Colin Firth is About to Make His Fans Very, Very Happy

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By Leah Rozen | Posted on April 9th, 2014



Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t the only one who has been busy, busy, busy. So has fellow English actor Colin Firth.

The Oscar winning star, who has been absent from movie screens since the release of the little seen road movie Arthur Newman nearly a year ago, has a surfeit of new films opening in the next few weeks and months.

Colin Firth attends the New York premiere of The Railway Man on Monday, April 7, 2014. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

First up is The Railway Man, an inspirational drama based on a true story that arrives in movie theaters this Friday (April 12). Firth portrays Eric Lomax, a middle aged, British World War II vet who can’t put to rest his memories of being tortured by the Japanese when, as a soldier, he was a prisoner of war in Burma. Nicole Kidman plays the sympathetic woman he marries who helps him confront his past.

Here’s the scene where Firth and Kidman’s characters first meet:

Come May 9, Firth will play a Yank and a Southerner when he portrays a private investigator in Devil’s Knot. His character, based on a real person, volunteers to help the lawyers defending a teenager who, along with two other teens, was tried and convicted–many believe mistakenly–for the killing of three young boys in 1993 in a celebrated case that came to be known as the West Memphis Three. The film, which had its premiere last fall at the Toronto Film Festival, suffered in the estimation of most critics when compared with earlier, more thorough documentaries on the same topic.

Here’s a trailer:

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Q&A: Colin Firth (The Devil's Knot)

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By NORMAN WILNER



It’s a few hours before the Toronto Film Festival premiere of Devil’s Knot, but Colin Firth isn’t sweating it. This isn’t his first rodeo, and TIFF loves him; in 2010, the People’s Choice Award for The King’s Speech set that film on the path to four Academy Awards, including Firth’s own for best actor.

Devil’s Knot is a far less triumphant work, concerned with the mystery surrounding the 1993 murders of three children in West Memphis, Arkansas. Atom Egoyan’s dramatization of the events surrounding the crime and the trial of local teens Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. casts Firth as Ron Lax, whose investigation into the crime leaves him with more questions than answers.



You’ve played a number of characters with ambiguous motivations – in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Arthur Newman most recently – and Devil’s Knot is all about not knowing the reasons behind awful events. Do you actively pursue these projects, or is this just happenstance?

I’ve always liked grey areas. I’ve always liked ambiguity: “Where is this person on the spectrum between heroism and failure? Are virtues to be found in what seems to be banal, what seems to be ordinary?” I don’t find conventional heroic stories particularly edifying. They don’t reveal anything to me. I enjoy a fantasy as much as the next person, but I’m much more interested in stories that throw up paradoxes and conflicts, and are less easy to judge.

Is that what drew you to the project?

It doesn’t take a simple path. It’s not [about] the sleuth getting his man. It doesn’t give you the satisfactions of a conventional narrative, a conventional thriller. No one can stand uncertainty, particularly when something as horrific as this has happened. People very passionately want answers, and the danger is that they hasten toward them. If we rush these things, we often end up in the wrong place, and the job of my character – and in a way the job of the film – is to say “You’re gonna have to live with doubt. You have to keep that alive. You will get even further from the truth if you are impatient for it.”

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Pictured: Michael Fassbender enjoys romantic PDA with new 'girlfriend' Madalina Ghenea as they holiday in Milan

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By JENNIFER PEARSON and REBECCA DAVISON
PUBLISHED: 07:37 EST, 17 January 2014 | UPDATED: 09:26 EST, 17 January 2014



Actor Michael Fassbender and Romanian beauty, Madalina Ghenea looked very much together when they stepped out in Milan on Wednesday.

The pair held hands as they walked around Italy taking in the sights and at one point, the good-looking gentleman even put his arm protectively around the actress and model.

It's been a great week for the 36-year-old Irish star as he has just won his first-ever Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role as a brutal slave owner in 12 Years A Slave.

Michael seemed as if he was trying to blend into the crowd as he stepped out with the actress and model and was sporting a fairly long beard.

Michael and Madalina were both in attendance at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival in September, where he promoted 12 Years a Slave and she premiered her movie, Dom Hemingway.

The twosome were reportedly both attendees at the Fox Searchlight Party during the festival, so it's possible that they met each other back then.

Madalina is not a stranger to dating members of the A-list and she was last linked to Scottish hunk Gerard Butler in 2013. In fact, the pair were seen cruising around Rome on foot in June.

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First look at Colin Firth in 'Devil's Knot' -- EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS

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By Thom Geier on Aug 29, 2013 at 1:26PM   @thomgeier

Oscar winner Colin Firth turns private detective in Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s new fact-based drama Devil’s Knot, which premieres at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 8. Firth stars with Reese Witherspoon, Amy Ryan, Dane DeHaan, Stephen Moyer, and Mireille Enos in the film, which is based on the notorious case of three heavy-metal-loving teenagers from West Memphis, Ark., who were convicted of the 1993 murder of three 8-year-old boys despite a lack of evidence. The so-called West Memphis Three became the subject of Paradise Lost, a series of three award-winning documentaries by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, as well as a Peter Jackson-produced doc called West of Memphis that won them the attention of a host of celebrity and criminal-justice advocates. In 2011, the trio was freed from prison under an Alford plea that allowed them to proclaim their innocence while technically upholding their murder convictions (and exempting the state from civil penalties).

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Oscar Contender Judi Dench in First 'Philomena' Trailer - Is Judi Dench looking at an eighth Oscar nomination?

Judi Dench in Philomena Photo: The Weinstein Co.

ROPE OF SILICON

BY: BRAD BREVET 

PUBLISHED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH 2013 AT 7:30 AM

One film playing a little under the radar is Stephen Frears' Philomena, primarily because Frears has been on something of a cold streak, which is why star Judi Dench is the main reason the film is being discussed at all in Oscar terms. Having already won an Oscar-winner and been nominated seven times, Dench may be exactly what Frears has been missing as of late.

The film is based on the true story of Philomena Lee (Dench), an Irish woman seeking the illegitimate son she was forced to put up for adoption in the U.S. in 1952. Philomena co-stars Steve Coogan as Martin Sixsmith, a world-weary journalist who helps Philomena on her way in a film described as "a bitter-sweet comedy", which may pose a little of a problem in Oscar's eyes, but we'll have to wait and see.

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OSCARS: Behind The Scenes On ‘The Impossible’ Ewan McGregor (DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD)

When the production team behind Summit’s The Impossible met with 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami survivor Maria Belon at a quiet coffee shop in Barcelona in the spring of 2008, they weren’t certain that she would agree to have her family’s harrowing story told in a feature film. Producer Belen Atienza knew they were in for an emotional afternoon—she was the one who first heard Belon’s story on the radio, a drama so profound that it left Atienza in tears after it concluded. But Atienza, director Juan Antonio Bayona, screenwriter Sergio Sanchez—who have a shorthand from working together on Bayona’s Spanish-language horror hit The Orphanage—gained Belon’s trust in a simple way: They listened.

“We were all really nervous,” Atienza recalls about the initial meeting. “She talked for three and a half hours. It was exhausting for her and for us. We didn’t open our mouths—we were just listening—and she was extremely thorough.”

The resulting film, an almost unbelievable tale of one family’s struggle to reunite amidst a country’s horror and loss, stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, whose performances started some Oscar buzz after the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. The Impossible also has the benefit of being cofinanced and distributed by a studio familiar with nurturing films through awards season, Summit Entertainment, which was behind the Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker in 2008. The Impossible doesn’t open in the United States until December 21, but it has already earned the distinction of having the biggest opening weekend in Spain’s boxoffice history, with $13.3 million on 638 screens.

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Luke Evans: 14 Bloody New Images from No One Lives with Luke Evans August 14, 2012 By Kenji Lloyd Leave a Comment

Japanese writer-director Ryūhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train) returns with his latest horror-thriller this year, No One Lives, which will be heading to TIFF as part of the Midnight Madness section in just a few weeks’ time.

Luke Evans (Immortals, the upcoming The Hobbit) leads the cast, starring alongside Adelaide Clemens (the upcoming Silent Hill: Revelation 3D), Derek Magyar (Train), Lindsey Shaw (10 Things I Hate About You), Beau Knapp (Super 8), America Olivo (Neighbor), and Lee Tergesen (Monster).

A few images from the film have surfaced online already, and now still photographer Patti Perret has debuted fourteen new images on her website.


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