Feb 29 2008 by Philip Key, Liverpool Daily Post
Film premiere of The Cottage at the Odeon cinema, L-R: Director Paul Andrew Williams, Reece Shearsmith, Jennifer Ellison and Andy Serkis _320
LIVERPOOL actress Jennifer Ellison was among the stars at the Liverpool Odeon last night for a special VIP showing of her new film, The Cottage.
Also on the red carpet were co-stars Andy Serkis (from Lord of the Rings), the League of Gentlemen’s Reece Shearsmith and director Paul Andrew Williams.
The comedy-horror features former Brookside star Ellison as a feisty kidnap victim with Serkis and Shearsmith as her two bungling kidnappers.
It is the first starring role for Ellison, who was previously in the film version of the musical The Phantom of the Opera.
Director Williams, whose first film London to Brighton, a gritty thriller, was widely acclaimed, also wrote the script for The Cottage, which will have its national release next month.