Saturday, March 24, 2012
Ioan Gruffudd: Ringer Season 1-18 ‘That Woman’s Never Been A Victim Her Entire Life’ Recap (WE GOT THIS COVERED)
Posted March 24, 2012 by Lindsay Sperling in TV
Ringer picks up right where it left off, not skipping a beat. Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd) has been shot. Bridget (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is holding onto him as if his life depends on it, and it just very well might. Solomon (Sean Patrick Thomas) has been hit over the head and makes it downstairs in time for Agent Machado (Nestor Carbonell) to rush onto the scene.
Agent Machado is quick to spring to action and soon discovers that the mystery shooter hasn’t gone too far. He chases him down the fire escape only to have his efforts interrupted by a crowd of partygoers exiting through the back door. The shooter manages to evade Machado, but not before he loses his card.
READ MORE: http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/ringer-season-118-that-womans-victim-entire-life-recap/
My double delight! Ioan Gruffudd on his wife's success with IVF and his latest role opposite sexy twin sisters (DAILY MAIL)
You’d be hard pushed to find a more genuinely charming actor than Ioan Gruffudd. Courteous and with impeccable manners, he’s a flurry of door-opening and ‘after yous’ when we meet. Of course the lilting Welsh accent and dark, magnetic looks that catapulted him to fame in the ITV series Hornblower don’t do him any harm either.
One interviewer was so taken with him, they swooned that Ioan was ‘perfect’. His charm is all the more impressive today given Ioan had spent the previous night in hospital. While his wife, actress Alice Evans, was away in Atlanta shooting the TV series The Vampire Diaries, their two-year-old daughter Ella Betsi was suddenly beset with breathing difficulties – the local hospital eventually diagnosing her with the respiratory condition, croup.
‘It’s quite a traumatic thing for Alice to have to leave Ella to go to work,’ he says, ‘so you can imagine how awful the phone call was when I had to tell her what had happened. I was terrified. But Ella’s fine now and she’ll be thrilled because her mum’s coming home tonight.’
Ella is Ioan and Alice’s only child. The couple underwent IVF treatment three years ago in order to conceive. ‘We’d wanted a baby for a while and after it didn’t happen for us naturally we said, “Let’s take what science has to offer.”
Luckily for us, it worked the first time so it wasn’t a long, hard struggle,’ he says. On discovering Alice was pregnant, there was elation, ‘but that’s just the beginning of the journey,’ admits Ioan. ‘Then there’s the whole other worry of, “Are we going to get to 12 weeks?”. It was a long, anxious process and then Alice was on bed rest for the last eight weeks because of high blood pressure, which is quite serious.
READ MORE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2118798/Ioan-Gruffudd-wifes-success-IVF-latest-role-opposite-sexy-twin-sisters.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Hugh Grant: Elizabeth Hurley's son has finally watched his godfather Hugh Grant in a film, something he was not allowed to do earlier due to the actor's onscreen swearing. (NEWS TRACK INDIA)
Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant, nearly twenty years ago! 1993
London, Mar 24 (ANI):
The 'Notting Hill' star voices the lead seafaring character in new animated film 'The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists'.
He walked the red carpet in London on Wednesday night for the premiere, the Daily Star reported. Grant headed inside for the screening and was later snapped sneaking his godson Damian - Hurley's nine-year-old boy - out of the cinema. Hurley, cricketer Shane Warne's fiance, has previously revealed she was always trying to find some work of Grant that her kids could see.
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/03/24/250-Liz-Hurley-s-son-finally-permitted-to-watch-godfather-Hugh-Grant-s-movie.html
Judi Dench speaks out on behalf of Michigan Shakespeare Festival (MICHIGAN LIVE)
Jackson, MI – One of Britain’s most accomplished thespians is lending her support to the Michigan
Shakespeare Festival.
Dame Judi Dench, a multiple Oscar and Tony winner, spoke out in support of the Jackson-based Shakespeare Festival through a statement released by the festival on Friday. “I’m delighted to help spread the word any way I can,” said Dench. “Especially now, when arts institutions are facing so much peril.” New Michigan Shakespeare Festival Managing Director Bart Williams got to know Dench while working in England. He remains close with Dench’s daughter Finty Williams.
In recent conversations, Bart Williams has talked to Dench about the struggles many arts and theater organizations are experiencing during tough economic times. “In Britain, we have to be ever vigilant against arts funding cuts,” Dench added. “It depresses me that the situation in America is even more dire. There is much less funding available, and so many more people to be reached. “If my support can in any way help extend the reach of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, I offer it gladly.”
Bart Williams said the Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare high school tour continues to grow, as it has expanded from southeastern Michigan to include West Michigan and parts of northern Indiana and Ohio. However, the tour remains on a tight budget, he added.
READ MORE: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/jackson/index.ssf/2012/03/judi_dench_speaks_out_on_behal.html
Anna Karenina - the first great version with Greta Garbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCu-eRyUMbM&feature=related
I know all of us Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Matthew Macfadyen fans are waiting for Anna Karenina to come out sometime this year, but this original Anna Karenina is lovely, although they all look a bit old for their parts. Garbo is Garbo and positively beautiful.
I can see Keira as Anna very easily although I would have preferred Colin Firth to be Karenin and Matthew Macfadyen to be Vronsky. Then I would have REALLY wanted to see the new Anna Karenina.
DIGITAL SPY Exclusive: David Tennant on 'Doctor Who' movie: 'David Yates is a talented man'
Exclusive: David Tennant on 'Doctor Who' movie: 'David Yates is a talented man'
Published Friday, Mar 23 2012, 9:47am EDT | By Harry Kind and Tom Mansell |
David Tennant has said that he has no objections to a Doctor Who movie being made as long as it is of good quality. The Tenth Doctor, who will be making a claymation appearance in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, told Digital Spy that the transition from TV to film relies on the quality of the movie
READ THE REST OF THE EXCLUSIVE: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/s7/doctor-who/news/a372789/david-tennant-on-doctor-who-movie-david-yates-is-a-talented-man.html
David Tennant has said that he has no objections to a Doctor Who movie being made as long as it is of good quality. The Tenth Doctor, who will be making a claymation appearance in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, told Digital Spy that the transition from TV to film relies on the quality of the movie
READ THE REST OF THE EXCLUSIVE: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/s7/doctor-who/news/a372789/david-tennant-on-doctor-who-movie-david-yates-is-a-talented-man.html
Henry Cavill: new clip from The Cold Light of Day (COSMIC BOOK NEWS)
Unwittingly embroiled in a Government conspiracy with agents from all sides hot on his tail, an unrelenting chase across the streets of Madrid intensifies and Will is forced to question everything he has ever known in order to stay alive long enough to rescue his family… but is there anyone left he can trust?
Starring super British talent HENRY CAVILL (Immortals) alongside Hollywood action legends BRUCE WILLIS (Die Hard) and SIGOURNEY WEAVER (Avatar), THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY is an adrenaline fuelled action thriller from director MABROUK EL MECHRI. THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY will be released on April 6th.
READ MORE: http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/content/henry-cavills-cold-light-day-2012-new-clip-and-synopsis-now-online
Matthew Macfadyen: BBC rip it up on the streets (Independent ie.)
Dublin Castle and Clancy Barracks have been transformed into London's dark and dingy East End in the late 1800s, where a tour group stumble upon a young girl who has had her throat cut, pictured left.
The series stars 'Pride and Prejudice' actor Matthew Macfadyen (inset) and Jerome Flynn, who also features in the cult series 'Game of Thrones'. The thriller is set in London in 1889 when the identity of the killer was still unknown and the Ripper was at large. It will be shown in the autumn.
READ MORE: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/bbc-rip-it-up-on-the-streets-3060134.html
THE I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THIS AWARD!!! Darcy voted best literary character (BATLEY AND BIRSTELL NEWS)
Published on Saturday 24 March 2012 07:30
It may have taken Elizabeth Bennet a while to warm to him, but Batley folk are big fans of Mr Darcy. The classic Jane Austen character from Pride and Prejudice came top in a poll of people’s favourite literary characters. The contest was run by Batley library to mark World Book Day, when anyone borrowing a book was asked to vote.
Staff member Zanam Shaffi said: “Whether the appearance of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in the BBC adaptation had any bearing on the result is pure speculation!”
http://www.batleynews.co.uk/news/darcy-voted-best-literary-character-1-4374814
Friday, March 23, 2012
Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Dark Shadows Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWvkFlyl4M&feature=player_embedded
I can't wait to see this - it looks hysterical! If you remember the original Dark Shadows, #1 you're old and B. it was probably the very worst soap opera on TV and we all loved it!! Scenery fell over, set workers smoked off screen and passed outside the windows when the scene was supposed to be the second story of Colinwood - Joan Bennett looked as if she had passed away the year before and no one informed her.
We would race home from school and everyone watched it. This version, however, is meant to be funny and Johnny Depp looks fantastic.
Colin Firth, Bridget Jones Video
Found this video on a great site - The Firth Sisters and enjoyed it immensely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQPAtwmcQkI&feature=player_embedded#!
Clive Owen's Love Affair With Madrid Began On Film Set (CONTACT MUSIC)
Movie star Clive Owen fell in love with Madrid's food and wine culture while he was shooting his new movie Intruders in the Spanish capital.
The British actor admits he now returns to the city whenever he can, just to satisfy his new-found appreciation of the best things in life. Owen tells BlogTalkRadio.com, "The food was fantastic. That was the biggest culture shock. I've been back to Madrid maybe eight times since finishing this film, and I have to be honest; it's primarily to eat!
"The food in that town is so good and the whole crew, they really knew how to live... All they wanted to talk about was food and wine all day - 'Where did you eat last night? What did you eat? What wine did you have with it?' They were all complete foodies, and I'm a bit of a foodie, so I loved working with a Spanish crew.
READ MORE: http://www.contactmusic.com/news/clive-owens-love-affair-with-madrid-began-on-film-set_1309586
Hugh Bonneville: 'How the hell are you organising the Olympic games?' Zara Phillips lambasts 2012 organisers in spoof sketch for Sport Relief (MAIL ON LINE)
By ALANAH ERIKSEN
PUBLISHED: 18:12 EST, 23 March 2012 |
UPDATED: 18:53 EST, 23 March 2012
She has hopes of competing in the 2012 Olympics.
So when the PR team in charge of the event failed in their pitch on how Zara Phillips could promote the games, she was obviously unimpressed. The 30-year-old, 13th in line to the throne, was left annoyed during a hilarious sketch for Sport Relief.
Zara and rowing legend Sir Steve Redgrave were seen meeting with the fictional characters of the BBC comedy series, Twenty Twelve.
Ian Fletcher, played by Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, led an incompetent team who were unable to come up with ideas on how the pair could push the games during Sport Relief.
READ MORE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2119596/How-hell-organising-Olympic-games-Zara-Phillips-lambasts-2012-organisers-spoof-sketch-Sport-Relief.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Tom Hiddleston, Rachel Weisz: The Deep Blue Sea: movie review (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR)
By Andy Klein /
March 23, 2012
A director’s touch and precision acting give life to 'The Deep Blue Sea.'
"The Deep Blue Sea" opens with Samuel Barber's beautiful Violin Concerto, the sound of a ticking clock, and the on-screen legend "London, Around 1950." It's night, and the camera tracks very slowly along a shabby street before tilting up to a third-floor window where we see Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz).
We enter the apartment and watch her calmly prepare to kill herself, by both taking pills and turning on the gas. It's the suicide equivalent of wearing a belt and suspenders.
Once we get to know her better and learn the circumstances leading to her current actions, this apparent surfeit of caution seems out of character: In matters of love, romance, and sex, she has thrown caution to the wind. As the camera smoothly follows her around the room and her mind wanders to some brief flashbacks, the film is more concerned with setting a tragic/romantic mood than giving us a lot of detail.
The 10-minute opening sequence is shot almost like a silent movie, with no more than a line or two spoken.
READ MORE: http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2012/0323/The-Deep-Blue-Sea-movie-review
Henry Cavill: Zack Snyder reveals why Henry Cavill (FANSHARE)was cast as Superman in Man of Steel
Man of Steel directed Zack Snyder has revealed to MTV News why he cast Henry Cavill as Clark Kent, aka Superman, in his big screen adaptation. Zack has admitted that it was ultimately came down to two people, Henry Cavill and True Blood actor Joe Manganiello but Henry just had the edge.
Snyder explained, "Henry's just ... I love Joe too, by the way. Really he was the only other guy I was thinking of, to be honest, other than Henry. In the end, I think Henry just has this innocence, too [in addition to the physicality required for the role].
READ MORE: http://www.fansshare.com/news/zack-snyder-reveals-why-henry-cavill-was-cast-as-superman-in-man-of-steel/
Julian Fellowes talks 'chaste' Romeo and Juliet (WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)
Julian Fellowes says the new version of 'Romeo and Juliet' will be chaste. The 'Downton Abbey' creator has adapted William Shakespeare's classic tale of a pair of star crossed lovers for the big screen and rather than try to modernise the story, which stars Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld, Julian insisted it reflected old fashioned values with the couple not consummating their relationship until they are married.
He told the Daily Mail newspaper: "Love is life-shaping and moving. We did feel it would be nice to have romantic, married love, and that purity was an important part of the film. They don't make love until they have been married. "One always sounds like 'Disgusted of Cheltenham' when you have these kind of discussions, but there is room for an understanding of the power of love.
READ MORE: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/celebrities/julian-fellowes-talks-chaste-romeo-and-juliet-143951146.html
THE RANT: ‘JOHN CARTER’s’ MASSIVE FALLOUT: Who’s to blame for Disney’s ‘$200-million’ bomb (THE RANT)
THE RANT: ‘JOHN CARTER’s’ MASSIVE FALLOUT: Who’s to blame for Disney’s ‘$200-million’ bomb By Michael Cavna
SOMETIMES BAD FLOPS happen to good people. Even those hideous, avert-your-eyes flops that cause you to question how so much talent can go to so much disgraceful waste. Amid the commercial carnage that follows the CGI blood-splatter, even Hollywood’s best coroners are sometimes stumped by the precise cause of staggering box-office death.
They walk away, shaking their heads, chalking it up to fickle audiences or muddled plots or who-knows-what-exactly? Commercial death comes, as it must, to all serial big-spenders backing gargantuan movies. But in the case of “John Carter,” it didn't have to be this way.
Disney still has its Imagineers. But where in the Martian world were the studio’s marketeers? “John Carter” may go down as one of Hollywood’s biggest movie flops ever. But it should rightly go down as one the town’s biggest marketing flops ever.
Did someone at the Mouse House dial the E.R. instead of PR? The Mouse House announced this week that it anticipates that “John Carter” — its new film about Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Civil War “Martian” — will “book a loss of $200 million” for the quarter. Meaning in Hollywood dollars, it’s on track to be one of the biggest money-losing ka-booms ever. “John Carter” had grossed nearly $190-mill globally as of last weekend — but had a whopping production budget of about $250-million, plus its $100-million marketing price tag, the AP reports.
READ WHAT MAY HAVE GONE WRONG: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-rant-john-carters-massive-fallout-whos-to-blame-for-disneys-200-million-bomb/2012/03/19/gIQAOKf6VS_blog.html
Jeremy Irons: The Borgias Aim for four seasons (REUTERS)
By Tim Molloy at TheWrap
Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:02pm EST"The Borgias" executive producer James Flynn says he hopes for four seasons of the Showtime papal drama, which is about to enter its second season.
"The overall plan in a series like this is ideally four seasons," he said Thursday. "That would be the plan, that would be the ambition."
Also read: 'Borgias' Gets Return Date
But he said the show could potentially continue after the death of Jeremy Irons' Pope Alexander VI, by focusing on the rule of his successor, Pope Julius II. Flynn spoke at a "Borgias" panel for the Television Critics Association winter press tour, where Irons also spoke about his distinctive voice.
Irons said that when he was 25 or 30 years old, he and John Hurt once met for coffee and bemoaned the new crop of good, young actors. He said Hurt told him his trick for sabotaging the potential competition:
READ MORE: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/12/idUS423888805820120112
Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:02pm EST"The Borgias" executive producer James Flynn says he hopes for four seasons of the Showtime papal drama, which is about to enter its second season.
"The overall plan in a series like this is ideally four seasons," he said Thursday. "That would be the plan, that would be the ambition."
Also read: 'Borgias' Gets Return Date
But he said the show could potentially continue after the death of Jeremy Irons' Pope Alexander VI, by focusing on the rule of his successor, Pope Julius II. Flynn spoke at a "Borgias" panel for the Television Critics Association winter press tour, where Irons also spoke about his distinctive voice.
Irons said that when he was 25 or 30 years old, he and John Hurt once met for coffee and bemoaned the new crop of good, young actors. He said Hurt told him his trick for sabotaging the potential competition:
READ MORE: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/12/idUS423888805820120112
Hugh Grant wants Bridget Jones 3
Hugh Grant wants Bridget Jones 3 (UKPA) – 2 hours ago
Hugh Grant has revealed that he would gladly reprise his caddish role for Bridget Jones 3. But the 51-year-old actor, who played ladies' man Daniel Cleaver in the previous two films, admitted that it's still a work in progress.
"That film is not really on yet. We are up for it, but they haven't quite cracked the script. But when they do, I'm sure we'll make it," he said. Hugh - who makes his animated debut in upcoming Aardman film The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists - said he enjoyed playing such a cad alongside Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth. "I did like playing Daniel Cleaver in both films, but there is no definite part three," he told Total Film.
"None of the three of us have signed up for it yet. There's been a number of drafts that have had great things in them but haven't quite hit the bullseye. It's just that it does have to be significantly reinvented. "I don't think that you could pretend that it's a year after the end of the last one because we look f*****g ancient now, all three of us," he added.
Hugh teased that Daniel won't be a reformed man, saying: "He won't be, no."
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, which also stars David Tennant and Martin Freeman, opens in cinemas on March 28.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iW337FdjkkWBiYh2cjIyo9EtmPJg?docId=N0063181332505875495A
Jennifer Saunders: Kate Moss is least precious guest star
Jennifer Saunders says Kate Moss is the "least precious" guest star 'Absolutely Fabulous' has ever had because she doesn't care about her looks.
The 38-year-old supermodel will appear alongside comediennes Jennifer and Joanna Lumley in a one-off special of the BBC One show in aid of Sport Relief tomorrow night (23.03.12) and Jennifer revealed Kate threw herself into her cameo and wasn't worried about her appearance.
Jennifer - who is the face of the new Choccy Philly campaign - exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "We've got Kate Moss, Stella McCartney and David Gandy. We've done French and Saunders stuff with Kate before and she's been wonderful so it was great to work with her again.
She's really good, she's really professional and she looks amazing. "She comes in, lets the hair and make-up people do whatever they want, she isn't precious about her appearance at all but I suppose when you look like that you don't need to. You can put anything on her face and she'll look good. She is honestly probably the least precious person we've had on. I suppose because she doesn't have all those hang ups about her looks like other people. She just threw herself into it and was wonderful."
READ MORE: http://www.list.co.uk/article/41191-jennifer-saunders-kate-moss-is-least-precious-guest-star/
Adrien Brody Still Waiting To Go On 'Date' With Gerard Butler (STAR PULSE)
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Meryl Streep in Kate Winslet's The Golden Hat Book
By Ann Lieber • Mar 22, 2012 • Los Angeles
"How would you communicate to the world who you are in a single quote? What words would you choose?" were the questions Kate Winslet posed to 100 A-list celebrities for her upcoming book, The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism, which is due out on Tuesday, March 27. All proceeds will go to Winslet's non-profit Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to eliminate communication barriers for people with autism.
Here, TheaterMania provides you with an exclusive first look at some of the images in Winslet's remarkable book, with shots from stage veterans Kim Cattrall, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Cynthia Nixon, and Meryl Streep.
VISIT THE GOLDEN HAT FOUNDATION to make a donation.
READ MORE, AND TO VIEW THE PICTURES: http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/03-2012/photo-exclusive-george-clooney-daniel-craig-meryl-_52965.html
Lucy Liu plays Watson in TV version of Sherlock Holmes (NEW YORK POST)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Dr. Watson never looked so good.
Here's actress Lucy Liu playing a female version of Dr. Watson in the new modern-day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. Liu, 43, was photographed for the first time on the set of the new version called "Elementary" in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday alongside co-star Jonny Lee Miller.
The CBS show stars Miller as the legendary sleuth and Liu as his crime-solving sidekick. Wearing a long raincoat, sweater, boots and short skirt, Liu filmed scenes alongside Miller and at one point even bought a hot dog from a food cart.
READ MORE: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/lucy_liu_plays_watson_holmes_new_kj3F4Ua7UWxQbfzIzjSdlO
Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn get to work on the set of bloody new series Ripper Street... as 19th century London is recreated in Dublin (MAIL ON LINE)
By AMY OLIVER
The grisly murders may have taken place more than a century ago, but the story of Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate many. Something BBC America has obviously twigged.
For, after the success of its crime series Whitechapel, the network is now working on 'Ripper Street', an eight-part series that focuses on the 19th century detectives who tried to catch the serial killer on the job.
The thriller, which stars Mr Darcy Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn, is set in London's east end in 1889 when the killer - or killers, the Ripper's identity is still a mystery - was at large.
READ MORE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2119275/Ripper-Street-Matthew-Macfadyen-Jerome-Flynn-work-set-bloody-new-series.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Christian Bale And David O. Russell May Reunite On American Bullshit (CINEMA BLEND)
Author: Katey Rich
After his little boxing movie The Fighter blew up into an Oscar-winning phenomenon, David O. Russell spent a long time figuring out what his next movie would be before finally settling on The Silver Linings Playbook, with Bradley Cooper, Juennifer Lawrence and Julia Stiles among others in the starring roles.
With that film wrapped up and Mark Wahlberg's sequel to The Fighter finally moving on without Russell, the director is now planning another move, and may circle back to another one of his Fighter stars.
According to Deadline Russell is now attached to direct American Bullshit, set up at Sony and with Christian Bale potentially attached.
READ MORE: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Christian-Bale-David-O-Russell-May-Reunite-American-Bullshit-30091.html
'Game of Thrones' Season 2 Premiere Spoilers: 5 Things to Know (BUDDY TV)
John Kubicek Senior Writer, Buddy TV
The Game of Thrones season 2 premiere comes to HBO Sunday, April 1 at 9pm, and fans will not be disappointed.
The show returns without missing a beat, picking up right where it left off and continuing the epic stories of the Seven Kingdoms and the battle for the throne. The most impressive thing about the season 2 premiere is how effortlessly it addresses every single character and storyline.
There's so much going on in this show, yet the writers and producers pack everything into one hour so neatly that the time flies by.
To get you pumped up for the return of Game of Thrones, here are a few spoilers that will hopefully get you even more excited.
READ THE REST: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/game-of-thrones/game-of-thrones-season-2-premi-44639.aspx
Movie Review: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (APP.COM)
From the offbeat title to the unexpected pairing of Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” is intriguing from the start. Based on Paul Torday’s novel of the same name, McGregor plays Dr. Fred Jones, a pragmatic salmon expert who works for the British fisheries.
Blunt stars as the charming Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, who handles a wealthy Yemeni sheik’s financial assets. The film artfully mixes an unlikely romance with British politics. This quirky blend of genres works, and overall the movie is entertaining.
Sheik Muhammad (Amr Waked) dreams of bringing salmon fishing to Yemen. Harriet is given the task of handling this outlandish project. She enlists the help of Dr. Fred, who initially rejects her offer. The course of these characters’ lives change when Patricia Maxwell (Kirstin Scott Thomas), the British prime minister’s relentlessly efficient personal assistant, decides that this project will provide the PM with some positive press.
With the persistent urging of Patricia, Fred is forced to participate in the sheik’s endeavors.
READ MORE: http://www.app.com/article/CN/20120322/NJENT03/303220025/Quirky-film-offers-reel-entertainment
Emily Blunt is poised to have a breakout year (STL TODAY)
Emily Blunt is on the Hollywood fast track.
But she still makes time for small, intimate films like "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen." In the offbeat romantic comedy opening today in St. Louis, Blunt plays a young woman who gets involved with a sheik's efforts to bring fishing to a desert. In the process, she also gets to know a fisheries expert (played by Ewan McGregor) who's highly skeptical of the project.
"These little movies need a lot of pushing," Blunt says. "It's a word-of-mouth thing." What attracted her to "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," she says, was the fact that it "felt original and smart. "I certainly read quite a few generic scripts. Occasionally one comes along that just lifts your spirits, and you're like, 'Wow, this is so refreshing.' And I really thought it was character-rich, as opposed to special-effects-rich."
READ MORE: http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/movies/emily-blunt-is-poised-to-have-a-breakout-year/article_2442004f-2cb8-5aea-9adc-40def81fbff6.html
Michael Fassbender Spotted On Romantic Stroll With Shame Co-Star! (PEREZ HILTON)
New couple alert?? Michael Fassbender was spotted with his arm around his Shame co-star Nicole Beharie as they took a romantic stroll through Soho over the weekend. The funny thing is that Nicole's character is the only woman Michael's character DIDN'T sleep with in the film! Ha!
READ MORE: http://perezhilton.com/category/michael-fassbender/?from=topceleb#.T2x2IxEgfiY
Wild Bill has charm, wit and plenty of morals (MAIL ON LINE)
Verdict: Enjoyable and Engaging
This gangster's to die for: Unlike Guy Ritchie's flippant Lock Stock, British movie Wild Bill has charm, wit and plenty of morals
By CHRIS TOOKEY PUBLISHED: 17:27 EST, 22 March 2012 | UPDATED: 05:37 EST, 23 March 2012
Just when many of us wanted never to suffer through another British gangster film, along comes the best of the lot — a picture that sums up everything that’s good about British movie-making. It’s quirky, warm and charming. It’s also well acted, beautifully written and superbly directed.
Like Billy Elliot before it, it inventively recycles dozens of tired cliches to come up with something fresh and exciting. There’s unlikely to be a more entertaining British film this year. Charlie Creed-Miles gives the performance of his life as Wild Bill, a once violent, now befuddled criminal just released after eight years in prison.
He drops in on his old council flat in East London, and discovers his wife has gone on permanent vacation to Spain with her new squeeze. They’ve abandoned Bill’s understandably angry 15-year-old son Dean (Will Poulter, the outstanding young actor from Son Of Rambow and Voyage Of The Dawn Treader) and his wayward little brother Jimmy (Sammy Williams, a diminutive urchin who made brief but memorable contributions to Attack The Block).
READ MORE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2118968/This-gangsters-die-Unlike-Guy-Ritchies-flippant-Lock-Stock-British-movie-Wild-Bill-charm-wit-plenty-morals.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Brendan Coyle: Meet the Starlings on Sky 1!
19/03/2012 In late April 2012,
Sky 1 HD will introduce the STARLINGS. Written by and starring Matt King (Peep Show) and Steve Edge (Star Stories), comedy drama STARLINGS will also star BAFTA® nominees Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey) and Lesley Sharp (Scott & Bailey).
The series is available to sponsor now with Sky Media.
STARLINGS will follow the lives of the Starlings family, a typical working class brood living in a detached house in Matlock, Derbyshire. Grandad (Alan Williams, Luther) has recently moved in, following a rabble rousing incident at the old folks' home. Rather than see him unhappy, his son Terry (Coyle) and wife Jan (Sharp), decide to put him up in their already crammed family home.
Making room for him is Charlie (Finn Atkins, EastEnders), their 16 year old football crazy tomboy daughter; work-shy, reptile enthusiast, Gravy (John Dagleish, Beaver Falls) and beautiful Bell (Rebecca Night, Larkrise to Candleford) and her brand new baby, Zac, who arrives bang on time for the first episode. Then there's Bell's ex-boyfriend, Reuben (Ukweli Roach, Eternal Law) desperate to get back together with her.
Uncle Loz (King), Grandad's long lost son, is the artist of the family. Last but not least, Jan's nephew, Fergie (Edge) who offers to bivouac in the garden, after being made homeless when his long suffering partner chucks him out.
READ MORE: http://www.skymedia.co.uk/_news/meet-the-starlings-on-sky-1!.aspx?year=2012
Benedict Cumberbatch, Matt Smith: Moffat on Master Rumours, Story Arc (DOCTOR WHO)
In all the excitement yesterday we missed this other little Steven Moffat interview from the Radio Times.
First, Moffat was quizzed about the rumours suggesting that Benedict Cumberbatch is being lined up to play the Master. “People really do sit in rooms and make that stuff up,” he said.
“Look at the filming schedules for Doctor Who and Sherlock – those two shows tend to shoot at the same time. We’d have a problem and there’s only so much I can arrange.” But as usual, he didn’t rule it out either adding: “But who knows what could happen in the future…”
Moffat also spoke a little more on how big the story arc for Series 7 will be this time: “This time we’re moving closer to stand-alone stories. At this point, we’re not planning any two-parters. So, every week is going to be like a different mad movie.”
READ MORE: http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/moffat-on-master-rumours-story-arc-31815.htm
Gerard Butler: Night Out at Chateau Marmont (JUST JARED)
Gerard Butler heads back to his car after stopping by Chateau Marmont on Tuesday (March 20) in Los Angeles. Earlier in the day, the 42-year-old Scottish actor grabbed lunch with his parents at Farmers Market near The Grove, before driving to Malibu where he picked up coffee with his stepdad.
READ MORE: http://www.justjared.com/2012/03/21/gerard-butler-night-out-chateau-marmont/?ref=topposts
Liam Neeson: His Taken Daughter will save him this time in "Taken 2) (DAILY TIMES)
Actress Maggie Grace has confirmed that she is heading for a role reversal for her reunion with actor Liam Neeson in `Taken 2`. “This time it`s Liam`s character who is in trouble and me doing the rescuing,” showbizspy.com quoted Maggie as saying. The actress enjoyed huge success playing Liam`s kidnapped daughter in the original ‘Taken’ and is now glad to be turning the tables for the sequel.
READ MORE: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C03%5C22%5Cstory_22-3-2012_pg9_13
Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins: Jessica Biel Joins 'Hitchcock' Film (CHRISTIAN POST)
The "Hitchcock" cast will also include actress Scarlett Johansson, who will portray "Psycho" actress Leigh.
The film chronicles the legendary director Hitchcock and his horror classic in which Leigh is viciously murdered in the famous shower scene. "Psycho" was based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Stephen Rebello.
Biel and Johansson will be joined by cast members Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, who will play Hitchcock and his wife. The upcoming film will follow the director's struggles to make "Psycho" in the 1960s, which is considered one of the most influential films of all time.
British actor James D'Arcy was also cast in "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" as Anthony Perkins, according to Variety.
READ MORE: http://global.christianpost.com/news/jessica-biel-joins-hitchcock-film-71896/
Michael Fassbender Shows Off His Guns & Gives A Smile [PHOTOS] (SOCIALITE LIFE)
Michael Fassbender probably doesn’t like airplane food, seeing that the actor decided to stop for tacos before hoping on a flight to New York yesterday (March 22) The actor donned a black tank top and jeans while dining, and gave a little smile to the paparazzi has he made his way through the airport.
READ MORE AND SEE MORE PICTURES: http://socialitelife.com/michael-fassbender-shows-off-his-guns-gives-a-smile-photos-03-2012
DOWNTON ABBEY: Great Youtube of three girls watching Downton - I want to watch with them next season!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I3YNNI9bxQ&feature=player_embedded
I love these girls! They are adorable and I hope they invite me over to watch next season - I'll bring the wine!
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy's Ciaran Hinds is heading to Washington D.C. (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy's Ciaran Hinds is heading to Washington D.C.
The "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" actor will play the former president of the United States in the new summer series. The Irish actor has been tapped to star opposite Sigourney Weaver in USA Network's six-hour summer drama series, Political Animals, as the "jovial" ex-president of the United States, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
From Greg Berlanti and Laurence Mark, Political Animals centers on Elaine Barrish (Weaver), a divorced former first lady and current secretary of state, who is struggling to keep her family together while simultaneously dealing with the crises of the State Department.
READ MORE: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ciaran-hinds-political-animals-usa-network-303318
'Downton Abbey' Season 3: Ed Speleers cast as a footman (ZAP 2 IT)
By Andrea Reiher
March 22, 2012 11:20 AM ET
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Mr. Carson better be ready for the new trainees he's acquiring in Season 3 of "Downton Abbey." It was previously announced that Matt Milne ("War Horse") has been cast as a new footman named Alfred. Now Digital Spy is reporting that Ed Speleers has been cast as the second new footman, Jimmy.
Speleers has most notably starred as the title character in "Eragon," alongside Jeremy Irons, Robert Carlyle and John Malkovich. He also starred on U.K. television series "Echo Beach."
READ MORE: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/03/downton-abbey-season-3-ed-speleers-cast-as-a-footman.html
Hugh Grant, David Tennant: Pirate film star Grant sick at sea (BELFAST TELEGRAPH)
Grant, who lends his voice to the part, relished the challenge of his first animated role. "I quite enjoyed it. It was a challenge. I'm not very well suited to the puppet but once I mastered it, I loved it," he added.
Tennant - who voices the young Charles Darwin - agreed to the film immediately. "I got a phone call and they said Aardman Animations are making a film. By the time that sentence had finished I think I'd signed the contract," he said. "If you get a call from Aardman Studios I think you know you're going to be in something quite classy and quite exciting, so of course you're going to say yes.
"They're an international treasure. And everything that they do is brilliant." He added: "It's not something I ever imagined would come my way, but I was very happy that it did."
READ MORE:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/pirate-film-star-grant-sick-at-sea-16134271.html
Elementary Set Photos Show Lucy Liu And Jonny Lee Miller As Watson And Sherlock Holmes (CINEMA BLEND)
Author: Kelly Westpublished: 2012-03-21 18:20:09
Those who are interested in seeing how Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu look side by side as Sherlock Holmes and Watson respectively, some photos of the duo on set of the CBS pilot Elementary have made their way online, which give us a look at both actors in character. Check them out ahead!
MORE PICTURES, READ MORE: http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Elementary-Set-Photos-Show-Lucy-Liu-Jonny-Lee-Miller-Watson-Sherlock-Holmes-40697.html
Those who are interested in seeing how Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu look side by side as Sherlock Holmes and Watson respectively, some photos of the duo on set of the CBS pilot Elementary have made their way online, which give us a look at both actors in character. Check them out ahead!
MORE PICTURES, READ MORE: http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Elementary-Set-Photos-Show-Lucy-Liu-Jonny-Lee-Miller-Watson-Sherlock-Holmes-40697.html
Matthew Macfadyen: 'Ripper Street' Begins 19-week shoot in Dublin (IFTN- IRISH FILM AND TELEVISION NETWORK)
21 Mar 2012 : By Steve Cummins
‘Ripper Street’, an eight-part series for the BBC based on the Jack The Ripper murders, has begun filming in various locations around Dublin.
Created by Richard Warlow (Waking the Dead) and starring Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice, Frost/Nixon), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) and Adam Rothenberg (House), ‘Ripper Street’ is currently using a Dublin army barracks and the area in and around Dublin Castle to re-create London's East End in 1889.
Filming began on March 12 and is scheduled to run for 19 weeks in total. A wide and varied Irish crew have been employed to work on the series with production designer Mark Geraghty (In America, Death Of A Superhero, Leap Year) among the leading local crew members.
Irish production company Element Pictures are co-producing the series with Tiger Aspect Productions and Lookout Point. BBC America also joined the production last week and plan to launch ‘Ripper Street’ in America as part of their Dramaville series this Autumn.
With a budget of €8million, the series is also being made with the participation of the Irish Film Board. BBC Worldwide is distributing the series globally.
READ MORE: http://www.iftn.ie/actors/actorsnews/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4284684&tpl=archnews&force=1
Hugh Grant at ‘Pirates’ premiere (IN2EAST AFRICA)
LONDON (AP) — Hugh Grant is stepping away from his usual romantic fare – to walk the plank.
The British actor is starring in “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists,” his first animated film role. He plays a pirate captain – called Pirate Captain – on a quest to win the Pirate of the Year Award.
He joined co-star David Tennant at the premiere of the latest adventure from Aardman Animations, creators of “Wallace and Gromit,” in London on Wednesday. The “Notting Hill” actor admitted he doesn’t see many similarities between himself and his pirate persona. “I looked at it and I thought “well I’m nothing like that, this is terrible casting.”
So I actually had to adapt myself, and I had to do a bit of acting for once,” he joked.
READ MORE: http://in2eastafrica.net/hugh-grant-at-pirates-premiere/
Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman & Jeremy Irvine to film WW2 film The Railway Man in Edinburgh (DAILY RECORD)
OSCAR winners Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth are heading to Edinburgh to film a World War II movie.
They will shoot scenes for The Railway Man in the city’s suburbs, alongside War Horse star Jeremy Irvine. The movie is based on the true story of Scot Eric Lomax, who lives in Berwick. He was captured by the Japanese and forced to work on Burma’s Death Railway.
The film follows him as he tries to find those responsible for his torture.
READ MORE: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/television-news/2012/03/22/colin-firth-nicole-kidman-jeremy-irvine-to-film-ww2-film-the-railway-man-in-edinburgh-86908-23797218/
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Hobbit: The Top 5 Man-Made Wonders of New Zealand (TRAVEL VIDEO NEWS)
By Paul Holman-AHA Creative Strategies New Zealanders (aka Kiwis) are an innovative lot who love to invent, create and pioneer; many say that this approach is the heart and soul of the country. Nowhere is their creative approach more visible than in the top five man-made wonders of New Zealand, listed here.
Hobbiton
The Lord of the Rings fans can live out their dreams at the Hobbiton Movie Set near Matamata on the North Island. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey recently finished filming at this Middle-earth location, leaving more hobbit holes for visitors to view than ever before. Entering this location feels like you have walked into the movie (or your imagination, if you have read the books!).
Sky Tower
Offering spectacular 360-degree views, Auckland’s Sky Tower measures 328 metres – making it the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere. Dinner at the top in the Orbit restaurant is thrilling, but if you want to take it up another level, in true Kiwi style, you can SkyWalk around the structure with its clear flooring or SkyJump off the side of the tower.
READ MORE: http://www.travelvideo.tv/news/new-zealand/03-21-2012/the-top-5-man-made-wonders-of-new-zealand
David Tennant has adopted his stepson. (M & C)
The 'Fright Night' star has legally become the father of 10-year-old Tyler, his wife Georgia Moffett's child from a previous relationship and he is thrilled he has been able to officially become his father.
Speaking on the Christian O'Connell breakfast show on Absolute Radio, David - who has a baby daughter Olive with Georgia - said: 'The baby is nearly a year and I adopted my wife's boy last year so I've become a father twice with in a year - that's something of a record isn't it? I hope he's listening.'
The 40-year-old actor first met the 27-year-old actress when she starred opposite him in 'Doctor Who' episode 'The Doctor's Daughter' in 2008 when he played the Time Lord. Georgia's father is Peter Davison, who portrayed the Fifth Doctor in the 80s.
READ MORE: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1695260.php/David-Tennant-adopts-wife-s-son
Gerard Butler: Farmers Market Lunch With Parents (JUST JARED)
Gerard Butler leaves Farmers Market after having lunch with his parents on Tuesday (March 20) in Los Angeles. The 42-year-old actor dined at an outdoor table and took a phone call in between bites.
FOR MANY MORE PICTURES: http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/2640745/gerard-butler-farmers-market-lunch-03/
Judi Dench, Maggie Smith: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directed by John Madden (THE NATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FSa-f6jdac&feature=player_embedded
John Daly-Peoples |
Thursday March 22, 2012
In 1963, Cliff Richard and his twenty something mates headed off on an idyllic summer holiday to Greece. Now fifty years later his generation of 70 year olds have discovered a new holiday or rather retirement haven in India.
These are the new lost children of England who run from their grandparental duties, the lack of available new partners and the preponderance of Indians flooding into the country. These pensioners decide that they can eke out their pensions in India and have some sort of physical and possibly spiritual rebirth by following the guidance of the Karma Sutra.
They all wash up at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a slightly down at heel hotel in Jaipur run by an enthusiastic young Indian who is only halfway through the renovations. It is a light hearted look at the internationalism and globalization of culture where Indians invade England and the English start to take over India, again.
READ MORE: http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/merry-goings-marigold-hotel-113890
Heny Cavill: New photos from "Cold Light of Day" (THEIAPOLIS)
Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri, and written by Scott Wiper, John Petro, and Richard Price, «The Cold Light of Day» is an upcoming Action/Adventure film, scheduled to be released on April 06 of 2012 in the USA . Henry Cavill and Bruce Willis are starring, alongside Sigourney Weaver, Caroline Goodall, Óscar Jaenada and Óscar Jaenada.
MORE PICTURES: http://people.theiapolis.com/actor-0XKR/henry-cavill/news/photos-of-henry-cavill-from-the-cold-light-1001014.html
MORE PICTURES: http://people.theiapolis.com/actor-0XKR/henry-cavill/news/photos-of-henry-cavill-from-the-cold-light-1001014.html
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