Tuesday 18 May 2010

The Prince of Persia Hollywood premiere - a first look!

Good morning! As Los Angeles settles down (or gets going) for the night, we wake up here in Britain and Europe to a veritable Gyllenfeast of photographs and videos from last night's Hollywood premiere of Prince of Persia. You can see below the recorded streaming from the red carpet and see Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton shine. I particularly liked Jake's Tom Ford suit complete with spotty tie.

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This was a premiere with a difference - Jerry Bruckheimer was honoured with a hand and foot ceremony in front of the theatre and some big names turned out to see it, including a very casual Tom Cruise plus Nicholas Cage, Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Voigt and an old favourite of mine, Jonathan Pryce. Plus a bunch of others I have to look up.







Call me old-fashioned, but when I see a big premiere in Hollywood, I much prefer to have it all about the leading man and the leading lady - especially when it's these two. Jake and Gemma Arterton looked amazing. Gemma even had a matching brolly. There is chemistry galore between Dastan and Tamina and it's overflowing here, too.





Many, many thanks to IHJ for having the pictures so soon! I will be back!

13 comments:

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Morning! What a great job IHJ did, getting all these amazing pics up already :D Jake and Gemma looked beautiful.

No doubt as we have more videos and interviews, I will be back with another post.

Have a great day and to all those who went last night - I hope you had an incredible adventure!

Leslie said...

Good Morning!

Wow thanks for the early post. I'm looking forward to being at work today and tons of Jake pics coming in from the premiere. Always makes the work day a bit more bearable.

I agree with BBMISwear's comment on yesterdays post. The LA premiere wasn't good at all. I much preferred the London premiere it was so well done in comparison.

WDW: I also agree that the premiere should be about the lead actor and actress in the film. I'm not a big fan of Tom Cruise so seeing him front and center over Jake really bothered me.

Loved Jake's suit & tie he's always gorgeous! Gemma's dress was stunning :D

Uli said...

Swoooooooon!

That's all I have to say... :D :D :D

T said...

Thank you for the first pics - love the suit & tie & Jake isnt bad either - lol
Feel that it took some of the shine away having the whole Tom Cruise/Nic Cage thing going on but understand that was for Jerry, but cant wait for more pics & videos.
Sadly been in the UK & it being a school night i couldnt stay up but looking forward to watching links later xx

Monica said...

I agree with you, Wet Dark. I think it should just be a premiere on POP, but I think JB did it to remind the public that he is a producer of big hits.

I'm not a big fan of Tom Cruise so seeing him front and center over Jake really bothered me.

Tom Cruise did something similar during the premieres of Batman Begins.

I did not like Gemma's dress. Looks like she was wearing something from Clash of the Titans.

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Hi leslie! Agreed - nothing like having Jake about the workplace to cheer it up :D I like Tom Cruise but I would have liked it to have been more about Jake. Gemma's dress was beautiful!

That sums it up, Uli!

Hi T! I'm looking forward to catching up to - there is lots about!

Hope everyone's having a good day!

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Hi Monica! Posting at the same time :D I'm a big fan of Jerry's, but maybe they should have held these two events separately? I did love Gemma's dress, though - she's so elegant.

Leslie said...

Speaking of Jake at work, I just went to the Yahoo homepage like I do every morning and there was link to the interview of Jake pronouncing his last name! It made me smile :D

I too feel like they could have done something separate. Jerry does have another movie out this summer so it would've made sense to hold an event specifically for him.

I listened to Florence and the Machine on my way to work this morning, love the album!

T said...

Hi All,

Just been watching E news & their is an bit wih Jake on tomorrow from the premiere

xx

Ruby said...

I'd like to flick Tom Cruise on the ear and tell him to go find his own movie to promote!

Jake and Gemma look great.

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Hi all! Just spent far too long on the new post - so much going on.

Oh, and Rubes? Couldn't agree more! Nicely put :D

md said...

I think it was last night's event that got me into a great mood today... Seeing Jake so happy and lovely Gemma does that, I guess.

Maybe the NY premiere will be more focused on the stars of PoP... Still, it was pretty easy for me to kind of ignore Tom and Nic...

Jake, you make me prouder and prouder to be a fan.

Of course, I can't leave without thanking WDW. Huge thanks for you and lots of love. ;-)

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Hi Alejandra! And thanks :D I'm not sure NYC is getting a premiere as such, but there's another PoP screening in LA on 20 May hosted by Jake. Hope we get pics from that. I'm proud too :) That's such a nice thing to say!