Blue Jasmine

Jasmine: 1. Susan Burke and Roisin Tierney Crowe; 2. Alison Miles; 3. Aoife Kane  and Conor Marren. (Pix. BME)

Guests arrived at The Lighthouse Cinema to the smell of fresh Jasmine for the Irish premiere screening of the new movie "Blue Jasmine".

After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.

The film has been described  by reviewers as “startling and brilliant”, while New Yorker reviewer David Denby added  “Cate Blanchett gives the most complicated and demanding performance of her movie career."

Blue in the Face

Smurfs: 1. Kelly O'Reilly; 2. Alison Canavan and son James; 3. Aisling Hall pictured with Katie Grace. (Pix. BME)

Over 160 worldwide premieres of the new Smurfs 2 movie took place on Super Smurfs Sunday in celebration of the release of the family movie.

In Dublin, ODEON Point Village was awash with blue for the arrival of Papa Smurf and Smurfette, with proceeds of ticket sales going to Variety, the Children’s charity.  ODEON Cinemas has recently partnered with Variety and is now as the movie theatres nominated charity.

Entertainment included everything from face painting and Smurfs music to a meet and great with the Smurfs characters themselves.

Through this series of special screenings, over 11,000 feet of blue carpet was rolled out in American and international markets, a giant inflatable Smurf was on display outside ODEON Cinema for the day along with a Smurfs car that was brought in specially for the occasion.

Worl War Z

Moviez: 1. Kamal Ibrahim and Vicky Andeanska; 2. Roz Purcell; 3. Declan Leavy and Vinny Ryder. (Pix. BME)

The summer film premieres continued at the Savoy Cinema in Dublin when Brad Pitt fans turned out for his latest flick,"World War Z". Pitt plays a retired UN employee who leaves his wife and two kids behind to travel the globe in the hopes of stanching the zombie pandemic, which threatens to end the world as we know it.

Guests on the opening night included Roz Purcell, Daniella Moyles, weather presenters Deric Hartigan and Audry McGrath, Martin King with sons Alex and Matthew, Fair City's Aoibheann McCaul as well as actress Charlie Murphy and band Roy Seven.

The Hangover Part 3

Vegas: 1. Caroline Foran and Melanie Farrell; 2. Aidan Power; 3. Siobhan O’Connor. (Pix. BME)
 

The Savoy Cinema on O’Connell Street played host to the Irish premiere screening of  "The Hangover Part 3", the epic conclusion  to an incomparable odyssey of mayhem and bad decisions, in which the guys must finish what they started by going back to where it all began: Las Vegas.

Among the moviegoers were Aoibhinn Garrihy, Nuala Carey, Bernard Dunne and wife Pamela, Rebecca Burrell and husband Peter Kenny and soon-to-wed Chris Doyle and Sean Munsanje.  The party continued into the early hours at the hip Everleigh Garden club on Harcourt Street.

Star Trek into Darkness

Trekkies: 1. Liam Cunningham and Sean Cunningham; 2. Caroline Foran; 3. Claire Collins, Tom Dunne and Yvonne Kinsella. (Pix. BME)

Star Trek fans were out in force for the recent Irish premiere screening of the latest Star Trek offering "Star Trek into Darkness", 

The story tells of  the crew of the Enterprise being called back home, where they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organisation has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Cineworld was the place to be for the premiere and guests included TV3's martin King, who was accompanied by boys Alex and Matthew, model Carl Shabaan and girlfriend Audrey Hamilton, Fair City actor Paddy Fitzpatrick as well as News Talk presenter  Tom Dunne, actor Liam Cunningham and his son Sean, model Gail Kaneswaren and boyfriend Henry Daly.

Jack the Giant Slayer

Hi Jack: 1. Charlotte Doyle and Edward Smyth; 2. Kelly and Paulette Williams; 3. Peter McFarlane and Declan Leavy. (Pix. BME)

The Odeon at the Point Village Dublin was the place to be for a special preview of "Jack the Giant Slayer". Guests arrived to a specially constructed forest and children were greeted by face painters and jugglers.

"Jack the Giant Slayer" tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult) into the battle of his life to stop them.

Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend-and gets the chance to become a legend himself.