it's tinsel-toon! - newcastle goal premiere
The stars of new football movie GOAL! are confident it will prove a big hit with Newcastle United fans after attending the Tyneside premiere.
Kuno Becker, who plays lead character Santiago Munez, joined fellow cast members to receive the red carpet treatment outside the Odeon at Newcastle's Gate complex.
He said: "People are really responding well to the film which is great. "It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of hard work for me because I had to train really hard for the football scenes.
"We wanted the football scenes to be realistic and exciting. People are saying big things about the film and people of all ages are liking it.
"St. James' Park is a really beautiful stadium and just to run out on that pitch and meet the likes of Graeme Souness and the players and hear 50,000 people cheering was amazing."
Alessandro Nivola, who plays team-mate Gavin Harris, added: "I accepted this job because it meant training with Alan Shearer - I hadn't even read the script!
"It was a schoolboy fantasy come true in many ways, but it was also exhausting."
