Some radio picks for this week

• Julian Rhind-Tutt and Hugh Laurie are the readers for With Great Pleasure at Christmas
• The Sunday Feature "Anything but Banal - The Fascination of the Villain" features interviews with Rory Kinnear and Timothy West
• Michael Sheen's Eighties begins this Saturday on Radio 2
• Repeats: Rory Kinnear plays Young Alf in Ed Harris' drama The Moment You Feel It; An Inspector Calls stars Toby Jones as Inspector Goole; the cast of Neverwhere includes James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch and Romola Garai; and James Purefoy and Hattie Morahan star in Otherwise Engaged.

What's On Stage Award nominations

Nominees include Charles Edwards (Strange Interlude) and Richard McCabe (The Audience) for Best Supporting Actor in a Play; Hayley Atwell (The Pride) for Best Actress in a Play; Ben Whishaw (Peter and Alice and Mojo) and James McAvoy (Macbeth) for Best Actor in a Play; Claudie Blakley (Chimerica) for Best Supporting Actress in a Play and Alex Jennings (Hymn) for Best Solo Performance. Rory Kinnear received two nominations - Best Actor in a Play for Othello and Best New Play for The Herd.

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Dan Stevens

Dan has been nominated for an Actor award at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for his performance in Downton Abbey.
Series 3 of the show is currently filming, and a recent article from the Telegraph contains some comments from Dan.

The North London Book of the Dead will have screenings at the Aspen Shortsfest, the Palm Beach International Film Festival and the Nashville Film Festival this month.

Dan will be a presenter at the Olivier Awards. Other presenters include Hayley Atwell, James McAvoy and Jodie Whittaker.

Welcome to the Punch, Anna Christie, BBC Radio

The film Welcome to the Punch has begun filming. It stars Andrea Riseborough, James McAvoy, Mark Strong and David Morrissey (Empire Online).

Pictures from rehearsals for Anna Christie can be viewed on the Donmar Warehouse and Daily Mail websites. Also, the Evening Standard has an interview with Ruth Wilson (via Ruth Wilson - The Placeholder Blog).

BBC Radio

• Toby Stephens and Olivia Colman are the readers for Words and Music "Obsession"
• Lesley Sharp and Lizzy Watts star in the Afternoon Play Welcome to the Wasteland {repeat}

UK Film Council letter. Film - Made in Dagenham. Theatre - Twelfth Night. Film - Brighton Rock. Rosamund Pike - Film - Johnny English Reborn.

• Signatories of an open letter to the Telegraph regarding the UK government's recent decision to close the UK Film Council include James McAvoy, Dominic Cooper,
  Ben Whishaw, Bill Nighy, Damian Lewis, Ruth Wilson, Georgia King, and Saoirse Ronan (via the Hollywood Reporter) [link]
  
  
• Made in Dagenham
  
  
  • Sally Hawkins interview from the Evening Standard [link]
  • The film will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Chichester International Film Festival
  
  
• Charles Edwards will play Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the National Theatre's production of Twelfth Night, directed by Peter Hall and starring Rebecca Hall as Viola [link]
  
  
• Brighton Rock
• Stills from Rope of Silicon [link]
• The film will be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival [link]
  
  
• Rosamund Pike has been cast in Johnny English Reborn [link]

Radio - Words and Music. Theatre - A View From the Bridge. Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire. Theatre - Arcadia.

• Ruth Wilson and Toby Jones are the readers for Words and Music this week [link]
  
  
• Olivier Award nominations include:
  Three Days of Rain. Best Actor (James McAvoy), Best Revival (Jamie Lloyd), Best Lighting Design (Jon Clark).
  A View From the Bridge. Best Actor (Ken Stott), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Hayley Atwell), Best Director (Lindsay Posner), Best Revival (Lindsay Posner).
  A Streetcar Named Desire. Best Actress (Rachel Weisz), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Ruth Wilson), Best Revival (Rob Ashford).
  The Misanthrope. Best Actress (Keira Knightley), Best Revival (Thea Sharrock), Best Costume Design (Amy Roberts).
  Burnt by the Sun. Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Michelle Dockery), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Rory Kinnear), Best Lighting Design (Mark Henderson).
  Arcadia. Best Revival (David Leveaux).

Entertainment news

• Toronto International Film Festival
• Interviews featuring Ben Whishaw and Jane Campion for Bright Star 1|2|3|4
  
• A Single Man
• Colin Firth video interview from Entertainment Weekly [link]
  
• The Weinstein Company will distribute the film in Germany and the U.S. [link]
• Julianne Moore interview from Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column [link]
  
• Rupert Friend The Young Victoria interview and premiere pictures 1|2
  
• Harry Brown
• Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer interviews 1|2|3
• Premiere and after party pictures 1|2
• Some premiere pictures and portraits from mata090680 [link]
• Glorious 39
• Pictures of Bill Nighy, Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff and Julie Christie 1|2|3|4|5
• Bill Nighy, Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff and Julie Christie interviews 1|2|3
  
• Andrew Garfield attended the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus premiere 1|2
  
• The Damned United
• Michael Sheen interviews 1|2|3|4|5
• Premiere pictures [link]
• Clive Owen interviews about The Boys are Back 1|2|3|4|5
  
• An Education
• Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Nick Hornby interviews 1|2|3
• Premiere pictures 1|2|3
• James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn will star in The Conspirator, a drama about events following the assassination of President Lincoln directed by Robert Redford [link]
• Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush will star in the film The King's Speech, which will be directed by Tom Hooper [link]
• Casting for Tomorrow, When the War Began [link]

Entertainment news

• Samantha Morton interview [link]
• Cannes Film Festival Official Selection (Cannes Classics, Cinefondation’s choice, the Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week are still to be announced) [link]
• Is Anybody There?
• David Morrissey interview [link]
• Anne-Marie Duff interview [link]
• Paul Giamatti will star in Barney's Version, an adaptation of Mordecai Richler's novel [link]
• Hollywood talent agencies WMA and Endeavour have merged. The new company is called WME Entertainment [link]
• Ed Westwick interviews about season 2 of Gossip Girl 1|2
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt has replaced James Franco in Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan [link]
• Simon Pegg interviews about Star Trek 1|2
  
• Pictures of Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield on the set of Never Let Me Go (via ONTD) [link]
• James McAvoy & Nigel Harman interviews about Three Days of Rain 1|2
• Michael Sheen recently joined Twitter [link]
• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton will be adapted for television as a miniseries by the producers of Underbelly [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Peter O'Brien will guest star in one of this year's Doctor Who specials as a villain. He has also guest starred in Gossip Girl and City Homicide. [link]
• Adorable Radio Times Comic Relief covers featuring people such as James McAvoy, Simon Pegg and David Tennant [link]
• Rosamund Pike, Rachel Weisz and Caryl Churchill have been included in Harper's Bazaar and Tiffany Women In Theatre Power List [link]
• Michael Caine will receive the ShoWest 2009 lifetime achievement award [link]
• Clive Owen GQ (UK, April 2009) interview [link]
• Tessa Ross interview from the Guardian [link]
  
• Clip from In the Loop featuring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander and Gina McKee [link]
• Article about Alfred Hitchcock by Paul Merton [link]
  
• Trailer for Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard. Carey Mulligan has a supporting role in the film. [link]
• Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen and Denis Lawson will star in an Enid Blyton biopic for BBC4 (via darcylicious) [link]
  
• Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in Inception, the sci-fi action film Christopher Nolan wrote and is directing for Warner Bros [link]
• The Boat that Rocked
• Clips (via billnighy.info) 1|2
• Talulah Riley interview [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Red Riding:
• Interview with the directors Julian Jarrold (1974), Anand Tucker (1983) and James Marsh (1980) from the Guardian [link]
• Article from Screen Rant [link]
• Pictures of James McAvoy from Three Days of Rain [link]
• Article about how German cinema influenced Alfred Hitchcock [link]
  
• Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan will star in the sci-fi thriller Never Let Me Go [link]
• Articles about Blu-Ray:
• Interview with William Friedkin about the Blu-Ray release of The French Connection from the New York Times [link]
• Sony [link]
• Disney [link]
  
• The program of new Aussie films was most popular at the Adelaide Film Festival [link]
• Rupert Friend interview from the Independent [link]
  
• Ang Lee will head the jury at the 66th Venice Film Festival [link]
• The Boat That Rocked featurette from Empire [link]
  
• Pay issues at Belvoir [link]
• Interview with David Lynch from the Guardian [link]
• Articles about B-movie noir and femme fatales 1|2
• Clive Owen being awesome on Radio 1 (host/interviewer Edith Bowman is cool too) [link]
  

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Entertainment news

• Article about story plagiarism from The Wrap [link]
• Scans of January Jones and Christina Hendricks from Vogue [link]
• Film London's annual production finance market has formed a partnership with the Melbourne International Film Festival's 37 South market [link]
  
• Romantic comedies:
  
• Matthew Goode and Amy Adams will star in Leap Year [link]
• Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Kris Marshall will star in Meant to Be [link]
• Don McAlpine, an Australian DoP, will receive the international achievement award from the American Society of Cinematographers [link]
• Inglourious Basterds trailer [link]
• Rosamund Pike has received a Genie Award nomination for Fugitive Pieces [link]
• An Education:
  
• Short interview with Lone Scherfig [link]
• Carey Mulligan interviews 1|2
  
• Christopher Nolan will direct and produce Inception, a sci-fi action film which he hopes to shoot in the [northern hemisphere] summer for a release during summer 2010 [link]
• Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Jason Priestley and Vanessa Redgrave will star in a miniseries adaptation of The Day of the Triffids for the BBC [link]
• Keira Knightley being adorable for Comic Relief [link]
• Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins will star in Woody Allen's next film, which will be set in London [link]
• Pictures from Three Days of Rain, starring James McAvoy, Nigel Harman and Lyndsey Marshal [link]
• Timothy Spall interview about Oliver Twist [link]
• ITV has commissioned more episodes of Marple, Poirot, Foyle's War and Doc Martin [link]
• Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor, and David Wenham have joined the voice cast of animated project Guardians of Ga'Hoole [link]
• Rupert Grint interview [link]
• Three AFTRS students have been nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors "Golden Reel" Verna Fields Award [link]
• Toby Kebbell interview [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Fantastic article about horror movie remakes by Michael Adams [link]
• BAFTA film award winners [link]
  
• Australian film financing market 37 South: Bridging the Gap has secured another two years of Victoria state funding. [link]
• WGA award winners [link]
• Article about the European Film Market [link]
• Ralph Fiennes' feature directorial debut will be an adaptation of Coriolanus. He will also star in the film. [link]
  
• Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston will star in the thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed [link]
• Adorableness - Kristen Bell on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Leighton Meester giving a tour of the Gossip Girl set for seventeen.com kristen|leighton
• Celluloid Dreams has taken international rights to the film Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman's feature directorial debut [link]
• Ewan McGregor and Carey Mulligan are in talks to star in Myriad Pictures' The Electric Slide [link]
• One of Steven Soderbergh's future projects is an adaptation of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game [link]
• Trailer for series 3 of Torchwood *squeeeeeee* [link]
• Emily Blunt and James McAvoy interviews [link]
• Steven Spielberg is going to guest edit Empire [link]
• Werner Herzog interview [link]

Entertainment news

• Interviews with James McAvoy and Bill Nighy from the Times james|bill
• Matthew Weiner will continue to executive produce Mad Men, his deal with AMC was finalised a few days ago 1|2|3
  
• Rosamund Pike and Tilda Swinton have been included in Harper's Bazaar's Best Dressed List 2008 [link]
• Interview with David Hare from the Guardian [link]
  
• Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox have finally resolved their Watchmen dispute [link]
• Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in an adaptation of Jack Goes Boating. The film is also his directorial debut. [link]
• Interviews with Catherine Deneuve from the Times and the Guardian times|guardian
  
• More films have been added to the Berlinale program, including Cheri starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend, and The Electric Mist starring Tommy Lee Jones, Peter Sarsgaard and Kelly Macdonald [link]
• Article about Tessa Ross (executive producer, Slumdog Millionaire) [link]
• Michael Sheen interview from the Guardian [link]
• Hugh Bonneville will play Charity Wakefield's dad in Legally Mad [link]
  

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