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Mere hours after a largely mixed photographic performance at the Dead Man Running Premiere I got a front(ish) row standing position at a second premiere, that for the movie “Chloe”.

The “Chloe” Premiere. Also known as ‘the premiere 50 Cent wasn’t at’ (admittedly, once the other premiere petered out, more people wandered by and joined this guy)

The photographers from the Dead Man Running premiere basically packed up their gear and crossed Leicester Square en masse and found places to sit down and upload their pictures while their ‘press pen’ was constructed

One of the Paparazzi says something to one of the other paparazzi. Possibly a jibe about then being a Pentax shooter, .. I wasn’t really listening. But it was a moment

Ivan Reitman. True to the staggering amount of skill I bring to my movie premiere journals (cough), I actually thought he was the director and the other guy was the producer. Anyway, Ivan Reitman has (among other things) directed such films as Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Kindergarten Cop.

He’s the director of “Chloe”, Atom Egoyer. An awesome name, if nothing else!

Actress Amanda Seyfried has been in such films as Mamma Mia! (2008) and Mean Girls (2004). And this one

Ah, nighttime photography at film premieres. Either you turn up the grain and suffer the quality, or set a fast shutter speed and pray for paparazzi flash-assists to help you out. (I did okay on this one)

The Paps to my immediate left were screaming for Amanda Seyfried to come back and turn left just one last time, which benefitted me immensely as her eyes passed by my camera when she turned. I have to say though – with Paps these days sporting speedflashes and 8+ frames per second (compared to my 3fps) do they really need more than two or three seconds to get their shot??

Actress Julianne Moore has been nominated for no less than four Academy Awards™ but is sadly yet to win one. She was in the sequel to Jurassic Park, though!

Another shot of Julianne Moore. And hey, I happened to like The Lost World!

Perhaps not the best of portraits, but I maintain this shot has merit. (Then again, at this stage it was cold, threatening to rain, and I was very hungry. So at that point a Big Mac also had considerable merit…)

So that’s… what… six premieres / galas in something like five calendar days? Good times. Next week will be quieter. I think.

And what it means is that I have another journal to add to the expanding Archive of Movie Premieres

Of which the last few (not counting the one I’d been to just shortly before this one) were:
An Education – Thompson! Mulligan!
Bright Star – Jane Campion! Boris Johnson!
The Road – Firth! Mortensen!
The Men Who Stare At Goats – Clooney! Again!
The Fantastic Mr Fox – Clooney! Murray! ... Cindy Crawford??

And I really am starting to put together a shortlist for a second Calendar such as the one below: