An emotional James McAvoy accepted Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards in London last night for his performance in Filth. "It's like Scotland's won the World Cup”, he said. Filth recently secured North American distribution but still won’t be released until Spring 2014. Full Story

I’m a sucker for goose fleshy music in a movie trailer if it’s done well. Which is an obvious thing to say. But the goose fleshy music attempt is so often attempted, with sh-tty results, that it feels more and more like it doesn’t happen enough. It happens here because we have two master narrators at work who can match the music with their voices. Full Story

I was juuuuust talking about him in the previous Johnny Depp post. And look! New photos! And no eye-roll. What's there to eye-roll about James McAvoy? Nothing. Thank you to all of you who emailed yesterday to tell me that Anne-Marie Duff is probably rehearsing Macbeth in New York and that's why she wasn't with him at the Filth premiere last night. Full Story

Over in Scotland, they’re all over James McAvoy’s new film Filth. It opened at #1 over there, one of the biggest British film premieres of all time, and even bigger than X-Men: First Class. Aaaaand they still don’t know what to do with it here in North America. Are our moviegoers less sophisticated or are we less dirty? I WANT DIRTY. Full Story

I like how he’s standing right beside that review. Check out James McAvoy in Edinburgh yesterday at the premiere of his new movie Filth, opening in Scotland this weekend and all over the UK on October 4. Still no confirmation on North American release date. They don’t think there’ll be a market for it. Full Story

James McAvoy will be at TIFF with Jessica Chastain for a preview of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her/Him. The last time he was at TIFF we had a cigarette out the window. I think he’s quit now. Or maybe he’s switched to e-cigs like me. So we no longer have to hang out of windows. Full Story

X-Men: Days Of Future Past is in production in Montreal. As it was Canada Day yesterday, cast members had the day off. Here are James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Nicholas Hoult hanging out in the afternoon. They hit up a local pub to watch the football game, play some pool, and smoke some hand-rolled cigarettes. Full Story

The trailer for Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, was released yesterday. Hugh’s daughter goes missing. He’s in a rage trying to find her. Jakey’s the cop on the case. Paul Dano’s the creep who probably isn’t the creep since they’re making him look like the creep in the preview. Full Story

Here are some new shots of Peter Dinklage, James McAvoy, and Michael Fassbender in Montreal, in costume, on the set of the next X-Men movie. Or they could be cameos in the new Anchorman movie. Fassbender looks quite good with that scarf around his neck. X-Men: Days Of Future Past apparently takes place in 1973 Full Story

I didn’t come up with it. That was the position of this article in The Guardian last month pronouncing Anne-Marie Duff and James McAvoy “Britain's new golden acting couple”. She’s already distinguished herself on stage, he’s currently Macbeth in the West End. Full Story

James McAvoy is currently playing Macbeth on stage in London. Last night, according to several witnesses who tweeted about it, an audience member fainted. He came off the stage, called for emergency staff, then went back on stage and continued the fight scene that had been interrupted. Full Story

Am writing from LAX, heading home to Vancouver after a few days in LA. This was my itinerary, and I promise, there's a point: Last week we were in Toronto, flew back to Vancouver on Friday, arriving at 7pm PT. Twelve hours later I was back at the airport for an 8am PT flight to Edmonton only to connect to Los Angeles, to get here in time for a screening. Full Story

Atonement. Remember how gross Benedict Cumberbatch was in Atonement? It’s a testament to his skill as an actor but I can’t help but hold it against him anyway. Poor Robbie took the fall for Paul’s underage creeping! Can you be TOO good at your job? Atonement was the second time James McAvoy and Cumberbatch worked together, having previously co-starred in Starter For Ten which I quite liked and think is underrated though I can’t remember Bendy in it at all. Full Story

Second set of James McAvoy photos this week. Click here if you missed the shots from the other day with his wife Anne-Marie Duff. Here he is shooting Danny Boyle’s Trance with Rosario Dawson on Wednesday night. Not much to say, other than enjoy, and . Full Story