Matthew Macfadyen leads cast for Howards End miniseries

RTE
Updated / Friday, 17 Feb 2017 10:26



Ripper Street star Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell from Marvel's Agent Carter and comic Tracey Ullman have all been cast in a new big-budget TV adaptation of EM Foster's classic Howards End.

The novel was previously a hit film for Merchant Ivory and memorably won an Oscar for Emma Thompson for her starring role opposite Anthony Hopkins.

The Oscar nominated writer director of Manchester By the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan is adapting Forster's turn-of-the-century novel about the English class system into a four-episode run.

In a statement a spokesperson for the BBC described Lonergan as "one of our truly great contemporary voices" ans said that his adaptation would "surprise and delight a whole  new audience with its timely and relevant themes."

The story is told focusses on the triumphs and tragedies of the Schlegel, Wilcox and Bast families, with Hayley Atwell playing the intellectual Margaret Schlegel and Matthew Macfadyen the widower Henry Wilcox. Tracey Ullman appears as the ailing Aunt Juley.

The 1992 film adaptation of Howards End bagged Emma Thompson an Oscar for her performance as Margaret Schlegel, and earned nominations for co-star Vanessa Redgrave and director James Ivory.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/0216/853189-ripper-streets-matthew-macfadyen-for-bbc-period-drama/

Keira Knightley Deserves A High Five For These Feminist Truth Bombs

MTV
By Nova M. Bajamonti
April 4, 2015

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Actress Keira Knightley proudly labels herself a feminist and regularly stands up for women. She’s been outspoken in interviews, advocating for better treatment of women in entertainment, whether it’s the roles available to them or the way their bodies are portrayed in magazines.

Yet, why is it that when we think of celebrity feminists, she isn’t in the notorious feminist echelon of Beyonce, Lorde, Taylor Swift and Emma Watson?

She’s fearless when it comes to her bold opinions, and that’s why, when we’re looking for more role models in Hollywood, we should look straight at Knightley. It’s time for Keira Knightley to take her rightful place in the ranks of Hollywood feminist heroes.

Here are just a few reasons we’re loving her right now.

When it comes to Photoshop, she just says no.

In November she protested against the way women are constantly picked apart through Photoshop by posing topless in Interview Magazine, refusing retouching. Not only did this please those who support the #freethenipple campaign (Miley’s a proud one!) but it demanded that women are respected for the body that they naturally have.

“Knightley told Time. “That [shoot] was one of the ones where I said: ‘OK, I’m fine doing the topless shot so long as you don’t make them any bigger or retouch.’ Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.”

While celebrity photography can be artful, she also said it can be problematic when it manipulates women’s images. “I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame,” she said.

An old photoshop from "King Arthur"  She's really just as gorgeous without the bigger cup size.

READ THE REST HERE: http://www.mtv.com/news/2123530/feminist-keira-knightley/

Matthew Macfadyen (video) interview at the London Comedy Film Festival

Trailer for Lost in Karastan

Keira Knightley To Make Broadway Debut in ‘Therese Raquin’

REEL LIFE WITH JANE
Posted by: Paula Schwartz in Entertainment Features, Featured, News, Theater
October 25, 2014



Keira Knightley is coming to the Great White Way.

“The Pirates of the Carribbean” star is making her Broadway debut in in a new adaptation of “Thérèse Raquin” by Helen Edmundson (“The Clearing”), based upon the novel by Émile Zola. The drama will be directed by Evan Cabnet.

The announcement was made today in a press release sent out by Todd Haimes, Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theater Company.

These smart cookies at Roundabout now have a revival of “Cabaret” filling seats, which stars Emma Stone, who replaced Michele Williams in the role of Sally Bowles. Stone stars in the phenomenal black comedy “Birdman,” directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, which pokes fun at the current trend of making a splash on Broadway by hiring big movie stars to attract audiences. Can you imagine how many tourists would normally race to buy tickets for a production of a classic but downbeat production like “Thérèse Raquin” if a big-name Hollywood actress wasn’t headlining?

Although Knightley is making her Broadway debut, she is no newbie to theater. Her theater creds include her West End theatrical debut in Martin Crimp’s translation of Molière’s comedy “The Misanthrope,” staged by Thea Sharrock at the Comedy Theatre in London (Olivier Award nomination & Evening Standard Award nomination for The Natasha Richardson Award For Best Actress). In January 2011, she starred in Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour,” staged by Ian Rickson.

“Thérèse Raquin” is about a woman stuck in a loveless marriage to a weak man. She has reconciled herself to a life without passion until she meets Laurent and then her life is turned upside down when the two are unable to ignore their primal attraction. It’s pretty intense stuff, filled with love, betrayal, guilt and murder. Add to the mix a controlling and suspicious mother and it gets intense. Cast and crew are yet to be announced.



READ MORE HERE: http://www.reellifewithjane.com/2014/10/keira-knightley-broadway-debut-therese-raquin/

Keira Knightley Might Become A True Detective! The Pirates Of The Caribbean Actress Is Being Considered For The Female Lead!

PEREZ HILTON
September 24, 2014



Now, in addition to the likes of Rosario Dawson and Jessica Biel, Keira Knightley is also being considered for the role.

Keira talking about how time is a flat circle? We're totally onboard!

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Matthew Macfadyen's Lost in Karastan: Montreal Festival features culturally diverse cinema

Will this be the last year for the Montreal World Film Festival? God forbid. There are those in Quebec who have been announcing its demise for awhile, but the hue and cry was especially loud this year. The MWFF has lost most of its public funding, in a city that prides itself on its public festivals, for reasons I won’t attempt to go into here. (Let’s just say that the pugnaciousness so many Québécois display toward the rest of Canada can just as often be directed at each other.)

Unlike the Hollywood launching pad for the next crop of Oscar hopefuls that the Toronto Film Festival has largely (if not entirely) become, Montreal remains what a film festival ought to be, a showcase for films from around the world that North Americans probably wouldn't otherwise get to see. It concentrates less on movies made for international distribution than on those made for viewers in their home countries. As such they provide a much better reflection of different cultures as they see themselves, which more than makes up for the occasional reference that goes over your head.

I still have a few more days to spend here, and hope to be returning next year. Some of the best of what I’ve seen so far:

LOST IN KARASTAN—This bone-dry British comedy about Emil Forester, in which a blocked filmmaker (Matthew Macfadyen) accepts an invitation to a film festival in a small central Asian republic, was inspired by actual events in the careers of director Ben Hopkins and his friend Pawel Pawlikowski (whose Ida recently enjoyed an extended run in Buffalo theaters). That presumably does not extend to the part where our hero is hired by Karastan’s dictator to film his country’s national epic, a project that only Emil takes at face value. And I doubt that either Hopkins or Pawlikowski has ever made a film whose tag line (per one of Emil’s posters) calls it “electroshock therapy for the cinematically brain-dead empire.” You have to love filmmakers making fun of their own inability to recognize reality when a camera gets in the way.


READ MORE HERE: http://artvoice.com/issues/v13n35/film_feature

Jude Law: With maturity comes complication

SCNOW.COM

Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2014 3:05 pm

LONDON — Jude Law feels his work options are widening as he gets older, and he revels in the complications.

The 41-year-old British actor — best known for his roles in "The Talented Mr Ripley," ''Cold Mountain" and more recently "Sherlock Holmes" — says there is now "less emphasis on playing romantic leads."

"You get over a certain age, and you're more complicated anyway," he said in an interview. "So, I guess characters written for that age are more complicated, you know."

Law said he likes to take risks by picking roles that terrify him, such as his much-acclaimed stint in "Henry V" in London's West End last year.

"There's this moment when you haven't quite learnt your lines, the play doesn't feel like it's coming together or at least you don't feel that you've fully understood the role or indeed the piece yet and everyone's looking around for a way out, an excuse," he said, recalling the rehearsal period.

"And yet you know that you have a set day ahead of you when you are going to open to the press — and indeed to the public — and it's nothing short of terrifying."

"It's usually at that moment you question yourself, your job, why you're doing this," he added, "but it's also an opportunity to sort of face failure and fear."

READ MORE HERE: http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_ad2b52aa-18e5-11e4-a236-001a4bcf6878.html

Glowing reviews for Benedict Cumberbatch at Imitation Game test screening in New York

RADIO TIMES
Susanna Lazarus
11:25 AM, 20 June 2014

The Sherlock actor has already been tipped for awards season glory for his portrayal of code breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing

A New York City test screening of The Imitation Game has provided the strongest indication yet that Benedict Cumberbatch will be a mainstay of the red carpet when the 2015 awards season comes around.

The Sherlock actor plays computer scientist and Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing in the new biopic which was bought earlier this year for a record fee by The Weinstein Company (the distributors behind Oscar winners The Artist, The King's Speech and Silver Linings Playbook).

And while Cumberbatch features alongside a star-studded cast – Keira Knightley, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech and Matthew Goode – it's his name on the tip of every viewer's tongue.

Details of the 18 June event remain pretty scarce – test screenings are known to be largely secretive – but a few comments have emerged on forums and the Twittersphere heralding the film and the British actor's commanding performance.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-06-20/glowing-reviews-for-benedict-cumberbatch-at-imitation-game-test-screening-in-new-york

Genius' movie star Jude Law sports baggy pant look in London

FAN SHARE
MOVIES NEWS / DANIELLE WRIGHT
June 12, 2014



t was recently announced that actor Jude Law will play the role of Thomas Wolfe in the film "Genius" alongside Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth but that is not what has him front and center in the news.

Fans accustomed to seeing the handsome actor in stylish clothes were given quite the shock when he was photographed in some extremely baggy trousers with his head covered in a cream beanie hat while out on some errands. It was a look that did nothing to accentuate the strong frame of the renowned actor but interestingly it did spark conversation about the movie and his upcoming projects.

The film "Genius" will be filmed in 2015 and will revolve around Max Perkins' time as a book editor at Scribner during which he supervised the works of Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway among others. Many anticipate that his pairing with Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth will bring another sterling performance from him similar to what he provided the fans of his most recent movie "Dom Hemingway.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.fansshare.com/news/-genius-movie-star-jude-law-sports-baggy-pant-look-in-london/

Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg:Ripper returns to shoot gory scenes around city

HERALD.IE
BY MELANIE FINN – 06 JUNE 2014 12:00 AM



Here’s an unexpected sight - filming for series three of Ripper Street on the streets of Dublin this morning.

And this morning it was business as usual for the often-gruesome show as the cast and crew descended on the Custom House in Dublin’s north inner city.

In one scene, actress MyAnna Buring, who plays brothel madam Long Susan, is seen exiting the building showing blood-stained hands.

Also making a welcome return to the new series is Monaghan native Charlene McKenna, who plays former prostitute Rose.



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Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the Nazis in first images from The Imitation Game

RADIO TIMES
Ellie Walker-Arnott
11:09 AM, 06 June 2014



Cumberbatch is playing the lead in the movie about the life and career of scientist Alan Turing who became famous for breaking Enigma codes during the Second World War, only to then be criminally prosecuted for his homosexuality.

The 37-year-old British star isn't the only A-lister to lend his acting talents to the flick. A few of Cumberbatch's co-stars – Keira Knightly, Matthew Goode and Downton Abbey's Allen Leech – can be seen here, too.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-06-06/benedict-cumberbatch-takes-on-the-nazis-in-first-images-from-the-imitation-game

Keira Knightley: Benedict Cumberbatch Punched a Journalist in the Face for Me

ET MOVIES
By ANTOINETTE BUENO
June 05, 201



The notoriously reserved Keira Knightley, 29, covers Elle UK's July 2014 issue, in which she dishes about her close circle of friends, including her Atonement co-star Benedict Cumberbatch.

Just how close are the two?

Apparently, Benedict once "joke-punched" a journalist in the face for dissing Keira.

"When I saw him again, I said, 'Did you punch a journalist?' and he was like, ‘I f*cking did,'" Keira recalls to the magazine with a grin. "Everybody needs a friend like that."

Though one thing the pals probably won't be doing together?

Singing karaoke.

"I hate karaoke. Like, I really, really hate it. I have to be so drunk I’m nearly about to fall down before I sing in front of anybody. It just terrifies me," she admits. "But, also, among the people you go with, there will be somebody who secretly has an amazing voice, and you're just like, 'F*ck off.'"

The beautiful actress also admits to having surprising insecurities when it comes to being out and about in public.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.etonline.com/movies/147149_keira_knightley_recalls_the_time_benedict_cumberbatch_punched_a_journalist_the_face_for_her/

Matthew Macfadyen: Ripper Street TV drama films in town...

LOUGHBOROUGH ECHO
Jun 01, 2014 13:00
 By Matt Jarram

Actors Matthew Macfadyen (Det. Insp. Edmund Reid) and Adam Rothenberg (Cpt. Homer Jackson) filming new series of drama Ripper Street at Manchester Town Hall Annex.

HEARTTHROB Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn have been using some of Loughborough’s most historic buildings to film scenes for a new series of Ripper Street.

The two actors alongside Adam Rothenberg used the backdrops and scenery of Taylor’s Bell Foundry, in Freehold Street.

There was also filming at Great Central Railway’s Quorn and Rothley station, with the historic railway giving the crew access to some of the station’s train stock.

Ripper Street is a gritty period drama from the BBC set in Whitechapel in London’s East End in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack the Ripper murders.

The first episode was broadcast on December 30, 2012 during BBC One’s Christmas schedule. It was reported that series two would be the last, but it looks like the crew are back for filming of a series three.

Before arriving in Loughborough, the three actors had been filming in Manchester.

Matthew Macfadyen is well-known for playing Mr Darcy in Pride & Prejudice alongside Keira Knightley as well as films that include John Birt in Frost/Nixon and Athos in The Three Musketeers

Alongside him was Jerome Flynn, one half of 1990s singing duo Robson and Jerome and currently starring as Bronn in the fourth series of Game of Thrones.

Adam Rothenberg is known for starring in Mad Money with Diane Keaton and The Immigrant.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/local-news/ripper-street-films-in-loughborough-7188419

Pictures: Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn film Ripper Street at town hall

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
Emma Flanagan
May 21, 2013

Actors L to R Matthew Macfadyen (Det. Insp. Edmund Reid) and Adam Rothenberg (Cpt. Homer Jackson) filming new series of drama Ripper Street at Manchester Town Hall Annex.

Mr Darcy may be behind him but Matthew Macfadyen proved he was still worthy of his heartthrob status while in Manchester filming the BBC’s Ripper Street.

Shooting at Manchester Town Hall, the actor is filming the gritty Victorian crime drama here until Thursday.

Alongside the Anna Karenina actor was Jerome Flynn, one half of 1990s singing duo Robson and Jerome and currently starring as Bronn in the fourth series of Game of Thrones.

Ripper Street was axed at the end of last year after not having the audience the BBC had hoped for.

But thanks to a fans' protest and a sudden ratings boost, the BBC have decided to bring back the costume drama, but it will be shown on Amazon Prime before it makes it to our screens.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/ripper-street-filming-manchester-matthew-7149339

Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy: Weinstein sets awards season dates for 'Big Eyes,' 'Imitation Game' and 'Eleanor Rigby

HITFIX
By Kristopher Tapley   Friday, May 2, 2014 3:56 PM



The Weinstein Company has a pretty tight slate of prestige titles this year, a number of them likely set for the upcoming Oscar circuit. And indeed, today we're getting word that three of them are all lined up for prime awards season real estate on the release calendar, setting the stage for another slew of months in the trenches for Harvey and his team.

Still, even a packed slate bursting with potential can be a bit of a burden. After all, the indie distributor is coming off a pretty busy but still skin-of-their-teeth Oscar season where a lack of overall campaign focus nearly cost them; for a while there, it was looking like none of TWC's many baity 2013 contenders was going to land a Best Picture nomination. But "Philomena" pulled it out, and I couldn't help but to congratulate Harvey at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards on the night of the Oscar nominations back in January for dodging that bullet.

"Big Eyes" has secured a release date of Christmas Day, which puts it toe-to-toe with Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken," Rob Marshall's big Disney musical "Into the Woods" and Cameron Crowe's still-untitled latest. However, recent history proves that December releases just don't gain the traction to win Best Picture at the Oscars: Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" 10 years ago was the last to do so.

I imagine studios eager to be in the awards game this year may be looking to last season for a few cues, though. The two last films to drop on press and public last time around, "American Hustle" and "The Wolf of Wall Street," landed a bunch of nominations before the hangover eventually wore off (neither won an Oscar). Sometimes the goal is just the monetary boost of being in that conversation; that's long been part of Weinstein's overall strategy with his films.

The bigger play for Harvey this year might be Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game," starring Benedict Cumberbatch as early computer technology pioneer Alan Turing. I read this script, which was raved up one side and down the other when it was making the rounds a few years back, and it's a fantastic role for Cumberbatch that will likely find him in the thick of the Best Actor race. Plus, it has a much more Academy-friendly release date: Nov. 21.

When you look back over TWC's recent Oscar successes, the Thanksgiving corridor has paid dividends. "The King's Speech," "The Artist," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Philomena" all hit theaters in late-November before marching on to Best Picture nominations. I would expect this to be pretty good bet, depending on how the "Headhunters" director navigates the material in his first English-language gig. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode and Mark Strong also star.

Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/weinstein-sets-awards-season-dates-for-big-eyes-imitation-game-and-eleanor-rigby#8bcYbMx25VfAKC4b.99

Keira Knightley sings for Mark Ruffalo in ‘Begin Again’ trailer

QUICKFLIX
APRIL 1, 2014
BY SIMON MIRAUDO



Keira Knightley shows off her pipes in the trailer for musical dramedy Being There, previously titled Can A Song Save Your Life?

She plays a recently-dumped songstress taken under the wing of a recently-fired music exec (Mark Ruffalo).

Though the trailer looks pretty unremarkable, reviews out of Tribeca were largely positive, and the pedigree behind and in-front of the camera is enticing.

Keira Knightley is on auntie duty as she gets behind the pushchair while joining her glamorous mother for a day out with baby relative

MAIL ON LINE
By DANIELLE GUSMAROLI
PUBLISHED: 15:08 EST, 9 March 2014 | UPDATED: 05:26 EST, 10 March 2014



They've been married for almost a year and have just bought a rambling swanky pad together so it's only natural that Keira Knightley might be thinking babies.

For the 28-year-old Pride and Prejudice star has already expressed a burning desire for children with husband James Righton, but has put her plans for impending motherhood on hold due to work commitments.


Despite her gruelling filming schedules, Keira's yearning for family time clearly hasn't been dampened since she spent time pushing a young relative in a pram through the streets of north London with her glamorous mother on Sunday.

At one stage she stopped to talk baby language to the tot swaddled in blankets in a red pram.

With only a loose dusting of make-up, the Hollywood actress still managed to look stylish in a pair of black-rimmed glasses and wore her long brown tresses down.

Together they looked the perfect mother and grandmother enjoying a stroll through the sun-dappled streets of London.

Keira and her Klaxons singer beau, 28, tied the knot in Mazan, Vaucluse, France, in May 2013 and recently bought a new £3.9million home in London’s Canonbury, Islington, after selling their east London pad.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2576871/Keira-Knightley-auntie-duty-gets-pushchair-joining-glamorous-mother-day-baby-relative.html