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]

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]
  

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Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

• Hayley Atwell and Gemma Arterton portraits by Matt Jones.
  
  
• Unspoilery screencaps of Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough from the Never Let Me Go trailer (click the thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Tom Hollander will be a guest on Start the Week [link]
• On the Hour, produced by Armando Iannucci, stars Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, and Patrick Marber [link]
• Howard Brenton will be interviewed on Front Row and Night Waves
• Diana Quick, Simon McBurney, Olivia Williams, Clemency Burton-Hill, and Mat Fraser will present episodes of The Essay Half Shame, Half Glory - Postcards from the Acting Profession [link]
• Rebecca Hall was interviewed on The Film Programme [link]

Television - Downton Abbey. Rosamund Pike. Film - Barney's Version. Theatre - Deathtrap. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

• Downton Abbey
• Dan Stevens posted a twitpic of the poster (via his Twitter, @thatdanstevens) [link]
• The production will be featured in upcoming issues of Tatler and Vogue [link]
  
  
• Rosamund will be featured in the October 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar (UK) [link]
• Article about Barney's Version from the Wall Street Journal [link]
  
  
• Pictures from Deathtrap 1|2
  
  
• Clip from Never Let Me Go featuring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Damian Lewis, Greta Scacchi, and Derek Jacobi star in the Drama on 3 Giovanni's Room [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt reads the Book of the Week Story teller: The Life of Roald Dahl [link]
• Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in the Classic Serial My Family and Other Animals [link]
• Stephen Merchant will be interviewed by Harry Shearer on Chain Reaction [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

• Green Lantern, a DC Comics adaptation directed by Martin Campbell, will be filmed in Sydney [link]
  
• Charlotte Rampling and Sally Hawkins have been cast in Never Let Me Go, which stars Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Andrea Riseborough [link]
• Adam Elliot's claymation film Mary and Max (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette) took in $296,000 on its opening weekend [link]
  
• Zooey Deschanel SXSW interview (via ONTD) [link]
• Reviews of Realism by Paul Galloway and Travesties by Tom Stoppard by Alison Croggon [link]
  
• Ralph Fiennes is in talks to take an uncredited cameo in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, the Nanny McPhee sequel which stars Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Maggie Smith [link]
• Werner Herzog interview about his new film Encounters at the End of the World [link]
  
• According to a report released by Access Economics, the film and TV industry contributes $4.4 billion to the Australian economy annually. But of much of that is locally generated? Access Economics is currently preparing a separate report detailing the economic contribution by the Hollywood Studio members of MPA [link]
• In the Loop
• The film will be screened at the Sydney Film Festival (via the Hollywood Reporter) [link]
  
• Positive review from the Guardian [link]
  
• Producer Simon Channing Williams (Happy-Go-Lucky, The Constant Gardener, Topsy-Turvy) has died [link]
• New producers for Doctor Who have been announced (via Media Guardian) [link]
  
• Michael Sheen will portray the leader of the Volturi, an Italy-based coven of vampires, in New Moon, the sequel to Twilight [link]
• Fabulous rant by screenwriter James Moran (Torchwood, Spooks) about camera shakiness [link]
• Article about this year's Cannes Film Festival [link]

Entertainment news

• Samantha Morton interview [link]
• Cannes Film Festival Official Selection (Cannes Classics, Cinefondation’s choice, the Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week are still to be announced) [link]
• Is Anybody There?
• David Morrissey interview [link]
• Anne-Marie Duff interview [link]
• Paul Giamatti will star in Barney's Version, an adaptation of Mordecai Richler's novel [link]
• Hollywood talent agencies WMA and Endeavour have merged. The new company is called WME Entertainment [link]
• Ed Westwick interviews about season 2 of Gossip Girl 1|2
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt has replaced James Franco in Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan [link]
• Simon Pegg interviews about Star Trek 1|2
  
• Pictures of Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield on the set of Never Let Me Go (via ONTD) [link]
• James McAvoy & Nigel Harman interviews about Three Days of Rain 1|2
• Michael Sheen recently joined Twitter [link]
• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton will be adapted for television as a miniseries by the producers of Underbelly [link]
  

Ruth Wilson, Rosamund Pike, actors on Twitter, BBC Radio

Ruth Wilson attended the De Beers pre-BAFTA film and jewellery lunch on 3 February. Earlier this week, she was a guest at the Evening Standard Film Awards, where winners included Andrew Garfield (Best Actor, The Social Network and Never Let Me Go) and Kristin Scott Thomas (Best Actress, Leaving). Pictures: WireImage, Rex Features, Getty.

Rosamund Pike will play Andromeda in the Clash of the Titans sequel (via Indiewire). Rosamund attended the London Film Critics Circle Awards, where she was nominated for British Actress of the Year. Other guests included Colin Firth (winner, Actor of the Year) and Kristin Scott Thomas (Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film). Pictures: WireImage and Getty (winners, arrivals, pre drinks reception).

A nice mention of Sam West and Hugh Bonneville in an article from the Guardian about theatres' use of Twitter:

There are some great actors tweeting brilliant material, but the skill of acting well is irrelevant to the skill of writing well for Twitter.

Hugh Bonneville will introduce a screening of Iris at the Minghella Film Festival on 12 March (via his Twitter, @hughbon).

BBC Radio

• James Fleet will be interviewed on Loose Ends
• Toby Stephens stars as Philip Marlowe in the Saturday Play The Lady in the Lake, which is part of BBC Radio 4's Classic Chandler
• David Morrissey will be interviewed on Midweek, and he stars in Adam Baron's Shut Eye {repeat}

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

• 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]