Once again, great news for Martin McDonagh and the ‘in Bruges’-crew. The academy nominated Martin in the category ‘Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen’. It ’s his second nomination. Let’s cross our fingers on February 22nd and hope he wins his second oscar!

Another great day for the movie ‘In Bruges’. It received 3 nominations for the ‘Golden Globes’…

‘In Bruges’ is nominated in these categories:

• Best Picture - Comedy/Musical

• Best Actor - Colin Farell

• Best Actor - Brendan Gleeson

On January 11th 2009, we ‘ll know more…

UPDATE (JAN 12th): Congratulations to Colin Farell! He won a golden globe for ‘Best Actor’

OSCAR WINNING director Martin McDonagh has won the top prize in the second Annual Writers Guild Awards.

He was awarded the best film script for In Bruges , which he wrote and directed and which was released to critical and commercial success earlier this year. The dark comedy stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen exiled to the Belgian city of Bruges to await instructions from their boss, played by Ralph Fiennes.

The other nominees in the category were Mark O’Halloran for Garage and Mark O’Rowe for Boy A .

The awards, known as ZeBBies after actor and writer OZ Whitehead (aka Zebby), are staged by the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild (IPSG) and were presented in The Sugar Club, Dublin yesterday by Senator David Norris.

O’Halloran won best television script for Georgie’s Story , the third episode of the Prosperity drama four-part series shown on RTÉ1 last year. The other nominees were Marcus Fleming for The Running Mate (Episode 1) on TG4 and Graham Linehan for The IT Crowd (Series 2: Episode 1, The Work Outing ) which is shown on Channel 4.

The award for best theatre script went to Christian O’Reilly for Is This About Sex? and the best radio script was by Belfast woman Lucy Caldwell for Girl from Mars which was broadcast on BBC Radio Four earlier this year.

Source: Irishtimes.com

Excellent news for ‘In Bruges’. The film is nominated in 7 categories of the 11th Britisch Independent Film Awards:

- BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
- THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] for Martin McDonagh
- BEST SCREENPLAY for Martin McDonagh
- BEST ACTOR for Colin Farrell
- BEST ACTOR for Brendan Gleeson
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR for Ralph fiennes
- BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT for Editing – Jon Gregory

BIFA takes place 30th of November

Website BIFA

Together with my colleague of fietsroute.org (Belgian Cyclist-site), I created an ‘In Bruges’-walk. It’s a 6 km (3,7 mile) long walk in the historic centre of Bruges along the main filmlocations used in the movie ‘In Bruges’.

You can find the map over here: www.inbruges.info/in_bruges_walk.html

Click the links to view a 3D-map of the movie locations:

• The first pub Ken and Ray visited in Bruges. It’s called ‘Zwart Huis’ (Black house). ‘Zwart huis’ is the pub of the former ‘cinema liberty’ and ‘English Theatre of Bruges’. It was built in 1482 and you can still see some valuable interior details such as the wonderful woodsculpture above the fireplace. In july and August 2008, there are daily showings of ‘In Bruges’.
  
  

• The restaurant in Bruges were Cloé and Ray had their romantic date. It’s called ‘Cafedraal’:
  
  

Photograph rights movie pictures: Focus Features

Some more making of pictures of ‘In Bruges’. Some scenes were filmed in the Philips studio in Bruges:

The hotel were Ray and ken stayed really exists. Some shots of the hotel were filmed on this set, other scenes were filmed in the hotel itself (http://www.relaisbourgondischcruyce.be/).

Hotel-set Bruges

Top of the Belfry/Bell Tower Bruges

Stairs Belfry/Bell Tower Bruges

Photograph Rights: Frederik Casteleyn

The making of ‘In Bruges’:

Dijver Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Burg Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Burg Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Dijver Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Groeninghe Museum Bruges

Beguinage/Lake of love Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Market Square Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Market Square Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Rozenhoedkaai Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Rozenhoedkaai Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Gruuthuse Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Photograph Rights: Bruges city film office

There’s a book available with the script of the movie. So untill the release of ‘In Bruges’ in your country or the release of the DVD (25th of July), you can enjoy the story (again)…

You can order the book here:

UK/USA

Belgium/Netherlands

Click the links to view a 3D-map of the movie locations:

• Romantic scene filmed on the bridge at the ‘Meestraat’ between the ‘Vismarkt’ (Fishmarket) and the ‘Groenerei’.
  
  
  If you’re lucky you can see the dog looking through the window:
  

• Great moment when Harry appears in the movie. This scene is shot on the bridge of the ‘Minnewater’ (aka ‘Lake of Love’).
  

Photograph Rights: Focus Features

 click the links to view a 3D-view of the movie-locations:

• Scene on bench shot in front of the statue of ‘Jan Van Eyck’ on the ‘Van Eyck-plein’ (Van Eyck-square). Jan Van Eyck was one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. You can visit the ‘Groeningemuseum’ in Bruges to admire some of his paintings.
  
  

• Two scenes shot in the ‘Koningin Astridpark’ (Queen Astridparc) between the pavilion and the little playground near the church:
  
  
  
  

 

Photograph rights movie pictures: Focus Features

For those people who aren’t familiar with the city of Bruges, here are some pictures from ‘In Bruges’ and a link to maps.live.com where you can see where it’s shot:

• The hotel where Ray and Ken stayed (click to view 3D map). The hotel does really exist, it’s the ‘Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce’-hotel. Not all hotel-scenes were filmed over there, they also made a hotel-set that looked less fancy than the real hotel.
  
  Some pictures of the real ‘in Bruges’ hotel:
  
  
  
  Look at the hotel from the ‘Rozenhoedkaai’ (360° view Rozenhoedkaai):
  

 



• The ‘Groenige’-museum Ray and Ken visited (they call it ‘Gruuthuuse’ in the movie):
  
  Entrance Groeninge-museum:
  

Photograph rights movie pictures: Focus Features

Universal has officially announced that they will release the DVD (Region 1) of ‘In Bruges’ on June 24th. You can order your copy on this page:

DVD In Bruges

Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clemence Poesy, Jeremie Renier, Thekla Reuten, Jordan Prentice
Directed by: Martin McDonagh

Disc 1

• Run Time: 1 Hours and 47 Minutes
• MPAA Rating: R (Strong Bloody Violence, Pervasive Language and Some Drug Use)
• Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (English), Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (French)
• Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
• Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)
• Color

Bonus:

• Deleted Scenes
• Extended Scenes
• Gag Reel
• When In Bruges
• Strange Bruges
• A Boat Trip Around Bruges
• F**king Bruges

The Germans made a very beautiful website for their release of ‘In bruges’. They gave it another title: ‘Bruegge sehen… und sterben?’ Translated: ‘Seeing Bruges… and die?

http://www.brueggesehenundsterben.de/

Spoiler alert!

For those of you who saw ‘In Bruges’ and who aren’t familiar with the city:

• The scene in the ‘Basilica of the Holy Blood‘ wasn’t actually filmed over there, in fact it was filmed in the ‘Jerusalem-church‘ (360° view). The ‘Basilica of the Holy Blood‘ was the only place in Bruges where the filmmakers weren’t allowed to film.
• The house of ‘Yuri’ is not in the ‘Raamstraat 17‘, actually it was filmed in the ‘Koningstraat’.

In April, ‘In Bruges’ was the first movie of 2008 that entered the IMDB top250 movielist!

IMDB TOP250

Keep voting for ‘In Bruges’!

Here you can find the box-office results for the ‘In Bruges’ movie

These hotels offer a special ‘In Bruges’ package-deal:

Click the link bellow to see the ‘In Bruges’-page on IMDB:

in bruges on IMDB