Rachel Weisz with Colin Firth for big screen Donald Crowhurst biopic on Devon coast

By JOANNA CRAWLEY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 13:45 EST, 3 June 2015 | UPDATED: 18:28 EST, 3 June 2015



They're two of the country's finest actors and he's an acclaimed Brit filmmaker and now Rachel Weisz and Colin Firth are teaming up with The Theory of Everything director James Marsh.

The talented trio have been spotted shooting scenes for their new film in Devon this week.

Marsh is directing Rachel and Colin in the as yet untitled Donald Crowhurst big screen biopic, which follows the true story of Crowhurst's attempt to circumnavigate the globe in the 1960s.

The production has set up camp on the Devon coast for the first few weeks of filming, with Rachel and Colin, who play Crowhurst and his wife Clare, spotted in costume on the beach on Wednesday.

45-year-old Rachel was cast after initial discussions with Kate Winslet fell through, and the actress looked to be getting stuck into her role as the cameras rolled today.

The stunning star was in period costume, wearing a chic trench coat teamed with a green print headscarf and retro round shades for her scenes.

Leading man Colin, 54, meanwhile was dressed for the adventure in bright yellow waders, worn over a smart shirt and tie.

Marsh's movie follows the epic tale of Crowhurst who gave up his life with Clare and their four children to put everything, including all their finances, into the first Golden Globe yacht race.

The film also has a stellar support cast including David Thewlis as Crowhurst's press agent and Broadchurch star Jonathan Bailey, who is starting to make a name for himself on the big screen following last year's Testament of Youth.


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Youth: watch first trailer for new Paolo Sorrentino film with Michael Caine

THE GUARDIAN
Andrew Pulver



Youth sees Caine as an ageing composer with mournful gaze and slicked-back hair in a trailer that comes on like Sorrentino’s previous film, The Great Beauty

So what do we make of Youth? We know the plot outline involves Michael Caine playing a semi-retired classical composer, and Harvey Keitel as his film-director pal, on holiday in the Alps; and that Caine gets a summons from the Queen of England for a final concert. The trailer majors on Caine, giving it the full Servillo with mournful gaze and slicked-back grey hair. His is the only dialogue we hear: “You are right. Music is all I understand.” We get glimpses of the cast’s other well-known faces: Rachel Weisz (prone, covered in mud); Keitel and lady companion; Paul Dano, with slightly improbable moustache.

But the impression the trailer-cutters want to give – if not Sorrentino himself – is that this is The Great Beauty 2. Rhythmic editing, scored to plaintive choral phrases, announces that we are witnessing great art. Shots of over-the-hill reprobates lounging in pools and gulping oxygen tell us that civilisation – as in TGB – is wobbling, if not in its death-throes. Other shots of lithe young things imply there’s life in the twitching corpse yet.


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COLIN FIRTH: Rachel Weisz joins Skinny And Cat (INDEPENDENT)

The Oscar-winning actress has replaced Cate Blanchett - who has apparently left the project - to play famed photographer Margaret Bourke White in the love story, reported Showbiz 411.

Barbra Streisand had also been poised to direct the film, her first in 16 years, but has decided to pass on the job due to scheduling conflicts. Producers are now on the hunt for a new director to take over.

Colin Firth remains attached to play Margaret's husband, novelist Erskine Caldwell.

Skinny And Cat, which focuses on the couple's fiery romance and creative pairing, has been in development since 1982, when producer Linda Yellen wrote her first script.

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Exclusive Update: Streisand Not Directing Cate Blanchett, Colin Firth or “Skinny and Cat” (SHOWBIZ 411)

04/08/13 9:35amRoger Friedman

EXCLUSIVE I told you ten months ago that Barbra Streisand would direct her first film in 16 years. It was called “Skinny and Cat.” Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett were all set to star in it. Alas, I am now told that “Skinny and Cat,” a love story about famed photographer Margaret Bourke White and novelist Erskine Caldwell, will proceed without Streisand. Blanchett is also gone, succeeded by Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (who actually resembles Bourke White). The financing is completely in place, and the producers are looking for a new director.

But the back story here is quite amazing, and a real Hollywood saga. This project has been kicking around since 1982, when producer Linda Yellen wrote her first script and spoke to Streisand about acting in the film. For years, sources say, like thirty, no one said a word about it. Then last year Streisand expressed interest in it as a director. Unfortunately, a new draft of “Skinny and Cat” was quite different than the one Streisand had last read.  Still, she was adamant about directing it.

In Hollywood, it’s all about scheduling. Even as Streisand felt committed to the cause, she had other projects like a world tour. (Not many directors are also international superstar performers.) Insiders say Streisand was unable to make meetings about the project last fall. In the meantime, Yellen set the movie up with producers Holly Wiersma and Logan Levy under their Lagniappe Films banner. That trio, not Streisand, owns the rights.

During the fall of 2012, when they were unable to secure Streisand in writing–couldn’t make a deal–the trio of Wiersma, Levy and Yellen brought on indie director Drake Doremus (“Like Crazy”). The producers, I’m told, offered Streisand a chance to be a producer on the film without the hassle of directing. Streisand’s reps said she would only do it if her contract read “producer for life.” She was still smarting, they say, from losing out on directing and producing “The Normal Heart” after being involved with it for 30 years.

The “Skinny” trio declined. I’m told what happened next was the threat of legal action against them from a litigator representing Streisand.

READ MORE: http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/04/08/exclusive-update-streisand-not-directing-cate-blanchett-colin-firth-or-skinny-and-cat

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz in "Betrayal" (EYEWITNESS NEWS)

NEW YORK - Daniel Craig and his actress wife, Rachel Weisz, are teaming up on stage this year to play a married couple in a Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal" about adultery.

Craig, who has played British spy 007 in the last three James Bond films including the box office hit "Skyfall", last appeared on Broadway in 2009 alongside Hugh Jackman in "A Steady Rain”.

The Mike Nichols-directed production will be the Broadway debut for Weisz, who won an Oscar for the 2005 film "The Constant Gardener" and praise for her stage performances in "Suddenly, Last Summer" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" in London.

Weisz is currently starring in the Disney box office hit "Oz the Great and Powerful."

The two British actors married in 2011 after falling for each other while working on the film "Dream House".

READ MORE: http://ewn.co.za/2013/04/06/Daniel-Craig-and-Rachel-Weisz-in-Betrayal

Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz - PAGE EIGHT, Masterpiece Contemporary

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Daniel Craig with Rachel Weisz & Alan Cumming at BAFTA LA 2012 Britannia Awards

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Tom Hiddleston//Blue Jeans

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Rachel Weisz opens up about Daniel Craig marriage (THE DAILY DISH)

The notoriously private actress, whose son is from her previous relationship with director Darren Aronofsky, has previously refused to talk about Craig, but has now given an insight into their happy romance in a new interview with Hello! magazine.

She tells the publication, “I love being married to Daniel. It’s a wonderful feeling of stability and it’s very grounding. I mean, it hasn’t made me more domestic or anything – just being married doesn’t make you able to cook – but I am very happy right now. Extremely happy, in fact.”

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Tom Hiddleston: The ebb and flow of love in The Deep Blue Sea John Daly-Peoples | Tuesday June 05, 2012 (NATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW)

Through the characters the film tries to grapple with the social changes brought on by the end of WWII, with individuals looking for more freedom of expression, choice of jobs and choice of futures.

Hester is caught between the conservatism of the past as represented by her husband and the new liberalism Freddie aspires to.

This is an actor’s film. Much of the drama is internalised by the actors is internal, and the audience has to work at understanding Hester as she struggles with her demons and desires.

Rachel Weisz is brings a raw emotional quality without being over-sentimental. Tom Hiddleston’s Freddie is brilliantly immature and callous.

The film is beautifully crafted, with a slowly evolving dreamlike quality which manages to give the dreary 1950s environments a sumptuous a haunting and melancholic feel.

The soundtrack also has a trancelike quality, making extensive use of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, which is used throughout to highlight the drama and tension of Hester’s dilemma.

The music is used as an introduction to each of the “acts” of the film and is employed as a commentary rather than background.

READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW:  http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/ebb-and-flow-love-deep-blue-sea-120409

Daniel Craig: 'Skyfall' Set in Istanbul (JUST JARED)

“It’s a Bond movie. But we both agreed that if he cast the film, which he did really well, and we brought in older characters and new characters, that we’d have something really rich and sort of exciting to watch,” Daniel added.

Last week, Daniel‘s wife, Rachel Weisz, paid him a visit while he took a break from filming scenes.

READ MORE:  http://www.justjared.com/2012/05/08/daniel-craig-skyfall-set-in-istanbul/

Colin Firth: War criminal's son and British 'railway man' bridge war's painful divide By ROGER PULVERS Special to The Japan Times

In September 1943, eight British officers were tortured by their Japanese captors at the prisoner-of-war camp in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The camp, and a nearby bridge over the Kwai River, were later the setting for director David Lean's multi-Oscar-winning 1957 film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," about the ordeals undergone by tens of thousands of POWs forced to build the Thai-Burma Railway.

One of those officers was Lt. Eric Lomax. Then 24, he was a Signal Corps engineer from Edinburgh who had been captured when Britain's "impregnable fortress" of Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942. He was eventually transported to Thailand, where he ended up at the camp in Kanchanaburi.

While at the camp, Lt. Lomax conspired with fellow prisoners to hide a radio. In addition, he drew a map that, if sent to Allied troops fighting the Japanese, could have provided valuable intelligence. The existence of the radio and the map was discovered by the dreaded Kempeitai (Military Police Corps) stationed at the camp.

It is a miracle that he survived the torture, which included hours of beatings, simulated drownings and exposure to the elements. In fact, two fellow officers failed to survive their "interrogations."

A film version of "The Railway Man" is currently in pre-production in England, Thailand and Australia. The character of Lomax as an old man is being played by Colin Firth and, as a young man, by Jeremy Irvine. Rachel Weisz was to play Lomax's wife, Patti, but she was recently replaced by Nicole Kidman.

"(This story) is really like what it means to be home (after the war)," Firth said about "The Railway Man" movie. While the scenes at the camp, with all their horrific impact, and incidents surrounding the building of the Thai-Burma Railway and the infamous bridge over the Kwai River will be recreated in the film, its message is to be one of reconciliation and the unbreakable bond between victim and victimizer.

Continue reading the amazing story:  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120408rp.html

Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Carey Mulligan and More in the Mix for THE THIN MAN (MOVIES IE.)

movie news | 02 Apr 2012

Actresses battle it out for co-starring role.

Mike Fleming over at Deadline has got his hands on the shortlist of actresses in contention to star opposite Johnny Depp in the Rob Marshall-directed remake of ‘The Thin Man.’

In the mix for the female lead are Depp’s ‘Dark Shadows’ co-star Eva Green, Amy Adams (‘The Fighter’), Carey Mulligan (‘Shame’), Emma Stone (‘The Amazing Spider-Man’), Kristen Wiig (‘Bridesmaids’), Emily Blunt (‘Looper’), Isla Fisher (‘Bachelorette’) and Rachel Weisz (‘The Bourne Legacy’).

Marshall is believed to be meeting with the actresses next week

READ MORE:  http://www.movies.ie/movie%20news/Amy_Adams_Emily_Blunt_Carey_Mulligan_and_More_in_the_Mix_for_THE_THIN_MAN

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.


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Rachel Weisz on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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Tom Hiddleston: The Deep Blue Sea (PILOT CATHOLIC NEWS)

By Joseph McAleer EW YORK (CNS) --

It's a safe bet that when violins start playing in a film, a big emotional moment is bound to follow. Such is the case with "The Deep Blue Sea" (Music Box); this period drama is punctuated by the soaring strings of Samuel Barber's 1939 "Violin Concerto."

Based on Terence Rattigan's 1952 play and directed by Terence Davies ("Of Time and the City"), who also wrote the screenplay, "The Deep Blue Sea" charts a lonely wife's downward spiral into adultery, divorce and suicide. Whenever caught between the devil and you-know-where, she consistently makes bad, selfish decisions.

Rattigan's work can be regarded as the trampy sibling of Noel Coward's 1936 one-act play "Still Life," which was made into the classic film "Brief Encounter" in 1945. Coward's story concerns an unhappy wife who meets a handsome stranger at a train station. Friendship turns to love; they consider an affair, but in the end decide -- sensibly, though with regret -- to part.


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Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman will play husband and wife in The Railway Man (NDTV MOVIES)

Oscar-winners Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth will play husband and wife in The Railway Man, about a man's struggle to overcome his World War II experiences.

 Initially, Rachel Weisz was to play Firth's wife but she was forced to leave the project as she was required to shoot some more scenes in The Bourne Legacy and Oz: The Great and Powerful, the Variety reported. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzy, the film will begin shooting in April.

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Colin Firth bags himself a new wife for his Railway Man role (MAIL ON LINE)

By BAZ BAMIGBOYE
 Last updated at 12:38 AM on 2nd March 2012

Oscar-winning star Colin Firth has found a new wife: Nicole Kidman.

She will take the role over from Rachel Weisz as the remarkable woman who helped her husband try to overcome nightmares caused by his horrific World War II experiences. The Academy Award-winning actress was persuaded by Firth and producer Andy Paterson to star in The Railway Man, which is based on the true story of Eric Lomax, a second lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals who was captured by Japanese forces.

As a prisoner of war, he was tortured and made to work on the Burma-Siam railway, also known as the Death Railway - its construction was fictionalised in David Lean’s 1957 film The Bridge On The River Kwai. Lomax’s second wife, Patricia Wallace, known as Patti, will be portrayed by Kidman. Ms Weisz was all set to play her but she has to do additional shooting on two movies, The Bourne Legacy and Oz: The Great And Powerful - plus she wants to be on hand for the U.S. release of Terence Davies’s haunting film The Deep Blue Sea this month.


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Tom Hiddleston: Trailer for his new movie with Rachel Weisz, Deep Blue Sea (JUST JARED)

Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston get close in this preview for their upcoming movie, Deep Blue Sea





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Colin Firth heads to the Gold Coast (Goldcoast.com.au)

Katrina Jones   |  12:01am February 13, 2012

ACADEMY Award winner Colin Firth is coming to the Gold Coast to appear in The Railway Man with Warhorse's Jeremy Irvine and Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz.

The Australian-UK co-production is expected to start shooting in late-April to early-May with the Coast and Brisbane set to be the backdrop, according to if.com.au, a film and television industry site.

The script, based on Eric Lomax's book of the same name, is about a man confronting his World War II torturer 30 years on.

Before the cast and crew arrive in Queensland they will stop over in Thailand for about a week before moving on to the UK and Australia for the remainder of the 10-week shoot.

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