It’s places like Berlin that provide a place to remember, mourn and celebrate and I think you can rest assured he will be here.”Īnderson’s film, with a star-studded cast including Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, F. “Philip Seymour Hoffman will be here.and I know that a lot of his friends are going to be joining together to remember him. “That news was pretty tough on all of us,” Schamus told a news conference with all the jury members present. For more information about the event, sponsor, organizations, and creators you can visit the Fantasy Faire website.
This event benefits Relay for Life which supports the American Cancer Society. Jury president and film producer and screenwriter James Schamus said Hoffman would still be there in spirit. The magic of the Fantasy Faire, 2014 has enchanted the Second Life Community.
Hoffman had been meant to attend the prestigious Berlin event to promote his Sundance festival film “God’s Pocket”. It amused a press audience but there was no escaping the absence of Hoffman, whose death at 46 last week in New York City after apparently injecting heroin has rattled the cinema world. REUTERS/Thomas PeterĪnderson’s historical fiction stars Ralph Fiennes as a famous concierge who woos octogenarian blonde widows at an alpine hotel in a made-up Central European country in the 1930s.
Actors Willem Dafoe, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, director Wes Anderson, Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Jeff Goldblum and Bill Murray (L-R) pose to promote the movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel" at the 64th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 6, 2014.