'The Mortal Instruments' stars busy in TV & film for 2014

The cast members of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones are incredibly talented actors that we all enjoy watching perform. With it being the new year we are sure many of you would like to know what movies and television shows you all can see them in this year, what they are currently working on, and what they will be working on soon. So, below is a list of each actor along with all of that information. Release dates will be provided as well if they have been made available. This should hold everyone over throughout the year while we wait for more news regarding City of Ashes.

Jamie Campbell Bower (aka Jace Wayland)

Movie: Overdrive
Role: Garrett
Production Status: In Development
Release Date: 2014
Plot Summary:
A pair of handsome and adventurous brothers, known for being high-profile car thieves, travel to the South of France looking for new challenges and come across a tough local crime boss.

Lily Collins (aka Clary Fray)

Movie: Love, Rosie
Role: Rosie Dunne
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: 2014
Plot Summary:
Rosie and Alex are best friends. They are suddenly separated when Alex and his family move from Dublin to America. Can their friendship survive years and miles? Will they gamble everything for true love?

Robert Sheehan (aka Simon Lewis)

Movie: Anita B.
Role: Eli
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: January 16th, 2014

Movie: Begin the Beguine
Role: Nikolai
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: Unknown

Movie: The Road Within
Role: Vincent
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: Unknown
Plot Summary:
A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

Movie: Caesar
Role: Mark Antony
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: Unknown
Plot Summary:
A chilling film adaptation of Shakespeare's shocking tale of ambition, betrayal, murder and... the supernatural.

Jemima West (aka Isabelle Lightwood)

Movie: F2014
Role: Annette Rimet
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: Unknown

Movie: Kidnapping Freddy Heineken
Role: Unknown
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: Unknown
Plot Summary:
The inside story of the planning, execution, rousing aftermath and ultimate downfall of the kidnappers of beer tycoon Alfred "Freddy" Heineken, which resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for an individual.

 Kevin Zegers (aka Alec Lightwood)

Movie: The Curse of Downers Grove
Role: Unknown
Release Date: 2014
Plot Summary:
A teen angst thriller at a high school gripped by an apparent curse that claims the life of a senior every year. Story follows a senior, Chrissie, who is skeptical, and another, Tracy, who believes that she may be the next victim.

Movie: Into the Americas
Role: John Jewitt
Production Status: In Development
Release Date: 2014
Plot Summary:
Young English seaman John Jewitt is one of only two European survivors left after his crewmates clash with Mowachaht Indians on the west coast of North America. Torn between his desire for freedom and his love for an Indian maiden, Jewitt must choose one or the other.

Movie: Road to Capri
Role: Daniel
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: Unknown
Plot Summary:
One dead father. Two mothers. Two brothers who didn't know they were brothers. One inheritance.

Lena Headey (aka Jocelyn Fray)

Movie: The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Role: Monica
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: January 10th, 2014
Plot Summary:
Ancient mysteries. Powerful evil. And a fearless hero's quest through a fantastical realm of steam-powered wonders and sinister magic... In THE ADVENTURER: THE CURSE OF THE MIDAS BOX, seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth - but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box!


Movie: Low Down
Role: Sheila Albany
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: January 19th, 2014

Plot Summary:
A look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter, as she watches him contend with his drug addiction during the 1960s and '70s jazz scene.

Movie: 300: Rise of an Empire
Role: Queen Gorgo
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: March 7th, 2014
Plot Summary:
After its victory over Leonidas' 300, the Persian Army under the command of Xerxes marches towards the major Greek city-states. The Democratic city of Athens, first on the path of Xerxes' army, bases its strength on its fleet, led by admiral Themistocles. Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with the traditional rival of Athens, oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior infantry troops. But Xerxes still reigns supreme in numbers over sea and land.


TV Series: Game of Thrones
Role: Cersei Lannister
Season 4 Premieres in 2014

Plot Summary:
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Political and sexual intrigue is pervasive. Robert Baratheon, King of Westeros, asks his old friend Eddard, Lord Stark, to serve as Hand of the King, or highest official. Secretly warned that the previous Hand was assassinated, Eddard accepts in order to investigate further. Meanwhile the Queen's family, the Lannisters, may be hatching a plot to take power. Across the sea, the last members of the previous and deposed ruling family, the Targaryens, are also scheming to regain the throne. The friction between the houses Stark, Lannister and Baratheon, and with the remaining great houses Greyjoy, Tully, Arryn, and Tyrell, leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war and political confusion, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Movie: The Poisoners
Role: Unknown
Production Status: In Development
Release Date: Unknown
Plot Summary:
During World War I, a group of women who are left behind inan English farming community become romantically involved with several German prisones of war.

Aidan Turner (aka Luke Garroway)

Movie: The Hobbit: There And Back Again
Role: Kili
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Plot Summary:
The Company of Thorin has reached Smaug's lair; but, can Bilbo and the Dwarves reclaim Erebor and the treasure? And, if so, can they hold on to it?

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (aka Valentine Morgenstern)

TV Series: DRACULA
Role: Alexander Grayson/Dracula/Vlad Tepes
Season 1 is Currently Airing
Plot Summary:
It's the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He's especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night - useful for someone who avoids the sun. But he has another reason for his travels: he hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier. Everything seems to be going according to plan... until he becomes infatuated with a woman who appears to be a reincarnation of his dead wife. 

Movie: London Town
Role: Unknown
Production Status: In Development
Release Date: Unknown
Plot Summary:
In 70's London, a 14 year oldboy is introduced to the Clash by his estranged mother and it changes his life forever.

Jared Harris (Hodge Starkweather)

Movie: Pompeii
Role: Lucretius
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: February 21st, 2014
Plot Summary:
A slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.

Movie: The Quiet Ones
Role: Professor Coupland
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: April 25th, 2014
Plot Summary:
A University physics professor assembles a team to help create a poltergeist.

Movie: The Boxtrolls
Role: Unknown (Voice)
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: September 26th, 2014
Plot Summary:
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow.

Movie: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Role: Unknown
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: 2014
Plot Summary:
In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

Movie: Poltergeist
Role: Carrigan Burke
Production Status: In Production
Release Date: 2014
Plot Summary:
Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan reimagine and contemporize the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

Kevin Durand (aka Emil Pangborn)

TV Series: The Strain
Role: Vasiliy Fet
Season 1 Pilot Episode Premieres in 2014
Plot Summary:
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.

Movie: Winter's Tale
Role: Cesar Tan
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Plot Summary:
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of rincarnation, he sets out to save her.

Movie: The Captive
Role: Mika
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: Unknown
Plot Summary:
A father tries to track down his kidnapped daughter.

Movie: Noah
Role: Og
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: March 28th, 2014
Plot Summary:
The Biblical Noah suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge and takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Movie: Signal
Role: Unknown
Production Status: In Development
Release Date: Unknown

Robert Maillet (aka Samuel Blackwell)

TV Series: The Strain
Role: The Master
Season 1 Pilot Episode Premieres in 2014
Plot Summary:
(See Above since Kevin Durand is in it as well.)

Movie: Brick Mansions
Role: Yeti
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: February 7th, 2014
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop tries to take down a ruthless crime lord with access to a neutron bomb by infiltrating his gang.

Movie: Hercules
Role: Executioner
Production Status: Completed
Release Date: July 25th, 2014
Plot Summary:
Having enduring his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when te King of Thrace and his daugher seek his aid in dfeating a tyrannical warlord.

Chris Ratz (aka Eric)

TV Series: 24 Hour Rental
Role: Junior
Currently Airing

TV Series: Bitten
Role: Jack
Season 1 Premieres on January 13th, 2014
Plot Summary:
Bitten centers on Elena Michaels, the world's only female werewolf who, years after being bitten, is working as a photographer in Toronto and trying to keep mum about her secret. She's forced to confront her past, though, when a bunch of bodies turn up at a werewolf sanctuary. Based off the "Otherworld" book series by Kelley Armstrong.

December Calendar portraits and Christmassy snippet from City of Heavenly Fire

Cassie Clare took to Tumblr on Christmas Day to share some new artwork from Cassandra Jean's December Calendar and a very cute Christmassy snippet from City of Heavenly Fire featuring Clary and Simon. Check it all out below!

 December Calendar Portraits: The Boys and The Girls.

Christmassy Snippet

The Frays had never been a religiously observant family, but Clary loved Fifth Avenue at Christmas time. The air smelled like sweet roasted chestnuts, and the window displays sparkled with silver and blue, green and red. This year there were fat round crystal snowflakes attached to each lamppost, sending back the winter sunlight in shafts of gold[B1] . Not to mention the huge tree at Rockefeller Center. It threw its shadow across them as she and Simon draped themselves over the gate at the side of the skating rink, watching tourists fall down as they tried to navigate the ice.

Clary had a hot chocolate wrapped in her hands, the warmth spreading through her body. She felt almost normal—this, coming to Fifth to see the window displays and the tree, had been a winter tradition for her and Simon for as long as she could remember.

“Feels like old times, doesn’t it?” he said, echoing her thoughts as he propped his chin on his folded arms.

She chanced a sideways look at him. He was wearing a black topcoat and scarf that emphasized the winter pallor of his skin. His eyes were shadowed, indicating that he hadn’t fed on blood recently. He looked like what he was—a hungry, tired vampire.

Well, she thought. Almost like old times. “More people to buy presents for,” she said. “Plus, the always traumatic what-to-buy-someone-for-the-first-Christmas-after-you’ve-started-dating question.”

“What to get the Shadowhunter who has everything,” Simon said with a grin.

“Jace mostly likes weapons,” Clary sighed. “He likes books, but they have a huge library at the Institute. He likes classical music …” She brightened. Simon was a musician; even though his band was terrible, and was always changing their name—currently they were Lethal Soufflé—he did have training. “What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?”

“A piano.”

“Simon.”

“A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?”

Clary sighed, exasperated.

“Sheet music. Rachmaninoff is tough stuff, but he likes a challenge.”

“Now you’re talking. I’m going to see if there’s a music store around here.” Clary, done with her hot chocolate, tossed the cup into a nearby trash can and pulled her phone out. “What about you? What are you giving Isabelle?”

“I have absolutely no idea,” Simon said. They had started heading toward the avenue, where a steady stream of pedestrians gawking at the windows clogged the streets.

“Oh, come on. Isabelle’s easy.”

“That’s my girlfriend you’re talking about.” Simon’s brows drew together. “I think. I’m not sure. We haven’t discussed it. The relationship, I mean.”

“You really have to DTR, Simon.”

“What?”

“Define the relationship. What it is, where it’s going. Are you boyfriend and girlfriend, just having fun, ‘it’s complicated,’ or what? When’s she going to tell her parents? Are you allowed to see other people?”

Simon blanched. “What? Seriously?”

“Seriously. In the meantime—perfume!” Clary grabbed Simon by the back of his coat and hauled him into a cosmetics store that had once been a bank. It was massive on the inside, with rows of gleaming bottles everywhere. “And something unusual,” she said, heading for the fragrance area. “Isabelle isn’t going to want to smell like everyone else. She’s going to want to smell like figs, or vetiver, or—”

“Figs? Figs have a smell?” Simon looked horrified; Clary was about to laugh at him when her phone buzzed. It was her mother.

where are you? It’s an emergency.

What do you all think of the artwork and snippet? Let us know in the comments below!

Lena Headey graces new character poster for '300: Rise of an Empire'

A gorgeous new poster just surfaced of Lena Headey as the Spartan Queen Gorgo in 300: Rise of an Empire. With just a few months to go until the highly anticipated sequel to 300, many amazing new posters and footage will be popping up frequently. Be sure to keep checking back here for more on the movie before it comes to theaters on March 7th, 2014!

What do you all think of the poster? Are any of you planning to see the movie when it is released? Let us know in the comments below!

VIDEO: Jamie Campbell Bower and Lily Collins training for 'The Mortal Instruments'

Check out this brand new behind-the-scenes look at Jamie Campbell Bower (Jace) and Lily Collins (Clary) training for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The video can be seen below.

What do you all think of the training they went through? Let us know in the comments!

Lily Collins discusses the wait for 'City of Ashes' with MTV

We have all been waiting for more news on The Mortal Instruments sequel, City of Ashes, and it seems Lily Collins has as well. Watch here where she talks with MTV about the wait for the next film.

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Cassandra Clare and Cassandra Jean creating Men of the Shadowhunter Universe Calendar

Very exciting news Shadowhunters!

Cassandra Clare and the extremely talented artist Cassandra Jean have been collaborating to create a calendar of the TMI/TID/TDA/TLH boys, Men of the Shadowhunter Universe. So far they have released the art for both January and February 2014. You all can see the artwork below!

January Jem

February Magnus/Alec

What do you all think of what has been released so far? Let us know in the comments below!

ET EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Behind the Music of 'The Mortal Instruments'

An incredible brand new video has been released by ET Online going behind the music of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. It can be seen below!

Mirror Mirror star Lily Collins faces a variety of decidedly nasty demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures in the new thriller The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, now in theaters, and we have an exclusive look behind the scenes at the making of the original motion picture score by Atli Örvarsson.

Örvarsson was hired on the spot by Harald Zwart at the premiere of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (for which Örvarsson provided the music) to compose the score for City of Bones -- with only three weeks to complete the score for the film after replacing an Oscar-winning composer who left the project.

"I came out of a screening of another film Atli previously scored and there was a certain energy about it," says Zwart. "I thought, 'He's the perfect man for the job.'"

After watching the film's first cut, Örvarsson immediately presented Zwart with a piece of paper containing the main heroine's theme. In a short time, the soundtrack was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, incorporating a full orchestra and choir.

"He handed me music scribbles and said, 'This is the theme,' and it is the beautiful Clary's Theme we hear in the film," explains Zwart.

Based on Cassandra Clare's best-selling book series, City of Bones casts Collins as Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager who discovers that she is part of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret force of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother (Lena Headey), she must embrace her fate and battle supernatural forces in a dangerous alternate New York City called Downworld.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones also stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jared Harris, CCH Pounder, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Kevin Durand, Aidan Turner, Jemima West and Godfrey Gao.

Video and Full Article were found at ET ONLINE

NEW INTERVIEW: 'Mortal Instruments' star Lily Collins talks about her life and upbringing with Flaunt Magazine

LILY COLLINS

Undermines Your Pompous Authority

Lily Collins talks animatedly, using her hands to emphasize points in between dainty bites of salad.

Lily Collins takes thoughtful pauses before giving her answers, completely ignoring her club sandwich and side of shoestring fries. 

Lily Collins barely speaks to me while utterly destroying a rack of ribs. I am very uncomfortable.

This is all fantasy at this point, as I’m not yet at my scheduled lunch, stuck instead in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I know she’s on a strict schedule so I’m already trying to fan-fiction the food part in my head, using the usual actress-interview Mad Lib. The rib option seems unlikely just given what I know of her as a Chanel-vetted model and fashion plate and former teen journalist. Also, I don’t think the hotel in Beverly Hills where we’re meeting up even does barbecue.

As it turns out, neither she nor I are super hungry, so we both get green teas. Later I find out that she’s not much of a meat eater and feel good being wrong about the rib thing, especially since she’s wearing a glittery, cream colored top.

In a few hours, Collins is headed directly into the unholy people-stew of Comic-Con to promote The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the first installment in the latest fantasy-teen-serial-turned-hopefully-massively-popular-film-franchise.

The 24-year-old English American will play Clary, a girl who discovers in the current Young Adult trend that she’s not an ordinary person but a “Shadowhunter” whose supernatural ability involves killing demons in black leather and not-terribly-sensible shoes.

“I didn’t have a goth phase,” she admits, although she’s dabbled in the occult-ish. “My mom and I would always visit churches when I was traveling, and I was always interested in the darker side of things and the darker side of fairy tales.” For someone who probably doesn’t wear knee-high boots and carry a sword in her off time, she sounds genuinely enthused about Comic-Con. “I’m excited. I wanna see all the madness and be a part of it but also witness all the crazy.”

While comparisons to Audrey Hepburn might feel easy (or at least, preemptive), they’re not completely off, so it’s easy to picture her on a sweaty convention floor and think, “Oh no.” But in addition to a couple of prestige films (The Blind Side, The English Teacher), she’s done her share of cosplay. Perhaps you caught her in the vampire thriller Priest or in one of the two Snow White-based adaptations released in 2012, Mirror Mirror. (That was the sunnier, goofier one with Julia Roberts.)

“I’ve always loved fantasy. I grew up reading these kinds of stories and just disappearing in my own head,” she says dreamily, pausing to remove a little vial of liquid Stevia and dribble it, tincture-like, into her tea. “I loved Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen novels, anything that’s out of this world in a way. Even though Jane Austen novels are very realistic, they still have this fantasy about them.”

Collins knows Austen country pretty well, having divided her time between Los Angeles and the English countryside (her dad is that Phil). The provenance shows in both her manner and her accent, which sounds Californian, punctuated with airy peaks of Surrey.

“I know I sound very L.A., very American,” she sighs, but says she considers England home as well. Her first role was on a U.K. sitcom (at the age of two), and she’s just come from trotting out her British accent in the indie comedy Love, Rosie, in which she plays a “hot mess” and at times, a careworn 10-years older.

In the flesh, she’s chic and pretty and earnest with just a touch of corporate polish: unprompted, she mentions a fondness for doing press and junkets. I’d be tempted to call her out on this but it’s somehow eminently believable, even coming from someone staring down the possibility of you-can’t-go-to-the-mall-again levels of fame.

Megastarlets seem to come in two iterations: reluctant and reticent except for the occasional obscene gesture to the paparazzi, or accessible jokesters who laugh so you can see all of their teeth. Halfway into our talk, I’m making mental notes not to write the phrase Lily Collins is not your typical starlet. But as artificially headline-ready as it sounds, it’s an assessment she’d probably accept.

She volunteers that she’s not a drinker; she eschews the club scene and says her favorite part of the pub culture in Dublin was the camaraderie and the lack of pretense. She speaks with special nostalgia for the practice of finding someplace after work to “just go sit.”

All of this—the tea, Comic-Con enthusiasm, the sitting—could almost seem reactionary, a voluntary way to recuse herself from coming off like a movie star, especially given her background in journalism, which she studied at USC and honed as a reporter for the likes of Teen Vogue, the LA Times Magazine, and Nickelodeon.

But there’s something about her that just seems, for lack of a better term, untarnished, as though she was raised in an actual cottage in the forest. She clearly adores her parents, who come up organically every few minutes. When I point out how often she mentions her mother, she allows that they’re “best friends” but adds a little smile of self-effacement, as if she understands how wholesome she sounds.

If her poise seems practiced, it doesn’t feel artificially acquired. She’s a canny interview because she’s been on the other side of the tape recorder, and discusses her photo shoot from the perspective of someone as comfortable taking pictures as posing for them.

“I take my camera everywhere I go when I’m filming or going on location.” She says she favors pictures of machinery and architecture in various monochrome, although she brushes off my suggestion that she join Instagram and really up her inanimate object filter game. After the briefest flirtation with Twitter, she no longer “does” social media.

  

Acting props aside, fashion too is obviously her thing. She admits the occasional misstep, but she hews close enough to the classics so that the overall effect is one of almost unimpeachable chic, although she won’t take all of the credit for any it-girlyness.

“As much as I love helping pick out clothes for other people, I think it’s so difficult when I can’t even figure out what is totally my style.” She shrugs. “I think it takes a really good eye to mix prints, and the stylists who I work with are incredible…I can go, ‘I don’t know,’ and then try it on and say ‘Oh, my God you are so right,’ but I could have never put it together.”

Dressing herself, she opts for the classic and feminine, but she’s not risk-averse.

“I like to have fun and experiment and only recently in the past year and a half, I’ve started to try being a bit edger…Not overtly sexy, because I would never do that, but a classy refined version of sexy, just a bit older.”

She points to the tastefully shredded denim she’s wearing and explains, “I’m a bit schizophrenic in my fashion. One day I’m wearing ripped jeans and lighter tones, and the next day I want to be really dark and edgy.”

She wouldn’t call herself edgy, per se. When she brings up a love of John Hughes films, I ask her which member of The Breakfast Club she’d be, and she picks Molly Ringwald without much hesitation. “I wouldn’t say I’m preppy princess by any means,” she counters. “…I think that I have a bit more of an attitude.”

One would hope so. She mentions her fondness for privacy several times, enough that there’s reason to wonder what will happen if Mortal Instruments goes Twilight-nuclear, and she can no longer comb even the most remote French flea markets in peace.

“I think there is something great about seeing someone as a character because you don’t know them that well as themselves,” she says, explaining her aversion to actors over-sharing on social media. “I like to be able to watch movies and not know too much about someone personally. I don’t want to be tainted by thinking, ‘Oh my god, they had the best pasta last week.’”

It’s telling that her idea of a social media overshare is someone having great pasta. But lest you underestimate her, she is, after all, a trained demon slayer. If a blooming career in fantasy films has given her anything, it’s extensive combat skills.

“Um, yeah, I think I could probably hold my own in a knife fight,” she says, and I believe her.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is now playing in theaters!

Interview and Photos were found at FLAUNT MAGAZINE

Tonner Doll Company, Inc. to Release Collectible Figures from 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'

Exciting news Shadowhunters!

Noted name in collectibles makes it possible to battle the demons with your very own Shadowhunter! Tonner Doll Company debuts The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Collection, featuring characters Clary Fray, Jace Wayland and Isabelle Lightwood.

Tonner Doll Company, Inc., a staple in the high-end collectibles industry for over 20 years, announces the release of their latest film-inspired collection based on The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The debut pieces of the line include characters Clary Fray, Jace Wayland and Isabelle Lightwood, complete with magical marks, so-called runes.

A Constantin Film International GmbH and Unique Features (TMI) Inc. production, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is directed by Harald Zwart from a screenplay by Jessica Postigo Paquette based on the New York Times best-selling young adult fantasy novel by Cassandra Clare. The film features Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and more. Robert Kulzer and Don Carmody are producing and Bob Shaye, Michael Lynne and Martin Moszkowicz are executive producing.

Set in contemporary New York, The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones follows Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager as she discovers that she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternative New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. Based on the worldwide best-selling book series.    

“I devoured the whole series and loved it,” exclaimed Robert Tonner, company CEO and resident doll artist and sculptor. “As soon as I heard about the movie, I knew immediately it was for us. It’s got all the good stuff: romance, action, demons, vampires, werewolves. Just ripe for the picking!”

Tonner Doll is known for their impeccable workmanship and quality collectibles, and has had great success with past film licenses, such as Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Warm Bodies and the Twilight series. Tonner brings the same creative approach and applies the same rigorous standard of quality to The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Collection.

Tonner’s The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Collection will feature authorized likenesses of Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower and Jemima West. Each collectible figure will include hand-painted facial details, authentic costuming from the film, multiple points of articulation for dynamic poses and a stand for ease of display.

The Mortal Instruments Collection will be available on http://www.tonnerdoll.com, and through specialty boutique doll shops later this year.

For more information or to see Tonner Doll’s other masterful creations, visit http://www.tonnerdoll.com/.

About Tonner Doll Company: 

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A Constantin Film International GmbH and Unique Features (TMI) Inc. production, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES is directed by Harald Zwart, and produced by Robert Kulzer and Don Carmody. Jessica Postigo Paquette wrote the screenplay, based on the novel by Cassandra Clare. Bob Shaye, Michael Lynne and Martin Moszkowicz executive produced.

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES is now playing in theaters.

NEW INTERVIEW: 'Mortal Instruments' star Godfrey Gao on his character Magnus Bane and more

Godfrey Gao is making his English-speaking film debut this week as he takes on the role of Magnus Banes in the big-screen adaptation of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

This is the first of The Mortal Instrument series to be adapted for the big screen, and Harold Zwart is in the director's chair.

We caught up with Godfrey to chat about the movie, his role and what lies ahead.

- You are going to be back on the big screen this summer with The Mortal Instrument: City of Bones so can you tell me a bit about the film?

It is my first English project. The Mortal Instruments is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller so it is pretty popular. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is the first book in the series to be adapted for the big screen.

It was an exciting project for me as it was my first English feature, and I had never really worked on a Hollywood production before. It was fun to work with a Hollywood production, director and actors. I was really glad that I got the part.

- This is the biggest role of your career to date so how did you find stepping into such a huge project?

I think it was pure luck. Like anybody else that has been cast for the film I went through a casting process - actually I was still filming in Shanghai at that time.

So I was going through Skype interviews and taping and everything that comes with the casting process. I had never really put myself on tape before, and I found that odd because you are just talking to a camera or your iPhone.

It was fun, and it was an experience that I appreciated because it got me the part. It was interesting to see how they cast people like that. I was flattered that they chose me.

- You take on the role of Magnus Bane in the film so what was it about this character and Jessica Postigo's script that drew you to this project?

When I first heard about the character, I wasn't really sure as I wasn't familiar with the story and the book. When I got to know more about the character and the story, it was really exciting as I have never played a character like this before.

It was something out there and something that I really want to try. It was fun for me because it was about using your own imagination. He is described as a flamboyant, higher warlock of Brooklyn, and so it was something that you would imagine in your dreams or in a fictional novel.

It was definitely a challenge as the role was part rock star part animal. During the filming process, it was fun and cool, and director Harald Zwart was amazing in the way that he described what I should be like or what I should sound like. It was just a fun experience overall for me.

- Can you tell me a bit about the character of Magnus and how we are going to see him develop throughout the film?

Magnus Bane is a high end Brooklyn's warlock that never ages and never dies; he is immortal. He is a party animal; he goes to a lot of parties and hosts a lot of parties with vampires, demons and werewolves. I suppose he is an underground party guy.

The City of Bones is really an introduction to him and The Mortal Instruments. Magnus is a bi-sexual warlock, and so he dates men and women (laughs). He is a fun character who spices things up in the story.

- Speaking of the books they have such a loyal fan base so how nerve wracking it is taking on a project that you know is so well loved?

It is quite nerve-wracking and quite stressful. As a fan favourite character you are trying to bring out the real life on the big screen.

It is always the challenging part, but it is always fun to see the reactions of the fans when I was cast for this role. They enjoyed it, I guess. They liked me and my look and so hopefully I can fulfil their needs on the big screen.

- Harald Zwart is in the director's chair for the film so how did you find working with him? And what kind of director is he?

He is a very kind and very sweet director to me and to everybody. I guess he is like a fatherly figure as he sits down with you one on one and talks to you about the character and want you can do on set.

He gives a lot of pointers; he lets you do your thing, and then he gives little pointers here and there. I thought he was very sweet. He is very focused on the film, and he has a lot of ideas about dialogue and the movie overall.

He has put a lot of time into this movie, and he is very creative. I just love working with him, and it was very easy and natural for me to communicate with him on set.

- Was there a rehearsal period before you started shooting?

There was a quick rehearsal for all the scenes; I think that is the normal procedure prior to filming. It was cool to rehearse; I really needed to rehearse because it was my first film in English.

I also had to play alongside Lily Collins, which was an honour. It was really nice to meet with her first and talk about the dialogue before we went to shoot on set. I enjoyed working with Lily as she was very sweet.

- A great cast has been assembled such as Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower so what was the feeling like on the set?

For my scenes, I met Lily, Jamie, Kevin (Durand) and Jemima (West) and it was very sweet to be able to work with them because it felt like... It was different to filming in Asia because we were all speaking English, for one.

But we were around the same age, and we were all hanging around on set. So it put me at ease as I didn't feel a lot of pressure like when I was filming in Asia; there are more famous or grown actors and actresses in China.

When I am working with them, I am always uptight but when I was working with this crew, it felt like I was just hanging out and having a good time.

- You have mentioned a couple of times that this is your English-speaking debut so how have you found stepping into this movie world?

It felt very natural for me. I grew up in Vancouver and so English was my first priority. So when I was on set I felt like I was at ease because everyone was speaking English.

I didn't have any screw-ups with my dialogue - I was pretty impressed with that. I thought my English was very good, and so I was quite surprised with myself.

- Finally, what is next for you? Now that you have had a taste of Hollywood is this where you want to stay?

Yeah definitely. I would like to come across with new projects and more action films. Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

Right now, I think a lot of Hollywood productions are aiming for the Chinese market as well so I think it is a great time for me to cross over. It is a great time right now, and I am just glad to be on this journey.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones hits theaters on August 21st!

Interview was found at FEMALE FIRST

NEW PHOTOSHOOT: 'Mortal Instruments' stars Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, and Jamie Campbell Bower by Galit Rodan

A new photoshoot happened in Toronto recently of our leading men from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by freelance photojournalist Galit Rodan. There are four photos that have been released so far and they are just super cute. That's the best way to describe Robert Sheehan (Simon), Kevin Zegers (Alec), and Jamie Campbell Bower (Jace) in them. The photos can be seen below.

What do you all think of the new photos? Let us know in the comments!

NEW Stills from 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' Show Up

BTA Shadowhunters! A ton of new stills from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones have been released today. Check them all out below. They are very high quality and magnificent!

Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower)

Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower) and Lily Collins (Clary Fray)

Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower), Lily Collins (Clary Fray), Isabelle Lightwood (JemimaWest), and Alec Lightwood (Kevin Zegers)

Clary Fray (Lily Collins), Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower), and the Silent Brothers

Clary Fray (Lily Collins) and Simon Lewis (Robert Sheehan)

Clary Fray (Lily Collins)

Clary Fray (Lily Collins) and Magnus Bane (Godfrey Gao)

Clary Fray (Lily Collins) and Hodge Starkweather (Jared Harris)

Alec Lightwood (Kevin Zegers) and Isabelle Lightwood (Jemima West)

Alec Lightwood (Kevin Zegers)

Clary Fray (Lily Collins) and Luke Garroway (Aidan Turner)

Jocelyn Fray (Lena Headey)

Clary Fray (Lily Collins) and Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower)

Clary Fray (Lily Collins) and Magnus Bane (Godfrey Gao)

Magnus Bane (Godfrey Gao)

Clary Fray (Lily Collins), Simon Lewis (Robert Sheehan), and Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower)

Isabelle Lightwood (Jemima West), Clary Fray (Lily Collins), Alaric (Harry Van Gorkum), and some demons

What do you all think of the new stills? Let us know in the comments!