Mamma Mia 2: Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Cher, Plus everything we know so far...

Glamour

Mamma Mia 2 is currently filming in the UK and in Croatia, and we are pretty damn excited.

Ten years after the first film’s release, Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth all confirmed that they'd be regrouping for the sequel, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.

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Interestingly, Lily James will also be in the movie. The 28-year-old actress will be playing a younger version of Meryl Streep's character Donna Sheridan. Her love interest will be new actor, Josh Dylan. Rumour has it, Josh plays a younger version of Bill, a Swedish sailor who could possibly be the father of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried).


http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/mamma-mia-2-movie-news

Keira Knightley and James Righton make first red carpet appearance as parents-to-be

HELLO DAILY NEWS
11 JANUARY 2015

Keira Knightley and her husband James Righton were all smiles on Friday night as they made their first red carpet appearance as parents-to-be. Pregnant Keira showed off her growing bump in a bold yellow dress as she and her husband joined stars at the BAFTA TV Tea Party in LA.

Former Klaxons musician James, who tied the knot with Keira in France in May 2013, was supporting his wife as she prepares to make numerous appearances throughout awards season.

Keira's role alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in historical thriller The Imitation Game has earned her several nominations, including Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs and the Golden Globes, which take place on 11 January.

James will no doubt be cheering his 29-year-old wife on as she goes up against Jessica Chastain, Patricia Arquette, Meryl Streep and Emma Stone during Sunday night's ceremony in LA.

READ MORE HERE: http://us.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2015011122774/keira-knightley-james-righton-parents-to-be/

James McAvoy & Mark Ruffalo Ride Unicycles on The Graham Norton Show, Impress Meryl Streep—Watch the Video!

E!
by CORINNE HELLER
January 9, 2015



The Hulk and Professor Xavier, you have impressed the queen!

In a joint appearance on the BBC's The Graham Norton Show that aired on Friday, Meryl Streep, aka the luckiest woman ever, got to not only share a sofa with Mark Ruffalo, who plays the green superhero in The Avengers series, and X-Men actor James McAvoy, but also watch them from a prime seat as they entertained her, and the world, by riding unicycles. The Oscar-winning actress appeared astonished, and maybe a little, well, freaked out...especially when the latter star took a spill onstage.

McAvoy is set to star in a revival of the British comedy play The Ruling Class in London's West End, starting on Jan. 16. The Scottish star said on The Graham Norton Show that his character has to ride a unicycle on stage. Host Graham Norton talked about how Ruffalo, who stars in the new movie Foxcatcher, had demonstrated his unicycle-riding skills during a previous appearance on the program in 2014.

"How do you know how to do that?" Streep asked Ruffalo.

"I wanted to be a clown," the actor replied. "That was my dream."

READ MORE HERE: http://www.eonline.com/news/613119/james-mcavoy-mark-ruffalo-ride-unicycles-on-the-graham-norton-show-impress-meryl-streep-watch-the-video

Emily blunt saves Meryl Streep's life on Into the Woods set (video) Into The Woods movie clip

VANITY FAIR
BY JULIE MILLER
NOVEMBER 26, 2014 1:23 PM

Last night on the Late Show with David Letterman, Blunt revealed that she is getting sick of her characters being treated terribly by Streep, especially after the British actress came to the Oscar’s winner’s rescue on-set—while pregnant!—essentially saving Streep’s life. “She owes me big time,” Blunt said.

Blunt told Letterman that she even proposed to Streep that the two reverse power roles for a future collaboration. “I think at some point I should play the Queen of Versailles and she could be my lonely dressmaker,” Blunt said of her peer. After the audience applauded, Blunt continued, “I think it’s a great idea and I mentioned it to her.” Sadly, Streep did not seem as enthused about the power dynamic change-up. “Her response was, ‘Dream on,’” Blunt confided.

For more about Blunt’s collaboration with Streep, watch the complete Letterman segment below.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/2014/11/meryl-streep-emily-blunt-into-the-woods-video

Meryl Streep Blown Away By Benedict Cumberbatch's Performance In August: Osage County

E. ENTERTAINMENT
BY SHANELLE HAMILTON ON JANUARY 26, 2014



Admitting that she had never met the Sherlock Holmes star before filming, Meryl told ITN News: "Benedict I hadn't ever met before and he was such a gift to the film.

"He plays someone completely different than all the other performances we've seen. He's very tender and wounded and bruised and tentative, and he fit into this Oklahoma family just effortlessly."

The 64-year-old actress went on to admit that she was completely unaware that Cumberbatch is British, adding: "I was surprised to learn that he was British, I didn't know that."

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Meryl Streep Shades Benedict Cumberbatch?! See What The Oscar Queen Said About Her August: Osage County Co-Star HERE!

PEREZ HILTON
January 18, 2014



Um…if Meryl Streep tells you to do something, you DO IT! That’s why we’re shocked to hear that when the 18-time Oscar nominee suggested that she and the entire cast of August: Osage County live together in an Oklahoma condo complex during filming, there was one famous hold-out!

Benedict Cumberbatch!

According to the awards season queen, the Sherlock actor decided he’d rather stay in a hotel than slum it with her, Julia Roberts, Abigail Breslin, and Ewan McGregor!

SEE MORE HERE: http://perezhilton.com/2014-01-18-benedict-cumberbatch-did-not-want-to-stay-with-meryl-streep-or-his-august-osage-county-co-stars-during-shooting#sthash.PYjJ924Z.dpbs

Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tina Fey Among Final Group Of Presenters Announced For SAG Awards this Saturday Night

WE ARE MOVIE GEEKS
Posted by Michelle McCue in General News

Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tina Fey, John Goodman, Josh Holloway, Pauley Perrette, and Jeremy Renner are confirmed to present at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer/Director Jeff Margolis and Executive Producer Kathy Connell announced today.

They join a growing list of actors who will honor their colleagues at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, including Ben Affleck, Sasha Alexander, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Garner, Clark Gregg, Tom Hanks, SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard, Mindy Kaling, Jennifer Lawrence, Jared Leto, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Marsden, Matthew McConaughey, Ewan McGregor, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Julia Roberts, Elisabeth Röhm, Kevin Spacey, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, and Oprah Winfrey.

Benedict Cumberbatch receives his first two Actor® nominations this year for cast performances in “12 Years a Slave” and “August: Osage County.” He will next be seen as Alan Turing in Morten Tyldum’s dramatic thriller “The Imitation Game” and as The Necromancer in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: There and Back Again.”

The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be announced at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center during a live simulcast on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT). A primetime encore presentation will follow immediately on TNT at 10 p.m. (ET) / 7 p.m. (PT).


READ MORE HERE: http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2014/01/amy-adams-bradley-cooper-benedict-cumberbatch-tina-fey-among-final-group-presenters-announced-sag-awards-saturday-night/

Actor Colin Firth tells of love for guitar

DAILY ECHO
11:31am Monday 6th January 2014 in News



The former Barton Peveril College student plays as a hobby. He said: “I love guitars and I sort of fetishise them as objects, I think they’re beautiful.

"I play as an excuse to just hold one, which I could probably do for hours. Not an air guitar, just as something to cuddle.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4JFwZrnPsE ·


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Benedict Cumberbatch iPhone selfie landed him Meryl Streep movie August: Osage County

METRO
Emily Hewett
Showbiz reporter



Benedict Cumberbatch bagged a part in his latest movie August: Osage County after wooing the film’s director with a self-shot video.

John Wells – best known for his work on US TV series ER and The West Wing – had not heard of the Sherlock star until he received the amateur footage.

He said: ‘I have to confess I didn’t know Benedict’s work at all. He sent in a video – recorded on an iPhone – and he must have filmed it himself because you could see that it was being held at arm’s length, like a selfie.

‘We were sent the clip by his agent and I was really taken with his talent. It was a beautiful audition.

‘We auditioned several people after that but none of them had the warmth and humanity of Benedict in the part,’ he added to The Sun.

Benedict stars alongside the likes of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper and Sam Shepard in the dark Oklahoma-set drama.

READ MORE HERE:http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/21/benedict-cumberbatch-selfie-landed-him-meryl-streep-movie-august-osage-county-4239235/

Benedict Cumberbatch: Meryl Streep is extraordinary

XPOSE
Thursday, 7 November 2013



Benedict Cumberbatch is in awe of his August: Osage County co-star Meryl Streep's acting ability.

Benedict Cumberbatch found it difficult to "actually act" in Meryl Streep's presence.

The 37-year-old British actor stars alongside the Academy Award-winning actress in forthcoming film August: Osage County.

Benedict was completely blown away by Meryl's performance and he admits her professional magnificence was distracting.

"Meryl was extraordinary," he told website Your Tango.

"The hardest thing with her is to actually act. You just want to sit and watch her. You want to be in the audience."

August: Osage County is a black comedy based on a play written by Tracy Letts about a dysfunctional family led by a powerful group of women. After a death in the family, the relatives reunite only to engage in more conflict.

Julia Roberts is part of Osage County's all-star cast and the actress previously revealed she is also intimidated by Meryl's skills.

"To work with Meryl is a dream, to know her is an honour -- and it was intimidating to have scenes where I'm choking her," she laughed at a press conference for the release, according to New York Daily News.


READ MORE: http://www.tv3.ie/entertainment_article.php?locID=1.803.874&article=118073

QUEENIE EYE Video - Paul McCartney, Jude Law, Chris Pine, Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep and more

Benedict Cumberbatch: 'August: Osage County' Ensemble to Be Honored at Hollywood Film Awards (Exclusive)

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
8:00 AM PDT 10/7/2013 by Scott Feinberg

The cast of August: Osage County will receive the Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award at the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards, the first awards show of the 2013 season, on Oct. 21 at the Beverly Hilton, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

John Wells' big-screen adaptation of Tracy Letts' Tony- and Puliter Prize-winning play features a star-studded cast, including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Dermot Mulroney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard and Misty Upham.

The film, which premiered at September's Toronto International Film Festival and will be released nationwide by The Weinstein Co. on Christmas Day, is a dramedy about intra-family chaos. It revolves around three sisters (Roberts, Lewis and Nicholson) and their significant others (McGregor, Mulroney and Cumberbatch), plus other relatives (Martindale, Cooper and Breslin), who reunite at the Oklahoma home of their mother (Streep) following the death of their father (Shepard), whereupon they air their grievances about how others present at the gathering have caused their lives to become terribly screwed up in one way or another. August's producers include George Clooney and Grant Heslov, who also produced last year's best picture Oscar winner, Argo.

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‘Into the Woods’ Synopsis & Cast Revealed (Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, James Corden, Johnny Depp….)

FLICKS AND BITS

Disney today send word that filming started last week for ‘Into the Woods.’ Rob Marshall (Chicago) directs the film, which is based on the Tony-winning original musical by James Lapine, who also penned the screenplay, and legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, who provides the music and lyrics - including an all-new song for the big-screen adaptation. ‘Into the Woods’ is produced by Marshall, John DeLuca, ‘Wicked’ producer Marc Platt and Callum McDougall. Shooting in studio and on location throughout England, the film is slated for a December 25th, 2014, holiday release.

‘Into the Woods’ is described as a “modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel - all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them.”

The all-star ensemble cast includes:

· Meryl Streep portrays the Witch who wishes to reverse a curse so that her beauty may be restored.
· Emily Blunt is the Baker’s Wife, a childless woman who longs to be a mother.
· James Corden plays the role of the Baker, a hard-working man who desperately wants to start a family.
· Anna Kendrick fills the shoes of Cinderella, who finds herself on a journey of self-discovery.
· Chris Pine portrays Cinderella’s Prince, charming and impossibly handsome, who is on an endless quest to find his bride.
· Johnny Depp steps in as the Wolf, who sets his sights on Little Red Riding Hood.
· Lilla Crawford (Broadway’s “Annie”) makes her feature-film debut as Little Red Riding Hood, a smart and spunky girl who journeys into the woods, finding unexpected adventures along the way.
· Daniel Huttlestone lands the role of Jack, an absentminded and adventurous boy who trades his treasured cow for five magic beans.
· Tracey Ullman joins the cast as Jack’s Mother, a poor and exasperated mom who is overwhelmed, yet fiercely protective of her son.
· Christine Baranski takes on the infamous Stepmother who wishes for riches and grandeur; she’ll do anything to marry off one of her daughters to a prince.
· MacKenzie Mauzy plays Rapunzel, a sheltered young woman who experiences the world beyond her tower for the first time.
· Billy Magnussen is the dashing and eager Prince who courts Rapunzel.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.flicksandbits.com/2013/09/16/into-the-woods-synopsis-cast-revealed-meryl-streep-emily-blunt-james-corden-johnny-depp/56831/

Benedict Cumberbatch interview plus Ewan McGregor arrives at August Osage County premiere

Benedict Cumberbatch To Star In James Gray's The Lost City Of Z

CINEMA BLEND

Author: Eric Eisenberg | published: 2013-09-04 15:08:20

Benedict Cumberbatch is everywhere we turn nowadays, and today he's found yet another way to continue his ubiquitousness streak. Deadline is reporting out of the Toronto International Film Festival that the Sherlock star is now attached to play the lead role in The Lost City of Z, the long in-development adaptation of David Grann's book that director James Gray is attached to helm. 

If the title sounds familiar it may be because the project has been around since 2008. For a long time Brad Pitt was set to play the story's lead, British soldier/spy Percy Fawcett, though he left the movie all the way back in November of 2010. Gray, however, has been attached from the very beginning, and in the time since has directed the dramatic mystery The Immigrant with Jeremy Renner (which premiered at Cannes earlier this year), and written the script for the Clive Owen-starring crime thriller Blood Ties. 

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH MOVIES AT TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL:

Twelve Years a Slave

The Fifth Estate

August: Osage County

READ MORE HERE: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Benedict-Cumberbatch-Star-James-Gray-Lost-City-Z-39289.html

Benedict Cumberbatch: The Cumberbatch Quadruple Threat

THE ATLANTIC WIRE

ESTHER ZUCKERMAN 1:22 PM ET

If you're not obsessed with British Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch yet—and there are many who are (see: Cumberbitches)—this fall might convert you. Cumberbatch appears (in one form or another) in no fewer than four films due out this fall and he plays a wide variety of roles to boot. His biggest part comes in The Fifth Estate (Oct. 18), Bill Condon's WikiLeaks drama, in which Cumberbatch will have to capture the creepy intelligence of Julian Assange. 

In addition to his star turn as Assange, Cumberbatch also has roles in 12 Years a Slave (Oct. 18), based on a true story of a free man sold into slavery in the antebellum south, and August: Osage County (Dec. 25), an adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning play. We're interested to see what he does in the latter considering he will be playing against his usual hyper-intelligent type: "Little" Charles Aiken is a simple man who has an affair with someone he's really not supposed to have an affair with. (When we say "really" in this context we mean "really.") And, of course, if that's not enough Cumberbatch for you, you can hear his voice—if not his corporeal form—as the titular dragon in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Dec. 13). 

READ MORE HERE: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/08/movie-performances-were-waiting-fall/68537/

Confirmed! Sophia Grace Brownlee Joins Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick, Emily Blunt & More in Into the Woods

BROADWAY.COM
By Josh Ferri August 7, 2013 - 10:55AM

Sophia Grace Brownlee, the internet sensation who rose to fame thanks to Ellen, will round-out the starry cast of Disney’s Into the Woods. A representative for the 10-year-old star confirmed to Broadway.com that Sophia "just started rehearsals" to play Little Red Riding Hood in the Rob Marshall film.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.broadway.com/buzz/171020/confirmed-sophia-grace-brownlee-joins-meryl-streep-anna-kendrick-emily-blunt-more-in-into-the-woods/

Benedict Cumberbatch set to make a splash at Toronto film fest

By John R. Kennedy   

Global News

TORONTO — This year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) may as well be subtitled “A celebration of Benedict Cumberbatch.”

The 37-year-old British actor, who recently appeared in the blockbuster Star Trek Into Darkness, has several films making their world debut at the festival, including 12 Years a Slave with Brad Pitt and August: Osage County co-starring Meryl Streep.

Cumberbatch also stars in TIFF’s opening night presentation, The Fifth Estate. He portrays WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Bill Condon’s film about Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl).

Cumberbatch is certain to walk some red carpets at TIFF and will return to the city in the winter to film Crimson Peak.


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Colin Firth heads to Toronto film festival (photos)

Donna Freydkin

USA TODAY 

12:56 p.m. EDT July 23, 2013

With slightly more than one month left to go, we're getting a good idea of the big names slated to hit this year's Toronto film festival.

It's always a very fun and very star-studded week. The actor with what appear to be the most films this year is Benedict Cumberbatch.

The fun runs Sept. 5-15, and here's a few of the most high-profile films set to screen there:

The Fifth Estate, about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (starring Cumberbatch).

August: Osage County, about the most twisted family you've seen in years (starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard and Chris Cooper).


READ MORE HERE: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/07/23/toronto-films/2578921/

COLIN FIRTH, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH: The Railway Man ticketed for Boxing Day, August: Osage County on January 2 By Don Groves

The producers and distributors of The Railway Man are showing great faith in the drama starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman by scheduling it for December 26, arguably the most competitive date in the calendar.

Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, the film is based on a memoir by Eric Lomax, who, as a prisoner-of-war was forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. Years later he confronted the Japanese soldier who tormented him.

The Australia/UK co-production had been due to open on October 24. Transmission Films announced the new release date today, which means it will compete with a raft of other openers including The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Ben Stiller’s comedy/drama The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, Stephen Frears’ Philomena, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria.

On January 2 the competition will further intensify with the debuts of the spy saga Jack Ryan, which stars Keira Knightley, Chris Pine and Kevin Costner, Walking With Dinosaurs and August: Osage County, which features Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Juliette Lewis.

The Railway Man producer Chris Brown has full confidence in its prospects of drawing audiences on Boxing Day, telling IF, “It’s a very, very powerful film with extraordinary performances. If you want counter-programming to the post-Christmas fare, that’s the place to put it.”

READ MORE HERE: http://if.com.au/2013/07/18/article/The-Railway-Man-ticketed-for-Boxing-Day/JFGCVBPZUK.html