Eddie Redmayne to Star in THE FIFTH BEATLE Movie?

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By BAZ BAMIGBOYE FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 18:56 EST, 21 May 2015 | UPDATED: 18:56 EST, 21 May 2015



Eddie Redmayne has emerged as one of several actors being considered to portray Beatles manager Brian Epstein in a film called The Fifth Beatle, based on Vivek J. Tiwary’s graphic novel.

The movie will show how Epstein took the Beatles from Liverpool and turned them into a sensation. The producers include Simon Cowell and Los Angeles-based Brit Stuart Ford, who runs the IM Global film company.

Ford said he has a very specific idea for a director, who will be announced soon, but he cautioned that no casting has been done yet. He did confirm, though, that Redmayne was ‘on the list’.



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Batman Backlash: Fans Blast Bosses As Ben Affleck Is Confirmed To Replace Christian Bale As Dark Knight

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BY BECCA LONGMIRE ON AUGUST 23, 2013

Batman fans across the globe have been left angered today as Ben Affleck was confirmed to play the lead role in the 2015 sequel, taking over Christian Bale in the popular flick and sending the Twittersphere into chaos.

The actor whose film Argo has received critical acclaim, will star alongside Henry Cavill who will resume the role of Superman in the sequel which will see both of the iconic superheros in the same film.

Director Zack Snyder also added: "I can't wait to work with him."

 However, it seems like Batman fans don't share the same view as the director (to put it politely!) with them taking to Twitter to voice their strong opinions on the whole thing and even calling for a "petition" to stop Affleck playing the upcoming role.

One Twitter user tweeted: "Ben Affleck as Batman? With that retarded look of his? Wow Hollywood, you idiots." (sic)

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Daniel Day-Lewis Shows Off Shirtless, Chiseled Bod on Steven Spielberg's Yacht: Picture

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August 13, 2013 AT 4:45PM By Nicole Eggenberger

 Oscar-winning bod! Daniel Day-Lewis showed off his impressive, toned beach bod aboard director Steven Spielberg's yacht in Sicily on Friday, Aug. 9. The Academy Award-winning Lincoln actor went shirtless in short colorful trunks while going for a swim with his family off the coast of Lipari.

Day-Lewis, 56, was photographed going for a dip off the boat with wife Rebecca Miller and sons Ronan, 15, and Cashel, 11. (The actor is also father to son Gabriel-Kane, 18, from a previous relationship with French actress Isabelle Adjani.) While enjoying a swim, Day-Lewis gave a glimpse of his multiple tattoos on his arms and chest.

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Emma Thompson and mum Phyllida Law receive doctorates in Glasgow STV 2 July 2013 08:48 BST (STV)

Emma Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law have received honorary doctorates in drama from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which is based in Glasgow.

The women were awarded with doctorates in drama from the renowned educational centre, formerly known as the Royal Scottish Academy for Music and Drama (RSAMD).

Oscar-winner Emma, who has starred in a number of titles in the genres of television and film, from her stint in eighties series Alfresco and Tutti Frutti to movies such as Love Actually to the Harry Potter movies, is also an accomplished screenwriter, having penned scripts for works including the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility.

It is just the latest honour for the star, with Emma picking up a number of Baftas and Oscars throughout her long-running career.

Emma was born into a family of actors. Her father was Eric Thompson, creator of The Magic Roundabout and her mother is also a successful actress. Her sister is actress Sophie Thompson, and Emma's husband is Royal Conservatoire alumnus Greg Wise.

Adele's Baby Boy Angelo: See Photos of His Adorable Face! by Brett Malec (E!)

Could little Angelo be any more adorable? 

We're finally getting a close-up look at Adele and her beau Simon Konecki's 8-month-old son's cute little face. The 25-year-old Grammy winner stepped out with Angelo this morning in NYC for a trip to the Central Park Zoo. Accompanied by five pals, Adele was snapped holding Angelo in one arm while kids played around the mother-son duo.

 

"I've always got on better with boys," Adele said in a 2011 interview with Vogue. "Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I ever have children, I want five boys."

"Boys love their mothers," she clarified, "whereas girls can be so mean to each other."

While the Brit beauty has yet to officially confirm the name Angelo, she has been spotted out and about wearing a necklace with the moniker. Adele welcomed her first son back on Oct. 19 of last year. She and Konecki started dating at the end of 2011.

Keep up the cuteness, little Angelo!


—Reporting by Michelle Falls


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Daniel Day Lewis immerses himself in the role of dad as he enjoys some father and son bonding By EMMA GRITT (MAIL ON LINE)

Father and son: Daniel Day-Lewis and his son Gabriel enjoyed a day together in Manhattan

 Past life: Daniel and Isabelle Adjani, Gabriel's mother

Daniel Day Lewis is as reclusive as he is talented, so it was a surprise to see him enjoying a public day out with his son.

The British born actor was seen walking through Manhattan with 17-year old Gabriel.

Earlier this year, Daniel scooped his third Best Actor Oscar, but it's clear the role he relishes most is that of being a parent.

The silver-haired star was dressed casually in a blue jacket and jeans as he wandered around Soho.

Gabriel definitely bears a resemblance to his famous father, and looks like he could end up being as tall as the 6'1 Lincoln star.

In a rare interview, he told The Sun that becoming a parent was really special to him. 

He said: 'It utterly changed my life. I don’t think there’s a parent on this earth who would give you a different answer.

He added: 'I don’t know if I can describe my feelings about being a father in real life.

'In real life, I have sons. Sons are different. Sons are a pushover. Daughters can be quite difficult. At least, that’s what I hear.'

Daniel and Gabriel's mum, French actress Isabelle Adjani, were together for six years before they went their separate ways, months before their son's birth.

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Colin Firth: Kidman - Firth's my screen hubby (INDEPENDENT)

8 MARCH 2013

Nicole Kidman has joked about her "second marriage" to Colin Firth, following their second partnering on screen.


The Australian actress and the Oscar-winning British star play real-life married couple Eric and Patti Lomax in The Railway Man, and have reunited for the filming of psychological thriller Before I Go To Sleep, where they play husband and wife again.

"Colin said we're on our second marriage now, and it's true, but this is a very different marriage than our first," she told the Daily Mail.

"Before I Go To Sleep is a psychological thriller, my favourite genre. I'm making the kind of film I like to watch."

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Oscars 2013: Daniel Day-Lewis collects record third Oscar with a smile Lincoln star says he needs to 'lie down for a couple of years' as he dismisses attempts to label him greatest ever actor as 'daft' Maev Kennedy and Catherine Shoard The Guardian, Monday 25 February 2013 17.43 EST

Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, and Christoph Waltz. Photograph: Peter West/Rex Features

Long after the Californian sun rose, the Oscar winners and losers were waking up after a night of loud applause and louder frocks, hilarious acceptance speeches and dire jokes.

As universally predicted, Daniel Day-Lewis took the Oscar for best actor for his towering performance in Lincoln, and also enters the record books as the first male actor to be a third-time victor, after winning for My Left Foot in 1990 and There Will Be Blood in 2008.

Day-Lewis is sometimes seen as a remote and slightly chilly figure, renowned for his obsessive preparation and for remaining in character throughout the filming – hard on his wife, the actor and director Rebecca Miller, given that the 16th president of the United States had a notoriously difficult relationship with his wife, who spent time in a mental hospital after his death.

"Since we got married 16 years ago, my wife Rebecca has lived with some very strange men," he told the audience. "Luckily she's the versatile one of the family and she's been the perfect companion to all of them."

Day-Lewis also won the audience accolade for the best joke when he insisted that Meryl Streep, presenter of his Oscar, had been Steven Spielberg's first choice to play Abraham Lincoln, and in return he himself had been destined to play Margaret Thatcher.

Backstage after his win, he said he could not think of anyone else he urgently wants to play. "I need to lie down for a couple of years. It's really hard to imagine doing anything after this." He dismissed any attempt to label him the greatest actor of all time as "daft".


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Daniel Day-Lewis on verge of historic Oscar treble thanks to method acting (DAILY RECORD)

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS has gone from big screen oddball to become the golden boy of the Oscars.

Tonight, if – as the bookies expect and most critics predict – he collects the Academy Award for his perfect portrayal of Abraham Lincoln, he will have created history.

It will mean that the London-born star – who previously won for My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood – is the first to complete a hat-trick of best actor Oscars.

With tonight’s triumph seeming a virtual certainty, it has caused at least one critic to ask whether Daniel Day-Lewis might just be the greatest screen actor of all time.

I would certainly place him up there with screen greats such as Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando, James Stewart and James Cagney.

Like those iconic figures, Day-Lewis, 55, has the ability to so absorb himself in a performance that you forget that he is acting.

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Dame Judi Dench: Why the sky won’t fall in on a living legend (YORKSHIRE POST)

Dame Judi Dench and director Sam Mendes (right) on the set of the James Bond film Skyfall.

Published on Friday 15 February 2013 09:53

She’s a dame, an Oscar winner, she’s one of our truly great actors and has achieved the status of National Treasure. Film critic Tony Earnshaw talks to Yorkshire’s own Judi Dench.

It would be wrong to assume that Judi Dench, dame of the theatre, film industry darling and – cough, cough – national treasure, treats movies as secondary to theatre or that she sees them in some way as a lesser form of the day job.

She takes the work seriously. Herself she takes far less seriously. This despite the seven Olivier awards (a record), 11 BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, a Tony and an Oscar, the latter for playing one of her many single-minded monarchs.


And she can still be taken by surprise. When the phone rang at her home in Surrey and the voice on the other end of the line announced it was Clint Eastwood, she thought it was a mischievous pal pulling her leg.

The call was genuine, the offer to play J Edgar Hoover’s mother very real. That was how Cleopatra came to be working with Dirty Harry. Even now Dench pinches herself, recalling the experience of acting for Eastwood as “a bit terrifying”. She has admitted to being star-struck.

She is refreshingly free of ego, as most truly great people are. And at 78 refreshingly free of any hang-ups about retirement. She’ll work ’til she drops – in movies, on TV or on the stage.


Thus it was that in the same year as she made her seventh appearance as ‘M’ in a James Bond film she popped up as a bag lady in arch farceur Ray Cooney’s film of his own ’80s hit Run for Your Wife.

Judi Dench likes to work. And it matters not to her if the role is a meaty one in the world’s longest-running iconic franchise or a cameo amongst 150 others in an old-fashioned comedy with an old friend at the helm.

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Anthony Hopkins: He’s one of the busiest actors in Hollywood, but superstar Sir Anthony insists: I’m too lazy to chase roles by Robin Turner, Western MailJul 17 2012 WALES ON LINE

And at the end of this year Welsh film star Sir Anthony Hopkins will be celebrating his 75th birthday.

But that has not stopped in-demand Port Talbot born actor Hopkins claiming he is “too lazy” to go off in pursuit of interesting film roles.

The veteran actor, now based in sun-baked Los Angeles, will next be seen playing legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock in the eagerly awaited biopic Hitchcock, based on the making of the 1960 shock horror flick Psycho.


Alongside him will be fellow Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren as the director’s wife Alma Reville and Scarlet Johansson as Psycho’s damsel in distress Janet Leigh.

Jessica Biel will play Vera Miles who was film’s heroine.

On-set photographs of Hopkins looking a dead ringer for Hitchcock seem to suggest he was made for the role.

But in an interview with Total Film Magazine, Hopkins insists though the part was initially offered to him several years ago, he never set out to land the role.

He explained: “It came along about seven or eight years ago with one director attached and then that fell apart.

“Then about a year ago my agent called and said ‘Hitchcock is back’.

“I met the director, Sacha Gervasi, and he seemed to have such unbridled enthusiasm about it that I said: ‘OK, let’s give it a whirl.’

“I guess my saying: ‘Let’s have a go’ gave it the green light.

“But I never pursue anything – I’m too lazy.”



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Kate Winslet to receive CBE in Queen's birthday honours list ANI | Jun 10, 2012, 05.35PM IST (TIMES OF INDIA)

Kate Winslet will be receiving a CBE, 100 years after the sinking of the ship Titanic that helped make her famous, for her "significant contribution" to modern cinema.

The 36-year-old Oscar-winning actress will get the gong in the Queen's Birthday Honours List unveiled on Saturday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.


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Maggie Smith to get Stratford tribute The Canadian Press Posted: May 31, 2012 4:42 PM ET Last Updated: May 31, 2012 4:40 PM ET

Maggie Smith, shown in 2011, is to be presented with the legacy award by 

the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. (Reuters)

Oscar winner and Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith is set to be feted by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

Smith has been named the 2012 recipient of the theatre festival's legacy award, to be presented in Toronto on Sept. 10. The prize honours Smith for the four seasons she spent at the southwestern Ontario festival, from 1976 to 1980

"Here in Stratford, Maggie Smith holds a special place in our hearts," Stratford artistic director Des McAnuff said in a statement.

"One of our festival's founding principles was that we should be a home for artists of international stature as well as for our own Canadian stars, a principle spectacularly embodied in the four seasons Dame Maggie spent with us between 1976 and 1980. Her performances on our stages made an immense contribution to our artistic legacy and are still treasured in the memories of all who experienced them."


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Colin Firth: Hollywood star Colin Firth hits town (QUEENSFERRY GAZETTE)

HOLLYWOOD magic has been sprinkled on Bo’ness this week with acting royalty Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman in town to film The Railway Man.

The Oscar winners were at Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway on Wednesday, along with renowned Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo fame.

It was the start of a three-day date at the popular tourist venue, which sees Bo’ness join filming locations in Thailand and Australia.

Schoolgirl Leigh Bloomfield (13) will be the envy of many a female, after ‘Mr Darcy’ himself got out of his chauffered Mercedes to pose for a picture with her and other locals. Leigh declared on Wednesday night on Facebook ‘so happy I met Colin Firth, must be the happiest girl in Bo’ness’.

After barely getting a wink of sleep Leigh was back to S2 Academy studies yesterday (Thursday).

Mum Audrey, of Leigh’s Sandwich Bar, told the Journal and Gazette the family had spent an hour trying to catch glimpses of the stars at filming.

It was just as Firth was about to get whisked away from the set at 7.30pm that Leigh, of Thirlestane, had her unforgettable encounter with the heart-throb.

“He seemed like a gentleman,” said Audrey. “She knew him right away from St Trinian’s and Pride and Prejudice.

“She was really shocked. She’s going back tonight to try and see Nicole!”

“The Railway Man” is the epic true bestselling story about Scottish war hero Eric Lomax (Firth), haunted by brutal memories from being forced to construct the Thai/Burma railway during World War II.

Years later, he meets the beautiful Patti (Kidman) on a train, who is determined to rid Eric of his demons.

The movie also stars Jeremy Irvine and Hiroyuki Sanada. Production insiders were tightlipped this week over which scenes were being shot at Bo’ness railway.


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Colin Firth: Being good looking just makes life much harder, claims Oscar winning actor Colin Firth By RHIANNON EVANS (MAIL ON LINE)

With his dashing good looks, he has won millions of hearts – and even an award for being Britain’s most attractive man.

So Colin Firth is probably better placed than most of us to know what a burden it is to be beautiful. Despite his successful film career, the Oscar-winning actor claims that good looks can actually be a hindrance in today’s image-obsessed society.

He said: ‘There was a time when a beautiful person was considered something fine and to be celebrated. ‘Now a beautiful person is assumed to be shallow and flaky. If you are beautiful in today’s society, you are presumed to have no substance. ‘I think a lot of talented and very bright people who are also physically beautiful have to work very hard if they don’t want to just lean on their looks.

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