British Independent Film Awards

Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Andrea Riseborough, Rosamund Pike, Ruth Wilson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Goode, Romola Garai, and Jason Isaacs attended the British Independent Film Awards. Carey won the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film (Never Let Me Go) and Colin won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film (The King's Speech).
Pictures: Rex Features, WireImage (inside, arrivals), and Getty (champagne reception, arrivals, after party).

Entertainment news

• Blog posts by David Morrissey about his BAFTA tour (via David Morrissey Online) [link]
• Bill Nighy stars in Richard Curtis' short film about the Robin Hood Tax [link]
• Carey Mulligan, Emily Mortimer and Nicholas Hoult & Matthew Goode interviews carey|emily|nicholas & matthew
• Measure for Measure
• Anna Maxwell Martin interview [link]
• Photo gallery from Broadway World [link]
• Scans from Total Film about Prince of Persia, starring Gemma Arterton and Jake Gyllenhaal [link]
• Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Sturgess will star in The Promised Land directed by Michael Winterbottom [link] 
• Pictures of Ruth Wilson from the whatsonstage.com awards 1|2|3|4|5|6
• Vanessa Redgrave will receive a BAFTA fellowship [link] 
• Rosamund Pike has been photographed for Temperley London's New York installation [link]
• Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick and Bill Nighy wil star in the romantic comedy The Chalet Girl [link]
• In the Loop
• Won Best Screenplay at the Evening Standard Film Awards [link]
• Download of the screenplay (via AIannucci) [link]

Entertainment news

• Two promos for The Ricky Gervais Show [link]
  
• The AFI awards will take place in Sydney from 2011 [link]
• SAG awards winners [link]
• Billie Piper, Alexandra Silber, Colin Firth, Edgar Wright, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai interviews billie|alexandra|colin|edgar|saoirse|romola
• Alfred Hitchcock is mentioned in the Independent's feature "100 years of movies" [link]
• Romola Garai and Matthew Goode announced (via Capturing Romola) the BAFTA film awards nominations, which include:
  An Education. Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Director (Lone Scherfig), Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby), Leading Actress (Carey Mulligan), Supporting Actor (Alfred Molina), Costume Design (Odile Dicks-Mireaux), Make Up and Hair (Lizzie Yianni Georgiou).
  In the Loop. Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche).
  A Single Man. Leading Actor (Colin Firth).
• The Australian film Animal Kingdom has won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance [link]
• Ralph Myers will be the next artistic director of Company B Belvoir in Sydney [link]

Entertainment news

• Mark Strong, Gemma Arterton, Sophie Okonedo, Michael Adams and Matthew Weiner interviews mark|gemma|sophie|michael|matthew
• A nice article about Party Animals [link]
• Some stills from Jackboots on Whitehall (via firstshowing) [link]
• DGA Award nominations in television [link]
  
• The Pride photocall [link]
• The Times has included the John Simm and Rory Kinnear Hamlets, Posh and Three Sisters as theatre highlights for this year [link]
• Scans of Matthew Goode, Tom Sturridge and Eddie Redmayne from Glamour [link]
  
• Ruth Wilson is eighth on Broadcast's list of top TV entertainers for 2010 [link]
• Lucy Prebble has chosen the playwright DC Moore as one to watch for 2010 [link]

Film. Theatre. Television. Radio.

Additional labels for the previous post are below.

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]

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

• Marvellous Antichrist poster by Jeremy Saunders (via The Wrap and Transmission) [link]
  
• Toronto International Film Festival
• Ben Whishaw attended the Bright Star premiere and had some portraits done 1|2
• Emily Mortimer attended the Harry Brown premiere [link]
• Michael Sheen and Carey Mulligan were at the Sony Pictures Classics Party [link]
• Io Sono L'Amore - I Am Love: portraits, an interview with Tilda Swinton and director Luca Guadagnino, and pictures from the premiere 1|2|3
  
• A portrait of Michael Sheen [link]
• Nineteen Australian films will be shown at the festival [link]
  
• Tom Sturridge and Juno Temple are included in Teen Vogue's Young Hollywood feature [link]
• Guillermo del Toro has an animation deal with Disney [link]
  
• A Single Man
• Trailer (via ONTD) [link]
  
• Venice Film Festival photocall [link]
  
• Colin Firth won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival [link]
  
• Article about the film from Variety [link]
  
• Tilda Swinton & Luca Guadagnino and Judi Dench interviews tilda & luca|judi
• Bruce Beresford will direct the film Zebras [link]
• Eva Green and Ewan McGregor will star in Last Word, a film that will be directed by David McKenzie [link]
• Mary and Max won best feature at the Australian Directors Guild awards. The film's director is Adam Elliot. [link]
• Rupert Friend and Tamsin Greig will star in The Little Dog Laughed at the Garrick Theatre (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
• David Tennant will star in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men [link]
• Blog post from The Life of Wylie about series 2 of Merlin [link]
  
• Richard Curtis will write an episode of Doctor Who [link]

Film - London Film Festival

• Clive Owen, Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, Juno Temple and Hugh Bonneville will be attending [link]
• Premieres and screenings include The Boys Are Back, Bright Star, An Education, Nowhere Boy, Balibo, Astro Boy, Glorious 39, A Single Man, The Limits of Control, The Disappearance of Alice Creed and Don't Worry About Me [link]

Entertainment news

• Stuart Beattie's directorial debut will be an adaptation of John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began [link]
  
• Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen and David Thewlis have become patrons of the British Independent Film Awards [link]
  
• Anton Yelchin, Colin Morgan & Anthony Head, Simon Pegg and Guillermo Del Toro interviews anton|colin & anthony|simon|guillermo
• Phillip Noyce will direct the thriller Mixed Blood, starring Samuel Jackson [link]
• Tilda Swinton and filmmaker Cynthia Beatt plan to retrace their 1998 trip along the remains of the Berlin Wall for the documentary Cycling the Invisible Frame [link]
• Picture of Matthew Goode on the set of Cemetery Junction [link]
  
• Bronson, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, won the Sydney Film Prize at the Sydney Film Festival [link]
• David Tennant, Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, Euros Lyn and John Barrowman will be attending San Diego Comic-Con [link]
  
• Peter Morgan joins Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to pen the script for the next Bond film [link]
• Blog post by Sydney Arts Journo about the Ruben Guthrie recasting mess [link]
• Article on how North By Northwest has influenced action films [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

• 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

• Quantum of Solace Q&As 1|2|3
• Interview with Matthew Goode from The Guardian [link]
  
• Interviews with Dita von Teese and Kristin Scott Thomas from The Times dita|kristin
• Ashley Jensen interviews 1|2
• Pictures from the Broadway transfer of The Seagull, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Mackenzie Crook and Carey Mulligan (via ONTD) [link]
• Article about Australia's National Film and Sound Archive [link]
• Relativity Media is going to finance Universal's slate till 2015 1|2
• Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint, Martin Freeman and Emily Blunt star in Wild Target, which is filming at the moment [link]
• Financing issues in Hollywood [link]
• Smoking in the golden age of Hollywood [link]
• Interviews with Liam Neeson about Taken 1|2
• Fantastic rant about voiceovers by James Henry [link]
• (the marvellously underrated) Guy Henry is in a production of Twelfth Night at the Donmar West End [link]
  

Tags: Quantum of Solace, Bond, James Bond, Daniel Craig, Marc Forster, Matthew Goode, Dita von Teese, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ashley Jensen, The Seagull, Mackenzie Crook, Carey Mulligan, Relativity Media, Universal, Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint, Martin Freeman, Emily Blunt, Wild Target, Hollywood, Liam Neeson, Taken, James Henry, Twelfth Night, Guy Henry, Donmar, theatre, film

Entertainment news

• Tilda Swinton interviews 1|2
• Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw being spiffy in Esquire [link]
• Entertainment Weekly's Fall TV preview [link]
• Debi Mazar interview (via entourageblog) [link]
• Russell Brand interview on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson part 1|part 2
• Marvellous blog post about Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock) at Self Styled Siren [link]
• Kimberley Nixon and Harry Treadaway are featured in teenvogue.com's "Young Hollywood 2008" kimberley|harry
• Australian box office takings are set to increase [link]
• Interviews with Andrea Riseborough, Emilia Fox, Rupert Graves and Juno Temple andrea|emilia|rupert|juno
• Some Hollywood studios have finally realised that compatibility is important in regard to (legally) downloaded content [link]
• Article about money in Hollywood [link]
• Fremantle has bought a 19.9% stake in Beyond International [link]
• Interview with Stephen Mangan [link]
  

Related links:
Harry Treadaway 1|2|3
Andrea Riseborough 1|2
Juno Temple 1|2|3

Tags: Tilda Swinton, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Esquire, Debi Mazar, Russell Brand, Craig Ferguson, Late Late Show, Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, Kimberley Nixon, Harry Treadaway, Andrea Riseborough, Emilia Fox, Rupert Graves, Juno Temple, Stephen Mangan

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

[updated 10 February 2009]

• Quotes from reviews:
  
  newsobserver.com
  "...Charles meets Sebastian's bewitching, irresistible sister Julia (the sparkling Hayley Atwell)..."
  
  tcpalm.com
  "...Hayley Atwell successfully portrays the passion lying just beneath the surface, repressed as she is by her mother's tenacious hold..."
  
  
• Hayley and Matthew attended an event at Castle Howard which included a preview screening, a garden party and a press conference.
  
  Pictures
  Getty [link]
  WireImage [link]
  hayley-atwell.org (untagged) [link]
  Doug Jackson 1|2
  
  Articles
  Malton Mercury [link]
  Northern Echo [link]


• Interviews 1|2



• News segment about the film from better.tv (her surname is typoed - disgraceful!):
  

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, film, movie, adaptation, Charles, Sebastian, Julia, Matthew Goode, Castle Howard

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Interviews 1 (alternate link here)|2
  
  
• Quotes from reviews:
  
  afrotoronto.com
  "...very well performed from the likes of Goode, Atwell and Thompson..."
  
  Leonard Link
  "...I was much taken with Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte, and Hayley Atwell as Sebastian's sister, Julia..."
  
  
• This is what Hayley has said about the rumours that Miramax had asked her to lose weight for the film (from philly.com):
  
  

  All's well that's Atwell
  
  British actress Hayley Atwell stopped in Philadelphia to talk with Daily News movie critic Gary Thompson about "Brideshead Revisited" (opening today) and to talk down rumors that Miramax asked her to lose weight for the role.
  
  "That was a misquote," said the actress, of reports that co-star Emma Thompson threatened to quit if producers stuck to a demand that Hayley trim a few pounds.
  
  Thompson's close inspection of Atwell's curves indicated no need to lose weight, a fact confirmed by the dozens of heads that turned to watch the shapely star traverse the Swann Lounge at the Four Seasons Hotel.
  
  Atwell, who debuted in Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream," said the weight-loss stories probably grew out of on-set efforts to help her fit into the period garb necessary to play Julia Flyte in "Brideshead," set in the 1930s and '40s.
  
  "They had to tape my boobs down," she said. "That was the look back then. Very long lines, slim profiles. The reason women used cigarette holders was to elongate their arms. That was the look we were going for."
  
  Allen, needless to say, placed no such restrictions on Atwell, cast in "Dream" as the object of desire who moves Ewan McGregor to murder. The role was a big break for the stage-trained Atwell (to be seen in the upcoming "The Duchess"), although the audition process was brutal.
  
  "Coming from a theater background, I like to do as much preparation for a role as possible, so you can be as relaxed and as confident as you can be, knowing you have stuff to draw from. I show up at the audition, along with every bloody actress in London, and they gave us nothing. No name, no synopsis, just five lines of dialogue. It was horrendous. I came away thinking, if this is what Hollywood is like, I'm going back to theater. I don't even smoke, but I went out and bought a pack of cigarettes straight away," Atwell said.
  
  She was stunned when her agent called a few weeks later, saying Allen wanted to meet her in New York.
  
  "I flew over, spoke with him for half an hour, and got the part."
  
  A decision seconded by the Swann lounge.

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, film, movie, adaptation, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Charles Ryder, Sebastian Flyte, Julia Flyte

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Interviews 1|2|3|4
  
  
• Quotes from reviews:
  
  hollywood.com
  "...Atwell is a real find who fully explores the confused but captivated journey Julia must take..."
  
  sfstation.com
  "...Brideshead Revisited also has the benefit of an engaging, talented cast led by Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell.."



• The UK trailer can be viewed at the Telegraph [link]

Tags: Brideshead Revisited, Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, film, movie, adaptation

Hayley Atwell. Film - Brideshead Revisited, Film - Cassandra's Dream

While doing promotion for Brideshead Revisited Hayley and Matthew have been asked about what it was like to work with Woody Allen. Matthew was in Match Point, and Hayley was in Cassandra's Dream. Here are some quotes from them:

"He spoke to her a lot more than he did to me... I wasn't as central to the story as much as Hayley was, and he likes ladies, also..." - re. his and Hayley Atwell's experiences working with Woody Allen

"...With Woody it's just 'Say your lines and fuck off' - but he says it kindly..."

Tags: Brideshead Revisited, Hayley Atwell, Matthew Goode, Woody Allen, Match Point, Cassandra's Dream

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Interview from metronews.ca [link]
  
  
• Quotes from reviews:
  
  The Seattle Times
  "...the young cast is attractive and magnetic (particularly Atwell's often acidic Julia)..."
  
  New York Times
  "...Ms. Atwell, by far the best thing about the film, manages to endow Julia, always the most enigmatic figure in the story, with a credible sense of internal conflict..."
  
  The Detroit News
  "...Atwell (Cassandra's Dream) is one of the most intriguing young actresses around..."
  
  The Star Ledger
  "...Hayley Atwell, flirty and bobbed, has a lovely presence as Julia..."


Chicago Tribune
"...Thompson, Goode and Atwell make for fine screen company..."

collider.com
"...The performances are top-tier all around, with special attention paid to Thompson's sublimely icy matriarchal veneer and Atwell's stunning metamorphosis into the picture's forbidden fruit..."


• An excerpts from an interview with Matthew Goode:
  

  For love interest Julia Flyte, he said rising star Hayley Atwell ("Cassandra's Dream") "literally knocked my . . . socks off" at the audition: "In the scene, she's meant to smash Charles about the face a few times. I was expecting her to stop, but she went straight into it and started slapping me. I was like, 'Oh, my God! They should really give her the part. She's the best!' "




• A nice article about a preview screening in Philadelphia which Hayley attended [link]

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, film, movie, adaptation, Julia, Julia Flyte, Matthew Goode

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Interview from the New York Daily News [link]


• 7 clips from the film are at collider.com [link]


• Excerpts from a short article about the film:
  

  "...Atwell, who got her start in film with director Woody Allen’s 2007 flick Cassandra’s Dream thoroughly enjoyed working with Academy-Award winning actress Emma Thompson. 'She's incredibly empowering and inspiring to be around,' she said.
  
  Atwell and Goode did not have any excuses for fellow Brit Amy Winehouse though... 'For people to look at her and judge her... ultimately she is an addict. She needs help,' Atwell told the Herald.
  
  'It's an alternative for the summer. We had a great time making it,' Atwell said of the film."

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, Cassandra's Dream, Woody Allen, Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Amy Winehouse