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

Television - In Love with Shakespeare, BBC Radio

Stephen Campbell Moore, John Simm and Sam West will perform speeches from Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Richard II in In Love With Shakespeare, a 30 minute program which will be broadcast on Sky Arts 28 May (via The Stage).

BBC Radio

• John Simm will be interviewed on Loose Ends
• David Morrissey will be interviewed on Front Row
• Toby Jones and Dina Lorzun star in the series 10 premiere of From Fact to Fiction
• Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings star in the Afternoon Play That's Mine, This is Yours
• Hattie Morahan reads "The Happy Valley" by Daphne du Maurier
• Fenella Woolgar reads the Book of the Week Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949
• Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Macfadyen are the readers for Words and Music "Self-Improvement"

Samuel West. Narration - Lines of Flight. Television - Any Human Heart. Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer. Audio - Brighton Rock. Radio - The Vanishing. Narration - Secret Iraq.

• Lines of Flight
• In addition to the upcoming screenings at Graz and Banff, the film will be shown at the Torello Mountain Film Festival on 18 November (via salbrown) [link]
• The film has an official Twitter, @LinesOfFlight
  
  
• A tweet from Sam about Any Human Heart:
  

  "Just done ADR for Boyd's #anyhumanheart. Looks terrific - Matthew MacFadyen v funny, and my Peter Scabius a prize turd. Hurray."

  
  
• Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer
• A casting update - Robin McLeavy will also perform [link]
• A status update from the ACO Facebook page:
  

  "Laura Wade has written an ingenious script for Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer."

  
  
• An unabridged audiobook of Brighton Rock, narrated by Sam, will be released 6 January 2011 [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Sam plays Rex in the Saturday Play The Vanishing, which will be broadcast 30 October on Radio 4 [link]
• A tweet from Sam about an upcoming radio role:
  

  "Playing D. Cameron in a radio next week. Heath, Skilling & now Cameron. Why don't I get asked to play people whose politics agree with mine?"

• Part 2 of Secret Iraq will be broadcast in Australia 18 October at 8.30pm on ABC1 . Part 1 is currently available on iView and 4 Corners VoD. (via ladyvicet) [link]

Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson, Laura Wade. British Academy Television Awards. BBC Radio.

• Interviews with Rebecca Hall (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm) and Ruth Wilson from the Guardian rebecca|ruth
  
  
• Laura Wade interview from the Sheffield Telegraph about Alice [link]
  
  
• British Academy Television Awards
• Selected winners: Julie Walters (leading actress, Mo), Matthew Macfadyen (leading actor, Criminal Justice), and Rebecca Hall (supporting actress, Red Riding 1974). The Thick of It received three awards - female performance in a comedy role (Rebecca Front), male performance in a comedy role (Peter Capaldi), and situation comedy.
• Pictures 1|2|3|4|5|6
• Article from Instyle [link]
• Videos from BAFTA, including a red carpet interview with Ruth Wilson, and an interview with the cast and crew of The Thick of It [link]
• Press release from MAC. Their artists did make up for Romola Garai, Ashley Jensen, and Ruth Wilson. [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Roger Allam and Alex Jennings star in The Idiot (via the AJ Diaries) [link]
• Stephen Mangan reads The Dream Travellers for Big Toe Books [link]
• Juliet Stevenson was interviewed on Loose Ends [link]
  

Theatre - Enron. Television - Any Human Heart. Television - Murder on the Orient Express. Television - Doctor Who.

• Enron (Broadway)
• Lucy Prebble is briefly featured in a video from THV about the production [link]
• Articles from Time Out and the New York Post time out|ny post
• Lucy Prebble interview from Elle [link]
  
  
• Tom Hollander, Samuel West, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kim Cattrall, Gillian Anderson, Sam Claflin, Emerald Fennell and Natasha Little have joined the cast of the Channel 4 miniseries adaptation of Any Human Heart by William Boyd. Previously announced cast members include Hayley Atwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Jim Broadbent and Ed Stoppard. 1|2
  
  
• A trailer for Murder on the Orient Express is here, and it will be broadcast on PBS 11 July (via bbccostumedrama). The cast includes Hugh Bonneville, Toby Jones, David Morrissey and Samuel West.
  
  
• Screencaps of Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Bill Nighy, Helen McCrory and Toby Jones from the Doctor Who "The Eleventh Hour" coming soon trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  

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]

Hayley Atwell - Television - The Pillars of the Earth. Dan Stevens - Television - The Turn of the Screw. Rory Kinnear - Television - Cranford.

• From an interview with Eddie Redmayne:
  

  "'...This is the biggest project I’ve worked on in terms of the scale of the set. Three-quarters of a 12th-century cathedral has been built in a field in Hungary. It’s incredible. It is an amazing cast to be working with as well, including Hayley Atwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Donald Sutherland and Ian McShane. People who know Pillars from the novel are very passionate about it. The characters kind of get under their skin...'"

• Dan plays Dr Fisher in The Turn of the Screw, which will be broadcast on BBC1 [link]
• Rory plays Lord Septimus in part 1 of the Cranford Christmas special which will be broadcast on BBC1 [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

• 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

• 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]
  

Rebecca Hall - Film - Frost/Nixon - trailer

The trailer for Frost/Nixon can be viewed here.

Screencaps of Rebecca (capped from the 480p version, 852x362 pixels, 96dpi)

Links
frostnixon.net [link]
darcylicious.com (Matthew Macfadyen fansite) [link]

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