He has said that the decision to direct it was influenced by his having had to defer some of his salary on the low-budgeted Spider, but it is one of his most critically acclaimed films to date, along with Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) a film about the struggle of one man to gain power in the Russian Mafia.

For a time it appeared that, as Eastern Promises producer Paul Webster told Screen International, a sequel is in the works that would reunite the key team of Cronenberg, Steven Knight and Viggo Mortensen.

However, in an in-person interview held at the Apple Store Soho on August 16, 2012, Cronenberg commented that the financing for the " Eastern Promises " sequel had fallen through about two weeks earlier.

* Eastern Promises ( 2007 )

Lust, Caution, Ai no Corrida, Crank: High Voltage, Eastern Promises, Eyes Wide Shut, Jackass: The Movie, Bully, and films of the pinku eiga genre are rated R-18.

Besides his native French, Cassel speaks English, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and basic conversational Russian which he learned for his role in Eastern Promises.

Cassel has also done a number of English-language films, such as Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, Derailed, Birthday Girl, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Elizabeth, Eastern Promises, and Shrek ( as the voice of Monsieur Hood ), and in the Portuguese-language, Brazilian film Adrift ( À Deriva ).

One example would be Viggo Mortensen's use of a Russian accent in his portrayal of Nikolai in the movie Eastern Promises.

During 2007 he also composed the scores for The Last Mimzy and Eastern Promises, the latter of which includes a section that has been performed in concert as Shore's Concertino for violin solo and chamber orchestra.

* Eastern Promises ( Golden Globe Nominee ) ( 2007 )

Other film roles include the 2005 remake of King Kong, the 2006 remake of The Painted Veil, the 2007 thriller Eastern Promises, and the 2009 thriller The International.

Watts at the London premiere of Eastern Promises in 2007

The following year, she appeared in David Cronenberg's crime thriller Eastern Promises with Viggo Mortensen.

Eastern Promises ( 2007 ), David Cronenberg ( British co-production )

* Eastern Promises

He had a role in David Cronenberg's crime drama Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) and the thriller The International ( 2009 ), both of which co-starred British-Australian actress Naomi Watts.

In 2008, he won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Eastern Promises, and Mueller-Stahl played the role of Cardinal Strauss, Dean of the College of Cardinals and the Papal Conclave, in Angels and Demons ( 2009 ),

* Viggo Mortensen, award winning actor who has appeared in many films, most notably The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Eastern Promises, and A History of Violence.

Brompton Cemetery has featured in a number of films, including David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises ( starring Viggo Mortensen ), The Wisdom of Crocodiles ( Jude Law ), Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 film ) ( also with Jude Law ) as the location of ' Lord Blackwood's Tomb ', Crush ( Imelda Staunton and Andie MacDowell ), Stormbreaker ( starring Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Fry and Mickey Rourke ), Finding Neverland ( starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet ) and Johnny English ( starring Rowan Atkinson ); The Wings of the Dove ( 1997 film ) ( starring Helena Bonham Carter ), as well as being used as a location by photographers such as Bruce Weber ( see " The Chop Suey Club ").

* Eastern Promises ( 2007 )

Skolimowski is also an actor, having appeared as Colonel Chaikov, a ruthless yet composed KGB colonel, in White Nights ( 1985 ) and Uncle Stepan, a Russian expatriate in Eastern Promises ( 2007 ), among other roles.

* Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) as Stepan

But, Cronenberg would leave the film for A History of Violence and Eastern Promises.

Broadway Market, and specifically the barber shop, was the location for David Cronenberg's 2007 film, Eastern Promises.

The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.

Newspaper advertising was mainly concentrated in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Eastern and Midwestern editions ) which averaged two prominent ads per month, and to a lesser degree the New York Herald Tribune and, for the west coast, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Pacific Coast edition ).

About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.

Miss Betsy Parker was one of the speakers on the panel of the Eastern Women's Liberal Arts College panel on Wednesday evening in the Security Life Bldg..

for still others, mostly of the nineteenth-century immigration, it was Roman Catholicism, and for a small minority it was Eastern Orthodoxy.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

From 1975 to 1989, Angola was aligned with the Eastern bloc, in particular the Soviet Union, Libya, and Cuba.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

The Aegean was the site of the original democracies, and its seaways were the means of contact among several diverse civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean.

It was not until the co-reigns of Gratian and Theodosius that Arianism was effectively wiped out among the ruling class and elite of the Eastern Empire.

In 381, at the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, a group of mainly Eastern bishops assembled and accepted the Nicene Creed of 381, which was supplemented in regard to the Holy Spirit, as well as some other changes: see Comparison between Creed of 325 and Creed of 381.

) However, Ambrosian chant was named in his honor due to his contributions to the music of the Church ; he is credited with introducing hymnody from the Eastern Church into the West.

Relics of an abundant flora occur as inclusions trapped within the amber while the resin was yet fresh, suggesting relations with the flora of Eastern Asia and the southern part of North America.

Nevertheless, it was 1863 before Eastern Tennessee was liberated.

Phage therapy was in use in the 1920s and 1930s in the US, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe.

During this period the region along with most of Eastern Australia was part of the ocean floor ; formations from this period include the Black Mountain Sandstone formation and the Pittman Formation consisting largely of quartz-rich sandstone, siltstone and shale.

Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. Interred here on Armistice Day 1920, it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins ' fire was extinguished in the fourth century.

While the Society was oriented toward an Eastern and especially Indian approach, Steiner was trying to develop a path that embraced Christianity and natural science.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.