World premiere of the "Stormbreaker" screen adaption on July 17th in London

Munich/London. More than four million copies of Anthony Horowitz's
bestseller "Stormbreaker" have been sold to date. On July
17th the screen adaptation of this action-packed story will have its
world premiere in London. The public can look forward to the screening
of the first volume of the currently six Alex Rider sequels in which
the 14-year old orphan Alex Rider loses his last relative, uncle Ian
Rider. Alex finds out that his uncle is not a bank manager at all, but
a secret agent of the English MI6 secret service. And Alex himself is
recruited as a secret agent. Top cast for top performance action. The
adventure story directed by Geoffrey Sax ("White Noise")
features a top cast. Ewan McGregor ("Star Wars") as uncle Ian
Rider escapes pursuit by gangsters in a helicopter in his BMW Z4. Bill
Nighy ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy") as head of
MI6, Allan Blunt, drives a Rolls-Royce Phantom and Alicia Silverstone
("Batman&Robin") as Jack Starbright is Alex Rider's nanny
hot-wheeling it around London in a Mini Cooper. Mickey Rourke ("9
1/2 weeks") plays the shady billionaire Darrius Sayle and Robbi
Coltrane, known as Valentin Zukovsky in the James Bond films
"Goldeneye" and "The world is not enough", is Prime
Minister of Great Britain. Newcomer and hero Alex Pettyfer, born 1990,
acts just like a young James Bond. In his role he is skilled in various
sports and martial arts and is fluent in a number of languages. The
"Q" of the series, Stephen Fry as inventor Smithers, provides
all the most useful technical gimmicks. Charity world premiere on
London's Leicester Square The Stormbreaker film premiere will be held
on the legendary Leicester Square in London on July 17th, 2006 as part
of a charity event benefiting the "Starlight Children's
Foundation". This international non-profit organisation cares for
seriously ill children and their families - currently for over 500,000
small patients in England alone. "Stormbreaker" will be
screened in further European and international cinemas by the end of
the year. You will find current set shots and photo material with the
actors and the BMW Group products in high resolution in the BMW Group
Press Club at www.press.bmwgroup.com. Further information on the film
is available at http://stormbreaker.com from the charity organisation
"Starlight Children's Foundation" http://www.starlight.org.uk/.