This weekend (Saturday 12 & 13 May 2012) officially kicked off the polo season in the UK with the Audi Polo Challenge at Coworth Park in Ascot. More than 500 VIPs (over the two days) were treated to exciting high goal polo featuring HRH the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.The Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton had the honor of handing out the awards to the winning team.

(PRWEB UK) 14 May 2012

This was the 10th anniversary of the Audi Polo Challenge – an annual exclusive occasion which has raised more than £1.4 million over the last 10 years for various charities supported by the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

The event was attended by an impressive list of names including: Tom Hardy, Gemma Arterton, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Friel, Rhys Ifans, Rupert Penry-Jones and Chris O‘ Dowd.

Following the polo, guests were treated to a sumptuous dinner prepared by Coworth Parks‘ Executive Chef, Chris Meredith, and entertained by BRIT award nominee, Pixie Lott

Principal photography on The Double, the second feature from writer/director Richard Ayoade (Submarine), will commence on Sunday 20th May. Inspired by Dostoyevsky's novella of the same name, The Double is a comedy written by Ayoade and Avi Korine (Mister Lonely), a funny and frightening story about an insignificant man driven to near breakdown by the appearance of his doppelganger.



The Double stars Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Zombieland), Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre, Alice in Wonderland), Wallace Shawn (Toy Story, Vanya on 42nd Street), Yasmin Paige (Submarine, Wondrous Oblivion), Noah Taylor (upcoming Lawless, Submarine) and James Fox (Sherlock Holmes, The Remains of the Day). The Double is produced by Amina Dasmal & Robin Fox (Alcove Entertainment) with co-producer Andy Stebbing.



An Alcove Entertainment Production presented by Film4 and BFI in association with Protagonist Pictures, The Double is co-produced by Attercop Productions and MC Pictures and was co-developed by Alcove Entertainment & Film4. Shooting will take place in London for 9 weeks. International sales will be handled by Protagonist Pictures. The film will be released by Studiocanal in the UK.



Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly startilm4s taking over his life.



Richard Ayoade’s debut feature was the much-lauded Submarine, winner of the Jury Grand Prix at Giffoni Film Festival in 2011, and Best Screenplay at the 2011 BIFA awards. With a background in music promos and a concert film of The Arctic Monkeys at The Apollo, Ayoade is also well-known in the UK as the director and co-creator of spoof horror comedy ‘Garth Marenghi's Darkplace’ and for playing ‘Moss’ in the Emmy Award-winning ‘IT Crowd’.



Jesse Eisenberg made his screen debut in the TV series ‘Get Real’, followed by film roles in Roger Dodger, The Squid and The Whale and The Education of Charlie Banks. His breakthrough role came in Zombieland (2009), and, in 2010, he was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes and Academy Awards for his role of the Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network. He has also starred in Holy Rollers, Rio (as the voice of Blu) and 30 Minutes or Less. His upcoming films include Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love, Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me and Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young.



Mia Wasikowska came to prominence in 2010 after starring as ‘Alice’ in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and appearing in The Kids Are All Right, for which she received the Hollywood Awards’ Breakthrough Actress Award. The following year, she portrayed the title character in Cary Fukunaga's adaptation of Jane Eyre, and starred in Gus Van Sant's Restless and Rodrigo Garcia's Albert Nobbs. Her upcoming films include Lawless (John Hillcoat), Stoker (Park Chan-wook) and Madame Bovary (Sophie Barthes).

Hollywood and Broadway made a stop in eastern Kentucky Thursday to deliver a powerful message about the dangers of drug abuse. It’s called The Dionysus Project. It’s a unique attempt to boost dialogue in drug ravaged communities.

The project about addiction took center state for the first time in Manchester with another performance later in the day in Hazard.

Four stage and film actors delivered a dramatic reading from an ancient Greek play about the destructive power of intoxication.

"It naturally opens up an avenue to discussing something that might be taboo or private or personal, just by virtue of seeing people emote,” said actor Jesse Eisenberg. Eisenberg is an Oscar nominee for his role in The Social Network.

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Opening No. 1 in Italy via Medusa Film was To Rome, With Love, director Woody Allen’s latest title costarring himself with Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Judy Davis and Jesse Eisenberg. Opening round at some 495 screens drew an estimated $4 million. A June opening is slated for the U.S. and Canada.

You seem to always take your pants off when you're in a film with Jesse Eisenberg.

I guess the rule is, if I'm in a film with Jesse, I have to show my butt. It's in his contract: I have to humiliate myself. He's got a sick fascination with my butt. [Laughs] Maybe it's a generational thing, but a lot of actors these days show their butts. It's not like we're trying to show our butts because it's some terrible movie late at night on some weird channel like it used to be, but if our characters like to get naked, that's representative of life. We're holding up a mirror — to our butts. [Laughs]

MTV: You mentioned Woody Allen. He wrote, directs and stars in the film. What was it like working with him?

Page: Trippy. I feel like that would be the best way to put that. It's a hard thing to really wrap your head around when it's happening — to be standing on the golden, sunlit streets of Rome with Jesse, who's so wonderful and such a talented actor. And then [there's] Woody Allen walking up to you to give you direction. It's a very dreamlike feeling. I sort of forget that it even happened. It's weird.

MTV: What was it like acting opposite Alec Baldwin and Jesse Eisenberg?

Page: They're both awesome, and Greta Gerwig as well. We had such a great time together and Jesse is so kind and so down-to-earth. Alec and Greta as well. Just three lovely people to spend every day with all day. I had a really nice time getting to know Alec. I've been such a huge fan of his for so long and I think he's wonderful.

Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg joking around on the set of "Now you see me" in Paris

"The social network" and soon to be out next Woody Allen new film young star Jesse Eisenberg looked at ease in front of mega star Woody Harrelson before shooting a scene in Paris in the middle of the night. They joked, hugged, checked....Young Jesse then when back in ambulance car to shoot a new scene on his own

Paris April 17th 2012

Question of obligation after Fincher's film: what relationship you have with social networks?

"I do not care, the last thing I would do at the end of the day is go home and put the computer to tell everything I've done, seen, said. Maybe they'd use if you were not an actor and I had already a good media exposure. But I know that there are profiles with my name. They are frauds that make me a bad impression. Every time someone tells me "but as I had made an appointment and then did not you see." Eh, I did not come because it was not me that I've given you. "

You have known women seductively dangerous as one sung by Ellen Page in the movie?

"I've encountered, but let me knock on wood as I say, I've never fallen. But I'm not so naive as my character in the film, otherwise I do not know how it would end for me. In general, however, believe that in love one is condemned to learn the hard way, smashing his head should not be learned otherwise. Also because usually the advice you give on the subject are disastrous. "

Allen preferred to leave open an explanation on his character, without giving its interpretation with respect to the relationship you have in the movie with Alec Baldwin. You like to see: you're the same person at a distance of time or Baldwin is a kind of Jiminy Cricket?

"I saw Alec as my older brother who gives advice that you know is right but you find them boring and not just listen. The classic type that bothers you because you know he's right. Woody was too hazy to me, but as an actor I had to give some explanations to give consistency to the character and this thesis of his older brother convinced me more than all. "

The film also talks about fame, though not in your episode. What is your relationship with success?

"Well when you start this work you think" all I need to get to a level of economic security to be happy ", but then when you get there are other reasons for 1000 to be compassionate and sad. Woody uses art as a distraction, therefore, continues to make a film after another, but I am writing stage plays. They recently finished replicas of Asuncion at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and soon get myself to write a new play to be represented next year. " ( Photo Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images )