Have you ever wanted to live like a Hollywood Director? Well now you can if you stump up a massive £36,000 A MONTH.
£8000 per week and you can rent from the famous Hollywood director.
The out director Roland Emmerich has opened up his London home for tenants – providing they can pay the £8,000 a week price tag. The house, which is located in Knightsbridge has five sizable bedrooms and boasts a unique style throughout the house, but also an eye-watering £36,000 per calendar month price tag – or a whopping £432,000 a YEAR.
Although it’s unlikely the director will have someone living in for a full year as Emmerich is only letting it for short-term lets.
Roland Emmerich is looking for only short term lets for his £8000 a week home in Knightsbridge.
The director who can count Independence Day, Godzilla and Stargate as his hit movies has clearly used his theatrical sensibilities in the styling of the house – you’ll even find a Pope in full garb under the stairs.
Time for confession? The gay director has a wax figure of Pope Jean-Paul II under the stairs.
Daniel Bickerdike, Lettings Manager at KFH South Kensington, said, “The opportunity to live in such a unique home doesn’t come around very often. From the murals and ornaments inspired by figures from world history to Pope Jean Paul II sitting in the under-stairs cupboard, residents will be equally challenged, fascinated and entertained by the décor throughout this property.”
Renters will be able to take a shower with Saddam Hussein holding a child. The house is also full of artworks with communist leaders as the subject.Those who take up residence will a stone’s throw from some of London’s most exclusive shops and restaurants.
Along with the opportunity to sit with the Pope, houseguests will be able to shower with Saddam Hussein and other communist dictators.
Each room has a different feel – but does have hardwood flooring throughout.
Each room feels like a movie set with bespoke murals, ornaments and soft furnishings sitting alongside unique artwork and furniture.
The property is available through KFH South Kensington who can be contacted on 020 3792 5523.
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE – The aliens are back to try and take over the world and destroy some more well-known landmarks 20 years after the first campy sci-fi classic. The effects have moved on greatly but has the story gone with it?
Nutshell – Same format almost exactly but everything is a lot bigger and noisier this time. A random bunch of unconnected characters all have their moments just like last time and are all needed in some way to defeat a much bigger threat from outer space. This time the aliens mean business with only one ship but here it lands in the Atlantic ‘Which bit ? a character asks ‘the whole of it as this warship is 3,000 miles across’ is the reply and their plans are even more full on this time, but us humans have some new extraterrestrial help too.
Time – 121 mins; Certificate – 12A
Tagline – ‘We had twenty years to prepare….so did they’.
THE GAY UK FACTOR – The younger Hemsworth brother the hunky Liam for a full two hours in military uniform is the main attraction here. His brother Chris (Thor) has been at the very top of our wank bank for years but his younger sibling has the same Aussie man’s man muscle look!
Cast – Liam ‘megabulge’ Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Vivian A Fox, Judd Hirst, Bill Pullman basically everyone is back except Will Smith who obviously knew something the others didn’t (and wanted far too much cash – see below).
Key Player – Jeff Goldblum is pure class, he eats up the screen and brings his much loved puzzled scientist from, The Fly and Jurassic Park films front and centre here as he slowly works out at the same pace as we do what the big bad’s are really up too.
Budget – $165 Million a full $100m more than the first film now that’s inflation for you and it doesn’t make it a better film one bit. It will make profit as all brands tend to do but it won’t make enough to kickstart a third film which is somewhat trailed here (and was the original plan).
Best Bit – 0.31 mins; A very tense rooftop hospital rescue which is genuinely nail biting and you won’t guess how the scene ends as it has the movies best twist.
Worst Bit – 0.33 mins; As London gets demolished instead of Washington DC and New York last time we hit special effect overload as the good guys attempt their escape. Its effects look poor because they are, the scenario does not work at all and it is ludicrously unbelievable, unthrilling and you won’t care about the outcome which is pretty obvious anyway.
Little Secret – The original film ID1 was the second highest grossing film of all time when it was released behind Jeff Goldblum’s other hit Jurassic Park. Will Smith was due to reprised his role here but Fox Studio turned down his record-breaking fee of $50 Million.
Further Viewing –ID 1, War Of The Worlds, Mars Attacks, Alien 2,Predator, The Day The Earth Stood Still & V The classic TV series.
Any Good – ID 2 is fine, no more no less. It is not a classic like the first one and it hugely misses the presence of Will Smith and his ‘Welcome to earth’ one liners. The fault is with the same director Roland Emmerich who this time is simply just phoning it in, this needs a much better story and more threat. We cannot remember a film when less would have been so much more than we have here – the first film was truly superb and had so many great ideas crammed in this one doesn’t and isn’t.
Rating – 74/100 (74th out of the last 100 films reviewed with 1 being best and 100 being a damp squib).
Things are going from bad to worse as Stonewall slips from 37 to 41.
Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall has slipped from number 37 in the box office charts to number 41, taking in a just $60,460 in B.O. receipts last week. The controversial film, which has been accused of “white washing” the history of the Stonewall riots has been panned by critics, despite audiences loving it.
Emmerich’s choice of focussing his film’s story on the fictional character of Danny, was because he thought that the character would be more relatable to a straight audience. Speaking to Buzzfeed he said,
“You have to understand one thing: I didn’t make this movie only for gay people, I made it also for straight people. I kind of found out, in the testing process, that actually, for straight people, [Danny] is a very easy in. Danny’s very straight-acting. He gets mistreated because of that. [Straight audiences] can feel for him.”
According to RottenTomatoes.com critics are rating the film at 9% whilst actual audiences are rating it as high as 93%.
The film had been ranked at 193 in all “gay and lesbian” films over at BoxOfficeMojo.com however it has crept up to 180.
The trailer for Stonewall is out and it looks amazing.
Starring Jeremy Irvine (pictured) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Stonewall documents the Stonewall riots.
The protests, which happened around the Stonewall Inn in New York, were the results of a gay community relentlessly discriminated against and bullied by the police force in New York.
The Stonewall riots are often cited as the start of the modern gay rights movement.
Film producer and director Roland Emmerich is eyeing up Oscar inclusion with a film dedicated to the Stonewall riots of 1969.
The film documents the Stonewall riots. The protests, which happened around the Stonewall Inn in New York, were the results of a gay community relentlessly discriminated against and bullied by the police force in New York. The Stonewall riots are often cited as the start of the modern gay rights movement.
The film, which stars Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ron Perlman will be released in time to be included in 2016 Oscars considerations. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will have a late September release date in US cinemas.
Speaking about the film Emmerich said:
“I was always interested and passionate about telling this important story, but I feel it has never been more timely than right now. Less than 50 years ago, in 1969, being gay was considered a mental illness; gay people could not be employed by the government; it was illegal for gay people to congregate, and police brutality against gays went unchecked.”
Film maker Roland Emmerich, whose CV boasts Independence Day and White House Down is to direct a brand new historical drama of the Stonewall movement.
The Stonewall film will focus on a teenager, to be played by War Horse actor Jeremy Irvine, who moves to New York, and becomes politically awakened after the Stonewall riots, which happened as a bad lash against a police raid on the New York gay bar The Stonewall Inn, in June 1969.
The Stonewall riots became known as a series of spontaneous protests, by the gay community, which often ended in violence. They are widely considered to be the beginning of the modern gay right’s movement.
Raids on the Inn were very frequent and according to reports, house lights were turned on, customers were lined up and searched, and their ID cards checked. Those who did not have ID cards were arrested, so were men dressed in Drag.
According to Deadline the gay, German film maker has been working towards the making of Stonewall for over a decade. Emmerich is a campaigner for equal rights.
Emmerich is set to start production soon. Roland Emmerich is currently working on a sequel for Independence Day.
Along with the opportunity to sit with the Pope, houseguests will be able to shower with Saddam Hussein and other communist dictators.
