Theatre - The Children's Monologues. GQ Men of the Year Awards. Toronto International Film Festival. BBC Radio.

• On Sunday 14 November at the Old Vic, Gemma Arterton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai and Hattie Morahan will perform in The Children's Monologues directed by Danny Boyle. The event is a fundraiser - proceeds will go to the Pete Patsa Arts Centre. (via sherlockbbc) [link]
  
  
• Guests at the GQ Men of the Year Awards (7 September) included Hayley Atwell (presented the award for the Smirnoff Black Most Stylish to Aaron Johnson), Gemma Arterton (winner, Woman), Martin Scorsese, Emily Mortimer and Matt Smith (winner, TV personality).
• Pictures from Rex Features 1|2|3
• Articles:
  Vogue [link]
  GQ [link]
• Videos by elizabethtoni 1|2
  
  
• Portraits of Rebecca Hall, Clive Owen, Sally Hawkins and Andrew Garfield by Carlo Allegri at the Toronto International Film Festival [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Georgia King and Lee Williams star in the Classic Serial The Ladies' Delight [link] 
• Hattie Morahan reads the Book at Bedtime Sister [link]
• Stephen Mangan and Adjoa Andoh are the readers for Words and Music "In Search of the Sublime" [link]

Entertainment news

• Production for Happy Feet 2 will take place in Sydney [link]
• Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth are in Vanity Fair's Hollywood Portfolio which is in the March 2010 issue (via ONTD). Carey is also on the cover with people such as Rebecca Hall and Mia Wasikowska (via Just Jared).
  
• Shutter Island and Red Hill will screen at the Berlin International Film Festival [link]
• Damian Lewis, Michael Adams, Rebecca Hall and Toby Schmitz interviews damian|michael|rebecca|toby
• Cemetery Junction poster (via gervsmerchpilk) and trailer poster|trailer
• John Malkovich will star in The Infernal Comedy at the Barbican next year [link]
• Bill Nighy will guest star in the next series of Doctor Who, in an episode written by Richard Curtis (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
• Information for BAFTA's David Morrissey on tour from David's official website [link]
• Marion Potts will be the next artistic director of the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne 1|2
• Casting for the miniseries adaptation of Cloudstreet [link]

Entertainment news

• Billie Piper, Simon Russell Beale and Colin Firth & Tom Ford interviews billie|simon|colin & tom
  
• Golden Globes
• Winners [link]
• Martin Scorsese's acceptance speech [link]
  
• Carey Mulligan received the best actress award at the National Board of Review gala (via Just Jared); she has been included in Life magazine's Oscar hopefuls portraits; and she has been nominated for the Orange Rising Star Bafta Award.
• The Pride, starring Hugh Dancy, Ben Whishaw, Andrea Riseborough and Adam James is featured in Broadway Beat [link]
• Article about Mahler by Armando Iannucci (via AIannucci) [link]
  
• Red Riding will have a limited release in New York [link]
• Article about The King's Speech [link]

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

• An Education
• Carey Mulligan interviews 1|2
  
• Article about the film's production design [link]
• Carey Mulligan will receive the Chopin Virtuosos award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [link]
• John Simm will star in Hamlet at the Sheffield Crucible (via SimmSpotting) [link]
  
• Martin Freeman, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Matthew Goode, Damian Lewis and Kelly Reilly interviews martin|colin|jodie|julian|matthew|damian|kelly
• Golden Globe nominations include Colin Firth (A Single Man) for Best actor in a motion picture (drama) and Carey Mulligan (An Education) for Best actress in a motion picture (drama) [link]
• In the Loop
• Won Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy awards [link]
• Peter Capaldi Late Late Show interview 1|2
  
• Shutter Island will be shown at the Berlinale [link]
• Carey Mulligan and Samantha Morton are on Screen Daily's list of new talent of 2009 [link]
• Samantha Morton has become an honorary associate of the London Film School [link]
  
• Julian Fellowes will write the pilot script for The Vanderbilts (via Televisionary) [link]
• Julianne Moore will receive the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [link]
• A review of Stanley Kubrick: The Film that Never Was [link]
• A Single Man and Mad Men are in the AFI's top ten productions in film and television [link]
• Romola Garai will play Masha in Three Sisters at the Lyric Hammersmith from 25 January to 20 February 2010. Previews are from 15 January. [link]

Entertainment news

• An unseen Charlie Chaplin film was bought for a bargain on eBay [link]
  
• David Tennant will star in the NBC pilot Rex is Not Your Lawyer [link]
• In the Loop won three Scottish BAFTAs - best director (Armando Iannucci), best writing (Armando Ianucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell) and best actor (Peter Capaldi) [link]
• Gerard Butler will star in Ralph Fiennes' contemporary reworking of Coriolanus [link]
  
• Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Emily Mortimer attended a screening of The Red Shoes in New York [link]
  
• Sally Hawkins, Juno Temple and William H. Macy will star in Abe Sylvia's feature directorial debut Dirty Girl [link]
• Glorious 39
• Article about the London Film Festival premiere's afterparty [link]
  
• Walsingham Abbey is one of the locations in the film [link]
• Ben Whishaw, Stephen Fry, Tom Sturridge, Charles Dance and Dominic Cooper interviews ben|stephen|tom|charles|dominic
• Wonderful blog post from Shadowplay about Vertigo (via Self-Styled Siren) [link]
• Michael Fassbender and Forest Whitaker will star in A Single Shot, a thriller directed by David Jacobson [link]
  
• Romola Garai's "My Week" from the Guardian [link]
• Georgia, starring Rupert Friend, Richard Coyle and Emmanuelle Chriqui, has begun filming [link]
  
• Martin Scorsese believes Blu-Ray is good [link]
• Dominic Cooper will star in The Devil's Double [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]

Entertainment news

• Article from the Guardian about film noir [link]
• Samantha Morton, Dominic West and Polly Walker have joined the film John Carter of Mars [link]
• Inception teaser trailer (via empireonline) [link]
• Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant introduce The Office retrospective [link]
• Matthew Weiner and Quentin Tarantino interviews matthew|quentin
• In the Loop:
• A deleted scene [link]
• Montage of Malcolm Tucker sweariness [link]
• Mike Nichols will direct and Joe Penhall will write Deep Water, an adaptation of the 1957 Patricia Highsmith novel [link]
• Shutter Island's release has been delayed until February 2010. A trailer for the film is here. [link]
• People who will be attending the Toronto Film Festival include Ben Whishaw, Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan, Clive Owen, Dominic Cooper, Emily Mortimer, Michael Sheen, Romola Garai, Rupert Friend, Samantha Morton and Tilda Swinton. [link]

Entertainment news

• Cannes:
  
• Martin Scorsese and Ben Whishaw were on Film Weekly [link]
• Ben Whishaw, Ang Lee and Thelma Schoonmaker interviews ben|ang|thelma
• Article about Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation [link]
• Movie posters, Lego style (via ONTD) [link]
• Clip of Harry and Ron from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [link]
• Anton Corbijn (Control) will direct A Very Private Gentleman, an adaptation of the Martin Booth novel [link]
• Ewan McGregor, Pamela Rabe, David Suchet interviews ewan|pamela|david
• William Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain have joined the cast of Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, Coriolanus [link]
• Balibo and Bran Nue Dae will respectively open and close the Melbourne Film Festival [link]
  
• Michael Sheen and Paddy Considine will star in Submarine [link]
• Article about Alfred Hitchcock from the Independent [link]
  
• Sam Riley and Carey Mulligan will star in a film adaptation of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock [link]
• David Suchet is to embark on a journey across Europe on the Orient Express for a new ITV1 documentary [link]
  
• Tilda Swinton is attached to Lynne Ramsay's film We Need to Talk About Kevin [link]

Entertainment news

• Terry Gilliam is going to have another go at bringing Don Quixote to the big screen [link]
• Another cast and director change for the film adaptation of Wuthering Heights - Ed Westwick and Gemma Arterton will star as Heathcliff and Cathy, and Peter Webber will direct [link]
• Martin Scorsese will direct a Frank Sinatra biopic [link]
• David Tennant will be the new host of Masterpiece Contemporary [link]
• Info about the three upcoming Torchwood radio plays [link]
• Tilda Swinton, January Jones, Matt Smith, Samantha Morton and Peter Hall interviews tilda|january|matt|samantha|peter
• Mary and Max won the AniMovie section at the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film [link]
• Articles about Martin Scorsese and The Red Shoes 1|2
  
• Matthew Goode will star in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's film Cemetery Junction [link]
• Monica Bleibtreu (Hilde, 4 Minutes) has died of cancer [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

• Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller and Michael Gambon will star in the BBC's miniseries adaptation of Emma (via bbccostumedrama) [link]
• Peter Hall, Hugh Laurie and Jason Isaacs interviews peter|hugh|jason
• Martin Scorsese will receive the MPAA's Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award [link]
• Doctor Who "Planet of the Dead"
  
• James Strong interview [link]
  
• David Tennant and Russell T Davies interview [link]
• Fortissimo Films co-founder and chairman Wouter Barendrecht died Sunday in Bangkok of heart failure 1|2|3
• Posts about In the Loop from brit_actors and OBASC 1|2
• Keeley Hawes interivew (via darcylicious) [link]
  
• Cherrybomb trailer [link]
• Conversation between John and Sarah Parish [link]
• Zooey Deschanel on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson [link]
• A James Bond museum has opened in Keswick [link]
• Mike Newell will direct an adaptation of The Box of Delights [link]
• Bill Nighy interviews (via billnighy.info) 1|2|3
  

Entertainment news

• Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks to star as the villains in Iron Man 2, being directed by Jon Favreau [link]
• Golden Globe winners [link]
• The Italian film Gomorrah will have a presentation credit "Martin Scorsese presents" for its US release [link]
• Warner Bros and Fox are in talks to settle their Watchmen dispute [link]
• The lovely Charity Wakefield will star in Legally Mad, David E Kelley's new drama [link]
• Article about the cast of The History Boys play/radio play/film [link]
• Interviews with Stephen Rea, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Adrian Lester stephen|philip|adrian
• Focus Features has created a new company, Focus Features International 1|2
• Article about the Sundance Film Festival and Robert Redford's awesomeness [link]
• Tom Hooper will direct and Christopher Hampton will adapt East of Eden by John Steinbeck [link]
• A Steve McQueen biopic is in development [link]
• Tilda Swinton has been nominated for a BAFTA and an Evening Standard film award bafta|ES
• Mary and Max will screen at the Berlin film festival [link]
• Second part of interview with Jordan Klein, underwater engineer on Thunderball [link]
• James Moran's Gallifrey 2008 report [link]
• Daniel Craig being spiffy in interviews promoting Defiance Leno part 1-part 2|Today|Regis & Kelly part 1-part 2
  

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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]