Alan Rickman

Bottle Shock Starring Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman, and Chris Pine Directed by Randall Miller Rated PG-13 Making great wine is one of the hardest things in the world to do, like hitting a fastball, or believing female Chinese gymnasts are at least 16 years old. To achieve great wine requires an obsession to detail, because who in their right mind would want to go to all that trouble just to make lousy wine? That’s not to say there isn’t bad wine, just that they don’t celebrate it in movies. For me, the obsession is what was missing from Bottle Shock , an otherwise thoroughly ... Read Full Story

The producers of the independently financed, produced and distributed film Bottle Shock have done it again. This time they are announcing a Bottle Shock Getaway Contest and tapping into social media networks to spread the word. Bottle Shock is based on the real events surrounding the 1976 blind tasting in Paris pitting California wines against the French. The film stars Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Freddy Rodriguez, Rachael Taylor, Dennis Farina and Eliza Dushku. Bottle Shock was shot in Sonoma and Napa during August 2007, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008. When big studio buyers weren’t acquiring films that ... Read Full Story

Actor Alan Rickman attended a press junket for his movie, “Bottle Shock” which is due to release on October 2nd. The actor plays alongside Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Freddy Rodriguez, and Dennis Farina. Also coming up for Rickman, (as if I needed to remind you guys!) is the latest installment of Harry Potter that will release November 21, 2008. Here are some of him at a Special Screening of the movie yesterday in South Hampton, New York Read Full Story

Tim Burton 's Alice in Wonderland is moving along at a pretty good clip, considering how long it took the film to get off the ground. On Friday, we told you that Crispin Glover was joining the cast , and now there are a couple more updates. Jim Dorey at MarketSaw says that Alan Rickman will play the Caterpillar in the new 3-D live-action/performance capture adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic. There is also the very distinct possibility that Christopher Lee will be in Wonderland , as well, although the role he'd play is still unclear. Think of those three new additions and try to ... Read Full Story

May 24th, 2009 by Rosy Oh to be a fly on this wall! Two of the most amazing English actors on Earth dined together at The Ivy in Los Angeles on Friday. Alan has a pretty busy schedule at moment. He is reprising his role as Severus Snape in the latest Harry Potter flick, The Half Blood Prince due out in July, and he just wrapped up his role in the upcoming Alice in Wonderland film being remade by Tim Burton. Though no pictures have been seen of Snape on set yet, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has been filming in the U.K. ... Read Full Story