Film - Anna Karenina. Film - The Big Year. BBC Radio.

(A glimpse of Rosamund Pike in the The Big Year trailer; and David Tennant and Kenneth Branagh discussing radio drama. Click these screencaps for 720p full size.)

Ruth Wilson has been cast in Anna Karenina, which will be directed by Joe Wright and will begin filming this month. The film's cast includes Keira Knightley, Kelly Macdonald and Matthew Macfadyen (Screen Daily).

Jason Isaacs has been interviewed for "My Secret Life" in the Independent. His responses cover things such as fashion, musicals and children.

Rosamund Pike features briefly in The Big Year trailer, which can be viewed at Apple (via firstshowing.net).

BBC Radio

• The Life and Fate website links to pages where it will be available to download as a podcast, as well as related programs. The site's videos of David Tennant and Kenneth Branagh discussing the production and radio drama in general from can also be viewed on Youtube (via tennantnews).
• Harriet Walter stars in the Drama on 3 Glass Chair Chair Glass 
• Juliet Stevenson and Kenneth Cranham are the readers for Words and Music "Nine Lives"
• Alex Jennings reads The Boys from Brazil

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Glamour's Women of the Year Awards and the Offies

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards nominees include Any Human Heart, Downton Abbey and Sherlock for Best Drama Series; and Hugh Bonneville, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hollander for Best Actor (via darcylicious). The winners will be announced 25 March.

Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton, Hattie Morahan, Keira Knightley, Ruth Wilson and Andrea Riseborough have received nominations for Glamour's Women of the Year Awards, which will be held on 7 June.

Toby Jones has been nominated for a Best Male Offie for The Painter at The Arcola.

Television - Downton Abbey. Rosamund Pike. Film - Barney's Version. Theatre - Deathtrap. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

• Downton Abbey
• Dan Stevens posted a twitpic of the poster (via his Twitter, @thatdanstevens) [link]
• The production will be featured in upcoming issues of Tatler and Vogue [link]
  
  
• Rosamund will be featured in the October 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar (UK) [link]
• Article about Barney's Version from the Wall Street Journal [link]
  
  
• Pictures from Deathtrap 1|2
  
  
• Clip from Never Let Me Go featuring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Damian Lewis, Greta Scacchi, and Derek Jacobi star in the Drama on 3 Giovanni's Room [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt reads the Book of the Week Story teller: The Life of Roald Dahl [link]
• Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in the Classic Serial My Family and Other Animals [link]
• Stephen Merchant will be interviewed by Harry Shearer on Chain Reaction [link]

Television - Downton Abbey. Television - Boardwalk Empire. Ruth Wilson. Film - Never Let Me Go. Theatre - Deathtrap. BBC Radio.

• Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville, Joanne Froggatt and Gareth Neame will be on the Q&A panel for the Downton Abbey BFI preview screening on 21 September (via C19 - registration required) [link]
  
  
• Kelly Macdonald is featured in a Vanity Fair slideshow about Boardwalk Empire [link]
  
  
• Two weeks ago, Ruth Wilson attended the TCA tour (via Anglophenia). Pictures:
  Getty [link]
  WireImage [link]
  
  
• Stills from Never Let Me Go [link]
  
  
• Deathtrap
• Simon Russell Beale interview from the Guardian [link]
• Promo picture from Playbill [link]
• Screencaps from the play's extended trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Blake Ritson, Harry Lloyd and Burn Gorman star in the Afternoon Play Unauthorised History: The Killing [link] 
• William Beck, Alison Pettitt and Fenella Woolgar star in the Classic Serial No Highway [link]
• Benjamin Whitrow, Bryan Dick and Christina Cole star in series 2 of the Woman's Hour Drama Dear Mr Spectator [link]

Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

• Hayley Atwell and Gemma Arterton portraits by Matt Jones.
  
  
• Unspoilery screencaps of Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough from the Never Let Me Go trailer (click the thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Tom Hollander will be a guest on Start the Week [link]
• On the Hour, produced by Armando Iannucci, stars Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, and Patrick Marber [link]
• Howard Brenton will be interviewed on Front Row and Night Waves
• Diana Quick, Simon McBurney, Olivia Williams, Clemency Burton-Hill, and Mat Fraser will present episodes of The Essay Half Shame, Half Glory - Postcards from the Acting Profession [link]
• Rebecca Hall was interviewed on The Film Programme [link]

Theatre - Olivier awards. Theatre - Enron. Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire.

[updated 23 March]

Selected winners:
Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre - The Royal Court for Cock at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Ruth Wilson for A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse
Best Director - Rupert Goold for Enron at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs and now at the Noël Coward theatre
Special Award - Maggie Smith

Guests included Hayley Atwell, Rupert Friend, Rupert Goold, Keira Knightley, Andrew Scott, Laura Wade, Sam West and Ruth Wilson.

Pictures
wooller.com reception|press room
Rex Features [link]
Wire Image [link]
look.co.uk [link]

Videos
Getty [link]
Arrivals - elizabethtoni 1|2|3|4

Articles
Ruth Wilson and Rupert Goold interviews from Broadway World ruth|rupert
Article from whatsonstage.com about the winners' speeches [link]
Winners' reactions from broadway.com [link]

Other
Lisa Eldridge did Hayley Atwell's makeup [link]
Ruth Wilson wore an Armani gown [link]

Theatre - Olivier Nominees' Celebration

[updated 4 March]

Guests at the Olivier Nominees' Celebration included Hayley Atwell, Ruth Wilson, Keira Knightley, Sam West, Tim Pigott-Smith and Anthony Head.

Articles
Instyle [link]
Broadway World [link]

Pictures
wooller.com [link]
Wire Image [link]
Getty 1|2
Rex [link]
The Official London Theatre Guide [link]

Videos
The Official London Theatre Guide [link]
ITN [link]

Hayley Atwell - Television - The Pillars of the Earth. Ruth Wilson - Cleanskin. Theatre - Olivier Nominees' Celebration.

• Starz Entertainment will broadcast The Pillars of the Earth in the U.S. [link]
• Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling and Ruth Wilson will star in the film Cleanskin [link]
• The Official London Theatre Guide is live tweeting the Olivier Nominees' Celebration. Guests include Keira Knightley, Ruth Wilson, Sam West and Hayley Atwell. (via The Official London Theatre Guide) [link]

The Stage New Year party. Valentine Voices. Ruth Wilson - Theatre - Through A Glass Darkly. Hattie Morahan - Television - Lark Rise. Samuel West.

• Amanda Drew and Sam West attended The Stage’s New Year party last Friday. A picture of Sam from the party is here.
• Keira Knightley, Romola Garai and Rosamund Pike have read poems for Valentine Voices, a partnership between the Times and the Poetry Archive (via the Independent) [link]
• Ruth will star in Through A Glass Darkly at the Almeida, opening in June (via Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column) [link]
• Hattie plays Enid in episode 8 of series 3 of Lark Rise to Candleford which will be broadcast 28 February [link]
• A short Sam interview from Completely London magazine about New River Walk in Islington [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).

Film. Theatre. Television. Radio.

Upcoming productions mentioned by the Times and the Independent:

• The Times
  Film. A Single Man, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, Brothers, Brighton Rock, Dagenham Girls.
  Theatre. The Little Dog Laughed, The Real Thing, Measure for Measure, Posh, Alice, Hamlet (starring John Simm, Sheffield Crucible), Hamlet (starring Rory Kinnear, the National).
• The Independent
  Film. Tamara Drewe, Shutter Island, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.
  Theatre. Hamlet (starring John Simm, Sheffield Crucible), Hamlet (starring Rory Kinnear, the National).
  Television. Downton Abbey, Sherlock Holmes.
  Radio. Chekhov 150th anniversary.

Entertainment news

• Extract from the book Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies by Michael Adams [link]
  
• Articles about Christmas Cranford 1|2
• London Film Critics' Circle awards
• Nominations [link]
  
• Films which have received nominations include:
  In the Loop. British film of the year, British director of the year (Armando Iannucci), British actor of the year (Peter Capaldi), Screenwriter of the year (Armando Iannucci et al.), Breakthrough British filmmaker (Armando Iannucci).
  An Education. British film of the year, Actress of the year (Carey Mulligan), British actress of the year (Carey Mulligan), British actor in a supporting role (Alfred Molina), British actress in a supporting role (Rosamund Pike), British actress in a supporting role (Olivia Williams), Screenwriter of the year (Nick Hornby).
  A Single Man. British actor of the year (Colin Firth).
  Good. British actor in a supporting role (Jason Isaacs).
  
• John Simm; Kristin Scott Thomas; Gemma Arterton and Carey Mulligan, Vera Farmiga, Mo'Nique, Patricia Clarkson, Robin Wright and Emily Blunt interviews john|kristin|gemma|carey, vera, mo'nique, patricia, robin, emily
  
• A Single Man
• Article about the film from the Independent [link]
• Matthew Goode interview (via ONTD) [link]
  
• Screen Actors Guild award nominees include Colin Firth (A Single Man, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role), Carey Mulligan (An Education, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role), the cast of An Education (Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture), Jon Hamm (Mad Men, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series), Toni Collette (United States of Tara, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series) and the cast of Mad Men (Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series) [link]
• Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz will star in The Talking Cure directed by David Cronenberg [link]

Theatre - Enron, The Misanthrope and Rope. Dan Stevens - Wolf Hall.

[updated 2 August 2015]

Enron

• Tom Goodman-Hill interview from Angel magazine [link]
• Jeremy Paxman's "Discovery of the year" from the Telegraph:
  

  "I loved Lucy Prebble's Enron, which began at Chichester and then transferred to the Royal Court in London. This was a production buzzing with energy and ideas, a weird mixture of satire and vaudeville, which somehow managed to illuminate a prevailing madness. The most telling thing about the whole production, of course, was that by the time it was staged, we were all suffering the consequences of another episode of greed and stupidity, which made the Enron scandal look like a vicarage tea party."

Wolf Hall review from the Daily Express:

"Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief adviser, was a man so skilled at manipulation and survival he’d make Peter Mandelson blush. His story is told in the Man Booker-winning novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and superbly read by Dan Stevens..."

The Misanthrope

• Damian-Lewis.com has scans from a Sunday Times theatre feature featuring some of The Misanthrope cast (Tara Fitzgerald, Damian Lewis, Keira Knightley), Jessica Hynes, John Simm, Rupert Penry-Jones, Marc Warren and Dominic West (registration is required) [link]
• Stephen Mangan attended The Misanthrope press night [link]

Rope

• Guests at the after party included Hattie Morahan, Ben Miles and Lisa Dillon [link]
• A tweet from Sam West:
  

  "To the Almeida for Rope last night - a properly thrilling thriller. Bertie Carvel and Blake Ritson both remarkable; go! http://bit.ly/YC1wr"

Entertainment news

• Noel Clarke and Jason Isaacs will be on the Orange Rising Star jury [link]
• St Trinians 2 trailer [link]
  
• Clive Owen, Dennis Hopper, Matt Damon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Lucy Cohu & Anna Maxwell-Martin interviews clive|dennis|matt|rupert|lucy & anna
• Article about A Single Man [link]
• Ben Whishaw won an International Emmy for Criminal Justice [link]
  
• Rehearsal pictures from The Misanthrope [link]
• Werner Herzog will be president of the International jury for the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival [link]
  
• Lone Scherfig interview about An Education [link]
• There will be a fourth series of Torchwood (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
• Glorious 39
• Stephen Poliakoff interview [link]
• Romola Garai interviews 1|2

Entertainment news

• Mao's Last Dancer took AUS$4.3 million in its opening week to become the highest-grossing Australian film so far this year [link]
  
• Christina Hendricks and Michael Sheen interviews christina|michael
• Colin Firth will receive the BAFTA/LA humanitarian award [link]
• Damian Lewis, Tara Fitzgerald, Keira Knightley and Dominic Rowan will star in a modern day version of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre 7 December - 13 March 1|2
  
• Pictures from the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus UK premiere 1|2|3
• The Thick of It
• A picture (via AIannucci) [link]
• Screencaps of Peter Capaldi and Rory Kinnear from the teaser (click thumbnails for full size):
  

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

• Robert Redford will receive Promax/BDA's Lifetime Achievement Award [link]
• Andrew Garfield, Richard Armitage and Hermione Norris will be presenting at the BAFTA TV awards. Nominees include Andrea Riseborough and Jason Isaacs. [link]
  
• Ruined by Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama [link]
• Toby Kebbell has joined the cast of The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Drake Stone, a celebrity illusionist [link]
• Boardwalk Empire (starring Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald) and Legally Mad (starring Hugh Bonneville and Charity Wakefield) are mentioned in an article about upcoming pilots (via ONTD) [link]
• Kevin Smith is going to perform at the Carnegie Hall in June [link]
• Felicity Jones will star in Ricky Gervais' film The Men at the Pru. Gervais is writing, directing and producing with Stephen Merchant. [link]
• Pictures of Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan on the set of Never Let Me Go [link]
• Mary and Max has recorded the highest second weekend for an Australian film for 2009 [link]
• In the Loop
• The film had a solid opening weekend at the UK box office [link]
• Positive review from the Independent [link]
• Will be screened at Tribeca [link]
  
• Matthew Macfadyen will play the sheriff of Nottingham in the new Robin Hood movie [link]
• The EMD cinema, in north-east London, which Alfred Hitchcock frequented when he was a child, is facing closure [link]
• Charlie Kaufman interview [link]
• Article about la nouvelle vague [link]
• Bond 23 update from producer Michael G. Wilson [link]
• Joseph Morgan and Stephen Campbell Moore will star in a miniseries adaptation of Ben Hur [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Green Lantern, a DC Comics adaptation directed by Martin Campbell, will be filmed in Sydney [link]
  
• Charlotte Rampling and Sally Hawkins have been cast in Never Let Me Go, which stars Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Andrea Riseborough [link]
• Adam Elliot's claymation film Mary and Max (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette) took in $296,000 on its opening weekend [link]
  
• Zooey Deschanel SXSW interview (via ONTD) [link]
• Reviews of Realism by Paul Galloway and Travesties by Tom Stoppard by Alison Croggon [link]
  
• Ralph Fiennes is in talks to take an uncredited cameo in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, the Nanny McPhee sequel which stars Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Maggie Smith [link]
• Werner Herzog interview about his new film Encounters at the End of the World [link]
  
• According to a report released by Access Economics, the film and TV industry contributes $4.4 billion to the Australian economy annually. But of much of that is locally generated? Access Economics is currently preparing a separate report detailing the economic contribution by the Hollywood Studio members of MPA [link]
• In the Loop
• The film will be screened at the Sydney Film Festival (via the Hollywood Reporter) [link]
  
• Positive review from the Guardian [link]
  
• Producer Simon Channing Williams (Happy-Go-Lucky, The Constant Gardener, Topsy-Turvy) has died [link]
• New producers for Doctor Who have been announced (via Media Guardian) [link]
  
• Michael Sheen will portray the leader of the Volturi, an Italy-based coven of vampires, in New Moon, the sequel to Twilight [link]
• Fabulous rant by screenwriter James Moran (Torchwood, Spooks) about camera shakiness [link]
• Article about this year's Cannes Film Festival [link]

Entertainment news

• Joe Wright (The Soloist) will direct an adaptation of Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann [link]
• Jeremy Northam and Rupert Penry-Jones have been cast in pilots (via The Medium is Not Enough) jeremy|rupert
  
• In the Loop
  
• Will screen at Tribeca [link]
• New poster [link]
  
• Interviews with Keira Knightley and Cillian Murphy about The Edge of Love (via ONTD) keira|cillian
• Rupert Friend and Clemence Poesy star in Benoit Philippon's directorial debut Lullaby for Pi, which is currently filming in Canada [link]
• Interview with Jerzy Skolimowski (Knife in the Water, Four Nights with Anna) from the Guardian [link]
  
• BBC and British Film Institute are planning "to develop plans for increasing public access to their respective audio, film and TV archives" using digital technologies [link]
• Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Morrison will star in Warrior, a drama about mixed martial arts fighting [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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