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Tuesday, 23 March 2010

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]

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Theatre - Olivier awards. Television - Spooks. Television - Money. Samuel West - Radio - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. BBC Radio.

  • People who will be attending the Oliviers include Hayley Atwell, Rory Kinnear, Tim Pigott-Smith, Tom Stoppard, Sam West, Ruth Wilson, Rosamund Pike and Rupert Friend [link
  • Simon Russell Beale will be in the next series of Spooks (via C19) [link]
  • Hattie Morahan will play Martina Twain in the BBC2 adaptation of Money by Martin Amis, starring Nick Frost and Vincent Kartheiser [link]
  • BBC Radio
    • Sam West is in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" [link]
    • Timothy Spall, Zoe Tapper and Geoffrey Streatfeild star in the Saturday Play Playing With Trains [link]
    • Alex Jennings and Toby Stephens star in the Afternoon Play No Place Like Home [link]
    • Martin Jarvis performs Jeeves Live [link]
    • Christopher Eccleston and Olivia Hallinan are the readers for Words and Music "Intimate Letters" [link]
    • Rory Kinnear and Lydia Leonard star in the Drama on 3 Arms and the Man [link]

Saturday, 30 January 2010

Samuel West - Radio - A Passage to India. BBC Radio.

  • Sam narrates A Passage to India by E.M. Forster [link]
  • Gemma Arterton will be on Loose Ends promoting The Little Dog Laughed, which also stars Rupert Friend and Tamsin Greig [link]
  • Colin Firth will be on Front Row next Tuesday [link]

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

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]

Monday, 21 September 2009

Entertainment news

  • Toronto International Film Festival
    • Interviews featuring Ben Whishaw and Jane Campion for Bright Star 1|2|3|4
    • A Single Man
      • Colin Firth video interview from Entertainment Weekly [link]
      • The Weinstein Company will distribute the film in Germany and the U.S. [link]
      • Julianne Moore interview from Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column [link]
    • Rupert Friend The Young Victoria interview and premiere pictures 1|2
    • Harry Brown
      • Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer interviews 1|2|3
      • Premiere and after party pictures 1|2
    • Some premiere pictures and portraits from mata090680 [link]
    • Glorious 39
      • Pictures of Bill Nighy, Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff and Julie Christie 1|2|3|4|5
      • Bill Nighy, Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff and Julie Christie interviews 1|2|3
    • Andrew Garfield attended the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus premiere 1|2
    • The Damned United
      • Michael Sheen interviews 1|2|3|4|5
      • Premiere pictures [link]
    • Clive Owen interviews about The Boys are Back 1|2|3|4|5
    • An Education
      • Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Nick Hornby interviews 1|2|3
      • Premiere pictures 1|2|3
  • James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn will star in The Conspirator, a drama about events following the assassination of President Lincoln directed by Robert Redford [link]
  • Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush will star in the film The King's Speech, which will be directed by Tom Hooper [link]
  • Casting for Tomorrow, When the War Began [link]

Monday, 14 September 2009

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]

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

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]

Friday, 13 March 2009

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]

Monday, 2 March 2009

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]

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Entertainment news

  • Photoshoot by Ellis Parrinder for BAFTA that includes people like Gemma Arterton, Noel Clarke and Hayley Atwell 1|2
  • Olivier awards nominations [link]
  • Terry Gilliam is going to receive a BAFTA fellowship [link]
  • An Ernest Hemingway biopic is in development [link]
  • DGA awards winners [link]
  • Hopefully Silence, an adaptation of a Shusako Endo novel, will be Martin Scorsese's next movie. Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro are in talks to star. [link]
  • Rupert Friend, Ioan Gruffudd, Natascha McElhone and Liam Cunningham will star in The Kid directed by Nick Moran [link]
  • Tilda Swinton has been nominated for a BAFTA (Supporting Actress). Also, previously announced was Rebecca Hall for the Orange Rising Star award. The full list of nominations is here.
  • American TV channels may need to reconsider the lengths of their series (via televisionary) [link]
  • Casting update for Martin Scorsese's HBO pilot Boardwalk Empire, which stars Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Pitt [link]
  • Leading British distributors including All3Media International, Endemol U.K., FremantleMedia, RDF and BBC Worldwide have joined forces with the government to create the Television Export Group, a body aimed at helping them break into new overseas markets [link]
  • Rafe Spall, Tom Hollander, Aidan Turner, Zoe Tapper and Samuel Barnett will star in Desperate Romantics by Peter Bowker for BBC2 (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
  • Tilda Swinton won the award for Best Actress at the Evening Standard Film Awards [link]
  • Big Finish is going to produce some Robin Hood audiobooks [link]
  • Carey Mulligan interviews about An Education which also stars Rosamund Pike and Dominic Cooper (via ontd) 1|2
  • Vanity Fair's 2009 Hollywood portfolio [link]

Monday, 19 January 2009

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]

Sunday, 7 September 2008

Entertainment news

Related links
Romola Garai 1|2|3