Mischa Barton to arrive in Belfast tonight
Former 'OC' star Mischa Barton is due to come in Belfast tonight for the creation premiere of one of the biggest movies to be filmed in the city.
The glamorous Hollywood star, wHO played troubled adolescent Marissa Cooper in 'The OC', will bring together Academy Award winners Richard Attenborough and Shirley MacLaine at the premier of the romantic wartime epic 'Closing the Ring' tomorrow night in the metropolis.
The film, directed by Attenborough, was crack in Belfast last class and tells the tragic story of a ringing constitute on a mound overlooking the metropolis 50 years after an American B-17 bomber crashed there.
Spanning iI continents and over basketball team decades, it emerges the end demise bid of the gunner was that he wanted the doughnut returned to his lady friend in America.
Oscar winner Brenda Fricker and acclaimed actors Pete Postlethwaite, Neve Campbell and Christopher Plummer are as well among the cast.
The film is loosely-based on real events surrounding the crash of an American bomber which was returning to its radical in Nutts Recession virtually Antrim.
The film, part of which is set in North Carolinas, was besides filmed in Toronto.
The securing of the picture show was a major coup d'etat for the Northern Irish Republic Film and Telly Commission which has since been able to attract a number of highschool profile screen projects to the metropolis by converting an old paint hall in Belfast docks into the Titanic Photographic film Studio.
Nib George Gilbert Aime Murphy and Tim Robbins slam the children's skill fable epic poem 'City of Ember' in Belfast this twelvemonth and worker Ben Kingsley, wHO won an Academy Award in the championship purpose of Attenborough's 'Gandhi', is currently shooting 'Man on the Run' about an Provos blabber.
'Closing the Ring' has already boosted the life history of Capital of Northern Ireland actor Marty McCann, wHO, on the durability of his performance, landed an audition with Steven Spielberg and then a use in the follow-up to the television system series 'Band of Brothers'.
Stormont Culture Diplomatic minister Edwin Poots and Economy Diplomatic minister Nigel Dodds will tomorrow host a lunchtime reception for the movie's stars.
As the Hollywood team arrived in the city, 'Closing the Ring's producer, Belfast-based Jo Gb, wheel spoke of her pridefulness over Northern Ireland's function in the making of the flick.
"With the absolute majority of 'Closing the Ring' shot on positioning in Belfast, including the Undermine Mound, the east and northward of the city as well as cinematography on the stages of the Titanic Studios and at Bangor's Clandeboye Land, it proves that Northern Ireland has strong certification as a film making hot spot," she said.
Look out Richard Attenborough's interview on 'The Deep Deep Show' here.
