Saoirse attended the Dublin Premiere of Shrek Forever After 3D on June 24. She was there with her father, actor Paul Ronan. I apologize for being late in posting these, but it was rather difficult to find good quality photos from the event. I managed to gather 16 photos though, so make sure you have a look!

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 135 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2010 to the Academy’s roster of voting members.

“The work of these individuals has been appreciated by moviegoers all around the world,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “The Academy is proud to invite each and every one of them.”

The Academy’s membership policies would have allowed a maximum of 180 new members in 2010, but as in other recent years, the several branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership in the organization has now held steady at just under 6,000 members since 2003.

New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception at the Academy’s Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills in September.

The 2010 invitees are:

Actors
Tobin Bell – “Saw,” “The Firm”
Vera Farmiga – “Up in the Air,” “The Departed”
Miguel Ferrer – “Traffic,” “RoboCop”
James Gandolfini – “In the Loop,” “Get Shorty”
Anna Kendrick – “Up in the Air,” “Twilight”
Mo’Nique – “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” “Phat Girlz”
Carey Mulligan – “An Education,” “Public Enemies”
Jeremy Renner – “The Hurt Locker,” “28 Weeks Later”
Ryan Reynolds – “The Proposal,” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
LaTanya Richardson Jackson – “Mother and Child,” “Losing Isaiah”
Peter Riegert – “Traffic,” “Crossing Delancey”
Sam Robards – “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” “American Beauty”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones,” “Atonement”
Zoe Saldana – “Avatar,” “Star Trek”
Adam Sandler – “Funny People,” “Punch-Drunk Love”
Peter Sarsgaard – “An Education,” “Boys Don’t Cry”
Gabourey Sidibe – “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Shaun Toub – “Iron Man,” “The Kite Runner”
Christoph Waltz – “Inglourious Basterds”
George Wyner – “A Serious Man,” “American Pie 2”

Source: In Contention

Blu-Ray quality screen captures from Saoirse’s 2007 movie, I Could Never Be Your Woman have been added to the gallery! Saoirse is so adorable in this movie, and Michelle Pfeiffer is love! Enjoy browsing through the caps!

“The biggest physical and emotional challenge that I faced on the film,” reveals Ronan, “was the scene underground. The scene where I’m lured into the bunker and, though you don’t really see it, the scene where I’m murdered by George [Stanley Tucci]. There’s that shot of me escaping, which is what we all want to believe happened, and that took a long time to figure out. It was a bit more difficult than usual to completely commit myself to the physical side of that scene as for one, I had a cold, and secondly there was so much going on emotionally. It was pretty draining.

“I was lucky that when she shot that scene, we were quite far into the shooting process, so we’d had lots of time to prepare for it. Also Stanley was really helpful. We got on very well from the time we first met and now we’re really close. We didn’t really know each other until we started that scene, so it could have been intense, but we kept the atmosphere light. Because Stanley is a family man himself, in between takes he felt the need to take care of me and make sure that I was okay, which I thought was very sweet. Even though he was still in that state of mind, he was able to switch from this monster he was playing to the father he really is, because it’s natural in him.”

Enjoy the scans!

According to The Collider, Saoirse’s upcoming film, Hanna will be released on April 8, 2011!

Hanna will open nationwide on Friday, April 8th, 2011, and wraps production next month on location in Europe. BAFTA Award winner Joe Wright, whose films include Focus’Atonement and Pride & Prejudice, is directing the movie. Hanna stars Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan, Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, and Eric Bana.

Hanna (Ms. Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a solider; these come from being raised by her father (Mr. Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Ms. Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

Hanna also stars Jason Flemyng, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, and Martin Wuttke. Seth Lochhead wrote the initial screenplay and has written subsequent drafts, as have David Farr, Joe Penhall, and Mr. Wright. Academy Award nominee Leslie Holleran (Chocolat) is producing Hanna with the team of Marty Adelstein and Scott Nemes.

There isn’t much to update today, except for a couple of high quality stills from The Lovely Bones that I’ve uploaded to replace the medium quality ones. Enjoy!

I have replaced the Hanna production still with a high quality version and I’ve replaced some pictures of a 2009 photo shoot with untagged versions a few days ago.

Over the next few weeks I’ll do my best to create some great content for the site but for now enjoy the new layout!