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

Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Andrew Garfield, Kelly Macdonald, BBC Radio

Rosamund Pike interviews from the Guardian and Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column about Barney's Version; and an article from the BBC with her thoughts about Made in Dagenham's relative lack of BAFTA nominations.


Rosamund's Made in Dagenham co-star Andrea Riseborough stars as Rose in Brighton Rock, which will be released in the UK 4 February. Andrea has been interviewed in the Dazed & Confused February 2011 issue (via The Fashion Spot) and the Independent. In other publicity, an excerpt about her from the Telegraph's set visit:

"'I was so passionate about Brighton Rock from the outset,' she says. 'So I decided not to do a different film and had a bit of a rejig of my schedule and swapped round. It was wonderful and it all worked out brilliantly.'
'Andrea inhabits a role completely,' Joffe [Rowan Joffe, director] observes, 'and that's quite a dangerous and difficult process – to really lose yourself in a character, especially one as dark and victimised as Rose. But as well as being a great actress, Andrea’s a solid Geordie lass who has both feet on the ground.'"

And screencaps from a newly released clip (click thumbnails for full size):



Interviews with Andrew Garfield from the Telegraph and Kelly Macdonald from the Independent.


BBC Radio

• Alex Jennings stars in the Afternoon Play My Year Off {repeat}
• Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige read the Book at Bedtime The Meeting Point
• Hattie Morahan and Blake Ritson are the readers for With Great Pleasure (readings chosen by Zoe Ball)

Awards season events, Rosamund Pike, Toby Jones, Ruth Wilson

Awards season events

Golden Globe winners included Colin Firth (The King's Speech/Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama), Paul Giamatti (Barney's Version/Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical), Boardwalk Empire (Best Television Series - Drama) and Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire/Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama).
Pictures: arrivals (featuring Andrew Garfield, Colin Firth, Hayley Atwell, Kelly Macdonald and Tilda Swinton); Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Kelly Macdonald attended the Weinstein/Relativity Media after party (Getty 1|2, @liviafirth 1|2); Andrea Riseborough and Tilda Swinton attended the InStyle/Warner Bros after party (Getty); and Andrew Garfield attended the Sony Pictures Classics after party (Getty).

In other awards season events, Hayley Atwell was a guest at the HBO luxury lounge and the Instyle beauty lounge; also, Hayley Atwell and Andrea Riseborough attended the BAFTA LA tea party (arrivals, red carpet).

Dominic Cooper and Talulah Riley announced the BAFTA film nominations. Nominees include Colin Firth (The King's Speech/Leading Actor), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network/Supporting Actor and Orange Wednesdays Rising Award) and Gemma Arterton (Orange Wednesdays Rising Award).

Interviews

Rosamund Pike/Barney's Version: Anglophenia, She Knows, USA Today, tv.com.

Toby Jones (the Arts Desk) - Toby stars as Turner in The Painter at the Arcola Theatre which runs until 12 February.

Radio

Ruth Wilson and Tom Brooke star in the Friday Play Like Minded People which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 4 February at 9pm.

Golden Globe nominations, Shooting Stars, Black Book's 2011 New Regime

Golden Globe nominees include Hayley Atwell (Pillars Of The Earth/Best Performance By An Actress In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television), Romola Garai (Emma/Best Performance By An Actress In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television), Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire/Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television), Colin Firth (The King's Speech/Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network/Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom/Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture), and Toni Collette (United States Of Tara/Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical).
USA Today has a short article about Hayley Atwell's reaction to her nomination.

Andrea Riseborough is one of next year's Shooting Stars, a networking event for selected actors at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Rosamund Pike features in Black Book's "2011 New Regime" as the New Leading Lady.

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]

Samuel West - Equity elections. Film - Decoy Bride. Ruth Wilson - Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire. Hayley Atwell. Theatre - The Pride. BBC Radio.

• Sam West is a candidate in the Equity 2010 elections (via The Stage) [link]
  
  
• David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald will star in the romantic comedy Decoy Bride [link]
  
  
• Pictures: Ruth Wilson behind-the-scenes of A Streetcar Named Desire and Hayley Atwell's headshot has been updated on her United Agents page ruth|hayley
  
  
• Andrea Riseborough will receive a Theatre World Award for The Pride [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• The late Corin Redgrave stars in the Drama on 3 Krapp's Last Tape {repeat} [link]
• John Gordon Sinclair and Sharon Horgan star in the Afternoon Play The Recordist [link]
• David Calder and Alex Jennings star in Scarlet on Black {repeat} [link]
• Rupert Graves and Michael Gambon star in the Drama on 3 Embers, directed by Stephen Rea {repeat} [link]
• Claudie Blakley and Lizzy Watts star in the Afternoon Play Cinders [link]
• Simon Russell Beale will be a guest on Feedback [link]

Entertainment news

• Mad Men has been renewed for a fourth season [link]
  
• Daniel Craig will star in the film Dream House which will be directed by Jim Sheridan [link]
  
• Andrew Buchan, Jon Hamm, Zooey Deschanel, Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant and Joseph Gordon-Levitt interviews andrew|jon|zooey|ricky & stephen|joseph
  
• Boardwalk Empire, starring Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald, has been picked up for 11 episodes. The pilot was directed by Martin Scorsese. [link]
  
• Stephen Frears will direct Tamara Drewe, starring Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Greig [link]
• Scans from Nylon about Mad Men, Entourage and The Prisoner 1|2
• Quentin Tarantino will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film [link]
• A picture of Michael Sheen as Aro from New Moon [link]
• Coriolanus, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, has been selected for International Financing Forum (IFF) which will take place during the Toronto International Film Festival [link]
• Article about the Australian International Movie Convention from the Australian [link]

Rosamund Pike, Kelly Macdonald. Samuel West - Radio - The Better Half. Theatre - Arcadia

• A pretty photoshoot of Kelly by Ellis Parrinder is here. Kelly is also mentioned in an article about British actors in US TV shows.
• Rosamund interview from the Guardian [link]
• Excerpt from an article about the Equity conference:
  

  "Calls for Equity to consider scheduling its representative conference biennially rather than annually, in a bid to save financial and administrative resources, have been quashed... The motion was opposed by an overwhelming majority of representatives, including leading stage actor Sam West who said that such a change would prove to be a 'retrograde step...'"

• The Better Half was chosen as a radio highlight in the Telegraph. It is available on iPlayer until next Monday. [link]
  
• Article about Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. The cast of the original production included Rufus Sewell, Emma Fielding, Bill Nighy, Felicity Kendal and Samuel West; and the cast of the revival, which opens at the Duke of York's 27 May, includes Dan Stevens, Lucy Griffiths, Neil Pearson, Nancy Carroll and Ed Stoppard. [link]
  

Film - Frost/Nixon. Rebecca Hall - Theatre - The Bridge Project. Theatre - Pinter celebration. Kelly Macdonald - Film - The Merry Gentleman.

• Interview with Michael Sheen about Frost/Nixon that includes this nice quote about the rest of the cast:
  

  "...The brilliance of Frank Langella, and all the other actors who were completely fresh to the film - actors like Sam Rockwell, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Macfadyen and Rebecca Hall are all wonderful actors - and their fresh take on everything meant that all I had to do was listen to them and react to them..."

• Article about the Bridge Project from the Telegraph [link]
• Michael Sheen, Samuel West and Penelope Wilton will take part in a celebration of Harold Pinter's work, which will be held on Sunday 7 June in the National's Olivier Theatre at 7.00pm.
  According to Michael's Twitter, he will be playing Robert in the Venice scene from Betrayal. [link]
• Kelly Macdonald interview about The Merry Gentleman from sfgate [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Pictures of Andrea Riseborough, Jason Isaacs, David Tennant and Andrew Garfield at the BAFTA TV awards 1|2|3|4|5|6
• Adaptations:
• Flanimals by Ricky Gervais [link]
• Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood [link]
• Interviews with Christina Hendricks, Tilda Swinton, Simon Pegg, Ed Westwick and Daniel Craig christina|tilda|simon|ed|daniel
• Martin Scorsese will serve as honorary president of the Classics sidebar at Cannes [link]
• Men at the Pru's new title is Cemetery Junction [link]
• Limits of Control clips [link]
• Michael Caine has joined the cast of Inception directed by Christopher Nolan [link]
• Article about the Australian film Samson and Delilah [link]
• Is Anybody There?
• Michael Caine interviews 1|2
• David Morrissey interview (via brit_actors) [link]
• Empire 20th birthday portfolio [link]
• The Merry Gentleman is in limited release in the US. Screencaps of Kelly Macdonald from the trailer:
  
  

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

• Daniel Evans will be artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, which will be reopening later this year [link]
• In the Loop
• Peter Capaldi interview from The Daily Mayo podcast (9 April) [link]
• Webisodes from Empire [link]
  
• Article from the Guardian [link]
• Clips from the Independent 1|2|3|4
  
• The film will be reviewed on Front Row 14 April [link]
• Leighton Meester, Dylan Moran, Emily Mortimer, Jason Isaacs and Amy Adams interviews leighton|dylan|emily|jason|amy
• Ralph Fiennes has joined the cast of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's new comedy The Men At The Pru [link]
  
• BFI Southbank's James Bond season is featured on this week's Film Weekly podcast [link]
• Skellig
• John Simm interviews 1|2
• Kelly Macdonald interviews 1|2
  
• Tim Roth interviews 1|2
  
• Public Enemies, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Cherrybomb trailers public enemies|hbp|cherrybomb
• The Australian film Beneath Hill 60 will receive funding from Screen Australia (via transmission) [link]
• Article from the Guardian about the brilliantly underrated Buster Keaton [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Pictures of a 1964 James Bond board game [link]
• Empire awards:
• List of winners. Includes Gemma Arterton for Best Newcomer and Quantum of Solace for Best Thriller [link]
• Pictures [link]
• Paul Giamatti, Nick Frost and Michael Sheen interviews Paul|Nick|Michael
• Short Skellig featurette [link]
  
• Beautiful picspams of Toby Stephens and Leighton Meester toby|leighton
• The length of the Sydney Film Festival has been shortened [link]
• Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Founder's Directing Award from San Francisco Film Society at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (23 April-7 May) [link]
• The Australian telemovie Scorched won the International Digital Emmy Award at MIPTV [link]
• Trailer and 2 clips from In the Loop [link]
• Marc Forster is working on a second edition of Quantum of Solace on DVD and Blu-Ray [link]
• Trailer for the Doctor Who special "Planet of the Dead" which will be broadcast 11 April on BBC1 [link]
• Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard and Cillian Murphy are in talks with Warner Bros to join the cast of Inception, Christopher Nolan's latest project which stars Leonardo DiCaprio [link]
• Sally Hawkins, Zoe Wanamaker, Jimi Mistry and Mark Addy have joined the cast of Gurinder Chadha's It's a Wonderful Afterlife [link]
• Entourage won a Peabody Award [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Scan of Christina Hendricks from TV Guide [link]
• Christopher Eccleston, Toby Stephens, Gillian Anderson, Anton Lesser and Tara Fitzgerald will star in A Doll's House at the Donmar [link]
• The Boat That Rocked
• UK premiere - Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Talulah Riley, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Jack Davenport, Gemma Arterton, David Morrissey, Simon Pegg and Paul McCartney attended 1|2|3|4
  
• Rhys Ifans interview (includes a clip from the film) [link]
• Bill Nighy interviews Daily Mayo (Monday 23 March)|Telegraph
  
• Trailer for Taking Woodstock (via ONTD) [link]
• Orlando Bloom, Andrew McCarthy, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson and Colin Firth will star in Main Street, a film directed by John Doyle [link]
• John Simm and Kelly Macdonald attended a screening for Skellig [link]
• Emilia Fox, Mathieu Amalric and Robert Vaughn interviews emilia|mathieu|robert
  
• David Mamet will make his Broadway directing debut with the world premiere of his new play Race [link]
• Network Ten will launch One, Australia's first stand-alone digital terrestrial channel next Thursday [link]
• Parlour Song
• Andrew Lincoln interview [link]
• Toby Jones interview (via brit_actors) [link]
  
• New posters for In the Loop [link]
  
• Michael Sheen will play Tony Blair in The Special Relationship, a film written by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon) focusing on the relationship between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. Clinton will by portrayed by Dennis Quaid. [link]
• Joel and Ethan Coen are going to adapt True Grit by Charles Portis [link]
• A Q&A with some of the Doctor Who production team will be broadcast on BBC7 on Sunday [link]
  
• Patricia Clarkson will be honoured with a ShoWest Independent Award for acting excellence [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Dominick Dunne interview from the Times [link]
• Post about An Education from ONTD [link]
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release the Universal Backlot Series, which includes a 75th anniversary edition of Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra and some pre-Production Code films [link]
• Ang Lee is going to direct an adaptation of Life of Pi [link]
• Clive Owen interview from the Guardian [link]
• Review of the STC's The War of the Roses [link]
  
• Benicio del Toro interview from Radio 1 [link]
• Trailer for Skellig, starring Tim Roth, John Simm and Kelly Macdonald (via john_simm) [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]
  

Tags: James McAvoy, Bill Nighy, Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, AMC, Rosamund Pike, Tilda Swinton, David Hare, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox, Watchmen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Boating, Catherine Deneuve, Berlinale, Cheri, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, The Electric Mist, Tommy Lee Jones, Peter Sarsgaard, Kelly Macdonald, Tessa Ross, Slumdog Millionaire, Michael Sheen, Hugh Bonneville, Charity Wakefield, Legally Mad

Entertainment news

• Interview with Emma Watson about The Tales of Despereaux [link]
• Actors and Comic Relief [link]
• The Next Doctor, this year's Doctor Who Christmas special, will make its Australian debut on Sunday 25 January 2009 at 7.30pm on ABC1. Apparently that classifies as fast-tracking [link]
• Interview with Jon Hamm from InStyle [link]
• SAG nominations [link]
• Baz Luhrmann has acquired the rights to The Great Gatsby [link]
• Robert Mulligan, who is probably best known for directing To Kill a Mockingbird, has died [link]
• Article about Louise Frogley's costume design for Quantum of Solace [link]
• Interview with producer Peter Bennett about series 3 of Torchwood [link]
• Article about fonts used in the location cards for Quantum of Solace [link]
• Kelly Macdonald and David Tennant have been nominated for Scot of the Year [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Interview with Christina Wayne, senior vice president of scripted series and miniseries at AMC [link]
• Sin City 2 might be released next year [link]
• WGA nominations [link]
• Carey Mulligan is one of next year's Shooting Stars. Previous Shooting Stars include Daniel Craig, Kelly Macdonald and Daniel Bruhl [link]
• Golden Globe nominations. Rebecca Hall received a nomination, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Hooray! [link]
• Julian Farino, best known for his work on Entourage, is in final negotiations to direct Oranges, an indie comedy [link]
• Lionsgate has acquired screen rights to Loving Frank, a historical novel about architect Frank Lloyd Wright by Nancy Horan [link]
• Carla Gugino is going to star in Elektra Luxx, a sequel to Women in Trouble [link]
• Article about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [link]
• Zooey Deschanel on Jimmy Kimmel [link]

Entertainment news

• The International will open the Berlin Film Festival in February [link]
• China has decided not to release Cape no. 7 (they changed their minds) [link]
  
• Mathieu Amalric will attend the Golden Horse awards [link]
• Kelly Macdonald and Steve Buscemi are in talks to star in Boardwalk Empire, a pilot for a HBO series directed by Martin Scorsese. Perhaps it was this project Kelly was trying to not squee about in this interview? [link]
• Interview with Tilda Swinton from the Independent [link]
• Trailer Trash: Paul Bettany, Tilda Swinton, tap dancing [link]
• Quantum of Solace vs. Australia at the Australian box office blah blah 1|2|3
• Jack Davenport and Courtney B. Vance have been cast in Flash Forward, a sci fi pilot for ABC [link]
• Positive review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [link]
  

Kelly Macdonald - Film - No Country for Old Men

ETA: turns out kellymacdonald.com has been revived, so check there for more updates on the film. [link]

Nice quotes about Kelly for the film No Country for Old Men which premiered at Cannes this week.

Hollywood Reporter
"...a devoted young wife played convincingly by Kelly MacDonald..."

France 24
"...Also starring is Scottish actress Kelly MacDonald of "Trainspotting" fame, who threw off her Glaswegian accent for a remarkably authentic Texan one.

Joel Coen said her nationality almost excluded her from the beginning.

"When they first mentioned her I said "No f... way!'" he said. But "when I heard her speak Texan I said 'How did you do that?'"

Variety
"...Scottish thesp Kelly Macdonald registers potently as Moss's country wife..."

Independent
"...What you remember is the tender bantering between the sheriff and his wife or between the vet and his young bride (the Glaswegian actress Kelly Macdonald, passing immaculately for a west Texan)..."

Screen Daily
"...A surprise piece of cast, Scots actress Kelly Macdonald is effective as Texas gal Carla Jean and brings a warmth and personality to the part that makes the most of her relatively brief screen time..."

Pictures of Kelly from the Cannes premiere and photocall can be found at Getty, Wire Image and presumably other wire services.

Tags: Kelly Macdonald, film, No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, adaptation