Saturday, September 7, 2013
Tom Hiddleston Received Permission From Benedict Cumberbatch To Take Role In 'Crimson Peak'
HUFFINGTON POST
Posted: 09/06/2013 6:01 pm EDT | Updated: 09/06/2013 6:02 pm EDT
On Friday it was announced that Tom Hiddleston would replace Benedict Cumberbatch in Guillermo del Toro's haunted house thriller "Crimson Peak." According to Hiddleston, however, the deal came with the permission of the film's former star.
"The thing is we're really good friends, and as soon as Guillermo called, I called Benedict and I said this is happening, and he was like, 'Amazing!'" Hiddleston told BuzzFeed's Jordan Zakarin in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday. "So, I had his blessing."
Hiddleston and Cumberbatch go back a long way -- not just because each have an army of fans supporting them on the internet. The pair co-starred together in "War Horse," and engaged in a mutual admiration society during the film's press tour.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/tom-hiddleston-benedict-cumberbatch_n_3882805.html
Colin Firth: The Railway Man: Toronto Review
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
7:14 AM PDT 9/7/2013 by David Rooney
Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife forced to revisit the trauma of his WWII past in Jonathan Teplitzky's drama based on the true story of Eddie Lomax.
An old-fashioned war drama stuffed into a cumbersomely choppy time structure, The Railway Man is well-acted and handsomely produced, but its honorable intentions are not matched with sustained emotional impact or psychological suspense. The film boasts committed work from Colin Firth as a British train enthusiast profoundly damaged by his experience as a prisoner of war, along with tearful support from Nicole Kidman as his wife. But despite those deluxe elements, it never quite transcends its stodgy approach.
Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man), the co-production from Australia and the U.K. superficially recalls Bruce Beresford’s Paradise Road in its setting against the backdrop of the fall of Singapore in 1942. Screenwriters Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson bring more timid reverence than inspiration to their adaptation of former British Army officer Eric Lomax’s memoir. Dropping in references to Brief Encounter and The Bridge on the River Kwai merely underlines how far short they fall of their classic models.
Firth holds nothing back in his painful depiction of stiff-upper-lip moral fiber at war against mental instability and festering hatred. The actor does everything that’s required of him, and yet Eric remains an emotionally remote protagonist for such a harrowing story. Still, his portrayal of PTSD will resonate with anyone touched by war and its fallout. Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) also gives it his all as the young Eric.
While she’s lovely in her early scenes, Kidman’s role becomes a thankless one, called upon largely just to react with moist-eyed, agonized concern. Given that Eric’s ultimate course of action is driven as much by love as by the need to close an awful chapter in his life, their relationship could have benefited from more establishing screen time. It's no doubt intended, but those 1980 scenes have an awfully starchy feel that belongs to an earlier period.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/railway-man-toronto-review-623629
Toronto: 12 Years a Slave premieres to ecstatic reactions and Oscar lockdown for Michael Fassbender
Catherine Shoard
theguardian.com, Friday 6 September 2013 23.04 EDT
The Oscar race has been pronounced over, six months before the ceremony itself. At the Toronto film festival, the premiere of British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave was met on Friday evening with an overwhelming reception: gasps, sobs, a smattering of walk-outs at particularly brutal moments, and finally, a prolonged standing ovation.
The crowds leaving the auditorium were primed to place bets on the film being an unbeatable contender for best picture, as well as McQueen for best director, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor, best supporting actor for Michael Fassbender, best supporting actress for Lupita Nyong'o, as well as the full slate of technical nods.
12 Years a Slave met with ecstatic reviews when a sneak preview debuted at the boutique film festival in Telluride last week, but the raves coming out of Toronto are likely the crucial second step in what looks certain to be a triumphant awards campaign.
McQueen's third feature as director, following 2008's Hunger and 2011's Shame, 12 Years a Slave is very faithfully adapted from the memoir by Solomon Northup, a free man living with his family in relative affluence near New York, who in 1841 was duped, drugged, abducted and sold into slavery. John Ridley adapted the book for the big screen, McQueen's partner, Bianca Stigter - who he thanked on stage before the premiere - was the person who originally suggested it as a source.
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Solomon's first, more progressive owner; Michael Fassbender - McQueen's longterm collaborator - his much less benevolent second. Slave shares much of the aesthetic (particularly the unflinching violence) that distinguished McQueen's earlier films, yet here the splashy tech setpieces have been cast aside. This is a film in the service of both its story and a hero who's much more unequivocally sympathetic than those from Hunger and Shame. The odd flash of McQueen's installation-origins remains - a burnt piece of paper in the pitch black night, its embers dying like shrinking larvae - but this is also accessible and immediate; a winning mix of mainstream and arthouse.
FIRST LOOK AT HENRY CAVILL & ARMIE HAMMER IN MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
COSMIC BOOK MOVIES
Posted by: Matt McGloin,
Editor/Publisher
September 06, 2013 13:17
We get our first look at Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer in the new Guy Ritchie movie The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
An InstaGram user spotted the dynamic duo on set.
Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
Read more at http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/content/first-look-henry-cavill-armie-hammer-man-uncle#4Hq8eCxLf0ivDUGF.99
Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Brendan Gleeson - ELIZA GRAVES
[Movies] New Poster Released for Eliza Graves
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 09.06.2013
Supernatural thriller stars Kate Beckinsale...
Here is a new poster (via STYD) for Eliza Graves. The film stars Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine.
The film centers on a Harvard Medical School graduate (Sturgess) who takes a job at an insane asylum, unaware of the fact that it has been taken over by its occupants
Colin Firth: Caffeinated and impassioned in Toronto
DETROIT FREE PRESS
by Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
TORONTO - Colin Firth doesn't mind aging himself. "I've been coming here since the late '80s, when it was so much smaller," says the Oscar winner regarding the International Film Festival, which runs through Sept. 15. He's been here for The King's Speech and A Single Man - winning an Oscar for the former and being nominated for the latter.
And this year, Firth is headlining the war drama The Railway Man, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and co-starring Nicole Kidman, based on Eric Lomax's autobiography of the same name.
In the film (no U.S. release date yet) and the book, Firth's Lomax is taken captive during World War II and sent to a POW camp by the Japanese, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway and suffers almost unspeakable atrocities.
"What happened was so brutal that you can't tell adventure stories about that stuff," says Firth. "Once you understand what individuals did for each other, it's probably more heroic than you can imagine." He spent time with Lomax, an experience he says was critical to developing the role.
"You do what you can. Our tools are very limited. You're employed to represent experiences that are beyond your understanding. I've never been through anything approaching that. My courage has never had to be summoned for anything like that. I can only offer my imagination."
READ MORE HERE: http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/2776525
by Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
TORONTO - Colin Firth doesn't mind aging himself. "I've been coming here since the late '80s, when it was so much smaller," says the Oscar winner regarding the International Film Festival, which runs through Sept. 15. He's been here for The King's Speech and A Single Man - winning an Oscar for the former and being nominated for the latter.
And this year, Firth is headlining the war drama The Railway Man, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and co-starring Nicole Kidman, based on Eric Lomax's autobiography of the same name.
In the film (no U.S. release date yet) and the book, Firth's Lomax is taken captive during World War II and sent to a POW camp by the Japanese, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway and suffers almost unspeakable atrocities.
"What happened was so brutal that you can't tell adventure stories about that stuff," says Firth. "Once you understand what individuals did for each other, it's probably more heroic than you can imagine." He spent time with Lomax, an experience he says was critical to developing the role.
"You do what you can. Our tools are very limited. You're employed to represent experiences that are beyond your understanding. I've never been through anything approaching that. My courage has never had to be summoned for anything like that. I can only offer my imagination."
READ MORE HERE: http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/2776525
Friday, September 6, 2013
Nicole Kidman & Colin Firth: 'Railway Man' TIFF Premiere! (video)
JUST JARED
September 6, 2013
Nicole Kidman suits up for the premiere of her new film The Railway Man held during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on Friday evening (September 6) at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Canada.
The 46-year-old actress was joined by her co-stars Jeremy Irvine and Colin Firth, whose wife Livia Giuggioli was by his side at the premiere.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/2945368/nicole-kidman-colin-firth-railway-man-tiff-premiere-17/
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AND MICHAEL FASSBENDER IN A DAFT PUNK DANCE-OFF AT SOHO HOUSE! (TIFF PARTY PATROL)
BY: JESSICA ALLEN
THE GRID
THE GRID
Party: The Fifth Estate’s opening night fete, hosted by producer Michael Sugar and Grey Goose Vodka.
Location: Soho House Toronto
Date/time: Thursday, Sept. 5, 11 p.m-2 a.m.
The vibe: A subdued, slightly anxious one at first, with industry types and media (who showed up at 11 p.m. sharp for free Grey Goose cocktails and haute eats) mingling while pretending not to be excited about the real-life celebrities who were going to show up. Any minute now. And they did, just after midnight. Once the two disparate groups sniffed each other out inside the dark and moody private members’ club (outfitted in quilted leather couches, plushy velvet chairs, and vintage carpets), the mood morphed into something slightly more casual: the sort where plebs pretend like drinking and dancing in the company of bonafide stars is a typical Thursday night out.
Who was there from the film: A tuxed-up Benedict Cumberbatch, who traded in his long, golden Julian Assange locks for shorter chestnut brown tresses; Alicia Vikander outfitted in an Erdem green floral gown (with pockets!) that may be the dress to top at TIFF; Carice Van Houten; Daniel Brühl; and Dan Stevens.
Surprise show-ups: Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti—Cumberbatch’s director and costars from 12 Years a Slave. Plus: Colin Hanks and Smallville’s Tom Welling, who both star in Parkland, produced by Hanks’ pop. The wild card? Juno Temple and her glorious big mop of yellow hair, who was spotted catching up with fellow Brit—and former costar from 2007′s Atonement—Cumberbatch.
Strangest entrance: A young, clean-shaven man wearing a blue hoodie with white trim, mulled about on the sidewalk just outside Soho House. Then a man asked for his autograph. Then the people smoking on the patio said, “Hey wait, that’s Colin Hanks.”
Refreshments: Grey Goose signature cocktails, of course, with the Le Fizz—a combination of their original vodka, elderflower cordial, fresh lime juice and club soda—filling most revellers’ hands.
Number of men wearing a seersucker jacket: Two.
Daft Punk dance-off: In one corner, Cumberbatch was spotted timidly bringing his fists up to his chest and then gently rocking them back and forth for approximately 2.7 seconds when a bad remix of “Get Lucky” played. In another corner, when the DJ moved on to “Lose Yourself to Dance,” Michael Fassbender did just that. Dressed in a black crew-neck sweater (probably cashmere) and sipping on a cup of tea, the actor let loose with two friends and danced like nobody was watching (even though everybody was but pretended not to be).
Best bromances: Men were coupling off everywhere! George Stroumboulopoulos saddled up to his show’s executive producer, and the party’s host, Michael Sugar; Cumberbatch chatted with his 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen; and Colin Hanks, who lost the hoodie, got cozy with Michael Fassbender, while Tom Welling pretended not to be jealous when they hugged. In fact, the only celeb with a date in tow may have been Brühl, who cozied up to his model girlfriend Felicitas Rombold.
Tom Hiddleston Replaces Benedict Cumberbatch in Legendary’s ‘Crimson Peak’
VARIETY
Justin Kroll
Film Reporter
@krolljvar
September 6, 2013
“Thor” actor Tom Hiddleston will replace Benedict Cumberbatch in Legendary’s horror pic “Crimson Peak,” helmed by Guillermo del Toro.
Plot details are unknown as del Toro and Lucinda Coxon work through a rewrite on a script del Toro and Matthew Robbins originally penned.
Keira Knightley's Husband Carries Her Cases For Her Through Venice Airport!
PEREZ HILTON
September 5, 2013
Such a gentleman!
Keira Knightley's new hubby James Righton is scoring some major points by carrying his lady's designer garments for her after the two touched down in Venice yesterday!
And he did it with a big 'ol smile too!
The two are in town for the annual Venice Film Festival and based on the Valentino label on that bag, we're guessing Keira will be wearing one AH-Mazing gown tomorrow night!
Before they walk the red carpet though, the newlyweds walked through the airport terminal, looking super chic while doing it!
Keira wore a white shirt dress with gold buttons for the trip. She sacrificed comfort for fashion with some 4-inch wedges and of course, some sunglasses.
Toronto Film Festival 2013: Colin Firth stars in The Railway Man
THE TELEGRAPH
By Dalya Alberge1:30PM BST 06 Sep 2013
As a British prisoner of war, Eric Lomax endured unspeakable torture and terror at the hands of his Japanese captors. Forced to stand for hours in the burning sun, he was half-drowned by a water-hose placed in his nose and mouth, his arms were broken and his ribs cracked in savage beatings, and he was made to sleep in a cage covered in excrement. That was his punishment for being caught with a radio that he helped to build. Two fellow prisoners similarly accused did not survive the beatings.
Almost a year after his death aged 93, the harrowing but inspirational story of atrocities that he and thousands of British servicemen suffered in captivity and on the notorious Thai/Burma “Death Railway” is now told in a major British film. The Railway Man receives its world premiere this weekend at the Toronto Film Festival, attended by his widow, Patti, and its Oscar-winning stars, Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. But its producer and co-writer, Andy Paterson, doubts that Lomax would have joined them had he been alive. He believes that, after a lifetime of nightmares and flashbacks, Lomax would have found the film’s portrayal too realistic. The horrors remained raw – even after facing his demons, both psychological and real, in confronting, then forgiving Takashi Nagase, the interpreter who presided over his torture.
After the war, like many POWs, he was unable to talk about his experiences. But he realised that future generations needed to be told and, in 1995, he published his powerful memoir – The Railway Man – a bestseller that reminded the world of the sacrifices of the “forgotten army”.
Paterson observes: “He was able to make sense of it – not just for himself, but so others might comprehend it … But we still occasionally glimpsed what Patti called ‘the shutters coming down’. If you [probed] … too deep, you’d encounter the silence.” At his home, Paterson and Firth noted the absence of a radio. Paterson recalls. “He looked at us and said ‘I think I’m allergic to radios’.”
They worked extremely closely “to understand what he went through … very different from writing down events,” Paterson adds. They wanted the script “right” and “there was a moment when he said, ‘this is what it felt like’. Then we knew the script was right.”
Like other veterans, Lomax was critical of David Lean’s fictionalised film, The Bridge on the River Kwai. He criticised the well-fed POWs. The Railway Man went out of its way to find thin extras, and Jeremy Irvine, who made his name in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, lost two stone to play a young Lomax. Firth portrays the older man.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10288754/Toronto-Film-Festival-2013-Colin-Firth-stars-in-The-Railway-Man.html
Benedict Cumberbatch looks hot in dapper suit with black quiff at The Fifth Estate premiere with Dan Stevens
NOW DAILY
September 6, 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch stepped out at the premiere of his new film The Fifth Estate looking very dapper last night.
The actor wore a smart black suit and bow tie on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada.
His hair - dyed dark for his role in Sherlock - was slicked back into a neat quiff.
Benedict was greeted by excited fans who had been waiting to catch a glimpse of the star and he flashed a huge grin as he waved to the crowd.
The 37-year-old was joined at the premiere by his Fifth Estate cast mates, including Daniel Brühl, Swedish actress Alicia Vikander and Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens.
Read more at http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/547628/benedict-cumberbatch-looks-hot-in-dapper-suit-with-black-quiff-at-the-fifth-estate-premiere-with-dan-stevens
Michelle Dockery Seriously Considered Exiting The TV Series? [VIDEO, NEWS]
By Robert Leo, EnStars | Sep 05, 2013 03:36 PM EDT
Many fans of the hit British-American TV drama, Downton Abbey, were shocked to see one of their most beloved characters in Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens) abruptly die in an auto accident in the Christmas episode to end last season.
In real life, Stevens had made the career decision to move on from the popular show. However, while the actor is clearly long gone at this point, co-star Michelle Dockery had actually contemplated an exit herself after the third installment, according to a Vulture interview on Sept. 3.
"We all had that choice, and any one of us could have left. There was a point where I thought, 'Yeah, I'm done after three,' because that's what I was expecting to happen: I would do three series and that would be it. And then of course the success of the show was huge and I had my doubts. I discovered there isn't any rush. I wasn't ready to finish whereas Dan was very ready to leave," she explained.
Ian McKellen Cast as Sherlock Holmes
COMIC BOOK RESOURCES
Thursday, September 5th, 2013 at 11:45am PST - by Josh Wigler
Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller have a new Sherlock Holmes to welcome into their ranks.
Lord of the Rings and X-Men star Ian McKellen has been cast as the iconic detective in a new film called A Slight Trick of the Mind. McKellen will reunite with his Gods and Monsters director Bill Condon for the project, an adaptation of the novel written by Mitch Cullin, with a screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher.
In A Slight Trick of the Mind, McKellen plays a long-retired Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock’s days of sleuthing are behind him, as he now lives in a sleepy Sussex village with his housekeeper and son, an amateur detective in his own right. But Sherlock remains haunted by one unsolved case from 50 years ago, drawing him back into the detective game.
Benedict Cumberbatch named Britannia Awards' British Artist of the Year
POP2IT
By Terri Schwartz September 5, 2013 4:53 PM ET
The 2013 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards are giving Benedict Cumberbatch a very special honor. This year, he's going to be named the British Artist of the Year at the annual awards ceremony.
Cumberbatch will be joining some prestigious company. Other recipients of the award include Kate Winslet, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen and Tilda Swinton. The awards ceremony will take place on Nov. 5, and be broadcast on BBC America on Nov. 10 at 8 p.m.
"Benedict Cumberbatch has had a remarkable year, and as one of the UK's leading talents he truly exemplifies the continued respect that British talents have garnered around the globe," Chairman of BAFTA Los Angeles Gary Dartnall says in a statement. "Masterfully performing in TV, Film and Theatre and never failing to astound us with his talent and versatility, BAFTA Los Angeles is proud to honor Benedict as our British Artist of the Year."
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch Girlfriend 2013: Is ‘Sherlock’ Star Dating ‘Downton Abbey’s’ Laura Carmichael? Spotted Together At Lady Gaga Show [PHOTO]
FASHION AND STYLE
By Erika W. Smith , FashionnStyle Reporter | Sep 05, 2013 02:48 PM EDT
Benedict Cumberbatch and Laura Carmichael were spotted together at a Lady Gaga show. (Photo : Tumblr/winnieshou)
It’s a match made in Anglophile heaven.
“Sherlock” star Benedict Cumberbatch and “Downton Abbey” star Laura Carmichael were spotted together at a Lady Gaga show, spurring rumors that they may be dating.
The Daily Mail reports that the pair looked “far from boring” and “appeared to really let their hair down” together at the Roundhouse show in London on Sunday, September 1.
“Laura and Benedict clearly get along like a house on fire and they were seen laughing away together as they hung around the bar enjoying a few drinks,” the Daily Mail writes.
Cumberbatch has been single since breaking up with his girlfriend of 12 years, Olivia Poulet in 2010.
However, he has been linked to a number of women since the split, especially this summer.
READ MORE HERE:http://www.fashionnstyle.com/articles/10992/20130905/benedict-cumberbatch-girlfriend-2013-sherlock-star-dating-downton-abbey-laura-carmichael-spotted-together-lady-gaga-show-photo.htm
Eddie Redmayne Cosies Up To Girlfriend Hannah Bagshawe At GQ
LOOK MAGAZINE
4 September, 2013
Eddie Redmayne made us 'awww' at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2013 last night as he cuddled up to girlfriend Hannah Bagshawe aka. the luckiest girl in the world.
The cute couple celebrated Eddie's Remy Martin Breakthrough Award by partying the night away with celeb pals Alexa Chung and Daisy Lowe, and it's certainly not the first time the pair have been making us a little bit sick with jealousy by cuddling up on the red carpet.
PR exec Hannah went for an understated yet stunning look in a cream crop top and flared black and beige skirt. She finished off her look with a pair of black stilettos and a chic colourblock clutch - we want!
Eddie, not one to be outdone by his beautiful girlfriend, rocked up in a suave plaid Gucci suit with a classic white shirt and houndstooth tie. If only we could get our fellas into such a stylish get up
Read more at http://www.look.co.uk/news/eddie-redmayne-cosies-up-to-girlfriend-hannah-bagshawe-at-gq#sbMqqSemcVzUyyZR.99
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