective film seems to suggest that these events aren't perhaps as extraordinary as they appear. But the strong premise is weakened by writing and direction that never get a grip on the story.

In 1898, Albert (Close) works at an upscale Dublin hotel, and no one suspects that he's actually a woman. Quietly going about his work while saving to open a tobacco shop, Albert is unassuming and relentlessly polite. Then he's asked to share his room with visiting painter Hubert (McTeer), who learns his secret and reveals one of his own: he's a woman too. But Hubert has managed to have a normal married life. This inspires Albert to pursue the hotel maid Helen (Wasikowska), which is complicated by her lusty relationship with handyman Joe (Johnson).

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Reena Hammer London, England - leaving The George Club Wednesday 8th September 2010

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Monday 20th April 2009 at Paramount Studios Los Angeles, California

August Rush Review

By Anne Gilbert

Very Good

Going in to August Rush, you've got to be more than willing to accept fairy tale magic; you've got to be looking to embrace it, with all of its whimsy and overzealous sense of wonder. That way, the movie can be sweet (if a bit ponderously so) as opposed to so precious you feel the need to punt it through a window. It's a fine line, and August Rush is balancing it the whole way through.

Freddie Highmore plays the title character, a little boy in a Dickensian version of the real world: He has grown up in a group home for boys in upstate New York (do they even have those anymore?), where he hears music in the world, from the corn fields to the moonlight. He sets out one day, believing that if he follows the music, it will lead to his parents; where it actually leads is New York City, where the noise of the city turns into the rhythmic beginnings of a Stomp number. There, he hooks up with a band of street urchins/musicians straight out of Oliver Twist, run by the unstable and off-putting Wizard (Robin Williams as a creepy redhead). When August discovers things like guitars and sheet music that allow him to produce the music he hears, he becomes a prodigy, and a sensation.

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